Caps would be a very poor business decision for all the reasons mentioned in the summary and more.
However metered billing on some sort of sliding scale (the more you use, the less each byte costs because the fixed costs of supporting a customer don't vary by bandwidth consumed) has the potential to be better for both the customers and the ISPs.
When ISPs charge by the byte their business interest becomes aligned with their clients' interests - the more bandwidth the clients use, the more money the ISP makes and thus the more money they can afford to invest in infrastructure which means even greater amounts of even cheaper bandwidth becomes available due to economies of scale, technology improvements, etc.
I know there are plenty of cynics out there (I am one too) who think that the ISPs would just use metered billing as a way to gouge customers rather than improve service and reduce costs - they do tend to be monopolies after all. But I don't see the current situation being sustainable (which is one reason things like network neutrality are so hot right now, with fixed pricing the only way for the ISP to make more money per customer is via tricky back-door schemes that conflict, rather than align with their customers' interests).
Oh yeah, we're so stupid that we're going to let some reporter just find this filing we're trying to hide... NOTHING TO SEE HERE! The Art of war has been around since 5 BC, misinformation has been around longer than that... Yeah, well the Art of War also says:
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." WMDs? What WMDs? Mission accomplished!!
There's another book out there, Murphy's Law, one of those passages reads:
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
...or perhaps he's one of those perverse people that thinks that a crime requires a real victim. At least then there could be a rational discussion. Too bad all he had was, "[it's] just what I go by."
Reading between the lines, they say the projector is "inches" away from the table. The only way I can see that working is if the projector is off to one side and has massive keystone correction. So you will get shadows from fingers that touch the surface, but not from heads or hands that are above the table by more than a few inches.
Never said it was foolproof, just what I go by... So you are one of those people who like to believe that its OK for people to hold nonsensical opinions because, hey, they are just opinions. Great.
Yeah... Your belief system really doesn't hold up under careful analysis. Seems to be mostly based on emotion and gut feel rather than rational thought. e.g. -- I want to buy a Ford, so I go online and download one for myself instead. That's a real 'lost sale,' yet OK based on your system.
Markets continue to function fine when the government doesn't mess with them, as they have with helium since WWI. Indeed. It sure seems like every time someone uses a shortage as an example of the free market failing, it always turns out to be the failure of a regulated or otherwise non-free market.
Last.fm does their watermarking this way, or atleast thats what I think it is. I highly doubt that. The time-based stuff is a lot more subtle than what you describe, pretty much inaudible unless you have two versions to A/B compare against each other, and even then its hard. A few milliseconds of drift (not jumps like you mention) are beyond perceptible for most humans. For example, most people won't notice a problem if the sound track for a movie is off by less than 50ms. (NBC's entire HDTV line up has an extra 50ms of audio delay compared to all the other networks and only the most dedicated home theater freaks even notice).
I dropped last.fm when CBS bought them so I don't have any experience with it. But my educated guess is that what you are hearing is a bug.
No. You are incorrect. Most money flows to those who produce and distributer. The author choses a producer and distributor and knowlingly assigns some percentage of the income to them. That's their choice. And yes, many performers own them. Besides, you're still talking music. How about books? No, you are incorrect. You've never published anything of significance have you? Show us two mainstream publishers of books, movies, magazines or music that does not either demand ownership of copyright or require extremely favorable and exclusive terms in order to publish.
These people all get their money by maintaining control of distribution, and copyright is THE tool by which they do so.
If it's really "insane", why aren't more content producers *voluntarily* reducing the copyright terms of their own works? Because most content producers - at least the mainstream ones that are all you are apparently aware of - do not have that choice. They don't own the copyrights to their own works - the middle-men of the MAFIAA do.
And unlike the creators who actually have valuable skills, the only thing the middle-men have are their monopolistic hold on old-world distribution channels and the copyrights which allow them to milk those same channels.
Remember the FBI under Hoover?
No. And that's a big problem. The generation which experienced stuff like that is rapidly passing into senility or worse.
Or a fourth - An extra layer of rubber on the condom could just have been a bigger turn on for the guy with a rubber fetish. He was wearing TWO dive suits after all.
But he wasn't "preparing" to share the files in any sense Oh really? If ripping and putting files in an open directory doesn't qualify as preparation, then just what would? Turning on his computer?
This is also why we have laws against "attempted murder" or "attempted rape" on the books.
Do you realize that the crimes of "attempted murder" and "attempted rape" require that the person actually try to commit murder or rape? That simply preparing to murder or preparing to rape is not enough to qualify?
