As with the US each state in Australia is different, it would appear that http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/index.html the maintainer of Western Australia certificate of titles in the rush to cost efficient digitisation and fee earning opportunities has gotten a little lose in protecting a persons title but then for an extra fee http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/TitleWatch they male sure no one sneaks up on land and sells it out from underneath them.
Some states provide a copy of certificate of title as a legal document that must be handed in an transferred across (Western Australia do a duplicate of title but charge extra for it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title, I did design and construct, commercial and industrial property development evaluations on thousands of properties.
What I do or do not own is of course not for forum consumption. So, hmm, what is your social security number and what are the addresses of the land you own and what is your full name (don't worry about email et al I and many others can get the rest ourselves).
Then of course all ownership is an illusion. The citizens via the government grant control. Ding bat, if you really owned your land in full and clear title, you could sell your country to other countries and eventually you would be a citizen of nowhere. Controls are required, planing requirements for a start to ensure what you do to your property does not affect the neighbourhood property values or the quality of life of your neighbours. You are a citizen of your whole country not just the bits that haven't been privatised.
There is far more to it than email, "It is alleged scammers had stolen Mildenhall's email account and personal and property documents". There had to direct proximate contact, they obtained personal and property documents. The email angle seems to be more of a beat up by ZDnet rather than being of any real significance.
Investor generally keep property titles in a private safe or a bank safety deposit box but, he didn't notice them gone.
Hmm, strange had investments house and his agent was not renting them and the owner didn't notice the missing rent income if the agent was renting them. The whole thing stinks, from the owner, to the agent and beyond. It will be interesting to see how the case pans out over the next few months.
Canadians are always so uptight about trying to outdo the USians but to stick in a political asshat that will out do Bush, what were you guys thinking. Bush isolated protesters in defined areas, Harper did the same, the only reason there was no chain wire around them was it made in easier for the riot squad to get in there, beat them up, arrest them under false charges, hold them in compounds with out toilet on basically bread and water whilst threatening them with even worse. Even stranger those Canadians begged for the charges to be dropped rather than fighting for their day in court to prove those charges were false and nothing more than political suppression of free speech by the government.
Bush did the exact same thing, seek to silence all government paid scientists to hide the lies. So now it is up to Canadian scientists and their supporters to hold a mass protest (and take their beating prior to be arrested, imprisoned and then having the charges dropped without so much as an apology).
So who is Canada going to declare war, I betting an internal one picking on the Inuit, Metis and First Nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations where ever they obstruct ruthless exploitation of the environment and diminishing natural resources.
So how many foreign journalists will report on free open source softwarew now. How many foreign non-profits will supply and install free open source software, Within in every marketing gift from M$ there is a monopolistic lie at work.
For foreign companies in countries where licensing issues are used to seize computer, simple use free open source software, end of problem, permanently. To make sure, publicly advertiser your use of free open source and promote it.
Not only will the computers at your place of work be safe but also your computers at home.
Arse about face much. Those riots are the result of a police state and by no stretch of the imagination do peaceful protest create the police state. When the state seeks to monitor all individuals all of the time it does so with the express intent of controlling those individuals all of the time. Express an undesirable opinion and get fired, company won't fire company loses lucrative contracts. Once fired never again gain a one of the few remaining middle class jobs and if that isn't enough all your relatives also lose their opportunities.
Now add random arrests based upon circumstantial digital evidence where the penalty is the imprisonment awaiting trial and the cost of the trial followed by a whoops and a rinse and repeat for another charge (each time it is repeated under public opinion the more likely you are guilty rather than innocent, now ain't that a kicker).
A surveillance society from the top down. First the politicians, then the police and then the rich and greedy. If they can tolerate their life under surveillance 24/7 visible by general public and not end up in prison within a couple of years, than we can start talking about the rest of society. First and foremost police officers should be made to wear head mounted cameras whilst on duty and with a strict enforcement policy that they are never to commence arrest operations until the camera has been activated, with greater power comes greater responsibility and greater accountability. If the police refuse why the fuck should we accept it.
