Below is a letter I have written to Paul Szabo my MP, feel free to send it in as your own and comment and improve it in the process. Look for your MP here if you wish to write them. I know this bill is not likely to be passed but it will come back again and again, lets get together a kick this crap out.
Honorable Mr Szabo,
I am a constituent in your riding and would like to take a moment of your time to share some concerns. First let me tell you about my self. My first year of college in 1999 I was exposed to Napster music sharing, being able to sample music at whim was a very life altering experience for me. I was able to listen to the full length songs that were sampled in commercials and movie trailers. I was able to search for music I likely never would have found standing in a local music store for hours flipping cases. I guess this is what seeded what we call the Digital Music Revolution. My music tastes have changed, I feel much more devoted to the groups I favour and enjoy giving them my money to let them know I encourage their abilities. I feel that we as a people are at a serious cross road. It feels like every day we see these new bills being introduced that favour the industries to such an extreme it is bound to leave us extremely unbalanced as a country. I believe a government that can stand and balance the situation will bring us to the fore front of respect of our selves and the rest of the world on us.
I understand the position of recording industries voicing their right to be able to hold back their contribution until a satisfying trade can be arranged, this is how the market works. What I do feel is that these industries do not speak for all music. I do realize it does not seem likely for these industries to concede to fate by the whim of others. The actions of these industries have been accepted for quite some time as they are very aggressive in their pursuit of more talent and more revenue, they have been so aggressive as to saturate our entire market. I do not want to force anyone to let me listen to their music without paying but I have to let it be known that I feel not all music is worth my money, I am willing to to pay for music I enjoy.
It seems the world is between a rock and a hard place. Music is the cornerstone of human civilization, one of the few constants in our world. How can we pass up the opportunity to take advantage of this revolution? As I stated earlier I do not wish to waste time convincing these people that they should reconsider. Their power only reaches as far as the musicians they influence but those are limited. As a country of innovation from the Avro Arrow to the Canada Arm we should continue to show the world our ability, we should create a platform that allows for music to be accessed in exactly the way they want and make it work. The world has many truly talented musicians and many more people who are waiting to be influenced by their abilities, why must we quarrel with these people over something so pointless? I believe that if Canada would start a platform it would take the world by their ears and bring us to the fore front in a way that has never been witnessed in history. I believe if we show the world a sound stage and let anyone who want their voice to be heard preform for us would be a land mark in human evolution. As a country of tolerance we will have the vulgarities as well as great beauties that will be uncovered, but I feel my county is the one that can foster such an en devour. I firmly believe all else will fall into place. Let these industries horde their accomplishments but do not let them speak for music as a whole. This is our opportunity as a country to yet again show the world what it can be like to be truly innovative and be real leaders.
I appreciate your time in reading this message, I will be following up with a traditional letter to your office. I do assure you as a
"gave up [their] essential liberty" of BEARING ARMS paid for by the government"
So essential liberty is the ability to have your word count, maintaining the status quo against something they didn't want, bearing arms were just at tool that gave them a chance.
You have to cut the users some slack, when you tell them there are people ready and waiting to start making drivers but their drivers don't count then why the big fuss about the kernel programmers in the first place?
Its kinda like (as far as car analogies go) finding the car industry has the researchers to discover amazing millage and horsepower then we have ever had, but telling the consumers we don't make their kind of car. Just sayin....
You must sell allot of fertilizer, 12 people place orders that day all for large quantities of fertilizer? Maybe if you were servicing farming community but then you would likely know them cause they would buy every year. Again most farmers wouldn't order a quantity that they would carry out by hand, they would get a shipment. So you could likely figure out who placed an order for fertilizer but not enough to cover the type of farm land in the area, that should narrow it down, unless you sell like this all the time.
