The restrictions are EXACTLY the same as Barnes and Noble nook supports, and they are dictated by the Publishers.
Publishers seem to think they can control an Ebook after the sale to the end consumer. Until a court slaps them down, you have to live with the restrictions.
With a Nook can borrow and read library books. So far, the Publishers haven't found a way to prevent that.
Yes, and Adobe Photoshop could be modified to become a program that indoctrinates me in Marxist philosophy. What's the point? That a user installing an application needs to trust its source? This has been true ever since there has been third party software.
Shame on Slashdot for pushing this.
And shame on Trustwave for shilling for Apple. I'd like to follow the money, but we'll never get the chance.
Can you buy any computer on the market with only 40 gig in it anymore?
Look, the only way tiny hard drives make sense is for Grandma who doesn't use computers for anything but email and web surfing. Apple is intent on pushing these people to the cloud with iPads and diskless notebooks, and you could make a good case that the cloud is exactly where some of these people belong.
But that also imposes a network burden and cost that not everyone can afford. Streaming everything is just wrong on so many levels, and doing it today in spite of current rock bottom storage (spinning) prices is crazy - but I digress.
In a corporate world fast booting SSD machines can latch onto the network for all of their storage needs, thats fine, because the corporate net can probably handle the load.
But for the computer savvy home user or small developer, with a significant music collection, a ton of video, photos, and a couple major projects to work on, SSD is not going to cut it at today's prices when compared to spinning disks. Too small. Too expensive. To fragile.
Unfortunately, the small business is HIGHLY unlikely to have any of the skill set to get asterisk running, negotiate the Voip mine-field, and not lose calls and voice mail, and generate crippling telephone disruption for the entire business.
The benefits it offers just start to make it worth while at about 25 users or so, due to the falling prices of cat5 phone systems which you can pick up for pretty cheap these days, especially on the used market.
Asterisk is probably not really warranted until you have a hundred desks or so, and only then if you happen to have a fairly good geek on staff.
It is scalable, but not for the entry level technician unless all you want it to do is handle voice mail.
at the moment... When the lockdown is actually in place...
When even those screaming FUD are lacing their posts with tacit admission of the inevitable its time to run away from this platform like your hair is on fire.
But, I would be truly peeved to learn that anyone was sitting out in the street and recording traffic for any significant period of time. You want to "glance" at my traffic the same way a regular person would "glance" into my house windows while walking down the sidewalk, that's reasonable.
Driving down the street at 25MPH would seem to fall into your definition of reasonable. No?
Google didn't sit outside of your house. That was probably the local cops you saw out there.
Google just drove down the road, with its well marked car, at just under the speed limit. Once. Months ago.
Canada, bastion of privacy, ordered google to turn over all that data, email addresses, passwords, credit cards, chat log snippits and all to the Canadian Government.
So tell me again about how privacy is protected in Canada? Oh, by entrusting it all to the government.
Tell you what, Mr Bad Analogy Guy, you move all your valuables out onto the middle of the street tonight and leave them there for a week for all passers by to peruse and see how much is still there next friday.
There is no expectation of privacy for things you broadcast to the world at large.
They did not Break into anything. They drove down the street, with their windows rolled down listening, and idiots like you were busy shouting your credit card numbers and sexual orientation from the curb side.
Google screwed up here, accidentally capturing all of this data. Why they didn't just delete it, rather than doing this whole "hair shirt" thing is more than a bit weird.
The hand wringers and tin foil hat crowd would be up in arms when it was found out that some data was captured, and then the evidence destroyed.
I'm sure the temptation was there to dump it and move on. But "Don't Be Evil" won the day and they did the right thing.
Unfortunately, The governments involved (looking at you Canada) demanded the data, instead of telling Google to simply purge all Canadian data. Now all those passwords and email snippets are owned by the Canadian Government. And there are no clear limits to what they can do with them.
Google is a big company full of a lot of really smart people. How is it that none of them analyzed the process or the results during the 'testing phase' to determine they might just get this type of data? Their intentions may not have been 'evil' but negligence is no excuse. Not acting to prevent this type of data being gathered in the first place is 'evil' enough.
Must we really rehash that here just for you?
Howbout using something to search the intewebs and find out how this happened. You could maybe use something like Google?
It was a very low level beacon capture that stored too much data by accident. But because it did capture the beacon packets (and because that is all google was interested in) the fact that more than beacons were picked up in clear text from people too stupid to secure their routers wasn't even noticed.
How is this any different than what was revealed when this story first broke.
Google reported this from DAY ONE, and rather than sweeping it under the rug they tattled on themselves, and asked world governments what they should do with the data rather than simply destroying it.
