>> Why not just go to the patent office, look up the patent, and implement a chip based off that?
Even if you know exactly the specs you are trying to meet a high end chip could still take 10-100 man years of work or more. This ain't as simple as rocket science.
This is best way for the ISP to provide real service is to offload the data traffic to as low a common point in the network as possible. As long as there is a reasonably sized common data set to transfer.
I can see the networks requiring clients to have a P2P client that talks to a common local network aware host. This is the best way to handle the large data needed for video on almost demand. If the IP provider could be convinced to drop seed nodes in at balance points it would be great.
NEW YORK: Four Seasons Hotels, the manager of 74 luxury hotels, said Monday that it had agreed to be taken private by Bill Gates, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and the chief executive for $3.8 billion, including debt.
Looks like there could very easily be some behind the curtain financing of this through foreign nationals.
--- Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board.
Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of his team, have worked on a number of investments including real estate investments in Europe and the United States. They were involved in amongst others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the recapitalization of Suez, the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG, the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for a Dutch mortgage bank, the offer by a major Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy, and the formation of a bid by Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland. He also negotiated and structured investments in Synxis Corporation, which was backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris, and MARC Global Holdings. ---
We do know that some ISP's redirect ad references and fill in pages in transit with different ads. How long before these same ISP's generate phantom client clicks for the ads the insert? Not really that hard to add on and they can even throw that traffic away at their incoming service boundary. This would provide the ISP with a higher value from the advertisers point of view.
Opps have we broken commercialization again.
Other thought, What percentage use a hosts file and no-script to block out ads? These are likely to be in the mid to upper income set and high network usage.
Don't forget we live inside of one gigantic electric motor like device. The spin of the earths core generates a magnetic field which shields us from solar radiation. Someday we are going to tap directly into the power of the earths magnetic field.
That would not be "free energy". The consequences of totally sucking all energy out of the earths magnetic field make, aside from a really bad movie, global warming look like just another day. And while there is an awful lot there, there are no 6e9 or more of us on the planet who could go wild with consumption given "free energy".
The above argued that it was no problem because: -- There is a real loss of $90,000 that the company experiences and a real profit of $90,000 that the employee experiences. The employee pays income tax on the $90,000 and the employer gets to deduct the $90,000. --
There are many problems with that argument not the least of which was covered in a post further above. I am copying the text here as it is currently rated (1) and not visible to most.
True, also because of its significant presence in the US state of Washington, most of those Microsoft employees are able to avoid paying income tax (state income tax at least) on those salaries. Washington is one of those states that has income-tax exemptions. [govspot.com] Isn't it so very interesting that Microsoft is not a state-centric business, but that their products are earning revenues from all US states, overseas, etc.?
Couple avoidance of a state income tax with the fact that many Washingtonians head south to Oregon for some of those lovely sales tax breaks since, well, the state of OR has no state sales tax. [money-zine.com] --
Another problem with the argument is that until recently the discounted stock the employees would by was not accounted for in the corporate valuation. Thus skipping some of the process.
Another problem is that the cash the company writes of as employment expense then gets "reinveted" in the company through the discounted shares. This means the company essentially keeps the money but gets the expense tax write off. Who pays? The non-employee stock holder who gets their stock diluted and the tax payers who pay more tax as replacement for the avoided taxes.
-- Basically, Microsoft receives cash by issuing employee stock options, after which the company then receives billions of dollars in tax deductions from the IRS for doing so. Add in the warrants it sells on its own stock, and the company made over $5 billion off the stock market last year (fiscal year ended July 1999), tax-free. For comparison, its after-tax net income was only $7.8 billion. Microsoft may not be much in the programming department, but its accountants are impressive. -- Corporations pay taxes on their own income (generally 35%), but money they pay out in salaries to employees is deductible from the corporation's income. Since granting options to employees results in taxable income to those employees, Microsoft gets to deduct that taxable employee income from its own taxable corporate income, and that's where Microsoft got a tax-free $3.1 billion in cash in fiscal 1999: "Stock option income tax benefits." --
Strange as a national network policy you think it would day something about the government taping in to all traffic and monitoring it. That is a national policy and it does affect everyone. Also said taping might have something to do with network uptake by end users.
