If Europe had said no, the US would have denied landing rights. Why do you keep forgetting that bargaining chip, just after you pointed out how damaging it would be for European economies?
I can't imagine a life where I could not contact my legislative representatives to voice my concerns.
Nor can I.
Oh wait, you're not assuming that I cannot contact my legislative representatives, are you? Because, believe it or not, I can. And I did. But there is little they can do, because this decision is not being made by the German or the European parliament. With the latter one being absurdly weak in comparison to the EC, where the actual decisions are really made.
But tell me, how could the Europeans have resisted the friendly request of the US? How is there any way the European side could have said that they're not giving any information that the US wouldn't get through the passport and the visa waiver forms? As you clearly said yourself, the US is in a far stronger position, and whatever 'offer' was made, it wasn't one that the Europeans could refuse. Now tell me this deal wasn't made at gunpoint.
>How do you figure this deal was made at gun point?
The European side was quite interested in seeing landing rights upheld. And you are mistaken. The way the data was moved was not the only thing that's been changed. Easier access for other agencies is another change.
And my dear DevilDoc I am not blaming the US for this. I am blaming our cowardly European negotiators for this. They should have stood up and said, "Well, let's see how long you guys can survive without any planes from Europe landing on US soil". Would have been an interesting experience. But of course, European politicians don't give much of a shit about their citizens' rights. In fact, they want to access the PNR data as well.
The only change is that the whole thing is legal now. As if the US really gave much of a crap about European concerns regarding data protection. Calling this a 'deal' is weird enough, though. Or would you call it 'reaching a deal' if you gave a mugger the very wallet he demanded from you at gunpoint?
This is not quite correct. In general, you do lose your German citizenship if you've accepted another one. However, there are exceptions. One exception would be a permit called the "Beibehaltungsgenehmigung", and the other one being younger than 23 years old. Of course, Poland might not allow you to "lose" your citizenship, so there could be a contract allowing this construction.
What were the free alternatives at the time Bitkeeper was chosen? Certainly NOT CVS and NOT subversion. The subversion team posted a statement saying quite clearly that Subversion is not a suitable tool for kernel development at this time.
Yeah, the potential buyers in Europe may very well be able to speak English and would not mind having the device and the games in English. But that doesn't change the fact that the market for that is bigger in the US than it is in Europe.
And don't get me wrong: I would very much have loved to see Sony give us Europeans a nod and release English devices and games here ASAP. But it just ain't gonna happen.
The European market is smaller, and more importantly a lot more fragmented than the North American one. Gamers in Europe speak a dozen languages, while you get along just fine with an English version in the US and in Canada. That makes the NA market a lot more attractive.
The funny thing is that the launch was delayed in Europe so more units would be available for the US launch of the PSP. It'd seem Sony miscalculated the demand more than just a bit. Good news for Nintendo, I guess, since they got their DS out in Europe.
>Keep the sensitive information on more secure computers, accesible only by valid custom agents.
You realize that this data is not only meant to be accessed by US customs but by whatever other foreign place you plan to enter, right? Sharing a database with the data of every passport-carrying citizen is not something governments tend to be keen on.
When those "researchers" (I'd rather call them hacks) presented their methology to Microsoft and asked for funding, it was pretty much a no-brainer for MS to do so, as the metrics were clearly in their favour. Take the number of security reports, for example. The number of errors reported does not only depend on the number of errors in the system, it also depends on how available the means for finding these errors are. Compared to the number of people being able to do so witht he Linux sources, fewer people have access to Windows Server 2003 source code. That'd be one factor. To that you should add that Microsoft can decide whether or not they want to make a security problem public. It would not surprise me at all if they didn't fix a few of those holes silently with their updates.
Also, the compared systems are not equal in scope. Redhat's Enterprise Linux offers a whole lot more software than a 'naked' Windows Server 2003, and thus a lot more potential for security problems. If you coompared Windows Server 2003 with a rather bare Linux setup with no frills that offers similar functionality, then you could compare those systems.
In other words, the results of the study were already clear before the "researchers" started it. MS had nothing to lose because they could very much assume the results would be favourable to them. They didn't even need to put any pressure at all on those "researchers".
Jogging with a HD-based player is a bad idea. And I would be surprised if the manual of your iPod didn't state that clearly. I know the one of my Creative Zen Touch does. I'm sure those small HDs can take quite a beating, but I wouldn't want to tempt fate. Trust me, there is a reason your iPod shuts itself down when the shocks get too much and endager the HD's integrity.
