Let them close the analog hole and there is more pressure to crack down DRM... and if DRM is crack down people have perfect copies, not just copies in lesser quality when exploiting the analog hole... they are pushing their lovley idea of total control over content closer to a final failure, nothing else.
"When an ISP is seen as capable of administering your traffic, an ISP can be seen as authorised to administer your traffic. When an ISP is authorised to administer your traffic, an ISP can be seen as responsible for administering your traffic. When an ISP is responsible for administering your traffic, they can be seen as responsible for turning you in to the authorities."
"The fact is, if the flooding you speak of occurs, it won't happen such that a bunch of lowland dwellers go to sleep Tuesday night, dry, and wake up Wednesday morning floating on their mattresses."
What makes you believe exactly that?
I rather believe the opposite!
Right, the ocean will raise slowly, but that says nothing about how fast or slow portions of land will sink in water.
For example the vast majority of the Netherlands are below sealevel. Realy with "Dijks" 10 meters high all along the coast, their is nothing to fear if sealevel raises 0,5 or a meter or even 2... well, at least until something bad like a storm happens...
Oh, haven't you in the US had a similar scenario... just recently?
You're right, the ocean will raise slowly and the vast mojority of land won't sink the next day... and if the sea comes close to peoples homes, they will start to build "Dijks" to keep their feet dry... anywhere, neccessary.... They will be protected, even if the ocean continues to raise... well, at least until something bad like a storm happens...
"We will see it coming, people and businesses can migrate (and they will... believe me, they will.)"
Do you realy believe people and buisiness will migrate? Come on, blind or braindead are you?
Recently in the US a whole city was sunken in the ocean... as a matter of fact, this is what realy had happened!... Just take a look, these people even want to go back and rebuild everything...
Waht do you think a stumbling giant will do?... probably he will try to hold on something. And if it breaks, than the giant might not fall that hard... he thinks.
The new situation is, that there is no longer a common perception that MS products are ahead of their competitors (incl. some OSS projects.) MS falls behind in features/functionality/security/stability/usabilit y and is obviously trying to catch up.
It has nothing to do, with MS believing, that they can do it better. It has to do with MS trying to maintain its dominition on the software-market.
Adobe, Symantec or whoever can't compete in any way against a "zero price" strategy from MS... as a matter of fact, MS is doing hard in establishing a seperate new product that tries to comete on a fair basis. They just bundle anything with their two warhorses Windows and Office... browsers, mediaplayers, AntiVirus in the OS... PDF, (cripled) OpenDocument and many more such Features in Office.
The news is... the EC will keep an eye on MS... some more advice from the EC how MS has to "shape" their products is on the way... and maybe even some more fees...
"And google finally could have a nice open source competitor."
There is already a *possible" OSS competitor for quite some time for quite some time... although the project still lacks a few thousand people running that peer to peer based search engine.
The problem here seems to be, that I don't think that there is now an end in sight, either.
There is nothing that indicates any reduction in violence and I don't see how politics could achieve this.
The sad truth, IMHO, is that any difference can be found in the following sentence:
Was there more hope/chance to live a "normal" live with a dictator leading a country, or is there more hope/chance with terrorists roaming the country.
Think about it with the point of view of an Iraqi. On situation is controlable, and that gives you at least a chance to be safe. The other situation is out of any control, and there is no chance to be safe. You live in fear of terror all day long.
Freedom is worthless if you are not safe or in other words, without safty there can't be freedom.
Since day one of the war in Iraq the situation is in fact worse, than before. Until the point of time, where that country stabilizes, people will suffer more from the US-idealism than from there previous dictator.
Until the point of time, where that country stabilizes there is absolutly nothing good, about what the US and their allies did.
Only some time after that country stabilized, people can judge if this was realy the preferable way.
Take a look what happens in most western countries since 9/11 (and even before)... people are willing to sacrifice some freedom in order to live safe. Till now the question is: What do you prefer... some kind of safty and no freedom or freedom without safty.
What happened till now since day one of the Iraq war is, the exacty opposite, sacrifice safty for freedom... that's worth nothing if a bomb tears your child, your wife or yourself into pieces and oyu have no way to avoid this to happen!