The biggest threat high bandwidth internet has politically, is an end to campaign contributions to pay for commercial broadcasting purposes. Every politician and every political party will be able to upload their message, speeches, supporting performance (on permanent record) to government hosted web sites (local, state and federal) which every citizen can freely access. No more for profit political commercials now that cripples the influence of the rich via mass media and promotes independent politicians as well as enabling smaller political parties to gain access to the electorate upon an equal basis. Additional every single sitting of any legislative body can be recorded, uploaded and accessed by anybody at any time.
Plus think of fun stuff it will enable, web hosted multi site parties, were web cams and big screen TV's can link together multiple locations around the world, for that family reunion Christmas (many sleepless day/night opportunities in there) etc.
let's be honest, the reality is it has a whole lot less to do with the FOSS that makes up the VLC player and everything to do with a free player VLC that is superior to the quick time player and it's profitable pro variant and how that all feeds into iTunes which leads to of course iPod, iPhone and IPad and the Apple content distribution tax on their hardware.
Let me remind you of the basis of copyright and patents, "TO PROMOTE THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS", not about feeding the power and greed of sociopath producers, not about producing an endless stream of shallow drunken drugged up minstrels, not about marketing as news, not about distorting the basis of society to more closely align with the deranged mores of narcissists and psychopaths that make up the content industry, not about disrupting the psychological growth of children to sell useless rubbish ie. it is not about feeding the greed of a rabid minority.
I don't have a problem with Intellectual 'Property' (the house comparison came from the property exaggeration provided by mass media marketdroids not me), if it sticks to the law. You want the protection of the law to feed your greed than adhere to the law and prove the work created, promotes the progress of science and useful arts, when it fails in that regard, than under law it should not have copyright protection, 'end of line'.
No more accurately, you walk into a shop and see a big screen TV, more than you can afford, so you don't buy it. Now as you leave the store a magician notes that you wanted the big screen TV and offers to wave his wand and create a copy as long as you pay for the cost of the raw materials that constitute the TV the IP will be free.
Now let's be honest and morally sound, who would deny the financially disadvantaged fellow a cheap copy of a big screen TV or a car, or even a house, if your going to call it intellectual property you might as well compare it to that, seriously who would deny anyone person a quick cheap copy of a home.
It is all far more subtle than this. Consider he has a whole bunch of stock options in a company which he now is going to devalue by competing against them. Powerful message to investors, ex-ceo thinks his stock options are worthless.
The flip side of this, the guy is a walking time bomb with his track record and bound to fall victim for the first bonus hungry doxy that turns up (guilty or not guilty)and, he gains another golden parachute, too boot.
Sounds like a great tool. Use Wikipedia to find the answers and then use Stanfords Encyclopaedia of Philosophy for the references, now it just needs to be extend out by other Universities into other areas of speciality.
Wikipedia still the better starting spot, easier reading (not simple but quality of readability), good links and, loads of supporting articles. Stanford's inherent error, anyone should be able to contribute but all work submitted should be subject to qualified peer reviewed prior to uploading (required detailed registration, bad articles results in extended exclusion), otherwise you come off like a bunch of stuck up wankers and you cripple the ability of the encyclopaedia to grow, beyond being a easy reference point, on limited subjects.
When it comes to quality scientific,factual output the skills of the reviewers often counts far more than the person doing the work, in ensuring accuracy and factual output.
Hint, I use the following searches, Google, Ask, AOL, IMDB, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, Creative Commons and I don't bother with Bing because I feel I have searching pretty well covered without bothering (plus it avoid getting stuck in silverfish dead ends, as I haven't bothered to install it) I use the same search drop list on windows and on Linux.
So each search has it's place, most of the time I swap to the most appropriate search site for the information I am after sometimes I'll just which ever last one I used (Ask, Aol, Google, Wikipedia). Overall best performing for me is Wikipedia, more often than not the page that comes up has all the info I was after, AOL provides more compact results and, google as default only because of http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ in conjunction with stylish http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ because it lets me filter and a disappear search engine optimising arse holes (hmm, a black list of dead end search engine optimised sites in association with optimize google would be cool).
