Enjoy it yourself? Are you "massaging" your prostate or something? Once you start doing that with "heavy equipment" it sounds like you are a couple drinks away from outsourcing that work to "consultants" you meet in a "bar".
As for the friends dropping by to use it, I assume those are chicks. In that case you are just lazy. The chick will have a good time but you will look a dufus watching her from the couch.
Take a hands on approach. Even if it is with modified power tools, get in there and do the job yourself. It's more rewarding that way.
My prediction, once storage size allows, is that a single community website/program/app/portal will emerge that contains all music, and remains updated by the community. You would then periodically sync your device if you want to listen to a newly-released album, receiving 100s more.
I think this is inevitable. It closely mimics human behavior anyways. When you have a distribution system that allows for the term "viral", it is a matter of when, not if, such a system is created. Illegal, or not.
This is why the alternative business model arguments will eventually fall flat. There is almost no way for artists or businesses to offer a superior product to this. For music, perhaps concerts may work, but then only for music that works in a live setting. Much electronic music doesn't fall into this category (and can be replicated live by someone other than the artist pushing the play button). For movies, screenings are becoming less attractive with home theatre For books, live readings are hardly going to cut it even for fiction, and I'd like to see the Gang of Four touring the world with renditions of Design Patterns.
What is the product though? I think you are confusing a distribution system as a product, and the content as a product.
Current content distribution systems will be hugely inferior to such proposed and hypothetical systems. Not only will they cost more, but they will offer less features and more often come with DRM. DRM is not a product. If that is a product, then a hooker can claim her STDs were products you received as well.
Content as a product will always be desirable and able to compete with each other.
As for the alternative business models, I will get to that in a minute....
However all talk of profitability may be a red herring. The real question is do we have a right to 'own' intellectual property, ideas or artistic concepts. For some reason we argue about acceptable levels of profitability, which is similar to the idea that it's okay to steal from multinational chains but not the corner shop. Perhaps it shows that society is all about pragmatism and equality of wealth distribution rather than ideals and innate rights.
We emphatically do not have the right to own intellectual property, ideas or artistic concepts. That idea is based in greed, a horrible sense of entitlement, and a dismissive attitude about just how many people and generations contributed to the environment that allowed you the luxury to have created your works in the first place.
The question is why do we allow temporary control over intellectual property in the first place? The answer is that it is simply the best system we have to foster the creation of new works, ideas, and art, which adds to our collective wealth (aka The Public Domain).
Profitability was never the question. That is simply a means to an end, which is how to provide a standard of living to the creator. That's a standard of living, not a promise of being a fucking hundred millionaire or billionaire.
Coming back to the alternative business model, what is the best system to foster content creation? Well considering that a viral distribution system is based on popularity, the resultant exposure could put someone in a position to profit handsomely. We are not talking advertising dollars here either. I can see something similar to Kickstarter, where a group gets crowd funding.
Can you imagine if that was all that was really required to keep a show like Firefly on the air? Just some reasonable funding? I think it could have easily happened.
One of my favorite comedians, Louis C.K has been releasing his shows DRM free for about $5-10 each. Just started bypassing the big ticket companies and offering tickets by himself to his own shows. He is definitely trying to new things and pushing the envelope on how a comedian can be profitable without a bunch of middle men fucki
Well considering his entire post sounds like Popeye, I am willing to bet that one of the "The Beetles" (note the spelling) is probably referring to one of Olive Oil's slower relatives.
It's not that bad when you are zoomed that far out.
Hell, if you were to look at World War II from space it probably seemed quite peaceful.
Try zooming in. 60m rise completely eliminates New Orleans, Houston, Corpus Christi, Florida (like the whole fucking state), etc. Don't get excited just because it takes out most of New Jersey too.
Just a 3m rise takes out Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Venice in Italy. Extensive damage to Alexandria in Egypt as well as their coastal areas.
Yeah sure, it's not Water World, but more than a couple places just completely gone.
As for people walking about with a complete music library, that's just delusional; a typical song at high quality is 5 MB, a typical album is 10 songs, or 50 MB, so a 64 GB device can only hold 1000 albums. That's about 6 months' worth of the US & UK output alone. Quibble with my numbers if you like, but there's no way your getting two orders of magnitude out of that.
He did mention Moore's Law. In the last couple of months I can recall a couple of articles about predicted hard drive sizes in the next 10 years. It may very well go up a couple of orders. If a portable device had a couple hundred TB, or even a PB, then we could very well be in a different ball game.
