personally I like "Nip/Tuck" on TNT for the full back nudity...while showing sex. It's just short of soft-core porn. Shhh. don't let the PTC see that one.
notice how CBS caters to "that" crowd.. trying to have shows that cater to the moral "right". Look what that got them!!! Hopefully the suits will learn that cater to the right wing and THIS is how they reward you. They'd be better off to be like NBC catering to the "liberal" and gays... but nobody from the right watches it so they can get away with more.
At that point it's not about not getting cracked ever, because the data is always in motion so it won't stay put long enough to hack. The bandwidth for these projectors is MASSIVE. They're talking 50's of gigs per movie downloaded over satillite link directly to the projector which syncs back over DSL. The films can be keyed directly to the projector, so just having the stream will be meaningless, and won't be on a band you'll be able to have equipment for. The drives won't hold very many movies and won't be removable without shutting down the equipment. A projector only needs 3-4 movies per week then the space would be reclaimed for next week's movies. It will sure be figured out "sometime" but won't be meaningful to anybody.
at the tail end of the post, you mentioned theaters having flexability to show movies when they want. THAT is what the MPAA should finally get!!! Think of digital theatre as "iTunes for Real movies" Lucas understands the idea of allowing theaters to re-run films whenever they want. Movies like Star Wars or Wizard of Oz could make a steady stream of income being run every couple of years if the cost of maintaining a $5k print was reduced... and the theaters get DRM & consumer data to boot!!!
Unfortunately, the suits will never get that idea that theaters should run their own screens and make choices based on what THEIR customers want!!!
They still shouldn't be able to prove that they really work "spies". If they can, somebody's not doing their job!!! Unfortunately, the spy business isn't really about "hiding" as much as "deception" and "misdirection". It's more about getting to the information before the other guy does rather than hiding it all together.. after all, he'll know you're the spy when you shoot him in the back.
I don't get all this EU money grab talk. They choose an amount relitive to how much income microsoft has in 1 day.. ONE DAY of monopoly profits!!! It's no worse than the judge who sued McDonald's for several days of Coffee sales over the whole "hot coffee" thing. What the EU REALLY needs is access to a high level MS exec to lock in JAIL until microsoft gets it's ass in gear. That's the whole problem with corporations is that one person can call the shots but not be punished unless they greviously broke the law which in cases like this is very hard to prove.
Like they "defended" themselves in their US anti-trust case by nearly attacking the judge personally in public? That cheap shot was purposfully intended to throw off the case by "tainting" the judge. Unfortunately for US they were successful, because the appeals court used the judges retort as example he was too "harsh" so they held off judgement until the new administration shut the case down. sounds like business as usual.
yes, but when Microsoft turned over the "documents" they dumped thousands of pages of code, and promised to let other developers "look" with the proper licensing, and fees, etc. The EU said "no deal" and wanted something clear that could be freely available. The EU "gets" how to handle this legally and without stepping on too many corperate toes. They weren't asking for MS proprietary source, just the information to talk to windows servers and clients. What they're after is the necessary documents to help out stuff like Samba, not to give MS property away.
legitimately, MS lawyers have never dealt with this type of case before. The EU doesn't want to be paid of, or "handled" they want compliance. truthfully, I'd doubt Microsoft actually has said documentation due to the way they work. It's been a joke they use the Samba documentation for their own developers. It would be quite some work to actually get a working documentation and MS lawyers couldn't handle the possibility of such a technical demand.
do you think they could threaten to jail Steve B. if he set foot in europe. The turn about for all the OSS threats [i.e. DVD John] would be great! Also, they could probably get him for assult after chair throwing.
Patents are one of the few ideas in the US that allow somebody to prevent you from doing something perfectly moral and legal just because they have a "privilage" from the government. Patents allow somebody else, with the government's help [remember, guys with legal guns] to take your hard work and property because you infringed the idea of somebody else.. even if you knew nothing about the idea! I'd say that's pretty violent!
