A new way of delivering information to a phone would be to have a barcode that streams information in binary form - this means you could point your phone at a video and the phone would capture the binary (or another method) to actually receive the information directly, say an app or other information.
It may not even need to be a video but it could be a GIF or even flash format.
To increase security PS3 control pads should store a small amount of user information - mainly a username. Only if you use one of the seven possible pads that are synced with the system can you login with the username that is attached to them.
eg:
If your pad contains the user name "thekb" then you can only login to the PSN service as "thekb" using this control pad (or one of the oher 6 you may or may not have but have been synced at one point or another.)
This would increase security dramatically and would also cut down on piracy where friends share their games as unless the friends are actually friends and visit each other, then they will not be able to download their stuff from each other.
If the idea takes of I want credit!
Often I send messages on PSN to friends about games, past, present and future. It would be nice if the PSN service could automatically link game names so that friends could click the name to view its information.
This could work like Facebook where you use the @ symbol and start typing the name.
There should be a singular portal for students to visit where they can get all the information about the options open to them to study further.
The portal could gain information directly from educationally bodies and allow students to use one form to gain all the information and enrol if they want to.
Ok so I appreciate there were many people who suffered terribly due to the disruption to flights caused by the volcanic ash. Funerals were missed, weddings, celebrations and worst of all I guess some people didn't get the chance to say goodbye. However, with enough warning - 2 years should be enough - why can't we have a no fly time every year, every month, every week even? People could plan to get to where they need well in advance, the effect on the environment would be positive and, most of all people would APPRECIATE the world in which we live, where you can fly to the otherside of the world in 24 hours, speak to someone a thousand miles away, get information on anything, instantly.
I think we take too much for granted in the west and instead of whining when things go wrong why don't we be more grateful for this amazing place and all the people in it and enjoy it?
Cars should have wireless built into them and be able to communicate with each other. The cars can act as wireless extenders sending a wireless Internet signal from car to car for all to use, for such things as Internet radio or pornography.
It could also be used to transfer information about traffic via the Internet that can help others.
Outdated copyright, libel and censorship laws threaten a free , fair
and safe internet. This issue also involves protecting/funding quality
and balance in media/arts.
Drastic changes to copyright, libel and censorship laws needed to maintain democracy in the internet age!
The internet user protection directive.
THE ISSUE: The copyright, censorship and libel laws throughout the
European Union were devised before the internet, and indeed from before
recorded media. In order to protect freedom, privacy and intellectual
property the very concepts have to be redefined. This problem has
caused the following effects:
a) Due to the internets non-geographical nature, libel and other
types of defamation legislation whether criminal or civil become almost
randomly defined. Not just on the jurisdiction either- similar
variation exists from court to court, as to the sentencing which can
often vary from community service to a hefty jail sentence for the same offence
Libel is interesting because it concerns both privacy and freedom of
information issues. On one hand, it is very important to protect the
right of a person or group to not have their social lives, reputations
or careers harmed by false or misleading stories.
On the other hand, we have the right to know of any misdemeanours
concerning public figures, powerful figures or enterprises that we
might be dealing with. And surely we dont want children (or young
minded adults) barred from talking about the latest playground rumour
about their favourite celebrities. Of course, this has huge
implications for the culture of Satire which lightens heavy
topics, as well as providing the entertainment that we have enjoyed
since Shakespeare and before. Do we want a world where truth is defined
by having the most expensive lawers?
This suggests that the only alternative to draconian censorship or
outright anarchy is a targeted enforcement of defamation legislation.
Such a move would involve limiting all forms of defamation prosecutions
and lawsuits to cases where profit, gain or malice could be reasonably
proven. As well as targeting the police and courtroom costs,
essentially a finite resource, this brings the definition of free
speech to the general public consensus. That is, it is acceptable to
use all forms of free speech, without knowingly harming others with
ones words.
b) Due again to the multi-jurisdictional nature of the internet, and
the lack of co-operation between government authorities and rival
software manufacturers, there is no coherent approach to the issue of
properly censoring potentially offensive material on the internet.
Fruitless effort is poured in to shutting down illegal or ethically questionableâ websites, FTP sites and chatrooms. What is
more important, and more achievable is preventing children and the
easily offended from accessing this material by accident or curiosity.
As internet content is less rigidly controlled than the film, print or
music industry, state censorship would be unworkable. However requiring
all content creators to self rate their material on the same
grounds as a DVD , could be achieved. Failure to rate correctly could
be made a criminal offence. Software could be designed with a
standardised content-rating system which would allow safer family
enjoyment and warning properly displayed if the content was of a nature
that could easily offend.
c) The enforcement and management of copyright law is impractical under
current legislation. Digital media makes copying and converting media a
matter of mouse clicks. All forms of a digital rights management
systems are crackable- almost all of the worlds governments
strictly forbid the commercial use of such sophisticated cipher
technology on national security grounds. Also, to severely restrict the
right of distribution of multimedia products is a violation of the
rights of independent media producers who wish to use the internet as a
showcase for there talent,. Perhaps even more importantly, make the
films and records that Hollywood don’t want you to watch or hear.
This amounts to a violation of the basic rights of free expression.
Producers of multimedia content of any kind need to be remunerated for
their efforts. It is not a cheap or time-free affair to produce music,
books or films even as a hobby. The people who make the TV and movies
we enjoy are morally entitled to a fair degree of contribution toward
financing their art from their audience.
There are two ways of improving the situation. Firstly, there needs to
be the replacement of copy protection to copyright watermarking.
Any uploads to the internet of copyright material would have to be
digitally watermarked with a copyright license. This would allow
media producers to tract their digital assets across the
internet. Any enterprise attempting to extract profit or gain out of
copyrighted work would be obliged to pay a reasonable surcharge.
However, copyright holders should only have the access to details of
private domestic internet account holders in the event of uploads of
copyright material. This is because it is impossible for a user to
distinguish legal from illegal download sites and servers. Nor until
the completion of the download is it possible to accurately determine
whether the material is copyright and which licence it is subject to.
It needs to be an offence to upload copyrighted material until one year
old onto the internet unless authorised to do so by the copyright
holder. One year because of the pace at which the online community
moves. Conventional copyright rules involves terms of between fifty and
one hundred years. This is impractical due to the nature of the sheer
volume of material available on line. It is most important to protect
the livelihoods of those currently active in the industry, as this
represents the media industry’s future. Other than that condition,
like libel, copyright enforcements against domestic internet users
should be considered only in cases of profit, gain or malice. Again,
this is not a case so much of a liberal approach, but a practically and
fairly enforceable one.
The issue of filesharing could be handled via a surcharge per gigabyte
of copyrighted, unlicenced media download, with a clearing house system
estimating from the details provided by watermarking and
reimbursing the copyright royalties to the appropriate holder. The ISP
would be surcharged by the copyright authorities as opposed to the end
user to protect privacy. This would allow the end user to choose an ISP
package that reflects their downloading habits. Those who download or
share copyright material would need to be on a higher tariff than those
who do not to cover the surcharge costs.
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