Will sizes increase? For music I cannot imagine by much. Certainly not orders. Even FLAC is not more than several times the size. Movies could possibly increase in size.... but to what real value? Do you need 10000x10000 pixels on a mobile device? Storage sizes will increase far more rapidly than file sizes.
He also mentioned apps. I use an RSS feed to automatically download stuff all the time. It is not beyond reason to expect that one could be automatically downloading certain genres of music and movies. Slacker already does this for me when it caches popular stations.
Does it have to be everything? No.
Even if people just walked around with the most current and popular content being automatically synced across portable devices it could be the endgame for content providers.
Given people's penchant for sharing, that may well be a possibility. Writing is on the wall. People's behavior is limited by two factors, laziness (convenience) and availability of technology. The desire to do this is already there.
Most consumer devices sold today, that are used for GPS, are not standalone systems.
That includes Apple, Android, OnStar, BlackBerry, Microsoft, etc. Not just Android at all. In fact, some of the *standalone* devices offer the ability to manage travel plans online.
If we just went by percentages, right now, how many devices with GPS enabled are communicating location information to 3rd party companies?
GPS has everything to do with privacy, as it is currently implemented.
Where is a standalone GPS? Pretty damn few out there right now.
The challenge with GPS is that nearly every consumer device out there we are shoving it into does not let the consumer control who gets the information. You may *think* you control it, but you really do not. Too many things ask for it, even though it is not required, and the carriers get it anyways.
You don't have to be wearing tin foil to have legitimate concerns about technology like this. Certainly not in light of recent history, and even current events in some countries.
Each position's pattern of signals and signal strength is going to be unique
Unique at that moment in time. I change the wireless in my building and the signature changes. Wireless carrier changes something on a mast and the signature changes.
This can only work if you have a DB of precise locations of wireless signals. Even assuming that is viable, it cannot replace GPS as is.
Personally, I think we need less technology to pinpoint where we are. Trading convenience for security and privacy and all that.....
Not exactly trolling. Google has never done very well in the support and consistency department. Having to deal with the YouTube API has given me some insights into just what a PITA it is to deal with Google on an ongoing basis.
Google has never really been shy about pulling the plug on a project either. Which is what almost everything seems to be to them. At some point you have to let a project die, so I can't really blame them for being conservative with resources, but it does not help the people that started to rely on it.
All that being said though, I think it is a pretty good assumption this will be a paid offering, and as such will not have the plug pulled. Certainly, not before migration plans could be made.
I don't think there is a strict adherence to that rule. I've been setting up MX records for 15 years with A recs, and not IP addresses. More than a couple of DNS interfaces I have used in that time period have wizards and templates that set it up that way too.
In fact, that is how I learned to set it up that way in the first place.
Currently using Poweradmin and it has those default templates.
It does not say but I would imagine the answer is yes.
This seems to be a voluntary agreement and the operative word is "accused". Well, the ISPs have never been in the business of accusing anyone. That leaves the MAFIAA and their data collection methods. Since those collection methods don't take into account whether or not the IP address in question belongs to a consumer or business account, I would imagine they don't care.
However, the better questions would be:
1) Are the ISPs going to effectively share data with the MAFIAA, bypassing due process, eliminating all vestiges of privacy, and turn over customer data upon request? 2) Even worse, will the MAFIAA have dedicated access to customer information? 3) Would the MAFIAA specifically target customers according to demographics? Go after businesses first, and higher income areas second?
As for being 'the most effective tool yet", I sincerely doubt it. These collection methods are not going to reveal much on private trackers. Costs of implementing a signature based system, that can be bypassed by even the simplest of encryption, are quite considerable. I don't see ISPs agreeing to that since they would need to raise prices across the board.
Once enough people get enough strikes you will see the rise of the private trackers and the death of the public trackers. Information exchange will become more protected, and thus harder to track, and therefore not as available to be used as the basis for accusations.
Plus, business connections are considerably more expensive. That difference could just as easily be spent on a VPS/seedbox instead.
Yeah it had the wrong time but did not freeze up. What's your excuse?
You're really trying that hard to troll huh?
A free operating system has a bug in it so you want to exaggerate the existence of the bug to show that free operating systems are inferior in such a condescending and acerbic way.
I guess that can work. It's not like there is any paid OS out there that has decades long histories of serious instability, security flaws, and badly implemented ideas...... so yeah, you're completely safe making such an arrogant argument.
It's the beginning of mass amounts of hosted VPS/torrent solutions and SFTP traffic.
