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I'm sure it will be possible to change/hack a farecard soon enough. there are millions of people who use the cards every day, and many of them are nerds/cheep-asses. its only a matter of time.
A few years ago, my roommate and I built a credit card reader/copier for under $10. We copied a few metro passes (magnetic strip, no RFID)just to see if it would work, and we learned that it does, but you can't pass the 'same' card through the system 2 times n a row. my friend got the embarasing warning buzzer, and he was the one with the legetimate pass! they accsed us of doing a passback. we just played dumb. "no we didn't! i made a copy of his card! its right here! try it! see! there was no passback!" is a very bad defence.
we only used it once, just to see if it would work, then destroyed it. My advice is: you should be very careful with this kind of stuff. Not only unethical and wrong, it is also illegal.
while file sharing is doing a great deal of harm to the RIAA, they do still act as a filter, keeping some of the crap down, and marketing what is less crappy.
once there is a system set up that lets users filter content that is as effective as the lables, then they will be really screwed.
imagine an i-slashdot-tunes music service where everyone submits their tunes, people listen, rank and rate them.
i would love to rate songs as being '+1: inspiring' or "-1: disco"
I believe the reason why people are more concerned with guns than swimming pools is that guns only serve one purpose: killing things
on the other hand, a pool's primary reason for existing is not killing things, they are designed for cooling you down on a hot day, teaching swimming skills, providing low impact exercise, assisting with rehab after injury, and getting sexy women into skimpy swimsuits.
I don't think either should be outlawed either. people should just be smart about it. I have a fence around my yard to keep the little bastards out, I have a gate around my pool as a second line of defense, and a fat/hairy brother who spends all day in there drinking beer and listening to metallica, one sight of that and the kids will likely never return.
The UN and WTO are a bit too socialistic for my tastes, but that's just me. I agree with you completely.
really....I do....
Believing that all people are created equal, and that all people are inherently entitled to the same rights and freedoms is such a crazy, un-american idea.
those damned socialists...
Re:Artists should make the most money, not the lab
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The producer of an item should always make more money than any other person involved in the process that sounds great, and i wish it would work like that, but in reality, nothing I have seen in the creative field works like that.
As a visual artist, I deal with galleries, short term contracts and all that crap that has nothing to do with art quite often.
the standard gallery commission is 50%.
If a painting of mine sells for $1000, I get $500, and they get $500. But, I have to pay for the materials myself, so right there, the gallery is making more than I am off of a sale. Some gallery owners are also cheep bastards that expect me to pay for framing. That can easly cost me $250 each, a huge bite out of my profit. But, they do all the promotionm, advertising, even pay for all the food and drinks during the opening. they are the ones paying rent for the gallery space. they deal with all the sales tax. if they want rid of it, and sell it for 50% less, i get all the profits, they get nothing.
50% is a fair cut to me, I make it, I deliver it, and you do the rest, then mail me the cheque. I do not have a problem with that buisness model. I do not want to deal with ANY of that business stuff, and am glad to have someone else deal with it for me. I am not a salesman, but I realize their importance. a 50/50 split is fair. if the artist wants to keep it all, they had better expect to do the business work themselves.
here is where I get confused: the fine art market is tiny, the music market is huge.
but I get 50% of the final sale price. if an album costs the customer $16, why isn't the artist making $8 from that sale?
The music buisness has far too many middlemen. Trim the fat or die. It's that simple.
i got my copy off of the pirate bay, and burnt it to DVD myself, and I have had no problems at all with playback.
another reason to steal rather than going legit?
(p.s. I live in asia, getting legit copies of N.A. films is nearly impossible. I have supported the rest of the seeries by buying all the seasons on DVD)
why do the Canadiens constantly get things right where we can not. As an example, anyone who has ever gone to Niagra falls can tell you that the Canadiens are better than us at almost everything my personal favorite...
Americans have the right to bear arms. Canadian women have the right to bear breasts.
I believe the reason for us getting everything right while the US gets everything wrong, is that section 15 of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms only extends rights to 'actual persons', not 'legal persons' like the US system (corporations are classified as 'legal persons') so we don't have the same problem of having to constantly welcome our evil corporate overlords.
