The common thread you see in many cases of software or content which are heavy on the anti-piracy (advocacy, DRM, etc) is that they (er, the organisation responsible) have no integrity, no shame, and are mostly hypocrites.
Not absolutely every one of them, but near enough that to say otherwise is nothing more than legal nit-picking.
Seriously folks, when will Big Business (and even some small ones) stop thinking that ALL their customers are a bunch of ratbags, when will they stop thinking that THE UNIVERSE owes them a GUARANTEED profit FOR EVER?
Maybe I'm just not young anymore, but I remember a time when a product gave value-for-money, customers paid gladly, and businesses were pleasant about the whole experience.
Nowadays, when I go to The Cinema (yeah, I still do occasionally) I spend 30 minutes watching advertisements (seriously!) and his is only a 90 minute movie. AND there'll be AT LEAST 2 advertisements telling me I should be ashamed of myself for being such a filthy pirate (seriously, format-shifting is illegal, time-shifting is illegal, and FOR FUXAKE what d'you mean I LITERALLY cannot buy that content in this country - and NOT for legal-reasons, just because YOUR'E A RETARDED MONKEY).
Really RIAA/MPAA (and friends) you deliberately go out of your way to make it legally impossible for me to purchase the content, yet you also want to whine about people who violate your copyright?
I'm NOT going to say such obvious things as "can't have your cake and eat it too" but rather SHADDUP AND TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY.
The US Energy Information Administration claims that the US dependence on oil from The Persian Gulf is approximately 22%, so even if they dropped off the face of the planet (ie immediately/suddenly, tomorrow) it would not make all that much of a difference.
Sure it'd be a massive PITA for maybe as much as a month, then we'd all get over it and wonder what the fuss was about.
Not that I'm applauding the actions of hackers (legitimate or otherwise). Nor am I suggesting that we should all do our best to bring Down The Saudis (or anyone/everyone else involved in Oil production, for that matter).
Having raised all those caveats, however: Is THIS not good for everyone in the long term?
Those who were attacked will update their systems, those who rely on oil will rethink their policies. Maybe if we're really (really really really) lucky there'll be greater investment in energy solutions OTHER than fossil-fuels.
I see a whole lot of SILVER LINING and not much dark stormcloud here.
Conceptually kinda sorta like email in that regard.
The BP side of the equation brings the concept of bundling more information together in one unit (unlike IP, which tends to break info into smaller units , eg fragmentation).
The plan being to bundle together all the information required for The Application to do the next thing.
Imagine sending all the html-and-javascripts-and-css for a webpage in one (huge) packet. Your browser would have enough to render the page and start requesting the images (etc). If you were using a text-only browser, you'd have everything you needed - just waiting for the next user-input.
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Ip over air canada? Yes certainly delays and rerouting.
Ip over avian carrier can cope with high delays and dramatic jitter, re-ordering and packet loss. I'm not sure udp/tcp can cope though, and Ip itself can't cope very well with a situation where the route only partially exists (say your orbiter acts as a router but is on the other side of the planet to your target lander, and needs to store the packets for a few hours)
Actually he was talking about IPoverAnonymousCoward.
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Huge, yes - but not astronomically huge. The main failing of TCP/IP in extra-planetary usage is that RTT/delay measured in minutes smacks up against many-and-various timeouts in TCP. Effectively TCP thinks RTT of 16 minutes (eg to the sun and back) is actually 100% packet loss, because TCP gave up waiting (timeout) ages ago.
That's nothing. In Australia, someone has patented the wheel!
And despite this OBVIOUS STUPIDITY (which, I might add, is why said patent was applied for) Mr Expert-from-IBM says "everything is fine, no problems at all".
Seriously folks, filtering the internet is like trying to filter the air.
Are you absolutely certain that you filtered ALL of it, ALL the time, in EVERY circumstance?
It's also kinda like locking your door to prevent burglary. A skilled and determined burglar will find a way in, locks just keep only slightly dishonest people out.
For example: if this is based on DNS lookups then what happens when $USER runs a local caching DNS server rather than "pointing at their ISP"? What happens when $KIDDY_PORN_ADDICT simply turns up his VPN-TO-AMERICA and routes ALL his internet through there?
Star's, not stars', unless the planet is orbiting more than one star at a time. Didn't we just talk about apostrophe abuse in another Slashdot headline a couple days ago?
- the topic of two of the ten commandments -- has been completely decriminalized in most states!
Good. If the sole reason for a law existing is religion, it should be decriminalised.
Would you like to travel back in time 550 years when Queens were beheaded for accusations of adultery?
Why not go back to the times of the Roman Empire, when a husband was allowed to murder his wife if she cheated on him.
And you completely forgot the (Christian Biblical? Muslim? I can't remember) Official Divorce proceedings where a husband tells his wife "I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you" and that's it.
