Slashdot Mirror

What MAFIAA wants is an online world where no one can do nothing - yes, that's what they are after

I don't think so. I think that what *AA are after is a world where everyone who ever uses any sort of "content" (listens to any sort of sound ; reads any sort of word ; views any sort of image ; smells any sort of scent ; tastes any sort of taste ; feels any sort of texture ; has any sort of sensation), then the "owner" of that content gets paid immediately, and that any "reuse" of that content (including by re-experiencing the content in one's memory) also incurs (and actually pays) a fee.

We don't (yet) have much technology relevant to the textures and sensations, or to controlling or detecting the use of in-skull memory to replay. YET.

• Sound and image (static ; moving ; 3d-moving) and word content control we're very familiar with already;
• scent copyrighting (perfume etc) and counterfeiting is well known though not so many people think of it as being the same issue ;
• taste copyrighting and control ... is much more distributed, but the Mc-PizzaHut-Donald-Heinz-Kraft conglomerate (I tried to think of a non-American food conglomerate, but can't. Oh, sorry, Nestle ; half-Swiss?) are clearly working along this axis (warning signs that "home cooking is killing the food industry" are coming to a saucepan shop near you!). In the (unlikely) event that Star Trek-esque food replicators ever exist, someone, somewhere is going to want to get paid for using their "recipe" for "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." ;
• texture content control ... well, clothing companies are very picky about the feel of their fabrics ; there was that fuss a short while ago about the "shark skin" swimming suits, which is (partly) a textural issue. This will grow. When programmable textures (smart fabrics that can alter their stiffness, warmth, etc under the control of digital content) become available, then there will be content wars over this too. Haptic technology is crawling in this direction, and we see reports here regularly.
• Put that together with teledildonics, and it won't be long before the porn industry starts to sell the experience of, say, a blow job from $porn star$, for a one-time use fee of $currency$. And then wants to charge you again for a repeat performance.

(Actually ... on that tangent, it might be that the girls and receptive guys might get the teledildonics experience first, because the equipment may be simpler and probably cheaper. Doing a quantum of research and "There also exists a DIY community experimenting with teledildonics, centered on opendildonics.org, the Slashdong blog and the Arse Elektronika conference." Oh dear, I'm not sure I want to pursue those links any further. NOT SAFE until the wife goes to the gym.)

Remote control of sufficiently flexible chemistry sets to make-on-download this odour molecule, or that taste molecule, then deliver it ... that's a difficult problem. But lab-on-a-chip is a real, existing technology, so I'd class it as a "difficult" problem, but not necessarily "impossible".

It's not just "get paid a fortune..." Every bit of space is advertising and real estate to be sold. Some of it is to instill name recognition. Does the average end user really care that the CPU is Intel or AMD? Nope. Do they care if it has a nVidia or ATI video card? Not really. They care about the price tag, and does it show web pages. If you ask your average consumer what they use their computer for, they'll tell you they check their email, and look at web pages.

    The box and case are the initial advertising space.

    The virtual space inside the box is worth an awful lot more. Some of the pay just to be included as part of the install. Some don't pay at all, but pay out on conversions. You don't think the 90 day "free" trial of Symantec/Norton [package of the week] if really free. Nope, when sucker consumer sees the warning of "oh my gosh, I'm not protected", and they whip out their credit card, part goes to the software vendor, and part goes to .. you guessed it, the hardware vendor. It makes selling that $99 computer for $499.95 that much easier on the profit margin. Who wants to only make a 400% markup, when they can get a 1000% markup through software conversions over the life of the machine. And whee, they get name loyalty to boot. I bought a HP computer, so I should have a HP camera, and HP printer, and HP dildonics port. ... and that's why every freakin' inch of real estate, inside and outside of the machine is branded, logo'd, and sold to the highest bidder.

    And hell, with enough crapware installed, you may be completely disappointed with your new purchase, and bring it right back to the store for the bigger, better, faster model instead. It'd be like buying a new subcompact car with lead weights in the trunk. Hell, who'd drive that? No one. So you'll upgrade to the faster "Urban Assault Battlewagoneer"(tm) !

http://wiki.opendildonics.org/Main_Page#Categories It happens still.

Nope, he's got an average looking computer with a fufme and some porn.

What's a fufme? It's the primary method of sexual intercourse for Slashdot!

http://wiki.opendildonics.org/index.php?title=Fufme

This is great! A group of geeks who can't get dates, using the power of open source, to make sure they never will.

Imagine the sex games this will make possible. Those SPEs are very good at compression and will make responsive netplay with dildonics a reality. Dildonics systems are still fairly primitive for both males and females at the this point, but there is plenty of money to be made for portable equipment that can emulate penetration from bother perspectives. It's just a matter of when.

Holy crap, I want one NOW!

The idea is not new, and there is even an open source application (and as an open source developer, let me say: it's about time that we can touch each other without proprietary protocols).

http://opendildonics.org/

-Ben

GPL Cyber Dildonics.
But does your dildo Run Linux? Yes!
In Soviet Russia you fuck the microsoft.
Insert Beowulf cluster of dildos here.... err I mean insert Beowulf cluster of dildos joke here.

Get your Chicken Fucker wavs/mp3s here

Fowl play foreplay is foul play.

-