It should be pointed out that CORPORATIONS in America are not an example of completely free market action. CORPORATIONS depend on the government to enforce certain rules via INSERT RELEVENT LAWS HERE.
There are too many regulations that give positive rights to the CORPOERATIONS in such situations to call CORPORATIONS in America a market solution.
I, too would find them admirable (much like I find voluntary collective consumer action to be admirable), if the playing-field were __actually__ level (instead of ostensibly so for the benefit of bureaucrats).
CORPORATIONS without government-intervention would work. Instead of the CORPORATIONS we see now, we would find CORPORATIONS organizing as independent for-profit bargaining/insurance companies....
Get the idea, corporations enjoy far too many benifits also [DMCA, Patriot act, low income tax, etc] , why should one CEO have control over hundreds of individuals jobs without some counter-balance to it. Remember, it's not the CEO's money, he is an "elecected" offical too. After all, Corporations are just "unions" where people pool their money [labor] so they don't have to be responsible to make it grow [like union contracts to keep benifits, hours, etc].
How was the Hebrew girl wrong? What part of saying that certian palastinian groups want to "push Israel into the sea" was not based in fact. I've heard that exact line repeated for 20 years now. That statement is fact. Denying that certian political leaders in other countries have declared enemies is just like denying the holocost.
Exactly, the internet may be a public forum, but it's not exactly the same as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Even the anoying GNAA posts we get here are protected. We have a mod system so we know they're trolling. When they abuse the system and post a hundred posts that's different because that's abusing the system not exersizing speech... I'd complain if somebody posted a hundred "lorem ipsems" too! Fortunately the USA still isn't THAT bad.. yet.
I get where this is going...
let's say another software maker generated new program 2000 that only works on Red Hat signed kernels.
i suppose if it was a software "service" you'd be SOL, but free to move on to another seller.
I could see a situation where Dell, for instance, gets a lot of "free" ad-ware for accessing media, online accounts, etc to load up on your new red hat install and when you update the kernel all that stuff stops working.
Red Hat did't violate the GPL by signing their kernels.
How could you hold Dell responsible if all they did was recompile and repackage???
Where the parent is heading is if the third party required Dell to tie the keys together before distributing it.. They could get out of giving the keys because Dell distributed the software, and dell or red hat could help you because it's not their software either???
not really, OGG is the only "free" media format, true MP3 may be common but if you start selling music players, the patent owners WILL come after you to kill your business. They already have a new spec out and if you don't sign up for it too they will price the license so far out of reach you'll never be able to sell anything. The patents on vorbis [the mucic codex] were formally realeased to the coders OGG and licensed for use. It's really an issue at the core of what OSS is all about...it's a dis-service to discount what they're trying to do.
This is the HUGE problem with our system. In our system the Jury only gets "yes" or "no" to say, not any other means of discourse so it's very easy to get a "fair" trial when the defendant was moraly justified for what they did. What we really need is the process turned on it's ear.. the Jury needs to ask the questions and the lawyers only answer yes or no!! Juries need to be able to say, "yes" the law was broken, but perhaps the procecutor should open a new case against another party, or perhaps the case should be appealed on constutiutionality reasons, the law should be fixed, we refuse to convict! The jury doesn't get to "fix" what they see as really wrong, hence procecutors have full reign to terrorize both the defendants and juries by bringing up crimes completely out of context which is not the point of the law nor morally right. The Jury IS the judical branch, just as much as the judges are, there can't morally be any "law" to tell them how to proceed that's the point of involving common people and not trying to write perfect law!!!
That could be true, then diebold has to admit in court the "stolen" documents were theirs and were wrongfully taken. At that point, they basically admit to documention of the crime, and also requiring the law firm to cover it up!
Of course slashdot is out to get infinium labs... they've been a mockary of the process ever since they started. They've taken investors for millions and it's the same old scam. Let's face it, there's probably several MILLION geeks a week that frequent slashdot. The community has seen it all.. What did Infinium do when confronted with factual representation by HardOCP.. tried to sue them!!! Infinium never even challanged the facts, I think some minor mailing address and dates were off, but it didnt' change the facts. Once you take on one member of the online press, you pretty much are screwed from here on out.
