I'm sure it's easy to define weasels only as those who you believe have had a direct impact on your life whenever you are morally equivalent or ignorant to history (or both).... There are a ton of people who think that (ahem) Israel needs to "give Palestine back to the Palestinians", and a ton of people who thought Iraq should not have been held to UN weapon restrictions unless the USA are held to the same standard.
I can't say I'm surprised to see that "George W. Bush" is listed as the weasliest individual, considering that the vast majority of hollywood and half of the politicians in the country are gunning for him, armed with mountains of faux substance... It's almost as bad as the France thing, except there's plenty of really good reasons to pity the French, and not supporting the Iraq war shouldn't even be on the list. (Say what you want about Bush killing jobs, it doesn't even compare with the French enforcing a 35-hour max workweek.)
The solution to this problem involves the general public and natural selection, so I won't go into it here.
Drop the current three-letters-per-digit phone scheme and add six new numbers to every phone. Let's call them A, B, C, D, E, and F. Let's face it, for 6 extra digits, we get 2.5 times the phone numbers. Add 2 extra digits to the current limit of 10 digits per phone number, and it will be IPv6 compatible. And let's face it, there no more dificulty in remembering phone numbers if they include Alpha characters.
To be honest, the most useful PDAs seem to be used as anything but, as they are good for collecting or processing data "in the field", for such tasks as inventory and event tracking. I don't think smart phones will ever fill that particular role, and paper "day planners" and the like will continue to reign supreme when it comes to managing schedules and the like. To be completely honest, cell phones are inadequate when it comes to any sort of non-verbal input. Too bad.
"I'd love to be able to go FOX and buy the episode of the Futurama I missed the other night for a reasonable - considering it was free on the air price."
There's two factors motivating currect cable and TV channels from selling their content to the consumer for "cheap".... First of all, it wasn't free on the air, because they spend 7 minutes or so throwing commercials at you. Secondly, because of that, tapes or DVDs of these shows have to be priced well away from a reasonable price range, they figure, becuase they need advertisers to feel comfortable that the vast majority of people who watch will go straight to the channel hosting the show instead of buying commercial-free versions.
Let's face it, to attack media piracy you have to attack their current methods.... So, attack the majority of codecs that rely on the fact that motion picture images tend to change little from frame to frame over the course of a movie. If Hollywood made the jump to record every single movie in STEREOGRAPHIC 3D, could it be possible for moviegoers to gain a potentially more immersive viewing experience, while stomping out some of this digital piracy? I'm no expert on the matter, but I figure it is much easier to film and create than it is to take that product and convert it into data that could be reasonably compressed by modern codecs, seeing that every other frame is going to be significantly different than the last. I'm pretty sure an analog capture and compression would still be easy enough, but that's not what the MPAA is going after, as witnessed by the topic of this post.
"If a P2P application is found then an e-mail is sent to the user, a message is popped up on their screen, and their internet connection is disconnected." =-------------= Meanwhile, somewhere in Florida:
Student - "Hey, why did you guys disconnect my network connection?"
Administrator - "Didn't you read the e-mail we sent that explains all of this?"
Verisign does not deserve to be a "trust company". This sitefinder issue is just the latest in a series of unethical moves by verisign, dating back at least the "godaddy domain expiration letter" scam.
The sooner we slay this beast, the better.... With that said, I recently found out about a heck of a deal "Everyone's Internet" is running: "$25 SSL certificates". It's obvious that as a reseller for GeoTrust and as a webspace provider for small biz, they know that a ton of Mom & Pop shops that would jump at one of these in a second, even if profits from online sales were small, because a "secure order" page is great for their image.
On the other side, I've been using GoDaddy for years.
Here's the instructions written with the help of a really bad webcam and MS Paint. I really need to get a digital camera one day.
Why would someone do such a thing? This way, you don't have to import a Famicom to play your favorit famicom carts, which is a good thing if you decide to spend a ton of money on importing the best darn Famicom game ever.... (Sure, some people would call me insane, but I consider it to be more valuable and far more rare than several of today's newest top games, such as Tron 2, Jedi Academy, and HomeWorld 2.)
Says the article: "I can no longer avert my eyes from the consequences of the field I have chosen, and no one else who programs, administers, or promotes the use of computers can morally avert their eyes either."
Sorry, folks, but I will avert my eyes. Histroy doesn't shed too many tears for those who lost transcription jobs after the invention of the printing press, nor the buggywhip manufactures during the dawn of the automodible. This equation gets it all wrong.... From the view of the recently unemployed, they lost a job where their role was easily and reliably replaced by technology. Looking at the big picture and the history of innovation, the world loses little when this happens, because the population as a whole can better utilize human resources whenever there is a surplus of unutilized people.
