"(As an aside, given that the EU was only looking at Media players, I think that the API's will only be for Media playing interfaces - thus I don't think that, say, the printing subsystem, will bo covered in all this.)"
That is equally wrong.
Please read the EU's announcement and you will see that they were explicitly referring to opening the interfaces of workgroup services, including the printing, file sharing and messenging protocols.
"Sony NZ managing director Michael Glading said he was totally opposed to the move, which he believed would "open the floodgates" to unrestricted piracy.
"At the end of the day, you're sending a message that it's okay to copy, and that is going to kill our business. It's taking away people's rights to earn a living, and that's horrendous."
Someone should clue this guy in over tha fact that it was Sony that introduced the SCMS (Serial (referred to as Sony) Copy Management System as part of the audio CD standard. Sony has explicitly allowed consumers to make a first generation digital copy of a CD.
See: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jacg/dcc-faq/scms.html
20 years ago it was desirable to respect the consumers' right of fair use, and today it's killing the business. Yeah, right.
" Sometimes I wonder if donations like this are actually heading to the right causes. We still have world hunger, poverty, disease, and other significant problems on this planet. Would it not make more sense to solve these problems first, before donating to the minute possibility that we might discover alien life on another planet? Its his money, so he can do whatever he wants with it, but personally I don't see donating to the search for alien life being nearly as philanthropic as, say, donating towards the search for a cure for cancer."
You are not a very farsighted man.
As long as it is technology research not focused on capitalistic profit, it will serve many other, fundamentally important, purposes in return. SETI research funds many other aspects of new technology research, such as supercomputing (here goes your cancer research), astrophysics, geology, meteorology and many others. All those antenna arrays for SETI are simultaneously in use for all kinds of astrophysical research. These in turn will help us to understand our own planet a lot better, will help to bring about radically new solutions for old problems. A different view of life, its development, the use of resources on our planet, all this will be researched with this ATA project.
I couldn't think of money better spent than on this project and I applaud Paul Allen for contributing to this project with his own money.
While I usually ignore postings that have more ad hominem attacks in them than substance, this one triggers a couple of questions I'd like to have answered by someone who obviously thinks that we haven't spent enough money on this declared war:
- With the Billions of Dollars spent since 2001, has the world become a safer place?
- How would you value the loss of privacy and restrictions in personal life as compared to the achieved level of felling a lot more secure?
- How much money would you want to spend on the war and when would you declare it over?
- Who actually benefits from the spending spree on this war? Are YOU safer?
Call me a heretic, but spending these Billions of Dollars on education, healthcare, enhancement of international relations sounds like something that children might actually benefir a lot more from, as opposed to having them trained that every unknown person they encounter is a potential terrorists.
I know your mileage varies, but I fail to see any relation between the war on terror and children dying in the streets. Last time I checked it was the war itself that left children dying in the streets.
And I haven't even talked about the hen/egg problem...
"...many schools are still overcrowded, don't have money to make crucial repairs, and our jobs are still being outsourced leaving many people struggling. But darn it, let's find those aliens!"...and spend the rest of the money for the war against terror.
"At this point it is fairly clear that SCO is a shell corporation, shilling for Microsoft who is their primary funder through background 'loans','stock swaps', and probable other deep business secrets. MS is using the remains of SCO to destroy the corporate credibility of Linux and then continue to force the Open Source movement into its organization through fees and licenses."
" If you vote for Nader, you are voting for Bush."
That's rubbish. If you vote for Nader, you vote for Nader. Whatever the final percentage is, let it be 5% of all voters, that makes roughly 6 Million people who made their voice heard. If the US's parliamentary system does not allow six Million people to be heard in the ensuing government or parliamentary representation, then that is a fundamental flaw in the system.
And that can only be changed by showing that people want a third power, a voice that is distictly different from those two monolithic party blocks whose political identies are not differetn in their only goal: Stay in power.
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"You are either terribly ignorant, or just another troll."
How eloquent and so full of undisputable reasoning.