I guess the theme here is pass the buck, you are apparently a small business owner who has access to very large amounts of farming supply how could you know? Right? Well you mentioned that after the first time you realized that it might be a good idea to tread lightly next time confronted. Lets take a look at the telecom industry, they are likely at least 100 fold larger then your business and have that much more 'fertilizer', which is a lot more fertilizer to lose. You think if they were in your shoes they wouldn't have their legal department involved? Don't you think its funny that they never gave the 'FBI'(judges) any information? Remember now that these are judges not customers, if they came to you being an honest person wouldn't you do the right thing and give them the information of who made them do what? Isn't it funny that they clammed up from the beginning? It's not like one company spilled the beans and got their hand caught like you apparently did. They have armies of lawyers, you don't, they deal with legal problems daily, you likely not as much. You think they don't really try to cover their asses.
The thing I find interesting about their Copyright claim is, the copyright "owners" sent them the copyrighted material with out their consent, but requires their interaction. So if a musician sends me a copy of their music for my review and I don't agree with the terms of their copyright I don't have to review it, but if your mortgage company sends you a letter involving your account and there was nothing in the original contract stipulating copyrighted correspondence then are you forced to agree with their terms?
Basically can you force someone into agreeing to a contract using these terms? I could send a C&D letter to anyone I want for any reason and having the copyright terms worded in a way that would force stipulations upon you, which of course would co-relate with my C&D terms. Ending up with a request that is mandatory to fulfill with out your decision or by any other obligation.
I could take great advantage of this by sending urgent legal action notices saying the copyright terms of the letter are for you to deposit money into an account:)
You're forgetting these kids are at the stage where they are learning to read. Basically as children many of us were considered illiterate at their age. So are we saying we are wasting money teaching children to read if they already don't know?
I don't think parent was saying you should not purchase multiple gigs of ram if you chose to. What I think he/she was referring to is that you shouldn't brag that that you have a 5.0L V8 and you think it's pretty spiffy that it can reach highway speeds.
I don't think it is as important for FAB plants as much as it is bringing influence from the small consumer into hardware. If the cost comes down enough we can take old designs or open designs and actually be able to produce relatively small quantities of modified hardware for cheap.
This would go hand in hand with the concept of OSS cause as OSS enthusiast's are intrigued by this kind of thing products like that completely OSS graphics board which never really took off would be much more attainable. With an interface like PCI-Express if the community would be able to design an 'open-board' concept, with multiple open sockets on the board its self, you would be able use the daughter board as an OSS motherboard and control it by use of an open interface.
Picture a PCI-E board with one controller on board and a handful of open PGA sockets. A company or group develops a physics, encryption, sound, graphics, firewall chip that gets installed on the board and you could access each one for its resources via the PCI bus. Each chip would likely be more expensive then the closed proprietary brothers but the market is there. Lets say your business has a project that is naturally lopsided in terms of processing, you could fabricate a processor to even it out, or make a self sufficient board utilizing the PCI bridge for nothing more then access to memory and VCC.
This would really be an eye opener as OSS could effect more then just the software market but the hardware market as well. You could have a board with optical, RJ45, DVI, DVB-S2 all on the same board and each socket could potentially have access to each port directly or via on board controller (similar to a north bridge) condensing a sound controller or a network controllers logic onto a 60nm process would be night and day compared to what we have, this could potentially lead the way to the entire machine being designed using this "sandwich" process.
Personally I think development along the lines of the killerNic type of hardware would revolutionize computing. Imagine owning a machine with multiple optical outs that you could use for networking or to hookup to a TOS-link device, the card would have its own processor running customized microcode. Maybe as a temporary storage device similar to flash drives but internal running of a 16x slot would bring efficiency of any system up 100 fold. Eventually all these separate ideas would distill into an open command set that could be implemented into a CPU type of application. A CPU with instructions built-in from the best of encryption, graphics, sound, filtering hell even regex. We could even vote on which registers should be included in the final design.
So you know one person out here thinks this is cool, maybe more will come of this.
