People use "crime" in everyday speech to mean "an instance of breaking the law" wherein the law encompasses both civil and criminal law. "Crime" in colloquial speech encompasses tortuous malfeasance.
It is inheritly [sic] wrong to charge people for information. Piracy is not theft, it never has been and never will be -- piracy is a name given to steal inherit immutable social rights.
Piracy is theft, copyright infringement is not.
It may be wrong to charge people for information within your moral code. Do you also consider it wrong to reward people for information? Copyright law, like other intellectual property law (I'm thinking patents), cuts both ways. There's a monopoly for the creator/inventor (or their agents!) in return the public get to have the creation/invention at some future date.
This scheme is stimulating. People won't invest in multimillion pound movies without getting something back. With no copyright law these movies wouldn't be made. Smaller creative activities would continue, I made and gave away a tutorial on Inkscape the other day licensed BY-NC-SA 3.0,uk. Without any copyright I don't have the moral right to be named as the author of that work (the BY part) nor to specify that it can't be used commercially without recompensing me; nor indeed to stop someone maliciously editing it and leaving me attributed.
There is much wrong with IP, the balance of power has shifted from the public (or the Crown/State as it was originally) to the corporations (who control the creators) resulting in the public being deprived of the established rights - a breach of contract.
[...] Federal court and wins a judgement requiring you to give workers employed between June 5, 1989 and December 31, 1994 who were on maternity leave a pension credit and healthcare refund equal to 8% of their average pension contribution during that period, paid in 104 bi-weekly portions?
Stuff like that happens all of the time. What are you going to do? Go to jail for contempt of court?
You're telling me no-one has solved this problem yet. Surely someone has a system, used in a similar situation to UW that runs on the same platform and could be sold for substantially less than $40million. Even if it's going to cost that much can they not generalise it and sell it on?
I don't think you have to be clueless to not be able to install and configure apache's httpd, or dare I say IIS. I don't think the dangers here are any greater than any other filesharing system either, and certainly less than a novice trying to set up their own full blown server.
I'm on Kubuntu, one of the things that impressed me (you'll be underwhelmed I'm sure, but bear with me) is that when I went to share my Music it looked first in the default music folder, when I went to share pics it looked in the default Photos folder. It's the little things, the attention to detail that this implies impressed me. As an alpha(!) I think it's pretty awesome.
Opera has often appeared to be the most innovative of the top browsers, it would be a shame, especially given this new offering (which I think is a real paradigm changer and will change the internet over the next couple of years), it would be a shame if it were to fade away.
They have the DS as well, though not sure how significant that is. Is iPhone really selling more than Opera's install base on mobile, people have even more money than me than I thought.
When I tried the media streaming it would only allow me to play the CC content that I had, not sure if there were headers it was reading or if it were matching filenames to a DB or if it was just a glitch (it's been pretty well slashdotted I think).
Can you really not see a place for this? If you want to share all your computers pics with family members, what's easier sharing ~/Pictures direct from your own box or uploading all the pictures first? There are benefits to a photo-sharing service for sure but unlimited size of photo, unlimited number of photos, candid photos you don't want to put on Flickr, having more that 3 folders of photos.
If it was just that, photo album / file sharing, then I think it would be worth having.
Shall we move on to streaming media files next, or perhaps quick notes,... remember these are just the initial offerings. Anything that can be improved by parallel data transfer being in the control of the user apparently would benefit from Unite.
As long as your friends are explicit in wanting you to be able to this, ok. If that were true, it's trivial to set up a real webserver to provide exactly what you want them to get...
Let's see, install opera, activate file sharing versus, what is it now? A webserver you say.
User: searches on yahoo, follows first link that looks like web server software, "so I've got the 'Sun Java System Web Server' what do I do next?" ( http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=webserver )
[...] Bing self-hosts all it's image/video thumbnails from it's own servers - porn included - and starts to play these thumbnail videos automatically - direct from Microsoft's servers - when you mouseover them. Since the videos are coming from a Microsoft domain rather than a porn domain, parental porn filters are bypassed.
All the Bing change does is to move Microsoft's porn video reviews from bing.com to microsofts-hard-core-porn-server.bing.com so that Open DNS, Net Nanny, etc can once again be used to block this stuff.
When are they going to be sued for copyright infringement then?
It can't be long now surely. Everyone go and search bing for RIAA managed songs on video. Perhaps we can get these snakes to simultaneously eat each other??!
Pause - reading scrolling console text when booting (when dmesg doesn't show all the text).
NumLock - swithcing off numbers to use the number pad as a mouse when your mouse settings for X are borked (haven't need that for a couple of years now).
