Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 03:03 AM EDT |
Crovitz’s story is based on a profound misunderstanding of not only
history, but technology.
Most egregiously, Crovitz seems to confuse the
Internet—at heart, a set of protocols designed to allow far-flung computer
networks to communicate with one another—with Ethernet, a protocol for
connecting nearby computers into a local network.
(Robert Metcalfe, a
researcher at Xerox PARC who co-invented the Ethernet protocol, today tweeted
tongue-in-cheek “Is it possible I invented the whole damn
Internet?”)
Michael Moyer, Scientific
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 04:40 AM EDT |
English version of Treaty pdf 13pp 47kB.
There's some scary
metaphysics in there too.
Article 6. Economic Rights of
Performers in their Unfixed
Performances
Performers shall enjoy the
exclusive right of authorizing, as regards their performances:
(i) the
broadcasting and communication to the public of their unfixed performances
except where
the performance is already a broadcast performance;
and
(ii) the fixation of their unfixed
performances.
[...]
Article 11. Right of Broadcasting and
Communication to the Public
(1) Performers shall enjoy the exclusive right
of authorizing the broadcasting and communication
to the public of their
performances fixed in audiovisual
fixations.
[...]
Broadcasting means dissemination by
wireless including satellite, and
communication to the public means
dissemination by means other than broadcasting. So
giving performers the sole
right to authorize broadcast of their recordings sounds like power to the
people, but my golly, how's it gonna work? The agents still take the cake like
they do now?
Now 6 (ii) is pure magic. I've worked in that trade,
and clairvoyance is in invisible ink
on most job specifications. I've often had
requests the morning after for a recording of some
performance that was not
supposed to be recorded, and what happens is a post facto legitimisation
of a
bootleg. But outnumbering that three to one are the requests to unfix a fixed
performance, i.e.
destroy the recording of a bad gig. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: designerfx on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
they're just saying the don't own shares in IV, basically.
That as you noted, PJ, doesn't mean that they don't have *have
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 12:04 PM EDT |
Like the article says, why and how? What is the purpose of banning this? Also,
how can they stop anyone from enabling the hot spot on their phone??? On who's
authority is this happening? What gives them the right to interfere with public
communications? It seems they've gotten a bit too powerful lately. In one news
item I read recently, bill boards from other than official sponsors are being
covered up. What about the rights of those who paid for those signs?
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
The article is saying Apple sold 1.3 million TVs versus Microsoft's 1.1
million Xp Box 360 sales in the last quarter, but how many XBoxes did
Microsoft give away to promote their phone sales?
I think the game consol market could be collapsing faster than realized.
This along with considerably reduced demand for PCs could put a dent
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 05:47 AM EDT |
<a
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/25/microsoft_paten
t_deal_amdocs/">
Amdocs Software Systems is paying Microsoft to license
undisclosed Redmond patents in a deal that "provides mutual
access to each company’s patent portfolio".
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:36 AM EDT |
US lobby group
Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay are joining forces
to create a powerful pro-internet lobbying group in the US.
The
Internet Association, as the group will be known, will launch in September and
operate out of Washington, handling political and regulatory
issues....
The group would "educate" lawmakers about the internet, said
new president Michael Beckerman.
[PJ: Thank heaven someone will educate
them. I only wish we could have a tech school for judges too.] - BBC News
But do you really want Facebook educating the lawmakers about
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:36 AM EDT |
My list:
1) Get rid of Microsoft! It's heart is not designed for
security and anywhere security conflicts with ease of use, ease of use always
wins. In short: Security is an after-thought.
2) Recognize the upfront
costs of implementing proper appropriate security is far less expensive in the
long run then paying for the security issues later.
In a nutshell, based on
my own experiences and observations :)
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 12:29 PM EDT |
Good, this means that with a timely ruling, their add campaign will be just in
time for Christmas shopping.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 07:50 PM EDT |
Once again confirming my theory that Ballmer doesn't think Nokia is colapsing
fast enough. Elop has been ordered to accelerate the process.
Gotta get those patents before the EU dings em over the browser technical
glitch, so as to prevent the competition from gaining ground while M$ flails
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- Not much left - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 08:10 PM EDT
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