But they will only be able to use the data for national security purposes and not to fight ordinary crime, the Home Office stressed.
Oh, we don't care about regular crime. Let it happen as much as you want. Heaven forbid that we might use possibly effective tools already in place to actually protect you and your property. Only terrorists are worth actually trying to give our best efforts towards.
You know, all things considered, I suspect the average Britain is in far more danger from ordinary crime, than from terrorism at this moment. And if a Terrorist isn't actually a Terrorist until he commits an act of Terrorism, then he's just an ordinary criminal up to that point, and will be left to purse his merry pursuits. What a crock!
I like the David Brin solution. Have cameras everywhere public, and allow everyone to access them at any time. No more secrets this way, and a lot less suspicion.
The Court found that there was an "increased, almost frenetic activity on the part of counsel for the defendant after it was determined that Defendant was the prevailing party" and was thereby eligible for attorneys fees.
Actually, this was the conclusion -- or should I say opinion -- of the "expert" hired by the RIAA to study the bill. The Court itself made no such finding, although they did agree with this expert on some of the points he made.
Considering the novel aspects of this case -- note that no filesharing case has actually made it to trial so far -- this was far from simple, and was breaking new ground in all aspects. I think the judge was a penny pinching [vernacular for posterior] about the fees, once he decided that the defendant was entitled to them. I don't know if this furthers the Copyright Act goals of encouraging meritorious defenses, or not.
I remember reading about this idea a long time ago, perhaps even in Analog magazine. Because the skin is gas tight, all you need is a suit to provide the counter pressure to prevent blowouts. So the idea is finally being tried out.
Considering how quickly word passes among college students, how long before students at every college and university know that these subpoenas can be fought at the ex parte Doe stage, and how long before they demand that their universities do exactly that?
As NewYorkCountryLawyer pointed out, this particular ex parte motion is illegal.
The subpoena is illegal for more than just its ex parte and citing the wrong law aspects. It's also an illegal joinder of otherwise unrelated Doe defendants that a Texas judge ruled against and told them not to do any longer. The RIAA has blithely ignored that ruling since, and because it has all been ex parte, no one else has been able to point this out to future judges at this point in the proceedings.
Does this mean that until now, proposed fuel-cell solutions for portable computers involved temperatures of 1000 deg. C.? Or is this just hydrogen, and not methanol? Kind of makes the Sony burning batteries seem cool by comparison.
I suggest your encourage your subscribers to change over to GMail. I made the change after two of my ISP's (AT&T and Comcast) refused to forward e-mail to me from my own domain. I couldn't even whitelist myself, because they'd blacklisted all of NameZero.
Google, OTOH, deliverers everything, and does a 99%+ accurate job of putting spam in the spam folder, and e-mail in my inbox. Once I was able to accurately see all my e-mail, I was able to kill a very old address that wasn't part of my personal domain, but forwarded through it, that was generating up to 500 spam messages a day. I wasn't aware how bad it had gotten due to the first named ISPs hiding the problem, rather than showing me what all my e-mail looked like. Fond as I was of this address, when it becomes this kind of problem, even good memories of my first e-mail and early Internet days has to go. Google makes this possible, all this for free!
All things considered, I'm sure Google would love to take away all of Hotmail's customers, and they'll do it by providing better service at an equal or better price.
And they figured this out how? The obvious thought is that the old people with bone loss weren't dying nearly as fast as the other, otherwise, healthy patients.
One solution that exists in the RIAA versus filesharer cases is that the RIAA has to provide a copyright registration certificate proving ownership of a song before they can proceed in court. Internet takedown notices should also require a certificate of copyright registration to accompany them. This one small step alone would likely stop 98% of the takedowns requested. While copyright itself does not require registration, if you don't care enough to register it, you shouldn't care enough to try to take it down afterwards.
Seriously, if you offer a base broadband package for $10/month with 2GB of download bandwidth included, and $0.25/GB after that,
Excuse me BUT, AT&T already has to offer a basic DSL connection for $10/mo with no cap. This is part of what they agreed to in order to be allowed to merge with another provider. While they hide this fact as best they can (don't believe me, go try to find it on their pages), it's already there. I'd get it for my mother, if it was just available in her area because it's all she really needs.
And metered bandwidth is bad because they'll lower the amount in increments, and jack the cost in single cent amounts, that don't sound like much, but really add up over time.
Perhaps you don't recall the day that 411 information calls ceased being unlimited and included in your basic phone bill. They started out with saying that we'll set a real high number of them before you have to pay. Something like 15 a month that will only affect the single percent of our heaviest users who are too inept to use a telephone book. Before you knew it the free calls were down to 3 a month, then you started paying for every one of them.
