users will continue installing xp until they feel something better has come along, regardless of redmond's plans. it will be as it has been, just a simple bt click away.
if they spent half as much time increasing network capacity at the physical layer as they do spying on customers' bits we'd all be twice as well off, and we might even have a shot at some true global parity. as it is now they've got u.s. customers all drinking from their same dwindling pool.
saul hansell of the times has already been on this. he interviewed a principal of phorm and summarizes it on his times blog. needless to say the readers comments haven't been positive for the companies in question.
I've been saying this for years - even pre-Napster - that you can't be liable for distributing if you aren't actually distributing, but I think in this instance file-sharers might hold off popping the champagne corks. The judge's concern seems to be more about facts than philosophy, i.e. whether or not distribution can take place in a passive sense isn't directly at issue here. What is instead is can a record company successfully sue a defendant for offering files merely by presenting screen shots of titles in a share folder? That other judges have missed this speaks volumes, but unless I'm mistaken, my careful Connecticut neighbor isn't saying a transfer has to be actively sent by the defendant, she's saying that in this particular case, the plaintiff hadn't met the burden that a transfer occurred at all.
when i was a kid it was the chinese who were starving, and we worried about it. well look at them now. they didn't become an economic powerhouse sitting around waiting for hand-outs. they became self-sufficient and from there grew their society. and how.
dvorak is at best a crank, but there is something darker here. an anger and a bitterness that infects his thesis and derails it. fortunately, his influence is less than limited.
the olpc is shipping soon, the tools will be in the hands of those who need them and intellectual growth will follow. from there everything is possible.
passes the turing test? wow. i don't know what's more newsworthy, that or the fact that the last word on "easily laid women" apparently now belongs to geeks.
indexes are centrally hosted to reduce the amount of fakes. private sites in particular with strict modding (like waffles.fm) bring the fake/bad file ratios down to essentially zero. public sites like tpb aren't quite as successful but compared to decentralised systems they're incomparable. winmx for instance was all but destroyed by media industry false file injections. there are protocols for distributed bittorrent indexing but the issue of verifiability hasn't been fully addressed.
btw, westinghouse ripped off tesla, not edison. edison did everything he could to discredit ac but george and morgan really took nicola to the cleaners.
They're on the right track but if anything have grossly underestimated the financial impact. Everything we say, do and even think flows from the work of our predecessors, long since peering out from the public domain. All the benefits - financial and otherwise - are profound, incalculable. Still the attempt is greatly appreciated.
gee. not only are they ugly but potentially deadly too.
these are significantly large, noisy cluster boxes that under existing statute att feels can be installed anywhere, at the end of driveways in front of private homes etc. we now have these all over town and are currently involved in negotiations w/att to minimise their aesthetic impact.
now i suppose we'll have to go back and negotiate their explosive impact too.
vrad box walk-through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1o-1MkvzK4
check put the fan noise. this box is producing a lot of heat.
Call his office and protest. I did, even though I'n not from Nevada. While i was at it I reminded his staff that the only peer reviwed study on the subject that I'm aware of showed little to no corelation between illegal downloading and lost content sales (http://jackspratts.blogspot.com/2007/02/bthe-doct or-is-back-inb-in-news-again.html).
I also may have mentioned he was beginning to sound like a republican weenie.
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no doubt the parent is enjoying a somewhat rhetorical moment but regardless what a manufacturer stamps on his wares any such statement must ultimately be deemed legally enforcible.
i have no idea how many one-way user agreements like this were tested in the courts in the intervening 100 years but my guess is that many were, and many were found wanting. if not we'd still see something similar on today's discs, like the old marca registrada that only rca seemed to use right through the end of the last century.
might as well enjoy it, it's one of the last of it's kind. rca dumped thousands of old masters in the river when they demolished a warehouse in the states and torched the contents of another in south america.
so go ahead and spin it. turn the damn thing up to 11.
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users will continue installing xp until they feel something better has come along, regardless of redmond's plans. it will be as it has been, just a simple bt click away.
if they spent half as much time increasing network capacity at the physical layer as they do spying on customers' bits we'd all be twice as well off, and we might even have a shot at some true global parity. as it is now they've got u.s. customers all drinking from their same dwindling pool.
- js.
saul hansell of the times has already been on this. he interviewed a principal of phorm and summarizes it on his times blog. needless to say the readers comments haven't been positive for the companies in question.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/can-an-eavesdropper-protect-your-privacy/index.html?ref=technology
- js.
well now we know why vista failed: the gubmint dun it.
as for this blissful take on win7, i'll believe it when i run it...if i run it.
- js.
