Nothing. Artists already are entitled to little from sales and royalties, after signing bad contracts with dishonest brokers. The labels and royalty agencies (BMI, ASCAP, a few tiny ones) just steal the income most of the time, while keeping the books, too. I expect that they will add a "bootlegger recovery fee" to their contracts and payments, so artists will wind up making less. And lawyers will make much more.
The $100M from Kazaa will come from their new Skype income. But $100M goes fast in lawyerland. The lawyers will demand more, probably contriving some abuse by Skype to do it. That will attach these lawyers to the VoIP industry, doing their best to turn it into the cesspool they've made of the music business.
Of course there's a difference. Current through your tissues exposes your tissues to both current and field.
I didn't say it was "hugely harmful", you did; that's the standard "excluded middle" hyperbole people use in denial of other effects. Fact is, electrical fields have been tested experimentally to affect growing tissues subtly, like guiding the new matrix of healing bone. And people living close to electrical wires has been accompanied by all kinds of health problems. That's why I want to see the kind of peer-reviewed longitudinal study to which you allude. A much bigger factor in why we don't expect to see such a study despite the large potential risk is that the industry is so profitable and powerful. Like cellphone radiation, which has no conclusive harm studies, but has been widespread for decades.
The fact that you've actually done an experiment, yet get the first logical part of your complaint in this post wrong, and are naive enough to dismiss the status quo as if the world worked logically, shows the lack of rigor even among the people who could do the research. FWIW, I ran a controlled experiment on a dozen mice exposed to incremental x-ray doses extending thousands of times past the legal limit. Observed 3 generations for any physical effects. Saw none. Yet the damaging effects of that radiation is well documented, dating from before the establishment of a hugely powerful industry. That doesn't mean that I am corrupt, deluded or naive. It just means that these effects are statistical and probably subtle, though real.
Look, Edison, the currents in the article have electric fields, as do all currents, DC included. As I noted, as I cited. I said there are fields, you said "no, just currents", which is wrong. Pack it in.
I can possibly imagine neutron-degenerate matter near 0' Kelvin, which is more different than DC than is an electric field.
And I know that DC is electrons moving in a conductor under the influence of an electric field.
Maybe you should drop such aspirations as reading _New Scientist_ and instead catch up on basic electromagnetics.
And try getting a userID when throwing around baseless insults that betray your ignorance. It makes it easier to distinguish your unique style from the others.
Books aren't songs. Book consumers can think better than music consumers (overall), pay more in money and time so are more committed, and have to wait for delivery. In other words, book "hits" are completely different than music hits, and are much more similar to book niches.
Of course, I hope publishers decide "the long tail" is BS, and concentrate solely on hits. Because the new music hits they manufacture are worthless, and I want them to stop hogging the copyright on all the long tail stuff. So we can all consume and exchange the older stuff as much as we want without paying their extortion, the way we have with folk art since time immemorial.
Once doctors are using guided electric fields to assist healing, how will corporations which spill uncontrolled electric fields among people deny that their fields affect human tissue? Or will they just claim credit for the healing "they've already been offering free for generations", and start tacking a medical charge on our bills?
And watching the court decide not to ask AT&T whether they're illegally spying on us could give residents of this country valuable insight into the government's intelligence activities. If we were paying attention.
Anonymous SlashStalker Coward understands nothing, not even that they're spraying everyone nearby with their miserable existence. Stop rubbing against me, disgusting Anonymous ig'nant Coward!
Geneticists have already found a "second code" in DNA, called methylation. And that NYTimes article also reduces the basebair redundancy to "wiggle room".
The underlying research, published in Nature magazine, is extremely interesting and valuable, no doubt valid. The NYTimes coverage is oversimplified into wrongness out of reporter ignorance, and an insult to both readers and scientists.