If you want to jog and have music, use a flash-based player. Most people won't run long enough work through their playlist even once on modern flash players like the iPod shuffle.
I thinkt he future format is going to be flash anyway. The day you reach a storage of 10gig, nobody will want to bother with hard disks in their players. And yes I know that by that day, HD-players will be able to store several hundred gigabytes. But Joe Average User does not need that.
I'm not really surprised. The justice system in Europe is not like its American counterpart. That includes the role of the prosecution.
And in this case, I think the prosecutor is just being realistic. Even if the file sharer is convicted, it's just unlikely that he will actually do jailtime. What good would that do anyway? I mean, the guys in jail would laugh at him for going to jail for sharing files.:)
>It's dangerous to have a Supreme Court rendering >decisions based on the will of the current >government.
But at least they're asking openly and not going on a duck-hunting trip like Scalia did with Cheney.:)
And asking for advice is not the same as following the will of the current gouvernment.
In Germany you pay roughly 55 Euros for new games, and even 59 Euros is not completely unheard of. That's $71.50 to $76 at the current rate. That's why I usually don't buy 'less important' titles and go straight for the gems.
And the license fee for the operating system Linux is what? Sure, for commercial software you need to pay attention to the number of licenses in use, but that problem is not exactly new. It's been around ever since several computers could work at one computer simultaneously.
Err, how exactly is this new? Microsoft has been offering the schemas for a year now. What would have been interesting would have been Schemas for PowerPoint, if such a thing exists. But last time I checked they had only Schemas for Excel and Word Stuff.
And don't think MS is overly generous here. Eventually customers will demand to know how interfaces work so they can escape the vendor lock-in they currently find themselves in. Microsoft was facing such demands and merely responded to them. This is prudent, but nothing to get overly excited about.
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The approach is interesting, of course. If I had registered the copyright on a program (like mksoft claims it did), I'd spit out something so the viewers of the page can check it. Asking people to prove them wrong is convenient for them. Though I think that Nigel would be able to prove his ownership easily since he should have the (commented) source code, preferably with the CVS history.
Didn't mksoft claim earlier that they're based in Portland? So how come their company info states they reside in Dubai?
Oh, I was wondering how much the VG Wort actually pays. I mean, to some degree such a system makes sense. A library buys a copier so that people can get excerpts from books to take home with them. The VG Wort gets a share of the copier's price and distributes it among people who published articles and books and thus could be affected. Sure, it's not exactly substantial, but the money from the VG Wort usually isn't supposed to be the main income anyway. It's meant to make up for 'damages' from copying your articles.
But what we're seeing is a trend where the copyright holders would like to excuse any notion of a legal private copy and fair use. They want you to buy the latest Britney Spears song not just once but for every device you want to to play them. So one for your home Hi-Fi, one for the car CD-player, one ringtone for your mobile and finally one for your iPod. This is understandable from their point of view, but you can get only so greedy before customers begin to realize you're trying to milk them in an undue manner. So let's hope the politicians listen less to the DRM/content-lobbies and a bit more to consumers' rights groups.
In Germany you need to pay copyright levies on virtually everything that would be suitable for creating copies, be it on CD/DVD writers, CD-R(W)/DVD-R(W) media, printers, etc. You would think that this copyright levy would entitle you to some fair use, such as private copies of, say, the latest audio cd you bought. And sure enough, even though the very people who get the money would like to abolish any notion of fair use and legal copies for private purposes, you may find that even now you are not allowed to make copies of things you paid for. Way too many audio CDs sold in Germany today have copy protections (I'd rather refer to them as play protections), and by law you may not attempt to overcome these protections, rendering any copy you make an illegal one.
I think this is really a fine display of greed. Make everyone pay but give nothing in return.
By your logic, anyone who develops something which can be abused deserve to be ripped off. I find that to be a rather stupid and ignorant attitude, to be honest.
No, I did not say they deserve to be ripped off. I just said that I do not feel much sympathy for that particular product being ripped off. It might not be good for my karma, but you have to allow me being an asshole just as much as you have to allow the MailList King people the free ad they got through that 'article'.
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If Europe had said no, the US would have denied landing rights. Why do you keep forgetting that bargaining chip, just after you pointed out how damaging it would be for European economies?
I can't imagine a life where I could not contact my legislative representatives to voice my concerns.
