Exclusive right to intelectual work, like copyright and patents, should be gave for just enough time to incentive the creation of the work.
No one can tell exactly how much time is it, and it may depend of the kind of work are you doing and how you can profit from it. But one thing is sure, with the great improvment of the communication and logistics, that time is much lower than it was when those "50/70 year" laws were created.
But the law makers still don't want to realize that.
The problem is that copyrights no longer protects inovation, as it was designed to be. Today, when the time to recover that mental investment is much lower, it majorly protects copyrights administration, that's much less concerned in inovation and diversity than in imposing to the society a specific work they hold copyrights.
"Society may give an exclusive right to the profits rising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility" Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813. ME 13:333
A lot of pages we visit are pages we already visited in the past, a partial solution would be a Firefox extension that makes you own search engine while you browse.
Google is improving the chinese firewall. Since google is taking the job to filter results themselves using their own infrastrutucture and technology, it saves effort for the chinese government that can use it to censor someone else, making viable the cost of maintaning a firewall for its increasing traffic.
Google will be also more efficient filtering results since they know their own technology, no reverse engineering needed, and is also known as an efficient company. So it will be less likely that a page against the regime will be shown on the results. People is already noticing, that most searches you do you get only pages that expose the government truth about the facts. And if you can't see (the other side) it doesn't exist. So if you think differently the problem is possible with you, since no one else seens to think that way.
Google is also helping the regime in a away that it follow every chinese government directions. That way the chinese don't need to block google, maitaning the access to all the technology information google provides.
If ISPs scanned heavily on emails, what you would get are better and better phishing emails. It's what Darwin said for biology and applies as well for many fields. It may eventually get to a point where not even a slashdot geek will figure out.
For your example a machine will need to know the email is supposely coming from a bank, who deceive that better will pass.
From the white list point of view, it won't work if you expect to receive emails from any major company and from people you don't know yet.
You could do great use of technology to avoid phishing, like forcing users to use a smart card connected to their computers and charging an insurance from those who don't, instead of only using simple (almost) static strings for authentication.
But the definitive solution isn't only technological, some people will prefer to don't use those smartcards, smartcards will have defects. You need other approaches together.
A bizarr effect of technology only aproaches is what we are seeing today on spam. Spam filters today are really good, at least the filters I use, but they let pass a few spams. That's great right? From the point of the sys admin that avoid bouncing and storing emails it may be.
But on the spammer side it incentives their activity, because whoever pass that layer of filters will get exclusive access to the "market", and much more "profit". So you see little decrease on virus creation, hacking and the amount of traffic getting to your firewall.
To defeat spam and phishing we need to attack the other side of the equation: making spam more expensive and more risky (some may also say making the damage of the risk higher but, for me, that sounds draconian and a cheap response to bad efficiency).
You can partially get the first with technology, very good filters can make finding a mail hub harder but not impossible, and as AOL is proposing with taxes, until a spammer discover a way to bypass that, maybe on the expense of someone else (creating another problem).
The second aspect is more risk. Criminals knowing they have good chances of being busted and, if they do, will loose everything they got facing proportional time in jail.
But to that happen the government need to know that spam isn't about sending "funny" emails about V|AGRA and people complaining about how full their mailbox is.
There's a whole criminal activity in the background, the same used by asumed thieves (phishing) that needs the appropriate treatment by the law.
I forgot to mention but education is also a good idea, we should see commercials on TV saying "SPAM is bad", "Don't answer emails that somehow ask for your password" and putting these same messages on the back of your PINs and bills.
I'll bribe some king of a small pacific island to let me be his Information Minister, after that I'll send emails to internet companies, asking them to shut down blogs and reveal me personal information of their users so I can go after them.
I'll also ask the better internet company around to use their top-notch technology and hardware to improve my censorship firewall, so I can reduce my costs, since I don't need to do it myself anymore, and improve my efficiency googol times.
They will do that, because they need to respect the laws of my country!
Sure they aren't doing all that to show respect to law. I don't even know if that deserves the name "law".
They're doing all that because they're greddy. And they sell human rights for some cheap Ads.
It should cost $400 initially, because like XBOX 360, independent of store price that will be closer to the price people will find to buy it in the first days.
Better buying from a store and money going to Sony than creating havoc in the first days and paying much more to an intermediate guy.
When stocks raises, down the price to a more affordable level.
IT acts like any help support, they don't want to solve your problem they just want to add a "change request" to their productive level, so they lie, pretend to solve your problem, give you partial solutions and procastinate the "hard" ones (anything that takes more than one minute).
