Are we all supposed to be genetically selected individuals who crawled out of toilets and are capable of calmly and strategically plotting the deaths of others.
The "corporation" really has only the need for 1 central copy with appropriate backups. Expect an argument about what constitutes an appropriate back up. Even if everyone in the corporation is allowed their own "backup" copy of the entire music archive the concept of copyright and backups will mean that 1 copy is viewed as the access copy. All other copies will be "inactive" backups. The "active" token can be passed around quickly, but does not solve the concept of multiple simultaneuos access to the same song. Simply drop the concept of access control altogether and call the whole thing a distributed multiple access data base and get the RIAA to define the concept of simultaneuos access down to the quantum time level.
It looks a lot like lawsuits are the new "bubble" industry. Anyone complaining about being an out of work IT consultant should look to writing the bar (after the difficult MSCE exam the bar should be breeze =:-) and joining the lawsuit frenzey.
Should the $1.1B per state be multiplied by the number of states or do you think it will scale by population. For cash strapped states it should look like a good way to get some funding for the high-tech equipment in schools. Also all the government agencies in the state should be able to claim cash back on purchases. To bad they settled and there was no judgment. It will be harder for other states to get the same deal.
What sort of buisness decision is this that effectively cuts off their potential customer base? Tiing themselves to IE basically limits their customer base to bleeding edge windows systems. That old IE/media player/chat client just won't like that old hardware.
If they are going to do this I want the right of response to all advertisement claims. Lets see how quick the whole thing gets dropped with this amendment.
At the bank/machine you are id'd as you get the cash. Your id is tagged to the cash. It becomes possible to trace that cash back to you.
This could destroy thieves and black markets.
Example 1: Bob has cash. This is known by the system. Bob has cash stolen. This is reported. Cash is spent in store with electronic cash tracing. This is Bob's stolen cash, a camera catches a picture of the transaction. Theif is id'd.
Example 2: Cops bust a drug lab and find cash. They know who took the cash out of the bank. They now have a whole list of suspects to check out for posession of drugs.
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Warren used to run a regular forum. This was the Warren Ellis Forum . A lot of questions have been previously very hashed over there. It was a reasonably high content forum but still had some of the usual drivel. The forum basically lasted the life of Transmetropolitan and was some sort of feedback for that effort.
People could do searches of that for some more background on some of the issues.
The forum was used by Warren for a fair bit of research into "floppies" vs trade paper backs and superheros vs other comic heros by asking people what they thought and bought.
Imagine what would happen if an IMac computer gave one license to make personal copies of any material in Universal Music's catalog?
How fast would Microsoft buy up the remaining members of the RIAA? So that a Microsoft OS license gave one similar rights on those catalogs. Hey they could use that $40billion in the bank for something.
Imagine the lawsuits on unfair competition coming out of the remaining independent producers. Imagine the lawsuits. Is the future in high tech or the spin-off lawsuits?
For those not located north of the USA. Poutine is a Qubecois delicacy. Lots of calories for those cold days.
Some facts about poutine:
What it is -- French fries, cheese curds, gravy.
When invented -- Believed to be in 1957 by restaurant owner Fernand Lachance. Originally, it was sauceless with just fries and cheese curds.
How named -- Lachance used the French-Canadian word "poutine" to describe the gooey mess made by french fries and cheese curds. Poutine originally was a trifle made with leftover cake or cookies, custard and fruit.
Fat content -- About 60 grams a serving.
Where available -- Fast-food restaurants and chains such as Chez Ashton, Mike's, McDonald's in Quebec, and in some Burger Kings and Harvey's across Canada.
Quote -- "If you don't want to get fat, just eat it without the sauce." -- Lachance.
1) Sign up attendees to conference.
- detail: capture buisness and home addresses 2) Hold event and distribute software
- detail: do not include official license for software 3) Provide list to BSA of firms and individuals known to be in posession of illegal software
- detail: list is from 1), knowledge is from 2)
- detail: wait for software activation to ping home base for extra legal weight 4) Unleash the BSA and Marshalls to force all involved to provide detailed analysis proving that all software is licensed
- detail: use information from 3) to get the needed warrants to really be annoying 5) Laugh maniacally
I can issue stamps with as many tags as I like and configure my email front end to deal with messages based on the stamps "Friends" "I am a customer of company X" "I work for A and buy from B" "I work for A and sell to C" "Registered at site M to enter contest" "Tech web site registration" "News web site registration" "Entertainment web site registration"
In the event you went on holiday you could even set up forwarding based on the message stamps.
