Apart from violating the GPL and infringing on trademarks/copyrights, they also make false/invalid (copyright) claims by stating copyright as of 1999. Isn't there a law against this as well?
I think they should start by getting their domain-name back, filing a complaint with WIPO should set that in motion. Pretty sure they stand a decent chance. The only issue is that Shareaza misses someone with a getting-the-job-done hands-on mentality which can pretty much be seen in the Shareaza client. Poor ed2k support, minimal bittorrent support, problematic Gnutella-support, no continued development of G2,...
That still doesn't cut it for a complete explanation. I cannot imagine that BGP allows IP-address hijacking; how can a Pakistani ISP tell the rest of the world what to do with packets destined for YouTube? They don't have any authority over that resource/address-space, so how and why are they allowed to create a black hole affecting the entire net?
Utilities, unlike grocery stores, would like to limit the amount of product to their current capacity. Installation of new facilities is wildly expensive, and it is hard to make back that capital expenditure. Not completely true for Broadband. In most regions, the facilities and infrastructure is already there, they just need to be upgraded. Unless you are upgrading copper to fibre, the expenses aren't that high and they aren't unexpected. Every ISP knows bandwidth usage doubles every 18 months. So do their suppliers and technological development keeps up to provide ISP's with the equipment to supply those needs at reasonable prices.
Anything? Not so quick, my dear! For the CD to boot, first there is the BIOS. And BIOS needs memory as well (for the menus, the screen, the ElToro floppy image etc). Now the countermeasure is obvious: Keep the sensitive key material in memory areas that is erased during the early boot procedure. Then the attack complexity is raised from "no hardware required" to "specicialists hardware necessary, no guarantees given".
I'm pretty sure you can manufacture a specialist DRAM read/dump module for a tens of dollars in China. So while it would be for specialists, access to such hardware will be available and at relatively low costs. So it won't stop the people you're trying to protect your from.
Mob mentality, which is being pushed like hell in all european countries, is the opposite of freedom. And it's gaining.
Have to agree about that, though it may be gaining, it is not picking up momentum yet (that when you really should get worried). And you do see more and more people reacting to the "mob mentality".
Same with other figures, like unemployment for example, it's at least triple or quadruple that of the US, depending on the country.
Depends on your country (Belgium I guess???), but several countries do seem to have their own interpretation of numbers and statistics. Just look how to they calculate inflation. For computers and such, the use the inverse of Moore's Law for the relative weight. They've seemed to have missed out on increased system requirement of modern software.
If everyone had jumped on the boat 10 years ago, it might have. But that didn't happen.
XML is too difficult, and allows abuse/over-use too easy. Personally, I love it, but I'm a minority. The other key-factor is that there is simply no short term need for it in many places. Or better, the need for it isn't recognized by the majority. Pragmatic solutions have a tendency to win over new revolutionary ones.
Won't be a cold war, rather a warm one. The US (and most western countries) depend too much on China for a mass of consumer goods and China has enough foreign funds to subvert a currencies exchange rate. A cold war isn't an option.
This is about the RIAA monitoring the torrent servers that you're using, noting your IP address and what you're downloading and sending a note to your ISP asking them to tell you to knock it off. Just because you are connected to a tracker, doesn't mean you actually download or upload. Likely, yes, but for all they know, you are monitoring the swarm for purpose x. The only way to prove that you are actually downloading or uploading, is when you sent or receive offending bytes from them.
Works great. I actually had the whole privacy-discussion with someone once and lost. Later I learned that the person in question had cheated on his/her partner. Next time we met, I suggested that it would be a good idea if governments set up a system to track cheating, adultery and promiscuity (not really doable, but with some difficult words, complex sentences and exaggerated claims of technical feasibility, you can convince non-techies) and make that information available to the public and usable in divorce-cases. Morally justifiable, democratically feasible (well, not really; most people don't cheat, but quite a few want the possibility) and people have, of course, nothing to hide.
OpenDNS already offers most of these services, for free...
Downside is, that if you look at their Terms of Service, they might also block things you don't ask for (e.g. p2p-sites and such). But for businesses, it should be fairly safe.
