Now if only they could accomplish this same feat for mobile phones.
Be thankful cell phone companies aren't running the Internet. If they were you'd buy your computer from your ISP and it wouldn't work with any other ISP. Your equipment would come with Internet access but no email, that would be extra. If you wanted an email sound alert, you could always 'shop for sounds'. Access to overseas sites would be charged at a higher rate and your ISP bill would list every site you visited that month. Cell phone providers pay billions in license fees to the FCC for the privilege of being able to nickel and dime you for every trivial service they can think of.
Mike McGuire, a digital media analyst at Gartner, says [T]he technology industry really has to start living up to the media industry's expectations....
Maybe it's the other way around, the media industry needs to start living up to the expectations of the technology industry.
I don't understand why the content providers don't just embed their content with banner advertising overlays and distribute it online themselves. I guess these guys are so stuck in 20th century television mode they just don't get it.
I think that's wrong. A Federal court in the US has Diversity of Citizenship jurisdiction, known as Alienage jurisdiction when foreign nationals are involved. It does have jurisdiction to hear the case.
OK, RIAA astroturfer, what Russian law is allofmp3.com breaking?
I believe it's Paragraph 2 of Article 45 (Organizations for the Collective Administration of Economic Rights):
The mandate for the collective administration of economic rights shall be entrusted either direct, by the owners of copyright or neighboring rights in written contracts, or under appropriate contracts with foreign organizations that administer equivalent rights.
The RIAA is saying the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) to which allofmp3.com pays a fee to doesn't have "appropriate contracts" with the original copyright holders and is thus in violation of Russian Law.
the USA needs Russia more than Russia needs the USA...
Why do you say that? Russia might be good at cheap space launches but their economy is appalling. They don't even make the top 50 countries in terms of GDP/capita. Their economy is about the same as Mexico's. They desperately want to join the WTO but can't without the US as an ally so right now it looks like Russia needs the US more than the US needs them.
Or why limit yourself to proprietary formats? Anyone can use ogg, Windows users included. Been dealing with different video formats for quite some time now and the competition between different formats is not productive in my opinion, The multiplicity of codecs one needs to have is a burden. I'd like to see an open 'independent' format developed in a peer reviewed open environment that everyone can use, kinda like how *nix systems evolved, where the best ideas become the standards. Ogg is open. Anyone can contribute to making it better, even Microsoft.
I'm somewhat of a libertarian and believe in free market competition but sometimes, when everyone is trying to use their own market share leverage their consumer base with the objective of having their formats accepted as industry standards, the consumer is the one who loses out.
If all these competing companies really believed in technology they'd put everything they know on the table and let the best minds meld a standard from the best ideas. Competition is generally good, but look where it got us with cell phone companies. DARPA did a much better job with the Internet.
Perhaps the speculation comes from observing history:
See embrace and exten
d and read the
findgs of fact in the Microsoft antitrust
case
It's not unreasonable to assume Microsoft's motive is to entangle its patents and proprietary code with Linux, then at some point down the road, have learned a thing or two from SCO, drag the GPL through the courts with and army of lawyers and gain legal grounds to start suing its competition.
You might not need LDAP (except for email client address look ups). Microsoft has a much more complicated way of handling user accounts that *nix does. At the most basic level a user exists in Linux if they have an entry in a plain text password file. Of course they'll probably need a home directory as well but it's pretty simple stuff, no database necessary. If you do need it, try openldap.
I switched a company of about 400 users with 2T of data from Windows, Netware, and Lotus Mail to Linux. I started by replacing the mail relay with sendmail, then moved the mailboxes
to POP and IMAP on Linux. I used openldap for mail address lookups/auto complete for mail c
lients. I used Samaba and Netatalk as fileservers for Windows and Macs. After that I set up
DHCP and DNS. Next came apache for web services. I even built a nice java app to organize employee info with tomcat as the container and using MySQL for a small database that pulled info into a web browser (phone extensions, employee locations, department, supervisor's name, etc.). I did live online backups using rsync in a shell script. The company
saved about $100K in proprietary licenses and service contracts. I got a nice $25K bonus as
a sign of their appreciation.
