That's the only way to stop this nonsense.
There will be new, different nonsense at that point but at least they will have to justify and backup what they do.
You are wrong. The worst a terrorist is ever going to be able to do is a dirty bomb - basically a bunch of C4 next to the radioactive material. The bomb will spread radiation across one or two city blocks and that's about it.
The reason that they will never actually detonate a real nuke is that they are complicated and extremely delicate. The shape of the bomb must be absolutely perfect and the timing of the charge detonations must be accurate to within microseconds, else nothing happens. Getting the shape right is so important that people working on at least one major nuclear programat Los Alamos had to classify all spheres, including oranges.
It will take the resources of a nation-state to blow up a nuke on US soil and no matter what any war-mongering politicians have said, no actual nation-state is stupid enough to do that because it means the end of that country. Not Iran, not North Korea. Not going to happen.
I don't know about that. Most of the problems in shaping it comes down to having the machines to craft and shape the bomb to tight tolerances. We've been able to keep the machines that can make objects and refine materials with such tolerance out of foreign states for the most part. That's what has saved us as much as anything. The math is pretty much out there in the open to a degree.
With 3d printing and 3d shaping (lathes/cnc/etc) I don't think we are far from being able to shape any material into any shape. And there are explosives that could certainly be printed and shaped to the nth degree. With some of the new technologies going mainstream and available from all quarters it's going to be downright impossible for us to control those technologies. I think the chances are going to be much higher.
COX Doesn't have it set to Copy Never, but they have it set to Copy Once. (Incidentally this is the same on time Warner as well)
MythTV doesn't support Copy Never or Once - that requires encryption and a very large licensing fee to ensure your software works with the restrictions (Only microsoft has paid for this license - no other software solutions).
However if you have Windows MCE on 7/8 you can use it to record it on one machine only. You just can't ever play back that content on another machine or burn that to a DVD.
The difference between Copy Once and Copy Never is copy once allows you to copy it and keep it indefinitely. Copy Never allows you to record it once and only keep it for 90 minutes from the end of the program. I've only seen copy never turned on for PPV.
COX Doesn't have it set to Copy Never, but they have it set to Copy Once. (Incidentally this is the same on time Warner as well)
MythTV doesn't support Copy Never or Once - that requires encryption and a very large licensing fee to ensure your software works with the restrictions (Only microsoft has paid for this license - no other software solutions).
However if you have Windows MCE on 7/8 you can use it to record it on one machine only. You just can't ever play back that content on another machine or burn that to a DVD.
The difference between Copy Once and Copy Never is copy once allows you to copy it and keep it indefinitely. Copy Never allows you to record it once and only keep it for 90 minutes from the end of the program. I've only seen copy never turned on for PPV.
The difference here is it's not a blocking patent. This doesn't keep you from producing a product, it just keeps you from using one tiny little feature that no one had ever thought to do. And while VCR's may have had technical reasons why this didn't happen there are other mediums that this could have applied to such as a DVD or some commercial software used for editing.
It's little things like this that set apart Tivo. And it's not like Tivo didn't have reasonable licensing.
DirectTV is a License holder for Tivo for many of their patents (not all). Once the Dish network lawsuit appeared to have good footing most all of the manufacturers agreed to license terms with Tivo on many of the smaller (and less costly) patents such as this one.
In fact there were contracts during this time signed with Tivo the purportedly had clauses that had penalties for Tivo if the lawsuit with Dish failed. If that lawsuit had failed Tivo would have been shut down and bankrupt almost immediately.
Scientific Atlanta was an early licensee of Tivo. They actually almost produced a Tivo a few years back.
Most of the newer boxes that have this feature have licensed it.
On June 30th the nextel iDen network will be shut down. This operates in 5 mhz chunks in the lower half of the 800mhz range nationwide. In many rural areas they have already transitioned most of their services to the same range and have kept 2 chunks of frequencies in the 800mhz range for iden customers but in urban areas they still had a Million customers on iden as of May 1 and they can't convert any part of those frequencies over. Especially in DC with all kinds of government contracts.
Once these are shut down they can start freeing using that bandwidth for LTE or CDMA. In most areas of the country they have already preconfigured equipment to use the new frequencies after this shutdown happens and will be enabling this with just a software load on the new equipment.
