When you talk on a landline phone, you hear your own voice. On a mobile, your voice is not played back in your ear to save power.
Some people not hearing there own voice played back to them, makes them speak louder.
Also, the FCC is not talking about using your phone the way it is today, but setting up micro-cells on planes which communicate via sattalite to the ground.
Another thing, did you ever notice how easy it is to do anything on a cell phone? Call someone bac, 1-button, free caller id, etc. Is there any reason land line phones coulnd't do the same things? No, but then again they don't earn money ever minute they are used.
In the UK they still pay by the minute for any call local or LD. That's why Robert gets a discount, because of the complcated regulatory environment behind the scenes.
In the US, the FCC recently sheilded VoIP providers from state regulation. (stuff that sometimes makes calls within a state higher than outside a state, and makes phone service affordable for rural America)
I thought it was interesting that the article mentioned that the service would only work in-network, because there are no interconnection agreements between providers. This should make for a very interesting next few years. I would be surprised if we saw something like the Telecom act of 1996 repeated for VoIP.
You can get PUC approval withough too much expense. Then with unbundling and fixed wholesale prices, you can steal the ILEC's customers for next to nothing while still letting them run the network. T-1's can be had for $50 a month.
I do agree with the rest of your comments, and I am realy dissapointed with VZ.
"We're studying our options, as we do with all new technologies which are abused by people to engage in theft."
They still apparently don't konw the difference between copywright infringement and theft.
This is exactly why the VoIP providers should not be required to provide a voice stream back to the softswitch. The criminals will start using something like this.
In the mmean time the VoIP industry will spend billions on upgrades (All passed on to the consumer) to provide the FBI a tap that is so easily defeated.
Wtite the FCC about this. Get involved, join the EFF!
You know almost all of the 9/11 terrorist had valid state issued ID? Why would adding a RFID tag help stop terrorists? The can still go up and apply for a valid id just like everyone else.
RFID tag is not going to bounce back your life history. It's the equivelant of a barcode.
The problem come into play when someone or some company can start collecting information about you, tie it to your RFID profile (because they will be in your clothes, wallet, cellphone, etc.) That could then be tied to your movements.
RFID tags at the consumer level are a complete privacy invasion. All up for sale to the highest bidder. Who knows what kind of abuses will come out of this.
I can't wait for someone to write a program that requests page after page, and saves it off to a text file automatically. Forget about the browser, just write a program to do it. See what happens then.
That's where your getting the issue confused. MPAA has a relationship with the stations because they sell them content. They have no relationship with TV makers. Just because the broadcast flag is sent doesn't mean the TV has to use it. That's why they pushed the FCC for the flag.
Just like they are going to push congress for a law after the EFF wins. However, it's a much harder sell, and we can speak up about it to our represenatives.
Haven't you figured it out by now? The RIAA/MPAA doesn't really care if a few geeks know how to open up a TV/PC and disable the broadcast protection. They only care when it becomes easy for the average user.
Think about it, news groups are still out there, because you have to know how they work, how to unRAR a file, burn an image file, or just mount it with Daemon tools.
Napster was easy and it's gone. Kazaa is easy so they are trying to sue it out of existence and flood it with spoofs.
They want the average user to only be allowded to do what they choose with content.
In this case I think they have gone too far. This is basically saying you can't use a VCR to record Digital tv broadcast over public airwaves (yes Public, we own them not they FCC, they only manage them).
If they need to be protected then DONT BROADCAST OVER PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE FIRST PLACE!
"The ID requirement doesn't pretend to "prevent" issues; it's simply a place to start for investigators AFTER an incident, regardless of whether the IDs were real or fake...enabling investigators to get a list of names (again, real or not), issuing agencies for the IDs, and sometimes even pictures (which are many times real, even if the ID itself is fake). This information could be critical to an investigation when other lives may be at stake."
More people die in auto accidents than on planes. The OKC bombing proved that autos could be used just like airplanes to destroy buildings. You should be required to show ID to drive or ride in a car. That way if something went wrong, investigators have a place to start. How about a scanner to open each door for you to swipe your ID (travel Papers), then the car could report wirelessly who is traveling along what road. Think of the lives that could be saved! It would be great!
The fact is, this law is BS was put in place after the TWA bombing that looked like a terrorists attack that turned out to be dangerous cargo. He was denied over 10 years ago and hasn't flown since, try that today, what do you think would happen?
This seems to indicate something that we don't know about the effectiveness of asking for ID for flights. Maybe there is something about the way legitimate IDs are made that they don't want to reveal. In any case the idea of making a private argument is insane because, of course, the other side will not have a chance for a rebuttal!
Yea, your right, checking for ID's would stop terrorists, and make us all safer. Oh wait, the 9/11 terrorists had there ID's checked, and they were valid ID's too, and yet it didn't stop them.
The simple fact is showing your "Papers" (sounds a bit like mother Russia that way doesn't it?) to travel in your own country has nothing to do with searching for weapons, explosives, or other devices of destruction.
Typical Republican, "Michael Moore Lies!" Click on this link to buy my book that shows you how he lies. What is so complicated that he can't put it in an HTML document? Humm, maybe it could be read by everyone, and debated openly?
Meanwhile Moore has every source for every comment posted here:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/ There was no lie in the face of that congressmen, when he asked if his kids were going to enlist in the military. It was utter panic. You could see, "Are you stupid? Why would I do that?" written on his face.
Absolutey true. One other thing, did you ever notice how easy it is to use your mobile phone? How caller ID is always included? How when you look up a number it only displays the name? If you want the number to call from a landline phone you have to punch 2 kyes instead of send?
Now think about your home landline phone. How many of these features does it have? Why? Well that's becuase landline phones are flat rate, so there is no incentive.
Every time you use your mobile phone it can mean $$ to the operator. They have done countless studies to make the mobile phone easy and convinent to use for this reason. I hope they get sued over this.
"I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it. In time, we'll be able to do this, because I have great faith in the technological genius that's out there."
Yes, but it only takes 1 of thoes great hackers to break it, then it's a simple matter of adding a GUI jack. Why are your technical experts not telling you that? Job Security?
"We can't afford to let that be copied at that juncture because it's the [home entertainment] aftermarket where you make your profits."
Jack, how could this be? Here's what you said about the home entertainment market earlier in your career:
The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology," Jack Valenti said, threatens an entire industry's "economic vitality and future security." Mr. Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble. The new technology, he said, "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
This is not about the internet or file sharing, it was in 1982, and he was talking about videocassette recorders. If Jack Valenti had his way back then (he almost did as the Sony BetaMax case went all the way to the Supreme Court) we wouldn't have VCRs today, Blockbuster wouldn't exist and 50% of Hollywoods income wouldn't exist.
Jack, your starting to look like an old fool.
"There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you....Now, fair use is not in the law."
Really? Congress disagrees.
"I have a TiVo set. I truly enjoy it."
Really Jack? Ever FF through the commercials? You know that would be stealing from the broadcast industry? Are you a Pirate Jack?
"Where did this backup copy thing come from? A digital thing lasts forever. "
It sure does Jack, but as I'm sure thoes great technical minds you have working for you have said, the physical medium doesn't. Plus, you want to make it illegal to create a digital copy, which locks the content to your degradable media.
" I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact."
Sorry to dissapoint you Jack, but I think your a lying fool who can't see the forest for the trees.
You make that joke, but I started thinking about my reef tank as soon as I read this article. When you go over 36" tall you have to use 5/8-3/4 inch low iron (so your fish and corals are not green) glass. If this is really that much stronger, larget tanks could be made cheaper, becuase the glass could be thinner. I wonder what the optical and strength properties really are? Anyone have more information on the testing?
How many more people die in automobile accidents than plane crashes? Wouldn't your relatives need to know immediately?
You should be required to scan your drivers license to ride/drive a car. Then have a toll tag device that passes that information along to a central database. You know, in case there's an accident on a given road. That way they know who may be involved. Think about all the hit an runs that would be stopped! It would be great!
If giving up your personal freedoms could stop every terrorist attack, would it be worth it?
Ok, how many of you just spent the last hour trying to fix your company laptop keyboard? I was at least smart enough to start with an out of the way rarely used key, D.:)
Anyone else notice Firefox doesn't pick up the Dvorak key map in windows? Is there a fix?
I would bring a camera into the movie, but not film anything. Set it out on my lap so they are sure to see it. Then when they pull you out in the middle of the movie, arrest you, etc.
I'de say you have pretty good grounds for a lawsuit. After all, it's not illegal to have a camera in a movie is it?
"The people who want a constantly changing selection of songs, or to listen to stuff that was released just the other day, already have something to satisfy those urges - radio."
What planet do you live on? Constantly changing selection? Try 40 songs in hot rotation played every 2 hours with another 60 that are no longer in hot roatation mixed between the 40 to add variety over the course of a day. I don't even listen to radio because they just want to jam the crap the RIAA is paying them to play down my throat.
I agree with your post, except for the Apple stuff. You can only move them 3 times right? So eventually they will die as well.
"The vulnerability was discovered by Eeye Digital Security in July 2003 but no exploits were produced until three days after Microsoft's patch became available."
What this really means is no rapidly expanding virus was created which drew the general publics' attention. That doesn't mean a black hat didn't use it to hack a system steal merchanzse, products, $, or information. Then was able to cover his tracks.
That's why I like to see virus that forces everyone to patch their systems. It scares me to think how many companies have my banking/credit card infrmation. Then take into accout the millions of computers that can access that data, 90% of them running windows.
The problem is, the tag stays with you after you leave the store. ANYONE can read theat tag, along with other tags.
What happens when somebody is able to buy info that ties a tag back to your name, address, phone, etc? They know where you've been, what your doing, without you even knowing or giving permission. You don't think that could be abused?
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When you talk on a landline phone, you hear your own voice. On a mobile, your voice is not played back in your ear to save power.
Some people not hearing there own voice played back to them, makes them speak louder.
Also, the FCC is not talking about using your phone the way it is today, but setting up micro-cells on planes which communicate via sattalite to the ground.
Another thing, did you ever notice how easy it is to do anything on a cell phone? Call someone bac, 1-button, free caller id, etc. Is there any reason land line phones coulnd't do the same things? No, but then again they don't earn money ever minute they are used.
In the UK they still pay by the minute for any call local or LD. That's why Robert gets a discount, because of the complcated regulatory environment behind the scenes. In the US, the FCC recently sheilded VoIP providers from state regulation. (stuff that sometimes makes calls within a state higher than outside a state, and makes phone service affordable for rural America) I thought it was interesting that the article mentioned that the service would only work in-network, because there are no interconnection agreements between providers. This should make for a very interesting next few years. I would be surprised if we saw something like the Telecom act of 1996 repeated for VoIP.
"Fighting violence with violence doesn't work."
Really? I think history has shown otherwise. Hitler comes to mind.
Spammers know what they are doing is wrong. They are simply modivated by money. This app will cost them money and eventually make Spam unprofitable.
The only concern I have is for innocent people that get misakenly tagged as Spammers and end up with a 10K bandwidth bill.
You can get PUC approval withough too much expense. Then with unbundling and fixed wholesale prices, you can steal the ILEC's customers for next to nothing while still letting them run the network. T-1's can be had for $50 a month.
I do agree with the rest of your comments, and I am realy dissapointed with VZ.
"We're studying our options, as we do with all new technologies which are abused by people to engage in theft." They still apparently don't konw the difference between copywright infringement and theft.
This is exactly why the VoIP providers should not be required to provide a voice stream back to the softswitch. The criminals will start using something like this.
In the mmean time the VoIP industry will spend billions on upgrades (All passed on to the consumer) to provide the FBI a tap that is so easily defeated.
Wtite the FCC about this. Get involved, join the EFF!
You know almost all of the 9/11 terrorist had valid state issued ID? Why would adding a RFID tag help stop terrorists? The can still go up and apply for a valid id just like everyone else.
RFID tag is not going to bounce back your life history. It's the equivelant of a barcode.
The problem come into play when someone or some company can start collecting information about you, tie it to your RFID profile (because they will be in your clothes, wallet, cellphone, etc.) That could then be tied to your movements.
RFID tags at the consumer level are a complete privacy invasion. All up for sale to the highest bidder. Who knows what kind of abuses will come out of this.
I can't wait for someone to write a program that requests page after page, and saves it off to a text file automatically. Forget about the browser, just write a program to do it. See what happens then.
That's where your getting the issue confused. MPAA has a relationship with the stations because they sell them content. They have no relationship with TV makers. Just because the broadcast flag is sent doesn't mean the TV has to use it. That's why they pushed the FCC for the flag.
Just like they are going to push congress for a law after the EFF wins. However, it's a much harder sell, and we can speak up about it to our represenatives.
Haven't you figured it out by now? The RIAA/MPAA doesn't really care if a few geeks know how to open up a TV/PC and disable the broadcast protection. They only care when it becomes easy for the average user.
Think about it, news groups are still out there, because you have to know how they work, how to unRAR a file, burn an image file, or just mount it with Daemon tools.
Napster was easy and it's gone. Kazaa is easy so they are trying to sue it out of existence and flood it with spoofs.
They want the average user to only be allowded to do what they choose with content.
In this case I think they have gone too far. This is basically saying you can't use a VCR to record Digital tv broadcast over public airwaves (yes Public, we own them not they FCC, they only manage them).
If they need to be protected then DONT BROADCAST OVER PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE FIRST PLACE!
"The ID requirement doesn't pretend to "prevent" issues; it's simply a place to start for investigators AFTER an incident, regardless of whether the IDs were real or fake...enabling investigators to get a list of names (again, real or not), issuing agencies for the IDs, and sometimes even pictures (which are many times real, even if the ID itself is fake). This information could be critical to an investigation when other lives may be at stake."
More people die in auto accidents than on planes. The OKC bombing proved that autos could be used just like airplanes to destroy buildings. You should be required to show ID to drive or ride in a car. That way if something went wrong, investigators have a place to start. How about a scanner to open each door for you to swipe your ID (travel Papers), then the car could report wirelessly who is traveling along what road. Think of the lives that could be saved! It would be great!
The fact is, this law is BS was put in place after the TWA bombing that looked like a terrorists attack that turned out to be dangerous cargo. He was denied over 10 years ago and hasn't flown since, try that today, what do you think would happen?
Yea, your right, checking for ID's would stop terrorists, and make us all safer. Oh wait, the 9/11 terrorists had there ID's checked, and they were valid ID's too, and yet it didn't stop them.
The simple fact is showing your "Papers" (sounds a bit like mother Russia that way doesn't it?) to travel in your own country has nothing to do with searching for weapons, explosives, or other devices of destruction.
Join the EFF people, it's 30 bucks.
Typical Republican, "Michael Moore Lies!" Click on this link to buy my book that shows you how he lies. What is so complicated that he can't put it in an HTML document? Humm, maybe it could be read by everyone, and debated openly?
Meanwhile Moore has every source for every comment posted here:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/
There was no lie in the face of that congressmen, when he asked if his kids were going to enlist in the military. It was utter panic. You could see, "Are you stupid? Why would I do that?" written on his face.
Something out of the Copyright offic that actually makes sense!
Absolutey true. One other thing, did you ever notice how easy it is to use your mobile phone? How caller ID is always included? How when you look up a number it only displays the name? If you want the number to call from a landline phone you have to punch 2 kyes instead of send?
Now think about your home landline phone. How many of these features does it have? Why? Well that's becuase landline phones are flat rate, so there is no incentive.
Every time you use your mobile phone it can mean $$ to the operator. They have done countless studies to make the mobile phone easy and convinent to use for this reason. I hope they get sued over this.
"I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it. In time, we'll be able to do this, because I have great faith in the technological genius that's out there."
...Now, fair use is not in the law."