Having been a Windows admin, Linux was a relief. I could actually open the hood and see how things worked. Trouble shooting was much easier. Plus there seemed to be nothing I couldn't automate. Remember, bash is your friend.
FLOSS usually avoids this problem because each project is developed completely independently. Most projects do not use the bleeding edge GTK library for instance.
Having the source code is a great advantage. A./configure script can generate a Makefile that knows what kernel version you're running and which libraries you're using, etc.. It's a simple yet ingenious idea. You never really have to do a complete OS reinstall. I'm using a pretty old version of slackware but I have the latest kernel and latest versions of all my favorite software. In theory I never have to 'upgrade' to slackware-11 because I can just install the pieces on an as-need basis. This system can't work for Microsoft because distributing the source code is not an option.
Seriously, BluRay and HD won't be common place until 2012 at this rate.
And by that time everything will be streamed. Moving data around on funny plastic disks just doesn't make much sense when you have an Internet. The only reason for these formats is 1) There currently isn't enough bandwidth for everyone to stream hi-def content on-demand. 2) Content owners don't want their stuff streamed because of copyright concerns. But as hi-speed Internet access becomes as ubiquitous as DRM becomes unpopular, BluRay and HD will eventually go the way of the floppy.
Agreed. But consider this. I grew up in the UK (been living in the US for many years).
If Al Qaeda is responsible for taking away American liberties,
because the government uses terrorism as a blanket excuse to invade our privacy,
then in the UK it's the yobs and hooligans who are to blame
for the surveillance state.
It might be difficult for Americans
to understand but, whereas here in the US there's usually a reason/motive for crime
(e.g. robbery), in the UK a lot of it is just plain
senseless. British high streets have gotten so bad due to mindless
binge drinkers and general idiots it seems to necessitate the
need for constant monitoring. If the UK has become a nanny state,
perhaps it's because a large portion of its citizenry are infants.
Maybe because Article I, section 8 of the Constitution allows Congress to grant exclusive rights to authors and inventors for their respective "writings and discoveries".
Unfortunately it's pretty difficult to argue for patent reform right now.
Because of technology and drugs, life expectancy has never been higher.
If any changes are going to be made, congress will have to make those
changes. And the drug companies are likely to argue the reason there
have ever been so many life-saving drugs is because the patent system
works. And congress is not likely to 'fix' something it doesn't perceive as
majorly 'broken'.
Throw into the mix all the money the drug companies have
given to politicians to help maintain the status quo and you begin to see how difficult it is to make changes.
It just is what it looks like, the Bush regime trying to silence legimite criticism in the media.
Er, no. It looks like a bunch of blank lines. This article is only mildly critical compared to the thousands of others out there that are downright scathing. You think Bush came along and blanked out a few lines just because the authors criticized him?
In some sense this provides for an absurd definition of the term "public internet".
I mean linking is the same as telling someone that something exists. I wonder
if I met someone at a party and I said, hey you should check out this link
and I just "told" them about the URL, would I be violating the law if the URL's owner objected?
What's the difference in speech between telling someone at a party and posting the same info on my blog?
We disclose user information only as provided for herein and when we believe that the law requires it, or when disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with Proxify's rights or property.
But we don't want google disclosing our information based on what they believe. That's up to law enforcement. If law enforcement believes a crime has been committed let them get a warrant and subpoena google for the information.
The Linksys router Schuster used at his home and its MAC address proved that he was accessing the CWWIS wireless network.
Sounds like the MAC address was tied to his name somewhere and this was the evidence the FBI used to obtain the warrant. After that, everything was revealed by the contents of his computer.
