Using the word "guest" to describe Disney theme park customers is an indication the parent poster at some point in time worked for one of Disney's parks.
Theme parks have always had a turnstyle at every ride so that they could get an quasi-exact count of how many people visited each ride each day / week / month / season. Those numbers are key, they tell them which rides people are coming to see, and they build their expansion plans accordingly.
The only thing new here is that this system makes it possible to connect the traveled path to a user profile. I doubt this is useful for anthing other than research stats... just who else will care exactly what rides you rode at Disney?
The problem for most users is that their car radios can recieve the standard AM and FM bands, but can't reach out to whatever no-license-required frequency to pick up a signal that way.
Because microphones in the UK never could use those frequencies. Flea-power FM transmitters are legal in the USA for whatever use you want, but not in the UK. Different place, different rules.
I get the feeling that "person who never bought anything from us before" will always get the highest prices, and those who "opt out" of sharing info will as well. The price changes for sharing information will be then called "discounts".
Discrimination against the "protected classes" (age, race, gender, etc.) is illegal, but any other form of price-setting is perfectly legal. The McDonald's in NYC has always charged more than the McDonald's in small-town USA, and Walmart is known to have different prices in its stores based on the existance (or lack of) local competition in the area.
Amazon.com tried this scheme before, offering the same item at different prices to different people to test reactions, but ended up embarassed when caught and refunded all those unknowingly involved in the test the difference between the price they paid and the lowest price that item was sold at during the test.
It's not price fixing... that's when the supposed competitors get together and agree on the price.
Uhm. A fully encrypted P2P app is impossible. The copyright holders simply need to log onto the network, and then request to download their own work. Any IP address that sends traffic to the copyright holder's computer that is part of the file is offending, and then it's a matter of suing to find out who.
TCP works very poorly when you try to encrypt the IP address.
P2P networks rely on their network externiality to be effective. That is to say, a P2P network doesn't work very well if there are fewer people on it. So, they don't need to sue everyone... if they just knock out the biggest sharers the network will become useless so that the small people stop using it too.
Claiming IP rights is different than alleging copied code. Afterall, reverse enginering is a legal tight-rope to walk in the first place. Even if you come up with the code without seeing the original code, you can still trip over patents and trademarks...
If I own stock in a company that owns the rights to, or I don't know, KFC's chicken, I have the right to that recipe? If they want to give that info out?
The thing is, you become a part of the "they". If 51% of the shares are voted to do something, then it is so. So, if you ever get 51% of the company, it's your call and yours alone. (And, at that point you get to stack the board of directors with people who agree with you...) If a bunch of people who agree with you combine to make 51%, that works too.
Cringley's company of course would have that trap door. As a publicly traded company, they'd always be subject to a hostile takeover by the pro-RIAA interests...
True security is impossible. Just can't happen, don't pretend you've done it. Real security is a matter of how hard can you make it to violate the system, and how hard can you make it to cover up any violations.
In the case of any voting system allowing extra votes, that should be able to be solved by a simple external checksum. If there's more votes in any race than people who passed through the doorway, you've got a problem.
I think all of the electronic voting systems have taken it all too far. What they should be doing is creating a nice glossy touchscreen interface that is clear and easy to read, to allow people to create a PAPER BALLOT that is properly marked. The ideal printout would both be human readable and machine readable for easy counting and recounting. Let physical, rather than technical security processes make sure that people put only one ballot into the box that counts, and voters can have unlimited attempts at trying to get the paper ballot to say what they wanted to say.
Actually, it's a very simple issue. No video cameras allowed in the park. If somebody brings one in, the ball park security team will kindly give them a refund of their ticket value and escort them out of the park.
All the ballpark said was don't imply by this press released that this was authorized by us, and we'd like to remind everyone that our official networking provider is Comcast. Then Comcast followed up by saying that they have no involvement in this either, and in fact Comcast lines can't be used for that purpose (that's okay, these people have always been planning on using another ISP anyway) but that they're going to do nothing to try to stop this.
Afterall, any attempt to block this would be an embarassing failure on Comcast's part. Hard to do it technically, questionable if they can do it legally, and it's an absolutely dumb thing to do from a public relations viewpoint. So, they're not even gonna bother to try, good for them.
