I played with it with the first-gen Minstral CDPD Palm modem to control my desktop (which was connected to the net via ISDN).. Somewhat of a pain to scroll around, but if you have your vnc session set to 640x480, it's not that bad...
Abstract: This document provides an initial proposal for the Open Software Description (OSD) format. OSD, an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a vocabulary used for describing software packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous clients. We expect OSD to be useful in automated software distribution environments.
Imagine a world where ALL textbooks are password-protected, time-limited, etc. How does Steve Wozniak learn electronics? How does Edison learn physics or engineering? How does ANY person of limited means learn ANYTHING? And how do we pool our knowledge on anything from "how do you set the VCR clock" to "how do you make starship"?
Silly article.. Maybe they should do something on cars of the future and how they'll fly and have 18 cup holders. Or how about the TV of the future with 20000 channels. Maybe the robot of the future that will clean your flying car and change channels for you. A space-age oven that you put a food pill in and out pops a complete meal.
Hey Steve, here are some better ways to protect your revinue streams:
Lobby congress to require all free and comercial os's to remove the ability to store any file who's name ends with '.mp3'Have them remove the ability to rename files while you're at it, just in case.
Prevent CD ripping: create a new CD standard that requires new players. Those players will only send encrypted audio to speakers. (of course CD prices will have to be 'temporarily' doubled to compensate for new production as they were when CD's were first created.. then the price fix will convieniently be forgotton)
Require all citizens (including the deaf ones -- you can never be too careful) to wear electronic monitoring devices that will listen for hidden watermarks in any music being played in public. Using a cellphone transmitter in the device, it will report what you hear, and bill appropriately. (Removal of the device may result in civil and criminal penalties.) Don't worry, the 'consumer' will be given the chance to opt-out of any market tracking information gathering.
Require that all public and private festivals, gatherings, parties, or similar, is licensed. Such license will only be granted if an RIAA representitive is scheduled to be present to make sure rolalties are collected from all attendies for any performance of any protected song. Failure to do so will result in severe penalties for all attendies, as well as racketeering charges for the event organizer.
Nobody realizes that musical merchandise makes up a huge amount of revinue. Every time some teen cluts a picture of a band member out of a teen magazine and puts it in his/her school locker, thats money lost from potential picture sales. I suggest that all magazines with any RIAA protected pictures should be licensed instead of sold (see the software industry on how to do this), then returned upon request. Then simply charge the consumer for any missing pictures. (This will require banning photocopiers of course)
All paint, hobbyist screening equipment, markers, pens, and other art material should be monitored somehow to make sure there is no illegal reproduction of any band's logo.
They should beta test this kind of stuff on politicians. Maybe they'll make this sort of thing illegal once enough of them are tracked and caught sleeping around, accepting bribes, selling political influence to foriegn nations, etc...
If TIVO, and products like it, become more and more popular, will the very nature of advertising on television change as a result?
Rest assurred that if even a single dollar is lost because of this, the advertisers will likely spend a few bucks and lobby hardcore to make such digital recording devices illegal, citing DMCA, copyright legalities, and in general going on a napster-like witch hunt. That is, if the MPAA doesn't get there first when they realize that soon TiVo hackers will be able to back up entire TV shows and movies to CD and friends' harddrives.
Perhaps they will force the manufacturers to put in code that, upon hitting a commercial break, diables any fast-forwarding until the commercial break is over. This would be relatively easy to do if commercial codes were somehow encoded somewhere in an unused portion of the video signal.
Actually, there would be little preventing Sony or Phillips from creating a protocol to capture and record comercials seporately and forcing people to watch them. Or maybe they would rather be able to insert their own advertisements. It would be interesting to see the legal implecations of this: if you record a 30 minute show, but instead of allowing you to fast forward through the original 8 minutes of commercials that came with the broadcast, you are forced to watch a different 8 minutes of commercials that Sony/Phillips wants you to see. Oh yeah, the broadcasters (or more likely the broadcasters' salespeople) would be pissed!
Or maybe like you said, TV producers will start placing ads inline with the TV programs, which has already started to a certain extent. One of the cable channels (Discovery Channel I think) will sometimes squish the screen up about 80% for about 30 seconds, and place an message at the bottom saying "see our web site..." or "coming up after this show...". A few other channels (TBS or USA I think) also do something like this by superimposing a similar self-promoting small transparent message in the bottom right corner of the screen for a half minute or so. Sure, it's not a paid advertisment... yet.
One also has to wonder if Sony/Phillips have any code in TiVo to display advertisments in bit image form, either when it boots, during a show, between commercial breaks, or whatever. (gdb anyone?)
I'd love to see how Nautilus could render some other directories, such as/proc,/var,/etc... The possibilities could be pretty interesting. inetd.conf component, a/proc process browser..
Are you 18 or over and a US citizen? Then register to vote!
Not in this day and age. Vote with you're dollar. It's a little more affective. Don't like the RIAA? Don't buy their shit.
