What world were you brought up in where you think that might makes right?
The question here SHOULD be - does her website damage anybody else. After all, she had it first.
The obvious answer is no. She in NO way is taking money away from milka. People looking for milka chocolate can always just click the back button and run a more specific search.
Wait wait, let me guess. You're a manager of something, or aspire to it.
News, Maps, etc. It certainly appears that Google is poising themselves to become a one-stop internet site.
However, they won't be able to do so without becoming an ISP. So the question is, where and when will Google break into the ISP market so they can capture a gauranteed customer base to compete with Yahoo and MSN?
Is there a likely company for Google to partner with?
I'll say it, and you can consider me an expert on the matter because I have 3 children under the age of 10. None of which has killed somebody, but all of which have grown up in that culture.
It's funny - when my 8 year old sees violence on TV, he turns it off. Because, in his words, that person is being mean. My 8 year old, upon hearing music like that, will turn it off because the people are being mean. My other kids happily follow his (and our) example.
I guess my 8 year old, in his infinite wisdom, has a better grip on reality than you. His answer is very simple. Turn it off. Last time I checked, it's parents that force society on kids, not kids forcing it on themselves. If they're taught well before they're exposed to society's evils, then this doesn't result in a problem.
It's only when children are allowed to watch this before their cognitive abilities have developed far enough to differentiate right from wrong where this causes a problem. I.e. "Power Rangers" and other young children's show geared toward violence.
A local radio station WJR 760 in Detroit interviewed him earlier this week. It was apparent that he needed to hire someone with a little better speaking skills - especially when he knows he'll be ambushed at nearly every opportunity.
I couldn't believe my ears when the talk show host asked him: "Does it bother you that people use your product for negative purposes, sort of like the scientists who developed the formulas used in the atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands?"
My jaw hit the floor when his reply was "Well, this isn't exactly an atom bomb...." That's why the lawyers are winning right now. It's not because they're smarter. It's because they are SO good at twisting things around, and us geeks can't speak in public worth a damn.
He also wouldn't admit that bit-torrent is a revolutionary way of transfering data, he kept downplaying his program. Come on man! You're not a programmer right now. You're a salesman and a human resource department. Act like it!
Um, a transpecies pandemic is ENOUGH of a reason not to do this to anything outside a lab.
It's believed many of the trans-species jumps that have occurred recently have been caused by workers constantly being exposed to massive amounts of animal guts etc.
People seem to forget that the "flu" has the potential to kill hundreds of millions if a new strain manages to jump.
If a completely unknown strain jumps from another animal, it very likely will be WORSE that any flu epidemic. We have more people on earth now (alot more) and they travel and come into contact a whole lot more than they did during the first flu epidemic.
>>Either you manage and design around it or fail.
>>NASA management still often chooses the latter.
This is hindsite at its best, and is the classic comment by beareaucrats who have no concept of what cutting edge design is about. F1 race cars, Racing Sailboats, Nuclear Reactors - NO design is failsafe, and NO design is foolproof. Especially a one off design that isn't mass produced. Even mass produced designs have errors, like in the Auto Industry. It is a simple fact of life that engineers and managers balance Cost and Safety constantly.
What you SHOULD be comparing this against is other space agencies that launch a similar number of missions and sattelites - i.e. other real world examples.
No thanks.
This scares me just like the data-recording units in some new cars. If you don't think the data is going to be stored for people to reference - 'Insurance company / police / etc', then I think you're off base.
The folks talking about automatic driving systems are also pretty unrealistic. Vision systems in use in manufacturing environments are notriously touchy and difficult to keep running, even with proper illumination and constrat control.
This will be used as a law enforcement tool. Those people who stop driving when they grow tired will continue to do so, and those that don't will disable the system and continue to drive, just like folks who refuse to wear seatbelts disable the idiot bell and light.
Mainstream. I think a number of you folks should go back and read up on what that means.
I'm pretty decent as far as tech stuff goes - when people in the neighborhood have an issue they call me.