Up to the FCC now to stop this megamerger. With Opie/Alex Keaton clone Kevin Martin at the helm I'm not expecting much deep thinking there tho.
- js.
I've been saying this for years - even pre-Napster - that you can't be liable for distributing if you aren't actually distributing, but I think in this instance file-sharers might hold off popping the champagne corks. The judge's concern seems to be more about facts than philosophy, i.e. whether or not distribution can take place in a passive sense isn't directly at issue here. What is instead is can a record company successfully sue a defendant for offering files merely by presenting screen shots of titles in a share folder? That other judges have missed this speaks volumes, but unless I'm mistaken, my careful Connecticut neighbor isn't saying a transfer has to be actively sent by the defendant, she's saying that in this particular case, the plaintiff hadn't met the burden that a transfer occurred at all.
- js.
Paul is so wrong on so many levels he has his head up his ass basically.
as usual opera is resistant.
Also here:
http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/showthread.php?t=24395/
- js.
sounds to me like a few of the shareholders wanted some quick christmas cash. and got it.
when i was a kid it was the chinese who were starving, and we worried about it. well look at them now. they didn't become an economic powerhouse sitting around waiting for hand-outs. they became self-sufficient and from there grew their society. and how.
dvorak is at best a crank, but there is something darker here. an anger and a bitterness that infects his thesis and derails it. fortunately, his influence is less than limited.
the olpc is shipping soon, the tools will be in the hands of those who need them and intellectual growth will follow. from there everything is possible.
- js.
passes the turing test? wow. i don't know what's more newsworthy, that or the fact that the last word on "easily laid women" apparently now belongs to geeks.
- js.
here's a working link to the actual article (not blog) from the nominally subscription-only financial times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ed6dd08-970a-11dc-b2da-0000779fd2ac.html
- js.
indexes are centrally hosted to reduce the amount of fakes. private sites in particular with strict modding (like waffles.fm) bring the fake/bad file ratios down to essentially zero. public sites like tpb aren't quite as successful but compared to decentralised systems they're incomparable. winmx for instance was all but destroyed by media industry false file injections. there are protocols for distributed bittorrent indexing but the issue of verifiability hasn't been fully addressed.
- js
lol@steamdot. :)
btw, westinghouse ripped off tesla, not edison. edison did everything he could to discredit ac but george and morgan really took nicola to the cleaners.
- js.
this is just gonna make trepanation advocates that much more insufferable, if that's even possible.
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as in att has their heads up theirs - and i'm posting this from an att account.
- js.
why am i not surprised...
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They're on the right track but if anything have grossly underestimated the financial impact. Everything we say, do and even think flows from the work of our predecessors, long since peering out from the public domain. All the benefits - financial and otherwise - are profound, incalculable. Still the attempt is greatly appreciated.
- js
how about at your expense you duplicate my house 1000 miles from here (say the carribean) and occupy it.
when you finish you can ask me over.
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Blogger "Swanni" says the HD-DVD folks coughed up 100 mil to help Paramount reach the decision.
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http://www.tvpredictions.com/bluraypay082007.htmgee. not only are they ugly but potentially deadly too.
these are significantly large, noisy cluster boxes that under existing statute att feels can be installed anywhere, at the end of driveways in front of private homes etc. we now have these all over town and are currently involved in negotiations w/att to minimise their aesthetic impact.
now i suppose we'll have to go back and negotiate their explosive impact too.
vrad box walk-through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1o-1MkvzK4
check put the fan noise. this box is producing a lot of heat.
"And then down here is the battery back-up ."
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and i was so looking forward to tomato farming on the antartic circle.
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Call his office and protest. I did, even though I'n not from Nevada. While i was at it I reminded his staff that the only peer reviwed study on the subject that I'm aware of showed little to no corelation between illegal downloading and lost content sales (http://jackspratts.blogspot.com/2007/02/bthe-doct or-is-back-inb-in-news-again.html).
I also may have mentioned he was beginning to sound like a republican weenie.
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no doubt the parent is enjoying a somewhat rhetorical moment but regardless what a manufacturer stamps on his wares any such statement must ultimately be deemed legally enforcible.
i have no idea how many one-way user agreements like this were tested in the courts in the intervening 100 years but my guess is that many were, and many were found wanting. if not we'd still see something similar on today's discs, like the old marca registrada that only rca seemed to use right through the end of the last century.
might as well enjoy it, it's one of the last of it's kind. rca dumped thousands of old masters in the river when they demolished a warehouse in the states and torched the contents of another in south america.
so go ahead and spin it. turn the damn thing up to 11.
- js.