automated acts of routing on a filesharing network will probably be found NOT to be contributory copyright infringement.
We shall see. Personally I doubt the dominant filesharing app will ever be legal for long. I suspect the law, or at least its interpretation, will be broadened as necessary to facilitate the control of information.
Which is a pretty good sign that something is wrong. There should be a law that no more than 20% of officers in a state can use weapons or gear not available to everybody. The point being, not to restrict the police, but to empower everybody else.
I can't comment on this brand new product specifically, but my kids have the Leap Pad computer books, and I can tell you that, in fact, they do get used. Especially on long car trips. The Leap Pads have a fair-sized library of books you can buy for them, so it's easy for somebody to get the kids one when they want to give something in the $10-$15 range. And then of course there's ebay.
I think they're especially good for pre-readers. You touch part of the page with the attached pen, it says something about it. One book has a little "detective" narrative where touching a person gives you clues about them, and you use simple logic to guess whodunnit. And you can do basic music composition, learn the countries on the map, and of course pick up new vocabularity.
All the sensitive data - such as credit cards, since you mentioned it - is already sent over ssl, with much more security than WEP can provide, much less a non-default SSID.
You're ignoring the whole problem: there are so many networks, wireless doesn't work. How does trying to mooch fix this problem? I doubt the reduction from 21 to 20 access points will make a noticeable improvement.
No they aren't. There are a thousand other ways to get on the 'net annonymously, which is fine with me.
It baffles me how geeks can agonize of the lack of wireless security without realizing the obvious: if it mattered, people would care more. There would be horror stories in the popular press, like there are for identity theft.
It's certainly an interesting idea. I think its competition will be laptops.
For $699 you can get a Dell Laptop. $700 is a lot more than $500 percentagewise, but the laptop gives you a 14" LCD display, and a keyboard and mouse that you'll have to buy separately for the iMac. And then, the laptop is fully integrated and can run off battery power.
I know some people still think of laptops exclusively for those often on the road, but falling costs have changed that. Laptops are a convenient way to get a fairly small, complete, integrated system - and the price premium is no longer very large, if high performance and feather-light weight aren't crucial.
I think a lot will hinge on just how compatible it turns out to be. Personally I don't think the level of compatibility provided by reverse-engineering something that complex is likely to be satisfactory. (Yes, I used OpenOffice and no, I don't send important documents out after exporting from OO to.doc without at least loading into MS Word first - and usually fixing up some tables and so forth).
I gather Microsoft sometimes licenses.doc code or documentation to proprietary software shops, but how dumb would MS be to help Apple make a viable alternative to Office?
Well, I don't think it will be an "iPod" killer, so to speek.
On the other hand, this is the first iPod that will be really well suited for running and biking. It's light enough, cheap enough, and all solid state. $99 for a 512 meg player isn't bad, last I checked.
If it has separate buttons for skipping between albums vs. skipping between songs, it might not be too hard to navigate 512 meg's worth of music without a screen.
especially on laptops (which I think Linux is more suitable for than the Desktop)
Now that's a curious statement. I've worked with linux on a number of laptops over hte last 4 years and the special hardware and especially the power management are always a challenge.
As for wireless, well gee my Netgear 54G card works just great if you don't mind the odd cold lockup here and there. If anybody wants stable wireless on Linux, I suggest the Orinoco 80211.b card.
Everybody knows it *could* be done. I live in just about the most backwards state in the US, and we file state taxes via a straightforward HTML form.
The reason the IRS doesn't make such a website is because everytime the issue comes up, the commercial tax filing companies lobby. Having an official irs.gov tax site would increase e-filing and save the IRS millions. In other words, there is no rationale per se, it's just intentional government waste to create a business niche for TurboTax et al.
ideally only few of us would need to work on manufacturing these commodities and food. the rest of us could just slack off and become tv watching zombies.
But how do we do that without all the money going to those who own the machines?