A simple example.... Without modern advances in farming, all of the great technologies and techniques that came about over the last 2 centuries, I think it is reasonable to say that billions of people would spend their lives working framland rather and that advances in education, medicine, and technology would not have been remotely as great as they are today.
Even YOU have to admit.... Apathy is a French tradition! It's been there for centuries, and will outlive all of us. Look at the facts:
WWII: France didn't show up.
Operation Iraqi Freedom: A major turning point... The French turned out in drove to protest American action on this war... They made it all the way outside, standing on their doorsteps, for all of what must have been an hour or two before getting bored.
All the while, America has been bombarded with problems directly linked to the French... Canadians! French fries (causing health problems)! Is this what the country that gave the French our own Jerry Lewis deserves?
I mean, come on, think about it.... One of the big problems with every major dotcom in the last few years is the fact that none of them could escape the fact that they were one of a ton of small fish in a big pong. Just go to google and type in a search for "Operating System", Windows and Microsoft aren't even on the radar.
If this stuff (what little there is) is true, this probably is just extends what Gates has known for a while, in spite of.NET.... Internet Explorer is nothing more than a tool for the vast majority of users, something to help them get to websites that they want to go and facilitate interactions there. Passport Wallets did not become a de facto internet must-have.... Too many people don't shop on the web, spammers have trained the vast majority of internet users not to instinctively trust anyone (even Verisign, a _trust_ company, betrayed the trust of people with other domain registars with sleazy marketing tactics).... I recon Microsoft sees strength in themselves only by trying to keep their software updated and operating as people expect it to operate, along with traditional software sales, because their services from Passport to Hotmail to MSN probably don't account for anything more than a pittance.
I was surprised to see this up on FCC's website so quickly..... It's really nice to see Congress trying to prevent a train wreck that had more to do with the courts than anything started in the legistlative or executive branches.... And we all know which political party has few friends in and around the benches.
Can somebody answer me these questions, becuase I must be a clueless bafoon and the answers aren't found anywhere on google.com or moveon.org:
1) What's with all the paper in that petition picture? I mean, geez, the tree huggers must be having a heart attack over that massive ammount of waste. If it shocked me, I could only imagine...
2) (offtopic?) Item #2 on moveon.org, along with stuff about tons of money raised on an ad campaign.... I actually see mention about the "every 10 years Texas redistricting", but no mention about how it actually hurts democracy more when it favors Democrats more than Republicans this time around... It's been anti-republican redistrcting for the last 40 years or so, hasn't it? Even after this stuff, Republicans will still be licking old-democrat wounds;)... And not a mention of the run-away democrats hurting democracy and wasting taxpayer money by breaking the law that requires them to report to the Texas state capitol and conduct business as usual?
As far as the FCC ruling, I can't really find much more to say that hasn't been said, except that the FCC should probably force the radio stations to do a better job of being a source of public service.... It is _our_ airwaves, after all.
Just my observation, but I know me and many truck owners try to take things easy with our vehicles.... No overaccelerating, no sharp turns, always on the lookout for people who don't realize how carless they are when zipping in and out of traffic. Just my opinion, but it seems that the more maneuverable a car is, the more likely a driver in the car tends to think they are invincible and can bolt in to and out of any sort of traffic situation.
In my opinion, anyone who manages to flip over an explorer (without getting struck by a very large or fast vehicle first) doesn't desere to drive a car of any type.
Yeah, this will go slightly off topic and into the vaguely humorous zone... but man... at least producers in the United States try to do localization right before deploying the product. It seems lake Japanese industry is comfortable with the fact that the rest of the world accepts that their products aren't going to be properly localized 90% of the time, but they can get away with it because of overall product reliability and quality.
Members and freinds of Nikkei, I suppose.... Really, this just sounds like anti-Microsoft news, and a marketing hackjob where they take Linux or BSD stuff and wrap their own buzzwords around it, fending off pre-prepared Microsoft anti-linux propaganda that would usually follow announcements such as this one.
Of course, but it's been a long time and many lawsuits ago since various record companies used to attempt forcing songwriters to give up all of those rights.
Ever hear of ASCAP and BMI, or SESAC? You are right, radio doesn't have to pay the RIAA... instead they get to pay those other performance rights organizations, and trust me, they do get paid. The songwriters for everything from "Louie Louie" to "Baby Got Back" are going to continue to get royalties paid to them for quite some time....