But I read through some of your posts and all I could think of was "This is your idea of mainstream?" Mainstream means a wall socket and a plug. Mainstream means a single cable to connect and you're done. Mainstream means that OVER HALF of the "mainstream" folks still can't plug their computer in correctly, much less what you folks are talking about.
So, in that vein, the article is DEAD on. HDTV is NOT read for mainstream. Take off your geek-blinders for a second and realize that having to plug together more than one or two components is going to be FAR too difficult for most folks when they still have trouble programming their VCR.
Any ISP on earth knows, indisputably, that illegal files are traversing their network. It is gauranteed.
So while the ISP's are not WILLFULLY trading these files, the are knowingly allowing them to be traded. One has to believe that the wording of this law was done intentionally to force ISP's in a round-about manner to monitor and proactively shutdown file traders.
A9 has a lot yet to prove. It isn't "wide spread" so the optimizers haven't pounded it yet and figured out how to slew the results. It's not being widely used, so we can't particularly tell how the load balancing is set up, or how "quick" the searches will be. Finally, while most search engines started out anti-advertising, it only took a while for them to develop a following and then implement advertising to improve their profit outlook.
Assumedly, their "Premium" customers pay more than we do, are bigger than we are, and probably stand more to lose in a major outage than small companies, on a $ per $ basis. This sounds like good customer relations to me, and not any different from any other service.
This is tantamount to telling people what gasoline they have to put in their car.
The difference is, as long as the blue-ray players drop in price quickly, the average consumer really won't give a damn.
You'll only hear a true uproar once prices go beyond what the majority of the market can bear. So prepared to be screwed - because there isn't a damn thing you or I can do about it.
Bzzzt. Completely wrong.
What happened here is that volunteers (whose name I won't mention) SUED the parent company and won because they were working more than they should have for "free".
Since then, the volunteer programs of nearly every large MMORPG have been shut down because it's cheaper to pay for crappy help than it is to litigate against volunteers who suddenly want to be paid.
Good try though.
With the amount of the settlement per-person, this feels like a mail-in-rebate. I.E., the amount is so small vs. the hassle (filling out a form) that most people will likely forgo the cost of a cup of coffee so they don't have to fill out anything.
Which means, in the end, that this verdict will mean very very little to paypal. They should give their lawyers a bonus.
There is no way out of this cycle. The lawyers will be getting rich, the "small" guys will still not have the $$$ to protect their GPL licenses in court, and the circle will continue, albeit viciously.
The university will not continue to purchase licenses once the "free donor" leaves. Other universities will not follow their lead.
It's pretty simply - eventually, we will all be tied to an IP adress the same way we're tied to a street address, a telephone number, a license plate, and a credit card number. We will "own" that IP address through the use of our login / password so that we can be tracked just as we are in every other aspect of life.
As usual, Americans only see as far as the end of their nose, and no further.
The Japense government is working to forward their own businesses. When's the last time you saw our government smacking the europeans or Asian Pacific around on issues like this?
Like most geeks, you have an interesting idea (microsoft passport) but you don't have a business case.
For instance, look at your stated benefits:
Secure repository for your personal information.
Verify your identity once to us, using paper documentation.
Then verify yourself to any number of other users.
Pass sensitive information to others securely.
Keep full control over your own data.
Others see only what you want them to see.
I have a secure repository for my personal information. It's called my house. I don't want you to have my personal information, and I certainly don't want you "verifying" what I'm doing.
Let me put this another way. So now, the website I'm downloading from can watermark the files (with a javascript) so they know MY ID downloaded it.....and you can see where that can go. Websites that share information can compare ID's and build a very comprehensive picture of exactly what people are doing on the net.
I think the majority of the slashdot crowd would work very actively at circumventing anything like this that was put in place. They certainly worked hard to get around the digital watermarking in MP3's... another type of verification.
Not too long ago, Microsoft tried to "slamdunk" a number of users and force them to use passport. Players of their massively multiplayer games that had micrsoft "zone" accounts were notified that their personal information was migrating to a "passport" account. It took me two weeks of contacting personnel to have remove my "passport" account, and I deleted my game accounts. Even NOW, 5 years after getting rid of it, I can still log in and microsoft recognizes my "passport" info - likely meaning they still have my personal information there as well.