OK, "Crazy Jim", you hear voices in your head and go for a drive, though you're unable to drive normally, so I don't expect seeing mere words on your screen will change your mind about anything, unless they're signed "Love, god". But in the interest of sanity, I'll point out that the snake symbol for medicine predated Moses, as I've already mentioned twice in this thread, plus links to Wikipedia which mention many such antecedents. "It's just how god did it" doesn't do anything for those of us attached more to reality than to our fantasy visions. Especially when your visions morph a mere staff, never said to be a cross in the Old Testament, into a cross that could prefigure your pet symbols. Or when a snakebite for the 2000 years since Jesus has continued to kill people. Or when sin's power not only continues to affect people, but Christians continue to blame "the snake".
There are many things in my old relatives' narcisisstic ramblings that are predictions of my coming to save the world. Especially if you ask them now about their hazy recollections of the past. There are many things that I have fulfilled that were not even predicted. But I don't believe any of that makes me the messiah. Because I'm not crazy.
Some Anonymous boring Coward complains that my specific, detailed open "source" proposal on Slashdot gets modded up, boosting my karma, and I'm supposed to care? As if karma were "embezzled" from you? I guess you'd prefer that we post boring, vague, unpopular, useless posts like yours. That would keep the "economy" in perfect, useless, working order.
You're almost as bad as that other Anonymous Coward.
The best mechanical coupling design would have a open interface. A rotating bolt that can take the pullcord attachment, or a sewing machine pedal cam, or a bicycle tire clip, or a homemade windmill/waterwheel/goatwheel, or any mechanical rotation.
Then include in its desktop a link to a blog for new powerup inventions worldwide. Necessity is the mother of invention, and local materials the father. Give these kids a way to improve and share, and we'll all get the benefits of their unique insights. What better way to harness the power of global kids?
Now they've got the semiconductoroff the substrate and flexible, as strained monocrystals, they should be able to align corresponding sites on the multiple layers of circuits to actually go 3D, for more efficient routing. Maybe even rolling up sheets into scrolls. Since they're flexible, maybe rolling scrolls around a power core, making tiny smart wires.
I wonder why CPUs don't already come perforated for liquid cooling. Instead they rely on thermal conduction to metal and fan/convection. Folding CPUs inside whatever heat transfer medium is used seems a lot of work for the same effect as perforation.
37% personal life 11% political matters, 7% entertainment 6% sports about 35% often verify facts and link to sources
I look at cable/"broadcast" news TV, newspapers and radio content, and I see no meaningful distinction. Except maybe blogs have swapped "personal life" and "entertainment", and "political matters" and "sports" ratios.
The medium and mode of publishing what you think about your world doesn't make or break you as a "journalist". Neither does any specific editing process, especially as editors merely keep lookout for whatever the mass of publishers are publishing, not for what's actually happening.
The only distinction left between good and bad journalism is accuracy and timeliness. Both of which are much more in the hands of the consumer to check. Google is a great resource. But with so many publishers, so many bought by vested interests, so many so transient, I think "rating communities" of people we trust, in degrees of separation, is the only way to tell. I'd rather subscribe to a group with whom I correspond about our "editorial views", who collectively cross-reference all our various sources.
I'd say you forgot your tag, but you're an Anonymous denial Coward, so it's obvious you've forgotten your straitjacket.
The US and our CIA certainly do torture. Of course that doesn't mean that Iranians, N Koreans, Taliban, Saddamists, Palestinians and Lebanes don't torture, any more than their torture means we don't. You've got your insane kindergarten rationalizations confused: you're supposed to say "everyone's doing it, we can too".
We need to stop all these evildoers by getting rid of Bush, who's helped stoke them to their worst violence in your lifetime. And we should get rid of you, too, by forcing you to learn what the hell you're talking about rather than just vomiting rightwing talkradio blabber like "stand by our president and Israel" when adults are busy talking.
I don't get it... the CIA doesn't torture people. The USA doesn't torture people. Why should the CIA care if a contractor says torture is wrong? They must have fired her for goofing off on company time/equipment.
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Nothing. Artists already are entitled to little from sales and royalties, after signing bad contracts with dishonest brokers. The labels and royalty agencies (BMI, ASCAP, a few tiny ones) just steal the income most of the time, while keeping the books, too. I expect that they will add a "bootlegger recovery fee" to their contracts and payments, so artists will wind up making less. And lawyers will make much more.