I never knew of any VCR's that did this. Nor did you see it in any commercial systems either. Just because it's obvious in hindsight doesn't mean it's not patentable. It really should come down to if it's been used before, including in other scenarios.
That's what makes it unique among a lot of technology patents. There are plenty of ideas that shouldn't be patents because all they did was take something in the real world and call it patentable by saying "on a phone" or "on a pc". That's obvious - but even though Tivo's patent seems obvious in hindsight no one else had done this before in any electronics that had a fast forward/reverse button
Mod this parent up, he's explained Superman and his character very well.
I thought given the restrictions to the character they did exceedingly well. They handled his upbringing and explained his motivations to be such an "undynamic superhero". And I suspect that in future installments the introduction of alien technology will be a potential vulnerabilities that will differ from the more traditional storylines (i.e. lex luthor with new toys)
The scenes with Lois as a romance were cheesy but this is a summer movie. I liked how they even changed that dynamic up from the traditional storyline and enhanced the fact that she is a smart, successful resourceful reporter even without having superman around. (I don't want to say much because I don't want to spoil things).
It's not being used for electricity. We hardly make any steel here anymore. Most of it is made in Asia anymore. We have the infrastructure to mine it and ship it out. If it wasn't done here it would be done elsewhere at a slightly higher cost.
It has nothing to do with electrical production, it's not used for that. In fact, it's almost twice the cost of other coal per ton so no one would WANT to use it.
On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system.
8.5 comes this summer. Some of the phones released this summer are already being promised to work with 9.0 which comes out next summer. All windows phones will be able to update to the next version at least which then updates the security updates. Some phones will even go longer. This is not that much different from Android updates. I would speculate 3rd party unlocks will allow updating to 9 on the current 8 phones that the manufacturers don't update.
I'm actually surprised it was only under 1k since there are so many google account holders.
Taking a step back for just a moment, I can see an actual suspect (one in which they have gone and gotten a warrant on) having a mail account that has mailed xxx number of other emails - if they really think their warranted suspect is a terrorist threat then they will want to look into the email accounts/gchat logs of those he emailed.
I think the concept of needing to do this is ok in certain investigations but it needs needs more judicial oversight with checks and balances. Even if it's a judge saying "what investigation is this attached to?" and tying it to a subpoena'd suspect. I'd also like to make sure that this is only used for national security issue. I wouldn't want this flipping over into normal run of the mill criminal activities. I'd even go so far as to say "If evidence is found in this way it's off limits" as evidence so it doesn't have the temptation of being abused.
This setup is the stupidest thing to come down the pike in a long time.
I can understand having the DRM to be able to play online. What I don't understand is why there is not an offline mode that does not allow you to take advantage of all the online only features and who's gameplay doesn't affect the online version.
And the article shows just how far they have gone into looney land - no constructive feedback allowed.
This will be literally the first Sim City I will not own. I have bought literally every version of it over the years including the original Sim City.
No, not really. They would force the accuser to pay the fee. I don't know about 50k, but 5k should do the trick.
There should be some cheap outsourced labor somewhere who can add a small amount of intelligence to tell if the video really is what the script thinks it is for the copyright holders. And if some of that fee was returned to the person who had it removed then we'd have incentive to go after it each time.
I think your Math is off because boomers are retiring in full force now. My mom was a Baby boomer born pretty much right after the war, She would have been 66.
But most of your serious campers are a bit younger. They are in their 50's and have retired early, not late. Kids are out of the house and they either worked for a private company and/or owned one that is now most likely in the hands of their genx kid, or they worked for the govt and retired after 20 years of service. which also explains why RVers are overwhelmingly veterans.
The ones that are plus 65 many times stay in one campground for weeks, they don't travel as much as you think.
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they may make it Steam exclusive though. Steam in any way shape or form - with release on PS4 and xboxnone at a later date.
That's the only way to stop this nonsense. There will be new, different nonsense at that point but at least they will have to justify and backup what they do.
You are wrong. The worst a terrorist is ever going to be able to do is a dirty bomb - basically a bunch of C4 next to the radioactive material. The bomb will spread radiation across one or two city blocks and that's about it.