I do not want to be tracked, catalogued, verified, objectified, numberfied, or any other "fied". I want to walk to the store, buy something, and walk home without wondering who knows I just purchased 3 pairs of women's undergarmets and a package of 300 balloons....
It's the PATENT OFFICE's JOB to make sure, when a patent is filed, it's not a copy of another. Likewise, if you intend to try and make something, invent something, or use something as a standard, it's YOUR job to do the research and ensure that you're not infringing on someone's patents!
Finally, you must ACTIVELY enforce your patent rights! RFID tags have been used for the last 20 years in manufacturing environments to monitor pallet movements, create build recipes, monitor what goods in the manufacturing line have what parts, have gone into repair bays, etc etc.
Alot of folks here are missing the point.
Lets go back and look for a second here. MOST people using computers today have done so because their work requires it. In 20 years that might change... but not right now.
And, what do work computers have in common? They all run the big name - super expensive - programs like MsOffice, XP, Photoshop, and so on.
What else do the MAJORITY of users have in common? They look at the computer as a simple tool, like a butter knife or a fork. They want the basic model that gets the job done. They are not going to buy an electric knife to cut a loaf of bread. Meaning, that you folks going on about Linux, Gimp, and all the other "alternative" programs out there don't have a chance in the world of seeing your dreams come to fruition, because people don't want to spend the time and hassle having one complete system at work and trying to manage a completely different one at home.
Even with draconian DRM, people will STILL be buying or trying to get ahold of those programs because they DON'T want to put forth all the wasted effort of trying to learn an entirely new system!!!!!
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What world were you brought up in where you think that might makes right? The question here SHOULD be - does her website damage anybody else. After all, she had it first. The obvious answer is no. She in NO way is taking money away from milka. People looking for milka chocolate can always just click the back button and run a more specific search. Wait wait, let me guess. You're a manager of something, or aspire to it.
News, Maps, etc. It certainly appears that Google is poising themselves to become a one-stop internet site.
However, they won't be able to do so without becoming an ISP. So the question is, where and when will Google break into the ISP market so they can capture a gauranteed customer base to compete with Yahoo and MSN?
Is there a likely company for Google to partner with?
I'll say it, and you can consider me an expert on the matter because I have 3 children under the age of 10. None of which has killed somebody, but all of which have grown up in that culture.
It's funny - when my 8 year old sees violence on TV, he turns it off. Because, in his words, that person is being mean. My 8 year old, upon hearing music like that, will turn it off because the people are being mean. My other kids happily follow his (and our) example.
I guess my 8 year old, in his infinite wisdom, has a better grip on reality than you. His answer is very simple. Turn it off. Last time I checked, it's parents that force society on kids, not kids forcing it on themselves. If they're taught well before they're exposed to society's evils, then this doesn't result in a problem.
It's only when children are allowed to watch this before their cognitive abilities have developed far enough to differentiate right from wrong where this causes a problem. I.e. "Power Rangers" and other young children's show geared toward violence.
A local radio station WJR 760 in Detroit interviewed him earlier this week. It was apparent that he needed to hire someone with a little better speaking skills - especially when he knows he'll be ambushed at nearly every opportunity.
I couldn't believe my ears when the talk show host asked him: "Does it bother you that people use your product for negative purposes, sort of like the scientists who developed the formulas used in the atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands?"
My jaw hit the floor when his reply was "Well, this isn't exactly an atom bomb...." That's why the lawyers are winning right now. It's not because they're smarter. It's because they are SO good at twisting things around, and us geeks can't speak in public worth a damn.
He also wouldn't admit that bit-torrent is a revolutionary way of transfering data, he kept downplaying his program. Come on man! You're not a programmer right now. You're a salesman and a human resource department. Act like it!
Um, a transpecies pandemic is ENOUGH of a reason not to do this to anything outside a lab.
It's believed many of the trans-species jumps that have occurred recently have been caused by workers constantly being exposed to massive amounts of animal guts etc.
People seem to forget that the "flu" has the potential to kill hundreds of millions if a new strain manages to jump.
