the **AA will not win. They do not have the resources to win it, will not have the resources to win at this game, and in the end, trying to win at IWaM(TM) will only make them look more foolish than they do now.
The part where he says over 700,000 pages on the Internet reference the code is fscking hilarious. I want to see AACS group try to sue 700,000 people. Before they even get started there would be 1.4 million more references to it on Google. That is how the IWaM game works and exactly why they can't win. The sheer volume of people working against their worn out DRM business model will overwhelm both their resources and those of the court systems around the world.
In the US it appears that the courts are still willing to waste time on this. Other countries, not so much. Sure, if they find commercial pirates distributing DVDs for profit they will shut those operations down, but there just are not enough law enforcement resources to stop this hack, or any other.
Playing IWaM = stupid and the more you play, the more money you lose. period.
Certainly, some will be harmed, and there will be small wins for the AACS group and **AAs of the world, but in the end all their money will be gone. The DMCA was ostensibly implemented to protect them from exactly this. Legislating DRM doesn't work, DRM doesn't work, and if your business model depends on DRM, it won't work either. It's time that Wall Street and VC groups started to act on this one principle. If their business model is DRM it's a bad investment.
Sure, you might argue that MS is an exception but I think that the sales performance of Vista is going to prove me right on this. MS has been trying to play Whack A Mole with malicious software and spam. Yeah, that has been working out well. Their new flagship DRM laden secure operating system... did I just say secure? ooops mea culpa. The reason that MS is working so hard to ensure that you can only use genuine MS OS products is simple, they are trying to not play IWaM, and even this attempt won't work. From what I can see, people who used illegal copies of MS products before ARE turning to Linux now. Even if that is not huge numbers yet, it is happening.
Back on topic, the lawyers for the AACS group must be staggeringly stupefied. Maybe if they make an example of Digg and Mr Rose they can send a message, and if they try, every new key will be poste in blog comments on every blogging system around the globe. They literally need to surrender and rethink what they are doing. DRM DOES NOT work.
While I might agree with you in general, this is a special case. The RIAA has a slew of lawyers who are prosecuting these cases all over the country, even providing help to other countries. There is no longer any excuse for taking a case of this nature to court without any proof whatsoever of wrong doing on the defendants part.
This amounts to malicious litigation, and should be treated as such by the courts, not just public opinion. If this was the first case by the RIAA to go to court, okay, oops might be excusable. That's not the case, and 'oops' is not acceptable. Did the RIAA offer any recompense to the man they put through that shit?
Analogy: Your neighbor has a pit bull. You don't really know your neighbor but there is no problems between you until one day the pit bull gets loose, chases you down the street and up a tree. While trying to attack you the pit bull only manages to make a small rip in one of your pant legs. The neighbor gets hold of the dog, says sorry, and goes away quickly. Meanwhile, you fall out of the tree and break your arm and have to go to the hospital and pay for the treatments.
Now, the dog didn't bite you, and the owner said sorry, but would you still sue the neighbor?
He could have made a map of the White House, or perhaps the Pentagon? As it is, he made a map of the place he is most familiar with that also happens to have some very nice architectural features to it for playing the FPS game.
Wonder if he would be getting funding from DARPA if he had used one of the former palace grounds of Baghdad? This sort of outrage is totally out of control.... IMO, and should be stopped yesterday, not next century when common sense is the rule of the day.
Well, if you count the number of licenses sold, Linux will _NEVER_ have 20% of the market. What I'm seeing of home users and hearing from people I know, Linux has about 10% or so, and is growing. The cost of Vista and the upgrade pains coupled with the inevitable payment for help they will need is starting to crumble the veil of superiority that Windows has held for so long.
Yes, that sounds roughly fanboi-ish, but it's a reflection of what I see in the world around me, not what I imagine. I recently handed Ubuntu CDs to two barmaids that were fed up with trying to get Windows for free as they can't afford the cost of a legal copy. They are not technically minded, they installed it themselves and are now very happy and not going back. A decision they made shortly after I gave them advice on what tweaks to make to Firefox... I see this being repeated all the time yet these people will not be counted in the desktop market share wars.
