Guess it depends where you live. Here they charge you the full (I mean buying a new one at Borders price - $25 to $35) to buy the movie if it's 7 days late. On the upside you get to keep it...
Nature wants you dead. It doesn't love you, it wants to eat you - either your meat, or your rotting flesh as fertilizer. The issue for most people is that we usually kill what threatens us, but in the case of nature if we kill it we die too. Damn nasty catch 22 we've been stuck in.
Damage to the environment is damage to us. We're only killing ourselves. It's amazingly egotistical of mankind to assume that we have the ability to end life on Earth. We don't, but sure do have the ability to make the environment hostile to life as we know it; including us.
This just brings me back to my original hypothesis that it is impossible to encrypt something one time that you want to be easily distributed to the masses. There's just no way to say "here's the encrypted content and the key, but the key only works when we say so" unless you have some kind of root server doing the authentication in real-time and creates randomize keys for every download/view (think TSL). Even then, the user on the recieving end can (in theory) just record the incoming stream and redistribute.
It's time for the media distributors of the world to wise up and realize that they just cannot protect their content through DRM. The best they can hope for is to make it tough on Joe Sixpack, and rely on legal means to tackle the large scale pirates. (think 1980's style).
If BD+ is cracked, then the writing is pretty much on the wall for DVDs and we'll see a faster migration to online, streaming content. So let the "you cannot save this file" wars begin (ala Flash and QuickTime) - soon people (smarter than me) will spend time on fixing, er um... breaking that too.
Really? So the earth is still flat and the sun revolves around it? and matter is seamless?
Get a grip. What we humans call "facts" are our closest approximation of the truth we have now. Once you realize that, facts do indeed change with time. That's the beauty and the problem with science; it's not dogma but a collection of evidence over time accumulated so that current and future generations can make better and better attempts to understand nature. As we accumulate more evidence our understanding changes and things we may have believed to be fact in the past are known to be incorrect now (or things we believe to be fact now may not be considered fact in the future).
Religion's failure has always been a resistance to change and the truth because those in power only remain in power if they have all the keys.
Yes, they still make and sell Filemaker. I was just given a RFP for an app using Filemaker. I turned it down without looking much further than the "db" they wanted to use.
Thank you for commenting as you did. You basically gave detail on exactly what I was thinking, but worded poorly. Sigh... I'm a developer, not a writer.
But the cost paid by the average Joe for protected monopoly status was what I was alluding to.
master-master allows really fast fail over because you don't need to down the system to re-cofig a slave as a master. I've actually worked with companies that have master-master-master clusters.
Actually, you're really on to something here and I was going to make a similar comment myself.
Let's look at the issue here in all seriousness (yes, I know this is Slashdot). Who benefits from patents the most? The rich and a few independent inventor types. Who pays for patents? Citizens. Now why should citizens support (taxes) a system that costs them money? Seriously.
The patents only apply in our country (yes, there are international treaties but come on, really...) so they're only targeted at our own people.
Since patents help the corporations, they should be tested and approved by the same corporations. We should set up a large governing body of corporations and anyone who wants to be a part of it. Think ISO without the lame bylaws. Then when a patent application roles in a panel of peer corporations (but not the submitter) are assigned to analyze and approve or deny it.
In this way we create competition and cooperation in the patent system. The government, of course, would retain final veto power as well as the duty to enforce patents that have been approved.
You might think "nothing will ever get through", well that wouldn't be the case. If M$ submits a patent and IBM doesn't like it they might vote against it, but they since M$ will one day be voting on IBM's patent application they might approve it too. But I don't think any company would willingly pass an industry damaging patent under these guidelines.
All I have to say is about time. Yes, I'm a native English speaker, and yes I see some technical problems with this, but I'm also fairly cosmopolitan (not the magazine) and do think that multi-lingual domains are the way to go.
One request I would have of ICANN is to limit the use of accented character to help prevent fishing scams.
IBM has been investing a VR business trainer with the concept it'll be something like Star Trek's holodeck (except seen through a PC screen). Since they've been focusing on representing the real world, I doubt they've even considered porting your World of WarCraft character into their world. More than likely, they're looking for a standard to reduce their cost of R&D and to help spread the concept.
You assume that humans are "more advanced" - how anthropocentric of you. That's your mistake. Please define more advanced? We don't hold up to radiation like cockroaches do. We can survive without a head like they can either. We're not immune to the many, many diseases that rats have evolved immunity to. There's so much we cannot do naturally and we assume our over-sized brains make us better. They don't, they just make us smarter - which I do enjoy. It's our technology that gives us an edge, not our evolutionary advancement.