As at least one other has already pointed out, there are no laws on the books against "attempted copyright infringement" much less "preparing to infringe copyright."
I didn't you said over staying a Visa is no worse than having a speeding ticked. Well then since it is still expired then it is an unresolved ticket. Jesus Christ! Are you really incapable of distinguishing between kind and form? If I had said "public intoxication" would you be going off on some lame-ass tangent about drinking and driving? Watering your yard during a drought restriction and you would be going off about housing?
Your argument is that we shouldn't enforce a law because it isn't just. Not at all. My argument is all about severity. Convicted felons have all kinds of restrictions placed on them, people convicted of civil infractions and 4th degree misdemeanors are not similarly restricted. The entire argument about how illegal aliens should be denied such and such because they are "lawbreakers, after all" implies that the crime of being an illegal alien is so terrible that they ought to be treated like felons (without even being convicted either) when in fact the LAWS ON THE BOOKS often categorize the crime with the least severity possible.
I didn't include the "do nothing" option because it really isn't an option for the event organizer. The obvious choice is to deal with each situation on a case by case basis. There is absolutely no need to make decisions about groups of people based on the actions of a tiny minority while at the same time ignoring other groups that include the same actors.
Having a press credential doesn't make an iota of difference. Whoa, clearly you haven't been to a trade show on a press pass. There are tons of perks for the press Did I really need to spell out that "iota of difference" applies to PRANKS not PERKS?
Attempted import of an unauthorized copy. There is no such law. Go on, I dare you to find it.
In the US, the way it works is that if the copy was acquired legally, then it is legal to import for personal use, but not for resale. That is the primary defense that the armchair lawyers bring up with respect to paying for the services of those russian mp3 sites like AllofMP3. The main difference being that the OP's hypothetical involved the copy being made physically in Canada while the AllofMP3 situation is a lot more nebulous about the actual location where the copy is made.
there's no way you could take a watermarked.wav file, compress it to Mp3, decompress it and expect to see any reasonable part of the original watermark left There is more than one way to skin a cat. What you are talking about is frequency-domain watermarking. But consider the possibility of time-domain watermarking - where certain 'events' in the recording are shifted in relation to each other by a few milliseconds. That kind of watermarking *will* survive even extreme amounts of lossy recompression.
inconvenience the paying customer by recommending that they cover their IR ports on displays
inconvenience the non-revenue-generating bloggers by showing them the door
What a poor set of choices you've picked. Did you do that to try to mislead people? Are you a politician?
What does being a blogger have to do with playing a prank? Anyone on the floor can play a prank. Having a press credential doesn't make an iota of difference. Kicking out bloggers won't reduce the risk of interference any more than kicking out the white males or the booth babes would.
All the major food sources have been "heavily modified genetically". It's called selective breeding/pollination. Direct gene manipulation is pretty much the same thing, but faster and more precise. Bullshit. Utterly and willfully ignorant bullshit.
First off, we are seeing cross-species gene transplants, that does not ever happen naturally. But go ahead and forget about that issue since it is not so widespread yet.
The other problem is exactly what you wrote -- faster changes. Faster change mean faster mistakes and less chance to catch non-obvious mistakes. With selective breeding you get multiple generations worth of time to discover problems with a new breed, long before it enters mainstream consumption. With gene-splicing a wholesale change can be made across thousands, even hundreds of thousands of animals/plants within the span of one generation.
This one is cheaper and more flexible. In my experience, it is a good idea to get a big 120mm fan and plug it into the same power-supply to keep the disk cool while you use it.
Do you think you can get your license renewed if you have an outstanding speeding ticket???? They do take your license away for that. Do not attempt to rephrase the question. Is breaking the speed limit, or jaywalking, so heinous a crime that one should forever be denied a driver's license?
If one thinks one is underpaid, one has the option of obtaining employment elsewhere. If all employers are underpaying, then one has misjudged one's market value. And if all employees think they are underpaid, then employers have misjudged their market value. That's what happens when you off-shore and H1B the shit out of previous generations working in the same market. The kids aren't stoopid, they see the risk they are taking by staying that profession and they expect to be compensated for it.
The states are just agreeing to make their licenses more similar. No. It is not.
It is the states being required to share information with all levels of the federal government and is one step away from sharing them with any corporation that wants it. Furthermore it is about recording the use of IDs to track people - at first it will just be correlating air travel and interactions with the federal government, but eventually it will be recording every liquor purchase, every bank transaction, etc.
