It would be simple and not overcomplicated, with no actual automation, but with consideration toward future improvement. Initially, it would have:
RJ-45 jacks in every room that run Cat5e or Cat6 cabling back to the wiring closet.
A wiring closet, positioned in consideration that wireless access points may be placed in it, and that ISP's cables may also be run into it.
If there is no RJ-45 jack and accompanying cable where I need it to be, it will not turn out to be utterly impossible to install one there.
Later on:
Doorbell would be an IP device and get its power using PoE.
All telephones would be VoIP (and standards-compliant — no Skype), going to an Asterisk server that interfaces with the PSTN in the wiring closet.
Audio systems would not be permanently wired into the house. They would either be wireless, or run thru the RJ-45 jacks (either IP or just analog, [ab]using the Cat6 cable.)
They could do more for open source/open standards, like opening up EIGRP, HSRP... and I'm sure their other products won't meet up to the standard that their routers and switches do, considering the number of products they make now.
But you make a brilliant point, and I agree with you. Cisco does work, at least for their core products (routers, switches).
It would seem that Telltale games is releasing games in an 'episodic' format, which conveniently makes them more money. I can only assume the same will apply to their Sam and Max game, which can surely only be a bad thing.
>> Will games be episodic?
You will certainly see a series of episodic PC games. Sam & Max will likely appear in other places as well. Perhaps in entertainment formats not yet imagined by our fragile little brains. Perhaps,... Circle-vision!... Or not.
Er, what? Did the UK somehow manage to ask some favours from China overnight? Because, I knew they were all for monitoring it, but I don't recall them having a censoring infrastructure. I can access the site myself just fine.
The MPAA has (rather unsuccessfully) held classes in high schools across the US (such as one they had about a year or two ago in Urbana, Illinois) ostensibly aimed at teaching the students about American copyright law. It was reported in the local paper (the News-Gazette) at the time. Their view, like yours below, was dangerously myopic and factually incorrect. The kids in Urbana saw through it and asked tough questions which the corporate representative couldn't answer.
When we can't trust the hardware supplied to us by the majority of vendors anymore, the community that read Slashdot, on this day, will turn to alternatives, and develop independant hardware.
As for not being able to connect to the internet, the IP protocol is a wonderful, wonderful standard, and obviously it's even surprised the US (and Chinese) governments in how powerfully unstoppable it is. If corporations manage to do it (it looks like the ISPs are getting unsettled in providing untweaked internet access), there'll either be workarounds made, or alternatives developed.
The way I see it, the **AA is moving DRM into the hardware in an attempt to catch the DRM-cracker community off guard. After all, I'd guess only a small amount of the DRM-cracker community is up to the hardware equivalent.
It's moving the goalposts, and it just buys them a bit of time while we learn the appropriate techniques on the hardware as we used on the software. It, like software, won't last forever.
I think of particular importance here is trying to make sure these new formats can be recorded and redistributed by the common consumer. I doubt Sony, etc will much like the idea of that, but the protection schemes on content you're not being forced to buy is nothing compared to limiting the only standard for a new technology (blue lasers). I think it's important encryption schemes are optional, no matter how obnoxious they get.
And, well, if the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD people don't want to give us that, why not develop a new standard that allows developments in technology to be used in a free manner? Just because something isn't called 'Blu-Ray' doesn't mean it can't make use of blue lasers.
When Microsoft Anti-Spyware users remove the flagged Norton file as prompted, Symantec's product gets corrupted and no longer protects the user's machine.
And besides, what kind of antivirus system lets some random program delete it's files, causing it to stop protecting the user's machine?
Wait a minute. Couldn't you use some form of visible watermarking on the photograph so a machine can tell if it was printed correctly? Say, how about something like this;
Develop a 'loose' checksum in that it can compensate for the natural variances you're going to get with colour optical scanners, or whatnot. Encode this checksum in a barcode, and include the appropriate cryptography in it. The computer can scan the picture and the barcode and compare them.
Why not just ban the sale of wireless access points that can only be secure as WEP (or less)? There's probably a ton of WAPs being sold that only support WEP right now.
Not true. I have previously repaired VCR tapes by opening up the guard plastic, cutting out the damaged tape, and taping the two ends together. I miss a few seconds, and it's a little sticky at that point, but it works.
So what am I supposed to record TV on now? I must have something like 200 full VCR tapes (because I'm one of those types who never throws anything away.)
The quality on VCR has always been great, and personally, I feel it's the DVD quality that is inferior. Of the two DVDs I have watched, every frame looked like it had been saved as a JPG at a quality level that gives that annoying "watermark" of JPG.
And DVD recorders? Disks are vulnerable to scratches; tapes/cartridges aren't.
And that's not even going into the copy protection thing.
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Yes, you just said it. Who knows if they're going to know what bit represents 64, etc, etc. The alphabets may even have changed, and, while they may still be able to read English, are they going to have the ASCII specification memorized?
We all know the standard advantages open source brings. But what if innovation becomes one of them?
