oh sure, competitors would benifit, but at the same time the consumer outrage of "what!? i can't buy the iPod I want because Sacem is demanding their cut of the music THEY ASSUME i will pirate!?" It's about sacrificing a bit of short-term money to avoid paing alot of money long term.
If Apple really wants to win they should recall all iPods still in stored in France and put out AD's denouncing the "musicians" rights group and the tax involved, when people can't get what they want is when you get their attention, lawsuits happen all the time but a product being pulled from your country gets things done... "we're sorry, we cannot sell our product to you because is suing us under because they feel they deserve money for every one of our product we sell just in case it is used to pirate music"
After partially reading the FA It seems that this scheme is particularly well suited for what it is currently doing, Sat Comm and deep space probes where you have alot of computational and analysis power at the recieving end but not a good way to ask for a re-transmission, when you have a multiple second (or multiple hour) latency in your communication system but really, this is not going to be in a cell phone for quite a while, cell phones are built to make lots of connections from one tower, not to make your phone get insane coverage or to make your battery last longer. especially the stuff abour predicting bit value based on analog value, so now we turn every digital reciever into a digital reciever + Analog to Digital reciever in x bits.... honestly i think most consumer applications are not worth the added cost. keep in mind it has been 11 years since this tech came out... communications companies aren't stupid... it WOULD be on the market if it was feasable/affordable.
Am I the only one who thinks a particular port should be blocked off from inter-ISP and inter-client access and used exclusively for ISP -> client and Client -> ISP communications, add support to new operating systems and provide a patch to all old OS's It would have to be intrusive enough that a user would not ignore it and somewhat persistant in case a message was recieved right before a system crash on the client side... It would allow ISP's to securely communicate with Clients/customers and allow people to not be "in the dark" about sceduled network downtime even if they never check their ISP email address, somewhat like a MOTD for the ISP. If killing access to a port is unacceptable then perhapse setting up a new installed protocol for this exclusive purpose.
simple, make willfully incopetent practice a criminal offence with significant jailtime... obviously not a simple medical error but practicing under the influence of drugs/alcohol, outside of specialized field, gross negligence etc.
in europe dates are done DD.MM.YYYY which really is a more logical system, although i prefer the reverse YYYY-MM-DD when used in File names because then a name sort puts them in the right order
how about something like the Visa Gift card
except sold from vending machines (you would have to swipe the card into the machine after buying it to send the add denomination command to the visa database, anonymous and secure, set the PIN on it with the card vending machine
the easiest way to thwart the best dectection and data mining schemes is to flood them with crap. We should sick the trolls on them.... they can be *very* effective crapflooders when they work together
from what i have read it will be a simple unencrypted bit, so a little chip sitting on the line that synchs with the signal and cancels out the nocopy bit would probably be $20 or less
But Didn't you ever play mechwarrior? the elementals sucked ass and were a pain to kill 'cause they ran around so damned much.... we should be working on real battlemechs. With a few combat battlemechs you can get anyone to surrender.... a giant semi-humanoid robot capable of taking direct hits from an RPG is really intimidating regardless of it's effectiveness compared to the same amount of money's worth of tanks.
fuck MP3, for high quality use OGG or FLAC, if you need to save space use vqf/twinVQ a 96kbps vqf file is at least as clear as a 192 kbps mp3, the weakness is encoding time (vqf is slow as death to encode, or at least it was)
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oh sure, competitors would benifit, but at the same time the consumer outrage of "what!? i can't buy the iPod I want because Sacem is demanding their cut of the music THEY ASSUME i will pirate!?" It's about sacrificing a bit of short-term money to avoid paing alot of money long term.