I have a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW, the blue LED by the power button (bottom right) has a light guide around same power button. So I can't tape over it if I want to switch the machine on (it's a soft button so I can't leave it on and rely on my automatic power saving master-switch). The LED lights my whole kitchen! It's so bright that in low ambient light levels it interferes with the colour in teh bottom right of the panel.
If one can't tell, Samsung, that the panel is on by looking at the screen then it's not hard to press the switch. Also if an indicator light detracts from the performance of your hardware then you need to fire a product engineer every day until it gets fixed.
First result was the website I wanted from the beginning, and that pains me a lot as someone who hates most of Microsoft's products as much as anyone else around here.
Ok, just so we now you're not a shill: post us the search terms used to find the site with MS Bing that didn't find it on Google, plus of course the name of the site and the date you did the search on. Bing's only been out a few weeks it'll all be in your history still. Plus, did you try Yahoo?
The only reason I can see that this would work, as most searches get pretty similar results, is if the site in question had done some bad SEO and been demoted by Google.
BT was the state run telecoms supplier until it was privatised. There are some parallel systems but, on the whole, the established network is still monopolised. BT were forced however to open the exchanges for other peoples equipment and to only sell the backbone data carriage to their own ISP at the market price (no preferential treatment).
Cogent, NTL (now Virgin I think), C&W, THUS and some others operate in this space but other than BT I think they generally have a small coverage [the former] NTL or concentrate on data-centre interconnection.
BT here is like the post office (USA still have a national post, no?) - there are many other suppliers of postal services but only the Royal Mail covers the country and is still leveraging it's monopoly position from pre-denationalisation.
Was that on ARPANET? Was it even called email then? I notice that the IETF RC822 from 1982 is called "Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages", though it does mention "electronic mail".
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Can you say "huge honking security hole"?
Every server is a security hole waiting to be fixed.
Ultimate security = bolt cutters.
People use "crime" in everyday speech to mean "an instance of breaking the law" wherein the law encompasses both civil and criminal law. "Crime" in colloquial speech encompasses tortuous malfeasance.
I'm surprised you didn't notice.
It is inheritly [sic] wrong to charge people for information. Piracy is not theft, it never has been and never will be -- piracy is a name given to steal inherit immutable social rights.
Piracy is theft, copyright infringement is not.
It may be wrong to charge people for information within your moral code. Do you also consider it wrong to reward people for information? Copyright law, like other intellectual property law (I'm thinking patents), cuts both ways. There's a monopoly for the creator/inventor (or their agents!) in return the public get to have the creation/invention at some future date.
This scheme is stimulating. People won't invest in multimillion pound movies without getting something back. With no copyright law these movies wouldn't be made. Smaller creative activities would continue, I made and gave away a tutorial on Inkscape the other day licensed BY-NC-SA 3.0,uk. Without any copyright I don't have the moral right to be named as the author of that work (the BY part) nor to specify that it can't be used commercially without recompensing me; nor indeed to stop someone maliciously editing it and leaving me attributed.
There is much wrong with IP, the balance of power has shifted from the public (or the Crown/State as it was originally) to the corporations (who control the creators) resulting in the public being deprived of the established rights - a breach of contract.
I don't think that anarchy is the answer.
Virtualise?!?
[...] Federal court and wins a judgement requiring you to give workers employed between June 5, 1989 and December 31, 1994 who were on maternity leave a pension credit and healthcare refund equal to 8% of their average pension contribution during that period, paid in 104 bi-weekly portions?
Stuff like that happens all of the time. What are you going to do? Go to jail for contempt of court?
How longs the jail term?
You're telling me no-one has solved this problem yet. Surely someone has a system, used in a similar situation to UW that runs on the same platform and could be sold for substantially less than $40million. Even if it's going to cost that much can they not generalise it and sell it on?
Would you do it if we can't find any badgers ...?
I was waiting for you to tell us you'd come across a secret bank account and needed help getting the money out of the country ...
I don't think you have to be clueless to not be able to install and configure apache's httpd, or dare I say IIS. I don't think the dangers here are any greater than any other filesharing system either, and certainly less than a novice trying to set up their own full blown server.
I'm on Kubuntu, one of the things that impressed me (you'll be underwhelmed I'm sure, but bear with me) is that when I went to share my Music it looked first in the default music folder, when I went to share pics it looked in the default Photos folder. It's the little things, the attention to detail that this implies impressed me. As an alpha(!) I think it's pretty awesome.
They're giving it away free, but they make up for it in volume ... ;0)
Yes, I do know they sell to the embedded market.
Opera has often appeared to be the most innovative of the top browsers, it would be a shame, especially given this new offering (which I think is a real paradigm changer and will change the internet over the next couple of years), it would be a shame if it were to fade away.
They have the DS as well, though not sure how significant that is. Is iPhone really selling more than Opera's install base on mobile, people have even more money than me than I thought.
