Imagine if books had the same restrictions, and you had to repurchase the book for every different place you wanted to read it in. The DRM on DVDs is akin to saying the reader is only allowed to read the book while sitting on one of their approved chairs in an approved room with approved lighting conditions wearing their approved reading glasses, and anything else is a violation of the DMCA.
thats $0.0008 per song _per listener_. For example, if you have, say, 10,000 listeners, you pay about $1 million a year: 10,000 listeners * $0.0008 * 15 songs/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year= $1,051,200.00 a year
Once these get to a good resolution of several megapixels or so, if the implants came with a sort of socket (preferbly the back of the neck, matrix-style) which you could attach a wire between you and a computer just like a monitor, that would be really cool for playing computer games, especially if they could make the game take up your whole vision and not just the size of a monitor.
But if Windows crashed, you wouldn't be able to stop looking at the BSOD,:(.
Let me just destroy this article because the only information in it is "The Sheriff's Department says it's going to start warning computer users that their [open] networks [are] vulnerable to [everyone]." the rest of the article is basically a load of bullshit and unrelated facts:
"Wireless computer equipment and home computer networks are everywhere these days. Almost all new computers sold are used by consumers to network in one way or another to other computers."
Well duh. Everyone knows that.
"However, that wireless capability may be making those computers vulnerable to hackers."
Since when is clicking the "Connect" button a hack? Writing an algorithm that breaks WEP encyption faster is a hack, but clicking "connect" is something everone does. So the author meant to say: "However, that wireless capability may be making those computers vulnerable to everyone that can click a button."
""If someone is driving by on the street they could easily use your internet access to commit a crime, whether it's fraudulent credit card transactions or surfing child porn or something else," said Brian Radamacher, a member of the Douglas County Sheriff's Special Investigations Unit."
When no shit. Anyone that understands that 'wireless' means connect without wires knows that anyone can connect to it without needing to sneak a wire into the house.
"Wireless computer equipment sends out signals that sometimes broadcast for up to a mile."
I wish my network had a mile radius. Still, WAP beacons are nothing new to the technologically literate (which ideally should be anyone that uses technology in this modern world).
"Other computer users can home in on those signals and use them to access the internet. "
Uhm, duh again!
"Radamacher says hackers can use stolen Internet access to make fraudulent credit card purchases or bank transfers. "
"stolen" is not the right word unless the person connecting from his car is using all the bandwidth, thereby not allowing the persons inside to use their bandwidth. And even then it is only temporary until the person drives off. "steal" means to take from, and unless the person blocks all the legit users, he's not actually stealing.
"He also says hackers can upload or download such things as child pornography. "
I seriously doubt that any real hacker is a pedophile. I also doubt that any pedophiles are real hackers, so that sentance from the article is just a bunch of bull shit.
"networks may be vulnerable to hackers."
Unless they are also telling people with vulnerable WEP encryption, the open networks are vulnerable to any one with a computer, especially computers with XP install which connects to any open network it can find. Also, this sentance is old news to everyone.
"That activity would be completely invisible to the legitimate owner of that network."
Ethereal, anyone? Maybe slightly hidden to some users, but anyone that has an open network hopefully knows enough to monitor everything over the network to make sure people aren't using it for sketchy activities.
"devices that detect unprotected computer networks. " they could have said the name of the device they actually use, as it might actually add information to the fucking article! but it's probably just an old laptop with a crappy wireless card.
So in short, 9news.com is the worst site ever. They have turned the concept of an "article" from an interesting read about new information to one interesting sentance with a bunch of unrelated information.
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Imagine if books had the same restrictions, and you had to repurchase the book for every different place you wanted to read it in. The DRM on DVDs is akin to saying the reader is only allowed to read the book while sitting on one of their approved chairs in an approved room with approved lighting conditions wearing their approved reading glasses, and anything else is a violation of the DMCA.
thats $0.0008 per song _per listener_. For example, if you have, say, 10,000 listeners, you pay about $1 million a year:
10,000 listeners * $0.0008 * 15 songs/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year= $1,051,200.00 a year
Once these get to a good resolution of several megapixels or so, if the implants came with a sort of socket (preferbly the back of the neck, matrix-style) which you could attach a wire between you and a computer just like a monitor, that would be really cool for playing computer games, especially if they could make the game take up your whole vision and not just the size of a monitor. But if Windows crashed, you wouldn't be able to stop looking at the BSOD, :(.
Let me just destroy this article because the only information in it is "The Sheriff's Department says it's going to start warning computer users that their [open] networks [are] vulnerable to [everyone]." the rest of the article is basically a load of bullshit and unrelated facts: "Wireless computer equipment and home computer networks are everywhere these days. Almost all new computers sold are used by consumers to network in one way or another to other computers." Well duh. Everyone knows that. "However, that wireless capability may be making those computers vulnerable to hackers." Since when is clicking the "Connect" button a hack? Writing an algorithm that breaks WEP encyption faster is a hack, but clicking "connect" is something everone does. So the author meant to say: "However, that wireless capability may be making those computers vulnerable to everyone that can click a button." ""If someone is driving by on the street they could easily use your internet access to commit a crime, whether it's fraudulent credit card transactions or surfing child porn or something else," said Brian Radamacher, a member of the Douglas County Sheriff's Special Investigations Unit." When no shit. Anyone that understands that 'wireless' means connect without wires knows that anyone can connect to it without needing to sneak a wire into the house. "Wireless computer equipment sends out signals that sometimes broadcast for up to a mile." I wish my network had a mile radius. Still, WAP beacons are nothing new to the technologically literate (which ideally should be anyone that uses technology in this modern world). "Other computer users can home in on those signals and use them to access the internet. " Uhm, duh again! "Radamacher says hackers can use stolen Internet access to make fraudulent credit card purchases or bank transfers. " "stolen" is not the right word unless the person connecting from his car is using all the bandwidth, thereby not allowing the persons inside to use their bandwidth. And even then it is only temporary until the person drives off. "steal" means to take from, and unless the person blocks all the legit users, he's not actually stealing. "He also says hackers can upload or download such things as child pornography. " I seriously doubt that any real hacker is a pedophile. I also doubt that any pedophiles are real hackers, so that sentance from the article is just a bunch of bull shit. "networks may be vulnerable to hackers." Unless they are also telling people with vulnerable WEP encryption, the open networks are vulnerable to any one with a computer, especially computers with XP install which connects to any open network it can find. Also, this sentance is old news to everyone. "That activity would be completely invisible to the legitimate owner of that network." Ethereal, anyone? Maybe slightly hidden to some users, but anyone that has an open network hopefully knows enough to monitor everything over the network to make sure people aren't using it for sketchy activities. "devices that detect unprotected computer networks. " they could have said the name of the device they actually use, as it might actually add information to the fucking article! but it's probably just an old laptop with a crappy wireless card. So in short, 9news.com is the worst site ever. They have turned the concept of an "article" from an interesting read about new information to one interesting sentance with a bunch of unrelated information.