Laws have never once curbed popular behavior without huge losses of life and civil war. So until there is the decapitation, or drawn-and-quartered rule, I sincerely doubt behavior modification will be the outcome.
Trying to ban SFTP traffic is not going to work, and trying to play whack-a-mole with VPS/seedbox providers will be fruitless.
I just don't get that. You lose so much going to Google in terms of control and privacy. Sure, it's the path of least resistance, but the loss of privacy with a company where you are the product is way too distasteful to me.
SPAM is practically a non issue anyways. SpamCop and Spamhaus solve 99% of my spam issues before I even accept a connection along with a good malicious URL block list to scan accepted messages and delete them outright.
I don't buy that it is too hard to run a mail server. I'm running one right now for almost a thousand users and several dozen domains and I spend a few hours a month, if that.
Most of that time is tracking down why somebody's email did not go out, or why an email was not received.
Can Google show you full mail server logs to diagnose why something might not be coming through/getting out?
I don't think you need a static to run a mail server as long as you have a dynamic DNS.
Most DHCP addresses are pretty damn static anyways. I know with DynDns you can set the TTL to be very short (in seconds on a paid account) which would take care of an address that changes every 24 hours.
As long as you can control basic DNS records for your domain (GoDaddy even lets you do that) you can set the MX record for the domain to be the Dynamic DNS address and the whole thing should work just fine.
I've never actually tested it, but it sounds like it would work in theory.
In practice though, even that static IP might not help you. I use policy block lists, so if the ISP actually lists the address in a PBL, my mail server is probably going to give you a problem.
You know that is probably the single greatest benefit of being a Jedi. You could pass the nastiest gas in a crowded elevator (turbo lift, whatever) and just wave your hands and nobody would remember you did it.
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Wait.. what?
Enjoy it yourself? Are you "massaging" your prostate or something? Once you start doing that with "heavy equipment" it sounds like you are a couple drinks away from outsourcing that work to "consultants" you meet in a "bar".
As for the friends dropping by to use it, I assume those are chicks. In that case you are just lazy. The chick will have a good time but you will look a dufus watching her from the couch.
Take a hands on approach. Even if it is with modified power tools, get in there and do the job yourself. It's more rewarding that way.
And, it's not just for porn
Clearly. If Google was that good at indexing porn videos the service would not be cancelled. It would become a profit center.
My prediction, once storage size allows, is that a single community website/program/app/portal will emerge that contains all music, and remains updated by the community. You would then periodically sync your device if you want to listen to a newly-released album, receiving 100s more.
I think this is inevitable. It closely mimics human behavior anyways. When you have a distribution system that allows for the term "viral", it is a matter of when, not if, such a system is created. Illegal, or not.
This is why the alternative business model arguments will eventually fall flat. There is almost no way for artists or businesses to offer a superior product to this. For music, perhaps concerts may work, but then only for music that works in a live setting. Much electronic music doesn't fall into this category (and can be replicated live by someone other than the artist pushing the play button). For movies, screenings are becoming less attractive with home theatre For books, live readings are hardly going to cut it even for fiction, and I'd like to see the Gang of Four touring the world with renditions of Design Patterns.
What is the product though? I think you are confusing a distribution system as a product, and the content as a product.
Current content distribution systems will be hugely inferior to such proposed and hypothetical systems. Not only will they cost more, but they will offer less features and more often come with DRM. DRM is not a product. If that is a product, then a hooker can claim her STDs were products you received as well.
Content as a product will always be desirable and able to compete with each other.
As for the alternative business models, I will get to that in a minute....
However all talk of profitability may be a red herring. The real question is do we have a right to 'own' intellectual property, ideas or artistic concepts. For some reason we argue about acceptable levels of profitability, which is similar to the idea that it's okay to steal from multinational chains but not the corner shop. Perhaps it shows that society is all about pragmatism and equality of wealth distribution rather than ideals and innate rights.
We emphatically do not have the right to own intellectual property, ideas or artistic concepts. That idea is based in greed, a horrible sense of entitlement, and a dismissive attitude about just how many people and generations contributed to the environment that allowed you the luxury to have created your works in the first place.
The question is why do we allow temporary control over intellectual property in the first place? The answer is that it is simply the best system we have to foster the creation of new works, ideas, and art, which adds to our collective wealth (aka The Public Domain).
Profitability was never the question. That is simply a means to an end, which is how to provide a standard of living to the creator. That's a standard of living, not a promise of being a fucking hundred millionaire or billionaire.