When I tried the media streaming it would only allow me to play the CC content that I had, not sure if there were headers it was reading or if it were matching filenames to a DB or if it was just a glitch (it's been pretty well slashdotted I think).
Well there's writing the db entry, that costs money, then there's the later reading of the db entry. These things aren't free you know ... sheesh!
Can you really not see a place for this? If you want to share all your computers pics with family members, what's easier sharing ~/Pictures direct from your own box or uploading all the pictures first? There are benefits to a photo-sharing service for sure but unlimited size of photo, unlimited number of photos, candid photos you don't want to put on Flickr, having more that 3 folders of photos.
If it was just that, photo album / file sharing, then I think it would be worth having.
Shall we move on to streaming media files next, or perhaps quick notes, ... remember these are just the initial offerings. Anything that can be improved by parallel data transfer being in the control of the user apparently would benefit from Unite.
It's beyond internet, to me it deserves a new moniker, Peerweb, http://alicious.com/2009/opera-about-to-change-the-world/ .
As long as your friends are explicit in wanting you to be able to this, ok. If that were true, it's trivial to set up a real webserver to provide exactly what you want them to get ...
Let's see, install opera, activate file sharing versus, what is it now? A webserver you say.
User: being savvy, surfs to wikipedia ... "oh right, i need one of those big boxes?" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:My_Opera_Server.jpg )
Geek: "nope, just software"
User: searches on yahoo, follows first link that looks like web server software, "so I've got the 'Sun Java System Web Server' what do I do next?" ( http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=webserver )
Ha, I posted about this 4 days ago on my blog, http://digg.com/tech_news/Opera_is_about_to_change_the_world
Some poor schmuck said "Huh. This must be the most clueless of the clueless speculations so far." and I was pretty close IM(NS)HO.
lol
[...] Bing self-hosts all it's image/video thumbnails from it's own servers - porn included - and starts to play these thumbnail videos automatically - direct from Microsoft's servers - when you mouseover them. Since the videos are coming from a Microsoft domain rather than a porn domain, parental porn filters are bypassed.
All the Bing change does is to move Microsoft's porn video reviews from bing.com to microsofts-hard-core-porn-server.bing.com so that Open DNS, Net Nanny, etc can once again be used to block this stuff.
When are they going to be sued for copyright infringement then?
It can't be long now surely. Everyone go and search bing for RIAA managed songs on video. Perhaps we can get these snakes to simultaneously eat each other??!
Pause - reading scrolling console text when booting (when dmesg doesn't show all the text).
NumLock - swithcing off numbers to use the number pad as a mouse when your mouse settings for X are borked (haven't need that for a couple of years now).
I have a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW, the blue LED by the power button (bottom right) has a light guide around same power button. So I can't tape over it if I want to switch the machine on (it's a soft button so I can't leave it on and rely on my automatic power saving master-switch). The LED lights my whole kitchen! It's so bright that in low ambient light levels it interferes with the colour in teh bottom right of the panel.
If one can't tell, Samsung, that the panel is on by looking at the screen then it's not hard to press the switch. Also if an indicator light detracts from the performance of your hardware then you need to fire a product engineer every day until it gets fixed.
KTHXBI.
First result was the website I wanted from the beginning, and that pains me a lot as someone who hates most of Microsoft's products as much as anyone else around here.
Ok, just so we now you're not a shill: post us the search terms used to find the site with MS Bing that didn't find it on Google, plus of course the name of the site and the date you did the search on. Bing's only been out a few weeks it'll all be in your history still. Plus, did you try Yahoo?
The only reason I can see that this would work, as most searches get pretty similar results, is if the site in question had done some bad SEO and been demoted by Google.
[...] then attempted to extinguish it but Sun go the upper hand. Then end result was close to a multi-billion dollar judgment against Microsoft.
That's embrace, extend, extinguish. You are talking in terms of proprietary vendor lock in.
I bet Bill Gates paid it out the notes he had in his wallet.
BT was the state run telecoms supplier until it was privatised. There are some parallel systems but, on the whole, the established network is still monopolised. BT were forced however to open the exchanges for other peoples equipment and to only sell the backbone data carriage to their own ISP at the market price (no preferential treatment).
Cogent, NTL (now Virgin I think), C&W, THUS and some others operate in this space but other than BT I think they generally have a small coverage [the former] NTL or concentrate on data-centre interconnection.
BT here is like the post office (USA still have a national post, no?) - there are many other suppliers of postal services but only the Royal Mail covers the country and is still leveraging it's monopoly position from pre-denationalisation.
I use email (and have since 1980);
Was that on ARPANET? Was it even called email then? I notice that the IETF RC822 from 1982 is called "Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages", though it does mention "electronic mail".