Reminds me of the uproar over Comcast disconnecting users with excessive bandwidth usage, except here we went from clear, obvious limit to unclear, ill-specified limit.
Instead of a fixed limit of 30% now there will be an arbitrary install base beyond which comcast becomes liable to antitrust investigations.
Keep in mind that is only ~3x per year because 3^6 = 729. If Moore's law holds with a 2x every 18 months that would be 16x in 6 years 570/16 = 35.652. The sixth root of 35 is 1.8. So they only have to improve the architecture by ~2x every year and ride Moore's law.
Filing a lawsuit against an individual or small business (ie, any entity that is not a corporation) who has not harmed you is kind of like walking up to a stranger on the street and punching him in the face. You'll probably get away with it a few times, but eventually you'll pick the wrong person and get what's coming to you.
The plaintiffs should be lucky this guy is content to put a 'strongly worded' letter on his website.
Well, cyber ATTACKS might be a bit overstated. I've been following the news fairly closely and as far as I can tell there's not been much aside from cyber VANDALISM. No major infrastructure has been destroyed, hospital operations have not been impeded, etc... It's just government and related websites that have been defaced and while that can interfere with productivity to some extent, it's hardly akin to warfare.
Seriously though, caches are good. Worrying about credit card numbers being cached is as bad as promoting security through obscurity. We should be moving to a system that doesn't rely on "secret numbers," but instead makes use of multiple factors from the time-tested triumvirate of "something you have," "something you know," and "something you are." Something you know alone just isn't good enough for this day and age.
Somewhat like battery capacity decay (although generally not as severe), the output of solar cells declines as they age. So that's another reason old used cells are cheaper.
Well, it's one thing if a car dealership who is not Toyota starts buying "Toyota" as a keyword. Arguably this is similar to buying Toyota.com and could be misleading to customers. It's quite another thing if you run a small grocery store called "Toyota" that delivers online in your neighborhood and you start buying Toyota keywords and they try to block you for trademark infringement.
Businesses should be able to protect their trademarks but the process should be fair. Little guys who don't compete in the same market should not get squashed.
So Firefox 3.1 scores a 93 on the Web Standards Project's Acid3 standards compliance test. Firefox 3.0.6 only scores 71. Of course, you can't get any better than Safari 4 beta's score: a perfect 100. Or Opera 10 Beta's 100. So why doesn't Mozilla get on the ball?
Tor can be recommended for widespread circumvention use, but only for expert users concerned about
anonymity. Increased use of the tool might trigger blocking that Tor is not yet ready to defend itself
against.
JAP can be recommended for use only by users who don't need anonymity or who understand the
anonymity implications of JAP network composition and know to choose one of the non-default
networks.
Psiphon can be recommended for widespread client and server use, but users should also be aware that some data leaks are possible.
Circumventor can be recommend for widespread client use but only for server use by expert users who
are able to navigate the difficult install process and understand the effects of the install on the host
computer. Circumventor users should also be aware that some data leaks are possible.
UltraReach can be recommended for widespread use as the best performing of all the tested tools,
though users concerned about anonymity should be warned to disable browser support for active
content.
If you use Windows try this alternative implementation: Sumatra PDF Reader. It's Open Source, less than half the size of Foxit (1/15th the size of Acrobat) and has search, text-read, copy-paste, and plenty of keyboard shortcuts. It's very quick and streamlined and makes Foxit look bloated in comparison. And naturally it's not affected by this vulnerability.
People still fileshare? Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now. Thanks to Hulu and Netflix and iTunes I can get the latest movies and just about everything else! The costs for these activities are no longer prohibitive.
As for Limewire they are basically forcing the hand of the RIAA/MPAA... With a darknet how can you detect who is sharing what? You can't if you choose your friends wisely.
If BluRay becomes cheap enough, then of course games from all platforms will be distributed that way. Who even on 3Mbit broadband wants to download 20GB games? Not me, that's for sure. It's all a question of media and the size of the game vs the size of people's broadband pipes.
And likewise it will be with the next media format, and the next, and the next. You can't compare MP3s and games because songs have a fixed size. Games do not.
I can't figure out why this project is so interesting. The audio sounds like weird computer-generated noise to me and the images look like colored noise with some weird patterns in them. Who cares? It looks like the data segment of a program when I dump it to video memory accidentally. Yeah there are patterns but what is the value in them? Not much.
These guys really want all the top notch 100% stability of Windows Vista... on their mainframe? Oh man, I must be missing something. Does Microsoft pay them to do this?
We are moving into a more and more complicated world. In the past, work had great costs to bring to the people, and thus the business model made as much money as possible from distribution over a short period of time before those printing resources were moved to a newer piece of material. Now we're in an age where content costs $0 to bring to the masses but we have a long tail of content of huge value that no one ever sees because bookstores only popularize the hits.
Google has the opportunity to popularize the long tail of publishing. This is such great news.
If there is a problem with the patent system, it is not that patents are issued too hastily, but rather that many are issued too slowly. On the other hand we need to ensure that the quality of patents that actually ARE issued is very high, and that they only last for a brief period of time (maybe 2-4 years, tops).
So overall, I'm not sure this is the right direction that we want to go.
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Reminds me of the uproar over Comcast disconnecting users with excessive bandwidth usage, except here we went from clear, obvious limit to unclear, ill-specified limit.
Instead of a fixed limit of 30% now there will be an arbitrary install base beyond which comcast becomes liable to antitrust investigations.
Agreed. Look at these particularly stupid statements:
(1) "devise technology that makes it difficult or impossible for people to be defrauded"
So some sort of mind control/constraint device for people then? Ha, ha.