I never said SCO profited. I said McBride profited, as did other SCO execs. They profited by telling a story about stolen code written by other people in other companies long ago, which legally fell to SCO through a convoluted chain of IP transfers. And although the stolen code will never materialize, the chances of SCO execs losing those windfalls are next to nil.
That's OK, except straight interpretation of Moore's law is completely uninteresting in the first place. The "law" wouldn't be famous in the first place if it didn't have implications for speed and cost.
When people say "Moore's law is failing," what they mean is that the exponent on price drops and performance increases is shrinking, which is true, and which is a really big deal.
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Oops. Well, I hope we get the chance to find if you're correct, and I think you may be.
Your argument is this: in the hypothetical situation where OSX is as popular as Windows, OSX will be compromised about as much as Windows.
My counter-argument is: who cares about a hypothetical situation? The fact is, people running Macs and Linux have a lot less trouble with spyware etc.
All video cards (and onboard chips) already have 2d acceleration. It's just taken for granted.
Supposedly WindowsXP can be administered entirely from the CLI.
(Hey, he's the one flaming).
For that matter, I wasn't aware there was a shortage of physicists in the first place.
Are the backups compressed, or do you need as much backup space as live space?
Which is a pretty good sign that something is wrong. There should be a law that no more than 20% of officers in a state can use weapons or gear not available to everybody. The point being, not to restrict the police, but to empower everybody else.
I think they're especially good for pre-readers. You touch part of the page with the attached pen, it says something about it. One book has a little "detective" narrative where touching a person gives you clues about them, and you use simple logic to guess whodunnit. And you can do basic music composition, learn the countries on the map, and of course pick up new vocabularity.
All the sensitive data - such as credit cards, since you mentioned it - is already sent over ssl, with much more security than WEP can provide, much less a non-default SSID.
As for myself, I always use Thinkpads that are much more expensive :) Too bad they sold the brand to China.
You're ignoring the whole problem: there are so many networks, wireless doesn't work. How does trying to mooch fix this problem? I doubt the reduction from 21 to 20 access points will make a noticeable improvement.
It baffles me how geeks can agonize of the lack of wireless security without realizing the obvious: if it mattered, people would care more. There would be horror stories in the popular press, like there are for identity theft.
For $699 you can get a Dell Laptop. $700 is a lot more than $500 percentagewise, but the laptop gives you a 14" LCD display, and a keyboard and mouse that you'll have to buy separately for the iMac. And then, the laptop is fully integrated and can run off battery power.
I know some people still think of laptops exclusively for those often on the road, but falling costs have changed that. Laptops are a convenient way to get a fairly small, complete, integrated system - and the price premium is no longer very large, if high performance and feather-light weight aren't crucial.
I gather Microsoft sometimes licenses .doc code or documentation to proprietary software shops, but how dumb would MS be to help Apple make a viable alternative to Office?
On the other hand, this is the first iPod that will be really well suited for running and biking. It's light enough, cheap enough, and all solid state. $99 for a 512 meg player isn't bad, last I checked.
If it has separate buttons for skipping between albums vs. skipping between songs, it might not be too hard to navigate 512 meg's worth of music without a screen.
As for wireless, well gee my Netgear 54G card works just great if you don't mind the odd cold lockup here and there. If anybody wants stable wireless on Linux, I suggest the Orinoco 80211.b card.
The reason the IRS doesn't make such a website is because everytime the issue comes up, the commercial tax filing companies lobby. Having an official irs.gov tax site would increase e-filing and save the IRS millions. In other words, there is no rationale per se, it's just intentional government waste to create a business niche for TurboTax et al.
That's why I paper file.
Ah, but this will free those displaced workers to be more productively employed at other things, you know, like... old what's its name.
I never said SCO profited. I said McBride profited, as did other SCO execs. They profited by telling a story about stolen code written by other people in other companies long ago, which legally fell to SCO through a convoluted chain of IP transfers. And although the stolen code will never materialize, the chances of SCO execs losing those windfalls are next to nil.
When people say "Moore's law is failing," what they mean is that the exponent on price drops and performance increases is shrinking, which is true, and which is a really big deal.