I was on shaw@home for broadband way back when I was in highschool (Y2K-ish), and it was great, I never had a single problem with Shaw.
then Rogers came through our area and took over for shaw.
the day we were switched to rogers@home, download speeds were cut in half, and on average, my internet was down one day a month. soon after, prices shot way up.
rogers was terrible, but the only options in my area were rogers, sympatico, or dial-up, 3 bad options, and rogers was the least bad, so i was stuck with them untill i moved to south korea and got good internet service.
if i were able to use my one remaining mod point in this thread, I would use it to mod that comment +1 funny. (or +1 insightful, which seems to be the current trend regarding funny posts)
Of course, we're now one step closer to making it impossible to detect cheating on tests, and similar scenarios. While teachers will be unable to detect these silent, unvocalized sounds being transmitted through the air, I'm sure the transmitter collar around their neck MIGHT clue them in that something strange is going on.
students will try to hide the neck band under their collar, but teachers will change the rules for attending exams so the device wont be so easy to hide.
outside the exam room, a sign will be posted that reads:
T-shirts only. No turtlenecks allowed!
then teachers will wonder why all essay questions now include penis jokes.
Turns out he was using someone's wifi connection to browse child porn. Imagine having that traced to your ip. Given the current guilty until proven innocent attitude when it comes to crimes against children your likely to lose your house and job before they even bother (if they bother) to find out you were innocent in the first place. 1. you have my IP records. its an open account, no encryption...look at this, (opens.bat file that reveals internet activity) my neighbour, the creepy grade 3 teacher, is using it right now...how strange... 2. you have a list of the material that was downloaded. 3. Here is my hard drive, 4. here are all of my monthly backup disks 5. if you find any of that material, let me know.
the police are people, too. if you are kind, pleasent, honest, and up front with them, they tend to not be dicks.
as for the DoS attacks and spammers....I think I will check my wifi activity more often. but because most of my neighbours are really freaken old, i don't think i have to worry about that.
but i appreciate the heads up. I wouldn't have thought of those. is there a way to prevent that while keeping an open connection?
Re:These people need to crawl in a hole somwhere.
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The former means that a relatively limited number of people share something between them...So the copyright owners are losing maybe ten potential sales so, laws will be written to regulate friendship? will we be faced with popularity caps to prevent trading of mix tapes to an excessive number of friends.
So how about radio? if a song is broadcast on the radio, and people can hear it for free, then record lables are losing hundreds of thousands of sales each time a song is played. you would think they would have regulated that, made the radio companies pay millions in royalties. Instead, the law adapted to fit new technology.
Today, the law has failed to adapt to new technology (p2p) and instead, its forcing new technology to adapt to fit the law. this is not a healthy situation, or a battle than can be won through laws as they are today.
Aren't they basically saying "yeah, we're doing something illegal, but we don't think it should be illegal I want you to look up 2 things:
1. how many people are involved in filesharing. (US only) 2. how many people voted for the current administration
If more people support the activity, why is it illegal?
please note: I am not trying to ridicule your position, I strongly oppose organized piracy and distribution of illegal goods.
But I see a big distinction between commercial distribution, and non-comercial distribution.
I'm an artist myself. When someone takes a picture of my work and gives it to a friend, i'm flattered and pleased that they are distributing my material. but if they were to sell that image, then I would have a problem with that. they are directly profitting off of my labour.
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the answer is both.
some pirates download and burn movies, and sell them for $3 each on street corners (see Asia)
It is my opinion that selling somebody elses work without their permission is both legally and morally wrong.
but the **AA and lawmakers lump people who just share music with their friends in with these pirates. I see nothing wrong with sharing. It's what they told me to do back in kindergarden.
why would you assume that someone who has unsecured Wifi then they must have no concern for privacy or security.
I always keep my wifi open. it's just common courtesy.
when my internet goes down, I log into my neighbours internet to do the online work I have to get done. I keep mine open so if they are in the same situation, they can do the same.
really, how much harm can they do to your computer by using your wifi?
Do not be alarmed, this is a standard laptop, there is nothing to be suspicious about. Yes, its new, I'm a techie, do not be alarmed!
yes, this really is a normal laptop!
logging in is easy.
oh, you need me to log on for you?
I can understand your confusion, since logging in on a system with a grey background is completely different from logging in on a system with a blue background.
I'd rather log in my self...
but I don't feel comfoprtable giving away my passwor...
oh, ok, fine.
for the log in, type 'fascist_douchbag' the password is 'youareviolatingmyprivacy.'
