Funny thing is, Apple was one of the first companies to make a dockable laptop, back in the day (perfected in the Duo/DuoDock system). It seems to me that the MacBook Air is a good contender for being the new Duo, but I really don't think Apple wants to go that route again.
The problem with TTL is that it can be re-set at the routing points. For large backbones, the same data could be routed through multiple points, some of which have multiple intermediary hops, and TTL will not be adjusted until it hits the same end-point. This is one of the "priority" methods large network houses already use to prioritize packets; to the end user/switch/router/etc. it just looks like an overloaded or slow router.
Because these companies have already messed with TTL, it is now broken for use as a solution to all these problems it was originally designed to fix.
All that was denied here was a shot at summary judgement. Yes the case will turn on its particular facts. But at least we can take comfort that the correct legal standards will be applied in determining those facts. And THIS is why the RIAA has lost... they didn't lose the case, which can be tried in a fair manner and penalties awarded bast on the Judge's findings. What they lost was the ability to use a shotgun approach to finding infringers... this now increases the odds that each lawsuit they bring will result in a protracted trial instead of a quick settlement. The RIAA does NOT want this, and likely can't afford to support such a scheme for very long.
The problem so far is that people haven't felt that their case would be tried on its own merit -- instead the case would be tried based on the RIAA's own rules of guilt, which are often inaccurate. Having summary judgement denied in this case means that other cases in Arizona will likely have to go to court when previously they would have ended in a settlement.
It IS possible to create two files with the same MD5 sig however... someone could easily create an infringing song and the garbage track with matching sigs and release both. There would be no way to know which was which... and more than that, they could become comingled in bittorrent so you'd have to grab it multiple times and merge them to recreate either of the originals.
A better one: You act as a Linux/OpenOffice seed, running a program like Azureus. You share your computer with your kids, who have their own account. However, in order to keep your seeds running all the time, you modify the settings so that all accounts use the same torrent settings.
One day, while your kids are logged in and have some friends over, one of their friends decides they want to share a certain song with your child, but they find they don't currently have it on their iPod. So, they fire up Firefox, google for the song name, click Download, and it loads into Azureus, along with 500 other songs that were in the same torrent. They grab the song, play it for your child, who then decides to buy a copy for their own use off of iTunes using a gift card you gave them.
Meanwhile, those 500 songs are still being shared, and you don't notice due to the fact that you never actually monitor your seeds except when a new version comes out. The network traffic looks fine as you're expecting people to be torrenting from your computer. The difference in free disk space is negligible.
This is a pretty likely scenario. In this case, whose fault is it that the music has been made available?
Of course, ignorance is no defense, and it could be argued that these songs are being distributed through ignorance -- meaning that you as the computer owner AND your child as the owner of the account AND their friend as the person who initiated the transfer are ALL culpable.
As that can be taken in WAY too many wrong ways, I'll provide some suggestions: Find a hobby Do some contract work Find a long-term project at work that you can work on alongside your regular tasks Find a hobby you can share with your family
Since you're an IT worker, I'd suggest the best thing to do would be to start putting more emphasis on your non-working hours. Talk to your boss about cutting back on your hours if you need to, and supplement your work with contract work. Variety is the spice of life; make sure you've got the right spices.
I second this... having been in the same situation and gone the management route, I sometimes wish I'd taken the other. However,/. isn't really the place to ask for that -- ask people you know in the areas you're considering. If you don't know any people, start to build up a network -- join some online forums, join a club, etc.
Also, consider some business management night school courses, as you'll probably need them no matter which direction you decide to take.
I followed you right up to your examples... and could think of reasons for patrons to support every one of those. Patrons aren't all white conservative US politicians you know.
The analogy should be that the artist is the bricklayer -- both get paid to do their job.
The RIAA are the homeowners... and they're getting upset that everyone is peeping through their windows looking at their architecture without paying them the full price of admission.
They then refuse to pay the bricklayer his wages because the bricklayer agreed to the job on being paid a percentage of the profits that were to be made from those tours.