The $100M from Kazaa will come from their new Skype income. But $100M goes fast in lawyerland. The lawyers will demand more, probably contriving some abuse by Skype to do it. That will attach these lawyers to the VoIP industry, doing their best to turn it into the cesspool they've made of the music business.
Of course there's a difference. Current through your tissues exposes your tissues to both current and field.
I didn't say it was "hugely harmful", you did; that's the standard "excluded middle" hyperbole people use in denial of other effects. Fact is, electrical fields have been tested experimentally to affect growing tissues subtly, like guiding the new matrix of healing bone. And people living close to electrical wires has been accompanied by all kinds of health problems. That's why I want to see the kind of peer-reviewed longitudinal study to which you allude. A much bigger factor in why we don't expect to see such a study despite the large potential risk is that the industry is so profitable and powerful. Like cellphone radiation, which has no conclusive harm studies, but has been widespread for decades.
The fact that you've actually done an experiment, yet get the first logical part of your complaint in this post wrong, and are naive enough to dismiss the status quo as if the world worked logically, shows the lack of rigor even among the people who could do the research. FWIW, I ran a controlled experiment on a dozen mice exposed to incremental x-ray doses extending thousands of times past the legal limit. Observed 3 generations for any physical effects. Saw none. Yet the damaging effects of that radiation is well documented, dating from before the establishment of a hugely powerful industry. That doesn't mean that I am corrupt, deluded or naive. It just means that these effects are statistical and probably subtle, though real.
Look, Edison, the currents in the article have electric fields, as do all currents, DC included. As I noted, as I cited. I said there are fields, you said "no, just currents", which is wrong. Pack it in.
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You're only rubbing yourself, TrollMod.
I can possibly imagine neutron-degenerate matter near 0' Kelvin, which is more different than DC than is an electric field.
And I know that DC is electrons moving in a conductor under the influence of an electric field.
Maybe you should drop such aspirations as reading _New Scientist_ and instead catch up on basic electromagnetics.
And try getting a userID when throwing around baseless insults that betray your ignorance. It makes it easier to distinguish your unique style from the others.
Books aren't songs. Book consumers can think better than music consumers (overall), pay more in money and time so are more committed, and have to wait for delivery. In other words, book "hits" are completely different than music hits, and are much more similar to book niches.
Of course, I hope publishers decide "the long tail" is BS, and concentrate solely on hits. Because the new music hits they manufacture are worthless, and I want them to stop hogging the copyright on all the long tail stuff. So we can all consume and exchange the older stuff as much as we want without paying their extortion, the way we have with folk art since time immemorial.
Once doctors are using guided electric fields to assist healing, how will corporations which spill uncontrolled electric fields among people deny that their fields affect human tissue? Or will they just claim credit for the healing "they've already been offering free for generations", and start tacking a medical charge on our bills?
And watching the court decide not to ask AT&T whether they're illegally spying on us could give residents of this country valuable insight into the government's intelligence activities. If we were paying attention.
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Pathetic SlashStalkers
Pathetic SlashStalkers.
Anonymous SlashStalker Coward understands nothing, not even that they're spraying everyone nearby with their miserable existence. Stop rubbing against me, disgusting Anonymous ig'nant Coward!
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Pathetic SlashStalkers.
Whooosh, Anonymous undifferentiated Coward.
Geneticists have already found a "second code" in DNA, called methylation. And that NYTimes article also reduces the basebair redundancy to "wiggle room".
The underlying research, published in Nature magazine, is extremely interesting and valuable, no doubt valid. The NYTimes coverage is oversimplified into wrongness out of reporter ignorance, and an insult to both readers and scientists.
OK, "Crazy Jim", you hear voices in your head and go for a drive, though you're unable to drive normally, so I don't expect seeing mere words on your screen will change your mind about anything, unless they're signed "Love, god". But in the interest of sanity, I'll point out that the snake symbol for medicine predated Moses, as I've already mentioned twice in this thread, plus links to Wikipedia which mention many such antecedents. "It's just how god did it" doesn't do anything for those of us attached more to reality than to our fantasy visions. Especially when your visions morph a mere staff, never said to be a cross in the Old Testament, into a cross that could prefigure your pet symbols. Or when a snakebite for the 2000 years since Jesus has continued to kill people. Or when sin's power not only continues to affect people, but Christians continue to blame "the snake".