As for anti-trust a huge stretch especially in a country where it is legal for Fox not-News to regularly lie when presenting advertising as news but, then rumour has it justice is pretty much for sale to the highest bidder in Texas.
The only realistic complaint is if google falsely misrepresents the quality of the searches provided. As for stacking search results, that is what wiped out MSN (Live/Bing/???) searches massive lead over google in the first place, truly horrendous search results with paid for placement searches that had nothing to do with your search terms kept popping up as the first results. In the end the default when using MSN search was to start looking at results from page 3 on and not even bother to look at the first two pages of results (alta vista was no better at that stage and infoseek was screwed over by M$).
If you read the article carefully you will find they http://www.walk.com.au/wtw/page.asp?PageID=207 only comment upon the lack of research, into the reason why there is an increase in pedestrian fatalities and are postulating a theory for further research. A for penalising pedestrians for being distracted, I trust you have heard of jaywalking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking. Perhaps you do not take every possible evasive measure in order to avoid striking a pedestrian who has gone astray but a lot of other people do and, those evasive measure can often lead to very bad accidents.
I would think the mobile phone is the most likely culprit, I have seen people in a near total daze oblivious to the rest of the world with their attention totally devoted to mindless texting, hmm, texting whilst mobile music player at full volume, for quite a few air heads, a sure recipe for disaster.
Keep in mind that any potential legislation ain't as much to protect the distracted ambler but to protect those innocent parties attempting to avoid running them down.
Technological solution would be to require that mobile music players be able to respond to horns and sirens and cut sound output when detected.
Real 3D not fake 2.5D, put on a pair of virtual reality glasses and rotate your head to change your perspective, you are in the scene, that is real 3D. S0 real #D will be animated and not filmed, and does require a different style of writing with a strong focus on audio (even as the focus point alters dependent upon your head position), this to keep you in the story whilst you vision wanders.
Full immersion 3D is totally tied to virtual reality glasses, anything else is just marketing hype and 2.5D, just a lame way to ramp up prices and increase profits without any real substantive changes to hardware or content, come in sucker. Not the full immersion 3D virtual reality will not be fantastic, it most certainly will be an immersive animated visual feast, but we just aren't there yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality).
Mirroring with ISP's is the best solution to limit network costs.
I always thought distributing game servers through the ISP channel with shared income (rather than payment) from game serving for MMOG, allowing alternate sales like the ISP can provide free access to game servers as part of the internet access fee (substantially increase client numbers), would be the best model.
This avoids cross network traffic and the associated cost, reduces capital infrastructure costs for MMOG publishers, creates a distributed sales and promotion channel via numerous mid-sized or larger ISPs and provides a single billing point for the end-user (saving substantive billing costs). The game publisher just needs to be able to monitor activity on those servers at the ISP to ensure accurate payments.
Lets be honest a far better strategy would have to get google video to beat youtube not to buy it. Consider this, Google management didn't think they would be able to beat youtube even if they invested $1.65 billion into google video. Personally I think the purchase had more to do with google's management not wanting to appear as losers versus youtube management, for google to buy youtube was to admit defeat.
Video is now sourced from many sites. Google's lack of income out of youtube points to it's anti-net neutrality conspiratorial deal with Verizon ie will google cripple video search (censor google search) in order to promote it's copyright distribution income and seeks to ensure this by hampering bandwidth from competing video content sites.
Underlying all of this, was the main reason to pay so much for youtube at that time was to create a false impression of the value of low income web sites in the investment market in order to promote google's own perceived value. After all google basically printed the money for the purchase by simply issuing more shares.
Google all powerful? Lost in social media, lost in video, no big winner in email, so only really wins in search. Now search is under threat now that M$ is throwing out Ballmer's bullshit and waking up to the fact that have to do the hard yards over years to gain market share ie their new street view (haven't used it not interested in dicking around with silverfish).
Lets be honest, digital is already an imperfect copy. Music is intrinsically analogue and lots of data has to be stripped away to generate a digital copy. Which is why the live performance is always the best and recorded dead music only function is to recapture the emotion of the shared live event.
