We have plenty strong Price Fixing laws. Unfortunately you have to prove it to do it.
They don't officially talk but it is easy to see what your competitor is doing and fall in line. No communication. No foul.
It starts with first party setting poor plans in motion. Many people stay with them as the other providor is not as available as the other. The second weighs this up for a few months and works out how well the competitor is doing. Once it works out the new plans are viable it jumps ship. The only communication has been via the press.
It was at the Auscert conference on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
This is the only online reference I have to his talk.
I do have paper notes. Somewhere...
http://conference.auscert.org.au/abstracts.html#mu sings
It's pretty clear it was quite a simplistic study with a specifically chosen sample timeframe etc. I thought his points were quite well reasoned though.
Good research. I recently listened to a good talk by Gene Spafford of Purdue University who was debunking the hypothesis that "Open Source" is better than closed source.
Very interesting talk if he ever publishes it. It was based on some statistical data which although arguably incomplete showed that Linux devices on the Internet where found by CERT organisations to be compromised more than other OS' MS Windows was up there. The best where BSD and MacOS.
He also looked at the total number of vulnerabilities. Again Linux won (lost) with MS Windows following. the best *BSD and MacOS.
His basic statement was that code written by experienced quality programmers with good validation systems and procedures create more secure software. Co-operative efforts like Linux are in trouble as the individual contributors do not have the appropriate tools or processes to verify code and are therefore inherently going to create weaker software.
Not a great endorsement for MS or Linux.
He also pointedly added several good examples of open source software that contained major flaws for years despite thier open nature. I think Kerberos and interestingly OpenSSL are amongst the systems mentioned here (by nature security products).
Lets just hope that we can all start to program better. It would be nice.
My question is if you already owned all of the rights already (In the best of collection) should you be able to get a copy of the CD for the cost of it's production (minus paying for rights).
Extending that. I own a few videos on VCR. Can I upgrade them to DVD for the cost of the production of the media. (I already own the rights.)
This is only using thier logic on no backing up...
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The biggest problem with any technology like lighting that messes with geeks is the geeks will ultimately destroy it in anger.
:)
They'll either throw rocks at the bulbs or hack the company using them and shut them down.
We have plenty strong Price Fixing laws. Unfortunately you have to prove it to do it.
They don't officially talk but it is easy to see what your competitor is doing and fall in line. No communication. No foul.
It starts with first party setting poor plans in motion. Many people stay with them as the other providor is not as available as the other. The second weighs this up for a few months and works out how well the competitor is doing. Once it works out the new plans are viable it jumps ship. The only communication has been via the press.
I live in Australia where there is a "Duopoly" (2 companies own all the cable/ phone lines)
We now can't buy an affordable plan with more than about a 3 to 4.5 GB limit any more.
Check it out:
Aussie Broadband Choice Web site
No I don't think having a monopoly would be in any way a good thing.
Sorry guys.
It was at the Auscert conference on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
u sings
This is the only online reference I have to his talk.
I do have paper notes. Somewhere...
http://conference.auscert.org.au/abstracts.html#m
It's pretty clear it was quite a simplistic study with a specifically chosen sample timeframe etc. I thought his points were quite well reasoned though.
Good research. I recently listened to a good talk by Gene Spafford of Purdue University who was debunking the hypothesis that "Open Source" is better than closed source.
Very interesting talk if he ever publishes it. It was based on some statistical data which although arguably incomplete showed that Linux devices on the Internet where found by CERT organisations to be compromised more than other OS' MS Windows was up there. The best where BSD and MacOS.
He also looked at the total number of vulnerabilities. Again Linux won (lost) with MS Windows following. the best *BSD and MacOS.
His basic statement was that code written by experienced quality programmers with good validation systems and procedures create more secure software. Co-operative efforts like Linux are in trouble as the individual contributors do not have the appropriate tools or processes to verify code and are therefore inherently going to create weaker software.
Not a great endorsement for MS or Linux.
He also pointedly added several good examples of open source software that contained major flaws for years despite thier open nature. I think Kerberos and interestingly OpenSSL are amongst the systems mentioned here (by nature security products).
Lets just hope that we can all start to program better. It would be nice.
That will probably bugger up my patent. Damn prior art!
Where was I in April 1, 1972?
I think I was a potato in North Queensland...
somewhere...
My question is if you already owned all of the rights already (In the best of collection) should you be able to get a copy of the CD for the cost of it's production (minus paying for rights).
Extending that. I own a few videos on VCR. Can I upgrade them to DVD for the cost of the production of the media. (I already own the rights.)
This is only using thier logic on no backing up...