They also sue all the people looking through the wages, as well as those who tell others that they can also see the neat architecture through the windows, because in their view those people are "stealing" the tour admission fares. Each person who glances through one of the windows is tallied as "lost revenue".
Of course, there's no reason that Mr. Bloggs would have to register the same house for each company; he could register one company for each of his homes... and maybe even throw in the summer cottage, a dropbox in Delaware and a few other locations.
In the US, the places to check are IRS records and the credit bureau.
It made me imagine soldiers NOT putting down their guns while trying to navigate through some menu system... and fervently hope that:
1. they're not in a Humvee or other enclosed space while doing this
and
2. Their weapons do not have bayonets on them.
I can imagine enemy troops could get mighty confused by this though... guy has his gun trained on them, and then suddenly starts waving it all over the place swearing at his HUD because he couldn't get the current location to fix properly on his GPS tracking system.
And what everyone's wondering... How do you press Control-Alt-Delete on a RallyPoint?
Whilst those individuals might have been corrupt, mass media proved the be the major facilitator in getting the most corrupt politicians re-elected by burying the truth and launching slander campaigns against honest politicians. With the internet starting to dominate 21st century mind space, the mass media lies, oh, sorry marketing are getting buried.
So now we are seeing a radical change, where the lies are being exposed, where corrupt politicians are being publicly shamed, where stacked policy forums are being exposed for what they are, corrupt marketing opportunities to sell laws to target and victimise the majority for the benefit of a greedy self serving minority.
How many mass media adds for the most disingenuous politicians have been latter dismembered across the web, and the lies shown in the adds compared to the truth of the actions.
Funny... I've been following articles about how politicians around the world are wising up to the Internet and are now using blogs, online ads and "independant" online news articles much more effectively than they were ever able to abuse mass media... because now they have no accountability instead of just very low and well-paid (off) accountability.
This raises a good point... maybe the current copyright laws should only apply to the original holder, and a "post sale" law apply for copyrights that are sold. Any copyright transferred to another entity must be registered with the country's copyright body and renewed every year for a set sum. If the entity fails to pay that sum, copyright reverts to the original holder on the original terms.
Copyright law will do a very good job of protecting you, to content creator, from somebody who wants to claim that they created your works and will sue you.
Copyright does a very poor job as a weapon for you, the content creator, to use against others. In a world without friction, you might be correct. In this universe, isn't the actual case the OPPOSITE to what you're saying? I see very few cases where some creator has successfully defended their copyright against a corporation that is profiting off their work, but PLENTY of cases where copyrights are being used as an anti competitive weapon.
The trick is to not use a deadly poison... just something that will put him in Emergency due to something that gives him non-stop diarrhea or similar. That way, after you get burgled, you can use the low-quality images you captured and drive around to the local hospitals until you find the guy... after all, Emergency rooms generally have a longish wait time, and the guy doesn't know that you DIDN'T put poison in the bottle. You could even put a label on the bottom of the bottle/inside the cap or similar that says "did you drink any of this? If so, call 555-5555 for instructions on where to find the anti-toxin." For that matter, with such a label, you wouldn't even need to poison it;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3009769.stm There's your citation -- the BBC version doesn't appear to be slanted against Tony, but provides a lot more detail. Not so cut and dried as the above story makes it seem.
How about we eliminate hard objects altogether, then nobody can steal cars! True... you can't steal something that doesn't exist;) Or do you have a patent on a new car design made out of 100% soft components?
Then again, the smothering lawsuits would begin, and you'd have to eliminate soft objects that can smother as well....
...however any company that put this cruft on their servers would lose their subscriber base overnight as people fled to other providers. Not really an option in Ireland; Eircom owns too much of the infrastructure -- pretty much EVERYTHING internet-related goes through at least one Eircom switch. In order to avoid Eircom, you have to leave Ireland.
Sounds like the trick with Comcast is to auto-generate a new MAC each time your DHCP lease runs out. I guess this would be a bit tricky with a router, but maybe someone could write something for the flashable ones?