If you purchase a network card online with a credit card it's possible that the FBI can trace the MAC address of that card back to you, providing the seller keeps records. If you're a linux user you can change your MAC address with,
ifconfig ethX hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
As long as you don't pass traceable information (like logging onto a traceable email account) and you use an anonymous proxy like tor as extra protection, it's pretty difficult to trace you. It's possible, of course, to locate you physically by triangulating your radio signals but this requires a bit more effort.
The above is provided for educational purposes only. I do not advocate breaking the law.
Why support the Microsoft monopoly by paying ridiculous prices for bug ridden software with DRM restrictions, when you can run Free software on the industry standard (and thus inexpensive) hardware?
Ah, but according to the article Microsoft is forcing vendors to manufacture more expensive "content protection" cards so the most popular cards will be made (more expensively) according to Microsoft's specs.
See the section on "Increased Hardware Costs".
[I]nstead of varying video card cost based on optional
components, the chipset vendor now has to integrate everything into a one-
size-fits-all premium-featured graphics chip, even if all the user wants is a
budget card for their kids' PC.
So if you want to run that latest Radeon that all the gamers are using on Linux, you'll pay more and probably be hindered by all content protection junk it contains.
What about the mother? How could she claim ignorance when it was her job to educate and take care of them?
Because it's like if someone uses a telephone to do something illegal, you go after the person who committed the act, not the person who pays the phone bill.
The only people this can significantly hurt are business which were doomed to fail in anycase, and scammers.
But doesn't TFA say that many of the people that will be doomed to fail are legitimate businesses like Aunt Joy Christmas stockings? Though Microsoft will claim they're not. She won't be green. She'll lose business. It's small businesses that will hurt.
There's also a correlation between milk consumption and crime. The two, of course, are related to rise in population and cutting milk consumption will not prevent crime. Here we could ask: Can a weak immune system cause a negative mood?
Your "risk to corporate profit" argument doesn't fly unless you're arguing that the Bush administration has some kind of stake in the least reliable carriers.
The FCC is an independent agency that answers to Congress, not the president.
See USC Tile 47
151
and
154
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Now if only they could accomplish this same feat for mobile phones.
Be thankful cell phone companies aren't running the Internet. If they were you'd buy your computer from your ISP and it wouldn't work with any other ISP. Your equipment would come with Internet access but no email, that would be extra. If you wanted an email sound alert, you could always 'shop for sounds'. Access to overseas sites would be charged at a higher rate and your ISP bill would list every site you visited that month. Cell phone providers pay billions in license fees to the FCC for the privilege of being able to nickel and dime you for every trivial service they can think of.
Mike McGuire, a digital media analyst at Gartner, says [T]he technology industry really has to start living up to the media industry's expectations ....
Maybe it's the other way around, the media industry needs to start living up to the expectations of the technology industry.
I don't understand why the content providers don't just embed their content with banner advertising overlays and distribute it online themselves. I guess these guys are so stuck in 20th century television mode they just don't get it.
The US has no jurasdiction at all on allofmp3...
I think that's wrong. A Federal court in the US has Diversity of Citizenship jurisdiction, known as Alienage jurisdiction when foreign nationals are involved. It does have jurisdiction to hear the case.
OK, RIAA astroturfer, what Russian law is allofmp3.com breaking?
I believe it's Paragraph 2 of Article 45 (Organizations for the Collective Administration of Economic Rights):
The mandate for the collective administration of economic rights shall be entrusted either direct, by the owners of copyright or neighboring rights in written contracts, or under appropriate contracts with foreign organizations that administer equivalent rights.
The RIAA is saying the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS) to which allofmp3.com pays a fee to doesn't have "appropriate contracts" with the original copyright holders and is thus in violation of Russian Law.
the USA needs Russia more than Russia needs the USA ...
Why do you say that? Russia might be good at cheap space launches but their economy is appalling. They don't even make the top 50 countries in terms of GDP/capita. Their economy is about the same as Mexico's. They desperately want to join the WTO but can't without the US as an ally so right now it looks like Russia needs the US more than the US needs them.
