Thats right, if murdered 13yo doesn't care enough to change the PIN number on her voice mail, NotW had every right to listen to everything sent to her voice box.
Just to clear it up, Rebekah Wade is Rebekah Brooks.
She took her second husbands name (Brooks) but never took her first husbands name.
She was arrested for beating her first husband which was embrassing because at the time her paper had just finished running a campaign against domestic violence.
That would only work up until your employment contract is cancelled, if you leave your job or get fired, the contract is no longer valid and you take your patent with you to their competitors. It's a nice idea but there is no way it would ever be implemented like that.
But for.com and.net, the U.S. very much has jurisdiction over the main registry and by extension the data registered with them.
The data registered with them is an address which is not necessarily in the US. By all means delete the pointer of any site you don't agree with, but how does holding a pointer to an address give you rights over a citizen of another country?
That is actually something I worry about for the future of civilisation.
20 Years Ago, the vast stores of human knowledge could be found at the local library on all the subjects which would have been of use, mechanics, crop management, animal husbandry, medicine and health etc, if civilisation had collasped the survivors would only have needed the ability to reach the library and read.
Now, alot of that information is tied up in digital formats which require some pre-existing IT knowledge to both access and maintain. For example you would need to be able to generate some limited electrical power, need to be able to replace broken computer parts etc
20 years from now, if the cloud computing continues we may reach the point where none of our existing knowledge is accessible without already processing our currrent technology and both at a node level and at a wider system level, there is no way a survivor of a big meteo strike is going to be able to power up an entire data center which would be needed to extract information in there.
I'm not saying the information is not going to be available at all, just that I think it's going to be increasingly fragmented and harder to collate into a working library. And all that is just the physical access/reading side of things and doesn't consider DRM & encryption preventing access even if you can get the data center powered up.
If you've already connected to an internal wifi, why bother with the app all? just load it as a webpage or a movie clip or something. There shouldn't be any need to install an app just to deliver content to a devices whose raison d'Ãtre is displaying content.
That way you just need to write the content once and it's compatible with every device which might wander through the door. Including that 1 person with a Windows 9 Nokia in a few years time. (assumes Nokia lasts that long).
He's not arguing for the stealing of anything. In fact he's arguing that pricing in a digital world is important enough that someone smarter than him needs to think about it.
What he's basically said is:
A product costs X to create and Y to produce/distribute
In a digital world, X has remained the same but Y has (or should have) dropped massively and so the pricing model which was used in the world of physical products is unfair to the consumer.
He's asking how you compensate the creator while avoiding being ripped off for a product which now costs pennies to produce/distribute and doesn't need to be warehoused so can in effect be sold indefinately if so desired.
The biggest problems that I can see with ground-effect trains is that they'll have to bring the energy needed, just like a air plane.
No it won't. It's only floating on a cushion of air a few centimeters above a track, just run 2 electric rails in the track and drop a pickup arm to make contact with the rails.
Something the weight of a train, I can't see it bobbing up and down very quickly, I doubt it would even need to be an actively positioned arm, just something with a pivot and a spring pushing the arm down to ensure a good contact.
And thats the painfully basic approach, with sufficent spatial control you could have magnetic propulsion with a linear motor in the same way as a maglev but without needing to embed permanent magnets in the track for lift.
But sure, let's go ahead and put some truck drivers out of business and drive up the delivery cost of... well, pretty much everything.
I agree, how dare the government even think about a study which could make locally produced goods from small local businesses a bit more competative against mass produced stuff from multinational corporations producing in a single location and shipping it everywhere... Madness I tell you.
Given that this specific case involved a computer that had been paid off(and, unless demonstrated otherwise, strongly suggests that they don't remove their bugs upon transfer of ownership generally...) I suspect that they would likely be up shit creek under such laws in this circumstance.
Actually you can't make that assumption from this case because the rental company got it's facts mixed up and thought the laptop was still under the rental agreement and the users had missed payment. It could be that when the laptop is signed off as having been fully paid for, a script is automatically run to remove all that sort of spyware crap.
Note: I don't actually believe that, I suspect that the rental companies programs and configurations are left in exactly the state they were in the day before the rental agreement finishes, I'm just saying that since the company thought the laptop was still their they wouldn't have removed it.
Timestamps on any cached data serve to indicate due to the data possibly being too stale.
The cache timestamps the first time it sees a cell tower and never updates it. Wouldn't it make far more sense to change the timestamp with the most recent information so that apolications know the data is as fresh as possible?
[My approach] would be entirely different from today's documents where you look at one page at a time and you can see a ribbon or beam connecting documents together,â he said. âoeHaving to refer to a paragraph and a sentence in an e-mail is just so barbaric when you could just strike it out and make the connection between sentences.
Is it just me, or is this just completely incoherent? What the hell is he talking about?