In music copyrights only function nowadays seems to be greed, selling destructive ideas to impressionable children, creating lame drugged up drunken one hit wonders and of course to flood the courts with B$ legal actions. The question is, is that particular industry worth keeping or does it do more harm than good, is it more of burden upon society than a benefit?
That is the function of law, to create a uniform application of generally accepted behavioural morals, to promote the social good of the majority and to protect the individual. So you have an industry that in order to maximise profits, promotes a destructive lifestyle to the most impressionable element of human society, children. Upon that basis is that industry worth protecting, especially when it is inherently parasitical in nature consuming resources whilst providing no substantive for society.
A live music venue inherently protects itself and provides a shared participatory event and does provide benefit for society, as shared joyous social interactions promote a cohesive society (smaller venues). So truthfully speaking society is better off promoting live venues and downgrading dead music because of the inherent anti-social elements associated with it.
Never forget to add simple html and css and for coding ruby. All three provide immediate feedback upon what is being entered. The advantage of ruby over python is the interactive shell, where output can be generated for each line of code entered.
To be fair, there would no doubt be many M$ software engineers and coders know how to produce quality and secure code. It is the M$ marketdroids and bean counters who push it out the door before it is done, or cut out quality modules because it will cost money and not generate extra profits, or dismember features because they were only for marketing purposes or shunt stuff off to the next pretend version so they can sell it as a upgrade.
There are undoubtedly several cliques within M$ the useless Ballmerites of greed and B$ and the real computer geeks/nerds who enjoy what they are doing and want to take pride in their work and company (they just don't run the company or control the destiny of the software they produce).
Does that really matter. A slow down of foreign content will simply drive the production of local content. Plus network neutrality is all about open politics, maintaining an equally accessible public discourse, about gutting the ability of mass media to dominate public consciousness. That needs to work on a national level before you push it on an international level.
I'm a dreamer I envision a day when the truth is the only acceptable and legal form of advertising. Any time a company falls short of that they pay triple the profits they generated as damages and that goes into a public fund so that victims can make claims against it. In this current day and age I'd expect that fund to be worth a trillion dollars within a couple of years.
If that were the real goal then tip-jet helicopters are more likely better suited to that one person utility flight role http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0141.shtml. Last time they tried them was near fifty years ago, likely with substantially better jet engine technology and composite materials they can do a much better job of them now.
What he is saying is give your time away free now rather than 5 percent of profits from over charging for it later. In terms of karma of course giving you time counts far more that giving a portion of the proceeds of deceit (false advertising is deceit upon a grand scale).
Whilst it is nice to donate to charity you can not of course buy karma. If a doctor and their research who spent the life learning and focusing upon solving some of the humanities greatest problems comes up with a cure for a terrible disease, you can not buy that karma by funding their efforts, the only karma you gain is for supporting their life, not for the lives they save and of course beyond that the people in the field who actually applied the cure and the karma they gained.
You can not steal others people's karma that they gained by focusing upon supporting humanity or in giving away the creative efforts to the benefit of humanity, by trying to buy it with a small portion of the proceeds of countless lies (one lie broadcast to a million people is a million lies). Even worse if you tried to destroy those creative efforts that other people gave away freely for the benefit of humanity because it did not suit your lust for even more money. You really think you can buy off a living universe after that especially when some of that almost 'donated' but still controlled by the 'philanthropist' ends up doing harm rather than good, fed by the attitude that they know better than hundreds of millions of lesser people (not as successful 'er' greedy).
As tech spy, meant be good with computer. Mouse unplug, USB drive insert, reboot, bios change, boot from USB, OS on USB, very special do what you need to do nothing more, be quite and hide on network (plenty gigs), get data leave virus in bios (much cool), reboot, plug in mouse, done. The worst thing about this, most bioses have back-door passwords, arghhh.
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As with the US each state in Australia is different, it would appear that http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/index.html the maintainer of Western Australia certificate of titles in the rush to cost efficient digitisation and fee earning opportunities has gotten a little lose in protecting a persons title but then for an extra fee http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/TitleWatch they male sure no one sneaks up on land and sells it out from underneath them.
