.. the TelCo's should have been able to step up and do a long time ago. In the same way as I choose not to have my number listed in a directory I should also be able to choose for it not to be able to telemarketeers, pet stores and any girls that I've met in clubs. (or whatever matrix of people I choose to keep my number private from).
The choice to use their service should be mine, I would be happy to pay for such a service *if* the TelCo could enforce it.
I only RIP music so that my PC can quietly stream it to my Tivo... the Tive also only plays MP3s.
This is one album that I won't be able to buy or play. Even though I have $20k of home entertainment hardware I don't own a CD player, everything is software driven and somewhere along the line involves a PC.
I guess I'm out.
As somebody who once wrote Government policy...
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I can tell you that the Europeans will not interpret "Free" in the same way as the FSF and the US are trying to. "Freedom" as it is talked about in the US really is a big US concept, the rest of the world generally fails to see what the big issue is for us.
In EC terms "free" (as in free software) is being written into policy as meaning "free of the American software economy". OSS is being used as a way to allow European nations to "freely" built their own IT industries that will compete with the parts of the world that are currently dominant in that sector.
When I talk to lawmakers in Europe "Free" is not interpreted as "free from the shackles of commercial software".
So, no, it's not a paradox in the eye's of this conference or many Europeans, it is only a paradox when viewed through American eyes.
... I struggle to tax it with anything I do, including some of the more intensive games.
This "extreme" version of the chip has to be aimed at a very niche market, at least for the next couple of years until more processor intensive software catches up.
... making a small number of people very rich indeed?
First they made a small number of musicians rich, now they're just making random internet users wealthy.
I'm starting to like them, I just need to work out how to get on their list.
people grow up, they take the experience and the education that they gain along the way with them. The current round of judges and lawmakers have no such experience upon which to draw.
All they can do is listen to the religious techno freaks that cross their doorstep and create policy based upon a best guess analysis of what they have heard.
... with a whole range of technology issues from copyright enforcement, through IP legislation, even some of the OSS policy that we are starting to see is that decisions are being taken by a generation of people who generally don't understand the issues. Until a generation that grew up with Technology become old enough to become law makers then we will continue to see decisions like this.
helpful, thanks all.
Although I'm still far from convinced that the American system is "better" in anyway, just screwed up in different ways... that's for another discussion;)
Doesn't this mean that they're effectively impotent from this point forward, or am I misreading it?
I'm English... if parliament vetoed something like this it would spell the end of the agency.
The cases that the RIAA are pushing will define it's "fad" status... if swapping music over p2p apps turns out to be a practice that is out of the reaches of the law then we should guess that the practice will be here to stay.
You're trying to get consumers to apply science to the way they think. It'll never happen. They will count patches, that's what the press is currently teaching them to do.
... but we should really be debating how we get this right on an OSS platform. If I put RedHat9 next to Windows Server 2003 I have significantly more updates to apply to my Linux box.
This is a community of smart people, the race is on to figure out how to best solve this issue for our end users. Microsoft appears to be beating us by requiring far less updates to be applied than a randomly chosed Linux distro.
We need to think about the process of distribution and application of these patches, if we can get that right then we get a larger percentage of the desktop.
Today any undereducated end user who is judging security by the number of patches that jumps to a Linux distro because they've "heard" it is more secure will quickly be jumping back to Windows.
A band aid is better than nothing at all... a percentage of the work protecting internal content does not involve protecting it from my IT staff, it involves protecting it from a casual employee (of which we're over 97%) sending something that is company confidential onto a friend, who then forwards it to a couple more friends.
As a community we need to stop bitching about what Microsoft is doing wrong and start proposing real solutions to real world problems.
Many times I have been sat at my desk and read something that is internally confidential to my company posted on an external web site... this is hugely damaging for the company and it's reputation. As a senior exec I would buy off on anything that allows me to keep my confidential information confidential.
Much as I would like to, I can't trust all 27,000 employees.
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of course, all those who posted that the TelCo only exists to make money are correct.
Now they're going to lose the money anyway, they could have had $4.95 out of me (and a pile of others) every month, but now they get nothing.
.. the TelCo's should have been able to step up and do a long time ago. In the same way as I choose not to have my number listed in a directory I should also be able to choose for it not to be able to telemarketeers, pet stores and any girls that I've met in clubs. (or whatever matrix of people I choose to keep my number private from).
The choice to use their service should be mine, I would be happy to pay for such a service *if* the TelCo could enforce it.