Let's face it, the Eds only post their press releases to mock them as entertainment. WHEN they deliver a real product, I'm sure they'll get tons of free press [read article dupes] here just because we're facinated with them failing so famously!
It would be fun just out of spite to pull a "mozilla"... Get a few big vendors could easily pay that price, buy the company and all the patents, trademarks, etc from the creditors then assign them all to a non-profit that open-sources all the code. The only REAL reason the big boys never owned UNIX was because they were all under anti-trust scrutiny so often it made sense to have a "piss boy" to pretend to "own" the specs and they all "paid" money to. That way the UNIX stuff wouldn't get caught in an IBM, SCO, HP court battle. SCO was never supposed to have any real power over any of the orginal license holders. Now things have changed, and there's better ways to handle these things thanks to Open Source's example of showing that many companies can work off a common non-profit base.
What we really should be doing is finding home grown HDTV applications. The HDTV specs are wonderful... alternate chanels, ditatal sound, time & date codes, data feeds, captions, ratings, all thrown into a digital signal if you want to do something else really cool. We need to start community/internet based HD efforts because it's obvious the big media isn't going to do it willingly. With PVRs and the internet, we could simply stream the HD content off the waves and watch it whenever we wanted.... who cares about schedules anymore anyway?
Bittorrent is about freedom of information, not scoring somebody cheap bandwidth. The whole idea of Bittorrent is to make freely available content more available without taxing the orginal host to death for bandwidth charges. if I put one cool video up on my website i don't want to get killed for a huge bill because a bunch of people liked my stuff. bittorrent helps relieve that by sharing the load among all the downloaders. They got a "free" download and "share" a little upload in return.
If somebody's trying to sell the next big blockbuster AND scam free bandwidth that's not how it works. Unfortunately, neither the hollywood suits nor the telco suits understand how the community works.. All they see is "$$$" and want their cut both ways. If they had it their way, we'll pay for BT "service" then pay for the DRM's movies while the movie providers "pay" for access to the telco BT network.
Exactly! Like in another post about new AT lawsuits, 6 of the 10 new "reasons" to buy Vista are knock-off versions of products that have 2-3 companies making a tidy living from. Let's look at MS latest conquests: They bought a cheap no-name AV company that also made Linux AV, canceled their deals with McAfee and now they are using that to run the others out of town. Look at Spyware, they bought Giant, which was a minor player, now want to bundle it and of course that will take out the people making real money. That's MS modus aperendi... they wait till a market is developed, buy the cheapest player, then bundle the tech making the long-term players loose their businesses. McAfee is already in financial trouble, and Norton is not soon off.
Microsoft enjoys being a relitive monopoly for PC OSes... realize that only two product lines support the entire company... Office products and OS products! Everything else they do is for the sake of taking away business from other people's companies and costs their shareholders profit!
Frankly, the whole bundling thing is nonsense though. What really needs to happen is what the EU is trying to do... take away the secret advantages they keep between products for themselves. The countries really need to take the state of Mass idea and accept only published specs for their software protocols like any other contract. That has the function of eliminating MS as a competitior unless they adopt standards like everyone else's. Any real "punishement" of microsoft has to also address OEM agreements, buying competitors to kill them, and remove that big pile of cash [even if it just is forced to be paid to stockholders] so they have to act, not pay their way out of trouble.
I'd take that argument too. After all, the chineese and indians are knocking out engineers by the dozens, but they're hardly what americans consider "engineers". I doubt it's 11-1 but seriously closer to 5-1 because the wage disparity is so bad. One thing I always found about forigen students is that they were brilliant at their specialty, but not very good "out of the box". American engineering has become more about the "other stuff" paperwork, purchasing, managing, than about the engineering work.. The science almost an afterthought in most companies these days.