Thats what happens when you try to communicate without paragraphs and sentences. Ideas and meaning becoming so entangled that you lose the context needed to understand the message, but I'm sure he has a brilliant way around that which is revolutionary and not at all confusing.
Except people like you have been saying that since the dawn of time, and continue being wrong.
America has been a superpower for what, 60 years? call it 120 years if you want to count the period where it was gaining significant mindshare around the world but before it was a true super power.
The massive increase in world population has not caused a massive population crash due to starvation and disease, because we invented ways to grow more food on the same land, and discovered the germ theory of disease.
A population growth which has been supported by cheap fossil fuels, which provide both energy in a very convenient form for mechanization and a very handy chemical feed stock for fertilizers and pesticides.
Any replacement we come up with not only has to provide more energy than fossil fuels do at the moment because of increasing population, but also do it without effecting the total area of agricultural land or you are going to need to push yields even higher than you would have had to do just to keep up with population growth.
I'm not saying this is impossible, but if we get it wrong and don't find those replacement technologies and energy sources, then we are going to have to sustain a massive global population crash.
I'm enjoying allotment gardening and really want to try my hand at Blacksmithing, maybe I've been doing this too long but technology just doesn't hold any magic any more.
Man who sells products which adversely affect his paying customers if the product falsely shows an install is pirated claims there are no false postives. Shocking
Why can't we just use the products we buy any way we want to?
I think it is because the products you buy these days are actually the hooks to get you to buy overpriced content later on. They are effectively loss leaders.
Games consoles are designed to make you buy games, mobile phones are really designed to be attractive for mobile operators which increases a customers spend on messages and data etc.
Companies don't want you to use the product how you want because at best they don't make as much money as expected and at worst, outright lose money.
I do find it interesting that in the US where software patenting is in full force, we seem to have the most thriving software market anywhere.
I would argue that that was due to being inside the biggest single market in the world during their respective growth periods, especially with regard to the technology market. i.e. right time right place.
Regardless of the state of patents, those companies could not have moved into being such large multinationals as easily if their home markets were smaller because they would not have been able to have such a large income base to use as a war chest when moving into new markets.
Those are 2 very different problems. One is about harvesting a huge amount of energy which is widely dispered (at least here on earth), the other is a technological issue about safely running very very very high temperature reactions continously but the power it produces is very concentrated.
Beyond the fact that both are fusion reactions they have nothing in common with each other.
No, if you are driving as part of a business then you can't listen to music unless the business have brought the appropriate protection money, so this would apply to anyone traveling on company business. Trucks, Salesman, Field Support etc.
The group are taking the current rules and applying them to their logical conclusion, hopeful this will prompt government to wonder if the rules as they are currently implemented actually make sense.
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Thats right, if murdered 13yo doesn't care enough to change the PIN number on her voice mail, NotW had every right to listen to everything sent to her voice box.
Just to clear it up, Rebekah Wade is Rebekah Brooks.
She took her second husbands name (Brooks) but never took her first husbands name.
She was arrested for beating her first husband which was embrassing because at the time her paper had just finished running a campaign against domestic violence.
That would only work up until your employment contract is cancelled, if you leave your job or get fired, the contract is no longer valid and you take your patent with you to their competitors. It's a nice idea but there is no way it would ever be implemented like that.
The data registered with them is an address which is not necessarily in the US. By all means delete the pointer of any site you don't agree with, but how does holding a pointer to an address give you rights over a citizen of another country?
That is actually something I worry about for the future of civilisation.
20 Years Ago, the vast stores of human knowledge could be found at the local library on all the subjects which would have been of use, mechanics, crop management, animal husbandry, medicine and health etc, if civilisation had collasped the survivors would only have needed the ability to reach the library and read.
Now, alot of that information is tied up in digital formats which require some pre-existing IT knowledge to both access and maintain. For example you would need to be able to generate some limited electrical power, need to be able to replace broken computer parts etc
20 years from now, if the cloud computing continues we may reach the point where none of our existing knowledge is accessible without already processing our currrent technology and both at a node level and at a wider system level, there is no way a survivor of a big meteo strike is going to be able to power up an entire data center which would be needed to extract information in there.
I'm not saying the information is not going to be available at all, just that I think it's going to be increasingly fragmented and harder to collate into a working library. And all that is just the physical access/reading side of things and doesn't consider DRM & encryption preventing access even if you can get the data center powered up.
If you've already connected to an internal wifi, why bother with the app all? just load it as a webpage or a movie clip or something. There shouldn't be any need to install an app just to deliver content to a devices whose raison d'Ãtre is displaying content.
That way you just need to write the content once and it's compatible with every device which might wander through the door. Including that 1 person with a Windows 9 Nokia in a few years time. (assumes Nokia lasts that long).
I think you have missed the point.
