It wouldn't be too hard to create a script to randomly search on 5000 different terms a day from a dictionary. Then it would be nearly impossible to see that you were searching for actual info or an automated script did the searching.
"Am I the only one who thinks building a data center in North Carolina only invites eventual destruction by hurricane?"
Yes. If you look at prior hurricane destruction and damage, nearly always only the first few miles inland see major damage. People 20 miles north of New Orleans were fine after Katrina. Unless Google decides they HAVE to build on the shoreline with a view of the Atlantic, they are 99.999% as safe from hurricaines as Dorothy in Kansas.
This would be good for a day at the most for myself. I don't carry change. If I get some I put it in my pocket. Then the next time I'm at home or work I have a change bucket I toss it into. There it may sit for years until I get enough to go cash it in at a bank. Even when I travel, I usually dump the days contents onto the desk at my hotel. It will them end up in my suitcase until I get home.
If you want to track me, follow my debit card. It would be way more effective.
You say "The NSA today (and other people) can use Magentic Force Microscopy to extract enough detail to reconstruct what used to be on the drive. With only one or two overwrites, a sensitive oscilloscope could suffice."
Can you show where evidence has ever been entered into a court of law in the world where this technique has been used?
In addition to that, this is not an automated process. How could it be feasible to perform this process on billions of bits and then try to reconstruct? It's not!
It wouldn't be too hard to make this software by looking up key phrases of a web site in google. If there is an exact hit, then there may be a copyright violation.
How hard would it be to intelligently grab chunks of YOUR web site and then Google those parts. Then grep the results. If there is/are positive hits (not from your domain) then light up the dashboard. If you wanted to be extra picky, query yahoo, msn, google, and whoever else you like to search with.
I would think banks would consider that a cost of doing business with retail commercial costomers. I would think they would love the fact that the average small business is depositing $1000-$5000 per day into an account.
"If the FBI and/or local law enforcement chooses not to investigate this allegation of a criminal action then the FBI and/or all local law enforcement cannot investigate any copyright 'crimes' (in particular those being reported to the FBI and/or law enforcement). Fairness under law or no law - enforce the law fairly or not at all."
With that logic, if the cops don't/won't catch everybody speeding, then they can't penalize me for speeding since its not fair that I would be singled out.
Even if there is a gloval meltdown, who's to say that precious metals will have value?
If civilization falls tomorrow, I'd rather have a huge supply of gasoline, food, water purifiers, and other necessities. Gold, silver, diamonds, and jewels might be pretty to look at but aren't of much practical use.
"I have a charger for my cell phone, Nintendo DS Lite, my two digital cameras and an iPod."
Most chargers I've seen for cell phones, digital cameras, and iPods are quite small. I know the DS Lite charger is small. All those together should not be taking up that much space. I bet 3 pair of underwear take up more space. They may be a tangled mess, but space shouldn't be an issue. If you are really tight, perhaps give up wearing underwear. That will free up the space you need.
"Copyright law has become so ridiculously restrictive that it has become nearly impossible not to infringe"
Can you explain this further? I don't see how is it sooo hard to not infringe. If you use P2P, only share things you know are allowable in the public domain.
I am also unaware about how "copyright law has become so ridiculously restrictive." Other than extending the duration of time a copyright lasts, how has copyright law changed in the recent past?
If blacklisting becomes commonplace, then this will be easy to circumvent. The most likely method of catching people with such files will be to use lists of their hash values. People who post, trade, share, etc those pics or anything else that is deemed banned could easily put a few scripts on their site to make unpervievable midifications to those pics or files. Those modifications will totally change the hash value and make the files undetectable. This would be easy to implement and anyone nontechnical could do it.
You said "Thats one store" but in reality I gave numbers for 2 stores that are 2 different chains. I'm not sure what the overall national numbers were. but the stores I know of in my area reported a 3:1 ratio.
Regardless, I agree with your statement which is a rehash of my initial comment that Nintendo will be taking a lot of Sony's sales due to inavibility.
FWIW: I got a WII at a GameStop. They got 15. They had 6 PS3s on release day. I went by a Target yesterday and they had about the same story. They recieved 94 WIIs and said they got 32 PS3s.
Back in the early 90's I worked at an Electronics Boutique with the NES, Sega Master System, SNES, TurboGrafx and Sega Genesis were hot. Sales often came down to availability. If a kid wanted a SNES for Xmas but we only had Genesis in stock, the parent usually ended up getting the Genesis. The reverse also happened often. Both systems were in short supply and high demand for several years around the holidays. They were both comperable and had many of the same games. It looks like the WII will get a much larger system base if they can outsupply Sony 3:1 in the near future. I suspect they could even catch up with the 360.
