However, the spectrum ought to be private property. This is an old, but easy to understand, argument
You're using an argument from 1964 to support your position in a technology debate? Clearly, the concept of distributed dynamic channel access (which did not exist FORTY-THREE YEARS AGO), is a successful one, and Ms. Rand's argument, while appropriate IN THE LAST CENTURY, is less poignant in this one. You know, the one where we're currently LIVING.
Are you going to follow up with an editorial extolling the virtues of buggy whips over the pedal-operated engine throttle?
I didn't miss that. Amazon has been working on their service for the last 8-12 months.They didn't start working on it in the last 5 days.
Jobs doesn't care about DRM as an issue. Jobs cares about keeping the majority of the digital music market in Apple's hands. If he doesn't start selling DRM-free songs before Amazon's imminent release, Apple loses.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM
Of course he is. He doesn't want to be caught sideways when Amazon unveils their DRM-free music service (which should be coming out this spring/summer)
The video covers a little experiment in SL where a reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if some unspoken human rules apply in the virtual world -- such as staring or standing too close to someone. Perhaps surprisingly, in this world where you can be or do just about anything, you can't break these unspoken rules with impunity.
Well, yeah, you can, as long as you don't get caught, if you know what I mean.
Almost a year after a police raid on the Pirate Bay's servers, a Swedish prosecutor has announced that he intends to press charges against the individuals behind the file-sharing giant.
So if the charges are thrown out because there is no real law in Sweden precluding their activities, could they sue the prosecutor for malicious prosecution, or attempt to get him disbarred (much like the prosecutor in the Duke rape case)?
The New York Times is reporting that an Office of Management and Budget website accidentally exposed at least 30,000 social security numbers publicly online.
Sounds like they got the "Social" part right... "Security", not so much.
The Washington Post reports on the probable abuse of the National Student Loan Data System.
Well color me surprised. Or not. Anyone in the financial services industry is well aware that students are prime targets for all sorts of jacked-up offers. That data needs protecting, but the whole credit system in this country needs a major overhaul.
It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony -- specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness -- have some kind of 'feature' that makes them unplayable on many DVD players.
Yeah, that's the copy protection feature. Hollywood finally figured out that if you can view it, you can copy it. If they simply make the content unplayable, nobody can pirate the movie!
Selling plastic disks with movies on them for 1000x the cost to manufacture probably is an obsolete business model. On the other hand, I don't think that physical media for personal use (i.e. DVD+R's) are going anywhere anytime soon.
Sure, but those aren't encrypted to prevent access to the data, as we were talking about. Do you protect your home-burned DVD backups with CSS or AACS?
Twenty-four federal departments and agencies earned a collective grade of C-minus last year for their performance in meeting computer and network security requirements
It sounds like their security is more "social" than they'd like!
Yeah, the whole thing is really just too bad. Any any website trying to minimize how bad it is, does a tremendous disservice to the people over there that are getting shot at every day. I guess it just seems kind of weird that to me that some people think "supporting the troops" means "pretending the troops aren't in a completely disorganized, deadly shitstorm"
It's a warzone. There's no way civil society can compare. There's just no way.
Using Pentagon statistics cross-checked with independent research, King said he came up with an annualized Iraqi civilian death rate of 27.51 per 100,000.
Ok, so it sounds like he's counting the years when Saddam was still in power. Which, of course, would bring down the average, because the country wasn't in total chaos. But to be perfectly honest, they could have just made the numbers up. They don't cite their sources, and they don't cite their research, so it's impossible to see how they're calculating that.
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However, the spectrum ought to be private property. This is an old, but easy to understand, argument
You're using an argument from 1964 to support your position in a technology debate? Clearly, the concept of distributed dynamic channel access (which did not exist FORTY-THREE YEARS AGO), is a successful one, and Ms. Rand's argument, while appropriate IN THE LAST CENTURY, is less poignant in this one. You know, the one where we're currently LIVING.
Are you going to follow up with an editorial extolling the virtues of buggy whips over the pedal-operated engine throttle?
Every story I can find about DRM-free content from Amazon has come after Apple's DRM-free deal with EMI.
Well, you're not not searching very hard, are you? Amazon has been talking about it for 6 months.
Sprint Nextel makes a fairly compelling case that a greater good would be served if the FCC would stop enabling such tardiness.