The European one went further than that though. The European court process is much better at getting to the heart of a matter and not being waylayed by legal panderings like the US courts are.. that's a very frowned upon thing over there. What the EU wanted was a consise, correct documentation of the communciations APIs that could be FREELY available without "strings" attached. I.e. they wanted exacty what the Samba team needs to perfect their tool. What MS gave was everything BUT that! They tried writing Half-true documentation, when that failed they tried releasing tons of Soruce code with lots of fees and licensing attached like they did in the US. The EU won't be BS'd. They didn't ask for developer access to windows CODE, they wanted specs. Properly documented and usable specs to interface with Windows servers. They asked the RIGHT questions and know exactly what they want, MS knows this too and doesn't want to play along. They are right about one thing, the EU did ask for the "keys to the kingdom" because all MS has going for it right now are arcane file types and protocols. The truth is that MS probably doesn't HAVE such a document at all due to the way they operate so this is probably a lot of work.. to cut their own throats.. how ironic!!!
one common thread I see is the on-line/off-line component of these. I'd like to see some firefox extensions that could approach the same functionality. making a web app saved to a PC look just the same as one on the web. so you weren't always tied to a connection.
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personally I like "Nip/Tuck" on TNT for the full back nudity...while showing sex. It's just short of soft-core porn. Shhh. don't let the PTC see that one.
notice how CBS caters to "that" crowd.. trying to have shows that cater to the moral "right". Look what that got them!!! Hopefully the suits will learn that cater to the right wing and THIS is how they reward you. They'd be better off to be like NBC catering to the "liberal" and gays... but nobody from the right watches it so they can get away with more.
At that point it's not about not getting cracked ever, because the data is always in motion so it won't stay put long enough to hack. The bandwidth for these projectors is MASSIVE. They're talking 50's of gigs per movie downloaded over satillite link directly to the projector which syncs back over DSL. The films can be keyed directly to the projector, so just having the stream will be meaningless, and won't be on a band you'll be able to have equipment for. The drives won't hold very many movies and won't be removable without shutting down the equipment. A projector only needs 3-4 movies per week then the space would be reclaimed for next week's movies. It will sure be figured out "sometime" but won't be meaningful to anybody.
Unfortunately, the suits will never get that idea that theaters should run their own screens and make choices based on what THEIR customers want!!!
They still shouldn't be able to prove that they really work "spies". If they can, somebody's not doing their job!!! Unfortunately, the spy business isn't really about "hiding" as much as "deception" and "misdirection". It's more about getting to the information before the other guy does rather than hiding it all together.. after all, he'll know you're the spy when you shoot him in the back.
I don't get all this EU money grab talk. They choose an amount relitive to how much income microsoft has in 1 day .. ONE DAY of monopoly profits!!! It's no worse than the judge who sued McDonald's for several days of Coffee sales over the whole "hot coffee" thing. What the EU REALLY needs is access to a high level MS exec to lock in JAIL until microsoft gets it's ass in gear. That's the whole problem with corporations is that one person can call the shots but not be punished unless they greviously broke the law which in cases like this is very hard to prove.
Like they "defended" themselves in their US anti-trust case by nearly attacking the judge personally in public? That cheap shot was purposfully intended to throw off the case by "tainting" the judge. Unfortunately for US they were successful, because the appeals court used the judges retort as example he was too "harsh" so they held off judgement until the new administration shut the case down. sounds like business as usual.
legitimately, MS lawyers have never dealt with this type of case before. The EU doesn't want to be paid of, or "handled" they want compliance. truthfully, I'd doubt Microsoft actually has said documentation due to the way they work. It's been a joke they use the Samba documentation for their own developers. It would be quite some work to actually get a working documentation and MS lawyers couldn't handle the possibility of such a technical demand.
do you think they could threaten to jail Steve B. if he set foot in europe. The turn about for all the OSS threats [i.e. DVD John] would be great! Also, they could probably get him for assult after chair throwing.
Patents are one of the few ideas in the US that allow somebody to prevent you from doing something perfectly moral and legal just because they have a "privilage" from the government. Patents allow somebody else, with the government's help [remember, guys with legal guns] to take your hard work and property because you infringed the idea of somebody else.. even if you knew nothing about the idea! I'd say that's pretty violent!
It should be pointed out that CORPORATIONS in America are not an example of completely free market action. CORPORATIONS depend on the government to enforce certain rules via INSERT RELEVENT LAWS HERE. There are too many regulations that give positive rights to the CORPOERATIONS in such situations to call CORPORATIONS in America a market solution. I, too would find them admirable (much like I find voluntary collective consumer action to be admirable), if the playing-field were __actually__ level (instead of ostensibly so for the benefit of bureaucrats). CORPORATIONS without government-intervention would work. Instead of the CORPORATIONS we see now, we would find CORPORATIONS organizing as independent for-profit bargaining/insurance companies.... Get the idea, corporations enjoy far too many benifits also [DMCA, Patriot act, low income tax, etc] , why should one CEO have control over hundreds of individuals jobs without some counter-balance to it. Remember, it's not the CEO's money, he is an "elecected" offical too. After all, Corporations are just "unions" where people pool their money [labor] so they don't have to be responsible to make it grow [like union contracts to keep benifits, hours, etc].
How was the Hebrew girl wrong? What part of saying that certian palastinian groups want to "push Israel into the sea" was not based in fact. I've heard that exact line repeated for 20 years now. That statement is fact. Denying that certian political leaders in other countries have declared enemies is just like denying the holocost.
Exactly, the internet may be a public forum, but it's not exactly the same as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Even the anoying GNAA posts we get here are protected. We have a mod system so we know they're trolling. When they abuse the system and post a hundred posts that's different because that's abusing the system not exersizing speech... I'd complain if somebody posted a hundred "lorem ipsems" too! Fortunately the USA still isn't THAT bad .. yet.
let's say another software maker generated new program 2000 that only works on Red Hat signed kernels.
i suppose if it was a software "service" you'd be SOL, but free to move on to another seller.
I could see a situation where Dell, for instance, gets a lot of "free" ad-ware for accessing media, online accounts, etc to load up on your new red hat install and when you update the kernel all that stuff stops working.
Red Hat did't violate the GPL by signing their kernels.
How could you hold Dell responsible if all they did was recompile and repackage???
Where the parent is heading is if the third party required Dell to tie the keys together before distributing it.. They could get out of giving the keys because Dell distributed the software, and dell or red hat could help you because it's not their software either???
not really, OGG is the only "free" media format, true MP3 may be common but if you start selling music players, the patent owners WILL come after you to kill your business. They already have a new spec out and if you don't sign up for it too they will price the license so far out of reach you'll never be able to sell anything. The patents on vorbis [the mucic codex] were formally realeased to the coders OGG and licensed for use. It's really an issue at the core of what OSS is all about...it's a dis-service to discount what they're trying to do.
This is the HUGE problem with our system. In our system the Jury only gets "yes" or "no" to say, not any other means of discourse so it's very easy to get a "fair" trial when the defendant was moraly justified for what they did. What we really need is the process turned on it's ear.. the Jury needs to ask the questions and the lawyers only answer yes or no!! Juries need to be able to say, "yes" the law was broken, but perhaps the procecutor should open a new case against another party, or perhaps the case should be appealed on constutiutionality reasons, the law should be fixed, we refuse to convict! The jury doesn't get to "fix" what they see as really wrong, hence procecutors have full reign to terrorize both the defendants and juries by bringing up crimes completely out of context which is not the point of the law nor morally right. The Jury IS the judical branch, just as much as the judges are, there can't morally be any "law" to tell them how to proceed that's the point of involving common people and not trying to write perfect law!!!
That could be true, then diebold has to admit in court the "stolen" documents were theirs and were wrongfully taken. At that point, they basically admit to documention of the crime, and also requiring the law firm to cover it up!