The only difference in web streaming is that the RIAA moved themselves into a positions where webcasters must answer to the RIAA... ASCAP and others do have online licesnsing and so on, but that's not the same thing that RIAA got in on.
Quick note for those who don't read the articles..
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I didn't read the articles either, but this had to be cleared up for those who don't know the situation....
The RIAA, as an organization, managed to move themselves into a position where they are the sole entity authorized to collect and distribute the performance fees for music streaming. I am not aware of any group or comitee that oversees the RIAA in this activity, and being well aware of the unethical-when-they-can-get-away-with-it actions of their members, I think that it would not surprise anyone if the RIAA decided that smaller non-member music companies and performers were completely ignored when it comes time to pay out the fees RIAA colected on their behalf.
I have a page that wants to disagree with you, my Nekketsu Street Basket page, with the Javascript-based password generator at the bottom of the page. In this particular case, using static Javascript to create dynamic content on the fly is far superior to using any type of webserver-based technologies, especially when you consider the processing and bandwidth overhead. The only problem comes with browsers that do not support Javascript... Opera, IE, and Mozilla can supports it with no problems, that leaves nothing more than lynx and a few others. Even then, there's a nice message displayed that says the password generator won't work on those browsers, so it's covered.
I'd rather pay $40 an hour to a decent programmer who deploys the proper solutions in various situations than $20 to the black-belt programmer that does nothing but "Java servlets and JSP".
If this is as big as it *could* be, we are talking about an unrelenting, sustained attack that may be completely overlooked by the tons of people infected with SoBig.... Could be something of a permanant DoS.
Honestly, I meant for it to be " gamers seem to be far more 'socializers' than 'gamers' ", but yeah, it did kinda come out that way. I'm not "l33t", but what is somewhat scary to me is the preponderance of gamers who simply go through motions, and how it is evidenced in the slightest change to gameplay....
Excuse me for using my peronsal experience as an example. I should have used someone else's point-of-view instead;) .
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I'm sure it's easy to define weasels only as those who you believe have had a direct impact on your life whenever you are morally equivalent or ignorant to history (or both).... There are a ton of people who think that (ahem) Israel needs to "give Palestine back to the Palestinians", and a ton of people who thought Iraq should not have been held to UN weapon restrictions unless the USA are held to the same standard.
I can't say I'm surprised to see that "George W. Bush" is listed as the weasliest individual, considering that the vast majority of hollywood and half of the politicians in the country are gunning for him, armed with mountains of faux substance... It's almost as bad as the France thing, except there's plenty of really good reasons to pity the French, and not supporting the Iraq war shouldn't even be on the list. (Say what you want about Bush killing jobs, it doesn't even compare with the French enforcing a 35-hour max workweek.)
The solution to this problem involves the general public and natural selection, so I won't go into it here.
Drop the current three-letters-per-digit phone scheme and add six new numbers to every phone. Let's call them A, B, C, D, E, and F. Let's face it, for 6 extra digits, we get 2.5 times the phone numbers. Add 2 extra digits to the current limit of 10 digits per phone number, and it will be IPv6 compatible. And let's face it, there no more dificulty in remembering phone numbers if they include Alpha characters.
To be honest, the most useful PDAs seem to be used as anything but, as they are good for collecting or processing data "in the field", for such tasks as inventory and event tracking. I don't think smart phones will ever fill that particular role, and paper "day planners" and the like will continue to reign supreme when it comes to managing schedules and the like. To be completely honest, cell phones are inadequate when it comes to any sort of non-verbal input. Too bad.
"I'd love to be able to go FOX and buy the episode of the Futurama I missed the other night for a reasonable - considering it was free on the air price."
There's two factors motivating currect cable and TV channels from selling their content to the consumer for "cheap".... First of all, it wasn't free on the air, because they spend 7 minutes or so throwing commercials at you. Secondly, because of that, tapes or DVDs of these shows have to be priced well away from a reasonable price range, they figure, becuase they need advertisers to feel comfortable that the vast majority of people who watch will go straight to the channel hosting the show instead of buying commercial-free versions.
Let's face it, to attack media piracy you have to attack their current methods.... So, attack the majority of codecs that rely on the fact that motion picture images tend to change little from frame to frame over the course of a movie. If Hollywood made the jump to record every single movie in STEREOGRAPHIC 3D, could it be possible for moviegoers to gain a potentially more immersive viewing experience, while stomping out some of this digital piracy? I'm no expert on the matter, but I figure it is much easier to film and create than it is to take that product and convert it into data that could be reasonably compressed by modern codecs, seeing that every other frame is going to be significantly different than the last. I'm pretty sure an analog capture and compression would still be easy enough, but that's not what the MPAA is going after, as witnessed by the topic of this post.
