everyone thinks google would know better because they are google. google knows everything.
who do you ask when you don't know something? google.
where do you turn when you can't find something? google.
where do people tell you to go when you ask a stupid question? google.
This is why I do not let my law firm use Skype and probably has something to do with why the government won't allow it either. It's called confidentiality; we cannot have government secretes flowing through random computers around the world for that traffic to possibly be sniffed.
the DOD has non-classified equipment, denoted by green stickers, and classified equipment, denoted by red stickers.
they do the same thing with unsecured phones, and secured (cryptographic) phones. in certain circles it's normal for people to work the phrase "this line is unsecured" into the telephone greeting.
there's also the playboy app, which is all the predominantly white hetero-normative porn you will ever need with the added bonus of being from a big corporation from california.
speaking of apps from big california corps, when does the google talk app come out for the ipod touch?
i have a friend who does this with his CDs. if you buy the download or a physical CD, he will sell you additional CDs for less because you already bought the content.
if you can find a bookstore that will work with you in this manner, then go for it.
HTC didn't have the money to fight in court, like google, apple, or motorola would and/or HTC's previous partnership with MS gives MS something to point at and declare infringement.
once you rope HTC into a deal, even if no money changes hands, you can then declare victory. if google or apple call you out, you just retort by saying "if our claim is invalid, why did HTC settle?
you are suppose to suffer for your art, selling t-shirts and miniputt games and giving away your lifes work for free. ebooks are just information and information wants to be free. they need to just give it away for free and go out on speaking tours and hawking fan ware.
you can either give it away or have it given away for you. it doesn't matter what you do, the market already decided. you can either get on board or continue to tilt at windmills.
pro tip: if you give it away yourself, you have a shot at making some money. if someone gives it away for you, you are guaranteed to not make anything.
So the 3D aspect of the film is not a contributing factor to the bump in attendance.
i went to see fellowship of the ring something like 4 times in the theater. the last time i saw it was after it was out on DVD because they ran the trailer for the two towers at the end.
i also paid to see the extended dvd editions of fellowship and the two towers in the theater on the night the return of the king premiered at an event called trilogy tuesday.
i also went to the 25th anniversary screening of "war games" in the theater with a bunch of my hacker buddies.
the theater for me is all about the social aspect and is never about the availability of the film.
your phone company is wires distance support networking, scale. its all a question of scale and how much bandwidth they can commit to. linode is selling you bandwidth at or below their cost hoping you dont use it all. business is predicated on probably 20% usage average.
yeah, wires that were run with government subsidy. wires that i have to pay an additional $25 a month for telephone service in order to access. not really seeing the hardship for the phone company here.
if the phone company can't handle me using their service, how is that my problem?
yes but free and legal content typically doesnt flow twice. half of the cost is picked up by the company / site / service that provides that legal content.
assuming you are talking about seeding once a download finishes, it's pretty tough to hit a 2.0 ratio (2 mb uploaded for every 1mb pulled down) unless you are seeding something rare and popular (like a 0day release), and even then, whomever you are seeding to is paying for their bandwidth as well.
it can take months to break even on a big download, which is why all the FAQ's on private trackers tell you to wait and download big releases from public trackers.
eliminating p2p communications would cut a great deal of bandwidth off of each ISPs bill without reducing any of the free and legal content online.
based on my smoothwall statistics, i have pulled down 89gb of data in the 35 days my router has been up. i have uploaded 45gb in that same time for a total of 134gb of transfer. i have DSL and i pay $40 a month for 5mbit down and 1mbit up. i never see those speeds, but that's another story. i download gobs of stuff via bittorrent plus my family streams stuff from netflicks, plays xbox live, steam, and a couple of MMO's, plus i have a VOIP phone systems with 3 trunks in addition to the POTS telephone line. with all of that stuff, i would say my connection is maxed out pretty much 24/7.
i also have a linode hosted virtual private server that i pay $20 a month for and get 200gb of transfer each month. now, assuming that linode sells me transfer at cost (which i doubt) and that they don't charge me anything for the VPS itself (which i also doubt), then the linode price for bandwidth is 10gb per 1$.
let's compare that to the $45 per month i spend on DSL for 134gb of transfer, which comes out to 2.97gb per 1$. now, i know the phone company has other costs besides bandwidth, but is a 3 fold markup compared to a datacenter really justified?