I'm sorry but I think that is not really the point. As far as I can tell the kid is gonna make some money. After reading TFA the officer charged him for:
ORD:525.07: Obstructing Official Business (M-2)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so and with purpose to prevent, obstruct or delay the performance by a public official of any authorized act within the public official's official capacity shall do any act that hampers or impedes a public official in the performance of the public official's lawful duties.
So the officer is saying that without the kid giving the license he cannot carry out his duty of getting to the bottom of the incident. Is this true? The police officer is given access to everyone's private information, which can be accessed in different ways, a license is just one of them, the officer could have very well brought up and confirmed the same information using his name, birth date and address. So did he really stop the officer from carrying out his duties? No, not really at all since he would have verified the license anyway using the same system. So the officer is really hanging himself because the whole thing is held together on the assumption that with out the DL he never would have been able to verify the identity of the person and carry out his duties.
The next question would be why would the officer need to know a citizens identification if there were no valid legal complaints against him. Security accused a citizen of possibly being in possession of stolen merchandise the officer investigated and found that was not true but pursued the kid anyway. What is really gonna get the cops nuts roasted is that once the charge for obstruction of justice gets knocked out he is gonna look really bad because there is nothing else to back him up, basically he is saying 'I asked a pedestrian for a drivers license he didn't give it to me but gave his personal information so I took him to jail' and yes he even posted a $300 bail(which is not much but is more paper work bring attention to a case that has nothing in it. So the whole reason this guy went to jail is because he followed the law and the officer ignored that fact, whats worse is that the officer wrote all this down and charged him for it too. So he pretty much kicked himself in the nuts, taped it and posted it to the tube of teh intrenets.
Will partitioning the media be physical? For example if I have a 20Gb drive, unpartitioned it will last (2x10^6)(10^6) erase-writes balanced across the whole disk. By partitioning won't you physically circumvent the whole wear leveling idea? Maybe not completely circumvent but you would kill erase-write potiential by a factor of 20 in this case, and since a swap partition can get pretty intense you might run out faster then you think.
"The analogy of the home with the door left open applies somewhat well here."
I think the main diffrence is to go inside the house you must first tresspass their property, this case of being in your own home and your neighbour broadcasing into your house, where do your neighbours rights end and your begin? I guess if your neighbour finds out and does not feel comfortable sharing they should be responsible to show this by encrypting the signal. Just because they don't know how the device works does not mean they can continue to be ignorant of what the device does. Most wifi drivers automatically connect to the internet seamlessly so if my neighbour can be ignorant of his broadcasting device can I be ignorant of my recieving device?
These tapes were not stolen by a 'common' theif like a crackhead. What makes what you have appealing to someone looking for money? The fact that you have something they know they can sell quickly, which is usually something like electronics, laptops or tape decks. The whole reason for that is they want to be able to sell it to the very next person they see, they don't want to explain what it is cause they don't know. Who would really want to buy data tapes out the back of a van or on the street anyway? It doesn't make sence that the consultant wanted tapes that were reasonably out of harms way taken out of the building just to have them returned the next day? That doesn't make and sence, but it does set up an excellent pigeon for someone who does know what is on those tapes.
As most will know on this site anyone making anywhere close to $10/hr likely is not trusted enough to go for coffee and get the order right let alone carry data for 800k clients for no apparent reason.
Since when does any company tell you to take sensitive data to your own home just to bring it back later?
I think with all of these cores and such an increase in on die cache we should be asking what can we accomplish by staying on-die? As the number of cores increase so will on-die cache, when we start to get into 10MB+ area we could likely do some pretty fancy stuff, also treating registers as memory on idle cores will add to this. With all this micro-logic maybe even simple operations add + move ops will be added to the off-die ram as a type of pre-processing.
The more cores they add the more the system will seem to converge into the CPU, as this happens devices will become very simple as most of the system will be able to operate using a smaller package. As the system makes more money it will be come more and more closed, curiosity will lead to hacks, hacks will lead to other uses, which will give us an interface which will make the whole thing balloon up again....