That happens more when there's staff deficit but has a lot to do with moral (you may call it culture) too.
Intel is pretty good in video/audio encoding
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When you talk about video encoding intel is pretty good because these are the programs which benefit most from high clock speeds, since most processing is limited to registers/L1 and use a lot of SSE2/3
Probably lack of bandwidth or Microsoft Windows update isn't intuitive enough.
People abroad don't have the same kind of connection of those in developed countries, and MS Windows XP SP2 is big.
Same people don't have the same amount of information from the press, about viruses, worms and other security menances. Because only a small percentage of the population have computers. So the people aren't aware of those menances and don't care about them.
DRM also sucks, just after I installed MS Windows XP I tried to update several times and everyone I was getting an incompreensive error that didn't informed me the cause of the problem.
I didn't know what to do so I tried to register to see if that was the cause. I registered MS Windows and it updated on the first try, but too late, in the meantime it already got viruses and had to reinstall it.
In other words OpenGl will suck, because DirectX will have direct access to the kernel while OpenGl (and other graphics APIs) will be delayed by inumerous error checks by the interface.
That's a diesel car, which has more energy per gallon than gasoline, I don't recall if it's 30% or 60%.
It got 84 mpg only when driven in special conditions, not according to tests specifications. It's normal millage is 70mpg.
One of the things that makes a car economic its it weight. How lower is the mass of the car less energy you need to move it.
The car weight is related to the car size, the thickness of the stell used, to security features (stronger bars in specific locations) and acessories (air conditioning, power steering and extra doors).
Americans would refuse to buy small cars or cars with thinner materials, which may be viewed as lower quality material. Indeed, it's cheaper material, but if is damaged it's also cheaper to buy a replacement.
They also have more security needs, since trucks (read SUVs) driven like sport cars are everywhere in the US.
Other thing that saves fuel are small engines. Since they have smaller parts and most of the time the power of big a engine isn't needed, specially in stop-and-go traffic.
But americans want their cars fast on hills as they're on plane surface and to go 0-60 in 8 seconds.
Also small engines would require a light car, like the mentioned above.
That's why those cars aren't on the US market.
That also avoid new technology to be developed. Because many substitute technologies, like (ethanol) fuel cells, that could be applied to european (1.2liter 900kg) or brazilian (1.0 liter 800kg) cars aren't developed by american companies that have american cars in mind (at least 1.6liter 1100kg).
"In the early 20th century, there was a tremendous amount of immigration into the United States"
The difference of that immigration from latin immigration is that latin people keep their culture (language) toward generations.
About Orkut, I think it's indeed a "nazi" attitude to force someone to talk a language they don't know or segregate them in guetos (create a new group).
It may look easy to "talk in english" but for a non speaker it takes about 4 years to learn and anyone that speak a foreign language knows that's much easier to understand (listen/read) than to talk (speak/write), as is much harder to express yourself when you know (manage to remember) a small vocabulary.
So is not a surprise that a brazilian, when having problems expressing himself, starts talking in portuguese because he has a good chance of being understood and also can express his ideas better/faster.
Since portuguese seens to be the dominant language, even if that isn't the official one, in pratical it becames the standard one. Like native languages in many african countries and english in the internet/business/scientific.
That difficult in learning a "foreign" language is the same (or worse) for any other language except for Esperanto where you need just one year to reach the same level of understanting, because its gramatic/vocabulary were made to be easy to learn.
But the "english speakers overlords" (including those which didn't know it before but learned) don't want to abdict their status and learn another language.
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"Intelectual Work" (IW) is a better word than calling it "Intelectual Property".
Someone may have exclusive rights over a IW, but they don't own it because that rights have, or at least should have, a specific time duration.
Calling it a property expose (or impose, just depends of how much times you repeate it) and idea that right never expires.
Exclusive right to intelectual work, like copyright and patents, should be gave for just enough time to incentive the creation of the work.
No one can tell exactly how much time is it, and it may depend of the kind of work are you doing and how you can profit from it. But one thing is sure, with the great improvment of the communication and logistics, that time is much lower than it was when those "50/70 year" laws were created.
But the law makers still don't want to realize that.
The problem is that copyrights no longer protects inovation, as it was designed to be. Today, when the time to recover that mental investment is much lower, it majorly protects copyrights administration, that's much less concerned in inovation and diversity than in imposing to the society a specific work they hold copyrights.