[I]I'm not sure this has been 100% verified legally -- I could see someone *arguing* that they should be entitled to receive cellular calls anywhere they would normally be able to receive them, but not *winning*, however.[/I]
They'd win if they just go to the FCC instead of a court. Any device that actively jams celluar-frequency signals is illegal in the USA... that's transmitting on a licensed spectrum without a license to do so. So, the only way to legally create a movie theater that doesn't allow cell phone calls would be to build the building out of thick concrete, creating a passive signal barrier. Of course, other local building laws would likely require there be enough holes in the concrete (a.k.a. doors) that the signal trap will not be pefectly effective...
Sounds fair enough. PGE Park has made it clear that this is not theirs and Comcast is their official network provider, but Comcast realizes that they don't have a leg to stand on at stopping this. For Comcast to stand up and object would just plain be bad for their image, so they're just going to simply let it happen. Let's give a round of applause here for a company that realizes when it's time to not fight something...
Anonymity is something this product fails badly at, so that isn't it's main use.
Think of this as a machine that spits out a "prepaid" credit card on the spot. Somebody who doesn't qualify for a credit card can stick money in, and then get a card number that's valid for online transactions... finally a way for little Jimmy to spend his allowance money at Amazon.com without having to bother his parents.
This is purely a charter-plane operation here, so the most likely criminal they'll spot is the white-collar robber who is spending his ill-gotten loot under a pseudonym... pulling the video is a good way to match a pseudonym to a face.
It's pointless against that threat, but this is most likely to be used as evidence in less-serious situations such as misbehavior by an overly drunk passenger.
Snapping the photo earlier gives the camera watchers a heads up while the shoplifter is still in the store. If the camera shot 5 seconds after the item is picked up is the "shopper" putting the blades into their pocket, they know they've got somebody worth watching.
Slashdot Mirror
Using the word "guest" to describe Disney theme park customers is an indication the parent poster at some point in time worked for one of Disney's parks.
Theme parks have always had a turnstyle at every ride so that they could get an quasi-exact count of how many people visited each ride each day / week / month / season. Those numbers are key, they tell them which rides people are coming to see, and they build their expansion plans accordingly.
The only thing new here is that this system makes it possible to connect the traveled path to a user profile. I doubt this is useful for anthing other than research stats... just who else will care exactly what rides you rode at Disney?
Your mommy's credit card gets charged the overpriced "retail value" of the device....
The problem for most users is that their car radios can recieve the standard AM and FM bands, but can't reach out to whatever no-license-required frequency to pick up a signal that way.
Because microphones in the UK never could use those frequencies. Flea-power FM transmitters are legal in the USA for whatever use you want, but not in the UK. Different place, different rules.
I get the feeling that "person who never bought anything from us before" will always get the highest prices, and those who "opt out" of sharing info will as well. The price changes for sharing information will be then called "discounts".
Discrimination against the "protected classes" (age, race, gender, etc.) is illegal, but any other form of price-setting is perfectly legal. The McDonald's in NYC has always charged more than the McDonald's in small-town USA, and Walmart is known to have different prices in its stores based on the existance (or lack of) local competition in the area.
Amazon.com tried this scheme before, offering the same item at different prices to different people to test reactions, but ended up embarassed when caught and refunded all those unknowingly involved in the test the difference between the price they paid and the lowest price that item was sold at during the test.
It's not price fixing... that's when the supposed competitors get together and agree on the price.
RIAA: Who says copyrights expire!? Damn liar, step up and be seen!
I think the RIAA execs have portaits of those people all over their wallets... the founding fathers.
+ Nobody makes an encrypted P2P app
Uhm. A fully encrypted P2P app is impossible. The copyright holders simply need to log onto the network, and then request to download their own work. Any IP address that sends traffic to the copyright holder's computer that is part of the file is offending, and then it's a matter of suing to find out who.
TCP works very poorly when you try to encrypt the IP address.
P2P networks rely on their network externiality to be effective. That is to say, a P2P network doesn't work very well if there are fewer people on it. So, they don't need to sue everyone... if they just knock out the biggest sharers the network will become useless so that the small people stop using it too.