I seriously doubt that the next major conflict will take 28 years to develop, especially reading between the lines of events in the last 5 years. Most likely not within 10 years, but I doubt that it will take as long as 20 years plus. Access to energy and raw materials is slowly becoming an issue for certain large (would-be) superpowers, a financial crisis is still looming around the corner and a renewed arms race is in the making. Not recipes for a better world.
Planning this technology with a time-span of 10 to 28 years is both silly technology-wise and strategically naive. The technology for shooting satellites out of the sky is already here and I'm pretty sure adversaries can (and will) develop weapons-systems to shoot Hypersonic Jets out of the sky within that time-frame. News like this only confirms (to me) that the US is losing its strategic and technological advantage though how on earth they the manage to do so with their budget beats me. Though I do remember some history lessons about empires falling apart after having spent too much money on occupations...
They (and others) already were! Philips stated that it was willing to sue anyone using the CD-logo for trademark infringement, if they did not conform to the Red Book standard (mandatory if you want to use the logo,). There also was a class action lawsuit brought by consumers to various companies using the logo without adhering to the specs.
...an opportunity to stand up, relax and breath some fresh air... Agreed, but when fueling, the vapors from the fuel/gasoline don't exactly provide me with fresh air:-). And with such a robot, you could still stand up and relax. Just walk inside, get a cup of coffee, pay and off you go.
Gas station owners make barely a living with pumps and the small shops I don't understand how they could afford it I think the main market for these (at least until the price comes down) are the unmanned stations of the Big Oil companies and perhaps as an extra automatic pump at Highway gas stations.
Well, it hard to speak about other people in other countries, but here in America, the actual act of fueling is usually one of many tasks when "getting gas." I also wash the windows/lights, check over the engine, or maybe go in and get a snack. The latter is also relatively common in the Netherlands, especially at Highway Gasstations, but checking the engine (~ 1/100 - 1/1000) or washings windows / lights isn't (~ 1/30). But it is also dependent on the location of the gas station. Most unmanned pumps here used to be manned with a small shop, but simply didn't sell enough to be profitable. Never seen any vending machines at those stations either (though I have seen them in Belgium at unmanned stations).
Doubt it. Some people don't like or don't know how (!) to fuel their car. In fact, I know several people who always visit the same gas station simply because it still has a gas attendant (a rarity here in the Netherlands, though 20 years ago it was quite common).
Seeing that more and more gas stations here are becoming unmanned entirely (saves you up to 10 eurocent per liter), why not a Gas filling robot? You can stay in your car where it is warm, where you can listening to your favorite radio station, eat a sandwich or drink a refreshment, make a quick call, program the GPS, look through some papers, read your mail, etc, etc. It sound silly at first, but those 5 minutes can be pretty useful at times. Not to mention that it is better for your health as well.
The infrastructure is exactly the same as that used for voice calls. Partially, SMS can be send over GPRS/EDGE, but no provider here (Netherlands) allows that. Sending them over GPRS would both be cheaper and allow for much more SMS-capacity on the network (e.g. on New Year both sendingen SMS's and calling is virtually impossible)
There is pretty much no reason why SMS and for that matter, data charges are so high. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I'm pretty sure the main reason for not sending SMS's over the GPRS-network has to do with the prices they can charge.
As for prices, I remember the fist time I went to East Europe; a sms-message was less than one eurocent. Last year, it was 10 times as much.
The record companies have not provided a way for me to enjoy my license to listen if the CD gets scratched, as it is now they force us to buy a new license they should probably reimburse anyone who has had to buy more than one license because of damage media. I noticed about 10 years ago CDs became very easy to scratch not the bottom but the top.
Because the carrier medium can be damaged we should all be able to get a download of a new instance of the song we paid for from the Internet if we purchased the license to listen to it. Since the record companies have not provided a way for us to get a replacement copy the Internet downloads can ethically be justified. That is one of the reasons why downloading (NOT uploading) is legally allowed here in the Netherlands, though this is now under attack. If I'm not mistaking, record labels are also obliged to swap damaged media carriers at a reasonable cost (handling, packaging, shipping, media), but for some awkward reason, this is not mentioned anywhere.
