The question here is not "Does professional reporting take resources?" It does. The question here is "Should any individual or corporation have the power to fundamentally change the way in which the World Wide Web works?" I say no. It was designed from the very beginning to freely allow the sharing of information. If Murdoch doesn't like that then he should find some other way to distribute his content. He could for example make his content subscription based. What he should not be allowed to do is to dictate to the entire world how the WWW should be used so that a particular business model that he likes works for him.
"The electrical grid probably can't handle the load, even in off peak hours, let alone in high-demand hours."
You're just guessing and base most of your post on this guess. I have heard that the grid CAN handle it right now but then the person who stated that was probably guessing also.
Is Microsoft's corporate bully attitude obvious enough for Congress yet? Do you think it's time to force Microsoft to split into two or three smaller corporations?
I think that any corporation that feels that it is big enough to bully the United States Government is too big and a national security risk.
...to see all of the "improvements" Microsoft will make to ODF. Why I'll bet that within three years we won't even be able to recognize it... or inter-operate with it!
After reading the article I feel fairly pissed off but before I get my underwear all in a bunch could not allowing a modified dll from running be a way of preventing Trojans and viruses from compromising the user's computer?
If this is any thing but that we should all scream long and loud but let's be sure.
Their EULA says nothing about installing hidden software that will never be removed.
Even by agreeing to the EULA you don't agree to "all things not mentioned."
If so where would it end? Could they search my harddrive for credit card information? Format my harddrive on a whim? Store their own stuff on my computer without telling me? Of course not!
I think what they are saying is that since your ISP will run their software they will have the ultimate "man in the middle" attack.
You will request a file to be compressed and encrypted, your ISP will intercept that request and modify it to request the file in the clear and uncompressed. As they get the file they will have to compress and encrypt it before passing it on to you so that you will be none the wiser.
"Can software fool encryption schemes? Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file."
This means that if you are requesting a legitimate file that SHOULD BE ENCRYPTED it may be transmitted in the clear. Oh my! Can you say law suit? Sure you can!
I just purchased a Prius this year. Not with the idea of saving money on fuel (I'll never save enough to make up for the cost of the vehicle.) but for environmental reasons. However, having a car that gives me constant feed back about what mileage I'm getting has made me change the way I drive.
I do drive more slowly. Not because my mileage goes up from the lower speed but because I like more distance between my vehicle and the vehicle ahead of me. It allows me to take my foot off of the gas and coast when the vehicle ahead brakes. If I can slow down by coasting rather than wasting my momentum by braking I'm saving gas. Many times the car/truck ahead will brake in order turn onto a side street. If I don't have enough distance I have to brake myself. I try to anticipate and slow down on my terms.
Also I don't stomp on the gas peddle to accelerate. Gas mileage is horrid during acceleration even in a Prius.
In the US the Prius doesn't come with a EV mode. Although the computer is aware of that ability, US customers are not given a way to engage EV mode as they are in Europe. There are many hacks that allow a person to access this mode and I have installed one but find that the short range (Less than two miles.) makes it almost useless. Even the next generation of the Prius that is suppose to be pluggable is only suppose to have an EV range of about ten miles. Still pretty lame.
I set a "logging level" in my configuration file so that when I need a program log to be verbose I can make it so but for normal use I can keep the logs fairly light.
A log is only useful if it records information that is used. The problem is that sometimes everything is running fine and super verbose logging is a waste but then something in the environment changes and suddenly temporarily logging a lot of debugging information is useful. Setting a "logging level" in a configuration file lets me do light logging, verbose logging and just about anything between without having to recompile my projects.
"The head of Microsoft's global open source and Linux team is quoted saying: "The other thing I think is missing is implementation of a basic principle of economic fairness. Thousands of developers have put very hard work into building software used by millions of people and companies, yet only a fraction of these developers are rewarded financially."
