I guess microsoft is just doing research, so they can patent their inventions. Those patents can than be used to make (other) fileswapping/p2p programs illegal due to patent infringement.
The Maya's an Aztechs are announcing this with their calendar that includes 'new suns' every 5200 years and with the new sun comes an enormous climate change. Guess what according to the maya's the new sun is coming in the year 2012.
More information about this can be found at a site about cropcircles, a certain crop which one the title 'cropcircle of the year' which is a doomsday calender which is warning for the new sun. The site explains the maya calender which fits exactly over the 5200 years of the old sun which according to the calendar will be replaced by the new sun and climate in 2012.
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2004/silburyhil l2/silburyhill2004b.html
This is not really something new, on the school where my little brother goes to when entering the classroom they need to scan their schoolpass before entering and without the pass schoolpass you aren't allowed to enter the classroom.
So this is simply the next step in tracking students.
I guess that Nintendo has simply delegated the fighting of IP infrigment to the advocates office that is involved. And on 'bad day' where they had no 'real infrigments' to persue they simply started googling and so they found the website in question and thought it might be a great victim, and so they could write a few additional hour for finding and pursuing them.
So my guess is that Nintendo is just a victim of the fact that they hired a malcious advocate company. But I doubt if they will stop doing business with them because in my opionion all lawyers are only intrested in writing time in blocks of 6 minutes.
Commercial software that which many things of are patented are stopping innovation. History tells us in the time James Watt invented the Steam Engine he patented almost every (little) effort he made on it. The development/innovation of the steam engine for the next 10 years was totally stopped.
In one particular region in England where they actually denied patents(-laws) and shared all information about new inventions and innovation the most effort on the steam engine was done.
So this is almost the same situation we now have with open source and commercial software, only in another era.
Marx said, in the end we will have the people who own the production systems and the people who own nothing, except their existence and have no rights.
Microsoft and the RIAA members own, consumers own nothing. Microsoft and the the RIAA members control, consumers adapt.
The real question is for how long will people allow their rights to be taken, and when will the revolt be after which the whole 'game' starts over again.
I'm afraid that this tool will also affect P2P tools which connect to many hosts every second aswell. Novice users will stop using P2P cause they don't understand why it isn't working.
I guess DRM is being enforced by the large manufactors bit by bit, I guess that in 5 years all the software/hardware from the large vendors will have DRM build in and will be enforcing it!
And in the long run this will mean you can't even decide for your self what you can do with your computer/software, no this decision will be made by your vendor!
I guess we could combine this with distributed computing so if you send out an e-mail you are helping solving one of the puzzles like for example RC5, OGR or ECC2. And make the world better.
But I think microsoft is intending to create a complete new business model for e-mail providers (and ofcourse for microsoft's hotmail.com) by selling the computing power to companies who need it.
I think there will be law suits about violating the GPL in the future.
For example you have a software company that takes a GPL packages, modifies it and sells it without the (modified) source.
An competitor won't like this and can sue the company for violating the GPL and forcing this company to undo the violatings by providing the source.
Altrought these wil not be the same as the lawsuits about violating of license terms/copyrights.. it's a lawsuit!
I'm getting the idea that Search King is a scam!
Everything they do is one big scam.
On there website the first sentence you see in bold: 'GOOGLE CONFESSES - Google responds to SearchKing's lawsuit'
Like Google has confessed? Hell No! I think ScamKing has no change winning the law-suit against google! But anyway SearchKing is one big scam!
I notice that there needs to be some kind of agreement by the user for the activity that takes place on the computer. This due to the fact that many countries have privacy laws that 'should' protect privacy of it's inhabitants. Usually this agreement with the user is gained by large user agreements in a language that is only understood by lawyers, so it's what they are doing is totally legal.
So will we now also get license agreements when buying CDs..where we allow the record labels to execute code on our machine and track our habbits. And I've a feeling that they will try to hide more spyware that for example searches your computer for mp3's and sends that information to the record label or RIAA..
Or possibly deletes all the MP3s of your computer?
I know one thing... as soon as CD's will be guided with license agreements I will not buy any cd anymore!
These ads are getting bigger and bigger and more and more interactive. But what is 'globally seen' the goal of the advertiser, they want to reach something.. inform you, get you to buy a product, brand the company and so on.
The bigger the banners get, the more attention they're requesting the more annoyed the user will become.. and cause the user will remember the thing that is advertised for as a bad thing cause it has annoyed you! So what will happen? You will get a bad feeling about the advertising company or the thing what is advertised for.
If we are going on this way.. the tide will turn and advertising will not lead into new 'leads' but only into lost of customers and new leads.
I suggest you should change the medium you are using to backup from time to time.
You currently have 220GB of data to backup.
I would create a RAID5-Array of IDE disks which can hold upto 300.. 400GB of data. As soon as the ammount of data is increasing and coming close to the maximum ammount of data your can store/backup, add an extra disk to your RAID.
I also want to suggest to re-evaluate your
backup system every 3 to 5 years to see if is still fits in the backup strategie you have.
And if required changing to a new backup system.
