You got it with that last bit. I don't know why you think it would be "more efficient", when the benefits of distribution (especially redundancy and virtually unlimited storage) are considered. And when I wouldn't have to pay for or operate a private server, but just my own node(s).
I'd like a version where the data chunks are encrypted, and only I have the key.
Others would store my encrypted data for the same reason the entire system works: because I am storing their encrypted chunks, or someone else's. Just like up/download ratios are enforced, the protocol could force people to store some amount of chunks, and enforce the redundancy.
Everybody gets their data stored safely, redundantly, and accessible speedily, by doing unto others' data what others do unto theirs.
Lots of commercial content is produced by reusing content that came before it. Copyright stops that.
There's a period within which copyright works in favor of commerce, but gradually the balance inhibits commerce.
The negative effects of relying on copyright rather than creation can also be easily seen in the music industry, as well as other entertainment media. Especially when the copyright prevents the distribution of content whose free distribution is still monetized, like advertising, branding and promotion.
There are other ways, but those are enough to make the difference.
But you're wrong about the perjury. You replied to my original post that clearly explained:
Clinton didn't perjure. He asked for a court definition of "sex", was given one that specified mutual genital contact, and truthfully denied he had "sex". He gets a lot of heat for the (equally legit) "depends on what the definition of 'is' is", but really he did not perjure because it did depend on what the definition of "sex" was.
He didn't perjure. He wasn't impeached for perjuring. He was impeached for partisan warfare, and was acquitted even on those flimsy charges. But he was blocked from doing quite a bit more work, as was the Congress frivolously impeaching him.
Bush, meanwhile, faked intel and lied to Congress. He dispatched his minions to lie to Congress repeatedly, even instructed them to violate Congressional subpoenas by not even showing up to invoke his Executive Privilege. Those are clearly violations of law, which he protects with illegal Justice Obstruction - for which one top henchman, Scooter Libby, was already convicted. Bush annulled his sentence. Moreover, impeachment does not require violations of specific law. It's the last resort, when the normal operations of law do not bind a rogue official. The question is only whether, for example, Kucinich's Impeachment Articles have enough evidence to debate as charges (they do, a mountain of evidence), and whether they're serious enough to debate removing the president (which is the only way it will stop him). Clearly a case for impeachment, perhaps the clearest we will ever see.
For which Bush will "suffer" in history books? What does he care? Meanwhile, the war that made him an emperor and his whole criminal enterprise richer than god, at the expense of the entire amassed reputation (and Treasury, and thousands of soldiers) of our country, rages on behind Bush's lies.
There is no case here for parity. I don't understand how you can come back to "Clinton perjured", when he provably did not, and we already covered that in this discussion. And how you can compare the consequences of either of their lies, or their impeachment.
If the encryption really works, then I might distribute a lot of my own personal storage to torrent networks, and just cache locally only copies of what I need to access fast and often. Not only would I have a much larger storage capacity, but I could replace or upgrade (or enlarge) my local storage only whenever I liked the price point, or after something actually failed, without worrying about losing any data. And I could get all of my data from anywhere I connect to the torrent network.
Now what would really kick this system to the Moon would be a new Linux filesystem that did all that automatically. Hide the torrent logins and protocols, giving me just the same view of my personal index, caching stuff and managing storage/retrieval invisibly. Then I could take a 4GB thumbdrive with my Desktop and that torrent filesystem wherever I want, safely and securely.
Of course no one defended Cheney from impeachment charges on the basis that he's not guilty. But of course TrollMods tried to stop me pointing that out by calling it "Flamebait". Because Cheney worshipers will flame you for saying that liberals don't have a monopoly on justice, even when Cheney's mob isn't interested in it.
That's a funny coincidence. More likely they have those common metabolic pathways because it's more economical for the same factory to produce both the toys for kids, and the GHB for older kids, from the same common source. I wonder just how much GHB comes from these Chinese factories. I bet we don't find out in time for Christmas.