I know the parent might come across as flamebait/flame to some, but I have to say: I have absolutely no problem with eating meat, but I DO have a problem with many current food production methods -- mostly meat related, but also those used for corn and soy. I say: if you want to go hunt/grow your own food, if the land can sustain you, go ahead. Just don't try to get me to eat force-grown meat and veggies. They tend to be missing most of the nutrients we're trying to get from them, and instead contain a whole bunch of chemicals whose effects on our bodies aren't adequately analyzed.
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Funny thing is, Apple was one of the first companies to make a dockable laptop, back in the day (perfected in the Duo/DuoDock system). It seems to me that the MacBook Air is a good contender for being the new Duo, but I really don't think Apple wants to go that route again.
The problem with TTL is that it can be re-set at the routing points. For large backbones, the same data could be routed through multiple points, some of which have multiple intermediary hops, and TTL will not be adjusted until it hits the same end-point. This is one of the "priority" methods large network houses already use to prioritize packets; to the end user/switch/router/etc. it just looks like an overloaded or slow router.
Because these companies have already messed with TTL, it is now broken for use as a solution to all these problems it was originally designed to fix.
I think you proved his pointThe problem so far is that people haven't felt that their case would be tried on its own merit -- instead the case would be tried based on the RIAA's own rules of guilt, which are often inaccurate. Having summary judgement denied in this case means that other cases in Arizona will likely have to go to court when previously they would have ended in a settlement.
It IS possible to create two files with the same MD5 sig however... someone could easily create an infringing song and the garbage track with matching sigs and release both. There would be no way to know which was which... and more than that, they could become comingled in bittorrent so you'd have to grab it multiple times and merge them to recreate either of the originals.
A better one:
You act as a Linux/OpenOffice seed, running a program like Azureus. You share your computer with your kids, who have their own account. However, in order to keep your seeds running all the time, you modify the settings so that all accounts use the same torrent settings.
One day, while your kids are logged in and have some friends over, one of their friends decides they want to share a certain song with your child, but they find they don't currently have it on their iPod. So, they fire up Firefox, google for the song name, click Download, and it loads into Azureus, along with 500 other songs that were in the same torrent. They grab the song, play it for your child, who then decides to buy a copy for their own use off of iTunes using a gift card you gave them.
Meanwhile, those 500 songs are still being shared, and you don't notice due to the fact that you never actually monitor your seeds except when a new version comes out. The network traffic looks fine as you're expecting people to be torrenting from your computer. The difference in free disk space is negligible.
This is a pretty likely scenario. In this case, whose fault is it that the music has been made available?
Of course, ignorance is no defense, and it could be argued that these songs are being distributed through ignorance -- meaning that you as the computer owner AND your child as the owner of the account AND their friend as the person who initiated the transfer are ALL culpable.
As that can be taken in WAY too many wrong ways, I'll provide some suggestions:
Find a hobby
Do some contract work
Find a long-term project at work that you can work on alongside your regular tasks
Find a hobby you can share with your family
Since you're an IT worker, I'd suggest the best thing to do would be to start putting more emphasis on your non-working hours. Talk to your boss about cutting back on your hours if you need to, and supplement your work with contract work. Variety is the spice of life; make sure you've got the right spices.
I second this... having been in the same situation and gone the management route, I sometimes wish I'd taken the other. However, /. isn't really the place to ask for that -- ask people you know in the areas you're considering. If you don't know any people, start to build up a network -- join some online forums, join a club, etc.
Also, consider some business management night school courses, as you'll probably need them no matter which direction you decide to take.
I followed you right up to your examples... and could think of reasons for patrons to support every one of those. Patrons aren't all white conservative US politicians you know.
s/through the wages/through the windows
Gah... can't believe I missed that one.
Actually, all of this raises a good point:
The analogy should be that the artist is the bricklayer -- both get paid to do their job.
The RIAA are the homeowners... and they're getting upset that everyone is peeping through their windows looking at their architecture without paying them the full price of admission.
They then refuse to pay the bricklayer his wages because the bricklayer agreed to the job on being paid a percentage of the profits that were to be made from those tours.