The reason that they will never actually detonate a real nuke is that they are complicated and extremely delicate. The shape of the bomb must be absolutely perfect and the timing of the charge detonations must be accurate to within microseconds, else nothing happens. Getting the shape right is so important that people working on at least one major nuclear programat Los Alamos had to classify all spheres, including oranges.
It will take the resources of a nation-state to blow up a nuke on US soil and no matter what any war-mongering politicians have said, no actual nation-state is stupid enough to do that because it means the end of that country. Not Iran, not North Korea. Not going to happen.
I don't know about that. Most of the problems in shaping it comes down to having the machines to craft and shape the bomb to tight tolerances. We've been able to keep the machines that can make objects and refine materials with such tolerance out of foreign states for the most part. That's what has saved us as much as anything. The math is pretty much out there in the open to a degree. With 3d printing and 3d shaping (lathes/cnc/etc) I don't think we are far from being able to shape any material into any shape. And there are explosives that could certainly be printed and shaped to the nth degree. With some of the new technologies going mainstream and available from all quarters it's going to be downright impossible for us to control those technologies. I think the chances are going to be much higher.
COX Doesn't have it set to Copy Never, but they have it set to Copy Once. (Incidentally this is the same on time Warner as well)
MythTV doesn't support Copy Never or Once - that requires encryption and a very large licensing fee to ensure your software works with the restrictions (Only microsoft has paid for this license - no other software solutions).
However if you have Windows MCE on 7/8 you can use it to record it on one machine only. You just can't ever play back that content on another machine or burn that to a DVD.
The difference between Copy Once and Copy Never is copy once allows you to copy it and keep it indefinitely. Copy Never allows you to record it once and only keep it for 90 minutes from the end of the program. I've only seen copy never turned on for PPV.
COX Doesn't have it set to Copy Never, but they have it set to Copy Once. (Incidentally this is the same on time Warner as well)
MythTV doesn't support Copy Never or Once - that requires encryption and a very large licensing fee to ensure your software works with the restrictions (Only microsoft has paid for this license - no other software solutions).
However if you have Windows MCE on 7/8 you can use it to record it on one machine only. You just can't ever play back that content on another machine or burn that to a DVD.
The difference between Copy Once and Copy Never is copy once allows you to copy it and keep it indefinitely. Copy Never allows you to record it once and only keep it for 90 minutes from the end of the program. I've only seen copy never turned on for PPV.
Sony released cobranded Tivo's themselves so they owned the rights to do this.
The difference here is it's not a blocking patent. This doesn't keep you from producing a product, it just keeps you from using one tiny little feature that no one had ever thought to do. And while VCR's may have had technical reasons why this didn't happen there are other mediums that this could have applied to such as a DVD or some commercial software used for editing.
It's little things like this that set apart Tivo. And it's not like Tivo didn't have reasonable licensing.
DirectTV is a License holder for Tivo for many of their patents (not all). Once the Dish network lawsuit appeared to have good footing most all of the manufacturers agreed to license terms with Tivo on many of the smaller (and less costly) patents such as this one.
In fact there were contracts during this time signed with Tivo the purportedly had clauses that had penalties for Tivo if the lawsuit with Dish failed. If that lawsuit had failed Tivo would have been shut down and bankrupt almost immediately.
Scientific Atlanta was an early licensee of Tivo. They actually almost produced a Tivo a few years back. Most of the newer boxes that have this feature have licensed it.
Expect Sprint to get a lot better very soon.
On June 30th the nextel iDen network will be shut down. This operates in 5 mhz chunks in the lower half of the 800mhz range nationwide. In many rural areas they have already transitioned most of their services to the same range and have kept 2 chunks of frequencies in the 800mhz range for iden customers but in urban areas they still had a Million customers on iden as of May 1 and they can't convert any part of those frequencies over. Especially in DC with all kinds of government contracts.
Once these are shut down they can start freeing using that bandwidth for LTE or CDMA. In most areas of the country they have already preconfigured equipment to use the new frequencies after this shutdown happens and will be enabling this with just a software load on the new equipment.
How is that obvious?
I never knew of any VCR's that did this. Nor did you see it in any commercial systems either. Just because it's obvious in hindsight doesn't mean it's not patentable. It really should come down to if it's been used before, including in other scenarios.
