Your point is fair enough. If 'free speech' means not only the freedom to speak, however, but also the freedom to hear others speak, then freenet can still be quite valuable on the free speech front.
You don't *have to* hide things on freenet. That's merely optional. You can post them and announce them. On freenet, they cannot be removed. (until they disappear eventually from lack of interest.)
*You* can decide how much freedom/security/anonymity/accountability you need, but *your speech* (as it is embodied on freenet) will remain free.
The helpful comment above (all-in-one-file-browser) notwithstanding, (no, I'm not being sarcastic... it was helpful), I think the fellow left out the most important part.
If it were just another gui, perhaps there would have been a single line of explanation.
It's not just another gui, though, it's a gui with pedigree.
The original macintosh designers founded the company. That simple fact has given the company tsunamis worth of free publicity. (I know it got my attention.) The sky-high buzz factor probably accounts for the assumption we all know what it is by now.
Myself, I recognize the mac influence in the labels, (I forget the eazel term, but they are categorization tags for files), which is something I always missed from those mac days of yore. Hype or not, good work and power to 'em I say.
They've got a couple-hundred year history of trying wacky things like this, and it's always worked out beautifully.
Cats, foxes, bugs of varying types (even moths! go figure), cane toads to eat the bugs...
And, to the genetic glowing business I say: glowing, schmowing... even if you put the whole field under a black light, how psychedelic could it possibly be? But lick a cane toad on the other hand...
Notwithstanding all the previous posts that pointed out the foolishness in assuming 'anonymous' tracking will stay 'anonymous', I think you're missing the real point...
'Anonymous' tracking isn't harmless by any stretch of the imagination.
60% of people who visit the SMAP fanclub homepage visit pages on ecstasy parties within 2 hours afterwards.
Omigod. Call your congressman. SMAP causes drug abuse!
28% of visitors to the XYZ health center visit pages on abortion access.
Where do you get your funding, XYZ?
And, of course, there is a 93% correlation between readers of/. and visitors to the pages of the SPCJK (society for the promulgation of cruelty to jonkatz).
*They* don't care about *You* anyways. *You* are insignificant.
But if they could learn how to manipulate/control/smear the whole lot of you, now that would be worth something.
Two quick contentions in the/. article that I'm not so sure about:
First, that if the RIAA were to have taken Napster's billion, "their revenue would be up $739,000,000 over last year". Wasn't the Napster billion to be paid over the next X number of years?
Second, I don't think it's fair to say that Napster's only logical effects can be on digital media. Why is that?
It's not because mp3s are burned off of cd's. That doesn't make sense, does it? Does anybody say that the burning of mp3s costs sales? (ok, somebody might say that, but what does that have to do with Napster?) It's the download of mp3s that 'hurts sales'. Why would my having napstered some good mp3s make me less likely to buy a cassette vis-a-vis a cd?
This doesn't directly answer the question of how much you ought to charge, however, if you are wondering how much that overseas salary is really worth, (ie: can you live on 50k in japan?), go to a resource like the UNDP's Human Development Report and find out what the purchasing power parity is of their currency relative to yours, then do the math.
Perspective? Get a grip.
The post is about countries who haven't signed international copyright treaties, not Afghanistan. Pick another of those -A- countries, or even, (gasp), a -B- one and get to the point.
Sometimes it's hard to find all the terms on the page, I agree.
A handy trick, though, if you're not sure where the references are is to look at the googlecache of the page: it conveniently highlights each of the terms in different colours, making them easy to spot.
I can't figure out if you're joking or not. The point is, in a case insensitive system like the traditional Mac system, you can't have two different 'bar's in one directory. No matter how you capitalize them, there can only be one.
And so no problem figuring out which 'bar' to access... Use the only one there.
Forget about pirate vcds, I've hardly ever seen vcds in Japan. Maybe the original poster is thinking about some other country in the neighbourhood where vcds are popular like China or Thailand?
Canada doesn't have "zip codes" it has "postal codes", and anyways, that's not what they used to ask for: What did they ask for? You guessed it... area codes.
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Your point is fair enough. If 'free speech' means not only the freedom to speak, however, but also the freedom to hear others speak, then freenet can still be quite valuable on the free speech front.
You don't *have to* hide things on freenet. That's merely optional. You can post them and announce them. On freenet, they cannot be removed. (until they disappear eventually from lack of interest.)