THERE IS ABSOLUTE NOTHING NEW IN THIS STORY.
Just because you are late to the party don't assume nothing happened prior to your arrival.
Look, everyone agrees this is legal. Many are just saying it's not right -- not for people who claim to do no evil at least.
No, that's not at all what people are saying. Read the replies in this thread.
People are actually suggesting google should pay taxes it is not required to pay, just because they are google. They should just make up some huge number and mail in a check, and never mind what the tax codes in these countries actually require.
What google did is both LEGAL and RIGHT. If it weren't Ireland would be all over google's case. If google just decided to dump huge piles of cash on Ireland their share holders would have been defrauded.
The law is what we as a society AGREE is RIGHT. The law defines what society AGREES is JUST.
When Ireland no longer feels its JUST or RIGHT they will change their laws.
Google gives back to the community great deal. Far more in total than any company I know of. In addition to free services to everyone in the world, financed out of advertising revenue, they have their own Philanthropy.
They transfer their foreign earnings from SOME countries there AFTER complying with the tax laws of those countries.
If Ireland doesn't like this, Ireland can change its laws. But if Ireland is ok with this, then what is your problem?
Should google pay Ireland more money than their tax code requires? How much more? How should they compute it?
Google pays all the US taxes they are obligated to pay. READ THE ARTICLE. This is about earnings overseas, which are kept overseas, not about earnings in the US.
How much additional taxes, above what is required by law, did you contribute last year?
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The restrictions are EXACTLY the same as Barnes and Noble nook supports, and they are dictated by the Publishers.
Publishers seem to think they can control an Ebook after the sale to the end consumer. Until a court slaps them down, you have to live with the restrictions.
With a Nook can borrow and read library books. So far, the Publishers haven't found a way to prevent that.
Yes, and Adobe Photoshop could be modified to become a program that indoctrinates me in Marxist philosophy. What's the point? That a user installing an application needs to trust its source? This has been true ever since there has been third party software.
Shame on Slashdot for pushing this.
And shame on Trustwave for shilling for Apple.
I'd like to follow the money, but we'll never get the chance.
I'll be able to do one more mouse click every three weeks or so.
Yes it's pretty small improvement. The worst part is that the rest of the Firefox rendering engine is so slow that changes of this scale will be lost.
But you sir, are a geek. /tips hat/.
And presumably no one paid for your time.
Can you buy any computer on the market with only 40 gig in it anymore?
Look, the only way tiny hard drives make sense is for Grandma who doesn't use computers for anything but email and web surfing. Apple is intent on pushing these people to the cloud with iPads and diskless notebooks, and you could make a good case that the cloud is exactly where some of these people belong.
But that also imposes a network burden and cost that not everyone can afford. Streaming everything is just wrong on so many levels, and doing it today in spite of current rock bottom storage (spinning) prices is crazy - but I digress.
In a corporate world fast booting SSD machines can latch onto the network for all of their storage needs, thats fine, because the corporate net can probably handle the load.
But for the computer savvy home user or small developer, with a significant music collection, a ton of video, photos, and a couple major projects to work on, SSD is not going to cut it at today's prices when compared to spinning disks. Too small. Too expensive. To fragile.
40 Gig? My phone has 40 Gig.
Yeah, I wondered about that too.
Why does this company have a penchant for introducing weird engine technology and then abandoning it.
Wankel just sort of slipped quietly away in the night. Nobody knew how to fix them, and they always needed fixing.
You don't suppose the difference of 7 months between those two articles had anything to do with that do you?
Unfortunately, the small business is HIGHLY unlikely to have any of the skill set to get asterisk running, negotiate the Voip mine-field, and not lose calls and voice mail, and generate crippling telephone disruption for the entire business.
The benefits it offers just start to make it worth while at about 25 users or so, due to the falling prices of cat5 phone systems which you can pick up for pretty cheap these days, especially on the used market.
Asterisk is probably not really warranted until you have a hundred desks or so, and only then if you happen to have a fairly good geek on staff.
It is scalable, but not for the entry level technician unless all you want it to do is handle voice mail.
All the more reason Government should never have been allowed to get their hands on the data.
Its as official as anything ever is out of china.
And when China says you are too locked down, that says something.
Steve must be proud.
They didn't GET CAUGHT.
They reported this prior to any investigation.
at the moment...
When the lockdown is actually in place...
When even those screaming FUD are lacing their posts with tacit admission of the inevitable its time to run away from this platform like your hair is on fire.
I agree, his analogy is wrong.
But, I would be truly peeved to learn that anyone was sitting out in the street and recording traffic for any significant period of time. You want to "glance" at my traffic the same way a regular person would "glance" into my house windows while walking down the sidewalk, that's reasonable.