Mono is done by/through Novell and Novell is M$'s henchman in the FOSS world. No, my bet is this is a trap for Java if anything. Now, they can say Java does X, Y, and Z just like.Net so they must have stolen from us - even though it's basically open knowledge that.Net was designed based on the Java2 compiler.
Dude, StringBuilder is your friend (in.Net). Man, if one of my programmers put that many string concats into one of our projects I'd have to have a word with him. Can we say "garbage collection hell"?
That's becoming know as the Ubuntu Effect. My mother actually asked be about "On Blue Two", took me a moment but I figured it out (they really do need a better name). She'd heard of it through a coworker, who'd heard of it from her 17 year old geek of a son. You're absolutely right, people will trust technology when they believe that someone will be around to help them when it breaks. The problem with Linux is that it's not easy to find somebody to help fix it - with Windows you can go to a number of local shops, and there's always somebody's son/daughter who can fix it in your office. It's virtually the same for Mac (plus their advertising makes people believe they never break - don't believe it).
I develop small applications for myself and my company on nearly a weekly baises. Most of these apps just do some minor repetitive operation. Is Symantec suggesting that I need their approval before running my own code?
How would something like this apply to byte code like Java or.Net? In many cases it's the VM that's actually running.
The only workable solution I can see is having some dialog box that pops up asking the user to whitelist some application -- and we know how well asking the user to make an informed decision works.
Wait, you mean social hacking and stupid people are a dangerous combination, or that corporations get ripped off by inside jobs? No way?! Oh come on, this shouldn't be news to anyone. As IT systems make up more and more of corporate infrastructure of course "evil" people are going to use them to steal. Maybe the news is that they have clue about IT systems. In which case this is good news, maybe execs will stop making stupid IT choices... wait, never mind.
Being an American who has lived in Asia and is an avid gamer my answer to your question: I have no freak'n idea. American (western) gamers play about as much as Asian gamers. I'd estimate extreme gamers probably play about 4-6 hours a day in reality (not me, I only wish I had that kind of spare time). The only difference I see is that in Asia it's usually in an Internet Cafe with smoke so think you'd think the building was on fire. Hey, maybe that's it! Smoke inhalation kills! News at eleven.
The other option is one another person posted above: it's all BS/propaganda by the state looking to get "lazy" gamers back to work.
The iPod has taken on the role of status symbol. There's nothing "special" with it per-se, but since people attach a special value to owning one there is a certain social value to owning one. Since the iPod is so ubiquitous now, it won't be too long before something with more social value comes a long that's on the edge of affordability and that's what people will use as their new status symbol.
Basically, the iPod is a fad and if you don't own one then it must be because "you're too poor to own one". Or, at least, that's the going assumption among a lot of teenagers - which is what fuels the iPod craze. It used to be Nike sneakers, and someday it'll be something else. That's just how it goes.
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Guess it depends where you live. Here they charge you the full (I mean buying a new one at Borders price - $25 to $35) to buy the movie if it's 7 days late. On the upside you get to keep it...
No real reason to buy a PS3 either for that matter... :-)
Nature wants you dead. It doesn't love you, it wants to eat you - either your meat, or your rotting flesh as fertilizer. The issue for most people is that we usually kill what threatens us, but in the case of nature if we kill it we die too. Damn nasty catch 22 we've been stuck in.
Damage to the environment is damage to us. We're only killing ourselves. It's amazingly egotistical of mankind to assume that we have the ability to end life on Earth. We don't, but sure do have the ability to make the environment hostile to life as we know it; including us.
This just brings me back to my original hypothesis that it is impossible to encrypt something one time that you want to be easily distributed to the masses. There's just no way to say "here's the encrypted content and the key, but the key only works when we say so" unless you have some kind of root server doing the authentication in real-time and creates randomize keys for every download/view (think TSL). Even then, the user on the recieving end can (in theory) just record the incoming stream and redistribute.
It's time for the media distributors of the world to wise up and realize that they just cannot protect their content through DRM. The best they can hope for is to make it tough on Joe Sixpack, and rely on legal means to tackle the large scale pirates. (think 1980's style).
If BD+ is cracked, then the writing is pretty much on the wall for DVDs and we'll see a faster migration to online, streaming content. So let the "you cannot save this file" wars begin (ala Flash and QuickTime) - soon people (smarter than me) will spend time on fixing, er um... breaking that too.
Really? So the earth is still flat and the sun revolves around it? and matter is seamless?
Get a grip. What we humans call "facts" are our closest approximation of the truth we have now. Once you realize that, facts do indeed change with time. That's the beauty and the problem with science; it's not dogma but a collection of evidence over time accumulated so that current and future generations can make better and better attempts to understand nature. As we accumulate more evidence our understanding changes and things we may have believed to be fact in the past are known to be incorrect now (or things we believe to be fact now may not be considered fact in the future).