"If a P2P application is found then an e-mail is sent to the user, a message is popped up on their screen, and their internet connection is disconnected."
=-------------=
Meanwhile, somewhere in Florida:
Student - "Hey, why did you guys disconnect my network connection?"
Administrator - "Didn't you read the e-mail we sent that explains all of this?"
Verisign does not deserve to be a "trust company". This sitefinder issue is just the latest in a series of unethical moves by verisign, dating back at least the "godaddy domain expiration letter" scam.
The sooner we slay this beast, the better.... With that said, I recently found out about a heck of a deal "Everyone's Internet" is running: "$25 SSL certificates". It's obvious that as a reseller for GeoTrust and as a webspace provider for small biz, they know that a ton of Mom & Pop shops that would jump at one of these in a second, even if profits from online sales were small, because a "secure order" page is great for their image.
On the other side, I've been using GoDaddy for years.
Down with Verisign.... We don't need you anymore.
Here's the instructions written with the help of a really bad webcam and MS Paint. I really need to get a digital camera one day.
Why would someone do such a thing? This way, you don't have to import a Famicom to play your favorit famicom carts, which is a good thing if you decide to spend a ton of money on importing the best darn Famicom game ever.... (Sure, some people would call me insane, but I consider it to be more valuable and far more rare than several of today's newest top games, such as Tron 2, Jedi Academy, and HomeWorld 2.)
Anyways, if you don't own a cart of Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu or Nekketsu Street Basket, try a game genie code that will let you play a 4 player game of Four Player Super Dodge Ball, or if you want to hack it, you could get a 3 player game of Stinger going.
Pure fun. Honest.
Says the article: "I can no longer avert my eyes from the consequences of the field I have chosen, and no one else who programs, administers, or promotes the use of computers can morally avert their eyes either."
Sorry, folks, but I will avert my eyes. Histroy doesn't shed too many tears for those who lost transcription jobs after the invention of the printing press, nor the buggywhip manufactures during the dawn of the automodible. This equation gets it all wrong.... From the view of the recently unemployed, they lost a job where their role was easily and reliably replaced by technology. Looking at the big picture and the history of innovation, the world loses little when this happens, because the population as a whole can better utilize human resources whenever there is a surplus of unutilized people.
A simple example.... Without modern advances in farming, all of the great technologies and techniques that came about over the last 2 centuries, I think it is reasonable to say that billions of people would spend their lives working framland rather and that advances in education, medicine, and technology would not have been remotely as great as they are today.
Even YOU have to admit.... Apathy is a French tradition! It's been there for centuries, and will outlive all of us. Look at the facts:
WWII: France didn't show up.
Operation Iraqi Freedom: A major turning point... The French turned out in drove to protest American action on this war... They made it all the way outside, standing on their doorsteps, for all of what must have been an hour or two before getting bored.
All the while, America has been bombarded with problems directly linked to the French... Canadians! French fries (causing health problems)! Is this what the country that gave the French our own Jerry Lewis deserves?
Apathy. It's a French thang.
I mean, come on, think about it.... One of the big problems with every major dotcom in the last few years is the fact that none of them could escape the fact that they were one of a ton of small fish in a big pong. Just go to google and type in a search for "Operating System", Windows and Microsoft aren't even on the radar.
.NET.... Internet Explorer is nothing more than a tool for the vast majority of users, something to help them get to websites that they want to go and facilitate interactions there. Passport Wallets did not become a de facto internet must-have.... Too many people don't shop on the web, spammers have trained the vast majority of internet users not to instinctively trust anyone (even Verisign, a _trust_ company, betrayed the trust of people with other domain registars with sleazy marketing tactics).... I recon Microsoft sees strength in themselves only by trying to keep their software updated and operating as people expect it to operate, along with traditional software sales, because their services from Passport to Hotmail to MSN probably don't account for anything more than a pittance.
If this stuff (what little there is) is true, this probably is just extends what Gates has known for a while, in spite of
Just my opinion.
I was surprised to see this up on FCC's website so quickly..... It's really nice to see Congress trying to prevent a train wreck that had more to do with the courts than anything started in the legistlative or executive branches.... And we all know which political party has few friends in and around the benches.
