Only on Slashdot can someone have their facts wrong and be modded insightful
Nah.. works in real life too, just try it some day, throw totally wrong facts, but ones that are not obviously so. Do enough of this in a authorative tone and see people react to you like you know something.
While I doubt that patent would work.. hmm.. how about patenting a "a computer program to faciliate creating patent applications" while explaining the use of makros and templates in a word prosessor to make patent applications. Then Sue everyone who files 2 or more patent applications that seem to have the same template.
Of course, amateurs are still free to redistribute their observations, including those of classified satellites.
I mean this should clearly be made illegal, I mean publishing information of existance of something secret. I am sure that the next version of the bill will correct this bug.
That is definitely part of the problem. There are simply too many laws with too many things in each law. Usually laws also contain provisions that have nothing to do with the man law.
Unfortunately until enough people throw away the atitude of "well, politics are supposed to be corrupt" I do not see much change.
Oh, you young people.. back in my days giving money to any company was a long and painfull process. First one had to contact them by mail (the physical type) and ask for an invoice as they would not accept money without one. Then after the postal delay one would need to write and send a cheque and after they had received it they then would take some days to process it and the banks would take lot longer. So the normal process would take.. say 2-3 weeks.
Absolutely nothing prevents is as the many Gnutella clients show. What I meant is that the required thing would be a similar peer to peer structure, as the other option of centralised server will require too much bandwith.
Indeed SIP is a.. hmm.. Well, lets just say that the company I work with makes sure all our internal phone traffic (that uses SIP btw to connect more than 20 offices in several countries) goes in ssh tunnels between the locations.
In most cases the only place where the phone call actually goes analog is "the last mile" between the house and the switch. The actual data transmitted is usually 64kbs/line. If there were no screamers (modems/faxes) they could use a lower codec. Currently people expect to be able to use a 56k modem over a normal phone line, but not a VOIP line. Last year some equipment manufacturer (bad memeory who) was talking about dynamically changing codecs for the voice trafic, allowing those using modems and such to get the full speed, but using something like GSM codec(at 8k?) for normal voice. Thus saving on the bandwith.
The problem with NAT is that it is the device behind NAT that has to open the connection. Skype goes around this by having those people without NAT also transmitting data for NAT users.
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Well.. MPAA needs to approve it.. Need to say more?
Also the time to get the movie would be shorter. One of the problems with netflix is the scenario: "now what movie should we watch tonight?"
Remember download caps.
And besides, I doubt there are enough turkeys to make this thing work in very large scale...
Nah.. works in real life too, just try it some day, throw totally wrong facts, but ones that are not obviously so. Do enough of this in a authorative tone and see people react to you like you know something.
Those events were used to be called riots. Now they are called terrorism.
you mean like Silvio Berlusconi winning in Italy had nothing to do with him owning most TV stations?
BayStar Capital anyone?
While I doubt that patent would work.. hmm.. how about patenting a "a computer program to faciliate creating patent applications" while explaining the use of makros and templates in a word prosessor to make patent applications. Then Sue everyone who files 2 or more patent applications that seem to have the same template.
The business plan of this decade:
1) Find something that is well known and patent it.
2) Sue some big company for using your patent.
But it application of a basic law of monopolies: Lock in customers.
I mean this should clearly be made illegal, I mean publishing information of existance of something secret. I am sure that the next version of the bill will correct this bug.
Ofcourse, I mean, I am sure terrorists will be so much easier to track if they have to use commercial weather information services, like newspapers.
Unfortunately until enough people throw away the atitude of "well, politics are supposed to be corrupt" I do not see much change.
Well, not off fully. But the trend seems to be set for that to be more and more the case.
well the :q! command would be handy.. shutdown system without saving changes..
nah.. Redhat has been good at creating atleast the uncertainty part.. Though based on this they are trying to fix it.
With the current business climate being mostly in favor or monopolies and such, moves like this are hardly surprising.
Oh, you young people.. back in my days giving money to any company was a long and painfull process. First one had to contact them by mail (the physical type) and ask for an invoice as they would not accept money without one. Then after the postal delay one would need to write and send a cheque and after they had received it they then would take some days to process it and the banks would take lot longer. So the normal process would take.. say 2-3 weeks.
well, I fully agree with your points, but the fact remains, the competing products are not as easy to use or do not work well over NAT.
Absolutely nothing prevents is as the many Gnutella clients show. What I meant is that the required thing would be a similar peer to peer structure, as the other option of centralised server will require too much bandwith.
Indeed SIP is a.. hmm.. Well, lets just say that the company I work with makes sure all our internal phone traffic (that uses SIP btw to connect more than 20 offices in several countries) goes in ssh tunnels between the locations.
In case of many 3G phones.. Nope, it will crash too often.
In most cases the only place where the phone call actually goes analog is "the last mile" between the house and the switch. The actual data transmitted is usually 64kbs/line. If there were no screamers (modems/faxes) they could use a lower codec. Currently people expect to be able to use a 56k modem over a normal phone line, but not a VOIP line. Last year some equipment manufacturer (bad memeory who) was talking about dynamically changing codecs for the voice trafic, allowing those using modems and such to get the full speed, but using something like GSM codec(at 8k?) for normal voice. Thus saving on the bandwith.
The problem with NAT is that it is the device behind NAT that has to open the connection. Skype goes around this by having those people without NAT also transmitting data for NAT users.