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"If Linux were as popular as Windows is today, it would be just as plagued by security holes."
Congratulations, you have just run into the idiot trap. Where did I mention Linux?
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Pray tell, when will there be the day when people, governments, institutions and lawmakers understand that SPAM, worms, viruses and trojans are coming from ONE single corporation?
Let's take a look at some facts:
- ALL trojans that hijack machines run Microsoft operating systems - ALL webbrowsers that run unwanted executables to hijack machines come from Microssoft - ALL harmful viruses of the last five years EXCLUSIVELY attack Microsoft programs - ALL current worms that bring down machines are targetted to infect - you guessed it.
What the hell is this discussion about? Get rid of this crap and the discussion becomes obsolete.
"I'm not talking about intentialy doing damage but rather killing the worm process possibly poping up a message box on console with patch instructions and stopping the offending process."
"this is the latest version of security update, the "March 2004, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three new vulnerabilities."
We now have a product that produces more shit than ever, has no sound concept behind it other than "Let's nuke the shit out of these &&&%$s", probably costs a shitload of money and appeals to PHBs in the extreme.
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"This is before adjustment for inflation. That $17.99 I paid in 1985 is about $30 in 2004 dollars. Prices now are half of what they were initially."
Wrong. Prices are NOT half of what they were initially, the Dollar is.
[Online vs. CD sales]
"Guess we have to go back to the stores."
Stores? What stores?
What else?
Does the word "license fee" ring a bell?
"Of course I'm going to defend myself, but to be frank, I'm kind of pessimistic."
GET A LAWYER to defend you, anything else is suicide.
"(As an aside, given that the EU was only looking at Media players, I think that the API's will only be for Media playing interfaces - thus I don't think that, say, the printing subsystem, will bo covered in all this.)"
That is equally wrong.
Please read the EU's announcement and you will see that they were explicitly referring to opening the interfaces of workgroup services, including the printing, file sharing and messenging protocols.
From the article:
"Sony NZ managing director Michael Glading said he was totally opposed to the move, which he believed would "open the floodgates" to unrestricted piracy.
"At the end of the day, you're sending a message that it's okay to copy, and that is going to kill our business. It's taking away people's rights to earn a living, and that's horrendous."
Someone should clue this guy in over tha fact that it was Sony that introduced the SCMS (Serial (referred to as Sony) Copy Management System as part of the audio CD standard. Sony has explicitly allowed consumers to make a first generation digital copy of a CD.
See: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jacg/dcc-faq/scms.html
20 years ago it was desirable to respect the consumers' right of fair use, and today it's killing the business. Yeah, right.
That was a redundant posting since Outlook has already been mentioned.
"I don't live in Texas."
Have you been redflagged and can't fly there?
" Sometimes I wonder if donations like this are actually heading to the right causes. We still have world hunger, poverty, disease, and other significant problems on this planet. Would it not make more sense to solve these problems first, before donating to the minute possibility that we might discover alien life on another planet? Its his money, so he can do whatever he wants with it, but personally I don't see donating to the search for alien life being nearly as philanthropic as, say, donating towards the search for a cure for cancer."
You are not a very farsighted man.
As long as it is technology research not focused on capitalistic profit, it will serve many other, fundamentally important, purposes in return. SETI research funds many other aspects of new technology research, such as supercomputing (here goes your cancer research), astrophysics, geology, meteorology and many others. All those antenna arrays for SETI are simultaneously in use for all kinds of astrophysical research. These in turn will help us to understand our own planet a lot better, will help to bring about radically new solutions for old problems. A different view of life, its development, the use of resources on our planet, all this will be researched with this ATA project.
I couldn't think of money better spent than on this project and I applaud Paul Allen for contributing to this project with his own money.
While I usually ignore postings that have more ad hominem attacks in them than substance, this one triggers a couple of questions I'd like to have answered by someone who obviously thinks that we haven't spent enough money on this declared war:
- With the Billions of Dollars spent since 2001, has the world become a safer place?