Religion's failure has always been a resistance to change and the truth because those in power only remain in power if they have all the keys.
Yes, they still make and sell Filemaker. I was just given a RFP for an app using Filemaker. I turned it down without looking much further than the "db" they wanted to use.
But the cost paid by the average Joe for protected monopoly status was what I was alluding to.
master-master allows really fast fail over because you don't need to down the system to re-cofig a slave as a master. I've actually worked with companies that have master-master-master clusters.
Let's look at the issue here in all seriousness (yes, I know this is Slashdot). Who benefits from patents the most? The rich and a few independent inventor types. Who pays for patents? Citizens. Now why should citizens support (taxes) a system that costs them money? Seriously.
The patents only apply in our country (yes, there are international treaties but come on, really...) so they're only targeted at our own people.
Since patents help the corporations, they should be tested and approved by the same corporations. We should set up a large governing body of corporations and anyone who wants to be a part of it. Think ISO without the lame bylaws. Then when a patent application roles in a panel of peer corporations (but not the submitter) are assigned to analyze and approve or deny it.
In this way we create competition and cooperation in the patent system. The government, of course, would retain final veto power as well as the duty to enforce patents that have been approved.
You might think "nothing will ever get through", well that wouldn't be the case. If M$ submits a patent and IBM doesn't like it they might vote against it, but they since M$ will one day be voting on IBM's patent application they might approve it too. But I don't think any company would willingly pass an industry damaging patent under these guidelines.
Ahhh... so you're suggesting that he run for office then?!
All I have to say is about time. Yes, I'm a native English speaker, and yes I see some technical problems with this, but I'm also fairly cosmopolitan (not the magazine) and do think that multi-lingual domains are the way to go.
One request I would have of ICANN is to limit the use of accented character to help prevent fishing scams.
IBM has been investing a VR business trainer with the concept it'll be something like Star Trek's holodeck (except seen through a PC screen). Since they've been focusing on representing the real world, I doubt they've even considered porting your World of WarCraft character into their world. More than likely, they're looking for a standard to reduce their cost of R&D and to help spread the concept.
You assume that humans are "more advanced" - how anthropocentric of you. That's your mistake. Please define more advanced? We don't hold up to radiation like cockroaches do. We can survive without a head like they can either. We're not immune to the many, many diseases that rats have evolved immunity to. There's so much we cannot do naturally and we assume our over-sized brains make us better. They don't, they just make us smarter - which I do enjoy. It's our technology that gives us an edge, not our evolutionary advancement.
Mono is done by/through Novell and Novell is M$'s henchman in the FOSS world. No, my bet is this is a trap for Java if anything. Now, they can say Java does X, Y, and Z just like .Net so they must have stolen from us - even though it's basically open knowledge that .Net was designed based on the Java2 compiler.
I blame the poor counting skills on a poor British primary education. :-P
Dude, StringBuilder is your friend (in .Net). Man, if one of my programmers put that many string concats into one of our projects I'd have to have a word with him. Can we say "garbage collection hell"?
That's becoming know as the Ubuntu Effect. My mother actually asked be about "On Blue Two", took me a moment but I figured it out (they really do need a better name). She'd heard of it through a coworker, who'd heard of it from her 17 year old geek of a son. You're absolutely right, people will trust technology when they believe that someone will be around to help them when it breaks. The problem with Linux is that it's not easy to find somebody to help fix it - with Windows you can go to a number of local shops, and there's always somebody's son/daughter who can fix it in your office. It's virtually the same for Mac (plus their advertising makes people believe they never break - don't believe it).
And here I thought WiMax was an Intel design. Anyways, it's not a,b,g, or n. It's 802.16.
Why was the parent post modded funny? It should have been +5 Insightful.
So how does it work when a World of WarCraft character, a StarWars Galaxy character, and a MySpace user decide to PVP?
I develop small applications for myself and my company on nearly a weekly baises. Most of these apps just do some minor repetitive operation. Is Symantec suggesting that I need their approval before running my own code?
.Net? In many cases it's the VM that's actually running.
How would something like this apply to byte code like Java or
The only workable solution I can see is having some dialog box that pops up asking the user to whitelist some application -- and we know how well asking the user to make an informed decision works.
The United States. We're the enablers in this one. For the most part it's inside jobs, so I guess Bush will have to invade lower Manhattan.
The other option is one another person posted above: it's all BS/propaganda by the state looking to get "lazy" gamers back to work.
Basically, the iPod is a fad and if you don't own one then it must be because "you're too poor to own one". Or, at least, that's the going assumption among a lot of teenagers - which is what fuels the iPod craze. It used to be Nike sneakers, and someday it'll be something else. That's just how it goes.