Once I think the cost of having a Government employee call, track and note every member of a bot-net this size, I start to think that it might be cheaper to subsidize a firewall/router.
The benefits of using the same technology off of a removable device are much better aren't they?
I can use it with my existing system
The USB port is fairly well documented and addopted by current OS's
Your point does seem valid about slowing down real time activity but good for suspends on laptops, so using this with a removable device would add security to your setup
Portable reads & writes have more potential as people use different machines
If I send you an official notice that I am the owner of a copyrighted material and confirm it using a reference to picture, don't I just royally screw myself for forgery?
All the calls are still being routed through their servers, what makes you think ma bell can't provide that data?
IMHO these companies are scared of VOIP because once the infrastructure is in place there will be too much competition.
Right now you can only get telephone service through a telephone company who has also installed a telephone cable into your house. You can get telephone service from another provider but the same company that laid the cables is still involved and still making money off of the transaction.
Once you take ma bell (AT&T) out of the picture they show their true value, slightly better than an Astrix boxen running in a kids basement. What does a company the size of AT&T offer? Calling features (forwarding, v mail, call ID, etc...) every feature they have is easily reproduced and customized. Maybe mother nature really has her hands in everything because these companies are in themselves rhetorical and they look as if they are about to be broken down like every other old tree before it.
You're great, I have a question for you. What makes you think that we are not this ball of 'nothingness' right now? What you speak of is something called relative look it up;)
Maybe compared to trillions of years ago this is nothingness? You know why neither of us can answer this question 100% is because no one really knows.
So as an Easter present pull your head out of your ass...
You seem to forget everything on our planet and our universe takes part of a balance, so it's funny you say once we are gone the earth will be 'happy'.
If all humans are gone then we will be put back into the ecosystem as decomposition and everything we contribute (pollution as well as tree planting) will cease to be contributed and the planet will adjust to consider this. To disect these balances and understand them is Science.
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Below is a letter I have written to Paul Szabo my MP, feel free to send it in as your own and comment and improve it in the process. Look for your MP here if you wish to write them. I know this bill is not likely to be passed but it will come back again and again, lets get together a kick this crap out.
Honorable Mr Szabo,
I am a constituent in your riding and would like to take a moment of your time to share some concerns. First let me tell you about my self. My first year of college in 1999 I was exposed to Napster music sharing, being able to sample music at whim was a very life altering experience for me. I was able to listen to the full length songs that were sampled in commercials and movie trailers. I was able to search for music I likely never would have found standing in a local music store for hours flipping cases. I guess this is what seeded what we call the Digital Music Revolution. My music tastes have changed, I feel much more devoted to the groups I favour and enjoy giving them my money to let them know I encourage their abilities. I feel that we as a people are at a serious cross road. It feels like every day we see these new bills being introduced that favour the industries to such an extreme it is bound to leave us extremely unbalanced as a country. I believe a government that can stand and balance the situation will bring us to the fore front of respect of our selves and the rest of the world on us.
I understand the position of recording industries voicing their right to be able to hold back their contribution until a satisfying trade can be arranged, this is how the market works. What I do feel is that these industries do not speak for all music. I do realize it does not seem likely for these industries to concede to fate by the whim of others. The actions of these industries have been accepted for quite some time as they are very aggressive in their pursuit of more talent and more revenue, they have been so aggressive as to saturate our entire market. I do not want to force anyone to let me listen to their music without paying but I have to let it be known that I feel not all music is worth my money, I am willing to to pay for music I enjoy.