I still don't see how ISP filtering for copyright information would work at a technical level. Every piece of data transmitted would have to be collected, reassembled, and compared against a huge data base then cross referenced against a valid supplier list. The required computing power at all network nodes is just laughable.
Trademark - to brand a product in a particular category Copyright - particular text experssion Patent - invention
Novell used to own the UNIX trademark. They passed it to the OpenGroup when the sold the UNIX business to Santa Cruz Operating Systems. OpenGroup certifies systems as meeting the UNIX standard.
SCO has 2 versions of UNIX, I believe one is UNIX95(tm) compliant, the other UNIX98(tm) compliant. IBM AIX UNIX is UNIX2003(tm) compliant.
Blizzard has a cheat monitor process calls the Warden which scans the active process list for known cheat programs. Hiding from a process scanner is "rootkit-like". It is indeed a war zone out there. I wonder if these guys ever play core-wars.
-- Warden (also known as Warden Client) is an anti-cheating tool integrated in Blizzard Entertainment games such as Diablo II, StarCraft (since patch 1.15), and most notably World of Warcraft. While the game is running, Warden uses API function calls to collect data on open programs on the user's computer and sends it back to Blizzard servers as hash values to be compared to those of known cheating programs.[1] Privacy advocates consider the program to be spyware.[2] --
The copyright argument always seems to be framed in the consumer vs the producer space. When in reality we are all producers. Any solution must address the fact that anyone can be a producer and is entitled to produce their own unquie work and fair use of other work for parody or indexing (see recent Harry Potter Compedium of Facts).
All the channel lock DRM stuff does not allow individuals to be producers. Which is also more likely with the increased power of technology.
It appears that the disputed keyboard layout was only used in the development devices and not in the production devices. By this there should be no injunction on the distribution and likely no/minimal payment for infringement.
---- If you examine the OLPC Wiki's edit history for the West African (Nigerian) keyboard you can see what Adé Oyegbola is on about. To save you trawling back and forth here it is in a nutshell. Note that where I write "create" I am referring to the Wiki entires - these dates may not correspond to the physical devices.
1. 2006-08-07 OLPC buy KONYIN keyboards
2. 2006-11-13 OLPC create Nigerian layout based on KONYIN layout
3. 2006-11-13 OLPC Nigerian image updated; layout unchanged
4. 2007-03-02 OLPC image updated to show Beta-3 model; layout unchanged (Original Image March 2nd)
5. 2007-08-?? LANCORP sends OLPC Cease & Desist Notice
6. 2007-08-20 OLPC B3 layout revised completely, no longer looks like KONYIN (Revised Image August 20th)
7. 2007-08-21 OLPC replaces B3 with B4 Ng-MP-Alt layout (more dialect symbols) and new image.
So this boils down to prototype XOs that used the KONYIN layout. I'm not sure how many prototypes were made with the Nigerian keyboard (I'd guess not many more than the 300 used at Galadima primary school, Abuja) but the total quantities were B1: 875, B2: 2,500, B3: 100, B4: 2,000, C1: 300 (see Development Schedule.
Since August 2007 with the C1 (pre-production) the West African (Nigerian) layout has been as you see it on the current Wiki page.
So the crux is that LANCORP are upset over those beta prototypes but the production XOs (and all XOs made since August 2007) have not used the KONYIN layout. --
This is a good enough reason for ISP's concerned about security to block DoubleClick. You spam the net with bad referrals you get binned. Also think of the traffic that would get binned, way better than blocking p2p.
Do it for a month and DoubleClick and their ilk will be extra sure about not hosting bad stuff.
The IP datagram is printed, on a small scroll of paper, in
hexadecimal, with each octet separated by whitestuff and blackstuff.
The scroll of paper is wrapped around one leg of the avian carrier.
A band of duct tape is used to secure the datagram's edges. The
bandwidth is limited to the leg length. The MTU is variable, and
paradoxically, generally increases with increased carrier age. A
typical MTU is 256 milligrams. Some datagram padding may be needed.