Copyrights are a compromise between the government protecting our free speech and protecting the commerce in "speech" (communication) products that would have failed without some artificial exclusivity back in the 1790s.
The free speech right is unchanged, of course, as well as the minimal infringement people are willing to accept for a working compromise. What has changed is the commerce, and its requirements. But the basic term of the original compromise is still largely acceptable. Which was 14 years of exclusivity for printed matter.
That time is also how long it takes a teenager to grow up to consider their parents' pop songs to be folk songs like the rest of their cultural legacy. Old pop songs that survive that long are make folk songs by the folks, not by the author. The author's exclusive right is not justifiable after that balance evolves in favor of the audience's contribution. Books work the same way.
The same is true of other media, but with different speeds. Movies are "old" before 14 years pass, though the culture could survive a 14 year exclusivity for them. TV (other than movies) is old in under 10 years; talk shows in under a year; TV ads in a few months. Videogames are "classic" after the time that it takes an older brother to hand it over to a younger sister, which is usually 5 years or so.
Copyright has gone so far out of whack that it threatens both the commerce, as the music and book businesses amply demonstrate, and the culture (ditto). Copyright law should specify maximum terms before expiration of 14 years, with shorter exceptions for faster aging media. Those faster media also happen to be more profitable faster, and cheaper to produce, and more completely adopted more quickly. That balance is mandated by the Constitution. We should get back to what's right.
Then "fair use" won't have nearly as many hard boundary cases to consider.
Except the nature of the lie does matter. Or would you prohibit the president from calling opposition party senators "my friend from the great state of Pennsyltucky", when everyone knows he's a jerk, and Pennsyltucky sucks?
Lies might multiply the badness of their subject. But when their subject is as miniscule as a blowjob, and the format is a TV denial of an affair whose consequences should matter only to the president's spouse (and maybe to the people sharing the blowjob), the subject's badness can't scale up very much. When the subject is evidence sending the country into a catastrophic war that will divide the country deeply against itself, then even more deeply against its government, and the format is a long series of laws and official statements to Congress, as well as a lot of TV addresses to the public, then the immorality is vast at full scale.
But you are right that they should each be accountable for it. Clinton should have been accountable for telling us on TV "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky". Which probably would have meant a harder time fighting with Congress to get his agenda through. Maybe made his endorsement of his successor to continue his agenda harder. But impeachment is totally disproportionate.
Bush lied us into war. His legacy is already crippled, his "integrity" destroyed. But it's not stopping the lying or the crimes it protects. Impeachment is the only way to do it.
That's the difference between lying about a personal matter and lying about the nation's most serious business. One results in a tawdry affair, the other in many thousands killed and maimed, in the name of a country severely damaged for generations. Don't you see that there is indeed a categorical difference, at the extremes of their possible differences?
When I get a page, if it's got content embedded of a type not natively handled by either the browser or a "helper app", the browser looks for a plugin keyed to the content's type. First in its cache/installation, then in a repository on the Net. The browser downloads a plugin that then executes as directed by the content.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the user acceptance UI for installing new language plugins should make it difficult enough that it's worth checking whether installation safe. The point isn't to download a new interpreter with every script, multiplying scripts willy-nilly across the Net. Just to remove the straitjacket that makes MS/Mozilla fights to control Javascript hold up all development in the "official" scripting language. Remove the monopoly requirements, and let the market decide. And even if the market decides that "MS Javascript" is the default in which most pages are written, anyone who wants can challenge that with better apps.
The Noxons seem to cost about $135 and up. Used PSPs cost starting $100, and new ones will cost about that much as the upgraded version pushes them out the pipeline. PSPs have hacks for audio stream playing, run WiFi, and have lots of other features (and games). So probably the PSPs are the way to go right now.