And the cost savings you realized on your bill from losing this previously included service: NOTHING!!
I ran the text through google translate and this is what happened:
And now you know why Google will be the first Internet service relegated to the slowest service possible. Can't have this getting out to everyone. Heck, they might even put it on their main page -- something to fill up all that unused white space.
Net Neutrality Positive
VOIP Packets receiving priority (because lag and bandwidth throttling reduce performance of VOIP technologies)
Prioritizing Gaming traffic of popular/well used games (IE. MMOs, FPS over internet, etc...)
Except that the only VoIP that your giant ISP will prioritize will be their own, overpriced version. It will be used to kill off all other VoIP competition.
As for the gaming, expect to pay a monthly surcharge, which might be hidden in the monthly game charges if they collect it from that end, for access to the fast lane.
I think at the end of the day, a clearly defined set of standards for prioritization needs to first be developed by an independent body (ICANN/ISO/IEEE?)
I want different levels of service for different services.
And I want to be the one who sets those levels. After all, it's MY bandwidth. I'M the one paying for it!
Let me be the one to decide to put my preferred VoIP provider at the top. It doesn't use that much bandwidth overall, but response is important. My Bittorret goes at the bottom. Web browsing in the middle, and on-line gaming above that. You can guess where YouTube fits in.
I, for one, believe that if the ability to shape traffic exists, then the end user should be the one doing the shaping, and that's what we should be fighting for.
What this means is that each disc has a program built into it whose purpose is to boot, validate that it is running on licensed hardware, enforce security policy, and if those checks are met, extract a key from its own memory and play the content.
I wonder how much MORE this will add to the start-up time of a BD+ disc. It's already too long as it is.
BD+ allows the entertainment companies to react instantly to breaks at timeline point X, recompiling their VM code in a response to software breaks, protecting all titles published from time X+.
Not quite. They will need to see the break themselvs. Analyze it. Devise a method around it. Test that method against all current players (if they're going to be responsible here). Ship it off to manufacturing. Remaster new discs with the new software. Press. Distribute. And sell it through the channel. This is hardly an instantaneous response by any means.
'll just have to wait for Dumb and Dumberer to be released to public domain in the year 2257 before I can enjoy it in all of its HD glory.
That will never happen. By 2057 copyrights will be eternal, like God, and Europe of the 1600's and 1700's, intended. Beware those radical American colonists with their crazy ideas!
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Oh, we don't care about regular crime. Let it happen as much as you want. Heaven forbid that we might use possibly effective tools already in place to actually protect you and your property. Only terrorists are worth actually trying to give our best efforts towards.
You know, all things considered, I suspect the average Britain is in far more danger from ordinary crime, than from terrorism at this moment. And if a Terrorist isn't actually a Terrorist until he commits an act of Terrorism, then he's just an ordinary criminal up to that point, and will be left to purse his merry pursuits. What a crock!
I like the David Brin solution. Have cameras everywhere public, and allow everyone to access them at any time. No more secrets this way, and a lot less suspicion.
Is that 4X the cost of fossil fuels with oil at $12/barrel, or 4X cost with oil at $72/barrel? When were these cost estimates last updated?
Excuse me, but, how do you reduce a CO2 footprint by removing algae that converts CO2 to O2?
Möbius strip == Microsoft Marketing FUD.
Actually, this was the conclusion -- or should I say opinion -- of the "expert" hired by the RIAA to study the bill. The Court itself made no such finding, although they did agree with this expert on some of the points he made.
Considering the novel aspects of this case -- note that no filesharing case has actually made it to trial so far -- this was far from simple, and was breaking new ground in all aspects. I think the judge was a penny pinching [vernacular for posterior] about the fees, once he decided that the defendant was entitled to them. I don't know if this furthers the Copyright Act goals of encouraging meritorious defenses, or not.
I remember reading about this idea a long time ago, perhaps even in Analog magazine. Because the skin is gas tight, all you need is a suit to provide the counter pressure to prevent blowouts. So the idea is finally being tried out.
Yeah, that loads right next to the RIAA Genuine Advantage program in my memory map.
Or not heard, as seems their wont based on their recent history.
Considering how quickly word passes among college students, how long before students at every college and university know that these subpoenas can be fought at the ex parte Doe stage, and how long before they demand that their universities do exactly that?
The subpoena is illegal for more than just its ex parte and citing the wrong law aspects. It's also an illegal joinder of otherwise unrelated Doe defendants that a Texas judge ruled against and told them not to do any longer. The RIAA has blithely ignored that ruling since, and because it has all been ex parte, no one else has been able to point this out to future judges at this point in the proceedings.
