If Apple hated DRM as much as is claimed they wouldn't have a problem licensing their DRM out to Microsoft, or Sansa.
I don't necessarily disagree with your belief that Apple likes DRM, but you miss one point. Any DRM security goes out the window as soon as it is opened up or licensed to others. If this happens to Apple, the record companies renege on their agreements, Apple has to make up a whole new DRM scheme, and Apple looses market share.
No, Apple is far better off not opening up their DRM, and it may be for more than one reason.
It seems the current series continues the metaphors found in the original BSG. I'd like to find our more about the meaning of the character names on BSG, but the google signal to noise ratio of Gaeta and Tyrol and Valerii seems to be just too high.
It's almost as if somehow Diebold *knew* they would win the contract.
If company "A" bribes a government official to win a contract, but the contract is awarded company "B", then company "A" would have to assume that company "B" wasn't playing above the board either. You can't sue the competition, so you have to sue the state and strongly deny that the lawsuit is about corruption!
Of course, big telecom lobbyists are fighting tooth and nail to eliminate these programs, and have already helped to create laws in 14 states making it illegal for cities to build their own wireless grids. source: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=77928 I can't say what grandparent post meant, but it seems pretty clear that Ma'Bell and others have been quietly getting legislation passed making it illegal for local governments to set up their own networks. It seems that we're no longer against telco monopolies like we were 20 years ago.
Truely, this was my first thought after d/l the NSA instructions also. Why is it that tasks that are best accomplished with a sharpie or a pair of scissors and a photocopier are made so complex with text editors and graphic layout programs?
I agree with you- better tech doesn't solve cc fraud.
Really we could significantly impact fraud by requring a passcode with every transaction. The only reason cc co's haven't implemented this a long time ago? Somehow, they must be making money off it. It makes me mad.
what is the deal with you Atlas V fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an Atlas V for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to lift a 17k lb. payload off the ground and into low earth orbit. 20 minutes. At home, on my Saturn V, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rocket, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this launch, the flight control system will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various atlas rockets, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Lockheed Martin ICBM that has run faster than its Marshall Center counterpart, despite the atlas' faster propellant system architecture. My 4.44 caliber potato gun with 8 kPa of pressure runs faster than this rocket at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Atlas V is a superior machine.
Atlas addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an atlas over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I had the same thought after reading the post. If NASA were to show us space as a commercially viable enterprise then everybody's going to put their best noodlers on the problems. Picture a space station to make X (where X is something you can't get on earth - say, the purest silicon wafers available). The fact that something like that's available would drive a need for it, which would get other people turned on by what else they can make, and voila: enter new age of man.
So it's not really realistic to ask "what if" when the scenerio was pretty impossible anyway
Wait a minute, lets recap:
1. You speculate about an alternate reality
2. Others speculate about other alternate realities
3. You say the whole idea of speculation was silly to begin with.
Well, you came round and summed up my point by ridiculing the very thing you had just done. Care to speculate on what else I might have said in an alternate reality?
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I don't necessarily disagree with your belief that Apple likes DRM, but you miss one point. Any DRM security goes out the window as soon as it is opened up or licensed to others. If this happens to Apple, the record companies renege on their agreements, Apple has to make up a whole new DRM scheme, and Apple looses market share.
No, Apple is far better off not opening up their DRM, and it may be for more than one reason.
Your post made me think about other BG characters, and I found an interesting link when looking up the meaning of Thrace http://books.google.com/books?id=_WF1prex3t8C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=thrace+metaphore&source=web&ots=X4XEELY5zX&sig=USJridQ3wIdwbqGame7zqKUEEr0&hl=en
This one is obvious, but also Adama = Adam
It seems the current series continues the metaphors found in the original BSG. I'd like to find our more about the meaning of the character names on BSG, but the google signal to noise ratio of Gaeta and Tyrol and Valerii seems to be just too high.
Interesting to note that the company mentioned in TFA doesn't even show up on a search
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Maybe they're still working out the kinks on that EMP that somehow kills only cell phones and only those used by drivers. Seriously, why is this on
It's almost as if somehow Diebold *knew* they would win the contract.
If company "A" bribes a government official to win a contract, but the contract is awarded company "B", then company "A" would have to assume that company "B" wasn't playing above the board either. You can't sue the competition, so you have to sue the state and strongly deny that the lawsuit is about corruption!
Of course, big telecom lobbyists are fighting tooth and nail to eliminate these programs, and have already helped to create laws in 14 states making it illegal for cities to build their own wireless grids.
source: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=77928
I can't say what grandparent post meant, but it seems pretty clear that Ma'Bell and others have been quietly getting legislation passed making it illegal for local governments to set up their own networks. It seems that we're no longer against telco monopolies like we were 20 years ago.
Truely, this was my first thought after d/l the NSA instructions also.
Why is it that tasks that are best accomplished with a sharpie or a pair of scissors and a photocopier are made so complex with text editors and graphic layout programs?
I agree with you- better tech doesn't solve cc fraud.
Really we could significantly impact fraud by requring a passcode with every transaction. The only reason cc co's haven't implemented this a long time ago? Somehow, they must be making money off it. It makes me mad.
what is the deal with you Atlas V fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an Atlas V for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to lift a 17k lb. payload off the ground and into low earth orbit. 20 minutes. At home, on my Saturn V, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rocket, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this launch, the flight control system will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various atlas rockets, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Lockheed Martin ICBM that has run faster than its Marshall Center counterpart, despite the atlas' faster propellant system architecture. My 4.44 caliber potato gun with 8 kPa of pressure runs faster than this rocket at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Atlas V is a superior machine. Atlas addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an atlas over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I had the same thought after reading the post. If NASA were to show us space as a commercially viable enterprise then everybody's going to put their best noodlers on the problems. Picture a space station to make X (where X is something you can't get on earth - say, the purest silicon wafers available). The fact that something like that's available would drive a need for it, which would get other people turned on by what else they can make, and voila: enter new age of man.
So it's not really realistic to ask "what if" when the scenerio was pretty impossible anyway
Wait a minute, lets recap:
1. You speculate about an alternate reality
2. Others speculate about other alternate realities
3. You say the whole idea of speculation was silly to begin with.
Well, you came round and summed up my point by ridiculing the very thing you had just done. Care to speculate on what else I might have said in an alternate reality?
BTW, you misspelled scenario.