Nor can I.
Oh wait, you're not assuming that I cannot contact my legislative representatives, are you? Because, believe it or not, I can. And I did. But there is little they can do, because this decision is not being made by the German or the European parliament. With the latter one being absurdly weak in comparison to the EC, where the actual decisions are really made.
But tell me, how could the Europeans have resisted the friendly request of the US? How is there any way the European side could have said that they're not giving any information that the US wouldn't get through the passport and the visa waiver forms? As you clearly said yourself, the US is in a far stronger position, and whatever 'offer' was made, it wasn't one that the Europeans could refuse. Now tell me this deal wasn't made at gunpoint.
>How do you figure this deal was made at gun point? The European side was quite interested in seeing landing rights upheld. And you are mistaken. The way the data was moved was not the only thing that's been changed. Easier access for other agencies is another change. And my dear DevilDoc I am not blaming the US for this. I am blaming our cowardly European negotiators for this. They should have stood up and said, "Well, let's see how long you guys can survive without any planes from Europe landing on US soil". Would have been an interesting experience. But of course, European politicians don't give much of a shit about their citizens' rights. In fact, they want to access the PNR data as well.
The only change is that the whole thing is legal now. As if the US really gave much of a crap about European concerns regarding data protection. Calling this a 'deal' is weird enough, though. Or would you call it 'reaching a deal' if you gave a mugger the very wallet he demanded from you at gunpoint?
This is not quite correct. In general, you do lose your German citizenship if you've accepted another one. However, there are exceptions. One exception would be a permit called the "Beibehaltungsgenehmigung", and the other one being younger than 23 years old. Of course, Poland might not allow you to "lose" your citizenship, so there could be a contract allowing this construction.
What were the free alternatives at the time Bitkeeper was chosen? Certainly NOT CVS and NOT subversion. The subversion team posted a statement saying quite clearly that Subversion is not a suitable tool for kernel development at this time.
Yeah, the potential buyers in Europe may very well be able to speak English and would not mind having the device and the games in English. But that doesn't change the fact that the market for that is bigger in the US than it is in Europe.
And don't get me wrong: I would very much have loved to see Sony give us Europeans a nod and release English devices and games here ASAP. But it just ain't gonna happen.
The European market is smaller, and more importantly a lot more fragmented than the North American one. Gamers in Europe speak a dozen languages, while you get along just fine with an English version in the US and in Canada. That makes the NA market a lot more attractive.
The funny thing is that the launch was delayed in Europe so more units would be available for the US launch of the PSP. It'd seem Sony miscalculated the demand more than just a bit. Good news for Nintendo, I guess, since they got their DS out in Europe.
>Keep the sensitive information on more secure computers, accesible only by valid custom agents. You realize that this data is not only meant to be accessed by US customs but by whatever other foreign place you plan to enter, right? Sharing a database with the data of every passport-carrying citizen is not something governments tend to be keen on.
And they charge $29 for it. They must be on crack. :)
So, why then the shutdown if you actually do go jogging with one as someone wrote in the post I responded to?
When those "researchers" (I'd rather call them hacks) presented their methology to Microsoft and asked for funding, it was pretty much a no-brainer for MS to do so, as the metrics were clearly in their favour. Take the number of security reports, for example. The number of errors reported does not only depend on the number of errors in the system, it also depends on how available the means for finding these errors are. Compared to the number of people being able to do so witht he Linux sources, fewer people have access to Windows Server 2003 source code. That'd be one factor. To that you should add that Microsoft can decide whether or not they want to make a security problem public. It would not surprise me at all if they didn't fix a few of those holes silently with their updates.
Also, the compared systems are not equal in scope. Redhat's Enterprise Linux offers a whole lot more software than a 'naked' Windows Server 2003, and thus a lot more potential for security problems. If you coompared Windows Server 2003 with a rather bare Linux setup with no frills that offers similar functionality, then you could compare those systems.
In other words, the results of the study were already clear before the "researchers" started it. MS had nothing to lose because they could very much assume the results would be favourable to them. They didn't even need to put any pressure at all on those "researchers".
Jogging with a HD-based player is a bad idea. And I would be surprised if the manual of your iPod didn't state that clearly. I know the one of my Creative Zen Touch does. I'm sure those small HDs can take quite a beating, but I wouldn't want to tempt fate. Trust me, there is a reason your iPod shuts itself down when the shocks get too much and endager the HD's integrity.