For example: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233075&cid =18951775 any blog post or comment could contain sensitive information. This is never good while troops are in harms way. While it might seem somewhat draconian, this is one of those times when it is likely to be a matter of life and death to one or more people. Loose lips sink ships and all that.
On the other hand, it does inhibit forms of free speech. Its always hard to strike a moral balance in such cases when life and death are in the balance. In the past all mail was filtered and censored during times of war. This is nothing really new as far as I can tell.
I'm not a physicist either, but you won't have to worry about it when traffic is moving slowly. The net effect should be negligible when traffic is moving. You only have to observe lightweight material bouncing around a highway when traffic is moving quickly to know that any reduction of wind generated in one direction will reduce the effect that it would have had on traffic moving in another direction.
In the middle, between the opposite moving traffic is a turbine effect anyway. Harnessing this will not increase drag on the vehicles any more than the barriers do now. If there were any positive effect of wind on traffic, it would be gained by reducing turbulence behind vehicles, thus increasing the 'drafting' effect that you can observe when tailgating a large truck. If the exhaust direction of the turbines is upward, it might be hazardous at very high turbine throughputs as this might cause a sideways draft at a level the cars' aerodynamics might not handle well, but this effect is unlikely. By venting turbulence away from the traffic lanes and upwards, it might reduce overall drag on the traffic.
because what the Digg users did to put the number on various posts on the Digg front page is exactly why government monitoring of communications of citizens will never net them the "terr'ists" messages. There are so many low tech ways to encode a message that can be broadcast in broad view of the public and still be coded that the government could spend billions or more man years trying to find them, never mind decode them. Some of those today included:
A song, a t-shirt, a commercial, blog title, html color coding scheme, a bad poem, street directions, website name, and many others...
This is EXACTLY why monitoring private communications will never stop covert communications. This is exactly why the DRM won't work, why the relative Patriot Act efforts will fail and why monitoring doesn't work. The fact that the bad guys know there is monitoring will ensure that they use something so covert that all of us will see it and not know it, which is BTW very LOW tech, so won't be caught by hitech monitoring systems.
Whatever you think of Digg users, they have demonstrated an important thing. When someone needs to communicate, censorship will not work, the DMCA will fail to stop it, the Patriot Act cannot prevent the damage done and no new laws will fix this basic failure of preventative control.
Any message that wants to get out will get out, be it a key, a program, or just a rebellious thought. Censorship does not work.
Sure, there are those who pedantically will tell me it seems to be working in countries like China, but even there I think all they have done is slow down the information flow rather than cut it off. If writers in China want to post to blogs, they can get someone in Sweeden to write / host a dtmf translation program that takes a phone call, translates the DTMF and posts the information to the appropriate blog site/account. This would bypass all the censorship efforts to date.
The plus side of this is that along the way, someone somewhere is going to find innovative ways to do things. My bet is that it will always be those that want to be uncensored that innovate most.
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the number of things that we, as humans, seem to learn about ourselves each day and week. Theoretically, this could save thousands of people if they figure it out, and would possibly change how we look at the actual moment of death. Might this also be helpful in cryogenics? or how many other branches of medicine? Could this make organ transplants more safe? Could it make heart surgery safer?
Well, there are worse things that can be done with a bot net. Having the botnet as receptor nodes, it would be possible to commit anonymous industrial espionage with a combo of botnet and virii/worms as information collectors. If you get hired to spy, and are paid regularly, you can come and go as you please through the victim's network once you have infiltrated it.
Things that might be transported via botnet: pr0n, spying, video downloads, terrorist messaging, and apparently none of the RNC messages. Anything that you want to be hidden can be hidden even further if it is such a small blip on the radar as to not even register above the noise level that is message traffic on the Internet, or even just some companies email traffic.