Or why limit yourself to proprietary formats? Anyone can use ogg, Windows users included. Been dealing with different video formats for quite some time now and the competition between different formats is not productive in my opinion, The multiplicity of codecs one needs to have is a burden. I'd like to see an open 'independent' format developed in a peer reviewed open environment that everyone can use, kinda like how *nix systems evolved, where the best ideas become the standards. Ogg is open. Anyone can contribute to making it better, even Microsoft.
I'm somewhat of a libertarian and believe in free market competition but sometimes, when everyone is trying to use their own market share leverage their consumer base with the objective of having their formats accepted as industry standards, the consumer is the one who loses out.
If all these competing companies really believed in technology they'd put everything they know on the table and let the best minds meld a standard from the best ideas. Competition is generally good, but look where it got us with cell phone companies. DARPA did a much better job with the Internet.
Perhaps the speculation comes from observing history: See embrace and exten d and read the findgs of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case
It's not unreasonable to assume Microsoft's motive is to entangle its patents and proprietary code with Linux, then at some point down the road, have learned a thing or two from SCO, drag the GPL through the courts with and army of lawyers and gain legal grounds to start suing its competition.
You might not need LDAP (except for email client address look ups). Microsoft has a much more complicated way of handling user accounts that *nix does. At the most basic level a user exists in Linux if they have an entry in a plain text password file. Of course they'll probably need a home directory as well but it's pretty simple stuff, no database necessary. If you do need it, try openldap.
I switched a company of about 400 users with 2T of data from Windows, Netware, and Lotus Mail to Linux. I started by replacing the mail relay with sendmail, then moved the mailboxes to POP and IMAP on Linux. I used openldap for mail address lookups/auto complete for mail c lients. I used Samaba and Netatalk as fileservers for Windows and Macs. After that I set up DHCP and DNS. Next came apache for web services. I even built a nice java app to organize employee info with tomcat as the container and using MySQL for a small database that pulled info into a web browser (phone extensions, employee locations, department, supervisor's name, etc.). I did live online backups using rsync in a shell script. The company saved about $100K in proprietary licenses and service contracts. I got a nice $25K bonus as a sign of their appreciation.
Having been a Windows admin, Linux was a relief. I could actually open the hood and see how things worked. Trouble shooting was much easier. Plus there seemed to be nothing I couldn't automate. Remember, bash is your friend.
FLOSS usually avoids this problem because each project is developed completely independently. Most projects do not use the bleeding edge GTK library for instance.
./configure script can generate a Makefile that knows what kernel version you're running and which libraries you're using, etc.. It's a simple yet ingenious idea. You never really have to do a complete OS reinstall. I'm using a pretty old version of slackware but I have the latest kernel and latest versions of all my favorite software. In theory I never have to 'upgrade' to slackware-11 because I can just install the pieces on an as-need basis. This system can't work for Microsoft because distributing the source code is not an option.
Having the source code is a great advantage. A
Seriously, BluRay and HD won't be common place until 2012 at this rate.
And by that time everything will be streamed. Moving data around on funny plastic disks just doesn't make much sense when you have an Internet. The only reason for these formats is 1) There currently isn't enough bandwidth for everyone to stream hi-def content on-demand. 2) Content owners don't want their stuff streamed because of copyright concerns. But as hi-speed Internet access becomes as ubiquitous as DRM becomes unpopular, BluRay and HD will eventually go the way of the floppy.
Is it too late for Britain to reverse its course?
Agreed. But consider this. I grew up in the UK (been living in the US for many years). If Al Qaeda is responsible for taking away American liberties, because the government uses terrorism as a blanket excuse to invade our privacy, then in the UK it's the yobs and hooligans who are to blame for the surveillance state.
It might be difficult for Americans to understand but, whereas here in the US there's usually a reason/motive for crime (e.g. robbery), in the UK a lot of it is just plain senseless. British high streets have gotten so bad due to mindless binge drinkers and general idiots it seems to necessitate the need for constant monitoring. If the UK has become a nanny state, perhaps it's because a large portion of its citizenry are infants.