... I'd forgotten about this one. Thanks for the reminder.
... grasp of all the issues. "In the technology industry, the term "open standards" refers to nonproprietary software." eh?
I only RIP music so that my PC can quietly stream it to my Tivo... the Tive also only plays MP3s. This is one album that I won't be able to buy or play. Even though I have $20k of home entertainment hardware I don't own a CD player, everything is software driven and somewhere along the line involves a PC. I guess I'm out.
... on technology.
I can tell you that the Europeans will not interpret "Free" in the same way as the FSF and the US are trying to. "Freedom" as it is talked about in the US really is a big US concept, the rest of the world generally fails to see what the big issue is for us.
In EC terms "free" (as in free software) is being written into policy as meaning "free of the American software economy". OSS is being used as a way to allow European nations to "freely" built their own IT industries that will compete with the parts of the world that are currently dominant in that sector.
When I talk to lawmakers in Europe "Free" is not interpreted as "free from the shackles of commercial software".
So, no, it's not a paradox in the eye's of this conference or many Europeans, it is only a paradox when viewed through American eyes.
The OS that came on the PC was already compiled... so no need, or maybe I'm just behind the times.
... I struggle to tax it with anything I do, including some of the more intensive games.
This "extreme" version of the chip has to be aimed at a very niche market, at least for the next couple of years until more processor intensive software catches up.
... making a small number of people very rich indeed? First they made a small number of musicians rich, now they're just making random internet users wealthy. I'm starting to like them, I just need to work out how to get on their list.
people grow up, they take the experience and the education that they gain along the way with them. The current round of judges and lawmakers have no such experience upon which to draw.
All they can do is listen to the religious techno freaks that cross their doorstep and create policy based upon a best guess analysis of what they have heard.
I'm exagerating a little, but not much.
... with a whole range of technology issues from copyright enforcement, through IP legislation, even some of the OSS policy that we are starting to see is that decisions are being taken by a generation of people who generally don't understand the issues. Until a generation that grew up with Technology become old enough to become law makers then we will continue to see decisions like this.
There is a lot to be said for living and doing business in HK, I don't live there but I do get the pleasure of visiting every couple of months.
Japan and Korea don't lead... Hong Kong (CHINA!) and Korea are up at the front.
Japan ranks 10th.
"You have been fined 5 credits for having a filthy PC"
helpful, thanks all. Although I'm still far from convinced that the American system is "better" in anyway, just screwed up in different ways... that's for another discussion ;)
Doesn't this mean that they're effectively impotent from this point forward, or am I misreading it? I'm English... if parliament vetoed something like this it would spell the end of the agency.
... on the next Slashdot t-Shirt. Smoking Child In some small way he seems to represent us all.
It's been disconnected, on the floor behind the sofa, since about a month after I bought it. I never did find an Xbox game I wanted to play. :(
people here don't read just the first and the last letters of a word... we generally don't read anything at all, we just hit reply and dive right in.
The cases that the RIAA are pushing will define it's "fad" status... if swapping music over p2p apps turns out to be a practice that is out of the reaches of the law then we should guess that the practice will be here to stay.
You're trying to get consumers to apply science to the way they think. It'll never happen. They will count patches, that's what the press is currently teaching them to do.
... but we should really be debating how we get this right on an OSS platform. If I put RedHat9 next to Windows Server 2003 I have significantly more updates to apply to my Linux box.
This is a community of smart people, the race is on to figure out how to best solve this issue for our end users. Microsoft appears to be beating us by requiring far less updates to be applied than a randomly chosed Linux distro.
We need to think about the process of distribution and application of these patches, if we can get that right then we get a larger percentage of the desktop.
Today any undereducated end user who is judging security by the number of patches that jumps to a Linux distro because they've "heard" it is more secure will quickly be jumping back to Windows.
nope, I know for a fact that is will not be enabled by default... already checked.
A band aid is better than nothing at all... a percentage of the work protecting internal content does not involve protecting it from my IT staff, it involves protecting it from a casual employee (of which we're over 97%) sending something that is company confidential onto a friend, who then forwards it to a couple more friends.
As a community we need to stop bitching about what Microsoft is doing wrong and start proposing real solutions to real world problems.
Many times I have been sat at my desk and read something that is internally confidential to my company posted on an external web site... this is hugely damaging for the company and it's reputation. As a senior exec I would buy off on anything that allows me to keep my confidential information confidential.
Much as I would like to, I can't trust all 27,000 employees.