Yeah, I know.. "Oh, but what about the artists.." Boo hoo. Let's say there are 1000 popular RIAA musicians and 1,000,000 non-RIAA musicians out there. Who decides which artist gets rewarded for their blood sweat and tears -- you don't really think *you* do, huh? It's certainly not talent. The record company's job is to make their bands popular, regardless of artistic talent. Radio play, TV and movie product placement, MTV.. it's all there to make you want the band. When you buy a major label piece of music, you're not rewarding the artist, you're rewarding the record company!
If you really care about supporting an artist, give some money to a non-RIAA musician.
Or in other words, let's make Metallica and all the others actually work for a living, instead of riding on record-company hype induced popularity.
They'll have to implement something where any song with a particular word in the title is rejected. And the RIAA gets to choose which words. And if you have a song that has those words in the title well, sorry.:/
Hell, I think this is a good idea! They should make these types of telemarketing calls legal, and outlaw all other types. This way, when I get home from work, all I have to do is keep my finger hovered over the delete button to trash the telemarket calls. And when I'm home and physically pick up the phone, I'd be guarenteed that there's not going to be a sales pitch at the other end.
INADBIWICWMOP (I'm not a doctor but I wish I could write my own perscriptions )
I've been trying to figure out something for a few years. Is it possible to maintain a constant blood-caffeine level? I imagine this would have to be accomplished by tracking your caffeine intake, and supplying yourself with a sustained, regular dose. What I'm having a hard time understanding is the concept of half-lifes of medical dosages, absorption rates, etc.. Does anyone have any simple, layman's way of explaining any of this so that I could experiment on myself a little?
The iThighMouser - control the position of the cursor on the screen by squeezing your knees together.
The iHeadMouse - attached to a little beenie, this pointing device uses mercury switches to track movements as you look around the screen (as long as you keep your eyes fixed forwards and move your head to point). Not to be confused with the very popular iNosePen.
The iGrapefruitRoller - sensors track a grapefruit's position on your desk as you roll it around. Cover the grapefruit with both hands to 'click'
The iEtch-A-Sketch (tm) - use the two wheels to move horizontally, vertically, and (psuedo) diagonally. Shake upside down to click.
The iChopsticks - hold the chopsticks in your hand (instructions included) and click
The iLightSaber - no description necessary
I should actually put up a web site with these parodies (on HavenCo of course, since I don't want the Apple iCops and iLawyers pounding on my door).
Another rumour is that Jar-Jar is a character from the later movies, and is currently "disguised." This rumour speaks about how Jar-Jar is pretty similiar to Human in size and weight (some other stuff too I'm not sure of.) I even saw one website suggesting Jar-Jar was Bobafett(!).
An excerpt from Episode 3's script:
Obi Wan: (Ripping off Jar Jar's mask revealing a human face) "Oh my god, it's Emperor Palpetine" Emperor: "Yeah, and I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
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I played with it with the first-gen Minstral CDPD Palm modem to control my desktop (which was connected to the net via ISDN).. Somewhat of a pain to scroll around, but if you have your vnc session set to 640x480, it's not that bad...
I believe this is what you want: Open Software Description Format (OSD) from w3.org.
Abstract: This document provides an initial proposal for the Open Software Description (OSD) format. OSD, an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a vocabulary used for describing software packages and their dependencies for heterogeneous clients. We expect OSD to be useful in automated software distribution environments.
Imagine a world where ALL textbooks are password-protected, time-limited, etc. How does Steve Wozniak learn electronics? How does Edison learn physics or engineering? How does ANY person of limited means learn ANYTHING? And how do we pool our knowledge on anything from "how do you set the VCR clock" to "how do you make starship"?
Google, Deja, Jeeves, Usenet, SlashDot, etc..
Silly article.. Maybe they should do something on cars of the future and how they'll fly and have 18 cup holders. Or how about the TV of the future with 20000 channels. Maybe the robot of the future that will clean your flying car and change channels for you. A space-age oven that you put a food pill in and out pops a complete meal.
I can't wait till Apple sues them for using the cube shape...
They should beta test this kind of stuff on politicians. Maybe they'll make this sort of thing illegal once enough of them are tracked and caught sleeping around, accepting bribes, selling political influence to foriegn nations, etc...
You're allowed to use copyrighted pics if it's for the purpose of criticism, commentary, news reporting, etc. It's fair use.
All these mp3's on my harddrive suck.
(think about it)
If TIVO, and products like it, become more and more popular, will the very nature of advertising on television change as a result?
Rest assurred that if even a single dollar is lost because of this, the advertisers will likely spend a few bucks and lobby hardcore to make such digital recording devices illegal, citing DMCA, copyright legalities, and in general going on a napster-like witch hunt. That is, if the MPAA doesn't get there first when they realize that soon TiVo hackers will be able to back up entire TV shows and movies to CD and friends' harddrives.
