So who determines what measures fall under the vague umbrella of "reasonable management"?
Whatever "reasonable management" is, it shouldn't be: "Sending forged RST packets to force a connection closed between two peers." That kind of behavior is illegal and should remain so. This is also exactly what Comcast is doing.
Sounds great. What do you do if you're unhappy with the service you get from the giant state-owned monopoly that actually provides your cable connection?
What do you do know if the same thing happens? Replace state-owned monopoly with SBC or Comcast and you have the present day scenario. You have no choice to switch. In his system, you have the choice to use another service provider, maybe one with lower rates or better service. It's exactly the way the power system works in my neighborhood. You can get power from a few different competing companies, but they all run over the same wire.
Most of the stuff people don't like about cable companies in the US results from the lack of local competition.
That's why he's increasing competition in his plan. The status-quo is to have no competition and giant regional monopolies.
Well said my friend. This is called a Natural Monopoly in economics and is well studied. This is why unbundling, which gets marked "regulation" by free market types, actually increases competition.
But then remember you're on Slashdot, so prepare to get modded down.
What U2 and I also understood instinctively from the start was that they had 2 parallel careers first as recording and song writing artists, and second as live performers. They've been phenomenally successful at both. The Vertigo Tour in 2005/2006 grossed $355m and played to 4.6m people in 26 countries.
And yet you have the audacity to demand more money out of the ISP's and consumers.
Universal - U2's label - recently struck a deal with Microsoft that sees it receive a cut of the revenues generated by sales of the Zune MP3 player. It's unfortunate that the Zune hasn't attracted the sort of consumer support that the iPod did. We need more competition.
Funny, I didn't see you insisting on competition when U2 was marketing an exclusive iPod.
Those were the days when iTunes was being talked about as penicillin for the recorded music industry.
I wish he would bring his remarkable set of skills to bear on the problems of recorded music. He's a technologist, a financial genius, a marketer and a music lover. He probably doesn't realize it but the collapse of the old financial model for recorded music will also mean the end of the songwriter. We've been used to bands who wrote their own material since the Beatles, but the mechanical royalties that sustain songwriters are drying up.
Is he actually suggesting that if iTunes succeeds, people will stop writing music? People have been writing music for centuries before recorded music even existed. What's more is I can go to a multitude of pubs within 15 minutes of my apartment and find new music on any given weekend, and it isn't because of mechanical royalties. I guess being in the industry has messed with his mindset, but songwriters don't make a financial decision when deciding become an artist. It isn't like becoming a doctor or an account. They just do it because they like writing and performing. Maybe Bono doesn't fart without getting some kind of contract from Capitol beforehand, but the majority of artists don't have that luxury.
When the volume of illegal movie and music P2P activity was slowing down their network for legitimate users recently in California, Comcast were able to isolate and close down BitTorrent temporarily without difficulty.
And they caught a shit ton of flack for doing so. They also blocked access to legitimate content. Have fun being on the same side as Comcast on that.
So, to conclude - Who's got our money and what can we do?
Your money!? What are you talking about? Just be thankful that you made it all the way to the top. Most artists don't even make it past being a local sensation in their own town. And this guy represents a band that makes millions of dollars a year, in marketing deals, tours, license agreements, etc. I'm sure he is pretty well off as well, yet he wants us to pay more for his bands original content? Someone bring this guy back down to earth.
The old model is dead. Deal with it. You can no longer charge $20 to get that latest single surrounded by 12 songs of fluff. Radiohead may have had to deal with people paying $0 for their new album, but my guess is that they made much more on this album by bypassing the typical studio overhead of having to pay HR people, top dollar executives, and ridiculous marketing fees. Bands can now use Apple's Garage Band to record, mix, and master an album, and then sell it on iTunes without ever having to give up the copyright to their recordings. Welcome to the digital age.
The free market model breaks when dealing with cell phones. The reasons are the network effect and economies of scale. The huge barrier to entry in the cost of infrastructure for cell phone companies keeps any real competition from existing, and thus carriers are able to sell their services at way above cost.
I really don't think this was going to happen. We voted the Dems into the senate precisely so they could fight on important legislation like this; so they could stand firm on principals and keep the executive branch in check. We have at least one senator in Chris Dodd who is fighting this, and it would be political suicide for any Democrat to openly oppose him.