Some states provide a copy of certificate of title as a legal document that must be handed in an transferred across (Western Australia do a duplicate of title but charge extra for it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title, I did design and construct, commercial and industrial property development evaluations on thousands of properties.
What I do or do not own is of course not for forum consumption. So, hmm, what is your social security number and what are the addresses of the land you own and what is your full name (don't worry about email et al I and many others can get the rest ourselves).
Then of course all ownership is an illusion. The citizens via the government grant control. Ding bat, if you really owned your land in full and clear title, you could sell your country to other countries and eventually you would be a citizen of nowhere. Controls are required, planing requirements for a start to ensure what you do to your property does not affect the neighbourhood property values or the quality of life of your neighbours. You are a citizen of your whole country not just the bits that haven't been privatised.
There is far more to it than email, "It is alleged scammers had stolen Mildenhall's email account and personal and property documents". There had to direct proximate contact, they obtained personal and property documents. The email angle seems to be more of a beat up by ZDnet rather than being of any real significance.
Investor generally keep property titles in a private safe or a bank safety deposit box but, he didn't notice them gone.
Hmm, strange had investments house and his agent was not renting them and the owner didn't notice the missing rent income if the agent was renting them. The whole thing stinks, from the owner, to the agent and beyond. It will be interesting to see how the case pans out over the next few months.
Canadians are always so uptight about trying to outdo the USians but to stick in a political asshat that will out do Bush, what were you guys thinking. Bush isolated protesters in defined areas, Harper did the same, the only reason there was no chain wire around them was it made in easier for the riot squad to get in there, beat them up, arrest them under false charges, hold them in compounds with out toilet on basically bread and water whilst threatening them with even worse. Even stranger those Canadians begged for the charges to be dropped rather than fighting for their day in court to prove those charges were false and nothing more than political suppression of free speech by the government.
Bush did the exact same thing, seek to silence all government paid scientists to hide the lies. So now it is up to Canadian scientists and their supporters to hold a mass protest (and take their beating prior to be arrested, imprisoned and then having the charges dropped without so much as an apology).
So who is Canada going to declare war, I betting an internal one picking on the Inuit, Metis and First Nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations where ever they obstruct ruthless exploitation of the environment and diminishing natural resources.
So how many foreign journalists will report on free open source softwarew now. How many foreign non-profits will supply and install free open source software, Within in every marketing gift from M$ there is a monopolistic lie at work.
For foreign companies in countries where licensing issues are used to seize computer, simple use free open source software, end of problem, permanently. To make sure, publicly advertiser your use of free open source and promote it.
Not only will the computers at your place of work be safe but also your computers at home.
Arse about face much. Those riots are the result of a police state and by no stretch of the imagination do peaceful protest create the police state. When the state seeks to monitor all individuals all of the time it does so with the express intent of controlling those individuals all of the time. Express an undesirable opinion and get fired, company won't fire company loses lucrative contracts. Once fired never again gain a one of the few remaining middle class jobs and if that isn't enough all your relatives also lose their opportunities.
Now add random arrests based upon circumstantial digital evidence where the penalty is the imprisonment awaiting trial and the cost of the trial followed by a whoops and a rinse and repeat for another charge (each time it is repeated under public opinion the more likely you are guilty rather than innocent, now ain't that a kicker).
A surveillance society from the top down. First the politicians, then the police and then the rich and greedy. If they can tolerate their life under surveillance 24/7 visible by general public and not end up in prison within a couple of years, than we can start talking about the rest of society. First and foremost police officers should be made to wear head mounted cameras whilst on duty and with a strict enforcement policy that they are never to commence arrest operations until the camera has been activated, with greater power comes greater responsibility and greater accountability. If the police refuse why the fuck should we accept it.
Go here http://abc.com.au/ and then here http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/all/search/2E7F5179D6598E8DCA2574730019A00B. As for fibre broadband network legislation is required to enable it, and unless language stipulating censorship is included then it can't happen and that legislation is amended. Government departments can not act outside of legislation unless that legislation incorporates that out of bounds operation, as for freedom of speech in Australia that is more complex http://www.aph.gov.au/LIBRARY/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn42.htm.