Do real-time war sims require a mouse, or do they work well with a DS touch screen if you have a DS and an M3DS simply or R4DS card, you should look up "a touch of war" a simple homebrew touch-screen controlled RTS. its a little buggy and limited to only 4 units, but it works quite well. with a more powerful system, a touch screen RTS would be an enjoyable experience.
I might have to go out and buy a tablet PC now and crank out some old command and conquer disks and see how it goes. hopefully i have better luck than i did trying to run WoW on a Wacom tablet.
its been said before, but correlation does not equal causation.
plus, how did they measure these things?
for example, I have been measuring and recording the daily temperature every day this year, starting in August and ending in January. My stats so far show that the temperature of the Earth is cooling quite rapidly. so nuts to this whole global warming thing!
see how easy stats can be manipulated?
i think they should expand on this research. Is it the benefit unique to cats? perhaps it is a beneficial bacteria, rather than the stress relief? Perhaps eating one cat per week is more beneficial than owning one?
this study begs the question....if owning a cat reduced your risk of heart attack by 30%, are crazy cat women fully immune to heart attacks? come to think about it, I have never once heard of a crazy cat woman having a heart attack!
its a slow, painful, annoying as hell process that brings you back to the keyboard and mouse once the novelty has worn off, and only leaves the user feeling ripped off for wasting so much money on a fancy new inferior interface.
voice recognition won't be useful until it is intelligent. I should only have to say "Computer, google porn" and get my results. I shouldn't have to explain to my computer step by step how to open a freaken browser.
Actually, In South Korea, they do have cameras in some class rooms. and they do have an online feed where parents can watch what is going on inside the classroom.
Luckily, in South Korea, only old people watch streaming video of the children's classroom.
Now taking bets on which intelligence agency or terrorist organization will be the first to snap up the domain once it becomes available. How can you tell the difference between the two?
actually, this very thing is what inspired my interest in, and opposition to, mass survalience.
I was working as a janitor, and one of our duties was to change tapes on the security cameras. (dont get me started on how that shouldnt be allowed. ugh...)
the zoom on these cameras was quite powerful. I could zoom-in, past the parking lot, past the olympic sized soccer field, through a person's backyard, and zoom up right to their window, where I could clearly see EVERYTHING!
and in case you were wondering, YES, we did keep a tape of footage of people doing things in the parking lots, in their cars, in their bedrooms, and even in the forrest near by. 2 hours of black and white action.
mass survalence I have a real problem with, but i strongly belive that google streetview, cellphone cameras, youtube, etc. are the solution, on the problem. most survalence is one sidded. they see you, you cant see them. google street view levels the playing field, we can look back.
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I'm sure it will be possible to change/hack a farecard soon enough. there are millions of people who use the cards every day, and many of them are nerds/cheep-asses. its only a matter of time.
A few years ago, my roommate and I built a credit card reader/copier for under $10.
We copied a few metro passes (magnetic strip, no RFID)just to see if it would work, and we learned that it does, but you can't pass the 'same' card through the system 2 times n a row. my friend got the embarasing warning buzzer, and he was the one with the legetimate pass!
they accsed us of doing a passback. we just played dumb.
"no we didn't! i made a copy of his card! its right here! try it! see! there was no passback!" is a very bad defence.
we only used it once, just to see if it would work, then destroyed it.
My advice is: you should be very careful with this kind of stuff. Not only unethical and wrong, it is also illegal.
while file sharing is doing a great deal of harm to the RIAA, they do still act as a filter, keeping some of the crap down, and marketing what is less crappy.
once there is a system set up that lets users filter content that is as effective as the lables, then they will be really screwed.
imagine an i-slashdot-tunes music service where everyone submits their tunes, people listen, rank and rate them.
i would love to rate songs as being '+1: inspiring' or "-1: disco"
I believe the reason why people are more concerned with guns than swimming pools is that guns only serve one purpose: killing things
on the other hand, a pool's primary reason for existing is not killing things, they are designed for cooling you down on a hot day, teaching swimming skills, providing low impact exercise, assisting with rehab after injury, and getting sexy women into skimpy swimsuits.
I don't think either should be outlawed either. people should just be smart about it. I have a fence around my yard to keep the little bastards out, I have a gate around my pool as a second line of defense, and a fat/hairy brother who spends all day in there drinking beer and listening to metallica, one sight of that and the kids will likely never return.
really....I do....
