All Google has to do is BECOME a music label, by offering better contracts, more royalties, better artists rights, world wide reach, world wide digital distribution. Add DRM free any-platform playable formats via a free on-line music locker. Allow you to download to any device having your Google credentials installed, and stop worrying about the piracy. Partner with music stores (remember them?) or Best-Buy type geek stores or Walmart, for burn-to-cd (or stick, or MicroSD) while you wait for those people wanting physical media without doing it themselves.
Sign a few big names, and watch people jump ship from the labels. Artists are just as sick of the Labels as the rest of us.
Few companies have Google's reach. They are about the only company that could do this, but even they would need partners for world wide direct to media outlets. At least until they put up Google Media Kiosks in every mall.
Oh, so you'd link to an older version and that version only. Not a bad idea.
Hmm... now if only there was some way of making a backup of the most relevant PART of that document, instead of having to have a copy of the entire original document.
As far as I know, every EVDO and UMTS mobile phone on earth is effectively firewalled by carriers who won't forward inbound traffic anyway, so mobile phones might as *well* be NAT'ed since having a public IP address does them no good, anyway.
Mobile Phones ARE NATed as far as I know. MY UMTS-ATT phone has a 10.11.x.x IP no matter where I am.
The non-forward of inbound traffic is pretty much a godsend if you ask me. I can't imagine the howl of protest for being forced to pay bandwidth charges for every script-kiddy trying to hack my phone. The Sleeping TCP socket trick used by various push services from Apple/Google/Exchange, et al, accomplishes what is needed in terms of inbound traffic.
Look, there's nothing Blackberry can do about it and it's not their job. It's not like they would be able to fight it if USA was the same. It's the people in general who will need to deal with their governments, not some single random company that is just selling products for the market. Stop being childish and stop these immature comments. If you want, YOU go change those governments minds.
You are right that in the end, its not their job, but security and privacy has been one of their central claims for years and years. They have in the past made promises they they couldn't keep. These days are quietly backing off of these claims, you no longer see them, and are just like any other smartphone provider.
Tthey are starting to put the proper perspective on it, buried deep in their FAQ:
Is it necessary to use S/MIME or PGP to make the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution secure?
All messages sent between BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server are encrypted. However, once a message goes to the mail server outside the corporate firewall, it’s sent over the Internet. This is exactly what happens when you send an unencrypted message from a desktop or laptop computer.
The S/MIME and PGP solutions provide sender-to-recipient security from the moment a message leaves a BlackBerry smartphone to the moment it reaches its destination. This ensures the message can’t be read or modified anywhere along the way.
Note that even the above is not technically true once you leave your campus.
In the real world, this is the responsibility of the end-user. If Mr. Traveling Businessman doesn't know enough to use a mailer with PGP then he shouldn't be trusted with anything secret.
You don't need to seize domain names to do that. The ISP wants the sniffers rooted out just as much as the victims. Don't kid yourself into believing the DOJ/FBI have enough people to actually run a Domain so that no one would notice its been taken over.
Seizing the domain name has been totally ineffective to date, serving more as a club to beat hapless ISPs than anything else. Its one thing when you have a pirate warz site. But seizures are now used when ever there is a case with anything to do with the internet. Even entire hosting companies can be seized with nothing but a bit of paper work.
This is a total waste of time. Half the ones they seize are innocent bystanders. The rest are replaced for $16 bucks at some sleezey registrar. Probably most are simply decoys and the ones of real importance are out of country.
Perhaps the Defense contractor whined, and that finally got the Fed's attention, but it seems to me that various private initiatives (like those by Microsoft and others) have been way out ahead of this.
Why not audit that Defense Contractor's IT procedures and practices. A bot net owning one of their boxes? Seriously?
Or a cheap chicken wire mesh that the birds could see over each mirror. It would cut light reflection slightly. But for 70 birds over two years it might not be worth the cost.
This study was done at Nevada Solar One, which has water cooling ponds. If you don't expose those ponds you reduce a lot of attraction for the birds.
Just drove thru there last week, and there was hardly any. My frame of reference was summer time anywhere in the midwest or south, where I have seen windshields become opaque in two seconds flat.
You simply never see large groups of fly catching birds in the desert. I've never seen a swallow there. Buzzards aplenty. But no flying bug catchers.
And if you read it, it says 81% of the deaths were because of birds flying into the structure (broken mandibles), apparently mistaking mirrors for blue sky. There were 13 birds total that got singed because of entering the "standby points", patches of sky, where mirrors are focused when NOT in use. Simply dispersing these focus points solves this problem.
