I create original works, and keep them on my computer.
I own the copyrights to my work.
now, if i were to add some sort of digital rights management to my own files, and the boarder guards were to copy my data, would I be able to sue them for copyright infringement AND violating the DMCA?
finally....a way that the DMCA can be used for good!
I've always wondered about articles like this one.
Linus says something about an area he knows nothing about.
Stallman says something a particular product.
dont get me wrong, they are both interesting people, I have some Stallman lectures sitting on my hard drive, and I've actually watched them several times.
When these guys are talking about a topic where they are an authority on the matter, I find their comments to be '+5 insightful', but stuff like this is '+2 interesting' at best.
when will the courts realize that big business is assaulting citizens.
why can't anonymous declare war on the RIAA, they are a far bigger threat to society than Scientology.
"steal, steal, give it to all your friends, and steal some more...they're ripping people off and its not right" - Trent Reznor http://youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5iHaV0dP4
if my home country of Soviet Canuckistan can do better than the United States, the world's richest country, what is your excuse?
I think the broadband plan in USA is little more than banning P2P and throttling connections; making broadband is so unusable it is undesirable for the general population.
not the kind of lesbians that appear in my movie collection. the kind of lesbians that exist in real life. the scary ones that will tear me in half for making this post.
From my (limited) experience with small companies, employees all have their own work to do, and getting them to do something extra is just not going to happen. they will see this 'documentation stuff' as being your job, because it most certainly is not theirs (or so they think)
get management on board, make it something that has to get done.
most importantly, make it something that has a strict deadline! work that can be done 'when you get around to it' does not get done.
Without support from management, this just ain't gonna happen.
I would suggest actually running down one worker with a bus each night until the rest shape up and get on it.
I will be on my phone...its in my hand, i am using it, and I still feel a vibration in my leg, so I reach for my phone, only to be surprized that it's not there.
then I realize..."I'm on my phone!"
also, ever since getting a cellphone and its build in addressbook, I have been completly unable to remember any new phone numbers. my cellphone has become external memory for my brain.
It really has become an extention of my own body. I'm like a cybornetic life form. I can use an extention of my body to communicate with others over vast distances. and if I am able to convince others to start using cellpones, It's sort of like I'm assimilating them. COOL!
ah, that is very true, I never thought of that part.
it would seem that the only solution then is a white list. instead of filtering out bad web-pages, set up white-list filters for things like work, university, family, friends, slashdot notifications, etc. then you have your 'safe' folder of white-listed email, a regular folder of non white-list, non-spam email, and then your bulk folder, for confirmed spam.
and for god sakes yahoo, let me have more than 15 dammned filters on my account!
my old stratigy was to register my name as "Floyd Smith" whenever i set up an email account. then i would block the names "floyd" and "smith". when I recieved spam saying "Hello Floyd, I am a Nigerian Royalty....." I knew it was spam, because my name obvioulsly isn't floyd.
Unfortunatly, that strick stopped working mid 2003, and im stuck with that name Floyd Smith on my email...
This is going to be extreamly unpopular, even I don't want this to happen.
but, what about making email a pay service?
make it cost $0.001 to send one email.
for a normal person, they are looking at a few pennies a day, sonething you wont even notice.
but if your a spammer, sending 1,000,000 will set you back $1,000. I don't know how many people are willing to buy CH33P V1AGRA, but will the 1% of people stupid enough to fall for your spam enough to cover the costs of those who don't.
buisnesses, of coure, can just use internal message services so they won't have to pay to email memos to workers.
its a crappy idea, but if spammers keep on spamming, it might be the only option.
As a practising artist, I found this to be absolutely awesome.
My only advice would be to print the comments on post-it notes, sneak them into galleries and post them on the actual paintings. just make sure to have a BS filled essay on you for when you get caught. Just quote asshats like Derrida and you will be considered a real artist and get off scot free.
If only there were an OS out there where you could just turn on the machine for the first time, and have your browser, office suite and media player installed and ready to go. and if you need a new program, no endless googleing for a trial version of something that should be included, you just go to Applications > Add/remove programs, search for what you want, and click install.
Once MS makes an OS that can do all that, I might rejoin the dark side.
oh, wait, I already have an OS that does all that...
I have a good feeling about this 'Windows 7' it sounds simple, direct, and straight to the point. lets hope that MS has learned from their mistakes (ME, Vista, or anything they release before SP1) and can give us a lean, secure, and easy to use OS.
