remember that the "artists" themselves (those who specifically write and create the music) are not the ones who hold the copyright, the RIAA does. The RIAA gives the artists a cut of what they make, but the RIAA holds copyright on each and every article of music made that they distribute and give the artists license to perform THEIR OWN material.
if you wonder why people would continue to make music if online copyright was taken away, i often ask myself whymany artists continue to make music now when they don't own the copyright as it is: save for the love of what they do.
it's been about a month now these power emergencies have been striking california. there were a few stage 2 emergencies in which they declared those who had elected to have their power turned off in exchange for lower rates would then have their power cut. no one has lost power. we then had a stage 3 in which there would be rolling black outs. no one has since lost power.
"coincendentally", shortly after that, california's leaders and politicians announced that they were in meetings to think about re-regulating the power supply, giving pg&e back their monopoly over the power market.
after that, i didn't hear anything else about power emergencies until just recently. maybe the politicans elected not to re-regulate so far, so pg&e managed another emergency.
i don't think it was any coincedence that we're having these problems one or two years into a deregulated open market.
but the question is, by WHO?
doing my best to look at it from a non-partisan point of view, the democrats finding more votes after the elections means either the republicans committed fraud BEFORE, or the democrats committed fraud AFTER...
the question is, WHO? and more importantly, why are WE forced to suffer through the results?
yes, in america we originally had a country that was based on "innocent until proven guilty", where our court system was devised that it would let 10 guilty men go instead of punishing one innocent man.
Alas, our technologically-driven society has deemed the Constitution to be legacy-ware and decided that it's much easier and more profitable to declare everyone guilty and still try to suck profit out of them anyways.
Oh well, I always thought it was a pretty heartless industry anyways.
For me, I never bought stocks based on the fact that the majority of the startups had NO PRODUCT. This is what eventually brought them down, that they had no physical product to give, and wanted to either give it away and live on advertising dollars, or sell a niche product which doesn't physically exist.
Although I could gloat and say "I saw the end coming" I first predicted it over a year ago, and it took a while to get here. Now it's just a difficult situation for all because the investors want to shy away from start ups now (with good reason), while companies with a strong possible product sit on the wayside trying to get the money necessary to work.
The stock market is a bumpy road, investors will either jump in head first, or not at all.
For a group of people who are supposed to be following the net, a lot of the original provisions they wrote should have been clearly stated to BEGIN with. Things like hacking/cracking systems for security reasons, storing data should be OBVIOUS to anyone who's used a computer for more than just sending email. I really fail to see how an entire group of people could just "neglect" to be specific on these kinds of topics when it comes to trying to set worldwide standards for the internet and cybercrimes. The mind boggles.
a sysadmin here at NASA accused me of being a hacker... for what? I left slashdot up on a mac one day. all i work with are spreadsheets. it doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, if people can't understand it then you're hacking... i compiled the 2.4 test kernel once then abandoned it when it wouldn't support my network card, but i'm a hacker cos i visit slashdot. please show me where this makes sense.
Hackers also could use the codes to identify software flaws, making break-ins and virus-writing easier.
nice jab at open source software, there, too. can't have a story about MS on MSNBC without SOME kind of jab at OSS.
i've been looking to buy a laptop for a while and, being a poor student and all, trying to get the lowest price possible. I called up IBM the other day and talked to one of their managers who very much informed me that they will NOT sell a thinkpad without an operating system, or with Linux. Now, maybe it's just me but you'd think it would be easier for them to sell an affordable laptop and put up a pricing for it without an OS so John Q Student, like me, can buy it without the $200 Windoze license, since I was just going to reformat and install Linux ANYWAYS.
I am also curious if Microsoft simply "neglects" those that buy their Windows system separately... if I bought the Windows 95 OS at my favorite store and didn't install it on anything, saving it for when I buy a new machine and install it then. The savings are nearly indisputable, but M$ seems more interested in the licensing $$$ they get, rather than giving the consumer the best deal for their money.
do these people not see where this trend is leading? can you imagine a worldwide.NET where you pay every time you want a service? it's absolutely sad how obviously greedy the world is getting. no longer is it enough to purchase a VCR, TV, and various tapes and have that done just once, now they want you to pay every time you want to record something. Soon VCRs will be mandatorily replaced with TiVO style devices which will automatically deduct so much from your bank account when you press "record". Can you imagine a world where you have to pay every time you want to drive your car? (in addition to gas) They want you to pay every time you read a book, wanna eat dinner? 25 cents a bite.
the world is quickly becoming a "pay for play" society because corporations cannot BEAR to think of you only paying once and then using the item to your heart's content... how awful that they aren't MAXIMIZING profits by taxing us, the sedated consumer, to the bone! fucking pathetic. i'll stick to my VCR and hack my way around anything else they choose to throw at me, and silently pray for another depression where these companies go bankrupt and get what they deserve.
i find this doubtful, especially following the MPAAs fevered attack on DeCSS. If you link to a site that links to a site, you may not state directly that you can get DeCSS there, but i'm sure the MPAA would be more than happy to slap you with intent, or implied intent. I don't know if that would work for search engines, but I could see it for linking to a DeCSS links page.
I love modding my car as much as I love working on my computer and until you can make a 600 horsepower rear wheel drive EV capable of peeling out, you'll never get me to give up my mustang =c) of course, i'd rather have the EV to drive to work, but on the weekends, cars are as much about fun (to some of us) as transportation, and it's not going to be that easy to convince some of us to give that up.