Believing that all people are created equal, and that all people are inherently entitled to the same rights and freedoms is such a crazy, un-american idea.
those damned socialists...
As a visual artist, I deal with galleries, short term contracts and all that crap that has nothing to do with art quite often.
the standard gallery commission is 50%.
If a painting of mine sells for $1000, I get $500, and they get $500.
But, I have to pay for the materials myself, so right there, the gallery is making more than I am off of a sale.
Some gallery owners are also cheep bastards that expect me to pay for framing. That can easly cost me $250 each, a huge bite out of my profit.
But, they do all the promotionm, advertising, even pay for all the food and drinks during the opening. they are the ones paying rent for the gallery space. they deal with all the sales tax. if they want rid of it, and sell it for 50% less, i get all the profits, they get nothing.
50% is a fair cut to me, I make it, I deliver it, and you do the rest, then mail me the cheque. I do not have a problem with that buisness model. I do not want to deal with ANY of that business stuff, and am glad to have someone else deal with it for me. I am not a salesman, but I realize their importance. a 50/50 split is fair. if the artist wants to keep it all, they had better expect to do the business work themselves.
here is where I get confused: the fine art market is tiny, the music market is huge.
but I get 50% of the final sale price.
if an album costs the customer $16, why isn't the artist making $8 from that sale?
The music buisness has far too many middlemen.
Trim the fat or die.
It's that simple.
so American women also have the right to walk around topless anywhere in public?
I thought that was limited to Ontario, Canada.
that is strange.
i got my copy off of the pirate bay, and burnt it to DVD myself, and I have had no problems at all with playback.
another reason to steal rather than going legit?
(p.s. I live in asia, getting legit copies of N.A. films is nearly impossible. I have supported the rest of the seeries by buying all the seasons on DVD)
Americans have the right to bear arms.
Canadian women have the right to bear breasts.
I believe the reason for us getting everything right while the US gets everything wrong, is that section 15 of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms only extends rights to 'actual persons', not 'legal persons' like the US system (corporations are classified as 'legal persons') so we don't have the same problem of having to constantly welcome our evil corporate overlords.
I was on shaw@home for broadband way back when I was in highschool (Y2K-ish), and it was great, I never had a single problem with Shaw.
then Rogers came through our area and took over for shaw.
the day we were switched to rogers@home, download speeds were cut in half, and on average, my internet was down one day a month. soon after, prices shot way up.
rogers was terrible, but the only options in my area were rogers, sympatico, or dial-up, 3 bad options, and rogers was the least bad, so i was stuck with them untill i moved to south korea and got good internet service.
if i were able to use my one remaining mod point in this thread, I would use it to mod that comment +1 funny. (or +1 insightful, which seems to be the current trend regarding funny posts)
I would like to see a giant thinking machine that is able to answer any question we give it.
then i would ask it for the answer to the ultimate question.
students will try to hide the neck band under their collar, but teachers will change the rules for attending exams so the device wont be so easy to hide.
outside the exam room, a sign will be posted that reads:
T-shirts only. No turtlenecks allowed!
then teachers will wonder why all essay questions now include penis jokes.
2. you have a list of the material that was downloaded.
3. Here is my hard drive,
4. here are all of my monthly backup disks
5. if you find any of that material, let me know.
the police are people, too. if you are kind, pleasent, honest, and up front with them, they tend to not be dicks.
as for the DoS attacks and spammers....I think I will check my wifi activity more often. but because most of my neighbours are really freaken old, i don't think i have to worry about that.
but i appreciate the heads up. I wouldn't have thought of those.
is there a way to prevent that while keeping an open connection?
So how about radio? if a song is broadcast on the radio, and people can hear it for free, then record lables are losing hundreds of thousands of sales each time a song is played. you would think they would have regulated that, made the radio companies pay millions in royalties. Instead, the law adapted to fit new technology.
Today, the law has failed to adapt to new technology (p2p) and instead, its forcing new technology to adapt to fit the law. this is not a healthy situation, or a battle than can be won through laws as they are today. Aren't they basically saying "yeah, we're doing something illegal, but we don't think it should be illegal I want you to look up 2 things:
1. how many people are involved in filesharing. (US only)
2. how many people voted for the current administration
If more people support the activity, why is it illegal?
please note: I am not trying to ridicule your position, I strongly oppose organized piracy and distribution of illegal goods.