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I guess microsoft is just doing research, so they can patent their inventions. Those patents can than be used to make (other) fileswapping/p2p programs illegal due to patent infringement.
Computers are (till now) owned by humans or organizations, they are property. Property doesn't has any legal rights nor needs them.
The Maya's an Aztechs are announcing this with their calendar that includes 'new suns' every 5200 years and with the new sun comes an enormous climate change. Guess what according to the maya's the new sun is coming in the year 2012.l l2/silburyhill2004b.html
More information about this can be found at a site about cropcircles, a certain crop which one the title 'cropcircle of the year' which is a doomsday calender which is warning for the new sun. The site explains the maya calender which fits exactly over the 5200 years of the old sun which according to the calendar will be replaced by the new sun and climate in 2012. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2004/silburyhi
This is not really something new, on the school where my little brother goes to when entering the classroom they need to scan their schoolpass before entering and without the pass schoolpass you aren't allowed to enter the classroom. So this is simply the next step in tracking students.
I guess that Nintendo has simply delegated the fighting of IP infrigment to the advocates office that is involved. And on 'bad day' where they had no 'real infrigments' to persue they simply started googling and so they found the website in question and thought it might be a great victim, and so they could write a few additional hour for finding and pursuing them. So my guess is that Nintendo is just a victim of the fact that they hired a malcious advocate company. But I doubt if they will stop doing business with them because in my opionion all lawyers are only intrested in writing time in blocks of 6 minutes.
Commercial software that which many things of are patented are stopping innovation. History tells us in the time James Watt invented the Steam Engine he patented almost every (little) effort he made on it. The development/innovation of the steam engine for the next 10 years was totally stopped. In one particular region in England where they actually denied patents(-laws) and shared all information about new inventions and innovation the most effort on the steam engine was done. So this is almost the same situation we now have with open source and commercial software, only in another era.
Marx said, in the end we will have the people who own the production systems and the people who own nothing, except their existence and have no rights. Microsoft and the RIAA members own, consumers own nothing. Microsoft and the the RIAA members control, consumers adapt. The real question is for how long will people allow their rights to be taken, and when will the revolt be after which the whole 'game' starts over again.
I'm afraid that this tool will also affect P2P tools which connect to many hosts every second aswell. Novice users will stop using P2P cause they don't understand why it isn't working.
I guess DRM is being enforced by the large manufactors bit by bit, I guess that in 5 years all the software/hardware from the large vendors will have DRM build in and will be enforcing it!
And in the long run this will mean you can't even decide for your self what you can do with your computer/software, no this decision will be made by your vendor!
I guess we could combine this with distributed computing so if you send out an e-mail you are helping solving one of the puzzles like for example RC5, OGR or ECC2. And make the world better.
But I think microsoft is intending to create a complete new business model for e-mail providers (and ofcourse for microsoft's hotmail.com) by selling the computing power to companies who need it.
I think there will be law suits about violating the GPL in the future. For example you have a software company that takes a GPL packages, modifies it and sells it without the (modified) source. An competitor won't like this and can sue the company for violating the GPL and forcing this company to undo the violatings by providing the source. Altrought these wil not be the same as the lawsuits about violating of license terms/copyrights .. it's a lawsuit!
I'm getting the idea that Search King is a scam! Everything they do is one big scam. On there website the first sentence you see in bold: 'GOOGLE CONFESSES - Google responds to SearchKing's lawsuit' Like Google has confessed? Hell No! I think ScamKing has no change winning the law-suit against google! But anyway SearchKing is one big scam!
I notice that there needs to be some kind of agreement by the user for the activity that takes place on the computer. This due to the fact that many countries have privacy laws that 'should' protect privacy of it's inhabitants. Usually this agreement with the user is gained by large user agreements in a language that is only understood by lawyers, so it's what they are doing is totally legal. So will we now also get license agreements when buying CDs..where we allow the record labels to execute code on our machine and track our habbits. And I've a feeling that they will try to hide more spyware that for example searches your computer for mp3's and sends that information to the record label or RIAA ..
Or possibly deletes all the MP3s of your computer?
I know one thing ... as soon as CD's will be guided with license agreements I will not buy any cd anymore!
These ads are getting bigger and bigger and more and more interactive. But what is 'globally seen' the goal of the advertiser, they want to reach something .. inform you, get you to buy a product, brand the company and so on.
The bigger the banners get, the more attention they're requesting the more annoyed the user will become .. and cause the user will remember the thing that is advertised for as a bad thing cause it has annoyed you! So what will happen? You will get a bad feeling about the advertising company or the thing what is advertised for.
If we are going on this way .. the tide will turn and advertising will not lead into new 'leads' but only into lost of customers and new leads.
I suggest you should change the medium you are using to backup from time to time. You currently have 220GB of data to backup. I would create a RAID5-Array of IDE disks which can hold upto 300 .. 400GB of data. As soon as the ammount of data is increasing and coming close to the maximum ammount of data your can store/backup, add an extra disk to your RAID.
I also want to suggest to re-evaluate your
backup system every 3 to 5 years to see if is still fits in the backup strategie you have.
And if required changing to a new backup system.