Look at some of the suggested uses for this... Constantly downloading free previews? Using them for P2P? What makes you think Apple will allow their service to be abused like this? They control both the server and the only client that they want to be accessing it, it would be trivial for them to break this without affecting anyone using iTunes at all.
It's this zero-tolerance attitude that will cement hardware DRM's inevitability. Apple tried to meet customers halfway and they still get attacked.
Don't forget hello gas costs and vehicle insurance and maintenance. My family has gotten along fine in NYC without owning a car at all, and we have significantly more money to go around because of it.
The TGV isn't exactly a "conventional train". A vast amount of money was spent to engineer most aspects of its cars and tracks from scratch- just like a maglev.
Plus, once spamming has been thoroughly stigmatized and precedents set, there would be grounds for the US to demand cooperation from local law enforcement or even extradition.
It's also good when the music is not the focus of your attention. I (and a lot of other people) don't ever spend any time *just* listening to music like the authors seem to think is required to appreciate it properly; we just have it going in the background while doing something else.
Sorry, not going to give up Adult Swim and the Daily Show. Not everything on TV is crap, and people who watch reasonable amounts are not brain-dead addicts.
This comes up in every thread that remotely relates to Apple, and the answer is always the same: OS X has a huge number of libraries not present on Linux, mostly relating to the GUI. There's no Quicktime, no Carbon, no Cocoa (which has diverged significantly from *Step by now), and no Quartz. OS X apps do not resemble Linux apps in any way internally, and it would be just as hard as porting to any other OS.
And it wouldn't reduce circumvention attempts, as it would be exposed even more to the "everything must be free forever" crowd.
I guess it depends on what standard of proof you ask for. 99.999% of the time, someone taping a movie intends to violate copyright. I consider that reasonable grounds to assume that someone I see taping a movie is going to violate copyright unless explicitly prevented from doing so. If I see someone picking the lock on a closed store, there's a very small probability he's the legitimate owner who lost his keys and left something important inside, but chances are he's a burglar and calling the cops is understandable given the evidence.
Living in a free country doesn't mean that we are free to harm others and suffer the consequences later. We have established legal precedents stating that preventing extremely likely harm before it is actually committed is an acceptable infringement on freedom.
Why don't you memorize channel numbers? If you have less than, say, 10 favorites, it's probably faster and easier than using any computer-assisted sorting, and you're immune to the list editing trick.
Which is why the car owner is not going to be the sole owner of the real blackbox key (he might not even have it at all if, as others have suggested, tampering with the blackbox is criminalized on the same level as tampering with the odometer).
Can you give an example of a reason to record a movie in a theater with a camcorder that is a) protected under fair use rights and b) not possible through any other channels?
Conversely, don't fall for the propoganda that recording movies and distributing them on the internet is any less wrong than stealing just because "it's not stealing".
You should forget cars and attack the entire field of medicine. Modern science and technology has taken diseases that used to be common and fatal and all but wiped them out. People are recovering and living long, normal lives after injuries that would have killed them within hours or left them unable to function in earlier centuries. Life expectancy has gone up by decades. Many women who are unable to reproduce naturally are contributing to the gene pool through alternative procedures. For that matter, humans have had no large natural predators for millenia (at least, we're not getting killed and eaten in numbers that have a real effect on overall population any more). What exactly do you think all this unnatural activity is costing us? The human mind is able to compensate for the weaknesses of the rest of the body, there's nothing wrong with that.
Don't forget that a lot of viruses these days are meant to capture a computer for the writer's use, as a spam relay or DDOS zombie. They want the computer to remain operational and the virus's activity to be as hard to detect as possible.
The whole market system is broken because of the presence of P2P networks. This problem never crops up in markets for physical items. If the only way to get music was to put down money, the situation would be a lot different.
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Look at some of the suggested uses for this... Constantly downloading free previews? Using them for P2P? What makes you think Apple will allow their service to be abused like this? They control both the server and the only client that they want to be accessing it, it would be trivial for them to break this without affecting anyone using iTunes at all.
It's this zero-tolerance attitude that will cement hardware DRM's inevitability. Apple tried to meet customers halfway and they still get attacked.
