At least to the MPAA. They don't pay for the bandwidth it's the consumer that pays. Sure they might not receive money for their works but it doesn't actually cost anything. It will however cost ISPs a LOT of money to implement a filtering system that I would guess that the customer would be paying for that. I'm not that familiar with the ISP's in America, but here in Australia the customer pays for the amount of traffic you consume and if you take away all the illegal material that is downloaded then I'd imagine that the ISP's would loose a lot of money because there would be no reason to have anything above 20gig plans, hell I have a 20gig plan and if P2P filtering came into place I'm sure I could get away with 5gigs and save an awful lot of cash. So I can't see this happening here in Australia at least. Obviously the MPAA and RIAA haven't learnt much from their DRM experiences no matter what they do there is always smarter people trying to get around systems put in place to restrict access to media, this is just another one that will fail.
It all seems really crazy to me. I mean they haven't been any attacks on US soil since 2001 right? So whats with the rise in security? I thought it was quite clear to everyone with even 1/2 a brain that terrorists can easily get around these lame security methods, either by recruiting local US terrorists who are already in the country or using one of a thousand terrorists that aren't on any terror list. I am almost wishing(God forbid) that another terrorist attack occur just so that everyone can see just how useless the whole thing is.
Wow, now people not only don't read the article, they don't read the summary either.
They were not required by law to give out the information, they did it of their own free will.
I haven't RTFA but you don't have to pay to receive SMS's in Australia so I guess that would mean we are like Europe. I didn't realise that people actually paid to receive SMS's, that's like paying twice.
Is it cowardly to enter a fight you can not win? It's a smart move not to sue someone who is willing to fight back when you have little to no case. It's a cowardly move by the other universities and ISPs who are willing giving out their user information to the RIAA in order for them to be sued. If Harvard really wanted to stop the madness they would offer their legal services to universities and RIAA targets that can not afford it before the precedent is made, but of course we are talking about lawyers and they have no social conscience.
Well it really seems that everyone just assumes that cellphone gaming is crap. Obviously not many people have owned or even used an N-gage. I have owned one in the past and I thought the games were great and the phone was nice, although it was a little weird to hold when calling someone. Nintendo should not make a phone, it'd be a piece of crap.
Lets change the scenereo a little bit. Should the state be permitted to spy on someone's computer who they have some evidence is involved in child pornography? Lets say they suspect that they felt that they could uncover an entire ring of pedeophiles if they spied on the suspect's computer; would it be okay then? I think many people would say "I have no problem with that."
It's all well and good to change the scenario but at least make it something like the original. Sure pedophiles are evil and I don't think you would find many people that would disagree with your scenario but this isn't child pornography this is terrorism, and the list of "terrorists" is growing by 548 people a day or 200,000 people a year. I wouldn't have a problem if all these people were terrorists but the fact is that they are not, they are innocent people.
That is the main problem here. The developers of the project really should have thought about this before hand and used a different architecture MS can't convert an OS or applications to easily whereas GNU\Linux can, an arch such as RISC. I guess hind sight is 20/20.
Now I haven't either downloaded the album via bit torrent or via the radiohead site, but I can understand why people haven't got it from their site. For starters I haven't heard the album so I'm not going to just put in any random figure and buy it, I also don't want to put in $0. What they really need is some samples of the songs on the site. Also the site says nowhere that it is secure, I told my friend that you didn't actually have to pay anything if you didn't want to, now he has no problems with paying but didn't want to enter in his credit card details which is fair enough. He just downloaded it via bit torrent for this reason. They need more payment options like paypal or something similar, after all not everyone has a credit card and they need make it clear that the site is secure.
From the article - "The SBIR program is a highly competitive, three-phase award system. It provides qualified small businesses - including those owned by women and the disadvantaged - with opportunities to propose unique ideas that meet specific research and development needs of the federal government."
So previously women and the disadvantaged couldn't propose ideas to the federal government?
When it can sync with exchange servers without having to use webdav I think it will be a contender, until then I don't think so. Still, nice to have it included in the office package I guess, but does it really make a difference?
It's all well and good to list off a few phones but the fact is that I have tried to get a few of those phones (at least some in the linux devices list) and I have to say they aren't easy to come by here in Australia and I didn't get replies from a few vendors, one would have thought they'd actually be happy to sell their hardware. Many of the phones will not work on our networks, and the ones that do are in chinese or korean or japanese. Also none of those phones are 3G capable and none have HSDPA. Not exactly cutting edge. When I spend ridiculous amounts of money on a phone I want it to at least be upto date with all the other phones out there that use closed source OSes. Perhaps google can do all of these things, 3G network capable, HSDPA, english, open, available. I'm not really big on the whole advertising thing though, I'd gladly pay for a phone with all of the above without the advertising.
I'm actually a little concerned that something like this could be used as a weapon. Beaming high amounts of energy at certain targets could cause serious damage. Fortunately these guys don't have funding. As much as I like the idea of solar power at least with nuclear the area for potential damage is quiet limited, unlike something that orbits the Earth. Kinda reminds me of the Futurama episode where the sun shade burns through the auditorium.
Is this only Sony's CD's? Does anyone actually own any Sony CDs? Has Sony actually sold any CD's that aren't CD-R in the past decade? Is the RIAA going to sue Sony for making CD-R's to "STEAL" copyrighted material?
The US dollar has been in trouble for some time now. Not to say that using it as a comparison to the Canadian dollar in this case isn't vaild, but we use it here in Australia as well as the benchmark for some reason when clearly it should be a more stable currency such as the Euro, Yen or Stirling.
This is pretty bad news for both the exporters in Canada and for the importers of Canadian goods in the US.
I have no problems with the layout as it is really. I just wish that the tools/dialogues would always be on top of the image so it's easy to select what you want when the image is full size or have other windows open.