I don't see why the government doesnt go after companies using spam as a selling technique. They still have to recieve money somehow and that can be traced. If the G would shut a few down and lock a few people up for a deacade then there would be a lot less spamming going on.
Are you saying that if Antigua or another country allowed the production of "Antiguasoft Vista", the US's only recourse would be "(1) to make imports from Antigua illegal, or (2) to try to impose tariffs on such goods" ?
While the US couldn't stop the production and use of those products IN Antigua, they definately can and would consider the import and use of such products as violations of copyright law. And yes, they could still sell to other countries but again, most countries with organized governments would also not allow such imports.
If that was all it took to legally pirate good, don't you think some shaky Caribbean, African, or Asian government would disregard IP laws and repackage software, music, and movies and sell them to the rest of the world?
Many her complain about phone GPS, but I recently had a verizon that had excellent service. It could even give door to door driving directions. It was expensive, but nonetheless it worked well.
This could be handy but I would want to be able to turn it on for individuals, not the world. Also, 25 miles is worthless. 90% of my family and friends are always within 25 miles. It would be more useful if it said they were using the same tower or within 1-2 miles.
My biggest fear is that they will charge for people to be able to track other people. Then once that is popular they will charge for the ability to turn tracking off the service so other's can't track you. It reminds me having to pay extra to have an unlisted phone #.
With the new SOX and other recent legislation, companies are now often required to divulge when customer information is leaked. Do you think places like sayign they leaked 20000 people's personal records? They don't, but they also don't have a choice in the matter. If the place you are working for is fairly large then you could potentially be held liable for helping keep this swept under the rug. Read the law and figure out what the right thing to do is and do it!
MySpace has created whole industries around it and this will be another. People will setup sites using Adsense as a revenue source. The sites will input a sound clip and output the same clip in a way that will bypass the audio fingerprinting.
Will we even be able to reformat a drive that we don't know the password? If not, that kills the used computer market. At least now you can reformat and reload your OS if you get locked out.
This seems like something easy to brute force since most people won't use strong passwords anyway.
Regardless, I suspect this will be optional and 99% of users won't enable it. Those who already use a BIOS power on password will use it and few others will. As others have said, the first time someone at a company quit and their data is locked will kill the incentive to use this system.
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It wouldn't be too hard to create a script to randomly search on 5000 different terms a day from a dictionary. Then it would be nearly impossible to see that you were searching for actual info or an automated script did the searching.
"Am I the only one who thinks building a data center in North Carolina only invites eventual destruction by hurricane?"
Yes. If you look at prior hurricane destruction and damage, nearly always only the first few miles inland see major damage. People 20 miles north of New Orleans were fine after Katrina. Unless Google decides they HAVE to build on the shoreline with a view of the Atlantic, they are 99.999% as safe from hurricaines as Dorothy in Kansas.
This would be good for a day at the most for myself. I don't carry change. If I get some I put it in my pocket. Then the next time I'm at home or work I have a change bucket I toss it into. There it may sit for years until I get enough to go cash it in at a bank. Even when I travel, I usually dump the days contents onto the desk at my hotel. It will them end up in my suitcase until I get home.
If you want to track me, follow my debit card. It would be way more effective.
You say "The NSA today (and other people) can use Magentic Force Microscopy to extract enough detail to reconstruct what used to be on the drive. With only one or two overwrites, a sensitive oscilloscope could suffice."
Can you show where evidence has ever been entered into a court of law in the world where this technique has been used?
In addition to that, this is not an automated process. How could it be feasible to perform this process on billions of bits and then try to reconstruct? It's not!
It wouldn't be too hard to make this software by looking up key phrases of a web site in google. If there is an exact hit, then there may be a copyright violation.
How hard would it be to intelligently grab chunks of YOUR web site and then Google those parts. Then grep the results. If there is/are positive hits (not from your domain) then light up the dashboard. If you wanted to be extra picky, query yahoo, msn, google, and whoever else you like to search with.
I would think banks would consider that a cost of doing business with retail commercial costomers. I would think they would love the fact that the average small business is depositing $1000-$5000 per day into an account.
"Well, considering the bank charges $0.15 to buy a roll of change around here."
Are you sayuny your bank would charge you $.15 to buy a roll of pennies? Therefore it costs $.65 to get $.50?
"If the FBI and/or local law enforcement chooses not to investigate this allegation of a criminal action then the FBI and/or all local law enforcement cannot investigate any copyright 'crimes' (in particular those being reported to the FBI and/or law enforcement). Fairness under law or no law - enforce the law fairly or not at all."
With that logic, if the cops don't/won't catch everybody speeding, then they can't penalize me for speeding since its not fair that I would be singled out.
I don't have anything useful to contribute. I just saw the article was about Austrailia and like to use crikey!!
That isn't the white paper. It is a sales pitch!
Even if there is a gloval meltdown, who's to say that precious metals will have value?