There are many things in my old relatives' narcisisstic ramblings that are predictions of my coming to save the world. Especially if you ask them now about their hazy recollections of the past. There are many things that I have fulfilled that were not even predicted. But I don't believe any of that makes me the messiah. Because I'm not crazy.
Some Anonymous boring Coward complains that my specific, detailed open "source" proposal on Slashdot gets modded up, boosting my karma, and I'm supposed to care? As if karma were "embezzled" from you? I guess you'd prefer that we post boring, vague, unpopular, useless posts like yours. That would keep the "economy" in perfect, useless, working order.
You're almost as bad as that other Anonymous Coward.
Not only does that Wikipedia article cite snake/medicine symbols earlier than Moses, but why did god tell Moses to use a snake of all things?
AFAICT, Adobe has released a Flash player for Linux only up to version 7. Are they skipping v8? Just shafting Linux indefinitely?
Is there some alternative source for a FPv8-compatible player that actually works?
The best mechanical coupling design would have a open interface. A rotating bolt that can take the pullcord attachment, or a sewing machine pedal cam, or a bicycle tire clip, or a homemade windmill/waterwheel/goatwheel, or any mechanical rotation.
Then include in its desktop a link to a blog for new powerup inventions worldwide. Necessity is the mother of invention, and local materials the father. Give these kids a way to improve and share, and we'll all get the benefits of their unique insights. What better way to harness the power of global kids?
Now they've got the semiconductoroff the substrate and flexible, as strained monocrystals, they should be able to align corresponding sites on the multiple layers of circuits to actually go 3D, for more efficient routing. Maybe even rolling up sheets into scrolls. Since they're flexible, maybe rolling scrolls around a power core, making tiny smart wires.
I wonder why CPUs don't already come perforated for liquid cooling. Instead they rely on thermal conduction to metal and fan/convection. Folding CPUs inside whatever heat transfer medium is used seems a lot of work for the same effect as perforation.
How come snakes are the ancient symbol for medicine that we still use?
37% personal life
11% political matters,
7% entertainment
6% sports
about 35% often verify facts and link to sources
I look at cable/"broadcast" news TV, newspapers and radio content, and I see no meaningful distinction. Except maybe blogs have swapped "personal life" and "entertainment", and "political matters" and "sports" ratios.
The medium and mode of publishing what you think about your world doesn't make or break you as a "journalist". Neither does any specific editing process, especially as editors merely keep lookout for whatever the mass of publishers are publishing, not for what's actually happening.
The only distinction left between good and bad journalism is accuracy and timeliness. Both of which are much more in the hands of the consumer to check. Google is a great resource. But with so many publishers, so many bought by vested interests, so many so transient, I think "rating communities" of people we trust, in degrees of separation, is the only way to tell. I'd rather subscribe to a group with whom I correspond about our "editorial views", who collectively cross-reference all our various sources.
I'd say you forgot your tag, but you're an Anonymous denial Coward, so it's obvious you've forgotten your straitjacket.
The US and our CIA certainly do torture. Of course that doesn't mean that Iranians, N Koreans, Taliban, Saddamists, Palestinians and Lebanes don't torture, any more than their torture means we don't. You've got your insane kindergarten rationalizations confused: you're supposed to say "everyone's doing it, we can too".
We need to stop all these evildoers by getting rid of Bush, who's helped stoke them to their worst violence in your lifetime. And we should get rid of you, too, by forcing you to learn what the hell you're talking about rather than just vomiting rightwing talkradio blabber like "stand by our president and Israel" when adults are busy talking.
I don't get it... the CIA doesn't torture people. The USA doesn't torture people. Why should the CIA care if a contractor says torture is wrong? They must have fired her for goofing off on company time/equipment.