Maybe there's some models of Linux GSM phones with Bluetooth and stereo headsets that cost under $100 used (and are available as they fail in the phone market). Those would be perfect. And the next generation will probably have stereo Bluetooth audio, so can power Bluetooth speakers, possibly in several rooms simultaneously.
Because Democratic majorities control the committees, including the ones that determine whether any bill makes it to a vote, let alone passes. And 233/435 is a 53.7:46.3% split, or 7.4 points - hardly a "slight" majority, in which 16-32 Democrats can fail to support a partisan vote.
Republicans had a worse majority under most of Clinton and managed to do all kinds of crazy stuff. Democrats have only to not send bills funding the war or other crazy programs (like warrantless wiretapping - I'm sure Americans are pretty much against that), but they don't do it.
Democrats are running a pressure cooker strategy to keep us trapped with Bush until the 2008 elections. It's stupid, because they'd win bigger if they protected our country from Bush the way we sent them to do last year. But they think they can win without taking any risks. Which is a risk that will hurt them. Though they probably think the other upside, keeping all Bush's tyrannical powers, is worth it.
Whole PCs for use as consoles cost only $250. Why can't I find one that just runs Linux, and converts ethernet to audio (no kbd, monitor, etc) when pointed at a streaming server, without a fan and under $100?
Democrats control the committees, the schedules, the floor. They don't have to even put forward a bill that funds the war if they don't want. More importantly, they don't have to let by a single Republican pork bill. Which would pressure Bush and his party more than anything else.
And they're not even doing that - not even not doing anything.
There's no "near-even" split between parties. Americans currently affiliate as "Democrats" over "Republicans" by something like 37.3:32.7%. That 3.6 points is over 11% of the Republican percentage. Americans voted for Democrats by 11.6% overall nationwide. Right now Democrats have a 15 point advantage over Republicans in the presidential race.
Congress is indeed counted as a whole, which is legitimate. Americans are unhappy with Congress for what Republicans are actively blocking, and Democrats passively accepting. That isn't actually any kind of partisan stalemate, either among the politicos, or the Americans who they're all letting down.
Clinton didn't perjure. He asked for a court definition of "sex", was given one that specified mutual genital contact, and truthfully denied he had "sex". He gets a lot of heat for the (equally legit) "depends on what the definition of 'is' is", but really he did not perjure because it did depend on what the definition of "sex" was.
His blowjob wasn't "morally reprehensible". Lying to cover up a blowjob isn't "morally reprehensible". It's a little immoral.
But compared with lying us into war, it's not very immoral at all.
If you think Clinton's lie was so reprehensible it merited impeachment, don't you think that Bush's lie makes impeachment an obvious necessity?
That monkey's choosing behavior sounds a lot like what humans do that we call "throwing out the baby with the bathwater". Choosing green over blue because we chose red over blue is not very highly "cognitive". It's the kind of stupid thinking that looks like cognitive malfunction, or just monkey business, when humans do it.
No one arguing against Cheney's impeachment will use a legitimate argument that he's not guilty of the impeachment charges. I suppose only "liberals" want criminals tried, when they're among the most powerful people, and abusing that power.
What about just a power supply and that board screwed into a $10 Radioshack case that isn't even for PCs, but can have some holes cut for cables to go thru, and a tube for the CPU fan to vent? No HD or VGA (except for initial OS install), just a tiny USB flash and NFS.
Is there a PS that can drive this little device that doesn't have a fan? And can that little sucker run a Linux that can run madplay and curl, so I can stream audio from my network? Maybe even build this sucker into some network speakers, even WiFi, with a USB or PCI device?
When this stunt works for MLB, resulting in people buying their <2006 videos again in the "new format", they'll finally roll out those 3D baseball cards. Sure, they need special glasses to view, but that keeps people who didn't pay for them from pirating them. Betcha can't wait for 2009, when they upgrade those goggles to the incompatible "widescreen" version!