If the Dems do vote pro-NSA on this one, in an election year, then at least we know that they're the spineless bastards we've always suspected them to be.
One final point: This scenario is actually quite reasonable if you assume they're exploiting an application on the attacker's system. There's likely to be exploits against the trojan itself if the binary is available for analysis, or if you can identify exploitable bugs in code shared between the client and server components. There's also the possibility of attacking any services he exposes, or perhaps file parser attacks against whatever he uses to read the content he nabbed. The details of such a counterattack are more complex, but well within the realm of reason.
At this point it ceases to be a trojan. Now you're just running an exploit against the remote service. The (original) attacker doesn't have the ability to accept or reject the malicious code, and the code isn't disguised as a trojan horse.
Sure, early adopters do pave the way for the future. They also usually wind up paying for the pleasure. Did you get the right HD video player? If not it's going to cost you. If you've ever had a reason to buy an HDMI cable, chances are that you've spent many thousands of dollars on electronics in the past few years. Chances are that you're paying for extra HD channels too. Should I as an SDTV user now have to pay extra just because the cable companies can now bundle HD channels in their usual basic package? No, that would be an outrage.
You get what you pay for. If someone doesn't need their high speed connection to be able to download 7 terabytes in a month, they shouldn't have to subsidize the person that does. If you decide that you want to use iTunes or start streaming tons of multimedia online content, then you're going have to pay for 40 or 80 GiB/month package, just like the HDTV user will want to pay for the HDTV package.
This is not limiting progress. The high speed internet connection is still there, and you have the option of buying more transfer. More likely is that this increases high speed adoption by bringing it within the price range of late adopters. And if it doesn't then those guys at Time Warner are bastards (but we already knew that).
So? So, if you want to double the number of CS students and revert to a tough, purist syllabus, all you need to do is replace all the middle school teachers with people who have an interest in the subject and a passion for educating the students, rather than an interest in the paycheck and a passion for the students.
A teacher like the one you mentioned is likely to catch a lot of flack from parents and administrators. This is why immigrants from Asia and Europe usually complain to teachers that they're kids are not getting enough work. First we have to recognize that we baby our children to much, and then we have to make sure that administrators don't just have an interest in the paycheck and do have a passion for the students, and then do what you suggested. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...
And how much do you resemble the average user? Probably not much at all. People want to be able to access their gmail, their online banking, and maybe a news outlet or two. Why should they have to pay for unlimited transfer? Put another way, why should people that use less than 5GiB a month have to subsidize your bandwidth binge? If Cablevision offered to take $20 off my bill to keep under 10Gib/month, I'd certainly consider it.
To many people, most even, the answer's simple: If there's congestion, build more and bigger roads.
The problem is that most people are riding around in Vespas, and you're leading a caravan of tractor trailers. If said road was a toll road (remember Time Warner is a private industry), who would you expect would pay more?
I proposed that a company would obtain the GPL source code for MySQL, compile it, and then SELL the resulting binaries.
This is one of the most famous misconceptions about GPL'ed code. I'm surprised that a slashdot reader with such a low uid (in comparison to mine) doesn't know this. Also, look at what Oracle has done with the Red Hat source (just what you've suggested).
I remember that my dad told me a story about how he was looking at a life expectancy chart released by some insurance company or something. My dad is a music teacher, so naturally the two fields that he looked at were music and teaching. Teaching had one of the highest, and musicians had one of the lowest. Doesn't surprise me what with all the drugs and the shows and the lack of money (most) musicians go through.
What is to keep another company, say NySQL Inc. from taking the source code to MySQL, compiling their own product, and then reselling it? Nothing. You might say "It's illegal!", but that's ONLY in the USA.
Where do you get your information? It is legal to do that in the USA, as long as you adhere to the GPL. Though I suspect MySQL would have an extremely strong case for trademark infringement.
His feet don't 'give him way more energy' than a naturally footed sprinter. They can't. The only energy they store is that which is put there by the runner.
No one here is disputing the first law of thermodynamics. What the article is saying is that the foot allow him to store and release energy more efficiently than a normal calf and ankle would. When a naturally footed sprinter runs some of that energy is probably lost due to the ability for natural feet and ankles to do things like maintain balance and climb stairs. The prosteic feet are designed to do one thing really well, namely run forward. I'm not an expert but this makes sense to me, since your thighs are much stronger than your calf muscles.
