"Please sign this petition so we don't lose an irreplaceable resource....NPR
On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the
Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the
National Public Radio (NPR), NEA & the Public Broadcasting System(PBS).
PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite
of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and stream line
their services, some government officials believe that the funding
currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for
something which is seen as not worthwhile."
Twenty one years ago, National Public Radio petitioned the FCC to stop
accepting applications for the low-power Educational License class.
WMUC in College Park was one of the last stations to get a ten watt FM radio license under this plan, but this was a year before the UMBC
campus (my school) even established a radio station.
Because of these rules that NPR brought about, UMBC cannot get a license
under 1000 watts, and due to the large amount of high-power corporate
radio saturation in this area, no higher-powered licenses are available.
National Public Radio has only their own interests in mind, not the
interests of smaller communities and people who still want localized,
non-corporate free radio.
Forget about NPR. Support your local communities and your universities by advocating for LPFM.
Did Handspring fork off their version from the Palm OS code tree by moving to their 3.1H3 for the module support?
If so, is Palm OS 4 going to reincorporate the code for modules to work with the Handspring? Springboard developers like Xircom are already working on modular Bluetooth solutions. It would seem silly to not consider that.
If there is justice in the world, the IOC will be held to this in five or six years. The current broadcasting industry world will look so very different, if it's even around anymore at all. Then the IOC can be mired in their own stupidity and die a slow media death without the support of the Internet.
Unfortunately they'll probably just rescind this directive when they realize where all the ad money has gone in a few years, and embrace the Internet media outlets in true CorporateWhore(tm) style. And it's a real shame.
When he wants to publish "Linus Version Two: Just Outta Beta" forty years from now, will HarperCollins still have the rights?
He's just getting a head start, just like other famous "younger" people like Tiger Woods. When he's in his seventies, he'll publish all over again to appeal to the gray-haired Geek Generation.
After Steven King made the historic forway into e-publishing, I'm wondering if Linus will also take the opportunity to publish his book under a special or alternative license that will free it from possible future draconian publishing restrictions.
Do you think that the negatives still outweigh the benefits (ie., getting his contact turned down), or is it about time to start really pushing our open ideals to other industries.
I did the same thing yesterday, with similar results. I was surprised when it finally made it to the front page today. I figured someone had already posted it before me. My title was "Whistler may block unsigned code."
Has anyone ever had the chance to listen to some of those ear training tapes that sound people listen to to get that good? I listened to one once as it went through a series of sound bursts of 3 seconds through 1 millisecond. Past half a second, they all sounded identical to me. Then there was the test where they raised a certain frequency a few dB above a noise floor, at 50 Hz, 100 Hz, etc. all the way up to 22KHz. That sounded like a 2400 baud modem played backwards.
And yet, my friends in the professional sound field can hear these minute changes in the quality of the sound and correctly identify each one. That's why they get paid as much as ninja Solaris admins. They can't listen to anything less than digital to the speaker theatre quality sound without cringing. Me? I like MP3s and AM radio. So much for the golden ear test. Now back to my Rio.
I decided to kill two birds with one stone and ask my Congressman to oppose the Internet filtering rider and support MORLA in the same note. Here's what I wrote.
Likewise, if you live in a liberal state like Maryland, and Gore has no chance of possibly losing, vote for Nader. If it's a tough call like Ohio, vote your conscience.
You can hide the watermark all you want, but every consumer's player is going to have the guts and programming to know where to look for it and do some sort of verification. Once you have a tool that can infinitely check new data sets for said watermark (your Mp3Man(tm)), you've solved the larger part of the problem of overcoming and duplicating them.
I'm going to either share a couple thousand files to everyone, or pay for the service. Not both.
I'm sure this opinion is shared by virtually all Napster users on fat pipes and broadband. Subscription service will only lead to the death of Napster.
If you're in the mood to get me a gift, how about this? Sure beats this monster, as reliable as it's been for the last year and a half.
Don't hesitate to get in touch with me or peruse my other lists. A lot of shiny tech stuff catches my eye on a regular basis, so I'm a self-proclaimed expert. Heh.
My perception is that clued-in coders, designers, and other smart, curious people have the urge to try everything once, including drugs. And then since drugs often yield a pleasant and unique experience every time, they try it again a few times. But no smart geek is going to self-destruct over substances when there are so many other interesting things around them to keep them occupied and productive.
My web page is the most public forum easily available to me, and advertised in my signature. Hopefully that'll be worth at least a little towards keeping my identity safe.
