Didn't Google already troll Microsoft via proxy with those parents before they let go of Motorola...something about wireless antenne and of course the video compression standard H.264?
Android is a Unix-based operating system...Kernal stays the same while the shell is custom by distributor....
One of the differences between Unix and Linux is that Linux is merely a kernel that you build your own operating system on...while Unix is a a whole kernal and operating system where you make the shell...
Unix isn't covered under GNU licensing because even if it's free, but you're paying for support....which is why Linus Torvalds created Linux...Linux allows for a community support and is liscensed under GNU...
Inside joke amongst the staff at the NSA is "Never Say Anything" because their bosses merely tell them coordinance points to listen in on...and they are NOT allowed to question those orders of a superior...
That being said, you don't know each individual who was involved in what...it creates a sort of witch hunt for things a person may not have done....Would you blame a person for a person's actions or a groups actions? If you affirmed in the latter, it's the same thing as punishing a class for one perdon's mistakes...
Compromising the inner workings of the counterterrorism programs in the NSA exposes methods that Snowden worked hard to keep classified with his documents...All that effort has gone to waste, puts innocent agents' lives at sever risk, and gives Al Qaida and al-Shabab new ways to avoid us...
It is our responsibility as Americans to say "stop spying on us" so we can do our jobs as citizens and hold our government accountable...It seems that the NYT has done exactly what it always does by breaching this data with names that SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET...Their extreme carelessness means they lack self accountability to the American public and to their fellow mrmbers of the press...all in the name of being "the best".
While the bulk collection of data is inexcusable...Former CIA Director Mike Morell has almost no reason to give that response except that his statement is the standard procedure...The NSA also acts as a National Security Advisor to the other agencies....given that this bulk collection of data is so huge...I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA is trying to abuse such leverage...too bad it's falling apart for other rather useful agencies..
"When we launch it, all of your previously downloaded content will be available to you anytime, anywhere, without the need for an internet connection."
In other words...everything was designed to look like it was being uploaded and downloaded to EA's servers...when it was really squirreled away on your computer...So what that means the "Always Online" bullshit was just exactly that...bullshit/DRM.
Fractured truth yields fractured answer...lots to say...
Mike, one thing I'd like to point out is that we've had several congressional elections since the draft of the PATRIOT Act in general. I can see the data in several different ways because of this.
What I boil the data down to is that it seems that both parties are trying to get each other in trouble with the public for power...
The Democrats spoke out against the changes to the PATRIOT Act and the FISA revision in 2006, and yet they voted in favor of them (including one then Senator from Illinois, Barrak Obama...who by then was working on getting his 2008 presidential campaign going). I remember clearly in the media about how Bush Jr was signing bills that would allow the NSA to spy on us...and how the GOP set it all up....After Obama got elected, major news media outlets went silent about it until Snowden blew the whistle...
Now to the Bush Jr's credit...at heart, he had the idea of protection in mind...I don't think anyone in that current congress (save Nancy Pelosi and Joanne Feinstein) knew how to exploit it to their party's advantage. The two biggest Congrssional lobbyers for the Patriot Act were Pelosi and Feinstein...In my view, they took advantage of the intent of the PATRIOT Act...and lobbied to have it revised to what it l has become...Nancy Pelosi lobbied to keep Section 215 by lobbying against the Smith-Amash Act...
Thing to note on my view is that the biggest sign that there is something up is that all those who were once heads of the Congrsssional Intelligence Committee still majorly support Section 215.
It's infringement because those individual transmissions comprise one performance, in violation of the Transmit Clause.
A performance by legal definition is a TV show, movie, or stage production...being seen on your TV or in the theater...watching a DVD privately is a performance of those that created the movie on it....Aero retransmits the signal to YOUR equipment and nobody else in your PRIVATE residence to you as you PRIVATELY chooses what you want to record and watch...you would be infringing if you put out fliers to complete strangers and charged admission to view your screen of what you recorded....so you are right that it does in fact retransmit the signal to you...but the way it is done is not at all infringing.
Loved that article...I have just encountered a few situations in my observations of people in bars...the 21 to 25 year old age group is less open about themselves in casual, open, honest, conversation and are willing to embellish abo
Once again...I'll make it more simple...because I'm tired of being very explicitly clear...
If you rent the equipment from Aero...it is YOUR equipment...you rent the antenna, and the routers set up as repeaters...but they set it up so that the devices you are renting from them are only accessible by YOUR equipment..that's private...not public. The retransmitted signal is only streamed to you through YOUR antenna...through your routers' signal hops...and cannot be accessed by other Aero users (separate residencies)
If you rent from FilmOn, they use one antenna on the roof to collect the transmission...and rebroadcast the signal globally for anyone to pick up which is a violation of FCC licensing rules ...It is a single source...to multiple users...
This is a painfully obvious difference between the two companies.
Thing is...Aero is using the same methods cable companies do to retransmit signals...by an individual basis through a private (meaning one household at a time) connection.
Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 13th, 2013 @ 6:09pm
You're argument suggests that since you can grab something over the air...you can't stream it to yourself...
The issue to your argument on that is that Aero RENTS its antennae and wifi repeaters individually to each customer...for the customer's (note I used the non-plural possessive there) PRIVATE use...so Aero is basically making money off of renting and setting up each uniquely identifiable device for their customers...it's not a repeat performance when you run a rental service on equipment...