*You* can decide how much freedom/security/anonymity/accountability you need, but *your speech* (as it is embodied on freenet) will remain free.
The helpful comment above (all-in-one-file-browser) notwithstanding, (no, I'm not being sarcastic... it was helpful), I think the fellow left out the most important part.
If it were just another gui, perhaps there would have been a single line of explanation.
It's not just another gui, though, it's a gui with pedigree.
The original macintosh designers founded the company. That simple fact has given the company tsunamis worth of free publicity. (I know it got my attention.) The sky-high buzz factor probably accounts for the assumption we all know what it is by now.
Myself, I recognize the mac influence in the labels, (I forget the eazel term, but they are categorization tags for files), which is something I always missed from those mac days of yore.
Hype or not, good work and power to 'em I say.
Ballblazer. WAY fun.
They've got a couple-hundred year history of trying wacky things like this, and it's always worked out beautifully.
Cats, foxes, bugs of varying types (even moths! go figure), cane toads to eat the bugs...
And, to the genetic glowing business I say: glowing, schmowing... even if you put the whole field under a black light, how psychedelic could it possibly be? But lick a cane toad on the other hand...
Notwithstanding all the previous posts that pointed out the foolishness in assuming 'anonymous' tracking will stay 'anonymous', I think you're missing the real point...
/. and visitors to the pages of the SPCJK (society for the promulgation of cruelty to jonkatz).
'Anonymous' tracking isn't harmless by any stretch of the imagination.
60% of people who visit the SMAP fanclub homepage visit pages on ecstasy parties within 2 hours afterwards.
Omigod. Call your congressman. SMAP causes drug abuse!
28% of visitors to the XYZ health center visit pages on abortion access.
Where do you get your funding, XYZ?
And, of course, there is a 93% correlation between readers of
*They* don't care about *You* anyways. *You* are insignificant.
But if they could learn how to manipulate/control/smear the whole lot of you, now that would be worth something.
Two quick contentions in the /. article that I'm not so sure about:
First, that if the RIAA were to have taken Napster's billion, "their revenue would be up $739,000,000 over last year". Wasn't the Napster billion to be paid over the next X number of years?
Second, I don't think it's fair to say that Napster's only logical effects can be on digital media. Why is that?
It's not because mp3s are burned off of cd's. That doesn't make sense, does it? Does anybody say that the burning of mp3s costs sales? (ok, somebody might say that, but what does that have to do with Napster?) It's the download of mp3s that 'hurts sales'. Why would my having napstered some good mp3s make me less likely to buy a cassette vis-a-vis a cd?
Dang. Where's that spreadsheet when I need it?
No, I don't think vcds were ever popular in japan. Maybe Thailand or China, but my guess is japan has bought into dvds big-time.
(Most all of their tvs are widescreen for one thing.)
Okay, they censor peacefire. But do they censor cnn?
g /
At my work they censor peacefire, but this still does the trick:
http://a1.g.akamaitech.net/6/6/6/6/peacefire.or
This doesn't directly answer the question of how much you ought to charge, however, if you are wondering how much that overseas salary is really worth, (ie: can you live on 50k in japan?), go to a resource like the UNDP's Human Development Report and find out what the purchasing power parity is of their currency relative to yours, then do the math.
I second this comment. LMAO is right.
1, off-topic? Please.
It should be (Score: 5, Hall of Fame Funny.)
Perspective? Get a grip.
The post is about countries who haven't signed international copyright treaties, not Afghanistan. Pick another of those -A- countries, or even, (gasp), a -B- one and get to the point.
Sometimes it's hard to find all the terms on the page, I agree.
A handy trick, though, if you're not sure where the references are is to look at the googlecache of the page:
it conveniently highlights each of the terms in different colours, making them easy to spot.
YMMV, of course, but works for me.
>Say this is our directory:
>Foo
>bAR
>Bar
I can't figure out if you're joking or not. The point is, in a case insensitive system like the traditional Mac system, you can't have two different 'bar's in one directory. No matter how you capitalize them, there can only be one.
And so no problem figuring out which 'bar' to access... Use the only one there.
Forget about pirate vcds, I've hardly ever seen vcds in Japan. Maybe the original poster is thinking about some other country in the neighbourhood where vcds are popular like China or Thailand?
Canada doesn't have "zip codes" it has "postal codes", and anyways, that's not what they used to ask for: What did they ask for? You guessed it... area codes.