If a completely unknown strain jumps from another animal, it very likely will be WORSE that any flu epidemic. We have more people on earth now (alot more) and they travel and come into contact a whole lot more than they did during the first flu epidemic.
One of the primary dangers in this is increasing the contact of sheep viruses with human organs.
That is the primary way of allowing a virus to adapt and cross-species jump.
His sentence on the front page is dead on.
Do you want proof? What happens when Steam goes bankrupt, is purchased and shutdown by another company, etc etc.
Suddenly that game you "licensed" goes up in smoke and you can't play it anymore, or reinstall it.
It's Bullshit.
>>Either you manage and design around it or fail. >>NASA management still often chooses the latter.
This is hindsite at its best, and is the classic comment by beareaucrats who have no concept of what cutting edge design is about. F1 race cars, Racing Sailboats, Nuclear Reactors - NO design is failsafe, and NO design is foolproof. Especially a one off design that isn't mass produced. Even mass produced designs have errors, like in the Auto Industry. It is a simple fact of life that engineers and managers balance Cost and Safety constantly.
What you SHOULD be comparing this against is other space agencies that launch a similar number of missions and sattelites - i.e. other real world examples.
Expecting perfection is not realistic.
No thanks. This scares me just like the data-recording units in some new cars. If you don't think the data is going to be stored for people to reference - 'Insurance company / police / etc', then I think you're off base.
The folks talking about automatic driving systems are also pretty unrealistic. Vision systems in use in manufacturing environments are notriously touchy and difficult to keep running, even with proper illumination and constrat control.
This will be used as a law enforcement tool. Those people who stop driving when they grow tired will continue to do so, and those that don't will disable the system and continue to drive, just like folks who refuse to wear seatbelts disable the idiot bell and light.
Again, no thanks.
Mainstream. I think a number of you folks should go back and read up on what that means.
I'm pretty decent as far as tech stuff goes - when people in the neighborhood have an issue they call me.
But I read through some of your posts and all I could think of was "This is your idea of mainstream?" Mainstream means a wall socket and a plug. Mainstream means a single cable to connect and you're done. Mainstream means that OVER HALF of the "mainstream" folks still can't plug their computer in correctly, much less what you folks are talking about.
So, in that vein, the article is DEAD on. HDTV is NOT read for mainstream. Take off your geek-blinders for a second and realize that having to plug together more than one or two components is going to be FAR too difficult for most folks when they still have trouble programming their VCR.
Any ISP on earth knows, indisputably, that illegal files are traversing their network. It is gauranteed.
So while the ISP's are not WILLFULLY trading these files, the are knowingly allowing them to be traded. One has to believe that the wording of this law was done intentionally to force ISP's in a round-about manner to monitor and proactively shutdown file traders.
A9 has a lot yet to prove. It isn't "wide spread" so the optimizers haven't pounded it yet and figured out how to slew the results. It's not being widely used, so we can't particularly tell how the load balancing is set up, or how "quick" the searches will be. Finally, while most search engines started out anti-advertising, it only took a while for them to develop a following and then implement advertising to improve their profit outlook.
We'll see.
Assumedly, their "Premium" customers pay more than we do, are bigger than we are, and probably stand more to lose in a major outage than small companies, on a $ per $ basis. This sounds like good customer relations to me, and not any different from any other service.
This is tantamount to telling people what gasoline they have to put in their car.
The difference is, as long as the blue-ray players drop in price quickly, the average consumer really won't give a damn.
You'll only hear a true uproar once prices go beyond what the majority of the market can bear. So prepared to be screwed - because there isn't a damn thing you or I can do about it.
Yeah, I'm Free. Right.
Bzzzt. Completely wrong. What happened here is that volunteers (whose name I won't mention) SUED the parent company and won because they were working more than they should have for "free". Since then, the volunteer programs of nearly every large MMORPG have been shut down because it's cheaper to pay for crappy help than it is to litigate against volunteers who suddenly want to be paid. Good try though.
