I'm not even going to dignify this article by reading it. From the blurb, I can't imagine it being anything other than a tech writer pulling something out of his arse to meet a deadline. 'Better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates'? I've written vague informationless things like that in high school english essays for which I hadn't read the related text.
So, we have the internet, and now there's a lot of information that's instantly accessible. Everyone knows this. There's no need to put some half-arsed cautionary spin on it.
What worries me about a movie adaptation is that Ender is a six year old genius. This means the star of the movie would have to be very young and still very able to portray emotion and intelligence far more advanced than his age. Also, Ender grows up in the book, and it makes me wonder if they will attempt to let that happen for the movie as well. I'm sure it's all in good hands.
Limewire is another p2p service which is pretty good. The more popular songs are corrupted, and I don't know how RIAA'd it is, but it's an ok kazaa substitute for now. Also, with bittorrent you can download a torrent for an entire album which has your song in it, and using the Azureus bittorrent client you can go into the separate files and highlight everything but your desired song, right-click->priority->Do Not Download.
VOIP would be used mostly for international calls would it not? So which country's laws would apply regarding tappability, the caller's or the callee's? Either way, someone's legal rights are being violated.
Read the parent to this comment, which got modded down. Parent said that he heard this on the radio days ago and that/. was getting slow on tech news. What he heard on the radio, besides being speculation at best, would have been extremely localised. Fracex wasn't being a stereotypical arrogant american; his comment makes sense in context.
On tv shows such as 24 and Spooks, you know how when a bad guy uses his credit card at a gas station and they can immediately pull up the CCTV footage of him doing it? Even though CCTV kind of means that it's tv on a CLOSED CIRCUIT? I think that's what the article means when it says the cloud can be used for "surveillance" - it makes this commonly used artistic license a reality.
In the future, I have always hoped there will be wireless internet pretty much everywhere, for free. I'm not sure of a way for the providers to make back their money other than taxes, but I'm sure there will be a solution.
Well now the millions (?) of users might actually have something to write about when the servers are back up.
"Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier..."
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Oh come on, SOMEONE has to mod that one funny. Topical, too - reference to another cancelled show with a loyal fanbase.
I love how you can just ignore a multimillion dollar judgement. It's their attitude that I find amusing - they really couldn't give a shit.
but DVD is dead! We need a new format to watch movies on, and fast!
I'm not even going to dignify this article by reading it. From the blurb, I can't imagine it being anything other than a tech writer pulling something out of his arse to meet a deadline. 'Better technology to cope with the problems better technology creates'? I've written vague informationless things like that in high school english essays for which I hadn't read the related text.
So, we have the internet, and now there's a lot of information that's instantly accessible. Everyone knows this. There's no need to put some half-arsed cautionary spin on it.
Finally, a clear account of what the RIAA does that isn't biased, gossipy hearsay. My god, they really are assholes. Your ISP rocks.
Now that's an implication vastly more important than pedanting about whether or not australians are convicts. Mod parent up please.
I don't think anyone is looking forward to a future with broadcast flags. DRM is of the devil.
What worries me about a movie adaptation is that Ender is a six year old genius. This means the star of the movie would have to be very young and still very able to portray emotion and intelligence far more advanced than his age. Also, Ender grows up in the book, and it makes me wonder if they will attempt to let that happen for the movie as well. I'm sure it's all in good hands.
Limewire is another p2p service which is pretty good. The more popular songs are corrupted, and I don't know how RIAA'd it is, but it's an ok kazaa substitute for now. Also, with bittorrent you can download a torrent for an entire album which has your song in it, and using the Azureus bittorrent client you can go into the separate files and highlight everything but your desired song, right-click->priority->Do Not Download.
I thought Hollywood, being Hollywood, would change it. But they didn't. Typical.
Contradiction. If Hollywood DID change it, you'd still say typical.
VOIP would be used mostly for international calls would it not? So which country's laws would apply regarding tappability, the caller's or the callee's? Either way, someone's legal rights are being violated.
Read the parent to this comment, which got modded down. Parent said that he heard this on the radio days ago and that /. was getting slow on tech news. What he heard on the radio, besides being speculation at best, would have been extremely localised. Fracex wasn't being a stereotypical arrogant american; his comment makes sense in context.
On tv shows such as 24 and Spooks, you know how when a bad guy uses his credit card at a gas station and they can immediately pull up the CCTV footage of him doing it? Even though CCTV kind of means that it's tv on a CLOSED CIRCUIT? I think that's what the article means when it says the cloud can be used for "surveillance" - it makes this commonly used artistic license a reality. In the future, I have always hoped there will be wireless internet pretty much everywhere, for free. I'm not sure of a way for the providers to make back their money other than taxes, but I'm sure there will be a solution.
Well now the millions (?) of users might actually have something to write about when the servers are back up. "Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier..."
I don't understand how one corporation can have 3,248 original ideas.