I would say it's a reaction to ACTA. They're not an ISP, so have no safe-harbour, and therefore must ban anything like "open" P2P where they could potentially be held responsible.
He could buy his mother a nicer place, give some to the charity that seems to have helped him, and have cash left over to do all the math and pick all the mushrooms he wants.
Not taking the million bucks IS insane, unless there are unreasonable strings attached, Simply not being interested in it is both foolish and selfish in the extreme.
Why don't all car radio setups come with a line-in jack? Even many of the aftermarket ones don't have them (on the front, at least). Such a cheap part, and yet so many people use their ipods via FM tuner or tape adapter.
Because a line-in jack can't control your device from the steering wheel controls. Get a DICE box or similar and do it properly.
You must be new here. "Darknets" have been around since the start of the internet, and there's nothing necessarily illicit about it. Sure, some people take advantage of the privacy, just like some of our neighbours/colleagues/priests do, but that doesn't mean we put cameras in every house or monitor every phone call to catch the terrorists/kiddie-fiddlers/drug-users/speeding-drivers/child-punishers/blashphemers/etc. And if you're looking at websites rather than places or resources, you haven't even scratched the surface.
Basically, people like to communicate online, but that doesn't give you (or Google) the right to index it or even access it just 'cos it's on the internet - whether you like it or not, it's their communications not yours. Don't see value in it? Don't spend your time there. Think it's illegal? Call the cops with details. Just like IRL.
I don't have numbers to support an argument either way. I can only express my own view, with reasons for me not buying a lot of entertainment media for many years.
However I'll also speculate that the small indies don't have ready access to certain advertising channels, specifically mainstream radio and TV, and perhaps even movie scores, It's pretty hard to get marketshare if the market doesn't know you exist... and that's something big media does pretty well, advertising and marketing (even if it's flogged until it's dead, then find the next big thing...).
Agreed, and there are "technical" ways around all of the legislation and take-downs, but they're not trying to block the hardcore geeks, they're trying to block the masses... the folks who have never heard of IRC, and to stop them reaching the biggest index sites like TBP, Mininova, etc.
97B Preventing access to specified online locations for the prevention of online copyright infringement
Which can be roughly translated as... torrent index sites and commercial BT proxies, They can't ban a protocol but they can ban some of the popular index hosts and anonymizers, so that's what they're doing.
The best part is they can use this legislation to block foreign hosts quite easily, so whether or not TPB is legal in Sweden has little bearing on whether you in the UK, USA, Canada, NZ, Aussie, Japan, Korea, and others can access it. No, you can't find your favorite free-to-air TV programme (or Japanese porn, for that matter) via the internet. Crap, it's worse than just not downloading, now you probably won't even know it exists if "they" don't market it to you.
It seems that we'll be facing the home-grown Great Firewall Of Western Media. China's got nothing on us now.
IMHO, the "Open Rights Group" has a far better name than the "Pirate Party".
Creative Freedom should merge with Pirate Party but keep the CF name. It keeps the intent but creates an image of supporting creative professionals, eg artists.
Please see apology above. I was thinking angry Gen-X'ers when I wrote that, but there's plenty of 40, 50 and older folks who understand the issues and think ACTA is a very very bad idea.
No offense intended! Age is not a factor, and indeed I have some more senior IT colleagues who will also object strongly to this ACTA nonsense. Importantly, I expect that the 40+ group is likely to be taken more seriously by the politicians.
ACTA Jr has been introduced to Parliament in New Zealand a week ago. It includes 3 strikes, and responsibility for the ISP to keep IP address records.
We've had a few talks about it at work, and the general consensus is that it's a joke, with so many ways to render the IP addresses "evidence" questionable... and subjective application of the disconnection criteria and fines... but it's one we have to stop. You don't lose your phone if you break a law with it, and you shouldn't lose your internet connection (email, facebook, skype, etc) for the same.
Bollocks. Make better, less formulated music, don't compress the hell out of it, and sell it online so people can use it in their iPods and in-dash MP3 players. As for doing nothing, that's what you want to do, right? Not change? Your old business model doesn't work any more, so man up and deal with it. Improve your marketing and online distribution, stream it from your site for a taste, and sell CDs and whatnot online. Christ, you bitch about lost sales but you don't even have a link to your website in your profile!
You'd rather fuck the entire online communication revolution because you can't compete? No. We (the entire technically literate world under 40) won't let that happen.