Coming back to the alternative business model, what is the best system to foster content creation? Well considering that a viral distribution system is based on popularity, the resultant exposure could put someone in a position to profit handsomely. We are not talking advertising dollars here either. I can see something similar to Kickstarter, where a group gets crowd funding.
Can you imagine if that was all that was really required to keep a show like Firefly on the air? Just some reasonable funding? I think it could have easily happened.
One of my favorite comedians, Louis C.K has been releasing his shows DRM free for about $5-10 each. Just started bypassing the big ticket companies and offering tickets by himself to his own shows. He is definitely trying to new things and pushing the envelope on how a comedian can be profitable without a bunch of middle men fucki
Well considering his entire post sounds like Popeye, I am willing to bet that one of the "The Beetles" (note the spelling) is probably referring to one of Olive Oil's slower relatives.
I know, I never liked Florida either.
You think that is funny... take a look at what happens to New Jersey. Perhaps they could finally stop making that show...
It's not that bad when you are zoomed that far out.
Hell, if you were to look at World War II from space it probably seemed quite peaceful.
Try zooming in. 60m rise completely eliminates New Orleans, Houston, Corpus Christi, Florida (like the whole fucking state), etc. Don't get excited just because it takes out most of New Jersey too.
Just a 3m rise takes out Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Venice in Italy. Extensive damage to Alexandria in Egypt as well as their coastal areas.
Yeah sure, it's not Water World, but more than a couple places just completely gone.
As for people walking about with a complete music library, that's just delusional; a typical song at high quality is 5 MB, a typical album is 10 songs, or 50 MB, so a 64 GB device can only hold 1000 albums. That's about 6 months' worth of the US & UK output alone. Quibble with my numbers if you like, but there's no way your getting two orders of magnitude out of that.
He did mention Moore's Law. In the last couple of months I can recall a couple of articles about predicted hard drive sizes in the next 10 years. It may very well go up a couple of orders. If a portable device had a couple hundred TB, or even a PB, then we could very well be in a different ball game.
Will sizes increase? For music I cannot imagine by much. Certainly not orders. Even FLAC is not more than several times the size. Movies could possibly increase in size.... but to what real value? Do you need 10000x10000 pixels on a mobile device? Storage sizes will increase far more rapidly than file sizes.
He also mentioned apps. I use an RSS feed to automatically download stuff all the time. It is not beyond reason to expect that one could be automatically downloading certain genres of music and movies. Slacker already does this for me when it caches popular stations.
Does it have to be everything? No.
Even if people just walked around with the most current and popular content being automatically synced across portable devices it could be the endgame for content providers.
Given people's penchant for sharing, that may well be a possibility. Writing is on the wall. People's behavior is limited by two factors, laziness (convenience) and availability of technology. The desire to do this is already there.
Stock prices say differently.
Most consumer devices sold today, that are used for GPS, are not standalone systems.
That includes Apple, Android, OnStar, BlackBerry, Microsoft, etc. Not just Android at all. In fact, some of the *standalone* devices offer the ability to manage travel plans online.
If we just went by percentages, right now, how many devices with GPS enabled are communicating location information to 3rd party companies?
GPS has everything to do with privacy, as it is currently implemented.
Where is a standalone GPS? Pretty damn few out there right now.
The challenge with GPS is that nearly every consumer device out there we are shoving it into does not let the consumer control who gets the information. You may *think* you control it, but you really do not. Too many things ask for it, even though it is not required, and the carriers get it anyways.
You don't have to be wearing tin foil to have legitimate concerns about technology like this. Certainly not in light of recent history, and even current events in some countries.
Each position's pattern of signals and signal strength is going to be unique
Unique at that moment in time. I change the wireless in my building and the signature changes. Wireless carrier changes something on a mast and the signature changes.
This can only work if you have a DB of precise locations of wireless signals. Even assuming that is viable, it cannot replace GPS as is.
Personally, I think we need less technology to pinpoint where we are. Trading convenience for security and privacy and all that.....
I fear the revenge of the nerds
If you can't beat em, join em.
They let Ogre join, so you have a real good chance.
How long until Google cancels it?
Not exactly trolling. Google has never done very well in the support and consistency department. Having to deal with the YouTube API has given me some insights into just what a PITA it is to deal with Google on an ongoing basis.
Google has never really been shy about pulling the plug on a project either. Which is what almost everything seems to be to them. At some point you have to let a project die, so I can't really blame them for being conservative with resources, but it does not help the people that started to rely on it.
All that being said though, I think it is a pretty good assumption this will be a paid offering, and as such will not have the plug pulled. Certainly, not before migration plans could be made.