"Now, as for today's USA - what have we done wrong? We took out a dictator who routinely murdered his own people!"... with the result, that there still is routine murder in that country...
"From the 38 million email messages created by the Clinton administration..."
I am pretty sure, that 90% of those emails could be deleted. (Not saying, that the adminitration writes/dev/null stuff... certainly there are many of "cantina" messages, but that's not the point.)
- If I take a look at my emails, I have quite a lot of threats in there, all later messages include the whole conversation of previous messages.
- If I take a look at my (outbound) emails, there are lot's of mails to multiple recipients. It is only neccessary to store it *once*!
- Since most of the emails are internal, i.e. one administration member writes to another one, there is no reason to save the outbox of the sender and inbox of the receiver.
"I'm sure I'm not the only one to read that "OS" as something the author didn't intend. OS = Operating System, OSS = Open Source Software. SCO purports to sell an operating system already, so including an OS in their product seems a bit redundant."
They need this redundancy... one is in reserve, if the other one infriges some copyrights.
I see your points. And I admitt, that "eBay *only* takes" is not precisely enough to express it.
But my rationale on it is, that all these 3rd-party applications will be centered around the eBay-platform. While improvements to these 3rd party apps will benefit the OSS-developers App as well as eBay, the "collective" effect of many improvements towards the single central platform will benefit eBay more, than those developers.
Of course, one can disagree to my rationale and certainly you will, arguing that there is no "aggregated" effect on the central platform.
I don't think it is realy a question who of us is right. What matters is, if the developers that participate in this project feel screewed or not.
If I where in your position I would prepare for some additional "incentive" for developers to participate. Doesn't neccessarily be direct payment, small discounts on the fees for the trades or even just some rewards for expecially intresting/usefull developments would certainly do.
Small goodies like that certainly give develpment some OSS additional boost, anyway.
eBay certainly isn't a street begger, that has to pass its had around and ask for gifts.
You're right in the way, that is often that way. Anyway such cases are equally unfair and the same exploitation.
However, if I compare Apache and eBay, there is a major difference. Everyone can take the Apache webserver and run its own *independent* website with it.
Can you take "eBay"-code and run your own *independent* auction-site?
Indeed, adblocking is about one thing... end this anoying ads buisiness... in personal short term or in general long term, doesn't matter.
If one thing is for sure, annoying advertisers are the first ones to go down to the ground. If free content will go down too, is pure speculation... let's see if there is enough innovation left, to keep these services alive, without annoyances!
"The people doing the damage are low life scum who buy Spam packages from other low life scum, and set up their own little mom and pop operations. Or script kiddies who create zombie farms from tips and tricks learned in IRC rooms."
You have missed a few people... the professionals hired by some company to do industrial espionage... or the ones that do personal espionage (adware)... or the professionals hired by governments to do espionage...
I somehow doubt that the "low life scum" is the one that does the damage, I rather believe that the damage is done by those in power, that seek for even more power.
Not saying, that there are no "low life scum" doing damage, but I think the "big" damage is done by big players.
Such news might be a change in the behaviour of the music industry. Probably the recording industry has learned the hard way, that their lawsuit-campaigns causes a lot of bad reputation and in a second stage this bad reputation causes a loss in revenue. However, they have moved themselfs onto a dead-end road with their actions. They cannot defeat p2p and piracy and therefore they would have to continue their hopless fight, that leads to even more bad reputation. They can't just say they won't take any further legal actions, unless the threat seems to be "resolved" somehow. They would loose face, if they simply retreat!
A possible way for the recording industry is put on a brave face and harm down the threat. By saying "ok, piracy was a big threat, but now we came around that", then they have a chance to end their actions that cause so much of bad reputiation. By doing it that way, they don't look like the losers on that battle, it looks like a victory.
Weather or not such statistics reflect the truth doesn't matter, what matters for the recording industry is how they can return to business as usual. They don't want to be considered "public enemy" anymore... IMHO.
"Woah! Those are really neat inventions. Must have required a lot of intellect to bring that intellectual property to paper."
I wonder how much intellect it required for the most über-geek US lawmakers to bring the current US patent laws to paper...