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Caps would be a very poor business decision for all the reasons mentioned in the summary and more.
However metered billing on some sort of sliding scale (the more you use, the less each byte costs because the fixed costs of supporting a customer don't vary by bandwidth consumed) has the potential to be better for both the customers and the ISPs.
When ISPs charge by the byte their business interest becomes aligned with their clients' interests - the more bandwidth the clients use, the more money the ISP makes and thus the more money they can afford to invest in infrastructure which means even greater amounts of even cheaper bandwidth becomes available due to economies of scale, technology improvements, etc.
I know there are plenty of cynics out there (I am one too) who think that the ISPs would just use metered billing as a way to gouge customers rather than improve service and reduce costs - they do tend to be monopolies after all. But I don't see the current situation being sustainable (which is one reason things like network neutrality are so hot right now, with fixed pricing the only way for the ISP to make more money per customer is via tricky back-door schemes that conflict, rather than align with their customers' interests).
The Art of war has been around since 5 BC, misinformation has been around longer than that... Yeah, well the Art of War also says: "Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." WMDs? What WMDs? Mission accomplished!!
There's another book out there, Murphy's Law, one of those passages reads: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
...or perhaps he's one of those perverse people that thinks that a crime requires a real victim. At least then there could be a rational discussion.Too bad all he had was, "[it's] just what I go by."
Reading between the lines, they say the projector is "inches" away from the table. The only way I can see that working is if the projector is off to one side and has massive keystone correction. So you will get shadows from fingers that touch the surface, but not from heads or hands that are above the table by more than a few inches.
Yeah...
Your belief system really doesn't hold up under careful analysis. Seems to be mostly based on emotion and gut feel rather than rational thought. e.g. -- I want to buy a Ford, so I go online and download one for myself instead. That's a real 'lost sale,' yet OK based on your system.
I dropped last.fm when CBS bought them so I don't have any experience with it. But my educated guess is that what you are hearing is a bug.
These people all get their money by maintaining control of distribution, and copyright is THE tool by which they do so.
And unlike the creators who actually have valuable skills, the only thing the middle-men have are their monopolistic hold on old-world distribution channels and the copyrights which allow them to milk those same channels.
The generation which experienced stuff like that is rapidly passing into senility or worse.
Or a fourth - An extra layer of rubber on the condom could just have been a bigger turn on for the guy with a rubber fetish. He was wearing TWO dive suits after all.
PS - you are the one who rephrased the question by ADDING the term "outstanding."
In the US, the way it works is that if the copy was acquired legally, then it is legal to import for personal use, but not for resale. That is the primary defense that the armchair lawyers bring up with respect to paying for the services of those russian mp3 sites like AllofMP3. The main difference being that the OP's hypothetical involved the copy being made physically in Canada while the AllofMP3 situation is a lot more nebulous about the actual location where the copy is made.
- inconvenience the paying customer by recommending that they cover their IR ports on displays
- inconvenience the non-revenue-generating bloggers by showing them the door
What a poor set of choices you've picked. Did you do that to try to mislead people? Are you a politician?What does being a blogger have to do with playing a prank? Anyone on the floor can play a prank. Having a press credential doesn't make an iota of difference. Kicking out bloggers won't reduce the risk of interference any more than kicking out the white males or the booth babes would.
It's called selective breeding/pollination.
Direct gene manipulation is pretty much the same thing, but faster and more precise. Bullshit. Utterly and willfully ignorant bullshit.
First off, we are seeing cross-species gene transplants, that does not ever happen naturally. But go ahead and forget about that issue since it is not so widespread yet.
The other problem is exactly what you wrote -- faster changes. Faster change mean faster mistakes and less chance to catch non-obvious mistakes. With selective breeding you get multiple generations worth of time to discover problems with a new breed, long before it enters mainstream consumption. With gene-splicing a wholesale change can be made across thousands, even hundreds of thousands of animals/plants within the span of one generation.
This one is cheaper and more flexible.
In my experience, it is a good idea to get a big 120mm fan and plug it into the same power-supply to keep the disk cool while you use it.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=EN2535A&cat=HDD
They do take your license away for that. Do not attempt to rephrase the question. Is breaking the speed limit, or jaywalking, so heinous a crime that one should forever be denied a driver's license?
It is the states being required to share information with all levels of the federal government and is one step away from sharing them with any corporation that wants it. Furthermore it is about recording the use of IDs to track people - at first it will just be correlating air travel and interactions with the federal government, but eventually it will be recording every liquor purchase, every bank transaction, etc.