I would have no objection as long as he had to keep his running limbs on at all times just like a naturally footed person does.
Ironically the FDA didn't include cloned sheep in the announcement, claiming a lack of data, though the very first cloned animal was a sheep named Dolly.
I hate to correct you, but since the dick rating for doing so is only level 4, I'm going to have to say that this is not actually ironic.
I actually use the thinkpad much in the manner that you describe. Whenever I scroll on my thinkpad, I use my thumb and the touchpad. I just tried using the right thumb to move and the left thumb to click, and I must say that it would take some getting used to, but it works. I have to say though when using the touchpad, I prefer using my index finger, in which case it's a lot easier having the buttons underneath so that I can use my right thumb to click.
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Innotek... don't you mean Initech?
"...and the outcome in Florida would have probably been a lot more clear."
You can't be serious.
Well said my friend. This is called a Natural Monopoly in economics and is well studied. This is why unbundling, which gets marked "regulation" by free market types, actually increases competition.
But then remember you're on Slashdot, so prepare to get modded down.
Who the hell calls him Clemens?
The old model is dead. Deal with it. You can no longer charge $20 to get that latest single surrounded by 12 songs of fluff. Radiohead may have had to deal with people paying $0 for their new album, but my guess is that they made much more on this album by bypassing the typical studio overhead of having to pay HR people, top dollar executives, and ridiculous marketing fees. Bands can now use Apple's Garage Band to record, mix, and master an album, and then sell it on iTunes without ever having to give up the copyright to their recordings. Welcome to the digital age.
The free market model breaks when dealing with cell phones. The reasons are the network effect and economies of scale. The huge barrier to entry in the cost of infrastructure for cell phone companies keeps any real competition from existing, and thus carriers are able to sell their services at way above cost.
I really don't think this was going to happen. We voted the Dems into the senate precisely so they could fight on important legislation like this; so they could stand firm on principals and keep the executive branch in check. We have at least one senator in Chris Dodd who is fighting this, and it would be political suicide for any Democrat to openly oppose him.
If the Dems do vote pro-NSA on this one, in an election year, then at least we know that they're the spineless bastards we've always suspected them to be.
can you say mplayer and ctorrent?
Sure, early adopters do pave the way for the future. They also usually wind up paying for the pleasure. Did you get the right HD video player? If not it's going to cost you. If you've ever had a reason to buy an HDMI cable, chances are that you've spent many thousands of dollars on electronics in the past few years. Chances are that you're paying for extra HD channels too. Should I as an SDTV user now have to pay extra just because the cable companies can now bundle HD channels in their usual basic package? No, that would be an outrage.
You get what you pay for. If someone doesn't need their high speed connection to be able to download 7 terabytes in a month, they shouldn't have to subsidize the person that does. If you decide that you want to use iTunes or start streaming tons of multimedia online content, then you're going have to pay for 40 or 80 GiB/month package, just like the HDTV user will want to pay for the HDTV package.
This is not limiting progress. The high speed internet connection is still there, and you have the option of buying more transfer. More likely is that this increases high speed adoption by bringing it within the price range of late adopters. And if it doesn't then those guys at Time Warner are bastards (but we already knew that).
I remember that my dad told me a story about how he was looking at a life expectancy chart released by some insurance company or something. My dad is a music teacher, so naturally the two fields that he looked at were music and teaching. Teaching had one of the highest, and musicians had one of the lowest. Doesn't surprise me what with all the drugs and the shows and the lack of money (most) musicians go through.
I would have no objection as long as he had to keep his running limbs on at all times just like a naturally footed person does.
You're so subtle that you were able to put the joke in your sig! Well done sir!
Clearly you've never lugged a 6 pound laptop all over the city or a college campus. Your back would definitely thank you for halving that weight.
I actually use the thinkpad much in the manner that you describe. Whenever I scroll on my thinkpad, I use my thumb and the touchpad. I just tried using the right thumb to move and the left thumb to click, and I must say that it would take some getting used to, but it works. I have to say though when using the touchpad, I prefer using my index finger, in which case it's a lot easier having the buttons underneath so that I can use my right thumb to click.