My solution's always been to buy the band's entire in-print catalog at their concert. Sure, this means I blow 100 bucks when I go to a truly inspiring concert. But it sure does hammer home the idea that concerts are the ideal locus for this sort of thing.
Nowadays, RantRadio and whatever concerts pass through town are where I get my musical exposure...
When traveling to China a few months after 9/11 (in fact, just days after that dork tried to light his shoes on fire,) I went with a bag that contained nothing but a 4-ft long part for an industrial smelter that looked like a flamethrower. I had ten different kinds of documentation in my backpack to explain what in the unholy name of fuck it was, but I was never searched and the bag never got opened. I saw plenty of people getting their bags turned inside out (a few people on my flight got searched repeatedly in the same airport!) but I, someone who could reasonably expect a few questions about the possible flamethrower in my suitcase, experienced nothing. Well, I did have to take my boots off and put them on the x-ray... and boy, it sure was fun to hold the line up while I undid my 10-hole Doc Martens. Ho ho.
Remember that not all trash goes to the landfill- incinerators are a common destination for all the junk nowadays. This is just about as bad for our planet as one can get- not only do you not get the secondary resale benefits of recycling (many municipal recycling centers don't just break even... the Chinese buy all the recycled trash and sell it back to us again in reconstituted form,) you also get to suck down whatever nasty chemicals comprised the items. That is, if you're a person economically disadvantaged enough to live in the city, they never build these devils in the suburbs.
The only way to solve the patent problem is to remove the patent office's requirement to be self-funding. That way, there's no incentive for them to accept bad patents just because it pays.
Nothing else in patent reform matters before that is resolved.
For some reason, my girlfriend received Shift for free for about 2 years. It was mildly entertaining, but rather like Wired Lite without any of the insight.
They also suffered from the usual fate of an internet magazine- print's always half a year behind.
JPB: The thing that spooks me about the Total Information Awareness program is that that it's inside DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]. And unlike the CIA or the NSA, DARPA has a great track record of actually going out and making big technology happen -- because they're small, they're light, they're anti-bureaucratic, they're engineering minded. And Poindexter may be a convicted felon but he's a very, very smart guy. So where while I'd like to say there's no way that this is going to happen under any other circumstances, I'm less assured of that at the moment.
That DARPA is involved is the thing that reassures me about the IAO in general. DARPA is an institution mainly involved in powerpoint engineering. DARPA is the US's investment in what some of you may remember from Spaceward Ho! as "Radical Tech". It doesn't come to fruition very often, and you almost never get what you wanted.
An effective movement is driven by solid principles that make sense to everyone involved. The purpose of leaders is to get those principles into the minds of the public. If the principles don't take on a life of their own aside from how they're hyped by the leaders, the value of said principles is limited in movement-building.
I think you're getting the underlying motivations for a movement confused with the tactical execution of actions that involve it.
What rocked about the Game Gear was that it was just a Sega Master System in a handheld, and you could easily hack it up to run SMS games. Assuming, of course, you were the kind of guy who had the SMS in the first place and lots of games burning a hole in your desk drawer. Of course, if you were the kind of guy to have a Game Gear, that's not too far off.
This policy would be irresponsible to both the owner of the system and the vigilante cracker.
System owners get in trouble because suddenly someone has another reason to mess with their machine. It's not clear-cut for even an expert- You might say that it's criminal negligence to leave a system unsecured. Actually, no. We don't have the legal definition for these things yet. Furthermore, there's already an incentive for system owners to secure their own machines- the integrity of their own services and data.
Vigilantes are also on thin ice because it's easy to do more than you intended when "defending the law", and even the cops are in danger when they fuck up. What will you do when you accidentally cause collateral damage in the commission of your act of citizen policing? What if you just have the totally wrong machine? You don't have the authority of a uniform and a department to back you up.
All in all, this is a thoughtless proposal that should never be accepted by any legal authority worthy of the name.
There is nothing to stop them from suing you just to scare your ISP, or failing that, waste your time and money. Remember, they can stop you just as solidly with lawyer's fees and time wasted as they can with a court-backed injunction.
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My solution's always been to buy the band's entire in-print catalog at their concert. Sure, this means I blow 100 bucks when I go to a truly inspiring concert. But it sure does hammer home the idea that concerts are the ideal locus for this sort of thing.
Nowadays, RantRadio and whatever concerts pass through town are where I get my musical exposure...
When traveling to China a few months after 9/11 (in fact, just days after that dork tried to light his shoes on fire,) I went with a bag that contained nothing but a 4-ft long part for an industrial smelter that looked like a flamethrower. I had ten different kinds of documentation in my backpack to explain what in the unholy name of fuck it was, but I was never searched and the bag never got opened. I saw plenty of people getting their bags turned inside out (a few people on my flight got searched repeatedly in the same airport!) but I, someone who could reasonably expect a few questions about the possible flamethrower in my suitcase, experienced nothing. Well, I did have to take my boots off and put them on the x-ray... and boy, it sure was fun to hold the line up while I undid my 10-hole Doc Martens. Ho ho.