the telephone network has a bunch of stuff built into it behind the scenes for billing and peering and whatnot. one example is ANI. it's easy to fake/spoof callerID and virtually impossible to spoof ANI.
i have long advocated for a pass that i can pay for that just lets me do what i do now, which is download anything i can get my hands on, but i get to do it in the open.
staying under the radar is easy to do, it's just inconvenient. using encrypted connections, private trackers, ip blockers, and all that other stuff makes downloading slow and/or inconvenient.
i would love to just pay someone (my isp, the MAFIAA, whomever) $10 or $20 a month for the copyright equivalent of diplomatic immunity. where every time my ISP gets a nastygram about something i have downloaded they/i can look up my registration, see that it's valid, and go bother someone else.
it's a voluntary fee, not blanket or compulsory one, and people who don't want to pay, don't download, or don't want their money going to someone they dislike can just not pay.
the same infrastructure that is in place to spy on me and my downloads could be used to find non-payers AND collect marketing data... think of nielsen ratings/billboard pop charts for movies, tv shows, software, books, etc. based on what's being downloaded.
the info could also be used to distribute royalties via ASCAP and all the other places.
On the post: Why Do People Keep Insisting That Google Has A Better Idea What's Infringing Than Viacom?
pretty obvious to me
who do you ask when you don't know something? google.
where do you turn when you can't find something? google.
where do people tell you to go when you ask a stupid question? google.
On the post: Cable TV Won't Lose To The Internet Because It's Making Too Much Money?
WTF is cable?
i watch all my favorite network and TV shows for free without commercials and i have been doing it for years.
On the post: Congress May Finally Be Allowed To Use Skype To Talk To Constituents
Re: Constituents?
the DOD has non-classified equipment, denoted by green stickers, and classified equipment, denoted by red stickers.
they do the same thing with unsecured phones, and secured (cryptographic) phones. in certain circles it's normal for people to work the phrase "this line is unsecured" into the telephone greeting.
On the post: Apple Needs To Offer More, Less Porn, Depending Who You Ask
who cares about porn, what about google talk?
there's also the playboy app, which is all the predominantly white hetero-normative porn you will ever need with the added bonus of being from a big corporation from california.
speaking of apps from big california corps, when does the google talk app come out for the ipod touch?
On the post: Mitch Wagner Asks About Ethics Of Downloading Media You Already Paid For
Re: who cares?
On the post: Mitch Wagner Asks About Ethics Of Downloading Media You Already Paid For
Re: Re: Re:
if you can find a bookstore that will work with you in this manner, then go for it.
On the post: Microsoft Suggests Android Violates Its Patents... But Gets HTC To Buy A License
Re: This is completely insane
HTC didn't have the money to fight in court, like google, apple, or motorola would and/or HTC's previous partnership with MS gives MS something to point at and declare infringement.
once you rope HTC into a deal, even if no money changes hands, you can then declare victory. if google or apple call you out, you just retort by saying "if our claim is invalid, why did HTC settle?
On the post: Imitation Isn't Just The Sincerest Form Of Flattery; It Can Be An Important Business Strategy
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
yes! money good! internet bad! kill internet with fire!!
On the post: Random House Realizing That Its Old Contracts Don't Cover Ebooks
Re: Re: Re: Publisher? Who cares?
you can either give it away or have it given away for you. it doesn't matter what you do, the market already decided. you can either get on board or continue to tilt at windmills.
pro tip: if you give it away yourself, you have a shot at making some money. if someone gives it away for you, you are guaranteed to not make anything.
On the post: Brazilian Court Fines Google Yet Again Over Anonymous Orkut Message
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Avatar Sees Theater Attendance Bump After DVD Release
Re: Re: Question:
i went to see fellowship of the ring something like 4 times in the theater. the last time i saw it was after it was out on DVD because they ran the trailer for the two towers at the end.
i also paid to see the extended dvd editions of fellowship and the two towers in the theater on the night the return of the king premiered at an event called trilogy tuesday.
i also went to the 25th anniversary screening of "war games" in the theater with a bunch of my hacker buddies.
the theater for me is all about the social aspect and is never about the availability of the film.