It seems the world is between a rock and a hard place. Music is the cornerstone of human civilization, one of the few constants in our world. How can we pass up the opportunity to take advantage of this revolution? As I stated earlier I do not wish to waste time convincing these people that they should reconsider. Their power only reaches as far as the musicians they influence but those are limited. As a country of innovation from the Avro Arrow to the Canada Arm we should continue to show the world our ability, we should create a platform that allows for music to be accessed in exactly the way they want and make it work. The world has many truly talented musicians and many more people who are waiting to be influenced by their abilities, why must we quarrel with these people over something so pointless? I believe that if Canada would start a platform it would take the world by their ears and bring us to the fore front in a way that has never been witnessed in history. I believe if we show the world a sound stage and let anyone who want their voice to be heard preform for us would be a land mark in human evolution. As a country of tolerance we will have the vulgarities as well as great beauties that will be uncovered, but I feel my county is the one that can foster such an en devour. I firmly believe all else will fall into place. Let these industries horde their accomplishments but do not let them speak for music as a whole. This is our opportunity as a country to yet again show the world what it can be like to be truly innovative and be real leaders.
I appreciate your time in reading this message, I will be following up with a traditional letter to your office. I do assure you as a
Its amazing how paranoid the government is becoming, so when does Bush sign his agreement?
"gave up [their] essential liberty" of BEARING ARMS paid for by the government"
So essential liberty is the ability to have your word count, maintaining the status quo against something they didn't want, bearing arms were just at tool that gave them a chance.
You have to cut the users some slack, when you tell them there are people ready and waiting to start making drivers but their drivers don't count then why the big fuss about the kernel programmers in the first place?
Its kinda like (as far as car analogies go) finding the car industry has the researchers to discover amazing millage and horsepower then we have ever had, but telling the consumers we don't make their kind of car. Just sayin....
You must sell allot of fertilizer, 12 people place orders that day all for large quantities of fertilizer? Maybe if you were servicing farming community but then you would likely know them cause they would buy every year. Again most farmers wouldn't order a quantity that they would carry out by hand, they would get a shipment. So you could likely figure out who placed an order for fertilizer but not enough to cover the type of farm land in the area, that should narrow it down, unless you sell like this all the time.
I guess the theme here is pass the buck, you are apparently a small business owner who has access to very large amounts of farming supply how could you know? Right? Well you mentioned that after the first time you realized that it might be a good idea to tread lightly next time confronted. Lets take a look at the telecom industry, they are likely at least 100 fold larger then your business and have that much more 'fertilizer', which is a lot more fertilizer to lose. You think if they were in your shoes they wouldn't have their legal department involved? Don't you think its funny that they never gave the 'FBI'(judges) any information? Remember now that these are judges not customers, if they came to you being an honest person wouldn't you do the right thing and give them the information of who made them do what? Isn't it funny that they clammed up from the beginning? It's not like one company spilled the beans and got their hand caught like you apparently did. They have armies of lawyers, you don't, they deal with legal problems daily, you likely not as much. You think they don't really try to cover their asses.
The thing I find interesting about their Copyright claim is, the copyright "owners" sent them the copyrighted material with out their consent, but requires their interaction. So if a musician sends me a copy of their music for my review and I don't agree with the terms of their copyright I don't have to review it, but if your mortgage company sends you a letter involving your account and there was nothing in the original contract stipulating copyrighted correspondence then are you forced to agree with their terms?
Basically can you force someone into agreeing to a contract using these terms? I could send a C&D letter to anyone I want for any reason and having the copyright terms worded in a way that would force stipulations upon you, which of course would co-relate with my C&D terms. Ending up with a request that is mandatory to fulfill with out your decision or by any other obligation.
I could take great advantage of this by sending urgent legal action notices saying the copyright terms of the letter are for you to deposit money into an account:)
You're forgetting these kids are at the stage where they are learning to read. Basically as children many of us were considered illiterate at their age. So are we saying we are wasting money teaching children to read if they already don't know?
I don't think parent was saying you should not purchase multiple gigs of ram if you chose to. What I think he/she was referring to is that you shouldn't brag that that you have a 5.0L V8 and you think it's pretty spiffy that it can reach highway speeds.
You sell us oil? You're joking right?
... and beef ... and lumber ...