Maybe because Article I, section 8 of the Constitution allows Congress to grant exclusive rights to authors and inventors for their respective "writings and discoveries".
Unfortunately it's pretty difficult to argue for patent reform right now. Because of technology and drugs, life expectancy has never been higher. If any changes are going to be made, congress will have to make those changes. And the drug companies are likely to argue the reason there have ever been so many life-saving drugs is because the patent system works. And congress is not likely to 'fix' something it doesn't perceive as majorly 'broken'.
Throw into the mix all the money the drug companies have given to politicians to help maintain the status quo and you begin to see how difficult it is to make changes.
You might find this interesting.
It just is what it looks like, the Bush regime trying to silence legimite criticism in the media.
Er, no. It looks like a bunch of blank lines. This article is only mildly critical compared to the thousands of others out there that are downright scathing. You think Bush came along and blanked out a few lines just because the authors criticized him?
In some sense this provides for an absurd definition of the term "public internet". I mean linking is the same as telling someone that something exists. I wonder if I met someone at a party and I said, hey you should check out this link and I just "told" them about the URL, would I be violating the law if the URL's owner objected? What's the difference in speech between telling someone at a party and posting the same info on my blog?
But seriously. No way to hide IP addresses from the server.
Just use an anonymous proxy like tor.
We disclose user information only as provided for herein and when we believe that the law requires it, or when disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with Proxify's rights or property.
But we don't want google disclosing our information based on what they believe. That's up to law enforcement. If law enforcement believes a crime has been committed let them get a warrant and subpoena google for the information.
The Linksys router Schuster used at his home and its MAC address proved that he was accessing the CWWIS wireless network.
Sounds like the MAC address was tied to his name somewhere and this was the evidence the FBI used to obtain the warrant. After that, everything was revealed by the contents of his computer.
If you purchase a network card online with a credit card it's possible that the FBI can trace the MAC address of that card back to you, providing the seller keeps records. If you're a linux user you can change your MAC address with,
ifconfig ethX hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
As long as you don't pass traceable information (like logging onto a traceable email account) and you use an anonymous proxy like tor as extra protection, it's pretty difficult to trace you. It's possible, of course, to locate you physically by triangulating your radio signals but this requires a bit more effort.
The above is provided for educational purposes only. I do not advocate breaking the law.
Why support the Microsoft monopoly by paying ridiculous prices for bug ridden software with DRM restrictions, when you can run Free software on the industry standard (and thus inexpensive) hardware?
Ah, but according to the article Microsoft is forcing vendors to manufacture more expensive "content protection" cards so the most popular cards will be made (more expensively) according to Microsoft's specs.
See the section on "Increased Hardware Costs".
[I]nstead of varying video card cost based on optional components, the chipset vendor now has to integrate everything into a one- size-fits-all premium-featured graphics chip, even if all the user wants is a budget card for their kids' PC.
So if you want to run that latest Radeon that all the gamers are using on Linux, you'll pay more and probably be hindered by all content protection junk it contains.
What about the mother? How could she claim ignorance when it was her job to educate and take care of them?
Because it's like if someone uses a telephone to do something illegal, you go after the person who committed the act, not the person who pays the phone bill.
Thank you, Rip Van Winkle.
The only people this can significantly hurt are business which were doomed to fail in anycase, and scammers.
But doesn't TFA say that many of the people that will be doomed to fail are legitimate businesses like Aunt Joy Christmas stockings? Though Microsoft will claim they're not. She won't be green. She'll lose business. It's small businesses that will hurt.
Exactly.
There's also a correlation between milk consumption and crime. The two, of course, are related to rise in population and cutting milk consumption will not prevent crime. Here we could ask: Can a weak immune system cause a negative mood?
Your "risk to corporate profit" argument doesn't fly unless you're arguing that the Bush administration has some kind of stake in the least reliable carriers.
The FCC is an independent agency that answers to Congress, not the president. See USC Tile 47 151 and 154