The biggest threat high bandwidth internet has politically, is an end to campaign contributions to pay for commercial broadcasting purposes. Every politician and every political party will be able to upload their message, speeches, supporting performance (on permanent record) to government hosted web sites (local, state and federal) which every citizen can freely access. No more for profit political commercials now that cripples the influence of the rich via mass media and promotes independent politicians as well as enabling smaller political parties to gain access to the electorate upon an equal basis. Additional every single sitting of any legislative body can be recorded, uploaded and accessed by anybody at any time.
Plus think of fun stuff it will enable, web hosted multi site parties, were web cams and big screen TV's can link together multiple locations around the world, for that family reunion Christmas (many sleepless day/night opportunities in there) etc.
let's be honest, the reality is it has a whole lot less to do with the FOSS that makes up the VLC player and everything to do with a free player VLC that is superior to the quick time player and it's profitable pro variant and how that all feeds into iTunes which leads to of course iPod, iPhone and IPad and the Apple content distribution tax on their hardware.
Question can you get quick time alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm at the apple store ;)?
Let me remind you of the basis of copyright and patents, "TO PROMOTE THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS", not about feeding the power and greed of sociopath producers, not about producing an endless stream of shallow drunken drugged up minstrels, not about marketing as news, not about distorting the basis of society to more closely align with the deranged mores of narcissists and psychopaths that make up the content industry, not about disrupting the psychological growth of children to sell useless rubbish ie. it is not about feeding the greed of a rabid minority.
I don't have a problem with Intellectual 'Property' (the house comparison came from the property exaggeration provided by mass media marketdroids not me), if it sticks to the law. You want the protection of the law to feed your greed than adhere to the law and prove the work created, promotes the progress of science and useful arts, when it fails in that regard, than under law it should not have copyright protection, 'end of line'.
No more accurately, you walk into a shop and see a big screen TV, more than you can afford, so you don't buy it. Now as you leave the store a magician notes that you wanted the big screen TV and offers to wave his wand and create a copy as long as you pay for the cost of the raw materials that constitute the TV the IP will be free.
Now let's be honest and morally sound, who would deny the financially disadvantaged fellow a cheap copy of a big screen TV or a car, or even a house, if your going to call it intellectual property you might as well compare it to that, seriously who would deny anyone person a quick cheap copy of a home.
It is all far more subtle than this. Consider he has a whole bunch of stock options in a company which he now is going to devalue by competing against them. Powerful message to investors, ex-ceo thinks his stock options are worthless.
The flip side of this, the guy is a walking time bomb with his track record and bound to fall victim for the first bonus hungry doxy that turns up (guilty or not guilty)and, he gains another golden parachute, too boot.
Sounds like a great tool. Use Wikipedia to find the answers and then use Stanfords Encyclopaedia of Philosophy for the references, now it just needs to be extend out by other Universities into other areas of speciality.
Wikipedia still the better starting spot, easier reading (not simple but quality of readability), good links and, loads of supporting articles. Stanford's inherent error, anyone should be able to contribute but all work submitted should be subject to qualified peer reviewed prior to uploading (required detailed registration, bad articles results in extended exclusion), otherwise you come off like a bunch of stuck up wankers and you cripple the ability of the encyclopaedia to grow, beyond being a easy reference point, on limited subjects.
When it comes to quality scientific,factual output the skills of the reviewers often counts far more than the person doing the work, in ensuring accuracy and factual output.
Hint, I use the following searches, Google, Ask, AOL, IMDB, Wiktionary, Wikipedia, Creative Commons and I don't bother with Bing because I feel I have searching pretty well covered without bothering (plus it avoid getting stuck in silverfish dead ends, as I haven't bothered to install it) I use the same search drop list on windows and on Linux.
So each search has it's place, most of the time I swap to the most appropriate search site for the information I am after sometimes I'll just which ever last one I used (Ask, Aol, Google, Wikipedia). Overall best performing for me is Wikipedia, more often than not the page that comes up has all the info I was after, AOL provides more compact results and, google as default only because of http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ in conjunction with stylish http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ because it lets me filter and a disappear search engine optimising arse holes (hmm, a black list of dead end search engine optimised sites in association with optimize google would be cool).