Stardock understands the people who play GC. They listen to the community, put in hard work in making every release/expansion pack well worth your money and you can pre-order which gives you access to the beta (and allows you to give feedback during development) and saves you a couple of dimes. I've purchased/pre-ordered them all and I don't regret it, even though I could have just downloaded it for "free". I just don't mind paying for value.
Windows Vista is Windows 6, Windows 2000 was Windows 5, and XP was 5.1 . Windows 7 is just the version and not the name. I'm sure the marketing-department will come up with a slick fancy name this year. My vote goes to Windows Vista XP (or Windows Vista NG):-)
The companies that were producing these disks just dropped the logo... They didn't, not until they were hit by class-action lawsuits and Philips reminded them that using the Compact Disc logo without permission (e.g. conforming to the Red Book standard) constituted to Trademark infringement and they were prepared to sue.
This falls in line with stealing wifi from unprotected networks. Just because it's not secured doesn't mean it OK to break in. That's turning the world upside down. If someone transmits a signal in an public space, without security, how can you break in? And how does that protect the other "stupid", e.g. people who have set their WiFi-card to connect automatically to any available Accesspoint? If someone does not protect their WiFi, or does not mark it as private, it is not.
Same goes on the internet. Internet is public space. If you do not take any provisions to secure/restrict access to certain sources/services/spaces, than those are public as well. You can't expect a "reasonable person" to think otherwise.
Unfortunately, 80% of the people seem to be unable in seeing subtle nuances. In fact, I doubt that subtlety or nuance is part of their vocabulary.
Of course, there is the 19% that does, but because they are the minority and generally express themselves in a subtle delicate and sophisticated manner, get ignored by the previous 80%.
Leaves us with 1% left. They have read the book and see the projected future as either inevitable or a great opportunity. And figure it is best for 99% of the population if they control this "gradual attrition of human rights via subtle nuances and ideals put in place by the powers that be". Which happens to be them in the first place.
1) Employees of major corporations assigned to opensource could be laid off or reassigned to directly profitable projects. Or Major Corporations decide to cut back on their licensing-expenses, search compatible Opensource alternatives and assign a few employees to them to make it "Just Work".
I'm sure a (US) recession could affect Open-Source, but it in the long term, it will be good. Sure some projects will fall, but only because they had inadequate backing in the first place. Recession is bad from many perspectives, but it does a great job in weeding out inefficient, ineffective or otherwise poorly performing projects/businesses/...
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IANAL, but, I'm also wondering about validity of the copyright claims of Discordia Ltd. At the bottom of the pages, it says either:
© 1999-2008 Discordia Ltd. All rights reserved.or
© 1999-2008 Shareaza All rights reserved.Apart from violating the GPL and infringing on trademarks/copyrights, they also make false/invalid (copyright) claims by stating copyright as of 1999. Isn't there a law against this as well?
I think they should start by getting their domain-name back, filing a complaint with WIPO should set that in motion. Pretty sure they stand a decent chance. The only issue is that Shareaza misses someone with a getting-the-job-done hands-on mentality which can pretty much be seen in the Shareaza client. Poor ed2k support, minimal bittorrent support, problematic Gnutella-support, no continued development of G2, ...
That still doesn't cut it for a complete explanation. I cannot imagine that BGP allows IP-address hijacking; how can a Pakistani ISP tell the rest of the world what to do with packets destined for YouTube? They don't have any authority over that resource/address-space, so how and why are they allowed to create a black hole affecting the entire net?
I'm pretty sure you can manufacture a specialist DRAM read/dump module for a tens of dollars in China. So while it would be for specialists, access to such hardware will be available and at relatively low costs. So it won't stop the people you're trying to protect your from.
Have to agree about that, though it may be gaining, it is not picking up momentum yet (that when you really should get worried). And you do see more and more people reacting to the "mob mentality".
Same with other figures, like unemployment for example, it's at least triple or quadruple that of the US, depending on the country.Depends on your country (Belgium I guess???), but several countries do seem to have their own interpretation of numbers and statistics. Just look how to they calculate inflation. For computers and such, the use the inverse of Moore's Law for the relative weight. They've seemed to have missed out on increased system requirement of modern software.
If everyone had jumped on the boat 10 years ago, it might have. But that didn't happen.