When I got interviewed by Wired Magazine and others for an article or two about a little web thing I was doing, Leander and all the reporters were sure to get me on the phone to repeat my comments to them, even if what I was saying to them was exactly what I had written on the website. A bunch of the smaller outlets did what C|Net did this time around and just copied my more conversational comments from my website, put quotations around it and made an article from it. I thought that was a little sketchy even while this was going on, but I was still happy for the coverage.
I suppose there's two points of view here. You could consider a web page or mailing list like a press conference, roundtable or demonstration where anyone who attends can write about it, but also you could hope that the reporters would put a little more effort into their stories and actually try to get original quotes when people like the Mozilla planners are so easy to contact via e-mail and telephone.
Or maybe in the tech news obsession to scoop the next guy, they're losing what professionalism is left. I sure hope not.
Not to point fingers, but Slashdot hasn't been exactly innocent of this lately, either.
In this breaking news, MD 295 and Route 32 in Maryland have been jammed solid for the past three days as a backlog of tens of thousands of visitors to the National Cryptologic Museum are waiting to access the area in what experts are calling the "Slashdot Traffic Effect". More at eleven.
Spoing, e-mail me and I'll explain what happened. I can't seem to contact you any other way so I hope I don't get my karma blasted into oblivon for this OT post.
Everyone wears A&F so I must wear A&F to be more like everyone. Again this is because A&F makes it extremely convenient to say "I like A&F" while there is no easy way to say "I don't give a poop about A&F" or "I abhor A&F".
The only bad advertising is none at all.
When you see a disparaging remark, you read "A&F sucks because they're cheap trendy commercial pigs."
After five minutes, all the typical Amreican can remember is "A&F sucks." They're not sure why, but it really does.
After ten? All they remember is "A&F." After all, it must be a pretty cool place if they keep thinking about it.
. . . and the advertising has done it's job, even if that's not what the wearer may have intended. Better advertising through short-term memory.
The difference is that free vendor tee-shirts are doing exactly what a few dozen comments earlier are saying they should do. Paying you, in the form of free clothing, to advertise their products. If Sun tee-shirts cost $25 because they were so enamoured with their logo, do you think any self-respecting geek would be wearing one?
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A recent e-mail forward to me read:
"Please sign this petition so we don't lose an irreplaceable resource....NPR On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the National Public Radio (NPR), NEA & the Public Broadcasting System(PBS). PBS, NPR and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and stream line their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile."
My response? NPR is not an irreplacable resource.
Twenty one years ago, National Public Radio petitioned the FCC to stop accepting applications for the low-power Educational License class. WMUC in College Park was one of the last stations to get a ten watt FM radio license under this plan, but this was a year before the UMBC campus (my school) even established a radio station.
Because of these rules that NPR brought about, UMBC cannot get a license under 1000 watts, and due to the large amount of high-power corporate radio saturation in this area, no higher-powered licenses are available.
National Public Radio has only their own interests in mind, not the interests of smaller communities and people who still want localized, non-corporate free radio.
Forget about NPR. Support your local communities and your universities by advocating for LPFM.
For more information, see the following sites:
Pirate/Free Radio on About.Com
Prometheus Radio Project
Media Democracy Now
And my own letters to the Senators, here and here.
PS: In the interests of full disclosure, this is a revised version of something I posted earlier to my my own web page.
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And the commercial is not to be missed!
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The most important questions to me are:
Did Handspring fork off their version from the Palm OS code tree by moving to their 3.1H3 for the module support?
If so, is Palm OS 4 going to reincorporate the code for modules to work with the Handspring? Springboard developers like Xircom are already working on modular Bluetooth solutions. It would seem silly to not consider that.
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If there is justice in the world, the IOC will be held to this in five or six years. The current broadcasting industry world will look so very different, if it's even around anymore at all. Then the IOC can be mired in their own stupidity and die a slow media death without the support of the Internet.
Unfortunately they'll probably just rescind this directive when they realize where all the ad money has gone in a few years, and embrace the Internet media outlets in true CorporateWhore(tm) style. And it's a real shame.
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When he wants to publish "Linus Version Two: Just Outta Beta" forty years from now, will HarperCollins still have the rights?
He's just getting a head start, just like other famous "younger" people like Tiger Woods. When he's in his seventies, he'll publish all over again to appeal to the gray-haired Geek Generation.