Not that I think I have more business acumen than the RIAA, but IIRC artists are still being charged breakage fees. These were a bit insane when albums did sometimes break in shipping, but now if a box of CDs is damaged the buyer sues the shipper for damages. The fee structures used to set the retail cost of CDs and DVDs is not in line with sound business best practices. That is to say that ripping off the consumer is not sound business.
I'm willing to bet that fees charged for distribution, if publically known, would make the RIAA and MPAA look even sillier than they do now.
when you are going to sanction the whole world (more or less).
What is interesting to me is the fact that the whole world (more or less) thinks your products are so pricey that copyright infringement is a better option.
And this little DRM thingy doesn't seem to be working out too well at the moment. Despite the **AAs opinion that DRM is the only way to protect their business product (which is distribution) the entire world (more or less) is telling them that their product is too expensive.
I'd be willing to be that counts as the world talking with one voice? s
You have hit upon the biggest problem. When our law enforcement services try to uphold the laws, they are often strapped with doing so in the manner in which others interpret those laws, and that is a problem. Laws are seldom repealed or revised, so the true intent of laws gets lost. When that happens, rather than review/amend we often just implement new laws and leave the old ones to die silently on the books.
There are many crazy laws on the books that were intended to curb particular behaviors that no longer apply. Each government body at the local, state, and federal levels should be in a constant condition of review. Some amendments may indeed require SCOTUS action before any change, but there are a ton of other laws that can be changed without harm, such as being able to walk a horse through town without a diaper on it or any of the other 'crazy' laws that are still on the books.
Through review and revision I hope that the intent of current laws will be made more clear, more relevant and more useful. By starting with any law or legal situation currently under review it should be possible to do this. Some starting points that I might point out; original intent and current use of marijuana laws, immigration laws, privacy laws, fair use, copyright, patent, marriage, religion vs. state, regulation of big businesses such as entertainment, oil, energy, military contractors etc.
It might be useful to establish a group to review the constitution and the system of checks and balances that were intended by the founders, and their usage now.
Hey, it's not really the year value that they are complaining about, it's that EVERY version of MS Office that comes out causes the learning curve problem. Yes, if MS would only release new products once per decade, it wouldn't be so bad, now would it, but that's not the case. Every new release brings a learning curve with it, so 'every couple of years' is not such a bad estimation.
While we are at it, why don't some of those people use the learning curve time to learn something new instead... like OpenOffice.org and get off the MS merry-go-round?
who said the paper ballot system isn't broken? In the U.S. there are plenty of dead people that vote every year. There are plenty of counting issues, and more to the point, polling station shenanigans to prohibit or inhibit whole groups of people from being able to vote easily. This has been the way since very early on in U.S. history, if not before that.
So what you are saying indirectly is that what is really needed is someone to expose how hackers can and do steal identities for the purposes of downloading files illegally, or sharing them out to 3.5 million of their best friends using someone else's identity?
Actually, I am not so sure that change is that far away. I know this example isn't a one size fits all, but if every house in a gated community, or club of home owners were to sign up and use a Tor like service such that no one knew exactly where their packets went, or through which ISP, it would provide a lot of redundancy. All the participants would need to use wireless, and everything would have to be configured to participate, but if your ISP has a local outage, you are less likely to notice if your personal network access has multiple entry points into the Internet cloud.
By sheer accident, many neighbors all use the same ISP sadly. But where there is true multiple options for ISP it would work, at least at the redundancy stage. Using Tor or something like it would also create a bit of security through obscurity. Not sure how much opportunity it would give hackers, but properly networked, it could function.
Another option is point2multipoint microwave that covers participating areas with a limited feed to the Internet cloud. Additionally, I believe that WiMax has important contributions in this area for redundancy and security. Cost becomes a factor, but that could be limited as secondary systems only provide limited capacities.