Never mind the million dollars, give us the source to all the drive-by-wire modules so we can find the race condition (literally!) for you.
Damn straight. I'm expecting it's some unintended state in one or more of the controllers... Give us the source so many eyes can make the bug shallow. And if that doesn't work, fire up a distributed simulator project to brute-force all possible input combinations of the relevant controllers.
I wonder if this could cause conflict with EU ACTA negotiations. I would expect data retention would be necessary for much of the copyright legislation (eg 3 strikes and similar)
For anyone wondering why high absorption and a high QE don't necessarily result in high energy conversion (like I was a few hours ago) it's because 30% of the photons have insufficient energy to free an electron in silicon, and most of the rest of the photons have more energy than needed to free an electron, so any excess energy beyond that required to free a single electron is wasted as heat.
What if we combined it with something that glowed when heated?
We need antibiotics based on novel modes of action not found in nature, but these are hard to develop. The ability to sequence the genes of bacteria as well as the ability to synthesize proteins with predictable characteristics will help.
That sounds like grounds for a new BOINC project, perhaps?
The new proposal doesn't seem to deal with open wireless access points that are provided as a public service in thousands of places in New Zealand (airports, municipal WiFi, libraries, etc.).
Few that I've seen have been free access (starting to happen more lately though), so I suspect that means they would mostly fall under this piece as businesses with members, and it would be their responsibility to monitor/restrict such activity:
The Bill inserts a separate definition of Internet service provider into the Act for the purpose of the regime. The definition is intended to exclude universities, libraries, and businesses that provide Internet access to their members or employees but are not in the nature of a traditional ISP such as Telecom. Only traditional ISPs are in a position to perform evidence matching and notice functions.
I'll be interested to see what happens when a Starbucks gets hit up...
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It's still only a draft.
I would say it's a reaction to ACTA. They're not an ISP, so have no safe-harbour, and therefore must ban anything like "open" P2P where they could potentially be held responsible.
He could buy his mother a nicer place, give some to the charity that seems to have helped him, and have cash left over to do all the math and pick all the mushrooms he wants.
Not taking the million bucks IS insane, unless there are unreasonable strings attached, Simply not being interested in it is both foolish and selfish in the extreme.
Why don't all car radio setups come with a line-in jack? Even many of the aftermarket ones don't have them (on the front, at least). Such a cheap part, and yet so many people use their ipods via FM tuner or tape adapter.
Because a line-in jack can't control your device from the steering wheel controls. Get a DICE box or similar and do it properly.
That kind of gives the impression that GCHQ are trying to recruit hackers from the counter culture by advertising in tube stations.
And on Slashdot, apparently.
You must be new here. "Darknets" have been around since the start of the internet, and there's nothing necessarily illicit about it. Sure, some people take advantage of the privacy, just like some of our neighbours/colleagues/priests do, but that doesn't mean we put cameras in every house or monitor every phone call to catch the terrorists/kiddie-fiddlers/drug-users/speeding-drivers/child-punishers/blashphemers/etc. And if you're looking at websites rather than places or resources, you haven't even scratched the surface.
Basically, people like to communicate online, but that doesn't give you (or Google) the right to index it or even access it just 'cos it's on the internet - whether you like it or not, it's their communications not yours. Don't see value in it? Don't spend your time there. Think it's illegal? Call the cops with details. Just like IRL.
I don't see anyone talking about the cost of this, any ideas?
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
I don't have numbers to support an argument either way. I can only express my own view, with reasons for me not buying a lot of entertainment media for many years.
However I'll also speculate that the small indies don't have ready access to certain advertising channels, specifically mainstream radio and TV, and perhaps even movie scores, It's pretty hard to get marketshare if the market doesn't know you exist... and that's something big media does pretty well, advertising and marketing (even if it's flogged until it's dead, then find the next big thing...).
Agreed, and there are "technical" ways around all of the legislation and take-downs, but they're not trying to block the hardcore geeks, they're trying to block the masses... the folks who have never heard of IRC, and to stop them reaching the biggest index sites like TBP, Mininova, etc.
97B Preventing access to specified online locations for the prevention of online copyright infringement
Which can be roughly translated as... torrent index sites and commercial BT proxies, They can't ban a protocol but they can ban some of the popular index hosts and anonymizers, so that's what they're doing.