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After Steven King made the historic forway into e-publishing, I'm wondering if Linus will also take the opportunity to publish his book under a special or alternative license that will free it from possible future draconian publishing restrictions.
Do you think that the negatives still outweigh the benefits (ie., getting his contact turned down), or is it about time to start really pushing our open ideals to other industries.
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I did the same thing yesterday, with similar results. I was surprised when it finally made it to the front page today. I figured someone had already posted it before me. My title was "Whistler may block unsigned code."
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Has anyone ever had the chance to listen to some of those ear training tapes that sound people listen to to get that good? I listened to one once as it went through a series of sound bursts of 3 seconds through 1 millisecond. Past half a second, they all sounded identical to me. Then there was the test where they raised a certain frequency a few dB above a noise floor, at 50 Hz, 100 Hz, etc. all the way up to 22KHz. That sounded like a 2400 baud modem played backwards.
And yet, my friends in the professional sound field can hear these minute changes in the quality of the sound and correctly identify each one. That's why they get paid as much as ninja Solaris admins. They can't listen to anything less than digital to the speaker theatre quality sound without cringing. Me? I like MP3s and AM radio. So much for the golden ear test. Now back to my Rio.
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I decided to kill two birds with one stone and ask my Congressman to oppose the Internet filtering rider and support MORLA in the same note. Here's what I wrote.
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Likewise, if you live in a liberal state like Maryland, and Gore has no chance of possibly losing, vote for Nader. If it's a tough call like Ohio, vote your conscience.
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You can hide the watermark all you want, but every consumer's player is going to have the guts and programming to know where to look for it and do some sort of verification. Once you have a tool that can infinitely check new data sets for said watermark (your Mp3Man(tm)), you've solved the larger part of the problem of overcoming and duplicating them.
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Biological optical character recognition.
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Too bad there's no graffiti symbol for the Meta key.
I'd use the new Euro grafitti symbol. Nobody will ever use the Euro for anything practical otherwise.
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I'm going to either share a couple thousand files to everyone, or pay for the service. Not both.
I'm sure this opinion is shared by virtually all Napster users on fat pipes and broadband. Subscription service will only lead to the death of Napster.
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Cheaper than a PlayStation: All tech heads love stacks of geeky books.
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If you're in the mood to get me a gift, how about this? Sure beats this monster, as reliable as it's been for the last year and a half.
Don't hesitate to get in touch with me or peruse my other lists. A lot of shiny tech stuff catches my eye on a regular basis, so I'm a self-proclaimed expert. Heh.
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My perception is that clued-in coders, designers, and other smart, curious people have the urge to try everything once, including drugs. And then since drugs often yield a pleasant and unique experience every time, they try it again a few times. But no smart geek is going to self-destruct over substances when there are so many other interesting things around them to keep them occupied and productive.
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Here's a little thing I tapped out over two months ago for people to make sure I am who I say I am.
My web page is the most public forum easily available to me, and advertised in my signature. Hopefully that'll be worth at least a little towards keeping my identity safe.
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When I got interviewed by Wired Magazine and others for an article or two about a little web thing I was doing, Leander and all the reporters were sure to get me on the phone to repeat my comments to them, even if what I was saying to them was exactly what I had written on the website. A bunch of the smaller outlets did what C|Net did this time around and just copied my more conversational comments from my website, put quotations around it and made an article from it. I thought that was a little sketchy even while this was going on, but I was still happy for the coverage.
I suppose there's two points of view here. You could consider a web page or mailing list like a press conference, roundtable or demonstration where anyone who attends can write about it, but also you could hope that the reporters would put a little more effort into their stories and actually try to get original quotes when people like the Mozilla planners are so easy to contact via e-mail and telephone.
Or maybe in the tech news obsession to scoop the next guy, they're losing what professionalism is left. I sure hope not.
Not to point fingers, but Slashdot hasn't been exactly innocent of this lately, either.
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Everyone wears A&F so I must wear A&F to be more like everyone. Again this is because A&F makes it extremely convenient to say "I like A&F" while there is no easy way to say "I don't give a poop about A&F" or "I abhor A&F".
The only bad advertising is none at all.
When you see a disparaging remark, you read "A&F sucks because they're cheap trendy commercial pigs."
After five minutes, all the typical Amreican can remember is "A&F sucks." They're not sure why, but it really does.
After ten? All they remember is "A&F." After all, it must be a pretty cool place if they keep thinking about it.
. . . and the advertising has done it's job, even if that's not what the wearer may have intended. Better advertising through short-term memory.
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