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You got it with that last bit. I don't know why you think it would be "more efficient", when the benefits of distribution (especially redundancy and virtually unlimited storage) are considered. And when I wouldn't have to pay for or operate a private server, but just my own node(s).
I'd like a version where the data chunks are encrypted, and only I have the key.
Others would store my encrypted data for the same reason the entire system works: because I am storing their encrypted chunks, or someone else's. Just like up/download ratios are enforced, the protocol could force people to store some amount of chunks, and enforce the redundancy.
Everybody gets their data stored safely, redundantly, and accessible speedily, by doing unto others' data what others do unto theirs.
Lots of commercial content is produced by reusing content that came before it. Copyright stops that.
There's a period within which copyright works in favor of commerce, but gradually the balance inhibits commerce.
The negative effects of relying on copyright rather than creation can also be easily seen in the music industry, as well as other entertainment media. Especially when the copyright prevents the distribution of content whose free distribution is still monetized, like advertising, branding and promotion.
There are other ways, but those are enough to make the difference.
He didn't perjure. He wasn't impeached for perjuring. He was impeached for partisan warfare, and was acquitted even on those flimsy charges. But he was blocked from doing quite a bit more work, as was the Congress frivolously impeaching him.
Bush, meanwhile, faked intel and lied to Congress. He dispatched his minions to lie to Congress repeatedly, even instructed them to violate Congressional subpoenas by not even showing up to invoke his Executive Privilege. Those are clearly violations of law, which he protects with illegal Justice Obstruction - for which one top henchman, Scooter Libby, was already convicted. Bush annulled his sentence. Moreover, impeachment does not require violations of specific law. It's the last resort, when the normal operations of law do not bind a rogue official. The question is only whether, for example, Kucinich's Impeachment Articles have enough evidence to debate as charges (they do, a mountain of evidence), and whether they're serious enough to debate removing the president (which is the only way it will stop him). Clearly a case for impeachment, perhaps the clearest we will ever see.
For which Bush will "suffer" in history books? What does he care? Meanwhile, the war that made him an emperor and his whole criminal enterprise richer than god, at the expense of the entire amassed reputation (and Treasury, and thousands of soldiers) of our country, rages on behind Bush's lies.
There is no case here for parity. I don't understand how you can come back to "Clinton perjured", when he provably did not, and we already covered that in this discussion. And how you can compare the consequences of either of their lies, or their impeachment.
If the encryption really works, then I might distribute a lot of my own personal storage to torrent networks, and just cache locally only copies of what I need to access fast and often. Not only would I have a much larger storage capacity, but I could replace or upgrade (or enlarge) my local storage only whenever I liked the price point, or after something actually failed, without worrying about losing any data. And I could get all of my data from anywhere I connect to the torrent network.
Now what would really kick this system to the Moon would be a new Linux filesystem that did all that automatically. Hide the torrent logins and protocols, giving me just the same view of my personal index, caching stuff and managing storage/retrieval invisibly. Then I could take a 4GB thumbdrive with my Desktop and that torrent filesystem wherever I want, safely and securely.
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Of course no one defended Cheney from impeachment charges on the basis that he's not guilty. But of course TrollMods tried to stop me pointing that out by calling it "Flamebait". Because Cheney worshipers will flame you for saying that liberals don't have a monopoly on justice, even when Cheney's mob isn't interested in it.
That's a funny coincidence. More likely they have those common metabolic pathways because it's more economical for the same factory to produce both the toys for kids, and the GHB for older kids, from the same common source. I wonder just how much GHB comes from these Chinese factories. I bet we don't find out in time for Christmas.
Copyrights are a compromise between the government protecting our free speech and protecting the commerce in "speech" (communication) products that would have failed without some artificial exclusivity back in the 1790s.
The free speech right is unchanged, of course, as well as the minimal infringement people are willing to accept for a working compromise. What has changed is the commerce, and its requirements. But the basic term of the original compromise is still largely acceptable. Which was 14 years of exclusivity for printed matter.