1) Retinal scan, thumb print and DNA test required for authentication. 2) Registration and tracking in national and international databases of governments and corporations. This tracks your access point and methods as well as the data you access and networks traversed. 3) Pay per microsecond based on access to copyright data and use of copyright and patented technologies. 4) All govenments, corporations and point of sale terminals are based on the technology. 5) Hardware locked software that enforces all of the above.
Did the person expect to get any other types of comments?
1: spin up earth's core to intensify magnetic field effects (might need a lawyer to avoid copyright/patent problems with soon to be released movie CORE) 2: use increased magnetic field to funnel solar emmissions "behind" the earth in orbit. The earth might have to be tilted in its orbit to do this. 3: fire up a planetary Bussard jet 4: increase earths orbit speed to move out to larger orbit 5: plan new wider orbit with decreased solar radiation to balance out global warming problem
Now there is a good ten year plan with a lot of science (or maybe one bad SciFi movie).
I note that the BSA email includes the details of how they accessed the "violating" software. This includes the anonymous ftp login using login: anonymous password: guest@nowhere.com
I doubt that the address guest@nowhere.com connects to the person that runs the script for the BSA. If servers had the policy requirement that all anonymous access required a valid email address as the anonymous login password the letter from the BSA would provide a valid point to charge the BSA with illegal access to a system.
Also if the BSA does not represent the copyright/left holders for OpenOffice then the BSA is open for a claim of false representation. >> Based upon BSA's representation of the copyright owners in anti-piracy >> matters, we have a good faith belief that none of the materials or >> activities listed above have been authorized by the rightholders, their >> agents, or the law. BSA represents that the information in this >> notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is >> authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed >> above.
According to the EULA for the latest versions of the OS Microsoft has the right to read any data you have stored on a computer which runs the OS. Theoretically this includes data dumps of hard drive formats which the OS does not even support.
The GRid is a point of sale identification so that the seller can identify which track has been sold and then send the appropriate $ to the recipient (RIAA member).
You can view this as the thin edge of the wedge in a scheme that will probably work to get a "Palladium" like system in place.
Bob buys track 9 from CD X from Amazon. Amazon records the GRid and forwards the appropriate share to RIAA member reponsible for producing the track. Bob is happy because he was able to access the track.
Later Bob will be investigated for file shareing. He will not have the GRid's to prove he bought the file. The GRid's are not part of the music track. The RIAA will say but "Palladium" can solve that. Bob will ask to have "Palladium" implemented so that he does not have to go to jail.
Are people free to view the Microsoft source, or is there an EULA type agreement that any person with access to Microsoft Source is not allowed to work on Open Source or Microsoft competitive products. I would think that this would be a very restrictive license term that would get in the way.
Say the anti-competitive period is 5 years. This means that anyone who sees the code is contaminiated and restricted from what they can work on. Possibly a career limiting exposure.
Of course there could be no such terms attached to the source. Anyone have insight?
All Microsoft software is an export of the US this brings trade $ to the US and profit, employment and tax dollars to the the US. Manufacturing costs are minimal. The US State Department has a mandate to support exports of American products. Internally the US government is mandated to support national development and minimize costs. This is best done through an open source solution system and the development and support of many independent local service companies. See the Peru OSS document.
Thus we have the two faces of government: 1) attempting to get other nations to buy overpriced, over hyped expensive american products 2) attempting internally to minimize costs and local development Should one be suprised that other governments are also attempting 2. No. But the best thing to do is to pressure them to do 1 and send those $ to the US.
The next FT article will be noting that getting an article mentioned on/. can get page hits up and increase add revenues. On the CC clone issue someone mentioned that CNN science articles tend to get/. mention as well. If I was an editor I would consider it a success if I got an article mentioned on/. as this brings in the hits. Do you think sites might start targeting or even feeding interesting articles to/. to up the hit rate?
Given the "high tech" tag and very different payloads of the truck I can see the need for a different crew for the truck for each payload.
Payloads/Crew list 1) ground to air missiles 2) ground to ground missles 3) urban warefare combat, heavy machine guns 4) urban warefare support, troop carrier/munitions 5) urban warefare intelligence, Night/heat vision, radio snoop 6) terrorisim intelligence 7) chemical hazmat sensor 8) nuclear hazmat sensor
In this example set we are looking at 8 different payloads. Most likely close to 8 different specialist crews as well. The cost savings are only one vehicle platform but that means that 2 payloads and 2 crews cannot be deployed at once. So by saving the cost on the vehicle the additional crews and payloads are idled.
Also the warefare variants probably have a need for armor while the intelligence variants do not. So the vehicle base is a compromise between the different mission options.
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Are we all supposed to be genetically selected individuals who crawled out of toilets and are capable of calmly and strategically plotting the deaths of others.
The "corporation" really has only the need for 1 central copy with appropriate backups. Expect an argument about what constitutes an appropriate back up.