If Apple really wants to win they should recall all iPods still in stored in France and put out AD's denouncing the "musicians" rights group and the tax involved, when people can't get what they want is when you get their attention, lawsuits happen all the time but a product being pulled from your country gets things done... "we're sorry, we cannot sell our product to you because is suing us under because they feel they deserve money for every one of our product we sell just in case it is used to pirate music"
After partially reading the FA It seems that this scheme is particularly well suited for what it is currently doing, Sat Comm and deep space probes where you have alot of computational and analysis power at the recieving end but not a good way to ask for a re-transmission, when you have a multiple second (or multiple hour) latency in your communication system but really, this is not going to be in a cell phone for quite a while, cell phones are built to make lots of connections from one tower, not to make your phone get insane coverage or to make your battery last longer. especially the stuff abour predicting bit value based on analog value, so now we turn every digital reciever into a digital reciever + Analog to Digital reciever in x bits.... honestly i think most consumer applications are not worth the added cost. keep in mind it has been 11 years since this tech came out... communications companies aren't stupid... it WOULD be on the market if it was feasable/affordable.
Am I the only one who thinks a particular port should be blocked off from inter-ISP and inter-client access and used exclusively for ISP -> client and Client -> ISP communications, add support to new operating systems and provide a patch to all old OS's It would have to be intrusive enough that a user would not ignore it and somewhat persistant in case a message was recieved right before a system crash on the client side... It would allow ISP's to securely communicate with Clients/customers and allow people to not be "in the dark" about sceduled network downtime even if they never check their ISP email address, somewhat like a MOTD for the ISP. If killing access to a port is unacceptable then perhapse setting up a new installed protocol for this exclusive purpose.
Yup, all the guy on my floor were SO embarassed to play.... the level of embarassment was so bad we all played (to make them feel better of course)
*drip* *drip* as the sarcasm pools on the floor
What's the point of buying a Windows clone just so you can say you switched to Linux?
to not get hit by the next windows worm
I prefer to take the other look at that statistic, they were able to save ~90% of the people who would have died without their help.
simple, make willfully incopetent practice a criminal offence with significant jailtime... obviously not a simple medical error but practicing under the influence of drugs/alcohol, outside of specialized field, gross negligence etc.
or is that the 5th of january 2004...
in europe dates are done DD.MM.YYYY which really is a more logical system, although i prefer the reverse YYYY-MM-DD when used in File names because then a name sort puts them in the right order
how about something like the Visa Gift card
except sold from vending machines (you would have to swipe the card into the machine after buying it to send the add denomination command to the visa database, anonymous and secure, set the PIN on it with the card vending machine
you could offer to let the thief copy in your chamelion card to his reader..... a thief who knew how it worked would probably have one as well
If i scanned all the machines at my school the computer center would shut off my internet
the easiest way to thwart the best dectection and data mining schemes is to flood them with crap. We should sick the trolls on them.... they can be *very* effective crapflooders when they work together
especially since EULA's have never been found to be enforcable contracts (or enforcable anything for that matter)
or spread for two weeks then nuke the boot sector
from what i have read it will be a simple unencrypted bit, so a little chip sitting on the line that synchs with the signal and cancels out the nocopy bit would probably be $20 or less
you can have the gauss cannon i got dibs on the ER-PPC and the LRM-15
But Didn't you ever play mechwarrior? the elementals sucked ass and were a pain to kill 'cause they ran around so damned much.... we should be working on real battlemechs. With a few combat battlemechs you can get anyone to surrender.... a giant semi-humanoid robot capable of taking direct hits from an RPG is really intimidating regardless of it's effectiveness compared to the same amount of money's worth of tanks.
How is this a big deal, they can track cell phones... not news.
fuck MP3, for high quality use OGG or FLAC, if you need to save space use vqf/twinVQ a 96kbps vqf file is at least as clear as a 192 kbps mp3, the weakness is encoding time (vqf is slow as death to encode, or at least it was)
they should hire Leonard "J." Crabs instead, he is better than MoFo could ever be...
DMCA only applies to CPYRIGHTED material, if non-copyrightable material is encrypted you CAN crack the encryption
what's the point of a search engine if the computer can read your mind, why not just have the relevant page be open when you sit down
Didn't you get the memo? Windows went open source >:)