Forcing Microsoft out by innovation. After all, the open source software will implement it first, Microsoft will eventually copy it, and probably in the process kludge it up a bit.
Now that could make for a very interesting 'end' to Microsoft.
Exactly. No matter what MS wants to do, if they can make it more classic to make more people upgrade, they'll do it. It's upgrade numbers they want on this one, and pretty much all upgrades they release.
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It would be simple and not overcomplicated, with no actual automation, but with consideration toward future improvement. Initially, it would have:
Later on:
They could do more for open source/open standards, like opening up EIGRP, HSRP... and I'm sure their other products won't meet up to the standard that their routers and switches do, considering the number of products they make now.
But you make a brilliant point, and I agree with you. Cisco does work, at least for their core products (routers, switches).
It would seem that Telltale games is releasing games in an 'episodic' format, which conveniently makes them more money. I can only assume the same will apply to their Sam and Max game, which can surely only be a bad thing.
Say what? Since when was personal-use, no-redistribution VHS taping illegal in the UK?
Er, what? Did the UK somehow manage to ask some favours from China overnight? Because, I knew they were all for monitoring it, but I don't recall them having a censoring infrastructure. I can access the site myself just fine.
Please tell me you don't actually code PHP, Perl, or whatever it is like that.
Or are you suggesting how badly Vista will be coded?
At any rate, I'm getting at
as opposed to PlaySound($sound).Yes, theft is theft, just like one equals one. Now what does this have to do with copyright infringement, again?
Are you kidding? We all know that God only ever posts under Anonymous Coward.
When we can't trust the hardware supplied to us by the majority of vendors anymore, the community that read Slashdot, on this day, will turn to alternatives, and develop independant hardware.
As for not being able to connect to the internet, the IP protocol is a wonderful, wonderful standard, and obviously it's even surprised the US (and Chinese) governments in how powerfully unstoppable it is. If corporations manage to do it (it looks like the ISPs are getting unsettled in providing untweaked internet access), there'll either be workarounds made, or alternatives developed.
The way I see it, the **AA is moving DRM into the hardware in an attempt to catch the DRM-cracker community off guard. After all, I'd guess only a small amount of the DRM-cracker community is up to the hardware equivalent.
It's moving the goalposts, and it just buys them a bit of time while we learn the appropriate techniques on the hardware as we used on the software. It, like software, won't last forever.
I think of particular importance here is trying to make sure these new formats can be recorded and redistributed by the common consumer. I doubt Sony, etc will much like the idea of that, but the protection schemes on content you're not being forced to buy is nothing compared to limiting the only standard for a new technology (blue lasers). I think it's important encryption schemes are optional, no matter how obnoxious they get.
And, well, if the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD people don't want to give us that, why not develop a new standard that allows developments in technology to be used in a free manner? Just because something isn't called 'Blu-Ray' doesn't mean it can't make use of blue lasers.
Yes. It's called "obscurity".
When Microsoft Anti-Spyware users remove the flagged Norton file as prompted, Symantec's product gets corrupted and no longer protects the user's machine.
And besides, what kind of antivirus system lets some random program delete it's files, causing it to stop protecting the user's machine?
You've never been to Britain, have you?
Wait a minute. Couldn't you use some form of visible watermarking on the photograph so a machine can tell if it was printed correctly? Say, how about something like this;
Develop a 'loose' checksum in that it can compensate for the natural variances you're going to get with colour optical scanners, or whatnot. Encode this checksum in a barcode, and include the appropriate cryptography in it. The computer can scan the picture and the barcode and compare them.The more people that take court action, the more bitter people will be, and the less likely people will buy from them.
That's referring to the forker's option, not the original developer' option.
Perhaps Google will buy StumbleUpon next.
Why not just ban the sale of wireless access points that can only be secure as WEP (or less)? There's probably a ton of WAPs being sold that only support WEP right now.
Not true. I have previously repaired VCR tapes by opening up the guard plastic, cutting out the damaged tape, and taping the two ends together. I miss a few seconds, and it's a little sticky at that point, but it works.
So what am I supposed to record TV on now? I must have something like 200 full VCR tapes (because I'm one of those types who never throws anything away.)
The quality on VCR has always been great, and personally, I feel it's the DVD quality that is inferior. Of the two DVDs I have watched, every frame looked like it had been saved as a JPG at a quality level that gives that annoying "watermark" of JPG.
And DVD recorders? Disks are vulnerable to scratches; tapes/cartridges aren't.
And that's not even going into the copy protection thing.
Yes, you just said it. Who knows if they're going to know what bit represents 64, etc, etc. The alphabets may even have changed, and, while they may still be able to read English, are they going to have the ASCII specification memorized?
We all know the standard advantages open source brings. But what if innovation becomes one of them?
Forcing Microsoft out by innovation. After all, the open source software will implement it first, Microsoft will eventually copy it, and probably in the process kludge it up a bit.
Now that could make for a very interesting 'end' to Microsoft.
Exactly. No matter what MS wants to do, if they can make it more classic to make more people upgrade, they'll do it. It's upgrade numbers they want on this one, and pretty much all upgrades they release.