Increasing wealth concentration is not bad in and of itself
Completely ignoring the BLATANT ABUSE OF INFLUENCE that human beings with concentrated wealth bring to the equation.
Look at it another way:The concentration of wealth is somewhat akin the concentration of mass, at some point there's SO MUCH mass concentrated in SO SMALL an area that fundamentally it's causing ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS (black holes, anyone?).
Apple is clearly sorry that The Courts didn't see things their way.
Sorry that Samsung failed to Have Even A Single Original Idea for so many years.
Sorry that they have to have The Same Argument, all over again, in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
Seriously folks, this is NOT about "getting it right" but about every man and their dog believing that if they fight Apple enough times SOMEBODY will find against Apple.
(not that I'm saying they're completely innocent, guilty, or meh, just commenting on the ludicrous state of legal systems in this world)
And let's not forget, folks, in the end all this legalistic fart-arse-ing around comes directly out of YOUR POCKETS.
Apparently the US Government believes that AYBABTU.
Apropos meme is entirely applicable:
UserOne What happen ?
UserTwo: Somebody set up us the bomb.
....
Government: How are you gentlemen !!
Government: All your base are belong to us.
Government: You are on the way to destruction.
UserOne: What you say !!
Government: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Instituting a law that makes search-engines PAY content providers for click-through links from searches will obviously result in ALL links to media being dropped from search results.
The phrase you're looking for is NATURAL CONSEQUENCES.
Personally I think The Big G should have immediately dropped all search results leading to French Media Sites with a HUGE banner saying "this is what THAT LAW requires us to do".
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One day, apparently soon, we'll be able to hook up Things to The Internet.
Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage
Most of the pilots I've seen are pretty fugly.
Absolutely a great face for radio!
The common thread you see in many cases of software or content which are heavy on the anti-piracy (advocacy, DRM, etc) is that they (er, the organisation responsible) have no integrity, no shame, and are mostly hypocrites.
Not absolutely every one of them, but near enough that to say otherwise is nothing more than legal nit-picking.
Seriously folks, when will Big Business (and even some small ones) stop thinking that ALL their customers are a bunch of ratbags, when will they stop thinking that THE UNIVERSE owes them a GUARANTEED profit FOR EVER?
Maybe I'm just not young anymore, but I remember a time when a product gave value-for-money, customers paid gladly, and businesses were pleasant about the whole experience.
Nowadays, when I go to The Cinema (yeah, I still do occasionally) I spend 30 minutes watching advertisements (seriously!) and his is only a 90 minute movie. AND there'll be AT LEAST 2 advertisements telling me I should be ashamed of myself for being such a filthy pirate (seriously, format-shifting is illegal, time-shifting is illegal, and FOR FUXAKE what d'you mean I LITERALLY cannot buy that content in this country - and NOT for legal-reasons, just because YOUR'E A RETARDED MONKEY).
Really RIAA/MPAA (and friends) you deliberately go out of your way to make it legally impossible for me to purchase the content, yet you also want to whine about people who violate your copyright?
I'm NOT going to say such obvious things as "can't have your cake and eat it too" but rather SHADDUP AND TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY.
The US Energy Information Administration claims that the US dependence on oil from The Persian Gulf is approximately 22%, so even if they dropped off the face of the planet (ie immediately/suddenly, tomorrow) it would not make all that much of a difference.
Sure it'd be a massive PITA for maybe as much as a month, then we'd all get over it and wonder what the fuss was about.
Not that I'm applauding the actions of hackers (legitimate or otherwise). Nor am I suggesting that we should all do our best to bring Down The Saudis (or anyone/everyone else involved in Oil production, for that matter).
Having raised all those caveats, however: Is THIS not good for everyone in the long term?
Those who were attacked will update their systems, those who rely on oil will rethink their policies. Maybe if we're really (really really really) lucky there'll be greater investment in energy solutions OTHER than fossil-fuels.
I see a whole lot of SILVER LINING and not much dark stormcloud here.
DTN is a store-n-forward protocol.
Conceptually kinda sorta like email in that regard.
The BP side of the equation brings the concept of bundling more information together in one unit (unlike IP, which tends to break info into smaller units , eg fragmentation).
The plan being to bundle together all the information required for The Application to do the next thing.
Imagine sending all the html-and-javascripts-and-css for a webpage in one (huge) packet. Your browser would have enough to render the page and start requesting the images (etc). If you were using a text-only browser, you'd have everything you needed - just waiting for the next user-input.
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Ip over air canada? Yes certainly delays and rerouting.
Ip over avian carrier can cope with high delays and dramatic jitter, re-ordering and packet loss. I'm not sure udp/tcp can cope though, and Ip itself can't cope very well with a situation where the route only partially exists (say your orbiter acts as a router but is on the other side of the planet to your target lander, and needs to store the packets for a few hours)
Actually he was talking about IPoverAnonymousCoward.