Yes, because private "ownership" of spectrum is clearly a god-given right, and not a state-sponsored privilege. No, not at all.
I didn't miss that. Amazon has been working on their service for the last 8-12 months.They didn't start working on it in the last 5 days.
Jobs doesn't care about DRM as an issue. Jobs cares about keeping the majority of the digital music market in Apple's hands. If he doesn't start selling DRM-free songs before Amazon's imminent release, Apple loses.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM
Of course he is. He doesn't want to be caught sideways when Amazon unveils their DRM-free music service (which should be coming out this spring/summer)
The video covers a little experiment in SL where a reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if some unspoken human rules apply in the virtual world -- such as staring or standing too close to someone. Perhaps surprisingly, in this world where you can be or do just about anything, you can't break these unspoken rules with impunity.
Well, yeah, you can, as long as you don't get caught, if you know what I mean.
The US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA (called Spawar) has apparently been conducting research on "cold fusion"
.NET or J2EE.
I wonder why they chose that over ASP
This whole mess proves that America doesn't care about security. But it does show that the securrorists have won.
Almost a year after a police raid on the Pirate Bay's servers, a Swedish prosecutor has announced that he intends to press charges against the individuals behind the file-sharing giant.
So if the charges are thrown out because there is no real law in Sweden precluding their activities, could they sue the prosecutor for malicious prosecution, or attempt to get him disbarred (much like the prosecutor in the Duke rape case)?
Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core
Excellent. This means they'll be able to serve McDonald's apple pies when they put the first restaurant on Mercury.
y replacing sections of solid concrete with Darius turbines, they might be able to harvest enough energy to power a light-rail line.
That's boring. Wake me up when they can power a light rail gun.
I'm also interested in Xen, and would like to see if I can use that to virtualize Windows under Linux.
I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure Xen would be a great place to store backups to keep them from prying eyes. Who needs encryption when you have a low-gravity parallel dimension as a safe-deposit box?
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That's great news! This should free up a lot of developers to work on other projects.
The New York Times is reporting that an Office of Management and Budget website accidentally exposed at least 30,000 social security numbers publicly online.
Sounds like they got the "Social" part right... "Security", not so much.
What I can't model is something that is nebulous and undefined.
You wouldn't happen to work for a government oversight agency, would you?
That headline could actually make sense in today's world.
The man's right. The internet is where I find out about this kind of stuff.
I'm sure there are others. My only concern is that limitations of this sort are paternalistic.
Possibly, but even a simple move like eliminating the practice of Universal Default would be a huge leap forward.
The Washington Post reports on the probable abuse of the National Student Loan Data System.
Well color me surprised. Or not. Anyone in the financial services industry is well aware that students are prime targets for all sorts of jacked-up offers. That data needs protecting, but the whole credit system in this country needs a major overhaul.
It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony -- specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness -- have some kind of 'feature' that makes them unplayable on many DVD players.
Yeah, that's the copy protection feature. Hollywood finally figured out that if you can view it, you can copy it. If they simply make the content unplayable, nobody can pirate the movie!
DoubleClick got owned!
no, really!
Selling plastic disks with movies on them for 1000x the cost to manufacture probably is an obsolete business model. On the other hand, I don't think that physical media for personal use (i.e. DVD+R's) are going anywhere anytime soon.
Sure, but those aren't encrypted to prevent access to the data, as we were talking about. Do you protect your home-burned DVD backups with CSS or AACS?
Twenty-four federal departments and agencies earned a collective grade of C-minus last year for their performance in meeting computer and network security requirements
It sounds like their security is more "social" than they'd like!
Yeah, the whole thing is really just too bad. Any any website trying to minimize how bad it is, does a tremendous disservice to the people over there that are getting shot at every day. I guess it just seems kind of weird that to me that some people think "supporting the troops" means "pretending the troops aren't in a completely disorganized, deadly shitstorm"
It's a warzone. There's no way civil society can compare. There's just no way.
Using Pentagon statistics cross-checked with independent research, King said he came up with an annualized Iraqi civilian death rate of 27.51 per 100,000.
Ok, so it sounds like he's counting the years when Saddam was still in power. Which, of course, would bring down the average, because the country wasn't in total chaos. But to be perfectly honest, they could have just made the numbers up. They don't cite their sources, and they don't cite their research, so it's impossible to see how they're calculating that.