- How would you value the loss of privacy and restrictions in personal life as compared to the achieved level of felling a lot more secure?
- How much money would you want to spend on the war and when would you declare it over?
- Who actually benefits from the spending spree on this war? Are YOU safer?
Call me a heretic, but spending these Billions of Dollars on education, healthcare, enhancement of international relations sounds like something that children might actually benefir a lot more from, as opposed to having them trained that every unknown person they encounter is a potential terrorists.
I know your mileage varies, but I fail to see any relation between the war on terror and children dying in the streets. Last time I checked it was the war itself that left children dying in the streets.
And I haven't even talked about the hen/egg problem...
" ...many schools are still overcrowded, don't have money to make crucial repairs, and our jobs are still being outsourced leaving many people struggling. But darn it, let's find those aliens!" ...and spend the rest of the money for the war against terror.
"At this point it is fairly clear that SCO is a shell corporation, shilling for Microsoft who is their primary funder through background 'loans' ,'stock swaps', and probable other deep business secrets. MS is using the remains of SCO to destroy the corporate credibility of Linux and then continue to force the Open Source movement into its organization through fees and licenses."
Son, in Europe we couldn't care less.
" That is awesome. "
Indeed. I assume you have read the fan mail as well.
"Who thinks this will REALLY change anything?"
It will change the consumers' perception of what Microsoft actually is: An anti-competitive monopolist with questionable business practices.
And double funny that the journalist didn't, you know, do some research and figure this out for himself.
It's herself
That kind of explains it, doesn't it?
" If you vote for Nader, you are voting for Bush."
That's rubbish. If you vote for Nader, you vote for Nader. Whatever the final percentage is, let it be 5% of all voters, that makes roughly 6 Million people who made their voice heard. If the US's parliamentary system does not allow six Million people to be heard in the ensuing government or parliamentary representation, then that is a fundamental flaw in the system.
And that can only be changed by showing that people want a third power, a voice that is distictly different from those two monolithic party blocks whose political identies are not differetn in their only goal: Stay in power.
"You are either terribly ignorant, or just another troll."
How eloquent and so full of undisputable reasoning.
"If Linux were as popular as Windows is today, it would be just as plagued by security holes."
Congratulations, you have just run into the idiot trap. Where did I mention Linux?
Pray tell, when will there be the day when people, governments, institutions and lawmakers understand that SPAM, worms, viruses and trojans are coming from ONE single corporation?
Let's take a look at some facts:
- ALL trojans that hijack machines run Microsoft operating systems
- ALL webbrowsers that run unwanted executables to hijack machines come from Microssoft
- ALL harmful viruses of the last five years EXCLUSIVELY attack Microsoft programs
- ALL current worms that bring down machines are targetted to infect - you guessed it.
What the hell is this discussion about? Get rid of this crap and the discussion becomes obsolete.
"I'm not talking about intentialy doing damage but rather killing the worm process possibly poping up a message box on console with patch instructions and stopping the offending process."
"this is the latest version of security update, the
"March 2004, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves
all known security vulnerabilities affecting
MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express
as well as three new vulnerabilities."
Old.
I wish I had mod points today.
Let me see:
We now have a product that produces more shit than ever, has no sound concept behind it other than "Let's nuke the shit out of these &&&%$s", probably costs a shitload of money and appeals to PHBs in the extreme.
I'd say: Let's buy some shares.
"They claim to have a way to identify the system responsible for the attack, and then exact retribution."
And of course there is no way they would use this information (if it were true) to shut down the attacker by legal means?
Sound *very* American to me.
"Was Silicon Stemcell created merely as a front to allow the conspirators to plan and work in secret? "
whois SiliconStemcell.com
Registrant:
S2 Partners, LLC
4505 South Wasatch Blvd.
Suite 200
Salt Lake City, Utah 84124-4777
United States
and now please visit www.SiliconStemcell.com
Conspiracy? Hah, there is no conspiracy!