Claiming IP rights is different than alleging copied code. Afterall, reverse enginering is a legal tight-rope to walk in the first place. Even if you come up with the code without seeing the original code, you can still trip over patents and trademarks...
As always, the victor ends up getting to write the history most people know...
If I own stock in a company that owns the rights to, or I don't know, KFC's chicken, I have the right to that recipe? If they want to give that info out?
The thing is, you become a part of the "they". If 51% of the shares are voted to do something, then it is so. So, if you ever get 51% of the company, it's your call and yours alone. (And, at that point you get to stack the board of directors with people who agree with you...) If a bunch of people who agree with you combine to make 51%, that works too.
Cringley's company of course would have that trap door. As a publicly traded company, they'd always be subject to a hostile takeover by the pro-RIAA interests...
True security is impossible. Just can't happen, don't pretend you've done it. Real security is a matter of how hard can you make it to violate the system, and how hard can you make it to cover up any violations.
In the case of any voting system allowing extra votes, that should be able to be solved by a simple external checksum. If there's more votes in any race than people who passed through the doorway, you've got a problem.
I think all of the electronic voting systems have taken it all too far. What they should be doing is creating a nice glossy touchscreen interface that is clear and easy to read, to allow people to create a PAPER BALLOT that is properly marked. The ideal printout would both be human readable and machine readable for easy counting and recounting. Let physical, rather than technical security processes make sure that people put only one ballot into the box that counts, and voters can have unlimited attempts at trying to get the paper ballot to say what they wanted to say.
Willow Bay doesn't work for CNN anymore...
Actually, it's a very simple issue. No video cameras allowed in the park. If somebody brings one in, the ball park security team will kindly give them a refund of their ticket value and escort them out of the park.
All the ballpark said was don't imply by this press released that this was authorized by us, and we'd like to remind everyone that our official networking provider is Comcast. Then Comcast followed up by saying that they have no involvement in this either, and in fact Comcast lines can't be used for that purpose (that's okay, these people have always been planning on using another ISP anyway) but that they're going to do nothing to try to stop this.
Afterall, any attempt to block this would be an embarassing failure on Comcast's part. Hard to do it technically, questionable if they can do it legally, and it's an absolutely dumb thing to do from a public relations viewpoint. So, they're not even gonna bother to try, good for them.
[I]I'm not sure this has been 100% verified legally -- I could see someone *arguing* that they should be entitled to receive cellular calls anywhere they would normally be able to receive them, but not *winning*, however.[/I]
They'd win if they just go to the FCC instead of a court. Any device that actively jams celluar-frequency signals is illegal in the USA... that's transmitting on a licensed spectrum without a license to do so. So, the only way to legally create a movie theater that doesn't allow cell phone calls would be to build the building out of thick concrete, creating a passive signal barrier. Of course, other local building laws would likely require there be enough holes in the concrete (a.k.a. doors) that the signal trap will not be pefectly effective...
Sounds fair enough. PGE Park has made it clear that this is not theirs and Comcast is their official network provider, but Comcast realizes that they don't have a leg to stand on at stopping this. For Comcast to stand up and object would just plain be bad for their image, so they're just going to simply let it happen. Let's give a round of applause here for a company that realizes when it's time to not fight something...
Anonymity is something this product fails badly at, so that isn't it's main use.
Think of this as a machine that spits out a "prepaid" credit card on the spot. Somebody who doesn't qualify for a credit card can stick money in, and then get a card number that's valid for online transactions... finally a way for little Jimmy to spend his allowance money at Amazon.com without having to bother his parents.
This is purely a charter-plane operation here, so the most likely criminal they'll spot is the white-collar robber who is spending his ill-gotten loot under a pseudonym... pulling the video is a good way to match a pseudonym to a face.
It's pointless against that threat, but this is most likely to be used as evidence in less-serious situations such as misbehavior by an overly drunk passenger.
Southeast (the charter company) != Southwest (the low-fare brown and red planes)
Snapping the photo earlier gives the camera watchers a heads up while the shoplifter is still in the store. If the camera shot 5 seconds after the item is picked up is the "shopper" putting the blades into their pocket, they know they've got somebody worth watching.