Or did you forget where you were?
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Huge, yes - but not astronomically huge. The main failing of TCP/IP in extra-planetary usage is that RTT/delay measured in minutes smacks up against many-and-various timeouts in TCP. Effectively TCP thinks RTT of 16 minutes (eg to the sun and back) is actually 100% packet loss, because TCP gave up waiting (timeout) ages ago.
http://www.bodymedia.com/
Also: You're Welcome.
That's nothing. In Australia, someone has patented the wheel!
And despite this OBVIOUS STUPIDITY (which, I might add, is why said patent was applied for) Mr Expert-from-IBM says "everything is fine, no problems at all".
I
SAID
WOO
HOO!
Erm, wait? - Why do I care? (other than the joy of breaking-the-seal)
"The Rich Are Getting Richer" argument is not semantically equivalent to "The System Is Working".
Although it may be equivalent to "The System Is Working AS DESIGNED".
Seriously folks, filtering the internet is like trying to filter the air.
Are you absolutely certain that you filtered ALL of it, ALL the time, in EVERY circumstance?
It's also kinda like locking your door to prevent burglary. A skilled and determined burglar will find a way in, locks just keep only slightly dishonest people out.
For example: if this is based on DNS lookups then what happens when $USER runs a local caching DNS server rather than "pointing at their ISP"? What happens when $KIDDY_PORN_ADDICT simply turns up his VPN-TO-AMERICA and routes ALL his internet through there?
Star's, not stars', unless the planet is orbiting more than one star at a time. Didn't we just talk about apostrophe abuse in another Slashdot headline a couple days ago?
No, I'm pretty sure it was Child Abuse.
- the topic of two of the ten commandments -- has been completely decriminalized in most states!
Good. If the sole reason for a law existing is religion, it should be decriminalised. Would you like to travel back in time 550 years when Queens were beheaded for accusations of adultery? Why not go back to the times of the Roman Empire, when a husband was allowed to murder his wife if she cheated on him.
And you completely forgot the (Christian Biblical? Muslim? I can't remember) Official Divorce proceedings where a husband tells his wife "I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you" and that's it.
There could have been a school fieldtrip to that alley at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night and have accidentally seen a penis.
And WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
We can't have Young Boys Seeing Penises!
You have NO IDEA what that will lead to.
Increasing wealth concentration is not bad in and of itself
Completely ignoring the BLATANT ABUSE OF INFLUENCE that human beings with concentrated wealth bring to the equation.
Look at it another way:The concentration of wealth is somewhat akin the concentration of mass, at some point there's SO MUCH mass concentrated in SO SMALL an area that fundamentally it's causing ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS (black holes, anyone?).
Being lawful has always been about obeying the exact and explicit letter of the law.
Nothing more and nothing less.
HINT: that's why lawyers EXIST, to argue what the exact explicit letter of the law actually said.
As long as Apple do exactly what they exact literal words said in the ruling then they are in compliance.
Apple is clearly sorry that The Courts didn't see things their way.
Sorry that Samsung failed to Have Even A Single Original Idea for so many years.
Sorry that they have to have The Same Argument, all over again, in every single petty-jurisdiction in The Known Universe.
Seriously folks, this is NOT about "getting it right" but about every man and their dog believing that if they fight Apple enough times SOMEBODY will find against Apple.
(not that I'm saying they're completely innocent, guilty, or meh, just commenting on the ludicrous state of legal systems in this world)
And let's not forget, folks, in the end all this legalistic fart-arse-ing around comes directly out of YOUR POCKETS.
Kiteo, his eyes closed: AOL buying Time Warner.
Kiteo, his eyes open: Disney buying Star Wars.
Apparently the US Government believes that AYBABTU. Apropos meme is entirely applicable:
UserOne What happen ?
UserTwo: Somebody set up us the bomb.
....
Government: How are you gentlemen !!
Government: All your base are belong to us.
Government: You are on the way to destruction.
UserOne: What you say !!
Government: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Instituting a law that makes search-engines PAY content providers for click-through links from searches will obviously result in ALL links to media being dropped from search results.
The phrase you're looking for is NATURAL CONSEQUENCES.
Personally I think The Big G should have immediately dropped all search results leading to French Media Sites with a HUGE banner saying "this is what THAT LAW requires us to do".
Surface needs Multi-user because, on average, it's sitting around not being used so to maximise ROI it NEEDS to be a shared resource.
As for the Apple side of the universe, you can have my iPad when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
And THAT, my friend, is why Apple doesn't need a multi-user tablet.
I gotcha Magic Finger right here.
And Here.
And here.
And (finally) here.
Want to not catch it? Stay away from blood, needles, and sexual contact with anyone.
Extra Points For: And The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth.