Forbes have a good write up of the facts about each company here
COMCAST CORP.
FOUNDED: 1969 HEADQUARTERS: Philadelphia
MARKET CAPITALIZATION: $73.7 billion
2003 REVENUE: $18.35 billion
STOCK PERFORMANCE: up 31.27 percent in past year
WALT DISNEY CO.
FOUNDED: 1923 HEADQUARTERS: Burbank, California
MARKET CAPITALIZATION: $48.62 billion
2003 CALENDAR YEAR REVENUE: $28.07 billion
STOCK PERFORMANCE: up 45.38 percent in past year
have control of the internet. It is the best and the worst of society, and while I agree it should be policed by enforcement agencies against crimes committed by citizens of that country that are illegal in that country, it should never be up to those same countries to censor content that may not be illegal in other countries.
There can also be standards bodies, who are a community of users who recommend standards for the rest of the community to follow, but they should not have control either.
perhaps it would be resonable to assume that the ISP keeps logs of who get what lease when. Evidently RIAA has reason to believe this, given this tack.
Well how do you think the RIAA got the names and addresses of all the people they currently have lawsuits against before this latest batch? So they don't just believe this, they know this as a certainty. Granted there may be some ISPs they subpeona'd who couldn't supply this information as they had rotated their logs, but a large number of ISP's could supply this information.
The question now is whether the delay added by having to go through the court system instead of subpeonaing the ISP directly will mean that more ISP's will of rotated their logs by the time they are asked for the information.
When are we actually going to start seeing one of these lawsuits tested in court?
Everyone seems to be settling, but is that because noone can afford to go to court, or the RIAA is too scared to let one of these cases go to court, so are settling very easily.
I am thinking they are only ever going to want to go to court over this if they are certain they have a big fish and a guaranteed win. If you are just the average joe file trader, how about telling the RIAA you will settle for $10 or you will see them in court.
Big bluff, but are the RIAA that sure of their case in court?
People are obviously still not understanding the whole process. When you connect to your ISP they assign you an IP address, and log the time you leased that address. The RIAA previously was able to subpeona the ISP directly and say "Who was using this IP at this time on this day" and the ISP then had to go through their log and supply the subscribers details who had that IP at that time.
All this means now is that the process is longer. The RIAA now has to go through the courts and get the courts to issue the subpeona to the ISP.
Remember, you are never truly anononymous on the Internet.
This is something I haven't seen answered. So everyone changes their file randomly just a little bit to defeat the hash. Now how do you download the same file from multiple sources - one of the great applications of P2P, when everyone has a slightly different version of that file?
You joke. I often have that experience, where I will wake up in the morning having solved a really tough code problem that had been bugging me the whole of the previous day.
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Eh, a war of monopolies! They've just found common grounds to fight on...
Isn't that an oxymoron? By definitian a monopoly has no competition.
Has Apple never heard of allowing users just to download the upgrade, instead of having to download the entire 20MB install everytime? If you are on dial up this is a pain. And why do you even need to go to the apple site. Why can't iTunes say there is an update available, do you want to download and install it now? Click yes and it happens automatically.
Is this just an issue with the Windows version, or do Mac users have the same problem?
Why would a spammer be even close to making this list. They likely only need one big table containing the email address. The rest of the supporting tables would be relatively small.
As opposed to google news who have no mention of a story that even made it to the front page of slashdot. It's not even mentioned if you drill down to all the articles under sci-tech. Mind you, I don't really expect google news to feature an article about a rival service, but that just goes to show that even google are not truly impartial.
Because we all know how effective security through obscurity is. If noone publicises the problems, then they don't get fixed, but if one person has found the flaw, you can bet someone else has too, who doesn't have such good intentions.
Oh, and is Slashdot getting/.ed or is Verisign showing them who's boss?
I really hope this research paper had more to it than just finding out that pressing the shift key stops the copy protection software from loading on autorun. Because how long do you reckon it took him to work this out? A day. If all you need to do is put in a days research to submit a paper at Princeton, then I am off to try and get a degree there.
And AAC. Also most of the sites that I would consider purchasing music off catering for windows platforms sell songs in the.wma format. NOT supported by the iPod.
Okay, I know this is Slashdot, and everyone likes to be paranoid and think the worst, but what if this is just Microsoft protecting themselves from future frivolous lawsuits like the Eolas one?
I am sure they also think this is an obvious feature, that shouldn't warrant a patent, but I think they thought the same thing about plug-ins in a browser, and that cost them $500M.
Of course I could be wrong and the conspiracy theorists are right.
Verisign can provide this service if they want. But they mustn't try and force me to use it. They could easily offer a browser plug-in that will do the same thing, that people can download and install if they find it usefull. But don't go trying to force everyone to use your service, and break the way the internet functions in the process, without even consulting anyone first.
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Forbes have a good write up of the facts about each company here
COMCAST CORP.
FOUNDED: 1969 HEADQUARTERS: Philadelphia
MARKET CAPITALIZATION: $73.7 billion
2003 REVENUE: $18.35 billion
STOCK PERFORMANCE: up 31.27 percent in past year
WALT DISNEY CO.