Of course, I don't expect to see MS make their deadline. It's more likely that we will see 2008 become the year of linux on the desktop than have MS release something on time
and it's going to happen to me twice, cause I posted this acknowledgement of my redundancy.
how do i make this +1 insightful......um....something about how in soviet russia, chuck norris welcomes his grits-eating natalie portman overlord while throwing a chair at an insensitive clot....because all your memes are belong to me?
I've got a really easy, simple solution to this whole dilemma.
Fair use = non-commercial use.
I can watch it, appropriate it, edit it, remix it, post it, and do whatever i want with it, so long as I don't sell it.
As soon as I burn my 'creations' to a DVD and try to sell them, then you can bring up the whole 'copyright infringement' debate. but short of that, it should all be fair use.
"this idea the the church should "change with the times" is silly, at best."
so, while society changes and evolves, and people develop new concerns and new ideas, the church must stay in exactly the same place it has always been for the last 2000 years?
then the church will drift further and further away from the needs of people, and become increasingly out of touch, and the church will begin to loose its followers, and its source of income.
the church has to change with the times to stay relevant. it's all part of the churches 2000 year plan:
step 1: promise eternal salvation under threat of eternal torture step 2: change with the times step 3: profit!
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I am an artist.
I create original works, and keep them on my computer.
I own the copyrights to my work.
now, if i were to add some sort of digital rights management to my own files, and the boarder guards were to copy my data, would I be able to sue them for copyright infringement AND violating the DMCA?
finally....a way that the DMCA can be used for good!
I've always wondered about articles like this one.
Linus says something about an area he knows nothing about.
Stallman says something a particular product.
dont get me wrong, they are both interesting people, I have some Stallman lectures sitting on my hard drive, and I've actually watched them several times.
When these guys are talking about a topic where they are an authority on the matter, I find their comments to be '+5 insightful', but stuff like this is '+2 interesting' at best.
when will common sense prevail?
when will the courts realize that big business is assaulting citizens.
why can't anonymous declare war on the RIAA, they are a far bigger threat to society than Scientology.
"steal, steal, give it to all your friends, and steal some more...they're ripping people off and its not right" - Trent Reznor
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5iHaV0dP4
I call bullshit.
Canada is bigger than America is,
Canada: 9,984,670 km
United States: 9,826,630 km
yet the population is significantly smaller:
Canada: 33,170,700
United States: 303,290,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Broadband access in Canada:
25.0%
rank: 9th
Broadband access in the United States
22.1%
rank: 15th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_broadband_users
if my home country of Soviet Canuckistan can do better than the United States, the world's richest country, what is your excuse?
I think the broadband plan in USA is little more than banning P2P and throttling connections; making broadband is so unusable it is undesirable for the general population.
thats what lesbians are for.
not the kind of lesbians that appear in my movie collection. the kind of lesbians that exist in real life. the scary ones that will tear me in half for making this post.
as soon as scientists develop a machine that automatically opens pickle jars, men are fscked.
:(
I don't want to be obsolete.
now I know how Windows feels.
isn't this why we are supposed to have system redundancy? so a failure in one area won't cause a complete blackout?
isn't this why we are supposed to have system redundancy? so a failure in one area won't cause a complete blackout?
From my (limited) experience with small companies, employees all have their own work to do, and getting them to do something extra is just not going to happen. they will see this 'documentation stuff' as being your job, because it most certainly is not theirs (or so they think)
get management on board, make it something that has to get done.
most importantly, make it something that has a strict deadline! work that can be done 'when you get around to it' does not get done.
Without support from management, this just ain't gonna happen.
I would suggest actually running down one worker with a bus each night until the rest shape up and get on it.
sometimes I think I'm going crazy.
I will be on my phone...its in my hand, i am using it, and I still feel a vibration in my leg, so I reach for my phone, only to be surprized that it's not there.
then I realize..."I'm on my phone!"
also, ever since getting a cellphone and its build in addressbook, I have been completly unable to remember any new phone numbers. my cellphone has become external memory for my brain.
It really has become an extention of my own body. I'm like a cybornetic life form. I can use an extention of my body to communicate with others over vast distances.
and if I am able to convince others to start using cellpones, It's sort of like I'm assimilating them. COOL!
so, my cellphone is an extention of my body?
does this explain why I get phantom rings in my leg, even when I left my phone at home?
ah, that is very true, I never thought of that part.
it would seem that the only solution then is a white list. instead of filtering out bad web-pages, set up white-list filters for things like work, university, family, friends, slashdot notifications, etc.
then you have your 'safe' folder of white-listed email, a regular folder of non white-list, non-spam email, and then your bulk folder, for confirmed spam.
and for god sakes yahoo, let me have more than 15 dammned filters on my account!
my old stratigy was to register my name as "Floyd Smith" whenever i set up an email account. then i would block the names "floyd" and "smith". when I recieved spam saying "Hello Floyd, I am a Nigerian Royalty....." I knew it was spam, because my name obvioulsly isn't floyd.