Lol.
I love that video. The music reminds me of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
I don't think there is a strict adherence to that rule. I've been setting up MX records for 15 years with A recs, and not IP addresses. More than a couple of DNS interfaces I have used in that time period have wizards and templates that set it up that way too.
In fact, that is how I learned to set it up that way in the first place.
Currently using Poweradmin and it has those default templates.
It does not say but I would imagine the answer is yes.
This seems to be a voluntary agreement and the operative word is "accused". Well, the ISPs have never been in the business of accusing anyone. That leaves the MAFIAA and their data collection methods. Since those collection methods don't take into account whether or not the IP address in question belongs to a consumer or business account, I would imagine they don't care.
However, the better questions would be:
1) Are the ISPs going to effectively share data with the MAFIAA, bypassing due process, eliminating all vestiges of privacy, and turn over customer data upon request?
2) Even worse, will the MAFIAA have dedicated access to customer information?
3) Would the MAFIAA specifically target customers according to demographics? Go after businesses first, and higher income areas second?
As for being 'the most effective tool yet", I sincerely doubt it. These collection methods are not going to reveal much on private trackers. Costs of implementing a signature based system, that can be bypassed by even the simplest of encryption, are quite considerable. I don't see ISPs agreeing to that since they would need to raise prices across the board.
Once enough people get enough strikes you will see the rise of the private trackers and the death of the public trackers. Information exchange will become more protected, and thus harder to track, and therefore not as available to be used as the basis for accusations.
Plus, business connections are considerably more expensive. That difference could just as easily be spent on a VPS/seedbox instead.
The benefit of funny is that he understands that nobody was actually taking him seriously......
Yeah it had the wrong time but did not freeze up. What's your excuse?
You're really trying that hard to troll huh?
A free operating system has a bug in it so you want to exaggerate the existence of the bug to show that free operating systems are inferior in such a condescending and acerbic way.
I guess that can work. It's not like there is any paid OS out there that has decades long histories of serious instability, security flaws, and badly implemented ideas...... so yeah, you're completely safe making such an arrogant argument.
The next logical step for them is to make encryption illegal
The moment that happens, they have outlawed privacy.
That meets my litmus test for a totalitarian state and when I am honor bound to die attempting to reclaim our country.
In short, civil war.
Hardly.
It's the beginning of mass amounts of hosted VPS/torrent solutions and SFTP traffic.
Laws have never once curbed popular behavior without huge losses of life and civil war. So until there is the decapitation, or drawn-and-quartered rule, I sincerely doubt behavior modification will be the outcome.
Trying to ban SFTP traffic is not going to work, and trying to play whack-a-mole with VPS/seedbox providers will be fruitless.
Yes.... but being able to export our democracy to Iraq? Priceless.
I just don't get that. You lose so much going to Google in terms of control and privacy. Sure, it's the path of least resistance, but the loss of privacy with a company where you are the product is way too distasteful to me.
SPAM is practically a non issue anyways. SpamCop and Spamhaus solve 99% of my spam issues before I even accept a connection along with a good malicious URL block list to scan accepted messages and delete them outright.
I don't buy that it is too hard to run a mail server. I'm running one right now for almost a thousand users and several dozen domains and I spend a few hours a month, if that.
Most of that time is tracking down why somebody's email did not go out, or why an email was not received.
Can Google show you full mail server logs to diagnose why something might not be coming through/getting out?
I don't think the static IP makes any difference. It probably is still listed in the PBLs.
Only need I ever came across for one was site-to-site VPN tunnels.
Most static IP addresses are on business accounts, and you are allowed to run servers on those.
I don't think you need a static to run a mail server as long as you have a dynamic DNS.
Most DHCP addresses are pretty damn static anyways. I know with DynDns you can set the TTL to be very short (in seconds on a paid account) which would take care of an address that changes every 24 hours.
As long as you can control basic DNS records for your domain (GoDaddy even lets you do that) you can set the MX record for the domain to be the Dynamic DNS address and the whole thing should work just fine.
I've never actually tested it, but it sounds like it would work in theory.
In practice though, even that static IP might not help you. I use policy block lists, so if the ISP actually lists the address in a PBL, my mail server is probably going to give you a problem.
If Cisco is being this monumentally stupid the next step is signed firmware.
You can dump them out of that list in the future.
You know that is probably the single greatest benefit of being a Jedi. You could pass the nastiest gas in a crowded elevator (turbo lift, whatever) and just wave your hands and nobody would remember you did it.