That's what makes it unique among a lot of technology patents. There are plenty of ideas that shouldn't be patents because all they did was take something in the real world and call it patentable by saying "on a phone" or "on a pc". That's obvious - but even though Tivo's patent seems obvious in hindsight no one else had done this before in any electronics that had a fast forward/reverse button
This is an example of GOOD patents.
Mod this parent up, he's explained Superman and his character very well. I thought given the restrictions to the character they did exceedingly well. They handled his upbringing and explained his motivations to be such an "undynamic superhero". And I suspect that in future installments the introduction of alien technology will be a potential vulnerabilities that will differ from the more traditional storylines (i.e. lex luthor with new toys)
The scenes with Lois as a romance were cheesy but this is a summer movie. I liked how they even changed that dynamic up from the traditional storyline and enhanced the fact that she is a smart, successful resourceful reporter even without having superman around. (I don't want to say much because I don't want to spoil things).
Now I just need to imagine that I know how to use proper grammar with logical, concise sentences.
I wish I had moderator points today. This is the key. Imagine of the battery only lasted half as long after only 30 days. NO THANK YOU!
Maybe they are built on top of Google Reader? :)
It's not being used for electricity. We hardly make any steel here anymore. Most of it is made in Asia anymore. We have the infrastructure to mine it and ship it out. If it wasn't done here it would be done elsewhere at a slightly higher cost. It has nothing to do with electrical production, it's not used for that. In fact, it's almost twice the cost of other coal per ton so no one would WANT to use it.
From the original article:
On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system.
8.5 comes this summer. Some of the phones released this summer are already being promised to work with 9.0 which comes out next summer. All windows phones will be able to update to the next version at least which then updates the security updates. Some phones will even go longer. This is not that much different from Android updates. I would speculate 3rd party unlocks will allow updating to 9 on the current 8 phones that the manufacturers don't update.
Taking a step back for just a moment, I can see an actual suspect (one in which they have gone and gotten a warrant on) having a mail account that has mailed xxx number of other emails - if they really think their warranted suspect is a terrorist threat then they will want to look into the email accounts/gchat logs of those he emailed.
I think the concept of needing to do this is ok in certain investigations but it needs needs more judicial oversight with checks and balances. Even if it's a judge saying "what investigation is this attached to?" and tying it to a subpoena'd suspect. I'd also like to make sure that this is only used for national security issue. I wouldn't want this flipping over into normal run of the mill criminal activities. I'd even go so far as to say "If evidence is found in this way it's off limits" as evidence so it doesn't have the temptation of being abused.
After all, who doesn't like to have to do calisthenics before they try to do something complicated such as DRAG FILES FROM A FOLDER AND OPEN THEM!
This setup is the stupidest thing to come down the pike in a long time. I can understand having the DRM to be able to play online. What I don't understand is why there is not an offline mode that does not allow you to take advantage of all the online only features and who's gameplay doesn't affect the online version. And the article shows just how far they have gone into looney land - no constructive feedback allowed. This will be literally the first Sim City I will not own. I have bought literally every version of it over the years including the original Sim City.
No, not really. They would force the accuser to pay the fee. I don't know about 50k, but 5k should do the trick. There should be some cheap outsourced labor somewhere who can add a small amount of intelligence to tell if the video really is what the script thinks it is for the copyright holders. And if some of that fee was returned to the person who had it removed then we'd have incentive to go after it each time.
Feel good about shopping at costco. There's been a few weird items, but most of the stories written about costco end up looking like this -- http://positivesharing.com/2007/07/analysts-to-costco-stop-treating-your-employees-so-well/
I think your Math is off because boomers are retiring in full force now. My mom was a Baby boomer born pretty much right after the war, She would have been 66. But most of your serious campers are a bit younger. They are in their 50's and have retired early, not late. Kids are out of the house and they either worked for a private company and/or owned one that is now most likely in the hands of their genx kid, or they worked for the govt and retired after 20 years of service. which also explains why RVers are overwhelmingly veterans. The ones that are plus 65 many times stay in one campground for weeks, they don't travel as much as you think.
I wonder how much Fox news will report it. You can't tell me all the other networks aren't going to have a field day with this in the US.
Even better it took an Italian judge to rule this way. Brought to you by the same folks as this gem: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049773/Does-Italy-Really-Want-Search-Engines-Recent-Legal-Rulings-Suggest-Not