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At least to the MPAA. They don't pay for the bandwidth it's the consumer that pays. Sure they might not receive money for their works but it doesn't actually cost anything. It will however cost ISPs a LOT of money to implement a filtering system that I would guess that the customer would be paying for that. I'm not that familiar with the ISP's in America, but here in Australia the customer pays for the amount of traffic you consume and if you take away all the illegal material that is downloaded then I'd imagine that the ISP's would loose a lot of money because there would be no reason to have anything above 20gig plans, hell I have a 20gig plan and if P2P filtering came into place I'm sure I could get away with 5gigs and save an awful lot of cash. So I can't see this happening here in Australia at least. Obviously the MPAA and RIAA haven't learnt much from their DRM experiences no matter what they do there is always smarter people trying to get around systems put in place to restrict access to media, this is just another one that will fail.
Everyone that has GPL code in xubuntu and the tools that come on the CD should file copyright violation for $9250 per line of code shared.
It all seems really crazy to me. I mean they haven't been any attacks on US soil since 2001 right? So whats with the rise in security? I thought it was quite clear to everyone with even 1/2 a brain that terrorists can easily get around these lame security methods, either by recruiting local US terrorists who are already in the country or using one of a thousand terrorists that aren't on any terror list. I am almost wishing(God forbid) that another terrorist attack occur just so that everyone can see just how useless the whole thing is.
Wow, now people not only don't read the article, they don't read the summary either. They were not required by law to give out the information, they did it of their own free will.
I guess that doesn't mean much to Google anymore.
I haven't RTFA but you don't have to pay to receive SMS's in Australia so I guess that would mean we are like Europe. I didn't realise that people actually paid to receive SMS's, that's like paying twice.
Is it cowardly to enter a fight you can not win? It's a smart move not to sue someone who is willing to fight back when you have little to no case. It's a cowardly move by the other universities and ISPs who are willing giving out their user information to the RIAA in order for them to be sued. If Harvard really wanted to stop the madness they would offer their legal services to universities and RIAA targets that can not afford it before the precedent is made, but of course we are talking about lawyers and they have no social conscience.
Well it really seems that everyone just assumes that cellphone gaming is crap. Obviously not many people have owned or even used an N-gage. I have owned one in the past and I thought the games were great and the phone was nice, although it was a little weird to hold when calling someone. Nintendo should not make a phone, it'd be a piece of crap.
Sorry but I am not understanding the point of this when NASA has the tech to make chips that can take the high temperatures of Venus. http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2007/09/12/nasa-designs-new-ultra-high-temperature-chips
It's all well and good to change the scenario but at least make it something like the original. Sure pedophiles are evil and I don't think you would find many people that would disagree with your scenario but this isn't child pornography this is terrorism, and the list of "terrorists" is growing by 548 people a day or 200,000 people a year. I wouldn't have a problem if all these people were terrorists but the fact is that they are not, they are innocent people.
That is the main problem here. The developers of the project really should have thought about this before hand and used a different architecture MS can't convert an OS or applications to easily whereas GNU\Linux can, an arch such as RISC. I guess hind sight is 20/20.
Is it just me or does it seem crazy that they are trying to tax something that you don't actually own and never bought? What's next? An air tax?
Now I haven't either downloaded the album via bit torrent or via the radiohead site, but I can understand why people haven't got it from their site. For starters I haven't heard the album so I'm not going to just put in any random figure and buy it, I also don't want to put in $0. What they really need is some samples of the songs on the site. Also the site says nowhere that it is secure, I told my friend that you didn't actually have to pay anything if you didn't want to, now he has no problems with paying but didn't want to enter in his credit card details which is fair enough. He just downloaded it via bit torrent for this reason. They need more payment options like paypal or something similar, after all not everyone has a credit card and they need make it clear that the site is secure.
So previously women and the disadvantaged couldn't propose ideas to the federal government?
When it can sync with exchange servers without having to use webdav I think it will be a contender, until then I don't think so. Still, nice to have it included in the office package I guess, but does it really make a difference?
It's all well and good to list off a few phones but the fact is that I have tried to get a few of those phones (at least some in the linux devices list) and I have to say they aren't easy to come by here in Australia and I didn't get replies from a few vendors, one would have thought they'd actually be happy to sell their hardware. Many of the phones will not work on our networks, and the ones that do are in chinese or korean or japanese. Also none of those phones are 3G capable and none have HSDPA. Not exactly cutting edge. When I spend ridiculous amounts of money on a phone I want it to at least be upto date with all the other phones out there that use closed source OSes. Perhaps google can do all of these things, 3G network capable, HSDPA, english, open, available. I'm not really big on the whole advertising thing though, I'd gladly pay for a phone with all of the above without the advertising.
I'm actually a little concerned that something like this could be used as a weapon. Beaming high amounts of energy at certain targets could cause serious damage. Fortunately these guys don't have funding. As much as I like the idea of solar power at least with nuclear the area for potential damage is quiet limited, unlike something that orbits the Earth. Kinda reminds me of the Futurama episode where the sun shade burns through the auditorium.
Slander?
What intellectual property was this again?
Call the cops and they send the SWAT team to your house instead. You dirty pirate!
Is this only Sony's CD's? Does anyone actually own any Sony CDs? Has Sony actually sold any CD's that aren't CD-R in the past decade? Is the RIAA going to sue Sony for making CD-R's to "STEAL" copyrighted material?
As we can still get OpenOffice how does this matter? FUD?
This is pretty bad news for both the exporters in Canada and for the importers of Canadian goods in the US.
I have no problems with the layout as it is really. I just wish that the tools/dialogues would always be on top of the image so it's easy to select what you want when the image is full size or have other windows open.
A product that can actually live up to it's name.