"Society may give an exclusive right to the profits rising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility" Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813. ME 13:333
As people with higher education usually have jobs that demands more mental stress, it may be linked to that.
A lot of pages we visit are pages we already visited in the past, a partial solution would be a Firefox extension that makes you own search engine while you browse.
Is this that kind of games child play that have good and bad prizes. If it is I think a few people already got prizes from Microsoft and Yahoo.
On the "good prizes" side, Google gave China a better firewall.
Google is improving the chinese firewall. Since google is taking the job to filter results themselves using their own infrastrutucture and technology, it saves effort for the chinese government that can use it to censor someone else, making viable the cost of maintaning a firewall for its increasing traffic.
Google will be also more efficient filtering results since they know their own technology, no reverse engineering needed, and is also known as an efficient company. So it will be less likely that a page against the regime will be shown on the results. People is already noticing, that most searches you do you get only pages that expose the government truth about the facts. And if you can't see (the other side) it doesn't exist. So if you think differently the problem is possible with you, since no one else seens to think that way.
Google is also helping the regime in a away that it follow every chinese government directions. That way the chinese don't need to block google, maitaning the access to all the technology information google provides.
If ISPs scanned heavily on emails, what you would get are better and better phishing emails. It's what Darwin said for biology and applies as well for many fields. It may eventually get to a point where not even a slashdot geek will figure out.
For your example a machine will need to know the email is supposely coming from a bank, who deceive that better will pass.
From the white list point of view, it won't work if you expect to receive emails from any major company and from people you don't know yet.
You could do great use of technology to avoid phishing, like forcing users to use a smart card connected to their computers and charging an insurance from those who don't, instead of only using simple (almost) static strings for authentication.
But the definitive solution isn't only technological, some people will prefer to don't use those smartcards, smartcards will have defects. You need other approaches together.
A bizarr effect of technology only aproaches is what we are seeing today on spam. Spam filters today are really good, at least the filters I use, but they let pass a few spams. That's great right? From the point of the sys admin that avoid bouncing and storing emails it may be.
But on the spammer side it incentives their activity, because whoever pass that layer of filters will get exclusive access to the "market", and much more "profit". So you see little decrease on virus creation, hacking and the amount of traffic getting to your firewall.
To defeat spam and phishing we need to attack the other side of the equation: making spam more expensive and more risky (some may also say making the damage of the risk higher but, for me, that sounds draconian and a cheap response to bad efficiency).
You can partially get the first with technology, very good filters can make finding a mail hub harder but not impossible, and as AOL is proposing with taxes, until a spammer discover a way to bypass that, maybe on the expense of someone else (creating another problem).
The second aspect is more risk. Criminals knowing they have good chances of being busted and, if they do, will loose everything they got facing proportional time in jail.
But to that happen the government need to know that spam isn't about sending "funny" emails about V|AGRA and people complaining about how full their mailbox is.
There's a whole criminal activity in the background, the same used by asumed thieves (phishing) that needs the appropriate treatment by the law.
I forgot to mention but education is also a good idea, we should see commercials on TV saying "SPAM is bad", "Don't answer emails that somehow ask for your password" and putting these same messages on the back of your PINs and bills.
Bank institutions in many countries already don't use email to communicate with their clients. In my country they all spontaniously agreed on that.
But, unfortunately people seen to don't know this...
I'll bribe some king of a small pacific island to let me be his Information Minister, after that I'll send emails to internet companies, asking them to shut down blogs and reveal me personal information of their users so I can go after them.
I'll also ask the better internet company around to use their top-notch technology and hardware to improve my censorship firewall, so I can reduce my costs, since I don't need to do it myself anymore, and improve my efficiency googol times.
They will do that, because they need to respect the laws of my country!
Sure they aren't doing all that to show respect to law. I don't even know if that deserves the name "law".
They're doing all that because they're greddy. And they sell human rights for some cheap Ads.
What those people need is an "Independent Satellite Television" broadcasting all over China. There are no firewalls in the air.
:-)
And for internet some sort of low orbit "Satellite Internet".
Who wants to pay for all that?
It should cost $400 initially, because like XBOX 360, independent of store price that will be closer to the price people will find to buy it in the first days.
Better buying from a store and money going to Sony than creating havoc in the first days and paying much more to an intermediate guy.
When stocks raises, down the price to a more affordable level.
Use Firefox PrefBar to avoid Macromedia Flash, it works, at least on MS Windows. Check the box when you see M Flash is essential to navigation.