If civilization falls tomorrow, I'd rather have a huge supply of gasoline, food, water purifiers, and other necessities. Gold, silver, diamonds, and jewels might be pretty to look at but aren't of much practical use.
"I have a charger for my cell phone, Nintendo DS Lite, my two digital cameras and an iPod." Most chargers I've seen for cell phones, digital cameras, and iPods are quite small. I know the DS Lite charger is small. All those together should not be taking up that much space. I bet 3 pair of underwear take up more space. They may be a tangled mess, but space shouldn't be an issue. If you are really tight, perhaps give up wearing underwear. That will free up the space you need.
"Copyright law has become so ridiculously restrictive that it has become nearly impossible not to infringe"
Can you explain this further? I don't see how is it sooo hard to not infringe. If you use P2P, only share things you know are allowable in the public domain.
I am also unaware about how "copyright law has become so ridiculously restrictive." Other than extending the duration of time a copyright lasts, how has copyright law changed in the recent past?
If blacklisting becomes commonplace, then this will be easy to circumvent. The most likely method of catching people with such files will be to use lists of their hash values. People who post, trade, share, etc those pics or anything else that is deemed banned could easily put a few scripts on their site to make unpervievable midifications to those pics or files. Those modifications will totally change the hash value and make the files undetectable. This would be easy to implement and anyone nontechnical could do it.
You said "Thats one store" but in reality I gave numbers for 2 stores that are 2 different chains. I'm not sure what the overall national numbers were. but the stores I know of in my area reported a 3:1 ratio.
Regardless, I agree with your statement which is a rehash of my initial comment that Nintendo will be taking a lot of Sony's sales due to inavibility.
FWIW: I got a WII at a GameStop. They got 15. They had 6 PS3s on release day. I went by a Target yesterday and they had about the same story. They recieved 94 WIIs and said they got 32 PS3s.
Back in the early 90's I worked at an Electronics Boutique with the NES, Sega Master System, SNES, TurboGrafx and Sega Genesis were hot. Sales often came down to availability. If a kid wanted a SNES for Xmas but we only had Genesis in stock, the parent usually ended up getting the Genesis. The reverse also happened often. Both systems were in short supply and high demand for several years around the holidays. They were both comperable and had many of the same games. It looks like the WII will get a much larger system base if they can outsupply Sony 3:1 in the near future. I suspect they could even catch up with the 360.
I don't see why the government doesnt go after companies using spam as a selling technique. They still have to recieve money somehow and that can be traced. If the G would shut a few down and lock a few people up for a deacade then there would be a lot less spamming going on.
Are you saying that if Antigua or another country allowed the production of "Antiguasoft Vista", the US's only recourse would be "(1) to make imports from Antigua illegal, or (2) to try to impose tariffs on such goods" ?
While the US couldn't stop the production and use of those products IN Antigua, they definately can and would consider the import and use of such products as violations of copyright law. And yes, they could still sell to other countries but again, most countries with organized governments would also not allow such imports.
If that was all it took to legally pirate good, don't you think some shaky Caribbean, African, or Asian government would disregard IP laws and repackage software, music, and movies and sell them to the rest of the world?
Great idea, unless you were expecting to run this somewhere that did still respect US copyright laws and agreements.
I thought you were owned by China now. That means "your" country only has 500 PS3s for 1 billion people!
Many her complain about phone GPS, but I recently had a verizon that had excellent service. It could even give door to door driving directions. It was expensive, but nonetheless it worked well.
This could be handy but I would want to be able to turn it on for individuals, not the world. Also, 25 miles is worthless. 90% of my family and friends are always within 25 miles. It would be more useful if it said they were using the same tower or within 1-2 miles.
My biggest fear is that they will charge for people to be able to track other people. Then once that is popular they will charge for the ability to turn tracking off the service so other's can't track you. It reminds me having to pay extra to have an unlisted phone #.
With the new SOX and other recent legislation, companies are now often required to divulge when customer information is leaked. Do you think places like sayign they leaked 20000 people's personal records? They don't, but they also don't have a choice in the matter. If the place you are working for is fairly large then you could potentially be held liable for helping keep this swept under the rug. Read the law and figure out what the right thing to do is and do it!
MySpace has created whole industries around it and this will be another. People will setup sites using Adsense as a revenue source. The sites will input a sound clip and output the same clip in a way that will bypass the audio fingerprinting.
Will we even be able to reformat a drive that we don't know the password? If not, that kills the used computer market. At least now you can reformat and reload your OS if you get locked out.
This seems like something easy to brute force since most people won't use strong passwords anyway.
Regardless, I suspect this will be optional and 99% of users won't enable it. Those who already use a BIOS power on password will use it and few others will. As others have said, the first time someone at a company quit and their data is locked will kill the incentive to use this system.