I think we need to remind people that Net-Neutrality is nothing new, rather it is a way of maintaining the status quo. Many people can't even fathom the way Internet works, but they can realize that the Internet is not something we should let ISPs fuck with.
I think he means the practice of bundling Windows through manufacturers. They used to make OEMs pay per computer whether or not they wanted to install Windows on it(do they still?) so the logical conclusion would be that they would install Windows on every computer.
But on a side note, I think Apple would be a bigger challenge because they are much bigger control freaks than MS. When was the last time you saw a mac being sold that wasn't in a white shiny box? And don't forget how IBM kicked their asses all over the place because they wanted to keep a tight lid on their components. Look where that got them.
Take a look at this sonic shill. What you will notice is that they include Qflix certified equipment and DVDs. So essentially it's going to be that you need a special Qflix box to download and (20 min to) burn to a special disc that you can play on a *different* device. How stupid does this sound? Also notice that their "market requirements" include:
Able to support multiple content protection solutions CSS, Macrovision RipGuard, SecureBurn, X-Protect, CPRM, AACS, ACP
In other words, all the beautiful technologies we have grown to love! If you think all they are going to do is put CSS on disks you are greatly mistaken. They do seem to care about quality of disks but not your ability to archive or back them up. On a side note, this might not be that bad for kiosks, but I would rather buy a *real* DVD than wait 20 min for this thing to come out. Like I don't have better things to do.
Lets take that a step further: what is keeping the dollar the "international currency?" The Petrodollar. I don't think you're aware that you can only buy oil for dollars (Iran is trying to change that though; Iraq tried guess what happened).
You think an aging population is going to give 2 flying fucks about space when they don't have Social Security? Record Iraq debts and falling dollar? Funding will never be there. If you expect a moon base it will be "Made in China"
Seems this generation has decided to sit on their ass not because it is hard, but because it is easy(as 1 2 3)! That's what you get with a culture that propagates stupidity. These days people would get out their pitchforks if somebody tried to make their life harder.
"We choose not to go to the moon or mars or any other place. We choose to not go to these places in this decade and do the other things, not because they are hard, but because they are easy, because that goal will only serve to misappropriate and squander the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to accept, one we are willing to postpone, but one which we intend to win, and the others, too, somehow."
Very well written and thought-out post. I'm surprised it wasn't modded up. But I do want to change one thing you mentioned:
Consumer preference data is not very suitable for intelligence use, particularly as the primary source of information used for screening.
Here you are very very wrong. You might want to know that this "consumer data" has been used for political purposes in recent elections. I found out about it (but they want to keep it under wraps) from a Frontline: The Persuaders. The deal is that it is pretty easy to get a sense of how a person will vote by looking at what one buys and what magazines one reads. Soldier of Fortune? Small chance that one's gonna be a Democrat. But take one of these Marketing companies with their targeted lists, take a few core issues: bought a gun, NRA member, subscribes to gun magazine, married, has children, owns a truck... and bingo! Now you can target these people directly instead of broad ads.
The main goal is to gain as much specific personal information you can cross-reference to build an accurate profile. Now you can sell these "eyes" to marketers and possibly have a very high turnover ratio. When Microsoft or whoever says "works anonymously" red flags should be going up and sirens wailing. High specificity will bring a high turnover ratio which will in turn result in high rates for advertising. When has a corporation turned a cheek to higher profits in the name of ethics?
Consumer data is very very valuable when combined with other data. One case in point: Hans Reiser purchased two books "Homicide" and "Masterpieces of Murder" days after his wife disappeared. I think those are very useful for intelligence purposes, and his upcoming murder trial as well I presume.
But you are right, there are blatantly false data out there that will cause hardship and this will be an increasingly pervasive problem as governments outsource intelligence operations to corporations.
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Yeah, if you have a projector that is bright enough, it will easily drown out ambient light. Like you say it has a good deal to do with perception. Kind of like entering a building from a bright sunny outside, or entering darkness from a lit room. Also projectors have come quite a ways these last few years. I sure would have had the same skepticism like the GP if I didn't witness the difference firsthand.
True, that is a little deceptive, but the fact still remains. Seems like we give these terrible weapons to guys like Saddam (and Pahlavi wasn't much better either) and then come back wanting them back after the puppets we installed didn't work that well. I don't think that giving away nuclear technology to our friends now (like India these days for example) will gain us any favors in the future. So yes, it was a friendly government at that time, but that doesn't exactly make it a smart decision.
Don't forget he pardoned Nixon. Oh yeah and sold Iran the Nuclear Facility they are now using to enrich nuclear fuel. Funny how things come full circle...