Another issue is that if municipalities created their own local WAN, with all users connecting via that lWAN, it could use redundant connections to the Internet cloud, operating at reduced capacity while one or more of the redunancy links is down. The municipality would connect via all telco operators in the area as well as cable companies etc. This option would provide true choice of ISP services. Each end user pays modest fees, the service providers 'rent' connections to those end users via the municipality's lWAN.
Very likely if they can find a company (NOT Diebold) who can manage to make it a secure process. I certainly appreciate all the things that are government related that I can do online now. Voting would be useful. Those that don't want to, or cannot vote online can continue to do so at voting stations. The combination should cover everyone.... IF they can make it secure and keep the graft out of the process.
I think you have it right. While Google gets to keep their new 'red team' to help them find and stop bad practices, they can use that same team to build the OfG service. That falls well within the doctrine of organizing the world's information! Create a standard that other search organizations will then have to deal with and continue to provide the leading index of the worlds information.
The RIAA is trying to push around the only people that can really push back at them... artists!
What I mean is this, if the RIAA continues to piss people off, record companies will not get contracts, the RIAA member companies will then not support the RIAA, the recording industry as we know it crumbles...
How is that possible. Someone some where will start their own record company, providing on the parts that the artists need help with. That somebody can arbitrate royalties with public broadcasters in direct competition with the RIAA. The RIAA is not a government mandated body. They CAN be replaced. It will start with one or two bands, then more, then one or two record companies, then more...
What we need to do is start writing letters and emails to bands themselves. Explain that they will not get more money from you if they continue to work with companies that support or belong to the RIAA. Choke off the money stream and the RIAA dies.
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the **AA will not win. They do not have the resources to win it, will not have the resources to win at this game, and in the end, trying to win at IWaM(TM) will only make them look more foolish than they do now.
... did I just say secure? ooops mea culpa. The reason that MS is working so hard to ensure that you can only use genuine MS OS products is simple, they are trying to not play IWaM, and even this attempt won't work. From what I can see, people who used illegal copies of MS products before ARE turning to Linux now. Even if that is not huge numbers yet, it is happening.
The part where he says over 700,000 pages on the Internet reference the code is fscking hilarious. I want to see AACS group try to sue 700,000 people. Before they even get started there would be 1.4 million more references to it on Google. That is how the IWaM game works and exactly why they can't win. The sheer volume of people working against their worn out DRM business model will overwhelm both their resources and those of the court systems around the world.
In the US it appears that the courts are still willing to waste time on this. Other countries, not so much. Sure, if they find commercial pirates distributing DVDs for profit they will shut those operations down, but there just are not enough law enforcement resources to stop this hack, or any other.
Playing IWaM = stupid and the more you play, the more money you lose. period.
Certainly, some will be harmed, and there will be small wins for the AACS group and **AAs of the world, but in the end all their money will be gone. The DMCA was ostensibly implemented to protect them from exactly this. Legislating DRM doesn't work, DRM doesn't work, and if your business model depends on DRM, it won't work either. It's time that Wall Street and VC groups started to act on this one principle. If their business model is DRM it's a bad investment.
Sure, you might argue that MS is an exception but I think that the sales performance of Vista is going to prove me right on this. MS has been trying to play Whack A Mole with malicious software and spam. Yeah, that has been working out well. Their new flagship DRM laden secure operating system
Back on topic, the lawyers for the AACS group must be staggeringly stupefied. Maybe if they make an example of Digg and Mr Rose they can send a message, and if they try, every new key will be poste in blog comments on every blogging system around the globe. They literally need to surrender and rethink what they are doing. DRM DOES NOT work.
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While I might agree with you in general, this is a special case. The RIAA has a slew of lawyers who are prosecuting these cases all over the country, even providing help to other countries. There is no longer any excuse for taking a case of this nature to court without any proof whatsoever of wrong doing on the defendants part.
This amounts to malicious litigation, and should be treated as such by the courts, not just public opinion. If this was the first case by the RIAA to go to court, okay, oops might be excusable. That's not the case, and 'oops' is not acceptable. Did the RIAA offer any recompense to the man they put through that shit?