With the amount of the settlement per-person, this feels like a mail-in-rebate. I.E., the amount is so small vs. the hassle (filling out a form) that most people will likely forgo the cost of a cup of coffee so they don't have to fill out anything.
Which means, in the end, that this verdict will mean very very little to paypal. They should give their lawyers a bonus.
There is no way out of this cycle. The lawyers will be getting rich, the "small" guys will still not have the $$$ to protect their GPL licenses in court, and the circle will continue, albeit viciously.
Of course this won't help.
The university will not continue to purchase licenses once the "free donor" leaves. Other universities will not follow their lead.
It's pretty simply - eventually, we will all be tied to an IP adress the same way we're tied to a street address, a telephone number, a license plate, and a credit card number. We will "own" that IP address through the use of our login / password so that we can be tracked just as we are in every other aspect of life.
See... there's normal people... and then... there's engineers...
As usual, Americans only see as far as the end of their nose, and no further.
The Japense government is working to forward their own businesses. When's the last time you saw our government smacking the europeans or Asian Pacific around on issues like this?
Like most geeks, you have an interesting idea (microsoft passport) but you don't have a business case.
For instance, look at your stated benefits:
Secure repository for your personal information.
Verify your identity once to us, using paper documentation.
Then verify yourself to any number of other users.
Pass sensitive information to others securely. Keep full control over your own data.
Others see only what you want them to see.
I have a secure repository for my personal information. It's called my house. I don't want you to have my personal information, and I certainly don't want you "verifying" what I'm doing.
Let me put this another way. So now, the website I'm downloading from can watermark the files (with a javascript) so they know MY ID downloaded it.....and you can see where that can go. Websites that share information can compare ID's and build a very comprehensive picture of exactly what people are doing on the net.
I think the majority of the slashdot crowd would work very actively at circumventing anything like this that was put in place. They certainly worked hard to get around the digital watermarking in MP3's... another type of verification.
Not too long ago, Microsoft tried to "slamdunk" a number of users and force them to use passport. Players of their massively multiplayer games that had micrsoft "zone" accounts were notified that their personal information was migrating to a "passport" account. It took me two weeks of contacting personnel to have remove my "passport" account, and I deleted my game accounts. Even NOW, 5 years after getting rid of it, I can still log in and microsoft recognizes my "passport" info - likely meaning they still have my personal information there as well.
I do not want to be tracked, catalogued, verified, objectified, numberfied, or any other "fied". I want to walk to the store, buy something, and walk home without wondering who knows I just purchased 3 pairs of women's undergarmets and a package of 300 balloons....
I think you're behind the times.
The new mobile AMD chips are overclocking by 33% and more with air cooling, better than the amount you got on your old board.
"Submarine Patents"? Keeping them secret?
It's the PATENT OFFICE's JOB to make sure, when a patent is filed, it's not a copy of another. Likewise, if you intend to try and make something, invent something, or use something as a standard, it's YOUR job to do the research and ensure that you're not infringing on someone's patents! Finally, you must ACTIVELY enforce your patent rights! RFID tags have been used for the last 20 years in manufacturing environments to monitor pallet movements, create build recipes, monitor what goods in the manufacturing line have what parts, have gone into repair bays, etc etc.
You'd think politicians would lear.... oh right. They're not there to represent the people. I keep forgetting that.
Alot of folks here are missing the point. Lets go back and look for a second here. MOST people using computers today have done so because their work requires it. In 20 years that might change... but not right now. And, what do work computers have in common? They all run the big name - super expensive - programs like MsOffice, XP, Photoshop, and so on. What else do the MAJORITY of users have in common? They look at the computer as a simple tool, like a butter knife or a fork. They want the basic model that gets the job done. They are not going to buy an electric knife to cut a loaf of bread. Meaning, that you folks going on about Linux, Gimp, and all the other "alternative" programs out there don't have a chance in the world of seeing your dreams come to fruition, because people don't want to spend the time and hassle having one complete system at work and trying to manage a completely different one at home. Even with draconian DRM, people will STILL be buying or trying to get ahold of those programs because they DON'T want to put forth all the wasted effort of trying to learn an entirely new system!!!!!