Unfortunatly, that strick stopped working mid 2003, and im stuck with that name Floyd Smith on my email...
This is going to be extreamly unpopular, even I don't want this to happen.
but, what about making email a pay service?
make it cost $0.001 to send one email.
for a normal person, they are looking at a few pennies a day, sonething you wont even notice.
but if your a spammer, sending 1,000,000 will set you back $1,000. I don't know how many people are willing to buy CH33P V1AGRA, but will the 1% of people stupid enough to fall for your spam enough to cover the costs of those who don't.
buisnesses, of coure, can just use internal message services so they won't have to pay to email memos to workers.
its a crappy idea, but if spammers keep on spamming, it might be the only option.
please, give us the name of this label and a link where I can find a list of the artists represented by this label.
I like the way they handle piracy, and dont treat customers like the enemy.
If I like the music, I will support this company by buying their music.
I think an album is too much to ask. how about recording an EP in the month of february?
What happens when microsoft's programmers start writing code for life forms?
all the bloat in their code will certainly lead to an obesity epidemic in their life forms.
and at some point in every living thing's life, they will get the blue screen of death...
wait a minute.....
people already get fat and die....does God work for Microsoft?
As a practising artist, I found this to be absolutely awesome.
My only advice would be to print the comments on post-it notes, sneak them into galleries and post them on the actual paintings.
just make sure to have a BS filled essay on you for when you get caught. Just quote asshats like Derrida and you will be considered a real artist and get off scot free.
no...really, you will. go do this!
"Its a cat and mouse game Apple is going to play"
You mean like having a leapord face off against a mighty mouse?
If only there were an OS out there where you could just turn on the machine for the first time, and have your browser, office suite and media player installed and ready to go.
and if you need a new program, no endless googleing for a trial version of something that should be included, you just go to Applications > Add/remove programs, search for what you want, and click install.
Once MS makes an OS that can do all that, I might rejoin the dark side.
oh, wait, I already have an OS that does all that...
I have a good feeling about this 'Windows 7' it sounds simple, direct, and straight to the point. lets hope that MS has learned from their mistakes (ME, Vista, or anything they release before SP1) and can give us a lean, secure, and easy to use OS.
Of course, I don't expect to see MS make their deadline. It's more likely that we will see 2008 become the year of linux on the desktop than have MS release something on time
What about those Gatoraid bottles that have the valve in the cap?
those don't spill unless you squeeze the bottle, or suck on it hard enough.
Come on, gatoraid! just make a tang-flavoured valve bottle and score yourselves a nice nig NASA contract.
(ps. I'm leaving the "suck on it hard enough" line completly open....any takers?)
fuck! now I'm gonna get modded down -1 Redundant.
...um....something about how in soviet russia, chuck norris welcomes his grits-eating natalie portman overlord while throwing a chair at an insensitive clot....because all your memes are belong to me?
and it's going to happen to me twice, cause I posted this acknowledgement of my redundancy.
how do i make this +1 insightful...
he's already done it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ&feature=PlayList&p=A287094D84E48B4C&index=43
now were going to have to deal with a bunch of damned black-clad nu-goths!
And not only will we all hate their music, but we will all come to the sad realization that yes, they are more black than we ever were in our youth.
I've got a really easy, simple solution to this whole dilemma.
Fair use = non-commercial use.
I can watch it, appropriate it, edit it, remix it, post it, and do whatever i want with it, so long as I don't sell it.
As soon as I burn my 'creations' to a DVD and try to sell them, then you can bring up the whole 'copyright infringement' debate. but short of that, it should all be fair use.
"this idea the the church should "change with the times" is silly, at best."
so, while society changes and evolves, and people develop new concerns and new ideas, the church must stay in exactly the same place it has always been for the last 2000 years?
then the church will drift further and further away from the needs of people, and become increasingly out of touch, and the church will begin to loose its followers, and its source of income.
the church has to change with the times to stay relevant. it's all part of the churches 2000 year plan:
step 1: promise eternal salvation under threat of eternal torture
step 2: change with the times
step 3: profit!
but digital video is sampled at 48 KHz!
I believe there is shitload of helium on the moon.
Helium-3, which is way cooler than our boring ass Earth helium.
Why dont we just take the H-3 from the moon and de cubeify it? subtract the '3'...and were set.