Let's face it, the Eds only post their press releases to mock them as entertainment. WHEN they deliver a real product, I'm sure they'll get tons of free press [read article dupes] here just because we're facinated with them failing so famously!
It would be fun just out of spite to pull a "mozilla"... Get a few big vendors could easily pay that price, buy the company and all the patents, trademarks, etc from the creditors then assign them all to a non-profit that open-sources all the code. The only REAL reason the big boys never owned UNIX was because they were all under anti-trust scrutiny so often it made sense to have a "piss boy" to pretend to "own" the specs and they all "paid" money to. That way the UNIX stuff wouldn't get caught in an IBM, SCO, HP court battle. SCO was never supposed to have any real power over any of the orginal license holders. Now things have changed, and there's better ways to handle these things thanks to Open Source's example of showing that many companies can work off a common non-profit base.
What we really should be doing is finding home grown HDTV applications. The HDTV specs are wonderful... alternate chanels, ditatal sound, time & date codes, data feeds, captions, ratings, all thrown into a digital signal if you want to do something else really cool. We need to start community/internet based HD efforts because it's obvious the big media isn't going to do it willingly. With PVRs and the internet, we could simply stream the HD content off the waves and watch it whenever we wanted.... who cares about schedules anymore anyway?
If somebody's trying to sell the next big blockbuster AND scam free bandwidth that's not how it works. Unfortunately, neither the hollywood suits nor the telco suits understand how the community works.. All they see is "$$$" and want their cut both ways. If they had it their way, we'll pay for BT "service" then pay for the DRM's movies while the movie providers "pay" for access to the telco BT network.
Microsoft enjoys being a relitive monopoly for PC OSes... realize that only two product lines support the entire company... Office products and OS products! Everything else they do is for the sake of taking away business from other people's companies and costs their shareholders profit!
Frankly, the whole bundling thing is nonsense though. What really needs to happen is what the EU is trying to do... take away the secret advantages they keep between products for themselves. The countries really need to take the state of Mass idea and accept only published specs for their software protocols like any other contract. That has the function of eliminating MS as a competitior unless they adopt standards like everyone else's. Any real "punishement" of microsoft has to also address OEM agreements, buying competitors to kill them, and remove that big pile of cash [even if it just is forced to be paid to stockholders] so they have to act, not pay their way out of trouble.
I'd take that argument too. After all, the chineese and indians are knocking out engineers by the dozens, but they're hardly what americans consider "engineers". I doubt it's 11-1 but seriously closer to 5-1 because the wage disparity is so bad. One thing I always found about forigen students is that they were brilliant at their specialty, but not very good "out of the box". American engineering has become more about the "other stuff" paperwork, purchasing, managing, than about the engineering work.. The science almost an afterthought in most companies these days.
The European one went further than that though. The European court process is much better at getting to the heart of a matter and not being waylayed by legal panderings like the US courts are.. that's a very frowned upon thing over there. What the EU wanted was a consise, correct documentation of the communciations APIs that could be FREELY available without "strings" attached. I.e. they wanted exacty what the Samba team needs to perfect their tool. What MS gave was everything BUT that! They tried writing Half-true documentation, when that failed they tried releasing tons of Soruce code with lots of fees and licensing attached like they did in the US. The EU won't be BS'd. They didn't ask for developer access to windows CODE, they wanted specs. Properly documented and usable specs to interface with Windows servers. They asked the RIGHT questions and know exactly what they want, MS knows this too and doesn't want to play along. They are right about one thing, the EU did ask for the "keys to the kingdom" because all MS has going for it right now are arcane file types and protocols. The truth is that MS probably doesn't HAVE such a document at all due to the way they operate so this is probably a lot of work.. to cut their own throats.. how ironic!!!
one common thread I see is the on-line/off-line component of these. I'd like to see some firefox extensions that could approach the same functionality. making a web app saved to a PC look just the same as one on the web. so you weren't always tied to a connection.