Analogy: Your neighbor has a pit bull. You don't really know your neighbor but there is no problems between you until one day the pit bull gets loose, chases you down the street and up a tree. While trying to attack you the pit bull only manages to make a small rip in one of your pant legs. The neighbor gets hold of the dog, says sorry, and goes away quickly. Meanwhile, you fall out of the tree and break your arm and have to go to the hospital and pay for the treatments.
Now, the dog didn't bite you, and the owner said sorry, but would you still sue the neighbor?
Hey! Where do you work???? you sound like the guy that works two cubes down from me?
Shhhh JT might be reading /. these days
He could have made a map of the White House, or perhaps the Pentagon? As it is, he made a map of the place he is most familiar with that also happens to have some very nice architectural features to it for playing the FPS game.
Wonder if he would be getting funding from DARPA if he had used one of the former palace grounds of Baghdad? This sort of outrage is totally out of control.... IMO, and should be stopped yesterday, not next century when common sense is the rule of the day.
Well, if you count the number of licenses sold, Linux will _NEVER_ have 20% of the market. What I'm seeing of home users and hearing from people I know, Linux has about 10% or so, and is growing. The cost of Vista and the upgrade pains coupled with the inevitable payment for help they will need is starting to crumble the veil of superiority that Windows has held for so long.
Yes, that sounds roughly fanboi-ish, but it's a reflection of what I see in the world around me, not what I imagine. I recently handed Ubuntu CDs to two barmaids that were fed up with trying to get Windows for free as they can't afford the cost of a legal copy. They are not technically minded, they installed it themselves and are now very happy and not going back. A decision they made shortly after I gave them advice on what tweaks to make to Firefox... I see this being repeated all the time yet these people will not be counted in the desktop market share wars.
Because prior art that does not directly invalidate the patent will go a long way toward showing the obviousness of the invention it protects
For example: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233075&cid =18951775 any blog post or comment could contain sensitive information. This is never good while troops are in harms way. While it might seem somewhat draconian, this is one of those times when it is likely to be a matter of life and death to one or more people. Loose lips sink ships and all that.
On the other hand, it does inhibit forms of free speech. Its always hard to strike a moral balance in such cases when life and death are in the balance. In the past all mail was filtered and censored during times of war. This is nothing really new as far as I can tell.
I'm not a physicist either, but you won't have to worry about it when traffic is moving slowly. The net effect should be negligible when traffic is moving. You only have to observe lightweight material bouncing around a highway when traffic is moving quickly to know that any reduction of wind generated in one direction will reduce the effect that it would have had on traffic moving in another direction.
In the middle, between the opposite moving traffic is a turbine effect anyway. Harnessing this will not increase drag on the vehicles any more than the barriers do now. If there were any positive effect of wind on traffic, it would be gained by reducing turbulence behind vehicles, thus increasing the 'drafting' effect that you can observe when tailgating a large truck. If the exhaust direction of the turbines is upward, it might be hazardous at very high turbine throughputs as this might cause a sideways draft at a level the cars' aerodynamics might not handle well, but this effect is unlikely. By venting turbulence away from the traffic lanes and upwards, it might reduce overall drag on the traffic.
because what the Digg users did to put the number on various posts on the Digg front page is exactly why government monitoring of communications of citizens will never net them the "terr'ists" messages. There are so many low tech ways to encode a message that can be broadcast in broad view of the public and still be coded that the government could spend billions or more man years trying to find them, never mind decode them. Some of those today included:
A song, a t-shirt, a commercial, blog title, html color coding scheme, a bad poem, street directions, website name, and many others...
This is EXACTLY why monitoring private communications will never stop covert communications. This is exactly why the DRM won't work, why the relative Patriot Act efforts will fail and why monitoring doesn't work. The fact that the bad guys know there is monitoring will ensure that they use something so covert that all of us will see it and not know it, which is BTW very LOW tech, so won't be caught by hitech monitoring systems.