What about people that disable their referrers due to privacy concerns? I think a better solution would be to dynamically assign the links to individual users that expire after a certain time. Of course, you could also make any given link go to your main page(or ads) pretty easily. Like for example, send each link from your podcast first to a short ad and then redirect it to the stream.
Like you said, pretty standard countermeasures but in this case these people's understanding of the legal process greatly outweighs their technical prowess. That is, sadly, something which unnecessarily burdens and ultimately undermines our legal system.
How can they be sure that the people that used this guy's website would have watched this podcasted event otherwise? This guy should have been paid for free advertising he brought to this event instead of getting sued. Also instead of putting the ads in the podcast itself, they put it on the website. That is just poor business decision making.
"SFX will likely suffer immediate and irreparable harm when the new racing season begins in mid-December 2006 if Davis is not enjoined from posting links to the live racing Webcasts. The court agrees that if Davis is not enjoined from providing unauthorized Webcast links on his Web site, SFX will lose its ability to sell sponsorships or advertisement on the basis that it is the exclusive source of the Webcasts, and such loss will cause irreparable harm."
Allofmp3 was legal until this legislation passed by Putin. Also with the recent spy scandals and Putin's dissolution of democratic institutions one has to be concerned. All Putin wants to do is join the WTO and RIAA is waving the USA stick with the help of their big pockets. Gotta love capitalism and free markets...
Bravo! It's about you creating GPL code and releasing it, but then MS suing you for patent violations. This is clearly forbidden in Section 7 of the GPL but MS has gotten around it(?) thanks to Novell. Thanks Novell!
I have seen this happen with phone, electricity and television. Some for of government local or national will have to provide the fiber network(not incentives) if Americans want to be able to have the kind of connection the rest of the world has had for years now. I don't see Corporations being able to pull off something like fiber rollout since they would have to invest now for future gains. The Corporate culture with their "shareholder value" mantra and nearsightedness will leave America in the dark ages of the Internet.
If you want a good model look at what Utopia has been able to do despite bitches and cries by the likes of Qwest and Comcast. Also one should realize that fiber will be the last rollout of cables needed for the foreseeable future(unless of course we find something faster than the speed of light).
Classical example of the Doppler effect is the pitch of a siren on a police car as it moves away from you. The same way the pitch of the siren "shifts" so does the light coming from an object moving in a certain direction from us. That's why we have been able to discover that the universe is expanding. Also it's not only expanding but accelerating its expansion..
The legal implications of this tool greatly outweighs the technical considerations. Especially when you consider that there is a good chance somebody from another country might be infringing and then you get into a big mess of bureaucracy. But I think these sorts of ventures will ultimately fail because they underestimate the honesty of most people. See this interesting little tidbit from Freakonomics for a telling example.
Plot Outline: Computer hacker Will Farmer (Lanter) engages a goverment super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain glitches have turned made him become paranoid.
Now it's that Ripley(believe it or not) was designed to appeal to potential terrorists. Anybody care to guess how paranoid this will make the clueless(TM) people that fund these systems?
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I think we need to remind people that Net-Neutrality is nothing new, rather it is a way of maintaining the status quo. Many people can't even fathom the way Internet works, but they can realize that the Internet is not something we should let ISPs fuck with.
I think he means the practice of bundling Windows through manufacturers. They used to make OEMs pay per computer whether or not they wanted to install Windows on it(do they still?) so the logical conclusion would be that they would install Windows on every computer.
But on a side note, I think Apple would be a bigger challenge because they are much bigger control freaks than MS. When was the last time you saw a mac being sold that wasn't in a white shiny box? And don't forget how IBM kicked their asses all over the place because they wanted to keep a tight lid on their components. Look where that got them.
In other words, all the beautiful technologies we have grown to love! If you think all they are going to do is put CSS on disks you are greatly mistaken. They do seem to care about quality of disks but not your ability to archive or back them up. On a side note, this might not be that bad for kiosks, but I would rather buy a *real* DVD than wait 20 min for this thing to come out. Like I don't have better things to do.
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Lets take that a step further: what is keeping the dollar the "international currency?" The Petrodollar. I don't think you're aware that you can only buy oil for dollars (Iran is trying to change that though; Iraq tried guess what happened).
You think an aging population is going to give 2 flying fucks about space when they don't have Social Security? Record Iraq debts and falling dollar? Funding will never be there. If you expect a moon base it will be "Made in China"
Seems this generation has decided to sit on their ass not because it is hard, but because it is easy(as 1 2 3)! That's what you get with a culture that propagates stupidity. These days people would get out their pitchforks if somebody tried to make their life harder.
"We choose not to go to the moon or mars or any other place. We choose to not go to these places in this decade and do the other things, not because they are hard, but because they are easy, because that goal will only serve to misappropriate and squander the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are unwilling to accept, one we are willing to postpone, but one which we intend to win, and the others, too, somehow."
