It would apply there, its a international trademark, you might escape it in international waters and a few 3rd world countries though.
It certainly applies in Australia where I am, theres a been a bit of media spurned uproar about it, mainly because places like zdnet.com.au are glossing over the tier price structure and only mentioning the max fee in articles.
Frankly its understandable why its going on, because trademark owners have an obligation to maintain a trademark by protecting it even against small infractions or risk loosing it. Sadly if Linux was available for everyone to slap on thier company name and anything they make without any sort of control at all the evil guys will rip its good to shreds.
So Linus has gone with a minimal amount he is required to go with to give a good show that he is maintaining the trademark. And good on him for doing it.
"Finally enough bandwidth for us all to cut the cord?"
Your a tech of some form I am assuming since your writing a slashdot article, and yet your think bandwidth is the reason large chunks of us are staying away from Wifi. Ahem. Interesting theory.
Try this instead, if I have a cat5 running from my PC to my router I can see the cord.
I know if theres some vampire tap going on. Someone has to physically break into my home (which I can add multiple additional layers of security too to not risk a single point of failure of a dodgy old doorlock) and connect something to it so I have a damn good chance of spotting something that is intercepting my bandwidth.
Wifi, unless I live in a faraday cage I am sending out signals that say "Oh please come and take a look at my network and start using it" to everyone in a short radius from my house or anyone going past who is into wardriving. It then becomes a matter of not IF someone is able to break in but a calculation as to how long it takes even with WEP and MAC addressing alot systems can be breached in 10minutes to 2 hours if they are high traffic. Any old script kiddy can go to Knoppix STD (http://www.knoppix-std.org/) or Remote Auditor (http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_m ain) and breach every wifi system on the market I can think of, all it takes is time.
If the bitching companies provided an equal work enviroment techs wouldn't be flocking in such massive droves to a company that treats them right. Even the simple things such as:
- Free high quality lunches instead of reducing lunch hours etc as many presently try to do. - Gave something comprable to the 20% personal project time. - Treated techs that "keep the $100'000 network thats critical to the business from screaming to a grinding halt" with respect at least equal to the tool with the MBA that just tossed 100 blue collars out on the street after 40 years so he could get his xmas bonus.
FBI Crime Statistics for year ending 2004:
Nationaly Reported Violent Crimes:
258,000,968
Department of Justice Statistics:
National Reported Criminal "Lewd Acts"
148,011
I think you might be onto something there:p
The actions of the MPAA/RIAA with regards to p2p seems to follow the same self-defeating methodology as the US goverments terrorism stance.
Full frontal assault detroying the most obvious target and same result. Suprnova.org and TorrentBits will fragment. Guerrilla tactics will now ensue. The link sites will fragment and where you had a few massive sites you will now have hundreds of smaller ones made out of members of their communities.
It will become a war of attrition with the members of filesharing community gaining numbers with every news report mentioning file sharing. As happened before the sites will exchange links. And the MPAA/RIAA closed all roads to serious infiltration tactics.
I don't think file sharing could have a bigger friend then the MPAA/RIAA.
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It would apply there, its a international trademark, you might escape it in international waters and a few 3rd world countries though.
It certainly applies in Australia where I am, theres a been a bit of media spurned uproar about it, mainly because places like zdnet.com.au are glossing over the tier price structure and only mentioning the max fee in articles.
Frankly its understandable why its going on, because trademark owners have an obligation to maintain a trademark by protecting it even against small infractions or risk loosing it. Sadly if Linux was available for everyone to slap on thier company name and anything they make without any sort of control at all the evil guys will rip its good to shreds.
So Linus has gone with a minimal amount he is required to go with to give a good show that he is maintaining the trademark. And good on him for doing it.
"Finally enough bandwidth for us all to cut the cord?"
m ain) and breach every wifi system on the market I can think of, all it takes is time.
Your a tech of some form I am assuming since your writing a slashdot article, and yet your think bandwidth is the reason large chunks of us are staying away from Wifi. Ahem. Interesting theory.
Try this instead, if I have a cat5 running from my PC to my router I can see the cord.
I know if theres some vampire tap going on. Someone has to physically break into my home (which I can add multiple additional layers of security too to not risk a single point of failure of a dodgy old doorlock) and connect something to it so I have a damn good chance of spotting something that is intercepting my bandwidth.
Wifi, unless I live in a faraday cage I am sending out signals that say "Oh please come and take a look at my network and start using it" to everyone in a short radius from my house or anyone going past who is into wardriving. It then becomes a matter of not IF someone is able to break in but a calculation as to how long it takes even with WEP and MAC addressing alot systems can be breached in 10minutes to 2 hours if they are high traffic. Any old script kiddy can go to Knoppix STD (http://www.knoppix-std.org/) or Remote Auditor (http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_
If the bitching companies provided an equal work enviroment techs wouldn't be flocking in such massive droves to a company that treats them right. Even the simple things such as:
- Free high quality lunches instead of reducing lunch hours etc as many presently try to do.
- Gave something comprable to the 20% personal project time.
- Treated techs that "keep the $100'000 network thats critical to the business from screaming to a grinding halt" with respect at least equal to the tool with the MBA that just tossed 100 blue collars out on the street after 40 years so he could get his xmas bonus.
Ask the FBI, but I am guessing over 365.25 days in a year more then one violent thing can happen to a person...
FBI Crime Statistics for year ending 2004: Nationaly Reported Violent Crimes: 258,000,968 Department of Justice Statistics: National Reported Criminal "Lewd Acts" 148,011 I think you might be onto something there :p
"from the pretty-country-shame-about-the-government dept." Proverbial pot calling the proverbial kettle black?
The actions of the MPAA/RIAA with regards to p2p seems to follow the same self-defeating methodology as the US goverments terrorism stance.
Full frontal assault detroying the most obvious target and same result. Suprnova.org and TorrentBits will fragment. Guerrilla tactics will now ensue. The link sites will fragment and where you had a few massive sites you will now have hundreds of smaller ones made out of members of their communities.
It will become a war of attrition with the members of filesharing community gaining numbers with every news report mentioning file sharing. As happened before the sites will exchange links. And the MPAA/RIAA closed all roads to serious infiltration tactics.
I don't think file sharing could have a bigger friend then the MPAA/RIAA.