Whatever you think of Digg users, they have demonstrated an important thing. When someone needs to communicate, censorship will not work, the DMCA will fail to stop it, the Patriot Act cannot prevent the damage done and no new laws will fix this basic failure of preventative control.
Any message that wants to get out will get out, be it a key, a program, or just a rebellious thought. Censorship does not work.
Sure, there are those who pedantically will tell me it seems to be working in countries like China, but even there I think all they have done is slow down the information flow rather than cut it off. If writers in China want to post to blogs, they can get someone in Sweeden to write / host a dtmf translation program that takes a phone call, translates the DTMF and posts the information to the appropriate blog site/account. This would bypass all the censorship efforts to date.
The plus side of this is that along the way, someone somewhere is going to find innovative ways to do things. My bet is that it will always be those that want to be uncensored that innovate most.
the number of things that we, as humans, seem to learn about ourselves each day and week. Theoretically, this could save thousands of people if they figure it out, and would possibly change how we look at the actual moment of death. Might this also be helpful in cryogenics? or how many other branches of medicine? Could this make organ transplants more safe? Could it make heart surgery safer?
Well, there are worse things that can be done with a bot net. Having the botnet as receptor nodes, it would be possible to commit anonymous industrial espionage with a combo of botnet and virii/worms as information collectors. If you get hired to spy, and are paid regularly, you can come and go as you please through the victim's network once you have infiltrated it.
Things that might be transported via botnet: pr0n, spying, video downloads, terrorist messaging, and apparently none of the RNC messages. Anything that you want to be hidden can be hidden even further if it is such a small blip on the radar as to not even register above the noise level that is message traffic on the Internet, or even just some companies email traffic.
Not that I think I have more business acumen than the RIAA, but IIRC artists are still being charged breakage fees. These were a bit insane when albums did sometimes break in shipping, but now if a box of CDs is damaged the buyer sues the shipper for damages. The fee structures used to set the retail cost of CDs and DVDs is not in line with sound business best practices. That is to say that ripping off the consumer is not sound business.
I'm willing to bet that fees charged for distribution, if publically known, would make the RIAA and MPAA look even sillier than they do now.
how much sponsorship Diebold has put out toward the Olympic Games?
when you are going to sanction the whole world (more or less).
What is interesting to me is the fact that the whole world (more or less) thinks your products are so pricey that copyright infringement is a better option.
And this little DRM thingy doesn't seem to be working out too well at the moment. Despite the **AAs opinion that DRM is the only way to protect their business product (which is distribution) the entire world (more or less) is telling them that their product is too expensive.
I'd be willing to be that counts as the world talking with one voice? s
You have hit upon the biggest problem. When our law enforcement services try to uphold the laws, they are often strapped with doing so in the manner in which others interpret those laws, and that is a problem. Laws are seldom repealed or revised, so the true intent of laws gets lost. When that happens, rather than review/amend we often just implement new laws and leave the old ones to die silently on the books.
There are many crazy laws on the books that were intended to curb particular behaviors that no longer apply. Each government body at the local, state, and federal levels should be in a constant condition of review. Some amendments may indeed require SCOTUS action before any change, but there are a ton of other laws that can be changed without harm, such as being able to walk a horse through town without a diaper on it or any of the other 'crazy' laws that are still on the books.
Through review and revision I hope that the intent of current laws will be made more clear, more relevant and more useful. By starting with any law or legal situation currently under review it should be possible to do this. Some starting points that I might point out; original intent and current use of marijuana laws, immigration laws, privacy laws, fair use, copyright, patent, marriage, religion vs. state, regulation of big businesses such as entertainment, oil, energy, military contractors etc.
It might be useful to establish a group to review the constitution and the system of checks and balances that were intended by the founders, and their usage now.
Hey, it's not really the year value that they are complaining about, it's that EVERY version of MS Office that comes out causes the learning curve problem. Yes, if MS would only release new products once per decade, it wouldn't be so bad, now would it, but that's not the case. Every new release brings a learning curve with it, so 'every couple of years' is not such a bad estimation.