XML is too difficult, and allows abuse/over-use too easy. Personally, I love it, but I'm a minority. The other key-factor is that there is simply no short term need for it in many places. Or better, the need for it isn't recognized by the majority. Pragmatic solutions have a tendency to win over new revolutionary ones.
Won't be a cold war, rather a warm one. The US (and most western countries) depend too much on China for a mass of consumer goods and China has enough foreign funds to subvert a currencies exchange rate. A cold war isn't an option.
Works great. I actually had the whole privacy-discussion with someone once and lost. Later I learned that the person in question had cheated on his/her partner. Next time we met, I suggested that it would be a good idea if governments set up a system to track cheating, adultery and promiscuity (not really doable, but with some difficult words, complex sentences and exaggerated claims of technical feasibility, you can convince non-techies) and make that information available to the public and usable in divorce-cases. Morally justifiable, democratically feasible (well, not really; most people don't cheat, but quite a few want the possibility) and people have, of course, nothing to hide.
You can probably guess the reaction...
OpenDNS already offers most of these services, for free... Downside is, that if you look at their Terms of Service, they might also block things you don't ask for (e.g. p2p-sites and such). But for businesses, it should be fairly safe.
I seriously doubt that the next major conflict will take 28 years to develop, especially reading between the lines of events in the last 5 years. Most likely not within 10 years, but I doubt that it will take as long as 20 years plus. Access to energy and raw materials is slowly becoming an issue for certain large (would-be) superpowers, a financial crisis is still looming around the corner and a renewed arms race is in the making. Not recipes for a better world. Planning this technology with a time-span of 10 to 28 years is both silly technology-wise and strategically naive. The technology for shooting satellites out of the sky is already here and I'm pretty sure adversaries can (and will) develop weapons-systems to shoot Hypersonic Jets out of the sky within that time-frame. News like this only confirms (to me) that the US is losing its strategic and technological advantage though how on earth they the manage to do so with their budget beats me. Though I do remember some history lessons about empires falling apart after having spent too much money on occupations...
They (and others) already were! Philips stated that it was willing to sue anyone using the CD-logo for trademark infringement, if they did not conform to the Red Book standard (mandatory if you want to use the logo,). There also was a class action lawsuit brought by consumers to various companies using the logo without adhering to the specs.
...an opportunity to stand up, relax and breath some fresh air... Agreed, but when fueling, the vapors from the fuel/gasoline don't exactly provide me with fresh airDoubt it. Some people don't like or don't know how (!) to fuel their car. In fact, I know several people who always visit the same gas station simply because it still has a gas attendant (a rarity here in the Netherlands, though 20 years ago it was quite common). Seeing that more and more gas stations here are becoming unmanned entirely (saves you up to 10 eurocent per liter), why not a Gas filling robot? You can stay in your car where it is warm, where you can listening to your favorite radio station, eat a sandwich or drink a refreshment, make a quick call, program the GPS, look through some papers, read your mail, etc, etc. It sound silly at first, but those 5 minutes can be pretty useful at times. Not to mention that it is better for your health as well.
Stardock understands the people who play GC. They listen to the community, put in hard work in making every release/expansion pack well worth your money and you can pre-order which gives you access to the beta (and allows you to give feedback during development) and saves you a couple of dimes. I've purchased/pre-ordered them all and I don't regret it, even though I could have just downloaded it for "free". I just don't mind paying for value.
I'll take my chances with *BSD.
Windows Vista is Windows 6, Windows 2000 was Windows 5, and XP was 5.1 . Windows 7 is just the version and not the name. I'm sure the marketing-department will come up with a slick fancy name this year. My vote goes to Windows Vista XP (or Windows Vista NG) :-)
Unfortunately, 80% of the people seem to be unable in seeing subtle nuances. In fact, I doubt that subtlety or nuance is part of their vocabulary.
Of course, there is the 19% that does, but because they are the minority and generally express themselves in a subtle delicate and sophisticated manner, get ignored by the previous 80%.
Leaves us with 1% left. They have read the book and see the projected future as either inevitable or a great opportunity. And figure it is best for 99% of the population if they control this "gradual attrition of human rights via subtle nuances and ideals put in place by the powers that be". Which happens to be them in the first place.
What made you think we were in control of human development in the first place?