A 100,000km elevator brings a few interesting questions.
Such as,
What will happen in an emergency? - Will there be emergency escape pods every few KMs in case something bad happens
How fast is this thing going to travel? A person would hate to be trapped in an elevator for too long (if it comes to transporting persons) - you would need to bring up food/water as well.
Terrorists and acts Terrorism - Screening of people entering the elevator and aircraft (WTC anyone?)
Look at it this way - the said cybersquatter no longer needs to type WHOIS insert-domain-here or they can save a little bandwidth if they scripted the whois.
All they need to do is type (or script it) the web address or do a DNS lookup and see where it points too. It will usually point to a certain block unless they were to spread the load out and use a setup similar to Akamai.
It still opens a huge can of worms though. (what about other registrars who use the same TLDs?)
What the 12-year old's mother should do is sue Sharman Networks (KaZaa) for conspiracy (inciting attempts to break the law - they PAID for kazaa while Kazaa AFAIK has no safeguards).
Also, how could you expect a single parent to monitor all their childs activities while they are out working to pay all the expenses.
Even so, sending the single parent to jail is more wrong than copying a few songs and not knowing what you were doing was illegal because you paid for it.
If Kazaa was causing so much grief for the RIAA/MPAA, why not sue the makers of KaZaa (Sharman Networks). It happened with Napster, and other P2P networks.
Lets use another language with less ambiguities in words.. say Esperanto or finnish (Linux is from finland?)
We will never agree on which english is correct (US english or UK/Euro english).
Yes I would definetly buy a car if I knew how it handled in various conditions (rain/snow/running from the cops/etc).
A better idea would be a Grand Theft Auto type game with real vehicle physics and consequences, and have them model a real life city (like the MS Flight Simulator series do). I would definetly pay for something like that:)
Only downsides I see as it could be used to conduct Terrorist attacks.. but so could anything we take for granted.
Imagine Massively Multiplayer Games where you can actually cash out your loot in the real world.
I really disagree with that.
Paying money for "game items" which are only stored on a company owned database which you will never have access to is prown to HUGE abuses.
Think of the implications
What if the company goes broke? Would it be considered a liability? Can they give you your data in XML/CSV format?;) (hey its still what you purchased). Obviously, this will need to be looked at.
Hacking/Cracking - Nothing on the internet is 100% secure/safe. So what if someone becomes a "l33t hax0r" and cracks the system/database, changes the logfiles. Or even finds an ingame exploit and dupes a few items. (dont tell me that exploits DONT exist in these games)
Increased Suicides - Because companies are endorsing this, and more people are spending hard earned cash, what happens when their online character gets scammed online by someone else? (dont say this doesnt happen as well)
Summary: A few legal issues there to resolve first. I rather see game company's fix bugs, and add game content as their first priority than cash in on items (which should be banned).
When RIAA comes to town in Australia, for instance, we do it the other way around.
Australia actually has its own version of the RIAA.
I doubt music piracy is a real issue there (at the moment) as broadband is limited/expensive and as a result most users are on dialup (either by choice because they dont justify the costs OR no options).
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...hiring an army of testers and programmers in some 3rd world country.
A 100,000km elevator brings a few interesting questions.
Such as,
What will happen in an emergency? - Will there be emergency escape pods every few KMs in case something bad happens
How fast is this thing going to travel? A person would hate to be trapped in an elevator for too long (if it comes to transporting persons) - you would need to bring up food/water as well.
Terrorists and acts Terrorism - Screening of people entering the elevator and aircraft (WTC anyone?)
Look at it this way - the said cybersquatter no longer needs to type WHOIS insert-domain-here or they can save a little bandwidth if they scripted the whois.
All they need to do is type (or script it) the web address or do a DNS lookup and see where it points too. It will usually point to a certain block unless they were to spread the load out and use a setup similar to Akamai.
It still opens a huge can of worms though. (what about other registrars who use the same TLDs?)
Thats very true about typos in email addresses.
Basically we are about to be forced by Verisign to "trust" that they will not act on any of the emails and just bounce them back.
What the 12-year old's mother should do is sue Sharman Networks (KaZaa) for conspiracy (inciting attempts to break the law - they PAID for kazaa while Kazaa AFAIK has no safeguards).
Also, how could you expect a single parent to monitor all their childs activities while they are out working to pay all the expenses.
Even so, sending the single parent to jail is more wrong than copying a few songs and not knowing what you were doing was illegal because you paid for it.
If Kazaa was causing so much grief for the RIAA/MPAA, why not sue the makers of KaZaa (Sharman Networks). It happened with Napster, and other P2P networks.
Lets use another language with less ambiguities in words.. say Esperanto or finnish (Linux is from finland?) We will never agree on which english is correct (US english or UK/Euro english).
Yes I would definetly buy a car if I knew how it handled in various conditions (rain/snow/running from the cops/etc).
:)
A better idea would be a Grand Theft Auto type game with real vehicle physics and consequences, and have them model a real life city (like the MS Flight Simulator series do). I would definetly pay for something like that
Only downsides I see as it could be used to conduct Terrorist attacks.. but so could anything we take for granted.
I really disagree with that.
Paying money for "game items" which are only stored on a company owned database which you will never have access to is prown to HUGE abuses.
Think of the implications
Summary: A few legal issues there to resolve first. I rather see game company's fix bugs, and add game content as their first priority than cash in on items (which should be banned).
The project reminds me of this project. (Building a home made cruise missile)
But Imagine the possibilities what terrorists could do if they get hold of the plans to this "model plane".
From the headlines...
Shardleton writes "What kind of an idiot would buy penis-enlargement pills?"
Someone with a small penis maybe?
Even more idiotic, who would buy them from a spammer?"
A lot of people do stupid things, but hey its a free country and its their life.
Good news for Australia. At least when you buy a console you can do whatever you want with it. The way it should be.
EFF in Australia is actually called the EFA
...dnd thats a fact.
Not all P2P file traders live in the United states.
Most countries have their own market for music and their own record body.
And they are going to have a hard time sueing someone for copyright, say in in Asia for example.
When RIAA comes to town in Australia, for instance, we do it the other way around.
Australia actually has its own version of the RIAA.
I doubt music piracy is a real issue there (at the moment) as broadband is limited/expensive and as a result most users are on dialup (either by choice because they dont justify the costs OR no options).
But yes - it will happen soon.