As an anarcho-communist, I have to say, I don't acknowledge property rights. Why? Because property rights boil down to "I was here first, I stuck a flag in it, it is mine", and everything had a flag stuck in it before I was born, and I refuse to acknowledge a system that considers all of this to be someone elses property. It is not. It is my birthright, to share with others of my generation. If you claim I do not have a right to my birthright, I consider that justification to kill you and take it by force. Anarcho-communism is a contradiction, because wherever there are humans, there will be a desire to call something ones own, so there must be some institution to enforce the communist ideals.
As far as intellectual property and creative works are concerned, there are two ways to measure the value of those. The first way of measuring the value is to determine how much leverage you can achieve over your fellow man with them, how much they are willing to sacrifice to get it. That is a valuation based entirely within the system of property rights. But there is another way to measure the value. These types of works can also be measured in the advantage they bring humanity. The more people who are enlightened, entertained, educated, cultured, the more value. There is a third way: the price mechanism. Its the best and easiest way. A price just says how much something is valued by most people. It does not depend on any arbitrary definition of benefits to humanity or of leverage over other people.
The difference being that they're interactive; and, however slowly, people might start to build something.
Some time ago i had a lot of fun proving formulas in natural deduction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_deduction). It is kinda like a game. There are some deduction rules (the game rules), with which i had to successively transform some given formulas (the starting line) into other formulas, with the goal to finally reach a predetermined conclusion (finish line).
It would be interesting to see a game, which hides the mathematical details, but harnesses the human intelligence of the player, so that by playing the game one would contribute to solving mathematical problems with useful applications.
Lika a multiplayer game, for example, where each client computer gets a function in two variables, with which the client computer can generate a visual landscape, the field of view being limited by computing resources. The players are distributed in a predetermined area. The goal is then to fight against the other players and to get to the highest point of the landscape whitin a time limit. This would approximate a solution to a maximum problem.
Of course, this is a bad example, because there are algorithms which do this job better, but you get the idea. (At least there would be more people willing to give their computing ressources, if the game is fun.)
It might be possible to solve decision or halting problems, if they are coded in some kind of interesting game, and if there are enough players.
From the supposedly insecure terminal, log on to a secure machine, so that you can exchange text data with it, by using some kind of one time password.
Associated with every one time password is a set of one time parameters for a encoding/decoding algorithm. The association should be purely random, so that the parameters cannot be infered from the password. Then if you want to exchange text data with the secure machine, you will have to encode or decode the text data by using the algorithm with given parameters. By this, the knowledge of the password alone is of no use.
Of course, this solution leaves the question on the implementation open, and the implementation might not even be very handy, but it surely defeats keyloggers and screen recorders.
In the end the consumer will decide whats the right way round. Nobody has to watch these shows. And if this happens certainly nobody will invest money in these shows.
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...one question comes to mind: Is psychology really a science?
As well as no free energy.
The difference being that they're interactive; and, however slowly, people might start to build something.
Some time ago i had a lot of fun proving formulas in natural deduction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_deduction). It is kinda like a game. There are some deduction rules (the game rules), with which i had to successively transform some given formulas (the starting line) into other formulas, with the goal to finally reach a predetermined conclusion (finish line).
It would be interesting to see a game, which hides the mathematical details, but harnesses the human intelligence of the player, so that by playing the game one would contribute to solving mathematical problems with useful applications.
Lika a multiplayer game, for example, where each client computer gets a function in two variables, with which the client computer can generate a visual landscape, the field of view being limited by computing resources. The players are distributed in a predetermined area. The goal is then to fight against the other players and to get to the highest point of the landscape whitin a time limit. This would approximate a solution to a maximum problem.
Of course, this is a bad example, because there are algorithms which do this job better, but you get the idea. (At least there would be more people willing to give their computing ressources, if the game is fun.)
It might be possible to solve decision or halting problems, if they are coded in some kind of interesting game, and if there are enough players.
From the supposedly insecure terminal, log on to a secure machine, so that you can exchange text data with it, by using some kind of one time password.
Associated with every one time password is a set of one time parameters for a encoding/decoding algorithm. The association should be purely random, so that the parameters cannot be infered from the password. Then if you want to exchange text data with the secure machine, you will have to encode or decode the text data by using the algorithm with given parameters. By this, the knowledge of the password alone is of no use.
Of course, this solution leaves the question on the implementation open, and the implementation might not even be very handy, but it surely defeats keyloggers and screen recorders.
In the end the consumer will decide whats the right way round. Nobody has to watch these shows. And if this happens certainly nobody will invest money in these shows.