While we are at it, why don't some of those people use the learning curve time to learn something new instead... like OpenOffice.org and get off the MS merry-go-round?
who said the paper ballot system isn't broken? In the U.S. there are plenty of dead people that vote every year. There are plenty of counting issues, and more to the point, polling station shenanigans to prohibit or inhibit whole groups of people from being able to vote easily. This has been the way since very early on in U.S. history, if not before that.
So what you are saying indirectly is that what is really needed is someone to expose how hackers can and do steal identities for the purposes of downloading files illegally, or sharing them out to 3.5 million of their best friends using someone else's identity?
Actually, I am not so sure that change is that far away. I know this example isn't a one size fits all, but if every house in a gated community, or club of home owners were to sign up and use a Tor like service such that no one knew exactly where their packets went, or through which ISP, it would provide a lot of redundancy. All the participants would need to use wireless, and everything would have to be configured to participate, but if your ISP has a local outage, you are less likely to notice if your personal network access has multiple entry points into the Internet cloud.
By sheer accident, many neighbors all use the same ISP sadly. But where there is true multiple options for ISP it would work, at least at the redundancy stage. Using Tor or something like it would also create a bit of security through obscurity. Not sure how much opportunity it would give hackers, but properly networked, it could function.
Another option is point2multipoint microwave that covers participating areas with a limited feed to the Internet cloud. Additionally, I believe that WiMax has important contributions in this area for redundancy and security. Cost becomes a factor, but that could be limited as secondary systems only provide limited capacities.
Another issue is that if municipalities created their own local WAN, with all users connecting via that lWAN, it could use redundant connections to the Internet cloud, operating at reduced capacity while one or more of the redunancy links is down. The municipality would connect via all telco operators in the area as well as cable companies etc. This option would provide true choice of ISP services. Each end user pays modest fees, the service providers 'rent' connections to those end users via the municipality's lWAN.
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Very likely if they can find a company (NOT Diebold) who can manage to make it a secure process. I certainly appreciate all the things that are government related that I can do online now. Voting would be useful. Those that don't want to, or cannot vote online can continue to do so at voting stations. The combination should cover everyone.... IF they can make it secure and keep the graft out of the process.
I think you have it right. While Google gets to keep their new 'red team' to help them find and stop bad practices, they can use that same team to build the OfG service. That falls well within the doctrine of organizing the world's information! Create a standard that other search organizations will then have to deal with and continue to provide the leading index of the worlds information.
Okay, how long before we see:
Cancer patients in the hospital doing "Got Milk?" public service announcements?
Nudist colonies advertising the health benefits of their lifestyle?
Advertisements for anti-cancer tanning beds?
Some research paper by two male med students doing a paper on cancer in nudist lifestylers?
Spam email selling vitamin D pills at only twice the cost of c14li5? sponsored by 3400 people in the US and Russia
Advertisements for GM milk that has twice the cancer curative properties of normal milk? sponsored by Monsanto
A study linking cancer and baby formula vs. mother's milk? sponsored by Gerber
Research that shows the George Forman iGrill retains more vitamin D than any other meat preparation method?
ok.... I'm going to stop now
The RIAA is trying to push around the only people that can really push back at them... artists!
What I mean is this, if the RIAA continues to piss people off, record companies will not get contracts, the RIAA member companies will then not support the RIAA, the recording industry as we know it crumbles...
How is that possible. Someone some where will start their own record company, providing on the parts that the artists need help with. That somebody can arbitrate royalties with public broadcasters in direct competition with the RIAA. The RIAA is not a government mandated body. They CAN be replaced. It will start with one or two bands, then more, then one or two record companies, then more...
What we need to do is start writing letters and emails to bands themselves. Explain that they will not get more money from you if they continue to work with companies that support or belong to the RIAA. Choke off the money stream and the RIAA dies.