Very good, at least until those intelligent systems detect a false positive.
From the article:
"Online thieves who steal merchandise that companies work hard to produce"
I though he was saying:
Online thieves who steal products that companies work hard to merchandise
IT acts like any help support, they don't want to solve your problem they just want to add a "change request" to their productive level, so they lie, pretend to solve your problem, give you partial solutions and procastinate the "hard" ones (anything that takes more than one minute).
That happens more when there's staff deficit but has a lot to do with moral (you may call it culture) too.
When you talk about video encoding intel is pretty good because these are the programs which benefit most from high clock speeds, since most processing is limited to registers/L1 and use a lot of SSE2/3
If you use an earplugs daily, even on normal enviroments, to avoid damages to your ear will might get some ear infection instead.
Because your hands are not always clean, you need them to put (mash) the earplugs, and you probably wont use a new earplug every time you need it.
But how average Joe will know they have a hidden rootkit in a CD from trusty Sony/BMG?
I bet theyll never know, at least until their machine starts to behave strange, so no compensantion for them.
A better compensation would be to Sony publicize the problems of DRM.
Probably lack of bandwidth or Microsoft Windows update isn't intuitive enough.
People abroad don't have the same kind of connection of those in developed countries, and MS Windows XP SP2 is big.
Same people don't have the same amount of information from the press, about viruses, worms and other security menances. Because only a small percentage of the population have computers. So the people aren't aware of those menances and don't care about them.
DRM also sucks, just after I installed MS Windows XP I tried to update several times and everyone I was getting an incompreensive error that didn't informed me the cause of the problem.
I didn't know what to do so I tried to register to see if that was the cause. I registered MS Windows and it updated on the first try, but too late, in the meantime it already got viruses and had to reinstall it.
In other words OpenGl will suck, because DirectX will have direct access to the kernel while OpenGl (and other graphics APIs) will be delayed by inumerous error checks by the interface.
In fact you're wrong, one PPE is there just for redundancy and probably will be disabled.
Yes it does, cell's PPE is basically a PowerPc 970 (aka G5).
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That's a diesel car, which has more energy per gallon than gasoline, I don't recall if it's 30% or 60%.
It got 84 mpg only when driven in special conditions, not according to tests specifications. It's normal millage is 70mpg.
One of the things that makes a car economic its it weight. How lower is the mass of the car less energy you need to move it.
The car weight is related to the car size, the thickness of the stell used, to security features (stronger bars in specific locations) and acessories (air conditioning, power steering and extra doors).
Americans would refuse to buy small cars or cars with thinner materials, which may be viewed as lower quality material. Indeed, it's cheaper material, but if is damaged it's also cheaper to buy a replacement.
They also have more security needs, since trucks (read SUVs) driven like sport cars are everywhere in the US.
Other thing that saves fuel are small engines. Since they have smaller parts and most of the time the power of big a engine isn't needed, specially in stop-and-go traffic.
But americans want their cars fast on hills as they're on plane surface and to go 0-60 in 8 seconds.
Also small engines would require a light car, like the mentioned above.
That's why those cars aren't on the US market.
That also avoid new technology to be developed. Because many substitute technologies, like (ethanol) fuel cells, that could be applied to european (1.2liter 900kg) or brazilian (1.0 liter 800kg) cars aren't developed by american companies that have american cars in mind (at least 1.6liter 1100kg).
If you speak japanese this is his blog
"In the early 20th century, there was a tremendous amount of immigration into the United States"
The difference of that immigration from latin immigration is that latin people keep their culture (language) toward generations.
About Orkut, I think it's indeed a "nazi" attitude to force someone to talk a language they don't know or segregate them in guetos (create a new group).
It may look easy to "talk in english" but for a non speaker it takes about 4 years to learn and anyone that speak a foreign language knows that's much easier to understand (listen/read) than to talk (speak/write), as is much harder to express yourself when you know (manage to remember) a small vocabulary.
So is not a surprise that a brazilian, when having problems expressing himself, starts talking in portuguese because he has a good chance of being understood and also can express his ideas better/faster.
Since portuguese seens to be the dominant language, even if that isn't the official one, in pratical it becames the standard one. Like native languages in many african countries and english in the internet/business/scientific.
That difficult in learning a "foreign" language is the same (or worse) for any other language except for Esperanto where you need just one year to reach the same level of understanting, because its gramatic/vocabulary were made to be easy to learn.
But the "english speakers overlords" (including those which didn't know it before but learned) don't want to abdict their status and learn another language.