Can somebody answer me these questions, becuase I must be a clueless bafoon and the answers aren't found anywhere on google.com or moveon.org:
;) ... And not a mention of the run-away democrats hurting democracy and wasting taxpayer money by breaking the law that requires them to report to the Texas state capitol and conduct business as usual?
1) What's with all the paper in that petition picture? I mean, geez, the tree huggers must be having a heart attack over that massive ammount of waste. If it shocked me, I could only imagine...
2) (offtopic?) Item #2 on moveon.org, along with stuff about tons of money raised on an ad campaign.... I actually see mention about the "every 10 years Texas redistricting", but no mention about how it actually hurts democracy more when it favors Democrats more than Republicans this time around... It's been anti-republican redistrcting for the last 40 years or so, hasn't it? Even after this stuff, Republicans will still be licking old-democrat wounds
As far as the FCC ruling, I can't really find much more to say that hasn't been said, except that the FCC should probably force the radio stations to do a better job of being a source of public service.... It is _our_ airwaves, after all.
Just my observation, but I know me and many truck owners try to take things easy with our vehicles.... No overaccelerating, no sharp turns, always on the lookout for people who don't realize how carless they are when zipping in and out of traffic. Just my opinion, but it seems that the more maneuverable a car is, the more likely a driver in the car tends to think they are invincible and can bolt in to and out of any sort of traffic situation.
In my opinion, anyone who manages to flip over an explorer (without getting struck by a very large or fast vehicle first) doesn't desere to drive a car of any type.
Yeah, this will go slightly off topic and into the vaguely humorous zone... but man... at least producers in the United States try to do localization right before deploying the product. It seems lake Japanese industry is comfortable with the fact that the rest of the world accepts that their products aren't going to be properly localized 90% of the time, but they can get away with it because of overall product reliability and quality.
Members and freinds of Nikkei, I suppose.... Really, this just sounds like anti-Microsoft news, and a marketing hackjob where they take Linux or BSD stuff and wrap their own buzzwords around it, fending off pre-prepared Microsoft anti-linux propaganda that would usually follow announcements such as this one.
Of course, but it's been a long time and many lawsuits ago since various record companies used to attempt forcing songwriters to give up all of those rights.
SoundExchange is an entity created within RIAA.... Remember?
Ever hear of ASCAP and BMI, or SESAC? You are right, radio doesn't have to pay the RIAA... instead they get to pay those other performance rights organizations, and trust me, they do get paid. The songwriters for everything from "Louie Louie" to "Baby Got Back" are going to continue to get royalties paid to them for quite some time....
The only difference in web streaming is that the RIAA moved themselves into a positions where webcasters must answer to the RIAA... ASCAP and others do have online licesnsing and so on, but that's not the same thing that RIAA got in on.
I didn't read the articles either, but this had to be cleared up for those who don't know the situation....
The RIAA, as an organization, managed to move themselves into a position where they are the sole entity authorized to collect and distribute the performance fees for music streaming. I am not aware of any group or comitee that oversees the RIAA in this activity, and being well aware of the unethical-when-they-can-get-away-with-it actions of their members, I think that it would not surprise anyone if the RIAA decided that smaller non-member music companies and performers were completely ignored when it comes time to pay out the fees RIAA colected on their behalf.
I have a page that wants to disagree with you, my Nekketsu Street Basket page, with the Javascript-based password generator at the bottom of the page. In this particular case, using static Javascript to create dynamic content on the fly is far superior to using any type of webserver-based technologies, especially when you consider the processing and bandwidth overhead. The only problem comes with browsers that do not support Javascript... Opera, IE, and Mozilla can supports it with no problems, that leaves nothing more than lynx and a few others. Even then, there's a nice message displayed that says the password generator won't work on those browsers, so it's covered.
I'd rather pay $40 an hour to a decent programmer who deploys the proper solutions in various situations than $20 to the black-belt programmer that does nothing but "Java servlets and JSP".
If this is as big as it *could* be, we are talking about an unrelenting, sustained attack that may be completely overlooked by the tons of people infected with SoBig.... Could be something of a permanant DoS.
Nobody has confirmed for me yet, or shown evidence, that the rumors of SCO getting DoS'ed by SoBig are true or not.
Any links would be appreciated, especially by you bored network administrators observing traffic at large ISPs.
Honestly, I meant for it to be " gamers seem to be far more 'socializers' than 'gamers' ", but yeah, it did kinda come out that way. I'm not "l33t", but what is somewhat scary to me is the preponderance of gamers who simply go through motions, and how it is evidenced in the slightest change to gameplay....
;) .
Excuse me for using my peronsal experience as an example. I should have used someone else's point-of-view instead