That time is also how long it takes a teenager to grow up to consider their parents' pop songs to be folk songs like the rest of their cultural legacy. Old pop songs that survive that long are make folk songs by the folks, not by the author. The author's exclusive right is not justifiable after that balance evolves in favor of the audience's contribution. Books work the same way.
The same is true of other media, but with different speeds. Movies are "old" before 14 years pass, though the culture could survive a 14 year exclusivity for them. TV (other than movies) is old in under 10 years; talk shows in under a year; TV ads in a few months. Videogames are "classic" after the time that it takes an older brother to hand it over to a younger sister, which is usually 5 years or so.
Copyright has gone so far out of whack that it threatens both the commerce, as the music and book businesses amply demonstrate, and the culture (ditto). Copyright law should specify maximum terms before expiration of 14 years, with shorter exceptions for faster aging media. Those faster media also happen to be more profitable faster, and cheaper to produce, and more completely adopted more quickly. That balance is mandated by the Constitution. We should get back to what's right.
Then "fair use" won't have nearly as many hard boundary cases to consider.
Except the nature of the lie does matter. Or would you prohibit the president from calling opposition party senators "my friend from the great state of Pennsyltucky", when everyone knows he's a jerk, and Pennsyltucky sucks?
Lies might multiply the badness of their subject. But when their subject is as miniscule as a blowjob, and the format is a TV denial of an affair whose consequences should matter only to the president's spouse (and maybe to the people sharing the blowjob), the subject's badness can't scale up very much. When the subject is evidence sending the country into a catastrophic war that will divide the country deeply against itself, then even more deeply against its government, and the format is a long series of laws and official statements to Congress, as well as a lot of TV addresses to the public, then the immorality is vast at full scale.
But you are right that they should each be accountable for it. Clinton should have been accountable for telling us on TV "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky". Which probably would have meant a harder time fighting with Congress to get his agenda through. Maybe made his endorsement of his successor to continue his agenda harder. But impeachment is totally disproportionate.
Bush lied us into war. His legacy is already crippled, his "integrity" destroyed. But it's not stopping the lying or the crimes it protects. Impeachment is the only way to do it.
That's the difference between lying about a personal matter and lying about the nation's most serious business. One results in a tawdry affair, the other in many thousands killed and maimed, in the name of a country severely damaged for generations. Don't you see that there is indeed a categorical difference, at the extremes of their possible differences?
This is true for any browser that runs plugins.
When I get a page, if it's got content embedded of a type not natively handled by either the browser or a "helper app", the browser looks for a plugin keyed to the content's type. First in its cache/installation, then in a repository on the Net. The browser downloads a plugin that then executes as directed by the content.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the user acceptance UI for installing new language plugins should make it difficult enough that it's worth checking whether installation safe. The point isn't to download a new interpreter with every script, multiplying scripts willy-nilly across the Net. Just to remove the straitjacket that makes MS/Mozilla fights to control Javascript hold up all development in the "official" scripting language. Remove the monopoly requirements, and let the market decide. And even if the market decides that "MS Javascript" is the default in which most pages are written, anyone who wants can challenge that with better apps.
Cigar?
The Noxons seem to cost about $135 and up. Used PSPs cost starting $100, and new ones will cost about that much as the upgraded version pushes them out the pipeline. PSPs have hacks for audio stream playing, run WiFi, and have lots of other features (and games). So probably the PSPs are the way to go right now.
Maybe there's some models of Linux GSM phones with Bluetooth and stereo headsets that cost under $100 used (and are available as they fail in the phone market). Those would be perfect. And the next generation will probably have stereo Bluetooth audio, so can power Bluetooth speakers, possibly in several rooms simultaneously.
86 Democrats voted not to table the bill. Many of those are liberal, many are not.
!(Democrat == liberal)
Now shut the fuck up.