On the post: Now, Apparently It's Not Just Content Providers That Are Getting A Free Ride On Broadband Networks, But Consumers Too
Re: Re:
let me break this down for you:
i upload a 1GB file. you download that 1GB file.
i pay comcast to access the internet. you pay time warner.
that's like a whole terabyte of data and disney and AT&T don't make a dime. why is that so hard for you to understand?
On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail
Re: Re: Speak with your $$
they should just sack up and do it then.
On the post: Ubisoft's Despised DRM Continues To Annoy, Fail
Re: Re:
so what if they had a record breaking year of sales! if it weren't for pirates stealing everything, they would have had a record-breakinger year!
On the post: Now, Apparently It's Not Just Content Providers That Are Getting A Free Ride On Broadband Networks, But Consumers Too
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
yeah, wires that were run with government subsidy. wires that i have to pay an additional $25 a month for telephone service in order to access. not really seeing the hardship for the phone company here.
if the phone company can't handle me using their service, how is that my problem?
On the post: Now, Apparently It's Not Just Content Providers That Are Getting A Free Ride On Broadband Networks, But Consumers Too
Re: Re: Re:
assuming you are talking about seeding once a download finishes, it's pretty tough to hit a 2.0 ratio (2 mb uploaded for every 1mb pulled down) unless you are seeding something rare and popular (like a 0day release), and even then, whomever you are seeding to is paying for their bandwidth as well.
it can take months to break even on a big download, which is why all the FAQ's on private trackers tell you to wait and download big releases from public trackers.
eliminating p2p communications would cut a great deal of bandwidth off of each ISPs bill without reducing any of the free and legal content online.
based on my smoothwall statistics, i have pulled down 89gb of data in the 35 days my router has been up. i have uploaded 45gb in that same time for a total of 134gb of transfer. i have DSL and i pay $40 a month for 5mbit down and 1mbit up. i never see those speeds, but that's another story. i download gobs of stuff via bittorrent plus my family streams stuff from netflicks, plays xbox live, steam, and a couple of MMO's, plus i have a VOIP phone systems with 3 trunks in addition to the POTS telephone line. with all of that stuff, i would say my connection is maxed out pretty much 24/7.
i also have a linode hosted virtual private server that i pay $20 a month for and get 200gb of transfer each month. now, assuming that linode sells me transfer at cost (which i doubt) and that they don't charge me anything for the VPS itself (which i also doubt), then the linode price for bandwidth is 10gb per 1$.
let's compare that to the $45 per month i spend on DSL for 134gb of transfer, which comes out to 2.97gb per 1$. now, i know the phone company has other costs besides bandwidth, but is a 3 fold markup compared to a datacenter really justified?
On the post: Telcos Still Pretending Google Gets "Free Ride"
Re: Re: google voice has sadly been countered
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification
On the post: Telcos Still Pretending Google Gets "Free Ride"
Re: google voice has sadly been countered
Well, the numbers for google voice are landline.
that's a good thing. that's what competition is for.
now google will counter, and the telcos will counter, and in the end we the customer end up paying less than we did before google voice came along.
On the post: The Future Of Content: Protection Is In The Business Model -- Not In Technology
sounds like the "piracy pass"
i've mentioned it here:
http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100119/0345287810#c272
and here:
http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081209/0144083060#c262
and here:
http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100129/0630057974#c1094
staying under the radar is easy to do, it's just inconvenient. using encrypted connections, private trackers, ip blockers, and all that other stuff makes downloading slow and/or inconvenient.
i would love to just pay someone (my isp, the MAFIAA, whomever) $10 or $20 a month for the copyright equivalent of diplomatic immunity. where every time my ISP gets a nastygram about something i have downloaded they/i can look up my registration, see that it's valid, and go bother someone else.
it's a voluntary fee, not blanket or compulsory one, and people who don't want to pay, don't download, or don't want their money going to someone they dislike can just not pay.
the same infrastructure that is in place to spy on me and my downloads could be used to find non-payers AND collect marketing data... think of nielsen ratings/billboard pop charts for movies, tv shows, software, books, etc. based on what's being downloaded.
the info could also be used to distribute royalties via ASCAP and all the other places.
On the post: Publisher Warns Fans That Liking A Book Too Much May Be Illegal
Re: Re: Re: WTF?
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