They also sue all the people looking through the wages, as well as those who tell others that they can also see the neat architecture through the windows, because in their view those people are "stealing" the tour admission fares. Each person who glances through one of the windows is tallied as "lost revenue".
You sure you're not thinking of Velour?
Of course, there's no reason that Mr. Bloggs would have to register the same house for each company; he could register one company for each of his homes... and maybe even throw in the summer cottage, a dropbox in Delaware and a few other locations.
In the US, the places to check are IRS records and the credit bureau.
It made me imagine soldiers NOT putting down their guns while trying to navigate through some menu system... and fervently hope that:
1. they're not in a Humvee or other enclosed space while doing this
and
2. Their weapons do not have bayonets on them.
I can imagine enemy troops could get mighty confused by this though... guy has his gun trained on them, and then suddenly starts waving it all over the place swearing at his HUD because he couldn't get the current location to fix properly on his GPS tracking system.
And what everyone's wondering...
How do you press Control-Alt-Delete on a RallyPoint?
So now we are seeing a radical change, where the lies are being exposed, where corrupt politicians are being publicly shamed, where stacked policy forums are being exposed for what they are, corrupt marketing opportunities to sell laws to target and victimise the majority for the benefit of a greedy self serving minority.
How many mass media adds for the most disingenuous politicians have been latter dismembered across the web, and the lies shown in the adds compared to the truth of the actions.
Funny... I've been following articles about how politicians around the world are wising up to the Internet and are now using blogs, online ads and "independant" online news articles much more effectively than they were ever able to abuse mass media... because now they have no accountability instead of just very low and well-paid (off) accountability.This raises a good point... maybe the current copyright laws should only apply to the original holder, and a "post sale" law apply for copyrights that are sold. Any copyright transferred to another entity must be registered with the country's copyright body and renewed every year for a set sum. If the entity fails to pay that sum, copyright reverts to the original holder on the original terms.
Copyright does a very poor job as a weapon for you, the content creator, to use against others. In a world without friction, you might be correct. In this universe, isn't the actual case the OPPOSITE to what you're saying? I see very few cases where some creator has successfully defended their copyright against a corporation that is profiting off their work, but PLENTY of cases where copyrights are being used as an anti competitive weapon.
The trick is to not use a deadly poison... just something that will put him in Emergency due to something that gives him non-stop diarrhea or similar. That way, after you get burgled, you can use the low-quality images you captured and drive around to the local hospitals until you find the guy... after all, Emergency rooms generally have a longish wait time, and the guy doesn't know that you DIDN'T put poison in the bottle. You could even put a label on the bottom of the bottle/inside the cap or similar that says "did you drink any of this? If so, call 555-5555 for instructions on where to find the anti-toxin." For that matter, with such a label, you wouldn't even need to poison it ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3009769.stm
There's your citation -- the BBC version doesn't appear to be slanted against Tony, but provides a lot more detail. Not so cut and dried as the above story makes it seem.
Then again, the smothering lawsuits would begin, and you'd have to eliminate soft objects that can smother as well....
...however any company that put this cruft on their servers would lose their subscriber base overnight as people fled to other providers. Not really an option in Ireland; Eircom owns too much of the infrastructure -- pretty much EVERYTHING internet-related goes through at least one Eircom switch. In order to avoid Eircom, you have to leave Ireland.This is why you carry a PDA or java-enabled cellphone with you... you run your generating apps on it.
Sounds like the trick with Comcast is to auto-generate a new MAC each time your DHCP lease runs out. I guess this would be a bit tricky with a router, but maybe someone could write something for the flashable ones?
I know the parent might come across as flamebait/flame to some, but I have to say: I have absolutely no problem with eating meat, but I DO have a problem with many current food production methods -- mostly meat related, but also those used for corn and soy. I say: if you want to go hunt/grow your own food, if the land can sustain you, go ahead. Just don't try to get me to eat force-grown meat and veggies. They tend to be missing most of the nutrients we're trying to get from them, and instead contain a whole bunch of chemicals whose effects on our bodies aren't adequately analyzed.