The impression I get is that perhaps, sometimes, it's better to die.
But when do you know? How can you tell? Ten years of court cases later?
Remember that not all trash goes to the landfill- incinerators are a common destination for all the junk nowadays. This is just about as bad for our planet as one can get- not only do you not get the secondary resale benefits of recycling (many municipal recycling centers don't just break even... the Chinese buy all the recycled trash and sell it back to us again in reconstituted form,) you also get to suck down whatever nasty chemicals comprised the items. That is, if you're a person economically disadvantaged enough to live in the city, they never build these devils in the suburbs.
...they STILL don't have curbside recycling in Delaware. Dorks.
What a shame, that album was otherwise full of croaking post-mortem monotone.
Glad I didn't buy it (a co-worker of mine had that "pleasure")
If MS wants to make copy restriction work, it'll do it by certifying drivers. Then it won't matter where you buy something.
I don't know what in the name of hell this Office Depot policy has to do with anything.
The only way to solve the patent problem is to remove the patent office's requirement to be self-funding. That way, there's no incentive for them to accept bad patents just because it pays.
Nothing else in patent reform matters before that is resolved.
Do you have a reliable source available that states, directly, "Looking Glass shut down due to piracy"? All I see are apocryphal rumors.
If you didn't care about the social aspects of tech, you wouldn't be reading Slashdot or (especially) posting!
Computer folks, like all specialists, possess their own culture. We do indeed like to read about it and discuss it.
For some reason, my girlfriend received Shift for free for about 2 years. It was mildly entertaining, but rather like Wired Lite without any of the insight.
They also suffered from the usual fate of an internet magazine- print's always half a year behind.
You would have to file tax returns for every state, have tax licenses in every state, and handle the bureaucracy for every state at once.
That isn't really acceptable- but there has to be a way for the states to catch up too.
Worth thinking about...
JPB: The thing that spooks me about the Total Information Awareness program is that that it's inside DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]. And unlike the CIA or the NSA, DARPA has a great track record of actually going out and making big technology happen -- because they're small, they're light, they're anti-bureaucratic, they're engineering minded. And Poindexter may be a convicted felon but he's a very, very smart guy. So where while I'd like to say there's no way that this is going to happen under any other circumstances, I'm less assured of that at the moment.
That DARPA is involved is the thing that reassures me about the IAO in general. DARPA is an institution mainly involved in powerpoint engineering. DARPA is the US's investment in what some of you may remember from Spaceward Ho! as "Radical Tech". It doesn't come to fruition very often, and you almost never get what you wanted.
An effective movement is driven by solid principles that make sense to everyone involved. The purpose of leaders is to get those principles into the minds of the public. If the principles don't take on a life of their own aside from how they're hyped by the leaders, the value of said principles is limited in movement-building.
I think you're getting the underlying motivations for a movement confused with the tactical execution of actions that involve it.
What rocked about the Game Gear was that it was just a Sega Master System in a handheld, and you could easily hack it up to run SMS games. Assuming, of course, you were the kind of guy who had the SMS in the first place and lots of games burning a hole in your desk drawer. Of course, if you were the kind of guy to have a Game Gear, that's not too far off.
Fucking awesome.
This policy would be irresponsible to both the owner of the system and the vigilante cracker.
System owners get in trouble because suddenly someone has another reason to mess with their machine. It's not clear-cut for even an expert- You might say that it's criminal negligence to leave a system unsecured. Actually, no. We don't have the legal definition for these things yet. Furthermore, there's already an incentive for system owners to secure their own machines- the integrity of their own services and data.
Vigilantes are also on thin ice because it's easy to do more than you intended when "defending the law", and even the cops are in danger when they fuck up. What will you do when you accidentally cause collateral damage in the commission of your act of citizen policing? What if you just have the totally wrong machine? You don't have the authority of a uniform and a department to back you up.
All in all, this is a thoughtless proposal that should never be accepted by any legal authority worthy of the name.
I don't know about you, but this is the sort of marketing I enjoy. I can't blame the slashdot editors for knowing what I like.
There is nothing to stop them from suing you just to scare your ISP, or failing that, waste your time and money. Remember, they can stop you just as solidly with lawyer's fees and time wasted as they can with a court-backed injunction.
Ehh, the real acid test is whether a bunch of crazed killers can bust into your meeting and turn the whole thing into a giant brawl.
In THAT, UO is king (at least in felucca.)
Uh huh. Oooooooh-kay.
And you use 500 miles of road to do it.
Maybe your amazing mind can set up a glider route to service your copiers.
All hail technocracy.
Such a thing will only happen with the consent of all involved, including said "celebrators" of Christmas.
He so totally forgot to mention shamanic magic, orks, and the Matrix.
At least there will still be trolls, regardless of what happens.