Driving down the street at 25MPH would seem to fall into your definition of reasonable. No?
Google didn't sit outside of your house. That was probably the local cops you saw out there.
Google just drove down the road, with its well marked car, at just under the speed limit. Once. Months ago.
Google didn't USE any of the private data.
They asked the government what to do with it.
Canada, bastion of privacy, ordered google to turn over all that data, email addresses, passwords, credit cards, chat log snippits and all to the Canadian Government.
So tell me again about how privacy is protected in Canada? Oh, by entrusting it all to the government.
Well played sir.
Door?
Locked?
Are you daft?
Tell you what, Mr Bad Analogy Guy, you move all your valuables out onto the middle of the street tonight and leave them there for a week for all passers by to peruse and see how much is still there next friday.
There is no expectation of privacy for things you broadcast to the world at large.
They did not Break into anything. They drove down the street, with their windows rolled down listening, and idiots like you were busy shouting your credit card numbers and sexual orientation from the curb side.
Google screwed up here, accidentally capturing all of this data. Why they didn't just delete it, rather than doing this whole "hair shirt" thing is more than a bit weird.
The hand wringers and tin foil hat crowd would be up in arms when it was found out that some data was captured, and then the evidence destroyed.
I'm sure the temptation was there to dump it and move on. But "Don't Be Evil" won the day and they did the right thing.
Unfortunately, The governments involved (looking at you Canada) demanded the data, instead of telling Google to simply purge all Canadian data. Now all those passwords and email snippets are owned by the Canadian Government. And there are no clear limits to what they can do with them.
Who's evil now?
Setting up encryption is a challenge?
If the routers came out of the box with Encryption LOCKED ON and the password set to the serial number it would be a Challenge to turn it OFF.
Setting it up would be "No Geek Required".
Why in hell should the world default to vulnerable to support one allegedly incompatible device?
Google is a big company full of a lot of really smart people. How is it that none of them analyzed the process or the results during the 'testing phase' to determine they might just get this type of data? Their intentions may not have been 'evil' but negligence is no excuse. Not acting to prevent this type of data being gathered in the first place is 'evil' enough.
Must we really rehash that here just for you?
Howbout using something to search the intewebs and find out how this happened. You could maybe use something like Google?
It was a very low level beacon capture that stored too much data by accident. But because it did capture the beacon packets (and because that is all google was interested in) the fact that more than beacons were picked up in clear text from people too stupid to secure their routers wasn't even noticed.
How is this any different than what was revealed when this story first broke.
Google reported this from DAY ONE, and rather than sweeping it under the rug they tattled on themselves, and asked world governments what they should do with the data rather than simply destroying it.
THERE IS ABSOLUTE NOTHING NEW IN THIS STORY.
Just because you are late to the party don't assume nothing happened prior to your arrival.
Not with SSL.
If you are using their mail servers, they might be able to read your mail.
That's why I use gmail, I might as well go directly to the place where its all going to end up anyway.
Or he will become famous like Fleischmann and Pons.
Just sayin.....
lets see, murder, sex organs, Bush, marijuana, off-label drugs,
You forgot Hitler! Surely you can work him in there and go for the Full Godwin?!??
you've run off the logic rails, there.
google can pay U.S. taxes on its U.S. earnings, which would be about $3 billion.
But the story is about Google's foreign earnings.
Look, everyone agrees this is legal. Many are just saying it's not right -- not for people who claim to do no evil at least.
No, that's not at all what people are saying. Read the replies in this thread.
People are actually suggesting google should pay taxes it is not required to pay, just because they are google. They should just make up some huge number and mail in a check, and never mind what the tax codes in these countries actually require.
What google did is both LEGAL and RIGHT. If it weren't Ireland would be all over google's case. If google just decided to dump huge piles of cash on Ireland their share holders would have been defrauded.
The law is what we as a society AGREE is RIGHT. The law defines what society AGREES is JUST.
When Ireland no longer feels its JUST or RIGHT they will change their laws.
Google gives back to the community great deal. Far more in total than any company I know of. In addition to free services to everyone in the world, financed out of advertising revenue, they have their own Philanthropy.
They don't transfer "all their money there".
They transfer their foreign earnings from SOME countries there AFTER complying with the tax laws of those countries.
If Ireland doesn't like this, Ireland can change its laws.
But if Ireland is ok with this, then what is your problem?
Should google pay Ireland more money than their tax code requires? How much more? How should they compute it?
Google pays all the US taxes they are obligated to pay. READ THE ARTICLE. This is about earnings overseas, which are kept overseas, not about earnings in the US.
How much additional taxes, above what is required by law, did you contribute last year?