Well, I'm assuming you're either a troll or very mis-informed. But the fact someone has modded you "Insightful" is slightly disturbing so I'll have to reply.
The lack of sources quoted in your comment makes me think they're not too credible.
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With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple as a PIN number or, preferably, a more secure system such as a fingerprint reader
Hmmm fingerprint readers are more secure than PIN numbers? Certainly not yet.
Also from TFA:
(In fact, with TPM, your bank wouldn't even need to ask for your username and password -- it would know you simply by the identification on your machine.)
Well what if it's a shared computer at home. How is my bank supposed to tell between me and my wife when I logon to their web-site?
I'm sure there are quite a few New Zealanders who've bought iPods and in NZ we can't even use iTunes to buy songs as there is no NZ iTMS. Buying from the UK, US, Australian, etc stores is not allowed and enforced through having to pay using a credit card issued by a bank in the respective country.
Not that NZ makes up a huge porportion of Apple's worldwide iPod sales, but it enforces the point that a lot of people are quite happy to buy iPods and NOT download music from iTMS - i.e. they get their music via a different channel and then load it onto their iPods.
Ideally, the database would accept logins from OS users so that the application runs as a certain OS user and the database then maps that OS user to a DB user with the required permission level. That way the application doesn't have to have a DB password in a config file.
Protecting the config file with OS security is kinda the same thing, really, but it's never nice having passwords stored in plain text anywhere...
Putting lyrics online is much the same as putting books' contents online. Someone wrote the lyrics and copyrighted them, so you can't just expect people to illegally publish them and get away with it.
As to whether lyricists should enforce their copyright like this, it depends. I personally think they should make their lyrics available for fans and for searching purposes. I don't think people will read lyrics on a web-site and then decide "Oh, I can sing that myself, no point in buying the CD"
"In essence, this is a pure free-market solution--the market alone would determine price"
Yeah but in a free market you have demand and supply. Supply in this case is infinite, so is he suggesting the price should be free? Prices set by companies selling digital content fit into the "How much money can we make from our consumers" category - i.e. they set a price that will give them the biggest return. If they raise the price too much, people won't buy. So it's a balancing act.
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Then they'll need to set up an email service for all the older people
Well, I'm assuming you're either a troll or very mis-informed. But the fact someone has modded you "Insightful" is slightly disturbing so I'll have to reply.
The lack of sources quoted in your comment makes me think they're not too credible.
For anyone wondering if the sun is going to supernova in 10,000 years, the answer is no - see here for a good guide to our sun and here specifically for info about the end of the sun's lifetime. Spoiler Warning. For the curious, the sun will red-giant in about 5-billion years time, destroying the solar system, but it will not actually super-nova.
From TFA:
With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple as a PIN number or, preferably, a more secure system such as a fingerprint readerHmmm fingerprint readers are more secure than PIN numbers? Certainly not yet.
Also from TFA:
(In fact, with TPM, your bank wouldn't even need to ask for your username and password -- it would know you simply by the identification on your machine.)Well what if it's a shared computer at home. How is my bank supposed to tell between me and my wife when I logon to their web-site?
I'm sure there are quite a few New Zealanders who've bought iPods and in NZ we can't even use iTunes to buy songs as there is no NZ iTMS. Buying from the UK, US, Australian, etc stores is not allowed and enforced through having to pay using a credit card issued by a bank in the respective country.
Not that NZ makes up a huge porportion of Apple's worldwide iPod sales, but it enforces the point that a lot of people are quite happy to buy iPods and NOT download music from iTMS - i.e. they get their music via a different channel and then load it onto their iPods.
Ideally, the database would accept logins from OS users so that the application runs as a certain OS user and the database then maps that OS user to a DB user with the required permission level. That way the application doesn't have to have a DB password in a config file.
Protecting the config file with OS security is kinda the same thing, really, but it's never nice having passwords stored in plain text anywhere...
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As to whether lyricists should enforce their copyright like this, it depends. I personally think they should make their lyrics available for fans and for searching purposes. I don't think people will read lyrics on a web-site and then decide "Oh, I can sing that myself, no point in buying the CD"
"In essence, this is a pure free-market solution--the market alone would determine price"
Yeah but in a free market you have demand and supply. Supply in this case is infinite, so is he suggesting the price should be free? Prices set by companies selling digital content fit into the "How much money can we make from our consumers" category - i.e. they set a price that will give them the biggest return. If they raise the price too much, people won't buy. So it's a balancing act.