FilmOn may be infringing because it has many users using ONE line...and the DATA IS SHARED amongst the users as opposed to coming into each individual user...
All the appeals courts recognize that difference...
Think on this...Alki David has written, produced, a movie for Sony Pictures Entertainment Corporation which is owned by CBS Broadcasting Corporation....his first acting gig was on Fox Entertainment's (the very Fox Entertainment suing Aero) on the TNT show...The Grid...
Legally...public performance means you are charging people in a public venue to see a movie.... Note a movie...not broadcast transmission...and the reason the public performance argument doesn't work against Aero is due to the fact that they service private individuals...broadcast signals can't even be affected by the public performance because of public pubs and bars showing sports on broadcasted networks...
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One of the differences between Unix and Linux is that Linux is merely a kernel that you build your own operating system on...while Unix is a a whole kernal and operating system where you make the shell...
Unix isn't covered under GNU licensing because even if it's free, but you're paying for support....which is why Linus Torvalds created Linux...Linux allows for a community support and is liscensed under GNU...
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That being said, you don't know each individual who was involved in what...it creates a sort of witch hunt for things a person may not have done....Would you blame a person for a person's actions or a groups actions? If you affirmed in the latter, it's the same thing as punishing a class for one perdon's mistakes...
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It is our responsibility as Americans to say "stop spying on us" so we can do our jobs as citizens and hold our government accountable...It seems that the NYT has done exactly what it always does by breaching this data with names that SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET...Their extreme carelessness means they lack self accountability to the American public and to their fellow mrmbers of the press...all in the name of being "the best".
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What this says to me...
In other words...everything was designed to look like it was being uploaded and downloaded to EA's servers...when it was really squirreled away on your computer...So what that means the "Always Online" bullshit was just exactly that...bullshit/DRM.
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Fractured truth yields fractured answer...lots to say...
What I boil the data down to is that it seems that both parties are trying to get each other in trouble with the public for power...
The Democrats spoke out against the changes to the PATRIOT Act and the FISA revision in 2006, and yet they voted in favor of them (including one then Senator from Illinois, Barrak Obama...who by then was working on getting his 2008 presidential campaign going). I remember clearly in the media about how Bush Jr was signing bills that would allow the NSA to spy on us...and how the GOP set it all up....After Obama got elected, major news media outlets went silent about it until Snowden blew the whistle...
Now to the Bush Jr's credit...at heart, he had the idea of protection in mind...I don't think anyone in that current congress (save Nancy Pelosi and Joanne Feinstein) knew how to exploit it to their party's advantage. The two biggest Congrssional lobbyers for the Patriot Act were Pelosi and Feinstein...In my view, they took advantage of the intent of the PATRIOT Act...and lobbied to have it revised to what it l has become...Nancy Pelosi lobbied to keep Section 215 by lobbying against the Smith-Amash Act...
Thing to note on my view is that the biggest sign that there is something up is that all those who were once heads of the Congrsssional Intelligence Committee still majorly support Section 215.
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A performance by legal definition is a TV show, movie, or stage production...being seen on your TV or in the theater...watching a DVD privately is a performance of those that created the movie on it....Aero retransmits the signal to YOUR equipment and nobody else in your PRIVATE residence to you as you PRIVATELY chooses what you want to record and watch...you would be infringing if you put out fliers to complete strangers and charged admission to view your screen of what you recorded....so you are right that it does in fact retransmit the signal to you...but the way it is done is not at all infringing.
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If you rent the equipment from Aero...it is YOUR equipment...you rent the antenna, and the routers set up as repeaters...but they set it up so that the devices you are renting from them are only accessible by YOUR equipment..that's private...not public. The retransmitted signal is only streamed to you through YOUR antenna...through your routers' signal hops...and cannot be accessed by other Aero users (separate residencies)
If you rent from FilmOn, they use one antenna on the roof to collect the transmission...and rebroadcast the signal globally for anyone to pick up which is a violation of FCC licensing rules ...It is a single source...to multiple users...
This is a painfully obvious difference between the two companies.
Thing is...Aero is using the same methods cable companies do to retransmit signals...by an individual basis through a private (meaning one household at a time) connection.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 13th, 2013 @ 6:09pm
The issue to your argument on that is that Aero RENTS its antennae and wifi repeaters individually to each customer...for the customer's (note I used the non-plural possessive there) PRIVATE use...so Aero is basically making money off of renting and setting up each uniquely identifiable device for their customers...it's not a repeat performance when you run a rental service on equipment...
FilmOn may be infringing because it has many users using ONE line...and the DATA IS SHARED amongst the users as opposed to coming into each individual user...
All the appeals courts recognize that difference...
Think on this...Alki David has written, produced, a movie for Sony Pictures Entertainment Corporation which is owned by CBS Broadcasting Corporation....his first acting gig was on Fox Entertainment's (the very Fox Entertainment suing Aero) on the TNT show...The Grid...
Legally...public performance means you are charging people in a public venue to see a movie.... Note a movie...not broadcast transmission...and the reason the public performance argument doesn't work against Aero is due to the fact that they service private individuals...broadcast signals can't even be affected by the public performance because of public pubs and bars showing sports on broadcasted networks...
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