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He's not arguing for the stealing of anything. In fact he's arguing that pricing in a digital world is important enough that someone smarter than him needs to think about it.
What he's basically said is
A product costs X to create and Y to produce/distribute
In a digital world, X has remained the same but Y has (or should have) dropped massively and so the pricing model which was used in the world of physical products is unfair to the consumer.
He's asking how you compensate the creator while avoiding being ripped off for a product which now costs pennies to produce/distribute and doesn't need to be warehoused so can in effect be sold indefinately if so desired.
Well for one thing, it gains us not having to lay permanent magnets every foot for a 100 mile journey
No it won't. It's only floating on a cushion of air a few centimeters above a track, just run 2 electric rails in the track and drop a pickup arm to make contact with the rails.
Something the weight of a train, I can't see it bobbing up and down very quickly, I doubt it would even need to be an actively positioned arm, just something with a pivot and a spring pushing the arm down to ensure a good contact.
And thats the painfully basic approach, with sufficent spatial control you could have magnetic propulsion with a linear motor in the same way as a maglev but without needing to embed permanent magnets in the track for lift.
I agree, how dare the government even think about a study which could make locally produced goods from small local businesses a bit more competative against mass produced stuff from multinational corporations producing in a single location and shipping it everywhere... Madness I tell you.
Actually you can't make that assumption from this case because the rental company got it's facts mixed up and thought the laptop was still under the rental agreement and the users had missed payment. It could be that when the laptop is signed off as having been fully paid for, a script is automatically run to remove all that sort of spyware crap.
Note: I don't actually believe that, I suspect that the rental companies programs and configurations are left in exactly the state they were in the day before the rental agreement finishes, I'm just saying that since the company thought the laptop was still their they wouldn't have removed it.
Damn it, I was going to avoid the wedding at all costs, but now I have to watch just on the off chance that really happens.
The cache timestamps the first time it sees a cell tower and never updates it. Wouldn't it make far more sense to change the timestamp with the most recent information so that apolications know the data is as fresh as possible?
Thats what happens when you try to communicate without paragraphs and sentences. Ideas and meaning becoming so entangled that you lose the context needed to understand the message, but I'm sure he has a brilliant way around that which is revolutionary and not at all confusing.
America has been a superpower for what, 60 years? call it 120 years if you want to count the period where it was gaining significant mindshare around the world but before it was a true super power.
A population growth which has been supported by cheap fossil fuels, which provide both energy in a very convenient form for mechanization and a very handy chemical feed stock for fertilizers and pesticides.
Any replacement we come up with not only has to provide more energy than fossil fuels do at the moment because of increasing population, but also do it without effecting the total area of agricultural land or you are going to need to push yields even higher than you would have had to do just to keep up with population growth.
I'm not saying this is impossible, but if we get it wrong and don't find those replacement technologies and energy sources, then we are going to have to sustain a massive global population crash.
+1 - I've started finding the same thing.
I'm enjoying allotment gardening and really want to try my hand at Blacksmithing, maybe I've been doing this too long but technology just doesn't hold any magic any more.
Man who sells products which adversely affect his paying customers if the product falsely shows an install is pirated claims there are no false postives. Shocking
I think it is because the products you buy these days are actually the hooks to get you to buy overpriced content later on. They are effectively loss leaders.
Games consoles are designed to make you buy games, mobile phones are really designed to be attractive for mobile operators which increases a customers spend on messages and data etc.
Companies don't want you to use the product how you want because at best they don't make as much money as expected and at worst, outright lose money.
Actually, since you can't randomly make the reponse time shorter, what ever the shortest response time they get back is going to be the most accurate.
The best you can do is make it appear you are further away than you really are.
Of course that actually depends on this technique working which does sound very unlikely.
Ah ha, that got it, thanks
And is now forced to work, for all eternatity, in a toy factory in -20'C conditions.
I would argue that that was due to being inside the biggest single market in the world during their respective growth periods, especially with regard to the technology market. i.e. right time right place.
Regardless of the state of patents, those companies could not have moved into being such large multinationals as easily if their home markets were smaller because they would not have been able to have such a large income base to use as a war chest when moving into new markets.
Those are 2 very different problems. One is about harvesting a huge amount of energy which is widely dispered (at least here on earth), the other is a technological issue about safely running very very very high temperature reactions continously but the power it produces is very concentrated.
Beyond the fact that both are fusion reactions they have nothing in common with each other.
No, if you are driving as part of a business then you can't listen to music unless the business have brought the appropriate protection money, so this would apply to anyone traveling on company business. Trucks, Salesman, Field Support etc.
The group are taking the current rules and applying them to their logical conclusion, hopeful this will prompt government to wonder if the rules as they are currently implemented actually make sense.
If the bible teaches us anything, it's that Abstinence is only 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% effective.