Does this mean that until now, proposed fuel-cell solutions for portable computers involved temperatures of 1000 deg. C.? Or is this just hydrogen, and not methanol? Kind of makes the Sony burning batteries seem cool by comparison.
Question: Can you produce ethanol from both the sugar and cellulose in corn, giving much higher value from each plant?
Do you still see those adds if you use a POP3 e-mail client such as Outlook/Outlook Express/Thunderbird to receive and handle your e-mails locally?
Google, OTOH, deliverers everything, and does a 99%+ accurate job of putting spam in the spam folder, and e-mail in my inbox. Once I was able to accurately see all my e-mail, I was able to kill a very old address that wasn't part of my personal domain, but forwarded through it, that was generating up to 500 spam messages a day. I wasn't aware how bad it had gotten due to the first named ISPs hiding the problem, rather than showing me what all my e-mail looked like. Fond as I was of this address, when it becomes this kind of problem, even good memories of my first e-mail and early Internet days has to go. Google makes this possible, all this for free!
All things considered, I'm sure Google would love to take away all of Hotmail's customers, and they'll do it by providing better service at an equal or better price.
And they figured this out how? The obvious thought is that the old people with bone loss weren't dying nearly as fast as the other, otherwise, healthy patients.
One solution that exists in the RIAA versus filesharer cases is that the RIAA has to provide a copyright registration certificate proving ownership of a song before they can proceed in court. Internet takedown notices should also require a certificate of copyright registration to accompany them. This one small step alone would likely stop 98% of the takedowns requested. While copyright itself does not require registration, if you don't care enough to register it, you shouldn't care enough to try to take it down afterwards.
Excuse me BUT, AT&T already has to offer a basic DSL connection for $10/mo with no cap. This is part of what they agreed to in order to be allowed to merge with another provider. While they hide this fact as best they can (don't believe me, go try to find it on their pages), it's already there. I'd get it for my mother, if it was just available in her area because it's all she really needs.
And metered bandwidth is bad because they'll lower the amount in increments, and jack the cost in single cent amounts, that don't sound like much, but really add up over time.
Perhaps you don't recall the day that 411 information calls ceased being unlimited and included in your basic phone bill. They started out with saying that we'll set a real high number of them before you have to pay. Something like 15 a month that will only affect the single percent of our heaviest users who are too inept to use a telephone book. Before you knew it the free calls were down to 3 a month, then you started paying for every one of them.
And the cost savings you realized on your bill from losing this previously included service: NOTHING!!
And now you know why Google will be the first Internet service relegated to the slowest service possible. Can't have this getting out to everyone. Heck, they might even put it on their main page -- something to fill up all that unused white space.
VOIP Packets receiving priority (because lag and bandwidth throttling reduce performance of VOIP technologies)
Prioritizing Gaming traffic of popular/well used games (IE. MMOs, FPS over internet, etc...)
Except that the only VoIP that your giant ISP will prioritize will be their own, overpriced version. It will be used to kill off all other VoIP competition.
As for the gaming, expect to pay a monthly surcharge, which might be hidden in the monthly game charges if they collect it from that end, for access to the fast lane.
How about the EFF?
I want different levels of service for different services.
And I want to be the one who sets those levels. After all, it's MY bandwidth. I'M the one paying for it!
Let me be the one to decide to put my preferred VoIP provider at the top. It doesn't use that much bandwidth overall, but response is important. My Bittorret goes at the bottom. Web browsing in the middle, and on-line gaming above that. You can guess where YouTube fits in.
I, for one, believe that if the ability to shape traffic exists, then the end user should be the one doing the shaping, and that's what we should be fighting for.
They could save money by eliminating the screen.
I wonder how much MORE this will add to the start-up time of a BD+ disc. It's already too long as it is.
BD+ allows the entertainment companies to react instantly to breaks at timeline point X, recompiling their VM code in a response to software breaks, protecting all titles published from time X+.
Not quite. They will need to see the break themselvs. Analyze it. Devise a method around it. Test that method against all current players (if they're going to be responsible here). Ship it off to manufacturing. Remaster new discs with the new software. Press. Distribute. And sell it through the channel. This is hardly an instantaneous response by any means.
That will never happen. By 2057 copyrights will be eternal, like God, and Europe of the 1600's and 1700's, intended. Beware those radical American colonists with their crazy ideas!
Sorry to inform you that your sig line was cached in the ram memory of my video card before it was possible to know not to.