We sell *you* you're oil
Read up http://mmsd1.mms.nrcan.gc.ca/mmsd/trade/fuel_st1-4.htm
If any company has to go through lengths like this is bad. Usually a sign they don't want anyone to know they are gonna tank.
I don't think it is as important for FAB plants as much as it is bringing influence from the small consumer into hardware. If the cost comes down enough we can take old designs or open designs and actually be able to produce relatively small quantities of modified hardware for cheap.
This would go hand in hand with the concept of OSS cause as OSS enthusiast's are intrigued by this kind of thing products like that completely OSS graphics board which never really took off would be much more attainable. With an interface like PCI-Express if the community would be able to design an 'open-board' concept, with multiple open sockets on the board its self, you would be able use the daughter board as an OSS motherboard and control it by use of an open interface.
Picture a PCI-E board with one controller on board and a handful of open PGA sockets. A company or group develops a physics, encryption, sound, graphics, firewall chip that gets installed on the board and you could access each one for its resources via the PCI bus. Each chip would likely be more expensive then the closed proprietary brothers but the market is there. Lets say your business has a project that is naturally lopsided in terms of processing, you could fabricate a processor to even it out, or make a self sufficient board utilizing the PCI bridge for nothing more then access to memory and VCC.
This would really be an eye opener as OSS could effect more then just the software market but the hardware market as well. You could have a board with optical, RJ45, DVI, DVB-S2 all on the same board and each socket could potentially have access to each port directly or via on board controller (similar to a north bridge) condensing a sound controller or a network controllers logic onto a 60nm process would be night and day compared to what we have, this could potentially lead the way to the entire machine being designed using this "sandwich" process.
Personally I think development along the lines of the killerNic type of hardware would revolutionize computing. Imagine owning a machine with multiple optical outs that you could use for networking or to hookup to a TOS-link device, the card would have its own processor running customized microcode. Maybe as a temporary storage device similar to flash drives but internal running of a 16x slot would bring efficiency of any system up 100 fold. Eventually all these separate ideas would distill into an open command set that could be implemented into a CPU type of application. A CPU with instructions built-in from the best of encryption, graphics, sound, filtering hell even regex. We could even vote on which registers should be included in the final design.
So you know one person out here thinks this is cool, maybe more will come of this.
So the officer is saying that without the kid giving the license he cannot carry out his duty of getting to the bottom of the incident. Is this true? The police officer is given access to everyone's private information, which can be accessed in different ways, a license is just one of them, the officer could have very well brought up and confirmed the same information using his name, birth date and address. So did he really stop the officer from carrying out his duties? No, not really at all since he would have verified the license anyway using the same system. So the officer is really hanging himself because the whole thing is held together on the assumption that with out the DL he never would have been able to verify the identity of the person and carry out his duties.
The next question would be why would the officer need to know a citizens identification if there were no valid legal complaints against him. Security accused a citizen of possibly being in possession of stolen merchandise the officer investigated and found that was not true but pursued the kid anyway. What is really gonna get the cops nuts roasted is that once the charge for obstruction of justice gets knocked out he is gonna look really bad because there is nothing else to back him up, basically he is saying 'I asked a pedestrian for a drivers license he didn't give it to me but gave his personal information so I took him to jail' and yes he even posted a $300 bail(which is not much but is more paper work bring attention to a case that has nothing in it. So the whole reason this guy went to jail is because he followed the law and the officer ignored that fact, whats worse is that the officer wrote all this down and charged him for it too. So he pretty much kicked himself in the nuts, taped it and posted it to the tube of teh intrenets.
Well I guess the guy found a bunch of people who don't know how to snap their fingers ;)
Will partitioning the media be physical? For example if I have a 20Gb drive, unpartitioned it will last (2x10^6)(10^6) erase-writes balanced across the whole disk. By partitioning won't you physically circumvent the whole wear leveling idea? Maybe not completely circumvent but you would kill erase-write potiential by a factor of 20 in this case, and since a swap partition can get pretty intense you might run out faster then you think.