The best part is they can use this legislation to block foreign hosts quite easily, so whether or not TPB is legal in Sweden has little bearing on whether you in the UK, USA, Canada, NZ, Aussie, Japan, Korea, and others can access it. No, you can't find your favorite free-to-air TV programme (or Japanese porn, for that matter) via the internet. Crap, it's worse than just not downloading, now you probably won't even know it exists if "they" don't market it to you.
It seems that we'll be facing the home-grown Great Firewall Of Western Media. China's got nothing on us now.
IMHO, the "Open Rights Group" has a far better name than the "Pirate Party".
Creative Freedom should merge with Pirate Party but keep the CF name. It keeps the intent but creates an image of supporting creative professionals, eg artists.
Please see apology above. I was thinking angry Gen-X'ers when I wrote that, but there's plenty of 40, 50 and older folks who understand the issues and think ACTA is a very very bad idea.
No offense intended! Age is not a factor, and indeed I have some more senior IT colleagues who will also object strongly to this ACTA nonsense. Importantly, I expect that the 40+ group is likely to be taken more seriously by the politicians.
ACTA Jr has been introduced to Parliament in New Zealand a week ago. It includes 3 strikes, and responsibility for the ISP to keep IP address records.
We've had a few talks about it at work, and the general consensus is that it's a joke, with so many ways to render the IP addresses "evidence" questionable... and subjective application of the disconnection criteria and fines... but it's one we have to stop. You don't lose your phone if you break a law with it, and you shouldn't lose your internet connection (email, facebook, skype, etc) for the same.
Bollocks. Make better, less formulated music, don't compress the hell out of it, and sell it online so people can use it in their iPods and in-dash MP3 players. As for doing nothing, that's what you want to do, right? Not change? Your old business model doesn't work any more, so man up and deal with it. Improve your marketing and online distribution, stream it from your site for a taste, and sell CDs and whatnot online. Christ, you bitch about lost sales but you don't even have a link to your website in your profile!
You'd rather fuck the entire online communication revolution because you can't compete? No. We (the entire technically literate world under 40) won't let that happen.
That said, I do change the compiz desktop to use the cube to impress the ladies, and it helps me keep desktops straight since I'm spatially oriented.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The caliber of musician you can get to go out to a subway at 2 a.m. and play for hooligans isn't great... Now, if they could get Yo-Yo Ma...
I dunno about Yo-Yo Ma, but I heard they can get Yo Ma-Ma pretty easily.
There's only one solution. Bring a boom-box to the bus stops, and start blasting Dr. Dre like it's 1992.
Take that, old farts!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
1992? Dude, you ARE one of the old farts!
Never mind the million dollars, give us the source to all the drive-by-wire modules so we can find the race condition (literally!) for you.
Damn straight. I'm expecting it's some unintended state in one or more of the controllers... Give us the source so many eyes can make the bug shallow. And if that doesn't work, fire up a distributed simulator project to brute-force all possible input combinations of the relevant controllers.
I wonder if this could cause conflict with EU ACTA negotiations. I would expect data retention would be necessary for much of the copyright legislation (eg 3 strikes and similar)
Well, given that cosmic rays have been creating them for a long time now...
Sure, but not underground.
For anyone wondering why high absorption and a high QE don't necessarily result in high energy conversion (like I was a few hours ago) it's because 30% of the photons have insufficient energy to free an electron in silicon, and most of the rest of the photons have more energy than needed to free an electron, so any excess energy beyond that required to free a single electron is wasted as heat.
What if we combined it with something that glowed when heated?
We need antibiotics based on novel modes of action not found in nature, but these are hard to develop. The ability to sequence the genes of bacteria as well as the ability to synthesize proteins with predictable characteristics will help.
That sounds like grounds for a new BOINC project, perhaps?
...if it is legal to mount your license plate upside down -- and whether it would fool such systems.
If you can defeat this system you can probably defeat speed cameras and red-light cameras... so it'll probably be illegal to do so.
The new proposal doesn't seem to deal with open wireless access points that are provided as a public service in thousands of places in New Zealand (airports, municipal WiFi, libraries, etc.).
Few that I've seen have been free access (starting to happen more lately though), so I suspect that means they would mostly fall under this piece as businesses with members, and it would be their responsibility to monitor/restrict such activity:
The Bill inserts a separate definition of Internet service provider into the Act for the purpose of the regime. The definition is intended to exclude universities, libraries, and businesses that provide Internet access to their members or employees but are not in the nature of a traditional ISP such as Telecom. Only traditional ISPs are in a position to perform evidence matching and notice functions.
I'll be interested to see what happens when a Starbucks gets hit up...