the technical issue of getting a physical address from an IP address without the customer providing that information is nontrivial.
You have got to be kidding me. Half the time geolocation systems think I am in Kansas City because Earthlink Cable seems to route things through KC even though I am in Milwaukee. Even when the more accurate systems pick up my address (Thank you Friend Finder, who seems to have their geotargeted ads on even non-p0rn sites) it still can't figure out the exact address.
The company that provides a lot of these services is Maxmind and even they don't provide anything more specific than approximate Lat/Long, and even that is off most of the time (but, surprisingly, in the correct market.)
Your provider should know where you are if you are on broadband, but most of the time the only address they have on fine for you is the billing address. The moral of the story here is simple: If you get 10 emails, a few phone calls, and a bunch of mail with big bold red letters saying Your Phone's 911 Service May Not Work When You Need It, Please Sign Form or Service will be Canceled then you are officially an idiot.
Yes, because robbing your house and having a search spider index your site are one in the same.
Oh come on, get off your high horse. Search engines facilitate people connecting with content. If it is on the web, and I can view it, then Google's web-engine has every right to view it. They are giving you the option.
This case is nuts. I'm not going to 100% back Google, it IS a gray area, but having Google protect your own copyrights for you is crazy!
Apple is going to have YEARS of this ahead of them...
I'm just waiting for Apple Jobs to have about 300 postings for "Piracy Specialist" to open up. M$ has to have an entire building just for their piracy group.
From what I understand, Google already pays next to nothing for transit. It seems like everybody peers with them anyways.
If anything they are using the new dark fiber to link up their datacenters and for internal uses to ensure that they can get more data to the enduser with less hassles. Google Earth alone has to eat up an insane amount of bandwidth.
This is a very cool mod, but with the turnaround time in the auto industry and the legal costs that acquiring the rights to use the guy's idea would entail, it may be decades before you see this in new hybrids...
ISPs are covered, at least in the USA, as long as they are proactive once receiving notice about these activities.
And most hosts are only worried about the first three of the list you mentioned, the rest fall within "free speech." At least for now...
diverging slightly...
Being able to block IP addresses is extremely important. The reason it is so easy is because ISPs do it quite a bit when there is a major change in network activity (DDOS, Spam, etc), although there are other protective measures.
If the iPod has the raw power to play video, I see no reason why Apple shouldn't put the software on it to do so.
None of the current gen ones don't have the power required to display video. A hardware (H.264?) decoder would most likely be required and thus new iPods would need to be released.
Video podcasts would be great! 3G service providers are already doing this, but the quality on an iPod would be much better than a streaming media file. The question then becomes: How much would you be willing to pay the wonderful folks at Disney for the service?
We have already been through this on another thread. DRM would most likely prevent you from displaying it on a large screen.
The idea here is not for long movies, it is for short clips. I personally believe there would be a market for that type of thing. Nevertheless, it would be another "cool feature" for the 5G iPod.
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the technical issue of getting a physical address from an IP address without the customer providing that information is nontrivial.
You have got to be kidding me. Half the time geolocation systems think I am in Kansas City because Earthlink Cable seems to route things through KC even though I am in Milwaukee. Even when the more accurate systems pick up my address (Thank you Friend Finder, who seems to have their geotargeted ads on even non-p0rn sites) it still can't figure out the exact address.
The company that provides a lot of these services is Maxmind and even they don't provide anything more specific than approximate Lat/Long, and even that is off most of the time (but, surprisingly, in the correct market.)
Your provider should know where you are if you are on broadband, but most of the time the only address they have on fine for you is the billing address. The moral of the story here is simple: If you get 10 emails, a few phone calls, and a bunch of mail with big bold red letters saying Your Phone's 911 Service May Not Work When You Need It, Please Sign Form or Service will be Canceled then you are officially an idiot.
Oh come on, get off your high horse. Search engines facilitate people connecting with content. If it is on the web, and I can view it, then Google's web-engine has every right to view it. They are giving you the option.
This case is nuts. I'm not going to 100% back Google, it IS a gray area, but having Google protect your own copyrights for you is crazy!
I got one for about $15 bucks back in Elementary School. Probably have it somewhere around the house.
I posted instructions on using Trillian with GoogleIM on my site.
And doesn't Toshiba provide them? Or was it Hitachi?
Looks like they are looking to raise capital... but you never know...
Apple is going to have YEARS of this ahead of them... I'm just waiting for Apple Jobs to have about 300 postings for "Piracy Specialist" to open up. M$ has to have an entire building just for their piracy group.
From what I understand, Google already pays next to nothing for transit. It seems like everybody peers with them anyways. If anything they are using the new dark fiber to link up their datacenters and for internal uses to ensure that they can get more data to the enduser with less hassles. Google Earth alone has to eat up an insane amount of bandwidth.
if I remember correctly, most people commute less than 20 miles each way... many times less than 5...
This is a very cool mod, but with the turnaround time in the auto industry and the legal costs that acquiring the rights to use the guy's idea would entail, it may be decades before you see this in new hybrids...
Congress is already calling for drug testing...
My point is: The Xbox has hardly "flopped." For a first generation console it has done extremely well.
ISPs are covered, at least in the USA, as long as they are proactive once receiving notice about these activities. And most hosts are only worried about the first three of the list you mentioned, the rest fall within "free speech." At least for now... diverging slightly... Being able to block IP addresses is extremely important. The reason it is so easy is because ISPs do it quite a bit when there is a major change in network activity (DDOS, Spam, etc), although there are other protective measures.
that hell has officially frozen over.. Not because of the mouse. Rather, because 30 comments on slashdot are about to state that exact fact...
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RIAA != BPI Speaking of which.. Why is it a Phonographic society in the UK and a Recording industry in the US. Didn't we invest the damn thing?
iPods already have a huge install base, solid software support, media-industry support, and a huge marketing budget.
If the iPod has the raw power to play video, I see no reason why Apple shouldn't put the software on it to do so. None of the current gen ones don't have the power required to display video. A hardware (H.264?) decoder would most likely be required and thus new iPods would need to be released.
Video podcasts would be great! 3G service providers are already doing this, but the quality on an iPod would be much better than a streaming media file. The question then becomes: How much would you be willing to pay the wonderful folks at Disney for the service?
The idea here is not for long movies, it is for short clips. I personally believe there would be a market for that type of thing. Nevertheless, it would be another "cool feature" for the 5G iPod.
-nick
Find a song, do the "tell a friend" feature and type in "itunes500@apple.com" as the friend to email. Each time you do it, it is an entry. -Nick