Because Democratic majorities control the committees, including the ones that determine whether any bill makes it to a vote, let alone passes. And 233/435 is a 53.7:46.3% split, or 7.4 points - hardly a "slight" majority, in which 16-32 Democrats can fail to support a partisan vote.
Republicans had a worse majority under most of Clinton and managed to do all kinds of crazy stuff. Democrats have only to not send bills funding the war or other crazy programs (like warrantless wiretapping - I'm sure Americans are pretty much against that), but they don't do it.
Democrats are running a pressure cooker strategy to keep us trapped with Bush until the 2008 elections. It's stupid, because they'd win bigger if they protected our country from Bush the way we sent them to do last year. But they think they can win without taking any risks. Which is a risk that will hurt them. Though they probably think the other upside, keeping all Bush's tyrannical powers, is worth it.
They all cost $40+. This MB costs only $60.
Whole PCs for use as consoles cost only $250. Why can't I find one that just runs Linux, and converts ethernet to audio (no kbd, monitor, etc) when pointed at a streaming server, without a fan and under $100?
Not even.
Democrats control the committees, the schedules, the floor. They don't have to even put forward a bill that funds the war if they don't want. More importantly, they don't have to let by a single Republican pork bill. Which would pressure Bush and his party more than anything else.
And they're not even doing that - not even not doing anything.
There's no "near-even" split between parties. Americans currently affiliate as "Democrats" over "Republicans" by something like 37.3:32.7%. That 3.6 points is over 11% of the Republican percentage. Americans voted for Democrats by 11.6% overall nationwide. Right now Democrats have a 15 point advantage over Republicans in the presidential race.
Congress is indeed counted as a whole, which is legitimate. Americans are unhappy with Congress for what Republicans are actively blocking, and Democrats passively accepting. That isn't actually any kind of partisan stalemate, either among the politicos, or the Americans who they're all letting down.
What's the difference? Except he'd have to cover both jobs at once, and couldn't be free to lurk in that undisclosed bunker controlling things.
It's a constitutional democratic republic. The three roots of our government are by no means mutually exclusive.
Clinton didn't perjure. He asked for a court definition of "sex", was given one that specified mutual genital contact, and truthfully denied he had "sex". He gets a lot of heat for the (equally legit) "depends on what the definition of 'is' is", but really he did not perjure because it did depend on what the definition of "sex" was.
His blowjob wasn't "morally reprehensible". Lying to cover up a blowjob isn't "morally reprehensible". It's a little immoral.
But compared with lying us into war, it's not very immoral at all.
If you think Clinton's lie was so reprehensible it merited impeachment, don't you think that Bush's lie makes impeachment an obvious necessity?
That monkey's choosing behavior sounds a lot like what humans do that we call "throwing out the baby with the bathwater". Choosing green over blue because we chose red over blue is not very highly "cognitive". It's the kind of stupid thinking that looks like cognitive malfunction, or just monkey business, when humans do it.
But that doesn't give me an audio output, so running curl and madplay won't give me a very good streaming audio player.
No one arguing against Cheney's impeachment will use a legitimate argument that he's not guilty of the impeachment charges. I suppose only "liberals" want criminals tried, when they're among the most powerful people, and abusing that power.
What about just a power supply and that board screwed into a $10 Radioshack case that isn't even for PCs, but can have some holes cut for cables to go thru, and a tube for the CPU fan to vent? No HD or VGA (except for initial OS install), just a tiny USB flash and NFS.
Is there a PS that can drive this little device that doesn't have a fan? And can that little sucker run a Linux that can run madplay and curl, so I can stream audio from my network? Maybe even build this sucker into some network speakers, even WiFi, with a USB or PCI device?
When this stunt works for MLB, resulting in people buying their <2006 videos again in the "new format", they'll finally roll out those 3D baseball cards. Sure, they need special glasses to view, but that keeps people who didn't pay for them from pirating them. Betcha can't wait for 2009, when they upgrade those goggles to the incompatible "widescreen" version!