Yes, but it only takes 1 of thoes great hackers to break it, then it's a simple matter of adding a GUI jack. Why are your technical experts not telling you that? Job Security?
"We can't afford to let that be copied at that juncture because it's the [home entertainment] aftermarket where you make your profits."
Jack, how could this be? Here's what you said about the home entertainment market earlier in your career:
The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology," Jack Valenti said, threatens an entire industry's "economic vitality and future security." Mr. Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and he was ready for a rhetorical rumble. The new technology, he said, "is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
This is not about the internet or file sharing, it was in 1982, and he was talking about videocassette recorders. If Jack Valenti had his way back then (he almost did as the Sony BetaMax case went all the way to the Supreme Court) we wouldn't have VCRs today, Blockbuster wouldn't exist and 50% of Hollywoods income wouldn't exist.
Jack, your starting to look like an old fool.
"There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you.
Really? Congress disagrees.
"I have a TiVo set. I truly enjoy it."
Really Jack? Ever FF through the commercials? You know that would be stealing from the broadcast industry? Are you a Pirate Jack?
"Where did this backup copy thing come from? A digital thing lasts forever. "
It sure does Jack, but as I'm sure thoes great technical minds you have working for you have said, the physical medium doesn't. Plus, you want to make it illegal to create a digital copy, which locks the content to your degradable media.
" I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact."
Sorry to dissapoint you Jack, but I think your a lying fool who can't see the forest for the trees.
Do you really think that's fish your eating at McDonalds?
You make that joke, but I started thinking about my reef tank as soon as I read this article. When you go over 36" tall you have to use 5/8-3/4 inch low iron (so your fish and corals are not green) glass. If this is really that much stronger, larget tanks could be made cheaper, becuase the glass could be thinner. I wonder what the optical and strength properties really are? Anyone have more information on the testing?
Well by that logic:
How many more people die in automobile accidents than plane crashes? Wouldn't your relatives need to know immediately?
You should be required to scan your drivers license to ride/drive a car. Then have a toll tag device that passes that information along to a central database. You know, in case there's an accident on a given road. That way they know who may be involved. Think about all the hit an runs that would be stopped! It would be great!
If giving up your personal freedoms could stop every terrorist attack, would it be worth it?
Ok, how many of you just spent the last hour trying to fix your company laptop keyboard? I was at least smart enough to start with an out of the way rarely used key, D. :)
Anyone else notice Firefox doesn't pick up the Dvorak key map in windows? Is there a fix?
I would bring a camera into the movie, but not film anything. Set it out on my lap so they are sure to see it. Then when they pull you out in the middle of the movie, arrest you, etc. I'de say you have pretty good grounds for a lawsuit. After all, it's not illegal to have a camera in a movie is it?
"The people who want a constantly changing selection of songs, or to listen to stuff that was released just the other day, already have something to satisfy those urges - radio."
What planet do you live on? Constantly changing selection? Try 40 songs in hot rotation played every 2 hours with another 60 that are no longer in hot roatation mixed between the 40 to add variety over the course of a day. I don't even listen to radio because they just want to jam the crap the RIAA is paying them to play down my throat.
I agree with your post, except for the Apple stuff. You can only move them 3 times right? So eventually they will die as well.
"The vulnerability was discovered by Eeye Digital Security in July 2003 but no exploits were produced until three days after Microsoft's patch became available."
What this really means is no rapidly expanding virus was created which drew the general publics' attention. That doesn't mean a black hat didn't use it to hack a system steal merchanzse, products, $, or information. Then was able to cover his tracks.
That's why I like to see virus that forces everyone to patch their systems. It scares me to think how many companies have my banking/credit card infrmation. Then take into accout the millions of computers that can access that data, 90% of them running windows.
Either way, this guys is an idiot.
The problem is, the tag stays with you after you leave the store. ANYONE can read theat tag, along with other tags.
What happens when somebody is able to buy info that ties a tag back to your name, address, phone, etc? They know where you've been, what your doing, without you even knowing or giving permission. You don't think that could be abused?