Anyone see the 60 Minutes piece last night trying to link Bit Torrent to Mexican DVD piracy to gangs to child prostitution? (think of the CHILDREN!)
It was quite ill informed, seeming to only gather information from the MPAA and other similar sources.
The link between people using camcorders to record movies and make bad quality DVD's for sale on street-corners I get, but their assumption that these are the SAME people uploading to BT, was casual at best.
Seriously, if you go through all the trouble to cam-cord the movie and burn DVD's in mass, aren't you just as threatened by BT as the studios?
Perhaps use it as a source, yes, but upload your own movies for free? I don't see it.
For cheap vodkas, I drink Platinum 7. Filtered 7 times, and tastes just as good in a mixed drink as any of the more expensive vodkas.
As for Windows 7, I've only spent 5 minutes with it on a laptop that previously ran Vista. It's much quicker and more stable, so in comparison to Vista, a vast improvement.
Will it replace XP Pro on my development computers? Not anytime soon.
This is like finding out an uncut car key can open any Ford.
Meanwhile Verizon FIOS has been rolling out firmware upgrade to their routers that prohibit you from running your own secure sub-net inside their routers.
Why do these clowns think that because they control the last mile they can arrogantly control the whole internet?
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Anyone see the 60 Minutes piece last night trying to link Bit Torrent to Mexican DVD piracy to gangs to child prostitution? (think of the CHILDREN!)
It was quite ill informed, seeming to only gather information from the MPAA and other similar sources.
The link between people using camcorders to record movies and make bad quality DVD's for sale on street-corners I get, but their assumption that these are the SAME people uploading to BT, was casual at best.
Seriously, if you go through all the trouble to cam-cord the movie and burn DVD's in mass, aren't you just as threatened by BT as the studios?
Perhaps use it as a source, yes, but upload your own movies for free? I don't see it.
Breaking and Entering and two separate charges.
Would you break without entering? No.
Could you enter without breaking? No.
Still, they are two different acts in the eyes of criminal law.
I agree, "unauthorized copy" is the key concept here.
I hate how slashdot posts these half baked articles.
What is this, the Drudge Report?
But his greatest innovations were in MARKETING, not in the technology itself.
History may prove me wrong, but for now I'll stick with my use of the word "COPY".
I hate to say it, but it just made no sense and backed up almost none of the opinions it presented.
You can't kill the iphone by trying to copy it. You have to:
1) Find a way to steal it's best customers in a way it can't keep up with.
2) Wait for it to get big, fat, and lazy.
Just copying the leader may get you investment dollars, but it won't get you market share.
I'm waiting for a thumb drive that lasts for more than 6 months.
Until then, I can't see trusting this technology with any important task.
You should see my time machine. And my hovercraft. And my spaceship.
I got my degree from the University of Calvin and Hobbes.
10% new movies
30% classic movies
20% New and Old TV shows
20% Indie Movies
20% Foreign Movies
Not sure how it could encourage good behavior.
Blah.
Was reading an article from the BBC on corporations in the UK claiming other countries as their headquarters to save tax dollars.
Evidently if you do this in the UK, they check see that the heads of the company are ACTUALLY operating in that country.
Why don't we do that here in the US? It seems like a fair standard to me.
For cheap vodkas, I drink Platinum 7. Filtered 7 times, and tastes just as good in a mixed drink as any of the more expensive vodkas.
As for Windows 7, I've only spent 5 minutes with it on a laptop that previously ran Vista. It's much quicker and more stable, so in comparison to Vista, a vast improvement.
Will it replace XP Pro on my development computers? Not anytime soon.
It is time for the FTC and the FCC to break up the illegal phone/carrier bundling that is so prevalent in the marketplace.
If this happened, these lawsuits wouldn't matter.
Let me but a 3G phone and use it on any 3G network.
Let me buy a 2.5G phone and use it on any 2.5G network.
Let the phone makers compete with the phone makers.
Let the carriers compete with the carriers.
Anyone tries to make a phone with proprietary technology that runs on only one network, let the market tell them where to put their phones.
That's why they call it astroturf.
This is like finding out an uncut car key can open any Ford.
Meanwhile Verizon FIOS has been rolling out firmware upgrade to their routers that prohibit you from running your own secure sub-net inside their routers.
Why do these clowns think that because they control the last mile they can arrogantly control the whole internet?
I hope it's not a crappy knock-off, like when they launched Google Video.
Even the goodwill of their name couldn't save that horrible site.
No wonder a couple months later they bought YouTube.
This time maybe they'll buy Lala.com.
If you want a good browser-based iTunes store, that's it.
The root of the problem is that pot is still a schedule 1 drug.
This means it is "highly addictive with no medicinal value".
Until you get it reclassified, nothing can be done on the federal level in the US.
The British removed it from their equivalent scale last year.
Mexico recently changed their possession laws to match those of Amsterdam.
Bet you didn't hear that on the 6 O'clock news.
It seems to me that media companies see DRM as a printing press on which they can print their own cash.
And seem sore when they find out no one but them seems to value their funny money.
If they really want us to see value in it, they need to back it up with a gold standard... put copies of the movie in some DRM-free format in escrow.
Your technology goes away; we get DRM-free version of the movies we purchased.
Most important thing is to treat your code and data separately.
Code:
Dev -> Test -> Production
Data:
Production -> Test -> Dev
Many developers forget to test and develop with real and current data, allowing problems to slip further downstream than they should.
And make sure you backup you Dev code and you Production Data.
I'm not weird. But those OTHER guys... Whew! ;->
It just means that life, the universe, and everything is a gift.
Go!
Yes, it started out as a good thing, and even promised to help people track bands and discover new music.
But it's a mess now, and it's owned by the same company that runs FoxNews, so don't expect it to get any better.
Time for a young, fresh upstart to pull something better together.
Or are there already better alternatives?
I agree, this is a ridiculous cost-cutting measure disguised as a clever marketing trick.
I predict in a couple months we'll be calling it the HairyPalmOS.
This is AWESOME for insurance companies.
Charge the same rates and provide cheaper cures?
I'm pretty sure the math works out in their favor.