The big question now is, do European lawmakers have less intellect, because they need more time to bring such laws to paper or do they need more time, because they have an equal intellect but try to avoid the mistakes the US lawmakers made?
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This is a work in progress, me thinks.
Let them close the analog hole and there is more pressure to crack down DRM
"When an ISP is seen as capable of administering your traffic, an ISP can be seen as authorised to administer your traffic.
...
When an ISP is authorised to administer your traffic, an ISP can be seen as responsible for administering your traffic.
When an ISP is responsible for administering your traffic, they can be seen as responsible for turning you in to the authorities."
When I am capable to end your life
"The fact is, if the flooding you speak of occurs, it won't happen such that a bunch of lowland dwellers go to sleep Tuesday night, dry, and wake up Wednesday morning floating on their mattresses."
... well, at least until something bad like a storm happens ...
... just recently?
... and if the sea comes close to peoples homes, they will start to build "Dijks" to keep their feet dry ... anywhere, neccessary. ... They will be protected, even if the ocean continues to raise ... well, at least until something bad like a storm happens ...
... as a matter of fact, this is what realy had happened! ... Just take a look, these people even want to go back and rebuild everything ...
What makes you believe exactly that?
I rather believe the opposite!
Right, the ocean will raise slowly, but that says nothing about how fast or slow portions of land will sink in water.
For example the vast majority of the Netherlands are below sealevel. Realy with "Dijks" 10 meters high all along the coast, their is nothing to fear if sealevel raises 0,5 or a meter or even 2
Oh, haven't you in the US had a similar scenario
You're right, the ocean will raise slowly and the vast mojority of land won't sink the next day
"We will see it coming, people and businesses can migrate (and they will... believe me, they will.)"
Do you realy believe people and buisiness will migrate? Come on, blind or braindead are you?
Recently in the US a whole city was sunken in the ocean
Waht do you think a stumbling giant will do?
The new situation is, that there is no longer a common perception that MS products are ahead of their competitors (incl. some OSS projects.) MS falls behind in features/functionality/security/stability/usabili
It has nothing to do, with MS believing, that they can do it better. It has to do with MS trying to maintain its dominition on the software-market.
Adobe, Symantec or whoever can't compete in any way against a "zero price" strategy from MS
The news is
Code is law.
Never read anything about distros from that famous man
"And google finally could have a nice open source competitor."
... although the project still lacks a few thousand people running that peer to peer based search engine.
There is already a *possible" OSS competitor for quite some time for quite some time
Take a look at http://www.yacy.net/yacy/ and try it out.
To evaluate overall efficency of this way to create hydrogen we would have to know, how much energy it takes to make the powder.
The problem here seems to be, that I don't think that there is now an end in sight, either.
There is nothing that indicates any reduction in violence and I don't see how politics could achieve this.
The sad truth, IMHO, is that any difference can be found in the following sentence:
Was there more hope/chance to live a "normal" live with a dictator leading a country, or is there more hope/chance with terrorists roaming the country.
Think about it with the point of view of an Iraqi. On situation is controlable, and that gives you at least a chance to be safe. The other situation is out of any control, and there is no chance to be safe. You live in fear of terror all day long.
Freedom is worthless if you are not safe or in other words, without safty there can't be freedom.
Since day one of the war in Iraq the situation is in fact worse, than before.
Until the point of time, where that country stabilizes, people will suffer more from the US-idealism than from there previous dictator.
Until the point of time, where that country stabilizes there is absolutly nothing good, about what the US and their allies did.
Only some time after that country stabilized, people can judge if this was realy the preferable way.
Take a look what happens in most western countries since 9/11 (and even before)
Till now the question is: What do you prefer
What happened till now since day one of the Iraq war is, the exacty opposite, sacrifice safty for freedom
"Now, as for today's USA - what have we done wrong? We took out a dictator who routinely murdered his own people!" ... with the result, that there still is routine murder in that country ...
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
The only thing is, that we in general realize our own incapabilities after makiong mistakes
"From the 38 million email messages created by the Clinton administration ..."