It really touches me that Microsoft is concerned about the well being of the people who develop the products that are its greatest competition! A more cynical person might think that their real motivation is to destroy the open source model by injecting huge costs.
My experience is that they don't "initially" block P2P. The last time I used bit torrent to download Ubuntu I downloaded the complete ISO file at very fast speed. During this period I was able to share until my download completed. Then very rapidly the connections dropped off.
So they probably feel that this is the correct formula to keep most of their customers happy. We can download a torrent unimpeded but can't continue to share after our download is competed.
It sounds to me like you're very angry about the Iraq war. I am too but it's not the fault of the American people. Our government is being controlled by the special interests. How we became so Dependant on oil erroneus explained fairly succinctly. It is the fault of large corporations and government 'servants' that take special interest money and then betray the people's interests.
The people no longer have a place at the table. They have no real voice.
I would say that it was the fault of the voters but I don't see any candidate that can change a system that is so full of corruption. It would take a real house cleaning.
My father use to joke that each five years we should vote for the most corrupt politician and hang him. It wouldn't take too many years and they would probably all straighten up and fly right.
if the RIAA knew that MediaDefender was making their copyrighted material available to the public if that may in fact be releasing it into the public domain?
"I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could "hamper development of the internet."
It will hamper the development of the internet as an economic tool for large corporations who wish to milk the public of every dime.
It all depends on what we want the internet to be doesn't it? A resource for all humanity to freely exchange ideas or a corporate tool to take our money. The choice is ours but if you don't want to support the corporate powers be ready for a fight that will last forever because the bastards will never stop.
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I understand that country western music listeners have an average of 65 mutations...
The question here is not "Does professional reporting take resources?" It does. The question here is "Should any individual or corporation have the power to fundamentally change the way in which the World Wide Web works?" I say no. It was designed from the very beginning to freely allow the sharing of information. If Murdoch doesn't like that then he should find some other way to distribute his content. He could for example make his content subscription based. What he should not be allowed to do is to dictate to the entire world how the WWW should be used so that a particular business model that he likes works for him.
IE's not done till Chrome won't run!
"The electrical grid probably can't handle the load, even in off peak hours, let alone in high-demand hours."
You're just guessing and base most of your post on this guess. I have heard that the grid CAN handle it right now but then the person who stated that was probably guessing also.
Is there any real data on this?
Is Microsoft's corporate bully attitude obvious enough for Congress yet? Do you think it's time to force Microsoft to split into two or three smaller corporations?
I think that any corporation that feels that it is big enough to bully the United States Government is too big and a national security risk.
The military has lethal weapons and spammers are mortal... Need I say more?
...to see all of the "improvements" Microsoft will make to ODF. Why I'll bet that within three years we won't even be able to recognize it... or inter-operate with it!
After reading the article I feel fairly pissed off but before I get my underwear all in a bunch could not allowing a modified dll from running be a way of preventing Trojans and viruses from compromising the user's computer?
If this is any thing but that we should all scream long and loud but let's be sure.
Their EULA says nothing about installing hidden software that will never be removed.
Even by agreeing to the EULA you don't agree to "all things not mentioned."
If so where would it end? Could they search my harddrive for credit card information? Format my harddrive on a whim? Store their own stuff on my computer without telling me? Of course not!
"Microsoft did not "remove the 'us' from Azureus". Azure is a word already."
That's right. as opposed to "windows" which isn't a word.
I think what they are saying is that since your ISP will run their software they will have the ultimate "man in the middle" attack.
You will request a file to be compressed and encrypted, your ISP will intercept that request and modify it to request the file in the clear and uncompressed. As they get the file they will have to compress and encrypt it before passing it on to you so that you will be none the wiser.
From the article:
"Can software fool encryption schemes?
Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file."
This means that if you are requesting a legitimate file that SHOULD BE ENCRYPTED it may be transmitted in the clear. Oh my! Can you say law suit? Sure you can!