"The analogy of the home with the door left open applies somewhat well here."
I think the main diffrence is to go inside the house you must first tresspass their property, this case of being in your own home and your neighbour broadcasing into your house, where do your neighbours rights end and your begin? I guess if your neighbour finds out and does not feel comfortable sharing they should be responsible to show this by encrypting the signal. Just because they don't know how the device works does not mean they can continue to be ignorant of what the device does. Most wifi drivers automatically connect to the internet seamlessly so if my neighbour can be ignorant of his broadcasting device can I be ignorant of my recieving device?
Looks like Billy boy has gotten someone elses pants ;)
... ahem wait for it.... actually do something to imress me!
I think I'll wait until they
That is all..
These tapes were not stolen by a 'common' theif like a crackhead. What makes what you have appealing to someone looking for money? The fact that you have something they know they can sell quickly, which is usually something like electronics, laptops or tape decks. The whole reason for that is they want to be able to sell it to the very next person they see, they don't want to explain what it is cause they don't know. Who would really want to buy data tapes out the back of a van or on the street anyway? It doesn't make sence that the consultant wanted tapes that were reasonably out of harms way taken out of the building just to have them returned the next day? That doesn't make and sence, but it does set up an excellent pigeon for someone who does know what is on those tapes.
As most will know on this site anyone making anywhere close to $10/hr likely is not trusted enough to go for coffee and get the order right let alone carry data for 800k clients for no apparent reason.
Since when does any company tell you to take sensitive data to your own home just to bring it back later?
Don't you think it's funny that AT&T is so eager to point out the value of the spectrum that they have inflated over the years?
Go get em Google!
I think with all of these cores and such an increase in on die cache we should be asking what can we accomplish by staying on-die? As the number of cores increase so will on-die cache, when we start to get into 10MB+ area we could likely do some pretty fancy stuff, also treating registers as memory on idle cores will add to this. With all this micro-logic maybe even simple operations add + move ops will be added to the off-die ram as a type of pre-processing.
The more cores they add the more the system will seem to converge into the CPU, as this happens devices will become very simple as most of the system will be able to operate using a smaller package. As the system makes more money it will be come more and more closed, curiosity will lead to hacks, hacks will lead to other uses, which will give us an interface which will make the whole thing balloon up again....
What a tangled web we weave eh?
Once I think the cost of having a Government employee call, track and note every member of a bot-net this size, I start to think that it might be cheaper to subsidize a firewall/router.
If I send you an official notice that I am the owner of a copyrighted material and confirm it using a reference to picture, don't I just royally screw myself for forgery?
All the calls are still being routed through their servers, what makes you think ma bell can't provide that data?
IMHO these companies are scared of VOIP because once the infrastructure is in place there will be too much competition.
Right now you can only get telephone service through a telephone company who has also installed a telephone cable into your house. You can get telephone service from another provider but the same company that laid the cables is still involved and still making money off of the transaction.
Once you take ma bell (AT&T) out of the picture they show their true value, slightly better than an Astrix boxen running in a kids basement. What does a company the size of AT&T offer? Calling features (forwarding, v mail, call ID, etc...) every feature they have is easily reproduced and customized. Maybe mother nature really has her hands in everything because these companies are in themselves rhetorical and they look as if they are about to be broken down like every other old tree before it.
Hippies ... lol.
;)
You're great, I have a question for you. What makes you think that we are not this ball of 'nothingness' right now? What you speak of is something called relative look it up
Maybe compared to trillions of years ago this is nothingness? You know why neither of us can answer this question 100% is because no one really knows.
So as an Easter present pull your head out of your ass...
Ty
Easter Bunny
You seem to forget everything on our planet and our universe takes part of a balance, so it's funny you say once we are gone the earth will be 'happy'.
If all humans are gone then we will be put back into the ecosystem as decomposition and everything we contribute (pollution as well as tree planting) will cease to be contributed and the planet will adjust to consider this. To disect these balances and understand them is Science.