/dev/null stuff ... certainly there are many of "cantina" messages, but that's not the point.)
I am pretty sure, that 90% of those emails could be deleted. (Not saying, that the adminitration writes
- If I take a look at my emails, I have quite a lot of threats in there, all later messages include the whole conversation of previous messages.
- If I take a look at my (outbound) emails, there are lot's of mails to multiple recipients. It is only neccessary to store it *once*!
- Since most of the emails are internal, i.e. one administration member writes to another one, there is no reason to save the outbox of the sender and inbox of the receiver.
What drive do you want to nuke today?
"I'm sure I'm not the only one to read that "OS" as something the author didn't intend. OS = Operating System, OSS = Open Source Software. SCO purports to sell an operating system already, so including an OS in their product seems a bit redundant."
... one is in reserve, if the other one infriges some copyrights.
They need this redundancy
Excuse the question, I am an outlander
I see your points. And I admitt, that "eBay *only* takes" is not precisely enough to express it.
But my rationale on it is, that all these 3rd-party applications will be centered around the eBay-platform.
While improvements to these 3rd party apps will benefit the OSS-developers App as well as eBay, the "collective" effect of many improvements towards the single central platform will benefit eBay more, than those developers.
Of course, one can disagree to my rationale and certainly you will, arguing that there is no "aggregated" effect on the central platform.
I don't think it is realy a question who of us is right. What matters is, if the developers that participate in this project feel screewed or not.
If I where in your position I would prepare for some additional "incentive" for developers to participate. Doesn't neccessarily be direct payment, small discounts on the fees for the trades or even just some rewards for expecially intresting/usefull developments would certainly do.
Small goodies like that certainly give develpment some OSS additional boost, anyway.
eBay certainly isn't a street begger, that has to pass its had around and ask for gifts.
You're right in the way, that is often that way. Anyway such cases are equally unfair and the same exploitation.
However, if I compare Apache and eBay, there is a major difference. Everyone can take the Apache webserver and run its own *independent* website with it.
Can you take "eBay"-code and run your own *independent* auction-site?
What does eBay expect to give back to the OSS-Community?
I think they will only take and give nothing back!
Indeed, adblocking is about one thing
If one thing is for sure, annoying advertisers are the first ones to go down to the ground. If free content will go down too, is pure speculation
You mean 90% of all usages of flash is ads
"The people doing the damage are low life scum who buy Spam packages from other low life scum, and set up their own little mom and pop operations. Or script kiddies who create zombie farms from tips and tricks learned in IRC rooms."
... the professionals hired by some company to do industrial espionage ... or the ones that do personal espionage (adware)... or the professionals hired by governments to do espionage ...
You have missed a few people
I somehow doubt that the "low life scum" is the one that does the damage, I rather believe that the damage is done by those in power, that seek for even more power.
Not saying, that there are no "low life scum" doing damage, but I think the "big" damage is done by big players.
Such news might be a change in the behaviour of the music industry.
Probably the recording industry has learned the hard way, that their lawsuit-campaigns causes a lot of bad reputation and in a second stage this bad reputation causes a loss in revenue.
However, they have moved themselfs onto a dead-end road with their actions. They cannot defeat p2p and piracy and therefore they would have to continue their hopless fight, that leads to even more bad reputation. They can't just say they won't take any further legal actions, unless the threat seems to be "resolved" somehow. They would loose face, if they simply retreat!
A possible way for the recording industry is put on a brave face and harm down the threat. By saying "ok, piracy was a big threat, but now we came around that", then they have a chance to end their actions that cause so much of bad reputiation. By doing it that way, they don't look like the losers on that battle, it looks like a victory.
Weather or not such statistics reflect the truth doesn't matter, what matters for the recording industry is how they can return to business as usual. They don't want to be considered "public enemy" anymore
"Woah! Those are really neat inventions. Must have required a lot of intellect to bring that intellectual property to paper."
I wonder how much intellect it required for the most über-geek US lawmakers to bring the current US patent laws to paper
The big question now is, do European lawmakers have less intellect, because they need more time to bring such laws to paper or do they need more time, because they have an equal intellect but try to avoid the mistakes the US lawmakers made?