Your average flat roadway kills more birds in 6 month than this entire facility in 3 years.
Nobody who is poor or living paycheque to paycheque NEEDS mobile data. I would argue they don't need cell phones at all but that's neither here nor there.
Tell me, where is the nearest payphone booth? I don't know what it is like where you live but here in Canada, the only payphones that seem to still exists are in airports and shopping malls. It is expected that almost anyone can have a talk and text cell phone. Mobile data is not something that the poor should consider even using.
The grand parent was talking about MOBILE DATA. You are talking about PHONE CALLS.
See the difference?
Text is not considered mobile data. Even el-cheapo feature phones have text. Email, web surfing, multimedia are mobile data.
Personally, I think as far as math education should go, the more crippled, the better. The most advanced calculators make kids dependent on them when learning. Let's let them use calculators that can only give them the most basic info like a replacement for Trig tables or for basic calculation. Anything more and the kids will learn more about the calculator and less about the subject.
Except you get out in the real world and the last thing you want is your engineer pulling formulae from their (faulty) memory when they are already available in the computers they will be using. Maybe we should teach people to do things the way we actually do things in real life. Nobody teaches doing basic arithmetic with a piece of charcoal on the back of a shovel any more.
Knowing WHAT formula to use is key. Memorizing its details is not.
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Your argument seems to be that it must always and everywhere be as it is today.
If that is your view, there is no point discussing the issue with you, and you have no basis for complaint about the status quo.
Promoters and tour organizers are not the evil portion of the music industry, nor are they usually employees. They are usually separate companies.
Not every segment or every person in the music industry is evil.
Right, because google never fronts money for anything? Rolls eyes...
Why buy an empty shell?
Say they didn't buy ANY labels. Why bother?
Out compete them.
You've made no vargument as to why what I described won't work.
Why buy what is broken?
All Google has to do is BECOME a music label, by offering better contracts, more royalties, better artists rights, world wide reach, world wide digital distribution. Add DRM free any-platform playable formats via a free on-line music locker. Allow you to download to any device having your Google credentials installed, and stop worrying about the piracy. Partner with music stores (remember them?) or Best-Buy type geek stores or Walmart, for burn-to-cd (or stick, or MicroSD) while you wait for those people wanting physical media without doing it themselves.
Sign a few big names, and watch people jump ship from the labels. Artists are just as sick of the Labels as the rest of us.
Few companies have Google's reach. They are about the only company that could do this, but even they would need partners for world wide direct to media outlets. At least until they put up Google Media Kiosks in every mall.
And it must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter.
That ought to be enough to melt the glass, don't you think?
Oh, so you'd link to an older version and that version only.
Not a bad idea.
Hmm... now if only there was some way of making a backup
of the most relevant PART of that document, instead of
having to have a copy of the entire original document.
-AI
Do you suppose you could use quotations?
NAH, what am I thinking!? That would never work.
I can't find the IP
Try dialing *#*#4636#*#* then select Phone Info, and it will probably be listed in there.
As far as I know, every EVDO and UMTS mobile phone on earth is effectively firewalled by carriers who won't forward inbound traffic anyway, so mobile phones might as *well* be NAT'ed since having a public IP address does them no good, anyway.
Mobile Phones ARE NATed as far as I know. MY UMTS-ATT phone has a 10.11.x.x IP no matter where I am.
The non-forward of inbound traffic is pretty much a godsend if you ask me. I can't imagine the howl of protest for being forced to pay bandwidth charges for every script-kiddy trying to hack my phone. The Sleeping TCP socket trick used by various push services from Apple/Google/Exchange, et al, accomplishes what is needed in terms of inbound traffic.
Look, there's nothing Blackberry can do about it and it's not their job. It's not like they would be able to fight it if USA was the same. It's the people in general who will need to deal with their governments, not some single random company that is just selling products for the market. Stop being childish and stop these immature comments. If you want, YOU go change those governments minds.
You are right that in the end, its not their job, but security and privacy has been one of their central claims for years and years. They have in the past made promises they they couldn't keep. These days are quietly backing off of these claims, you no longer see them, and are just like any other smartphone provider.
Tthey are starting to put the proper perspective on it, buried deep in their FAQ:
Is it necessary to use S/MIME or PGP to make the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution secure?
All messages sent between BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server are encrypted. However, once a message goes to the mail server outside the corporate firewall, it’s sent over the Internet. This is exactly what happens when you send an unencrypted message from a desktop or laptop computer.
The S/MIME and PGP solutions provide sender-to-recipient security from the moment a message leaves a BlackBerry smartphone to the moment it reaches its destination. This ensures the message can’t be read or modified anywhere along the way.