If you want to jog and have music, use a flash-based player. Most people won't run long enough work through their playlist even once on modern flash players like the iPod shuffle.
I thinkt he future format is going to be flash anyway. The day you reach a storage of 10gig, nobody will want to bother with hard disks in their players. And yes I know that by that day, HD-players will be able to store several hundred gigabytes. But Joe Average User does not need that.
I'm not really surprised. The justice system in Europe is not like its American counterpart. That includes the role of the prosecution. And in this case, I think the prosecutor is just being realistic. Even if the file sharer is convicted, it's just unlikely that he will actually do jailtime. What good would that do anyway? I mean, the guys in jail would laugh at him for going to jail for sharing files. :)
>It's dangerous to have a Supreme Court rendering >decisions based on the will of the current >government. But at least they're asking openly and not going on a duck-hunting trip like Scalia did with Cheney. :)
And asking for advice is not the same as following the will of the current gouvernment.
In Germany you pay roughly 55 Euros for new games, and even 59 Euros is not completely unheard of. That's $71.50 to $76 at the current rate. That's why I usually don't buy 'less important' titles and go straight for the gems.
And the license fee for the operating system Linux is what? Sure, for commercial software you need to pay attention to the number of licenses in use, but that problem is not exactly new. It's been around ever since several computers could work at one computer simultaneously.
9.2 came out in November. Also, they offer the FTP download of the ISOs a few weeks after the distribution has been shipped to paying customers.
So you're saying you should be extradited to Iran because the things you say on the 'net are illegal there?
Err, how exactly is this new? Microsoft has been offering the schemas for a year now. What would have been interesting would have been Schemas for PowerPoint, if such a thing exists. But last time I checked they had only Schemas for Excel and Word Stuff. And don't think MS is overly generous here. Eventually customers will demand to know how interfaces work so they can escape the vendor lock-in they currently find themselves in. Microsoft was facing such demands and merely responded to them. This is prudent, but nothing to get overly excited about.
The approach is interesting, of course. If I had registered the copyright on a program (like mksoft claims it did), I'd spit out something so the viewers of the page can check it. Asking people to prove them wrong is convenient for them. Though I think that Nigel would be able to prove his ownership easily since he should have the (commented) source code, preferably with the CVS history.
Didn't mksoft claim earlier that they're based in Portland? So how come their company info states they reside in Dubai?
Oh, I was wondering how much the VG Wort actually pays. I mean, to some degree such a system makes sense. A library buys a copier so that people can get excerpts from books to take home with them. The VG Wort gets a share of the copier's price and distributes it among people who published articles and books and thus could be affected. Sure, it's not exactly substantial, but the money from the VG Wort usually isn't supposed to be the main income anyway. It's meant to make up for 'damages' from copying your articles.
But what we're seeing is a trend where the copyright holders would like to excuse any notion of a legal private copy and fair use. They want you to buy the latest Britney Spears song not just once but for every device you want to to play them. So one for your home Hi-Fi, one for the car CD-player, one ringtone for your mobile and finally one for your iPod. This is understandable from their point of view, but you can get only so greedy before customers begin to realize you're trying to milk them in an undue manner. So let's hope the politicians listen less to the DRM/content-lobbies and a bit more to consumers' rights groups.
In Germany you need to pay copyright levies on virtually everything that would be suitable for creating copies, be it on CD/DVD writers, CD-R(W)/DVD-R(W) media, printers, etc. You would think that this copyright levy would entitle you to some fair use, such as private copies of, say, the latest audio cd you bought. And sure enough, even though the very people who get the money would like to abolish any notion of fair use and legal copies for private purposes, you may find that even now you are not allowed to make copies of things you paid for. Way too many audio CDs sold in Germany today have copy protections (I'd rather refer to them as play protections), and by law you may not attempt to overcome these protections, rendering any copy you make an illegal one.
I think this is really a fine display of greed. Make everyone pay but give nothing in return.
And I think we all can imagine what happens with the credit card data the scammer receives through that dodgy processor. :/
By your logic, anyone who develops something which can be abused deserve to be ripped off. I find that to be a rather stupid and ignorant attitude, to be honest.
No, I did not say they deserve to be ripped off. I just said that I do not feel much sympathy for that particular product being ripped off. It might not be good for my karma, but you have to allow me being an asshole just as much as you have to allow the MailList King people the free ad they got through that 'article'.