Even if everyone in the corporation is allowed their own "backup" copy of the entire music archive the concept of copyright and backups will mean that 1 copy is viewed as the access copy. All other copies will be "inactive" backups.
The "active" token can be passed around quickly, but does not solve the concept of multiple simultaneuos access to the same song.
Simply drop the concept of access control altogether and call the whole thing a distributed multiple access data base and get the RIAA to define the concept of simultaneuos access down to the quantum time level.
It looks a lot like lawsuits are the new "bubble" industry. Anyone complaining about being an out of work IT consultant should look to writing the bar (after the difficult MSCE exam the bar should be breeze =:-) and joining the lawsuit frenzey.
Should the $1.1B per state be multiplied by the number of states or do you think it will scale by population. For cash strapped states it should look like a good way to get some funding for the high-tech equipment in schools. Also all the government agencies in the state should be able to claim cash back on purchases.
To bad they settled and there was no judgment. It will be harder for other states to get the same deal.
What sort of buisness decision is this that effectively cuts off their potential customer base? Tiing themselves to IE basically limits their customer base to bleeding edge windows systems. That old IE/media player/chat client just won't like that old hardware.
Really put your money on this and start selling SCO short on the market.
If they are going to do this I want the right of response to all advertisement claims. Lets see how quick the whole thing gets dropped with this amendment.
At the bank/machine you are id'd as you get the cash. Your id is tagged to the cash. It becomes possible to trace that cash back to you.
This could destroy thieves and black markets.
Example 1:
Bob has cash. This is known by the system.
Bob has cash stolen. This is reported. Cash is spent in store with electronic cash tracing. This is Bob's stolen cash, a camera catches a picture of the transaction. Theif is id'd.
Example 2:
Cops bust a drug lab and find cash. They know who took the cash out of the bank. They now have a whole list of suspects to check out for posession of drugs.
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This was the Warren Ellis Forum
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Warren used to run a regular forum. This was the Warren Ellis Forum . A lot of questions have been previously very hashed over there. It was a reasonably high content forum but still had some of the usual drivel. The forum basically lasted the life of Transmetropolitan and was some sort of feedback for that effort. People could do searches of that for some more background on some of the issues. The forum was used by Warren for a fair bit of research into "floppies" vs trade paper backs and superheros vs other comic heros by asking people what they thought and bought.
Imagine what would happen if an IMac computer gave one license to make personal copies of any material in Universal Music's catalog?
How fast would Microsoft buy up the remaining members of the RIAA? So that a Microsoft OS license gave one similar rights on those catalogs. Hey they could use that $40billion in the bank for something.
Imagine the lawsuits on unfair competition coming out of the remaining independent producers. Imagine the lawsuits. Is the future in high tech or the spin-off lawsuits?
Now make a portable zapper. Walk through various stores that emplot the RFID chips. Sit back and watch the fun. Culture Jammin' 21st century style.
Sort of like watching modern cash register jockeys coping during a power outage.
For those not located north of the USA. Poutine is a Qubecois delicacy. Lots of calories for those cold days.
Some facts about poutine:
What it is -- French fries, cheese curds, gravy.
When invented -- Believed to be in 1957 by restaurant owner Fernand Lachance. Originally, it was sauceless with just fries and cheese curds.
How named -- Lachance used the French-Canadian word "poutine" to describe the gooey mess made by french fries and cheese curds. Poutine originally was a trifle made with leftover cake or cookies, custard and fruit.
Fat content -- About 60 grams a serving.
Where available -- Fast-food restaurants and chains such as Chez Ashton, Mike's, McDonald's in Quebec, and in some Burger Kings and Harvey's across Canada.
Quote -- "If you don't want to get fat, just eat it without the sauce." -- Lachance.
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Buisness Auditing Steps
1) Sign up attendees to conference.
- detail: capture buisness and home addresses
2) Hold event and distribute software
- detail: do not include official license for software
3) Provide list to BSA of firms and individuals known to be in posession of illegal software
- detail: list is from 1), knowledge is from 2)
- detail: wait for software activation to ping home base for extra legal weight
4) Unleash the BSA and Marshalls to force all involved to provide detailed analysis proving that all software is licensed
- detail: use information from 3) to get the needed warrants to really be annoying
5) Laugh maniacally
How about a protocol for personal PGP stamps.
I can issue stamps with as many tags as I like and configure my email front end to deal with messages based on the stamps
"Friends"
"I am a customer of company X"
"I work for A and buy from B"
"I work for A and sell to C"
"Registered at site M to enter contest"
"Tech web site registration"
"News web site registration"
"Entertainment web site registration"
In the event you went on holiday you could even set up forwarding based on the message stamps.