But I see a big distinction between commercial distribution, and non-comercial distribution.
I'm an artist myself. When someone takes a picture of my work and gives it to a friend, i'm flattered and pleased that they are distributing my material. but if they were to sell that image, then I would have a problem with that. they are directly profitting off of my labour.
the answer is both.
some pirates download and burn movies, and sell them for $3 each on street corners (see Asia)
It is my opinion that selling somebody elses work without their permission is both legally and morally wrong.
but the **AA and lawmakers lump people who just share music with their friends in with these pirates.
I see nothing wrong with sharing.
It's what they told me to do back in kindergarden.
why would you assume that someone who has unsecured Wifi then they must have no concern for privacy or security.
I always keep my wifi open. it's just common courtesy.
when my internet goes down, I log into my neighbours internet to do the online work I have to get done. I keep mine open so if they are in the same situation, they can do the same.
really, how much harm can they do to your computer by using your wifi?
and in the case of McDonalds, having hotter water can be a bit of a liability.
Oh, Hello Mr. TSA agent!
Do not be alarmed, this is a standard laptop, there is nothing to be suspicious about. Yes, its new, I'm a techie, do not be alarmed!
yes, this really is a normal laptop!
logging in is easy.
oh, you need me to log on for you?
I can understand your confusion, since logging in on a system with a grey background is completely different from logging in on a system with a blue background.
I'd rather log in my self...
but I don't feel comfoprtable giving away my passwor...
oh, ok, fine.
for the log in, type 'fascist_douchbag'
the password is 'youareviolatingmyprivacy.'
where are you taking me?
its a little buggy and limited to only 4 units, but it works quite well. with a more powerful system, a touch screen RTS would be an enjoyable experience.
I might have to go out and buy a tablet PC now and crank out some old command and conquer disks and see how it goes.
hopefully i have better luck than i did trying to run WoW on a Wacom tablet.
its been said before, but correlation does not equal causation.
plus, how did they measure these things?
for example, I have been measuring and recording the daily temperature every day this year, starting in August and ending in January. My stats so far show that the temperature of the Earth is cooling quite rapidly. so nuts to this whole global warming thing!
see how easy stats can be manipulated?
i think they should expand on this research.
Is it the benefit unique to cats?
perhaps it is a beneficial bacteria, rather than the stress relief?
Perhaps eating one cat per week is more beneficial than owning one?
this study begs the question....if owning a cat reduced your risk of heart attack by 30%, are crazy cat women fully immune to heart attacks? come to think about it, I have never once heard of a crazy cat woman having a heart attack!
voice recognition as it is today is painful.
"Computer, start, programs, Mozilla, fire fox , double you, double you, double you, dot, google, dot, com, search field, violent, asian, porn. I'm feeling lucky. click"
its a slow, painful, annoying as hell process that brings you back to the keyboard and mouse once the novelty has worn off, and only leaves the user feeling ripped off for wasting so much money on a fancy new inferior interface.
voice recognition won't be useful until it is intelligent. I should only have to say "Computer, google porn" and get my results. I shouldn't have to explain to my computer step by step how to open a freaken browser.
Actually, In South Korea, they do have cameras in some class rooms. and they do have an online feed where parents can watch what is going on inside the classroom.
Luckily, in South Korea, only old people watch streaming video of the children's classroom.
where do I get one of these damned geek cards you guys are always talking about!
/. ID, eh?
I feel like I'm missing out on something....
I guess they are only offered to people with 6 digits or less in their
I'm going to go check think geek one last time....they've got to be on that site somewhere.....
actually, this very thing is what inspired my interest in, and opposition to, mass survalience.
I was working as a janitor, and one of our duties was to change tapes on the security cameras. (dont get me started on how that shouldnt be allowed. ugh...)
the zoom on these cameras was quite powerful. I could zoom-in, past the parking lot, past the olympic sized soccer field, through a person's backyard, and zoom up right to their window, where I could clearly see EVERYTHING!
and in case you were wondering, YES, we did keep a tape of footage of people doing things in the parking lots, in their cars, in their bedrooms, and even in the forrest near by. 2 hours of black and white action.
mass survalence I have a real problem with, but i strongly belive that google streetview, cellphone cameras, youtube, etc. are the solution, on the problem. most survalence is one sidded. they see you, you cant see them. google street view levels the playing field, we can look back.