(2) "At the moment we have drivers licences for cars, and cars are very dangerous machines. Computers are also quite dangerous"
Haven't seen anyone run over by a computer recently. I wonder what is the death toll caused by poor "driving" of a computer these days?
Keep in mind that is only ~3x per year because 3^6 = 729. If Moore's law holds with a 2x every 18 months that would be 16x in 6 years 570/16 = 35.652. The sixth root of 35 is 1.8. So they only have to improve the architecture by ~2x every year and ride Moore's law.
That's Adobe's problem, not Ubuntu's. Videos in every player other than Flash will work fine.
Filing a lawsuit against an individual or small business (ie, any entity that is not a corporation) who has not harmed you is kind of like walking up to a stranger on the street and punching him in the face. You'll probably get away with it a few times, but eventually you'll pick the wrong person and get what's coming to you.
The plaintiffs should be lucky this guy is content to put a 'strongly worded' letter on his website.
Pwned! Power nazi say... no electricity for j00!
Good point about the botnets. But what I think this will really enable is HD programming on-demand, assuming the backhaul links are up to snuff.
Well, cyber ATTACKS might be a bit overstated. I've been following the news fairly closely and as far as I can tell there's not been much aside from cyber VANDALISM. No major infrastructure has been destroyed, hospital operations have not been impeded, etc... It's just government and related websites that have been defaced and while that can interfere with productivity to some extent, it's hardly akin to warfare.
That was a joke! A play on words!
Seriously though, caches are good. Worrying about credit card numbers being cached is as bad as promoting security through obscurity. We should be moving to a system that doesn't rely on "secret numbers," but instead makes use of multiple factors from the time-tested triumvirate of "something you have," "something you know," and "something you are." Something you know alone just isn't good enough for this day and age.
Google is just doing what Google does.
Cashless is old hat. What we really need is a cacheless society.
Somewhat like battery capacity decay (although generally not as severe), the output of solar cells declines as they age. So that's another reason old used cells are cheaper.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
My own experiences with the justice system are that this is all too true.
Well, it's one thing if a car dealership who is not Toyota starts buying "Toyota" as a keyword. Arguably this is similar to buying Toyota.com and could be misleading to customers. It's quite another thing if you run a small grocery store called "Toyota" that delivers online in your neighborhood and you start buying Toyota keywords and they try to block you for trademark infringement.
Businesses should be able to protect their trademarks but the process should be fair. Little guys who don't compete in the same market should not get squashed.
So Firefox 3.1 scores a 93 on the Web Standards Project's Acid3 standards compliance test. Firefox 3.0.6 only scores 71. Of course, you can't get any better than Safari 4 beta's score: a perfect 100. Or Opera 10 Beta's 100. So why doesn't Mozilla get on the ball?
Some conclusions from the paper:
Tor can be recommended for widespread circumvention use, but only for expert users concerned about anonymity. Increased use of the tool might trigger blocking that Tor is not yet ready to defend itself against.
JAP can be recommended for use only by users who don't need anonymity or who understand the anonymity implications of JAP network composition and know to choose one of the non-default networks.
Psiphon can be recommended for widespread client and server use, but users should also be aware that some data leaks are possible.
Circumventor can be recommend for widespread client use but only for server use by expert users who are able to navigate the difficult install process and understand the effects of the install on the host computer. Circumventor users should also be aware that some data leaks are possible.
UltraReach can be recommended for widespread use as the best performing of all the tested tools, though users concerned about anonymity should be warned to disable browser support for active content.
If you use Windows try this alternative implementation: Sumatra PDF Reader. It's Open Source, less than half the size of Foxit (1/15th the size of Acrobat) and has search, text-read, copy-paste, and plenty of keyboard shortcuts. It's very quick and streamlined and makes Foxit look bloated in comparison. And naturally it's not affected by this vulnerability.
People still fileshare? Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now. Thanks to Hulu and Netflix and iTunes I can get the latest movies and just about everything else! The costs for these activities are no longer prohibitive.
As for Limewire they are basically forcing the hand of the RIAA/MPAA... With a darknet how can you detect who is sharing what? You can't if you choose your friends wisely.
If BluRay becomes cheap enough, then of course games from all platforms will be distributed that way. Who even on 3Mbit broadband wants to download 20GB games? Not me, that's for sure. It's all a question of media and the size of the game vs the size of people's broadband pipes.
And likewise it will be with the next media format, and the next, and the next. You can't compare MP3s and games because songs have a fixed size. Games do not.
Your comments are pure CACA you GAT! You have as much TACT and a rubber CAT with a GATTACA TAT.
I can't figure out why this project is so interesting. The audio sounds like weird computer-generated noise to me and the images look like colored noise with some weird patterns in them. Who cares? It looks like the data segment of a program when I dump it to video memory accidentally. Yeah there are patterns but what is the value in them? Not much.
His physical and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is Futile.
These guys really want all the top notch 100% stability of Windows Vista... on their mainframe? Oh man, I must be missing something. Does Microsoft pay them to do this?
We are moving into a more and more complicated world. In the past, work had great costs to bring to the people, and thus the business model made as much money as possible from distribution over a short period of time before those printing resources were moved to a newer piece of material. Now we're in an age where content costs $0 to bring to the masses but we have a long tail of content of huge value that no one ever sees because bookstores only popularize the hits.
Google has the opportunity to popularize the long tail of publishing. This is such great news.
If there is a problem with the patent system, it is not that patents are issued too hastily, but rather that many are issued too slowly. On the other hand we need to ensure that the quality of patents that actually ARE issued is very high, and that they only last for a brief period of time (maybe 2-4 years, tops).
So overall, I'm not sure this is the right direction that we want to go.