Upon receipt, the duct tape is removed and the paper copy of the
datagram is optically scanned into a electronically transmittable
form. --
By being so inept at putting out quality product that the door was left open for Google.
Look what Microsoft did with IE and dominance of activeX. Now where would we be if Microsoft had continued to develop and improve IE after they squashed Netscape? Where would we be if activeX was fast, secure, and clean?
Microsoft had MSN and hotmail. But they wanted netservices to be such a tool of the "Microsoft Way" that they limited them so much it drove people away to more innovative services.
Microsoft is its own worst enemy. Hampered by its desire to dominate.
A URL is a reference to a bunch of data. A client can do what it wants with that URL and the data it finds at that URL usually with the appropriate protocol.
A URL is not a push to the client of a specific multimedia presentation.
This is a welcome to the information age for the advertisers, this is not television, the clients can use the information supported by the protocol how they like.
The medium is the message and the information providers need to get this message about the medium used. (if that makes any sense)
So do we sit at the knife point. Corporations will demand employees use https while on the road. The government wants to snoop and block everything so it will ban https.
It will be intersting to see which side is stronger.
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>> Why not just go to the patent office, look up the patent, and implement a chip based off that?
Even if you know exactly the specs you are trying to meet a high end chip could still take 10-100 man years of work or more. This ain't as simple as rocket science.
This is best way for the ISP to provide real service is to offload the data traffic to as low a common point in the network as possible. As long as there is a reasonably sized common data set to transfer.
I can see the networks requiring clients to have a P2P client that talks to a common local network aware host. This is the best way to handle the large data needed for video on almost demand. If the IP provider could be convinced to drop seed nodes in at balance points it would be great.
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Thanks to spacelifeform on GL:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/12/bloomberg/bxfour.php
NEW YORK: Four Seasons Hotels, the manager of 74 luxury hotels, said Monday that it had agreed to be taken private by Bill Gates, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and the chief executive for $3.8 billion, including debt.
Coincedence?
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Who is Stephen Norris,
http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html
Looks like there could very easily be some behind the curtain financing of this through foreign nationals.
---
Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board.
Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of his team, have worked on a number of investments including real estate investments in Europe and the United States. They were involved in amongst others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the recapitalization of Suez, the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG, the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for a Dutch mortgage bank, the offer by a major Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy, and the formation of a bid by Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland. He also negotiated and structured investments in Synxis Corporation, which was backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris, and MARC Global Holdings.
---
We do know that some ISP's redirect ad references and fill in pages in transit with different ads. How long before these same ISP's generate phantom client clicks for the ads the insert? Not really that hard to add on and they can even throw that traffic away at their incoming service boundary. This would provide the ISP with a higher value from the advertisers point of view.
Opps have we broken commercialization again.
Other thought,
What percentage use a hosts file and no-script to block out ads? These are likely to be in the mid to upper income set and high network usage.
Don't forget we live inside of one gigantic electric motor like device. The spin of the earths core generates a magnetic field which shields us from solar radiation. Someday we are going to tap directly into the power of the earths magnetic field.
That would not be "free energy". The consequences of totally sucking all energy out of the earths magnetic field make, aside from a really bad movie, global warming look like just another day. And while there is an awful lot there, there are no 6e9 or more of us on the planet who could go wild with consumption given "free energy".
Cut all the alternate paths until the traffic you desire to capture comes through your surveillance hub.
not-so-thick-tinfoil
The above argued that it was no problem because:
--
There is a real loss of $90,000 that the company experiences and a real profit of $90,000 that the employee experiences. The employee pays income tax on the $90,000 and the employer gets to deduct the $90,000.
--
There are many problems with that argument not the least of which was covered in a post further above. I am copying the text here as it is currently rated (1) and not visible to most.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=441294&cid=22293174
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>> Microsoft has effectively paid its employees with your tax dollars for years.
True, also because of its significant presence in the US state of Washington, most of those Microsoft employees are able to avoid paying income tax (state income tax at least) on those salaries. Washington is one of those states that has income-tax exemptions. [govspot.com] Isn't it so very interesting that Microsoft is not a state-centric business, but that their products are earning revenues from all US states, overseas, etc.?