Perhaps they will force the manufacturers to put in code that, upon hitting a commercial break, diables any fast-forwarding until the commercial break is over. This would be relatively easy to do if commercial codes were somehow encoded somewhere in an unused portion of the video signal.
Actually, there would be little preventing Sony or Phillips from creating a protocol to capture and record comercials seporately and forcing people to watch them. Or maybe they would rather be able to insert their own advertisements. It would be interesting to see the legal implecations of this: if you record a 30 minute show, but instead of allowing you to fast forward through the original 8 minutes of commercials that came with the broadcast, you are forced to watch a different 8 minutes of commercials that Sony/Phillips wants you to see. Oh yeah, the broadcasters (or more likely the broadcasters' salespeople) would be pissed!
Or maybe like you said, TV producers will start placing ads inline with the TV programs, which has already started to a certain extent. One of the cable channels (Discovery Channel I think) will sometimes squish the screen up about 80% for about 30 seconds, and place an message at the bottom saying "see our web site..." or "coming up after this show...". A few other channels (TBS or USA I think) also do something like this by superimposing a similar self-promoting small transparent message in the bottom right corner of the screen for a half minute or so. Sure, it's not a paid advertisment... yet.
One also has to wonder if Sony/Phillips have any code in TiVo to display advertisments in bit image form, either when it boots, during a show, between commercial breaks, or whatever. (gdb anyone?)
I'd love to see how Nautilus could render some other directories, such as /proc, /var, /etc... The possibilities could be pretty interesting. inetd.conf component, a /proc process browser..
What if you wore a jumper over the t-shirt? Is that a form of steganography? Or would that just be considered smuggling? :)
I don't know, but I wore an RSA export code t-shirt under a sweater once, and got busted for concealing a weapon
I can't wait until they ban any file transfering because it could be used for pirating software. I can't stand administering ftpd! :)
if napster implemented wildcards, and if everyone only replaced vowels...
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Are you 18 or over and a US citizen? Then register to vote!
Not in this day and age. Vote with you're dollar. It's a little more affective. Don't like the RIAA? Don't buy their shit.
Yeah, I know.. "Oh, but what about the artists.." Boo hoo. Let's say there are 1000 popular RIAA musicians and 1,000,000 non-RIAA musicians out there. Who decides which artist gets rewarded for their blood sweat and tears -- you don't really think *you* do, huh? It's certainly not talent. The record company's job is to make their bands popular, regardless of artistic talent. Radio play, TV and movie product placement, MTV.. it's all there to make you want the band. When you buy a major label piece of music, you're not rewarding the artist, you're rewarding the record company!
If you really care about supporting an artist, give some money to a non-RIAA musician.
Or in other words, let's make Metallica and all the others actually work for a living, instead of riding on record-company hype induced popularity.
They'll have to implement something where any song with a particular word in the title is rejected. And the RIAA gets to choose which words. And if you have a song that has those words in the title well, sorry. :/
Oh, that will work:
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b34stie b0ys - int3rg4l4ctic.mp3
I've got two words: diskless boot.
"Paranoia self-destroy-ya"
Hell, I think this is a good idea! They should make these types of telemarketing calls legal, and outlaw all other types. This way, when I get home from work, all I have to do is keep my finger hovered over the delete button to trash the telemarket calls. And when I'm home and physically pick up the phone, I'd be guarenteed that there's not going to be a sales pitch at the other end.
INADBIWICWMOP (I'm not a doctor but I wish I could write my own perscriptions )
I've been trying to figure out something for a few years. Is it possible to maintain a constant blood-caffeine level? I imagine this would have to be accomplished by tracking your caffeine intake, and supplying yourself with a sustained, regular dose. What I'm having a hard time understanding is the concept of half-lifes of medical dosages, absorption rates, etc.. Does anyone have any simple, layman's way of explaining any of this so that I could experiment on myself a little?
For $1995 it better be Seven of Nine herself.
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- The iThighMouser - control the position of the cursor on the screen by squeezing your knees together.
- The iHeadMouse - attached to a little beenie, this pointing device uses mercury switches to track movements as you look around the screen (as long as you keep your eyes fixed forwards and move your head to point). Not to be confused with the very popular iNosePen.
- The iGrapefruitRoller - sensors track a grapefruit's position on your desk as you roll it around. Cover the grapefruit with both hands to 'click'
- The iEtch-A-Sketch (tm) - use the two wheels to move horizontally, vertically, and (psuedo) diagonally. Shake upside down to click.
- The iChopsticks - hold the chopsticks in your hand (instructions included) and click
- The iLightSaber - no description necessary
I should actually put up a web site with these parodies (on HavenCo of course, since I don't want the Apple iCops and iLawyers pounding on my door).An excerpt from Episode 3's script:
Apparently, there is supposed to be a presidential announcement this morning regarding the accomplishment.
...at which time Al Gore will describe how he invented the human genome project.
From the press release:
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FYI, it's extension 610.