So the security department buys a directional antenna and sticks it in a second van. Problem solved.
Don't forget hello gas costs and vehicle insurance and maintenance. My family has gotten along fine in NYC without owning a car at all, and we have significantly more money to go around because of it.
The TGV isn't exactly a "conventional train". A vast amount of money was spent to engineer most aspects of its cars and tracks from scratch- just like a maglev.
Plus, once spamming has been thoroughly stigmatized and precedents set, there would be grounds for the US to demand cooperation from local law enforcement or even extradition.
Maybe that should be Xserved.
It's also good when the music is not the focus of your attention. I (and a lot of other people) don't ever spend any time *just* listening to music like the authors seem to think is required to appreciate it properly; we just have it going in the background while doing something else.
Sorry, not going to give up Adult Swim and the Daily Show. Not everything on TV is crap, and people who watch reasonable amounts are not brain-dead addicts.
This comes up in every thread that remotely relates to Apple, and the answer is always the same: OS X has a huge number of libraries not present on Linux, mostly relating to the GUI. There's no Quicktime, no Carbon, no Cocoa (which has diverged significantly from *Step by now), and no Quartz. OS X apps do not resemble Linux apps in any way internally, and it would be just as hard as porting to any other OS.
And it wouldn't reduce circumvention attempts, as it would be exposed even more to the "everything must be free forever" crowd.
I guess it depends on what standard of proof you ask for. 99.999% of the time, someone taping a movie intends to violate copyright. I consider that reasonable grounds to assume that someone I see taping a movie is going to violate copyright unless explicitly prevented from doing so. If I see someone picking the lock on a closed store, there's a very small probability he's the legitimate owner who lost his keys and left something important inside, but chances are he's a burglar and calling the cops is understandable given the evidence.
Living in a free country doesn't mean that we are free to harm others and suffer the consequences later. We have established legal precedents stating that preventing extremely likely harm before it is actually committed is an acceptable infringement on freedom.
Why don't you memorize channel numbers? If you have less than, say, 10 favorites, it's probably faster and easier than using any computer-assisted sorting, and you're immune to the list editing trick.
Which is why the car owner is not going to be the sole owner of the real blackbox key (he might not even have it at all if, as others have suggested, tampering with the blackbox is criminalized on the same level as tampering with the odometer).
Can you give an example of a reason to record a movie in a theater with a camcorder that is a) protected under fair use rights and b) not possible through any other channels?
Conversely, don't fall for the propoganda that recording movies and distributing them on the internet is any less wrong than stealing just because "it's not stealing".
They weren't tourists, they were liberators.
The car's onboard computer could set the standard, using data obtained from the tags it's driving past.
You should forget cars and attack the entire field of medicine. Modern science and technology has taken diseases that used to be common and fatal and all but wiped them out. People are recovering and living long, normal lives after injuries that would have killed them within hours or left them unable to function in earlier centuries. Life expectancy has gone up by decades. Many women who are unable to reproduce naturally are contributing to the gene pool through alternative procedures. For that matter, humans have had no large natural predators for millenia (at least, we're not getting killed and eaten in numbers that have a real effect on overall population any more). What exactly do you think all this unnatural activity is costing us? The human mind is able to compensate for the weaknesses of the rest of the body, there's nothing wrong with that.
I'd think that part of a message would not be useful, considering that it's not 100% guaranteed to produce two photons on each pulse.
Also, with my admittedly limited knowledge, this sounds like a problem with current technology more than the underlying theory.
Don't forget that a lot of viruses these days are meant to capture a computer for the writer's use, as a spam relay or DDOS zombie. They want the computer to remain operational and the virus's activity to be as hard to detect as possible.
Like that "I had a STROOOOOOOOOKE" guy on the Simpsons saying "Goose".
The whole market system is broken because of the presence of P2P networks. This problem never crops up in markets for physical items. If the only way to get music was to put down money, the situation would be a lot different.
Try chopping up all the brooms with an axe. Just be sure to never, ever tell them to fetch water.
I think even Bush's plan to put a base on the moon is more workable than what you're proposing.
Then we'll just have to hit the moon with another equally large garbage blob! New New Yorkers, start your littering!