As for anti-trust a huge stretch especially in a country where it is legal for Fox not-News to regularly lie when presenting advertising as news but, then rumour has it justice is pretty much for sale to the highest bidder in Texas.
The only realistic complaint is if google falsely misrepresents the quality of the searches provided. As for stacking search results, that is what wiped out MSN (Live/Bing/???) searches massive lead over google in the first place, truly horrendous search results with paid for placement searches that had nothing to do with your search terms kept popping up as the first results. In the end the default when using MSN search was to start looking at results from page 3 on and not even bother to look at the first two pages of results (alta vista was no better at that stage and infoseek was screwed over by M$).
If you read the article carefully you will find they http://www.walk.com.au/wtw/page.asp?PageID=207 only comment upon the lack of research, into the reason why there is an increase in pedestrian fatalities and are postulating a theory for further research. A for penalising pedestrians for being distracted, I trust you have heard of jaywalking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking. Perhaps you do not take every possible evasive measure in order to avoid striking a pedestrian who has gone astray but a lot of other people do and, those evasive measure can often lead to very bad accidents.
I would think the mobile phone is the most likely culprit, I have seen people in a near total daze oblivious to the rest of the world with their attention totally devoted to mindless texting, hmm, texting whilst mobile music player at full volume, for quite a few air heads, a sure recipe for disaster.
Keep in mind that any potential legislation ain't as much to protect the distracted ambler but to protect those innocent parties attempting to avoid running them down.
Technological solution would be to require that mobile music players be able to respond to horns and sirens and cut sound output when detected.
Real 3D not fake 2.5D, put on a pair of virtual reality glasses and rotate your head to change your perspective, you are in the scene, that is real 3D. S0 real #D will be animated and not filmed, and does require a different style of writing with a strong focus on audio (even as the focus point alters dependent upon your head position), this to keep you in the story whilst you vision wanders.
Full immersion 3D is totally tied to virtual reality glasses, anything else is just marketing hype and 2.5D, just a lame way to ramp up prices and increase profits without any real substantive changes to hardware or content, come in sucker. Not the full immersion 3D virtual reality will not be fantastic, it most certainly will be an immersive animated visual feast, but we just aren't there yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality).
Just find a patch mirror an agreeable ISP like http://games.on.net/filelist.php?app=178&menu=1, not sure how up to date this is I don't WOW.
Mirroring with ISP's is the best solution to limit network costs.
I always thought distributing game servers through the ISP channel with shared income (rather than payment) from game serving for MMOG, allowing alternate sales like the ISP can provide free access to game servers as part of the internet access fee (substantially increase client numbers), would be the best model.
This avoids cross network traffic and the associated cost, reduces capital infrastructure costs for MMOG publishers, creates a distributed sales and promotion channel via numerous mid-sized or larger ISPs and provides a single billing point for the end-user (saving substantive billing costs). The game publisher just needs to be able to monitor activity on those servers at the ISP to ensure accurate payments.
Lets be honest a far better strategy would have to get google video to beat youtube not to buy it. Consider this, Google management didn't think they would be able to beat youtube even if they invested $1.65 billion into google video. Personally I think the purchase had more to do with google's management not wanting to appear as losers versus youtube management, for google to buy youtube was to admit defeat.
Video is now sourced from many sites. Google's lack of income out of youtube points to it's anti-net neutrality conspiratorial deal with Verizon ie will google cripple video search (censor google search) in order to promote it's copyright distribution income and seeks to ensure this by hampering bandwidth from competing video content sites.
Underlying all of this, was the main reason to pay so much for youtube at that time was to create a false impression of the value of low income web sites in the investment market in order to promote google's own perceived value. After all google basically printed the money for the purchase by simply issuing more shares.
Google all powerful? Lost in social media, lost in video, no big winner in email, so only really wins in search. Now search is under threat now that M$ is throwing out Ballmer's bullshit and waking up to the fact that have to do the hard yards over years to gain market share ie their new street view (haven't used it not interested in dicking around with silverfish).
