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From Gary Nolan's (L) recent FoxNews Interview:

ASMAN:
Let me just stop you right there. You are here to
say that the first thing you do as president is eliminate the IRS?

NOLAN:
No. I didnt say that, David, what I said is we have to reduce the size of the federal government and reduce spending and get rid of the IRS

ASMAN:
So you would eliminate the IRS?

NOLAN:
Eventually, yes, absolutely.

The Fark tags only apply to stories, comments are mostly unmoderated. BTW, a dumbass wouldn't have written Open TotalFark (screenshot)

The Fark tags only apply to stories, comments are mostly unmoderated. BTW, a dumbass wouldn't have written Open TotalFark (screenshot)

84 percent?

Mod me down, I have too much karma.

I'm surprised I beat the Onion on such an obvious parody. Meh.

Using your brain to store music: A Napster In The Making?

Hi, I wanted to waste some karma, so here's a link to my site, please mod down. /offtopic

That's because you have no concept of parody or satire. I have received no trouble from either United Media or Google after I did a parody of the google/dilbert logo week.

I'm pretty sure I was the first to preview this movie, I collected scraps from the Warner Bros cutting room floor and was able to piece together an in-depth review:

http://www.stephenvandyke.com/?p=article&id=21 06

You're getting warmer...

Using your brain to store music: A Napster In The Making?

I have seen the new Matrix, and it sucks. Thank-you, come again!

I interviewed her a while back, what a total bitch.

There was an article on this a few months ago, also with Scott McNealy's quip about privacy being dead. I wrote my own short expose on it as well, so I figure I'll just link to it instead of regurgitating it all over a comment.

I'm kind of curious how other people feel about being a private citizen (always using aliases, fake names, online) -vs- being a public citizen (never hiding your true identity or information. Don't get me wrong, there will always be privacy at a certain extent because of security (bank accounts, credit card info), but is it really necessary to hide everything?

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Using your brain to store music:
A Napster In The Making?
reporting source: http://www.stephenvandyke.com/main/?d=2088

As if the music industry doesn't already have its share of digital headaches, it may have a new source of potential copyright infringement to contend with: human memory.

A British Internet monitoring startup calls the ability of the human brain to store music "another Napster in the making" and says the industry may be losing more than $1 trillion a day in related royalties.

Envisional Ltd., which sells software and services for monitoring intellectual-property rights violations, discovered the potential infringement while doing an MP3-related research project for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

Co-founder and chief operating officer Ben Coppin said the company decided to pursue the research on its own.

Studies have shown that the human brain can store over 30 terabytes of information, and there are currently no copyright protections in place that allow recording artists to recover these financial losses due to downloading and sharing. The most common form of uploading was through auditory senses, or the ears.

Coppin said record labels are entitled to 7.5 cents for each memory and song in a person's brain that uses copyrighted material, but industry sources couldn't confirm that figure.

Envisional arrived at its estimate of potential losses based on analyst research indicating that very few individuals with brains who are paying the required royalties. Coppin said he considers his firm's estimate to be "rough," but adds that "our feeling is that it's fairly conservative."

He said Envisional has had discussions with multiple, well-known music labels about taking the research further.

Webnoize Inc. analyst Ric Dube said storing music in the human brain is becoming big business, particularly in Asia and other regions where humans have bigger heads and can store the music much easier.

The storage of copyrighted memories, Dube said, could present a revenue opportunity for the labels.

Meanwhile, Gartner analyst P.J. McNealy said concerns surrounding music memories aren't about to take on the magnitude of file sharing, at least not until streaming technologies allow flawless playback from the brain. He went on to explain that quite simply, many people just can't sing.

"I don't see the [Recording Industry Association of America] launching a round of lawsuits," said McNealy. "But rest assured we have the technology to stop these offenders, it's very easy to perform a lobotomy."

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