FOUNDED: 1923 HEADQUARTERS: Burbank, California
MARKET CAPITALIZATION: $48.62 billion
2003 CALENDAR YEAR REVENUE: $28.07 billion
STOCK PERFORMANCE: up 45.38 percent in past year
have control of the internet. It is the best and the worst of society, and while I agree it should be policed by enforcement agencies against crimes committed by citizens of that country that are illegal in that country, it should never be up to those same countries to censor content that may not be illegal in other countries.
There can also be standards bodies, who are a community of users who recommend standards for the rest of the community to follow, but they should not have control either.
Disagree? Reply, don't mod down.
I think just having a girlfriend is all that he needs for Valentines.
Heck, it's what every geek wants for Valentines.
Isn't the Mars Scorecard missing a player.
The Beagle 2 anyone?
perhaps it would be resonable to assume that the ISP keeps logs of who get what lease when. Evidently RIAA has reason to believe this, given this tack.
Well how do you think the RIAA got the names and addresses of all the people they currently have lawsuits against before this latest batch? So they don't just believe this, they know this as a certainty. Granted there may be some ISPs they subpeona'd who couldn't supply this information as they had rotated their logs, but a large number of ISP's could supply this information.
The question now is whether the delay added by having to go through the court system instead of subpeonaing the ISP directly will mean that more ISP's will of rotated their logs by the time they are asked for the information.
When are we actually going to start seeing one of these lawsuits tested in court?
Everyone seems to be settling, but is that because noone can afford to go to court, or the RIAA is too scared to let one of these cases go to court, so are settling very easily.
I am thinking they are only ever going to want to go to court over this if they are certain they have a big fish and a guaranteed win. If you are just the average joe file trader, how about telling the RIAA you will settle for $10 or you will see them in court.
Big bluff, but are the RIAA that sure of their case in court?
People are obviously still not understanding the whole process. When you connect to your ISP they assign you an IP address, and log the time you leased that address. The RIAA previously was able to subpeona the ISP directly and say "Who was using this IP at this time on this day" and the ISP then had to go through their log and supply the subscribers details who had that IP at that time.
All this means now is that the process is longer. The RIAA now has to go through the courts and get the courts to issue the subpeona to the ISP.
Remember, you are never truly anononymous on the Internet.
This is something I haven't seen answered. So everyone changes their file randomly just a little bit to defeat the hash.
Now how do you download the same file from multiple sources - one of the great applications of P2P, when everyone has a slightly different version of that file?
Well it would be fine if he had just registered mikerowe.com, but I think it is the soft at the end that has put him in the Microsoft sights.
You joke. I often have that experience, where I will wake up in the morning having solved a really tough code problem that had been bugging me the whole of the previous day.
Eh, a war of monopolies! They've just found common grounds to fight on...
Isn't that an oxymoron? By definitian a monopoly has no competition.
Has Apple never heard of allowing users just to download the upgrade, instead of having to download the entire 20MB install everytime? If you are on dial up this is a pain. And why do you even need to go to the apple site. Why can't iTunes say there is an update available, do you want to download and install it now? Click yes and it happens automatically.
Is this just an issue with the Windows version, or do Mac users have the same problem?
Why would a spammer be even close to making this list. They likely only need one big table containing the email address. The rest of the supporting tables would be relatively small.
I always use an iSkin when jacking in...
As opposed to google news who have no mention of a story that even made it to the front page of slashdot. It's not even mentioned if you drill down to all the articles under sci-tech. Mind you, I don't really expect google news to feature an article about a rival service, but that just goes to show that even google are not truly impartial.
They are great until Mom finds out
The ability to speak Russian and prior space exploration experience is a definite plus, they say
How can any Malaysians have prior space exploration experience, if no Malaysian has ever gone to space?
Or you could try this counterscript.
Because we all know how effective security through obscurity is. If noone publicises the problems, then they don't get fixed, but if one person has found the flaw, you can bet someone else has too, who doesn't have such good intentions.
/.ed or is Verisign showing them who's boss?
Oh, and is Slashdot getting
I really hope this research paper had more to it than just finding out that pressing the shift key stops the copy protection software from loading on autorun. Because how long do you reckon it took him to work this out? A day. If all you need to do is put in a days research to submit a paper at Princeton, then I am off to try and get a degree there.
And AAC. Also most of the sites that I would consider purchasing music off catering for windows platforms sell songs in the .wma format. NOT supported by the iPod.
Finally I can buy music online that is compatible with my Windows iPod.
Okay, I know this is Slashdot, and everyone likes to be paranoid and think the worst, but what if this is just Microsoft protecting themselves from future frivolous lawsuits like the Eolas one?
I am sure they also think this is an obvious feature, that shouldn't warrant a patent, but I think they thought the same thing about plug-ins in a browser, and that cost them $500M.
Of course I could be wrong and the conspiracy theorists are right.
And other patrons who bought x also bought y...
Verisign can provide this service if they want. But they mustn't try and force me to use it. They could easily offer a browser plug-in that will do the same thing, that people can download and install if they find it usefull. But don't go trying to force everyone to use your service, and break the way the internet functions in the process, without even consulting anyone first.