Couple avoidance of a state income tax with the fact that many Washingtonians head south to Oregon for some of those lovely sales tax breaks since, well, the state of OR has no state sales tax. [money-zine.com]
--
Another problem with the argument is that until recently the discounted stock the employees would by was not accounted for in the corporate valuation. Thus skipping some of the process.
Another problem is that the cash the company writes of as employment expense then gets "reinveted" in the company through the discounted shares. This means the company essentially keeps the money but gets the expense tax write off. Who pays? The non-employee stock holder who gets their stock diluted and the tax payers who pay more tax as replacement for the avoided taxes.
Microsoft has effectively paid its employees with your tax dollars for years.
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000217.htm
--
Basically, Microsoft receives cash by issuing employee stock options, after which the company then receives billions of dollars in tax deductions from the IRS for doing so. Add in the warrants it sells on its own stock, and the company made over $5 billion off the stock market last year (fiscal year ended July 1999), tax-free. For comparison, its after-tax net income was only $7.8 billion. Microsoft may not be much in the programming department, but its accountants are impressive.
--
Corporations pay taxes on their own income (generally 35%), but money they pay out in salaries to employees is deductible from the corporation's income. Since granting options to employees results in taxable income to those employees, Microsoft gets to deduct that taxable employee income from its own taxable corporate income, and that's where Microsoft got a tax-free $3.1 billion in cash in fiscal 1999: "Stock option income tax benefits."
--
Strange as a national network policy you think it would day something about the government taping in to all traffic and monitoring it. That is a national policy and it does affect everyone. Also said taping might have something to do with network uptake by end users.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060515-6829.html
I still don't see how ISP filtering for copyright information would work at a technical level. Every piece of data transmitted would have to be collected, reassembled, and compared against a huge data base then cross referenced against a valid supplier list. The required computing power at all network nodes is just laughable.
There are many types of IP.
Trademark - to brand a product in a particular category
Copyright - particular text experssion
Patent - invention
Novell used to own the UNIX trademark. They passed it to the OpenGroup when the sold the UNIX business to Santa Cruz Operating Systems. OpenGroup certifies systems as meeting the UNIX standard.
SCO has 2 versions of UNIX, I believe one is UNIX95(tm) compliant, the other UNIX98(tm) compliant.
IBM AIX UNIX is UNIX2003(tm) compliant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Property
Blizzard has a cheat monitor process calls the Warden which scans the active process list for known cheat programs. Hiding from a process scanner is "rootkit-like". It is indeed a war zone out there. I wonder if these guys ever play core-wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software)
--
Warden (also known as Warden Client) is an anti-cheating tool integrated in Blizzard Entertainment games such as Diablo II, StarCraft (since patch 1.15), and most notably World of Warcraft. While the game is running, Warden uses API function calls to collect data on open programs on the user's computer and sends it back to Blizzard servers as hash values to be compared to those of known cheating programs.[1] Privacy advocates consider the program to be spyware.[2]
--
The copyright argument always seems to be framed in the consumer vs the producer space. When in reality we are all producers. Any solution must address the fact that anyone can be a producer and is entitled to produce their own unquie work and fair use of other work for parody or indexing (see recent Harry Potter Compedium of Facts).
All the channel lock DRM stuff does not allow individuals to be producers. Which is also more likely with the increased power of technology.
It appears that the disputed keyboard layout was only used in the development devices and not in the production devices. By this there should be no injunction on the distribution and likely no/minimal payment for infringement.
From Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071203061340580#c652659
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If you examine the OLPC Wiki's edit history for the West African (Nigerian) keyboard you can see what Adé Oyegbola is on about. To save you trawling back and forth here it is in a nutshell. Note that where I write "create" I am referring to the Wiki entires - these dates may not correspond to the physical devices.
1. 2006-08-07 OLPC buy KONYIN keyboards
2. 2006-11-13 OLPC create Nigerian layout based on KONYIN layout
3. 2006-11-13 OLPC Nigerian image updated; layout unchanged
4. 2007-03-02 OLPC image updated to show Beta-3 model; layout unchanged (Original Image March 2nd)
5. 2007-08-?? LANCORP sends OLPC Cease & Desist Notice
6. 2007-08-20 OLPC B3 layout revised completely, no longer looks like KONYIN (Revised Image August 20th)
7. 2007-08-21 OLPC replaces B3 with B4 Ng-MP-Alt layout (more dialect symbols) and new image.