Note that even the above is not technically true once you leave your campus.
In the real world, this is the responsibility of the end-user. If Mr. Traveling Businessman doesn't know enough to use a mailer with PGP then he shouldn't be trusted with anything secret.
You don't need to seize domain names to do that. The ISP wants the sniffers rooted out just as much as the victims.
Don't kid yourself into believing the DOJ/FBI have enough people to actually run a Domain so that no one would notice
its been taken over.
Seizing the domain name has been totally ineffective to date, serving more as a club to beat hapless ISPs than anything else.
Its one thing when you have a pirate warz site. But seizures are now used when ever there is a case with anything to do
with the internet. Even entire hosting companies can be seized with nothing but a bit of paper work.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/91460/law-professor-points-out-flaws-in-us-domain-seizure-campaign/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110314/01204913484/more-reasons-why-homeland-security-seizing-domain-names-is-unconstitutional.shtml
This is a total waste of time.
Half the ones they seize are innocent bystanders. The rest are replaced for $16 bucks at some sleezey registrar. Probably most are simply
decoys and the ones of real importance are out of country.
Perhaps the Defense contractor whined, and that finally got the Fed's attention, but it seems to me that various private initiatives (like those by Microsoft and others) have been way out ahead of this.
Why not audit that Defense Contractor's IT procedures and practices. A bot net owning one of their boxes? Seriously?
Non of which matter for a solar array, but is very important when considering windmills.
Or Not.
The Windmill kills Birds data is largely due to outdated technology no longer being deployed.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/common_misconce.php
Just watching western US wind farms you notice that the modern blades are turning so slow that even an impact with a bird would probably not kill it.
Or a cheap chicken wire mesh that the birds could see over each mirror. It would cut light reflection slightly.
But for 70 birds over two years it might not be worth the cost.
This study was done at Nevada Solar One, which has water cooling ponds.
If you don't expose those ponds you reduce a lot of attraction for the birds.
Right, 40 weeks spread out over two years.
Their scavenger removal studies were highly suspect, because they conducted most of them outside the fenced area, where coyotes have free roam.
Just drove thru there last week, and there was hardly any. My frame of reference was summer time anywhere in the midwest or south, where I have seen windshields become opaque in two seconds flat.
You simply never see large groups of fly catching birds in the desert. I've never seen a swallow there. Buzzards aplenty. But no flying bug catchers.
He said birds LIKE insects, not birds ARE like insects.
But There are virtually no flying insects in the Mojave, and bugs are only attracted to insects at night when the sun is down.
Blasted?
Sand storms aren't all that common in most of the the Mojave.
Its mostly a bunch of cheap mirrors. Replace them when needed.
Easily lost in the Mojave. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Right. 70 birds over 3.3 years.
And if you read it, it says 81% of the deaths were because of birds flying into the structure (broken mandibles), apparently mistaking mirrors for blue sky. There were 13 birds total that got singed because of entering the "standby points", patches of sky, where mirrors are focused when NOT in use. Simply dispersing these focus points solves this problem.
Your average flat roadway kills more birds in 6 month than this entire facility in 3 years.
Nobody who is poor or living paycheque to paycheque NEEDS mobile data. I would argue they don't need cell phones at all but that's neither here nor there.
Tell me, where is the nearest payphone booth? I don't know what it is like where you live but here in Canada, the only payphones that seem to still exists are in airports and shopping malls. It is expected that almost anyone can have a talk and text cell phone. Mobile data is not something that the poor should consider even using.
The grand parent was talking about MOBILE DATA.
You are talking about PHONE CALLS.
See the difference?
Text is not considered mobile data. Even el-cheapo feature phones have text. Email, web surfing, multimedia are mobile data.
If you make the collection of social security numbers a felony I guarantee you the banks would stop doing it.
No, they wouldn't.
Banks are REQUIRED to have an ssn on file these days.
because Texas Instruments has lobbied very successfully to keep it that way.
Precisely WHO would TI lobby?
Personally, I think as far as math education should go, the more crippled, the better. The most advanced calculators make kids dependent on them when learning. Let's let them use calculators that can only give them the most basic info like a replacement for Trig tables or for basic calculation. Anything more and the kids will learn more about the calculator and less about the subject.
Except you get out in the real world and the last thing you want is your engineer pulling formulae from their (faulty) memory when they are already available in the computers they will be using. Maybe we should teach people to do things the way we actually do things in real life. Nobody teaches doing basic arithmetic with a piece of charcoal on the back of a shovel any more.
Knowing WHAT formula to use is key. Memorizing its details is not.