Tell me I am not an optimist:
1) Retinal scan, thumb print and DNA test required for authentication.
2) Registration and tracking in national and international databases of governments and corporations. This tracks your access point and methods as well as the data you access and networks traversed.
3) Pay per microsecond based on access to copyright data and use of copyright and patented technologies.
4) All govenments, corporations and point of sale terminals are based on the technology.
5) Hardware locked software that enforces all of the above.
Did the person expect to get any other types of comments?
Mad scientist hat on:
1: spin up earth's core to intensify magnetic field effects (might need a lawyer to avoid copyright/patent problems with soon to be released movie CORE)
2: use increased magnetic field to funnel solar emmissions "behind" the earth in orbit. The earth might have to be tilted in its orbit to do this.
3: fire up a planetary Bussard jet
4: increase earths orbit speed to move out to larger orbit
5: plan new wider orbit with decreased solar radiation to balance out global warming problem
Now there is a good ten year plan with a lot of science (or maybe one bad SciFi movie).
I note that the BSA email includes the details of how they accessed the "violating" software. This includes the anonymous ftp login using
login: anonymous
password: guest@nowhere.com
I doubt that the address guest@nowhere.com connects to the person that runs the script for the BSA. If servers had the policy requirement that all anonymous access required a valid email address as the anonymous login password the letter from the BSA would provide a valid point to charge the BSA with illegal access to a system.
Also if the BSA does not represent the copyright/left holders for OpenOffice then the BSA is open for a claim of false representation.
>> Based upon BSA's representation of the copyright owners in anti-piracy
>> matters, we have a good faith belief that none of the materials or
>> activities listed above have been authorized by the rightholders, their
>> agents, or the law. BSA represents that the information in this
>> notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is
>> authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed
>> above.
According to the EULA for the latest versions of the OS Microsoft has the right to read any data you have stored on a computer which runs the OS.
Theoretically this includes data dumps of hard drive formats which the OS does not even support.
The GRid is a point of sale identification so that the seller can identify which track has been sold and then send the appropriate $ to the recipient (RIAA member).
You can view this as the thin edge of the wedge in a scheme that will probably work to get a "Palladium" like system in place.
Bob buys track 9 from CD X from Amazon. Amazon records the GRid and forwards the appropriate share to RIAA member reponsible for producing the track. Bob is happy because he was able to access the track.
Later Bob will be investigated for file shareing. He will not have the GRid's to prove he bought the file. The GRid's are not part of the music track. The RIAA will say but "Palladium" can solve that. Bob will ask to have "Palladium" implemented so that he does not have to go to jail.
Are people free to view the Microsoft source, or is there an EULA type agreement that any person with access to Microsoft Source is not allowed to work on Open Source or Microsoft competitive products. I would think that this would be a very restrictive license term that would get in the way.
Say the anti-competitive period is 5 years. This means that anyone who sees the code is contaminiated and restricted from what they can work on. Possibly a career limiting exposure.
Of course there could be no such terms attached to the source. Anyone have insight?
All Microsoft software is an export of the US this brings trade $ to the US and profit, employment and tax dollars to the the US. Manufacturing costs are minimal. The US State Department has a mandate to support exports of American products.
Internally the US government is mandated to support national development and minimize costs. This is best done through an open source solution system and the development and support of many independent local service companies. See the Peru OSS document.
Thus we have the two faces of government:
1) attempting to get other nations to buy overpriced, over hyped expensive american products
2) attempting internally to minimize costs and local development
Should one be suprised that other governments are also attempting 2. No. But the best thing to do is to pressure them to do 1 and send those $ to the US.
The next FT article will be noting that getting an article mentioned on /. can get page hits up and increase add revenues. /. mention as well. If I was an editor I would consider it a success if I got an article mentioned on /. as this brings in the hits. Do you think sites might start targeting or even feeding interesting articles to /. to up the hit rate?
On the CC clone issue someone mentioned that CNN science articles tend to get
Given the "high tech" tag and very different payloads of the truck I can see the need for a different crew for the truck for each payload.
Payloads/Crew list
1) ground to air missiles
2) ground to ground missles
3) urban warefare combat, heavy machine guns
4) urban warefare support, troop carrier/munitions
5) urban warefare intelligence, Night/heat vision, radio snoop
6) terrorisim intelligence
7) chemical hazmat sensor
8) nuclear hazmat sensor
In this example set we are looking at 8 different payloads. Most likely close to 8 different specialist crews as well. The cost savings are only one vehicle platform but that means that 2 payloads and 2 crews cannot be deployed at once. So by saving the cost on the vehicle the additional crews and payloads are idled.
Also the warefare variants probably have a need for armor while the intelligence variants do not. So the vehicle base is a compromise between the different mission options.