So this boils down to prototype XOs that used the KONYIN layout. I'm not sure how many prototypes were made with the Nigerian keyboard (I'd guess not many more than the 300 used at Galadima primary school, Abuja) but the total quantities were B1: 875, B2: 2,500, B3: 100, B4: 2,000, C1: 300 (see Development Schedule.
Since August 2007 with the C1 (pre-production) the West African (Nigerian) layout has been as you see it on the current Wiki page.
So the crux is that LANCORP are upset over those beta prototypes but the production XOs (and all XOs made since August 2007) have not used the KONYIN layout.
--
My ISP (3web Canada) has taken to throwing up dnserror pages when a site cannot be found.
This seems to happen on misses on the DNS cache rather than failures to resolve to the root DNS server.
I have had the DNS error page appear for worldofwarcraft.com and slashdot.com.
The DNS error page throws up a bunch of ads. So the the failure to resolve to worldofwarcraft.com left me staring at a bunch of goldfarmer ads.
I can see lawsuits starting over this soon. The ISP has a financial incentive in failing to the DNS error page and serving the ad.
I stopped reading back around book 3/4 when a bad guy came back from the dead.
If they keep reincarnating the author the series will never end.
The wheel turns.
This is a good enough reason for ISP's concerned about security to block DoubleClick. You spam the net with bad referrals you get binned. Also think of the traffic that would get binned, way better than blocking p2p.
Do it for a month and DoubleClick and their ilk will be extra sure about not hosting bad stuff.
This just cries out for someone to implement a page fetch of this using RFC 1149.
Then to archive the transmit and receive buffers in a book.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
--
Frame Format
The IP datagram is printed, on a small scroll of paper, in
hexadecimal, with each octet separated by whitestuff and blackstuff.
The scroll of paper is wrapped around one leg of the avian carrier.
A band of duct tape is used to secure the datagram's edges. The
bandwidth is limited to the leg length. The MTU is variable, and
paradoxically, generally increases with increased carrier age. A
typical MTU is 256 milligrams. Some datagram padding may be needed.
Upon receipt, the duct tape is removed and the paper copy of the
datagram is optically scanned into a electronically transmittable
form.
--
What sort of computers are the TSA using if it takes 3 days to match a name to a database.
What century are we living in?
1 hour before boarding is reasonable. Allows data entry and organization for response.
Anything more is just a sloppy system.
> like "more evolved."
I just read that as "culled out more of the failures" then immediatly connect it to we missed some obvious ones.
Microsoft did enable Google
By being so inept at putting out quality product that the door was left open for Google.
Look what Microsoft did with IE and dominance of activeX. Now where would we be if Microsoft had continued to develop and improve IE after they squashed Netscape? Where would we be if activeX was fast, secure, and clean?
Microsoft had MSN and hotmail. But they wanted netservices to be such a tool of the "Microsoft Way" that they limited them so much it drove people away to more innovative services.
Microsoft is its own worst enemy. Hampered by its desire to dominate.
>> Google as it becomes more apparent that they are more akin to a lovechild of M$ and the NSA than a giant sushi eating LAN party)
Google does search on massive amounts of data and returns relevant results.
Do you think the NSA did not drive up with a dump truck full of cash and say "give us one" as soon as Google proved their technology worked?
How many Google stand alone search appliances do you think the NSA has?
A URL is a reference to a bunch of data. A client can do what it wants with that URL and the data it finds at that URL usually with the appropriate protocol.
A URL is not a push to the client of a specific multimedia presentation.
This is a welcome to the information age for the advertisers, this is not television, the clients can use the information supported by the protocol how they like.
The medium is the message and the information providers need to get this message about the medium used. (if that makes any sense)
seriously, it looks like they are more of a proven hazard than water
So do we sit at the knife point.
Corporations will demand employees use https while on the road.
The government wants to snoop and block everything so it will ban https.
It will be intersting to see which side is stronger.