Lets be honest, digital is already an imperfect copy. Music is intrinsically analogue and lots of data has to be stripped away to generate a digital copy. Which is why the live performance is always the best and recorded dead music only function is to recapture the emotion of the shared live event.
In music copyrights only function nowadays seems to be greed, selling destructive ideas to impressionable children, creating lame drugged up drunken one hit wonders and of course to flood the courts with B$ legal actions. The question is, is that particular industry worth keeping or does it do more harm than good, is it more of burden upon society than a benefit?
That is the function of law, to create a uniform application of generally accepted behavioural morals, to promote the social good of the majority and to protect the individual. So you have an industry that in order to maximise profits, promotes a destructive lifestyle to the most impressionable element of human society, children. Upon that basis is that industry worth protecting, especially when it is inherently parasitical in nature consuming resources whilst providing no substantive for society.
A live music venue inherently protects itself and provides a shared participatory event and does provide benefit for society, as shared joyous social interactions promote a cohesive society (smaller venues). So truthfully speaking society is better off promoting live venues and downgrading dead music because of the inherent anti-social elements associated with it.
Never forget to add simple html and css and for coding ruby. All three provide immediate feedback upon what is being entered. The advantage of ruby over python is the interactive shell, where output can be generated for each line of code entered.
To be fair, there would no doubt be many M$ software engineers and coders know how to produce quality and secure code. It is the M$ marketdroids and bean counters who push it out the door before it is done, or cut out quality modules because it will cost money and not generate extra profits, or dismember features because they were only for marketing purposes or shunt stuff off to the next pretend version so they can sell it as a upgrade.
There are undoubtedly several cliques within M$ the useless Ballmerites of greed and B$ and the real computer geeks/nerds who enjoy what they are doing and want to take pride in their work and company (they just don't run the company or control the destiny of the software they produce).
Does that really matter. A slow down of foreign content will simply drive the production of local content. Plus network neutrality is all about open politics, maintaining an equally accessible public discourse, about gutting the ability of mass media to dominate public consciousness. That needs to work on a national level before you push it on an international level.
I'm a dreamer I envision a day when the truth is the only acceptable and legal form of advertising. Any time a company falls short of that they pay triple the profits they generated as damages and that goes into a public fund so that victims can make claims against it. In this current day and age I'd expect that fund to be worth a trillion dollars within a couple of years.
If that were the real goal then tip-jet helicopters are more likely better suited to that one person utility flight role http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0141.shtml. Last time they tried them was near fifty years ago, likely with substantially better jet engine technology and composite materials they can do a much better job of them now.
What he is saying is give your time away free now rather than 5 percent of profits from over charging for it later. In terms of karma of course giving you time counts far more that giving a portion of the proceeds of deceit (false advertising is deceit upon a grand scale).
Whilst it is nice to donate to charity you can not of course buy karma. If a doctor and their research who spent the life learning and focusing upon solving some of the humanities greatest problems comes up with a cure for a terrible disease, you can not buy that karma by funding their efforts, the only karma you gain is for supporting their life, not for the lives they save and of course beyond that the people in the field who actually applied the cure and the karma they gained.
You can not steal others people's karma that they gained by focusing upon supporting humanity or in giving away the creative efforts to the benefit of humanity, by trying to buy it with a small portion of the proceeds of countless lies (one lie broadcast to a million people is a million lies). Even worse if you tried to destroy those creative efforts that other people gave away freely for the benefit of humanity because it did not suit your lust for even more money. You really think you can buy off a living universe after that especially when some of that almost 'donated' but still controlled by the 'philanthropist' ends up doing harm rather than good, fed by the attitude that they know better than hundreds of millions of lesser people (not as successful 'er' greedy).
As tech spy, meant be good with computer. Mouse unplug, USB drive insert, reboot, bios change, boot from USB, OS on USB, very special do what you need to do nothing more, be quite and hide on network (plenty gigs), get data leave virus in bios (much cool), reboot, plug in mouse, done. The worst thing about this, most bioses have back-door passwords, arghhh.