Here you are very very wrong. You might want to know that this "consumer data" has been used for political purposes in recent elections. I found out about it (but they want to keep it under wraps) from a Frontline: The Persuaders. The deal is that it is pretty easy to get a sense of how a person will vote by looking at what one buys and what magazines one reads. Soldier of Fortune? Small chance that one's gonna be a Democrat. But take one of these Marketing companies with their targeted lists, take a few core issues: bought a gun, NRA member, subscribes to gun magazine, married, has children, owns a truck... and bingo! Now you can target these people directly instead of broad ads.
The main goal is to gain as much specific personal information you can cross-reference to build an accurate profile. Now you can sell these "eyes" to marketers and possibly have a very high turnover ratio. When Microsoft or whoever says "works anonymously" red flags should be going up and sirens wailing. High specificity will bring a high turnover ratio which will in turn result in high rates for advertising. When has a corporation turned a cheek to higher profits in the name of ethics?
Consumer data is very very valuable when combined with other data. One case in point: Hans Reiser purchased two books "Homicide" and "Masterpieces of Murder" days after his wife disappeared. I think those are very useful for intelligence purposes, and his upcoming murder trial as well I presume.
But you are right, there are blatantly false data out there that will cause hardship and this will be an increasingly pervasive problem as governments outsource intelligence operations to corporations.
Yeah, if you have a projector that is bright enough, it will easily drown out ambient light. Like you say it has a good deal to do with perception. Kind of like entering a building from a bright sunny outside, or entering darkness from a lit room. Also projectors have come quite a ways these last few years. I sure would have had the same skepticism like the GP if I didn't witness the difference firsthand.
True, that is a little deceptive, but the fact still remains. Seems like we give these terrible weapons to guys like Saddam (and Pahlavi wasn't much better either) and then come back wanting them back after the puppets we installed didn't work that well. I don't think that giving away nuclear technology to our friends now (like India these days for example) will gain us any favors in the future. So yes, it was a friendly government at that time, but that doesn't exactly make it a smart decision.
Don't forget he pardoned Nixon. Oh yeah and sold Iran the Nuclear Facility they are now using to enrich nuclear fuel. Funny how things come full circle...
Look at the bright side, at least he escaped Richard Nixon's corpse!
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What about people that disable their referrers due to privacy concerns? I think a better solution would be to dynamically assign the links to individual users that expire after a certain time. Of course, you could also make any given link go to your main page(or ads) pretty easily. Like for example, send each link from your podcast first to a short ad and then redirect it to the stream.
Like you said, pretty standard countermeasures but in this case these people's understanding of the legal process greatly outweighs their technical prowess. That is, sadly, something which unnecessarily burdens and ultimately undermines our legal system.
Somebody call Google!
This is already in GPLv2 under Section 7. However this deal "by proxy" is not explicitly covered and Moglen has said this will be rectified in GPLv3.
Allofmp3 was legal until this legislation passed by Putin. Also with the recent spy scandals and Putin's dissolution of democratic institutions one has to be concerned. All Putin wants to do is join the WTO and RIAA is waving the USA stick with the help of their big pockets. Gotta love capitalism and free markets...
Bravo! It's about you creating GPL code and releasing it, but then MS suing you for patent violations. This is clearly forbidden in Section 7 of the GPL but MS has gotten around it(?) thanks to Novell. Thanks Novell!
I have seen this happen with phone, electricity and television. Some for of government local or national will have to provide the fiber network(not incentives) if Americans want to be able to have the kind of connection the rest of the world has had for years now. I don't see Corporations being able to pull off something like fiber rollout since they would have to invest now for future gains. The Corporate culture with their "shareholder value" mantra and nearsightedness will leave America in the dark ages of the Internet.
If you want a good model look at what Utopia has been able to do despite bitches and cries by the likes of Qwest and Comcast. Also one should realize that fiber will be the last rollout of cables needed for the foreseeable future(unless of course we find something faster than the speed of light).
Classical example of the Doppler effect is the pitch of a siren on a police car as it moves away from you. The same way the pitch of the siren "shifts" so does the light coming from an object moving in a certain direction from us. That's why we have been able to discover that the universe is expanding. Also it's not only expanding but accelerating its expansion..
The legal implications of this tool greatly outweighs the technical considerations. Especially when you consider that there is a good chance somebody from another country might be infringing and then you get into a big mess of bureaucracy. But I think these sorts of ventures will ultimately fail because they underestimate the honesty of most people. See this interesting little tidbit from Freakonomics for a telling example.
This is a good place to start. There are more ways to break into a house than there are doors.