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mars will probably get DSL before I do, too: they're getting a faster download rate and no one even lives there.
remember that the "artists" themselves (those who specifically write and create the music) are not the ones who hold the copyright, the RIAA does. The RIAA gives the artists a cut of what they make, but the RIAA holds copyright on each and every article of music made that they distribute and give the artists license to perform THEIR OWN material.
if you wonder why people would continue to make music if online copyright was taken away, i often ask myself whymany artists continue to make music now when they don't own the copyright as it is: save for the love of what they do.
it was fairly easy for me to install and i'm pretty negroe-ish.
it's been about a month now these power emergencies have been striking california. there were a few stage 2 emergencies in which they declared those who had elected to have their power turned off in exchange for lower rates would then have their power cut. no one has lost power. we then had a stage 3 in which there would be rolling black outs. no one has since lost power.
"coincendentally", shortly after that, california's leaders and politicians announced that they were in meetings to think about re-regulating the power supply, giving pg&e back their monopoly over the power market.
after that, i didn't hear anything else about power emergencies until just recently. maybe the politicans elected not to re-regulate so far, so pg&e managed another emergency.
i don't think it was any coincedence that we're having these problems one or two years into a deregulated open market.
but the question is, by WHO?
doing my best to look at it from a non-partisan point of view, the democrats finding more votes after the elections means either the republicans committed fraud BEFORE, or the democrats committed fraud AFTER...
the question is, WHO? and more importantly, why are WE forced to suffer through the results?
yes, in america we originally had a country that was based on "innocent until proven guilty", where our court system was devised that it would let 10 guilty men go instead of punishing one innocent man.
Alas, our technologically-driven society has deemed the Constitution to be legacy-ware and decided that it's much easier and more profitable to declare everyone guilty and still try to suck profit out of them anyways.
Oh well, I always thought it was a pretty heartless industry anyways.
For me, I never bought stocks based on the fact that the majority of the startups had NO PRODUCT. This is what eventually brought them down, that they had no physical product to give, and wanted to either give it away and live on advertising dollars, or sell a niche product which doesn't physically exist.
Although I could gloat and say "I saw the end coming" I first predicted it over a year ago, and it took a while to get here. Now it's just a difficult situation for all because the investors want to shy away from start ups now (with good reason), while companies with a strong possible product sit on the wayside trying to get the money necessary to work.
The stock market is a bumpy road, investors will either jump in head first, or not at all.
For a group of people who are supposed to be following the net, a lot of the original provisions they wrote should have been clearly stated to BEGIN with. Things like hacking/cracking systems for security reasons, storing data should be OBVIOUS to anyone who's used a computer for more than just sending email. I really fail to see how an entire group of people could just "neglect" to be specific on these kinds of topics when it comes to trying to set worldwide standards for the internet and cybercrimes. The mind boggles.
a sysadmin here at NASA accused me of being a hacker... for what? I left slashdot up on a mac one day. all i work with are spreadsheets. it doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, if people can't understand it then you're hacking...
i compiled the 2.4 test kernel once then abandoned it when it wouldn't support my network card, but i'm a hacker cos i visit slashdot. please show me where this makes sense.
Hackers also could use the codes to identify software flaws, making break-ins and virus-writing easier.
nice jab at open source software, there, too. can't have a story about MS on MSNBC without SOME kind of jab at OSS.
i've been looking to buy a laptop for a while and, being a poor student and all, trying to get the lowest price possible. I called up IBM the other day and talked to one of their managers who very much informed me that they will NOT sell a thinkpad without an operating system, or with Linux. Now, maybe it's just me but you'd think it would be easier for them to sell an affordable laptop and put up a pricing for it without an OS so John Q Student, like me, can buy it without the $200 Windoze license, since I was just going to reformat and install Linux ANYWAYS. I am also curious if Microsoft simply "neglects" those that buy their Windows system separately... if I bought the Windows 95 OS at my favorite store and didn't install it on anything, saving it for when I buy a new machine and install it then. The savings are nearly indisputable, but M$ seems more interested in the licensing $$$ they get, rather than giving the consumer the best deal for their money.
do these people not see where this trend is leading? can you imagine a worldwide .NET where you pay every time you want a service? it's absolutely sad how obviously greedy the world is getting. no longer is it enough to purchase a VCR, TV, and various tapes and have that done just once, now they want you to pay every time you want to record something. Soon VCRs will be mandatorily replaced with TiVO style devices which will automatically deduct so much from your bank account when you press "record". Can you imagine a world where you have to pay every time you want to drive your car? (in addition to gas) They want you to pay every time you read a book, wanna eat dinner? 25 cents a bite.
the world is quickly becoming a "pay for play" society because corporations cannot BEAR to think of you only paying once and then using the item to your heart's content... how awful that they aren't MAXIMIZING profits by taxing us, the sedated consumer, to the bone! fucking pathetic. i'll stick to my VCR and hack my way around anything else they choose to throw at me, and silently pray for another depression where these companies go bankrupt and get what they deserve.
i find this doubtful, especially following the MPAAs fevered attack on DeCSS. If you link to a site that links to a site, you may not state directly that you can get DeCSS there, but i'm sure the MPAA would be more than happy to slap you with intent, or implied intent. I don't know if that would work for search engines, but I could see it for linking to a DeCSS links page.
I love modding my car as much as I love working on my computer and until you can make a 600 horsepower rear wheel drive EV capable of peeling out, you'll never get me to give up my mustang =c) of course, i'd rather have the EV to drive to work, but on the weekends, cars are as much about fun (to some of us) as transportation, and it's not going to be that easy to convince some of us to give that up.