I just purchased a Prius this year. Not with the idea of saving money on fuel (I'll never save enough to make up for the cost of the vehicle.) but for environmental reasons. However, having a car that gives me constant feed back about what mileage I'm getting has made me change the way I drive.
I do drive more slowly. Not because my mileage goes up from the lower speed but because I like more distance between my vehicle and the vehicle ahead of me. It allows me to take my foot off of the gas and coast when the vehicle ahead brakes. If I can slow down by coasting rather than wasting my momentum by braking I'm saving gas. Many times the car/truck ahead will brake in order turn onto a side street. If I don't have enough distance I have to brake myself. I try to anticipate and slow down on my terms.
Also I don't stomp on the gas peddle to accelerate. Gas mileage is horrid during acceleration even in a Prius.
In the US the Prius doesn't come with a EV mode. Although the computer is aware of that ability, US customers are not given a way to engage EV mode as they are in Europe. There are many hacks that allow a person to access this mode and I have installed one but find that the short range (Less than two miles.) makes it almost useless. Even the next generation of the Prius that is suppose to be pluggable is only suppose to have an EV range of about ten miles. Still pretty lame.
I understand that even some Washington politicians can recognize themselves. Now that is shocking!
I set a "logging level" in my configuration file so that when I need a program log to be verbose I can make it so but for normal use I can keep the logs fairly light.
A log is only useful if it records information that is used. The problem is that sometimes everything is running fine and super verbose logging is a waste but then something in the environment changes and suddenly temporarily logging a lot of debugging information is useful. Setting a "logging level" in a configuration file lets me do light logging, verbose logging and just about anything between without having to recompile my projects.
A scheme to start down the path of making HUGE profits by extracting money for every little thing a user does online...
This brought to you by AT & T... i.e the beloved phone company... Some things never change.
"The head of Microsoft's global open source and Linux team is quoted saying: "The other thing I think is missing is implementation of a basic principle of economic fairness. Thousands of developers have put very hard work into building software used by millions of people and companies, yet only a fraction of these developers are rewarded financially."
It really touches me that Microsoft is concerned about the well being of the people who develop the products that are its greatest competition! A more cynical person might think that their real motivation is to destroy the open source model by injecting huge costs.
Save some money. Just leave it unattended for a few minutes then report it stolen.
My experience is that they don't "initially" block P2P. The last time I used bit torrent to download Ubuntu I downloaded the complete ISO file at very fast speed. During this period I was able to share until my download completed. Then very rapidly the connections dropped off.
So they probably feel that this is the correct formula to keep most of their customers happy. We can download a torrent unimpeded but can't continue to share after our download is competed.
It sounds to me like you're very angry about the Iraq war. I am too but it's not the fault of the American people. Our government is being controlled by the special interests. How we became so Dependant on oil erroneus explained fairly succinctly. It is the fault of large corporations and government 'servants' that take special interest money and then betray the people's interests.
The people no longer have a place at the table. They have no real voice.
I would say that it was the fault of the voters but I don't see any candidate that can change a system that is so full of corruption. It would take a real house cleaning.
My father use to joke that each five years we should vote for the most corrupt politician and hang him. It wouldn't take too many years and they would probably all straighten up and fly right.
Please don't apply your own mental limitations to us all.
if the RIAA knew that MediaDefender was making their copyrighted material available to the public if that may in fact be releasing it into the public domain?
Any lawyers out there care to comment?
Maybe it a troll because there is no -1 "Ignorant enough to kill us all" moderation available?
"I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could "hamper development of the internet."
It will hamper the development of the internet as an economic tool for large corporations who wish to milk the public of every dime.
It all depends on what we want the internet to be doesn't it? A resource for all humanity to freely exchange ideas or a corporate tool to take our money. The choice is ours but if you don't want to support the corporate powers be ready for a fight that will last forever because the bastards will never stop.
Stop writing games using DirectX and start using OpenGL. This would also make it easier to port your games to Linux.