In a very general and to some people, not so accurate statement:
Originally the "Internet" was an aggregate of mostly Academic and Military organizations. The NSF (National Science Foundation) provided the backbone support until 1994 I believe (I may be wrong). Basically that means that the NSF controlled it and the organizations who paid for the net were the organizations that used it, Academic and military. Along the way it grew into something that could financially benefit (or in other words be abused) commercial interests. The comercialization of the net has sprouted new technology (Voice over IP) and grew technology that was originally never intended for "internetworking" (Java).
The cook report has monitored the economic aspects of the net since 1994.
Here's something that gives you a techy rundown of the physical aspect of the net and how the powers that be controlled it up until 1996.
You've got to understand too that it would have never become this popular unless a browser, Mosiac, came to be. Mosiac turned into Netscape after some time. Without this tool, you'd be limited to gophering around places (which wasn't bad in and of it self).
I dunno man, I can't see where you are going with the CD/DVD stuff. Of course you don't own the material on it. Just like you don't own my home page -- you can view it all you want, but is it yours? Can you copy it and say it's yours? No. The fundamentals of the Internet have behaved exactly as they should given the current owners and the like. You still have the capability to put up a page and you still have the ability to play on a level playing field with anyone who decides to use the internet as a tool for whatever -- it's not just banner ads out there, it's the information. You watch TV shows right - not TV commercials.
And I think that Personal Area Networks will over take the Internet as most important technology in lives -- only cause it will be so god damn fun to interact with your environment. There I predict it.
Damn, people haven't even intergrated spell-checkers into HTML elements -- there's still a long way to go with the current set up.
I can see this catching fire here in the states. You figure that people (kids included) use Instant messaging services all day on the internet, for business or whatever. Kids in finland also do the same thing but with thier cell phones. I can't see America translating Instant Messaging into a part of thier communication culture but I do see a mutation of this sort of interaction taking place. After all America is known for importing certain facets of culture and taking them to other worlds (GHB:) but I can see This sort of interaction becoming somewhat popular in the pop-sense of popular anyway. Toss in the popularitiy and addictiveness of everquest and the addictiveness of MUDS (hey why not play these from a cell phones) and hey you've got a market there! But what about the old WORMS game. I saw that on a Nokia phone the other day. Does anyone get royalties for that game?
I'd think that the ip4 internet should require identification and the ip6 internet should stay anonymous. I realize that ip6 would probably have better guards in place for security as well as a better facility for identifying a user but i'd rahter keep the idea for requiring identity in the old ip4 standard internet and let the hackers and freewillers rejoice in ip6
The voices from hell mouth was a book. And since we can package readers posts and turn them into a book (of course for good reason), we should also take these replies and send them off to the congressmen involved as well as to those representatives (and senators) in the house now. In effect I don't know if andovers policy is to get politically involved but I for one give my permission to use my comments in any communication that involves Slashdot/Andover/Us Govt communication. Not that htey mean anything or are very useful, but with many of the replies i'm seeing, packaging all of them and sending them off to congress is a good idea. It gives more of a group/insudtry context with somewhat of the/. backing (if it even means tahist to conrgress). We've got definate media clout, why not use it actively?
Well, I do not agree with the fact that there will be a stifling of business models and technology associated with the use of those models because one particular industry (out of the hundreds that use technology every day in a secure way to provide e-com solutions) is too slow to realize that times change. Who's to say someone's not going to (and someone really should!!!) hook up Rio's or pocket mp3's players to provide PAN and maybe even WAN solutions to trade mp3's with someone elses RIO? Locking it down and forcing technology to chagne in this legal/business paranoia manner is like chaining yourself to your seat in case of a car crash.. You've solved one problem but now you've got a host of other problems when the tahish hits the fan.
I'm kinda confused about this. Now unless it was just the NY Times article spin on the issue, I read that the report and proposed meeting that will take place has already assumed that this technology in question is wrong and the meeting is to scold and restrict napster soley based on the fact that it was simple file sharing. Now I agree with the previous post about "Oh ban or restrict some technology because it's first use was piracy". But aren't other solutions possible like having Napster and/or and other ASP out there provide the Music INdustry with extremely discounted royalties (that actually go to the artists, i mean Digital takes the Retail stores, production and warehouse distribution out of the picture) I would think that any song that is downloaded using napster could have a small royalty (that the user pays, sort of like Ebay, a very small amount) tacked onto it that is paid for by either the User or Napster Inc itself (with ad space or however the business model revenue generation works). Maybe this is where they are going with this Credit Card Verification gig ("Oh, we have your CC, why not charge you, you're not anonymous anymore"). At the least you'll wipe out the 50% (my own estimate of Napsters role in piracy) of the facilitation of piracy by Napster Users. Surely there are other issues, but hell if you dig it, you're going to buy the CD and support the artist you're digging anyway. And if an artist wishes to choose MP3 as a major medium in thier own product/art distribution ("Well as an artist I either sign a contract and whore myself at the whim of the record company, or Damn, just go mp3 and cut out the middleman and recieve some profit off my work!") then the should be able to. I'm seriously fearing that these battles are between the insudtry and People, where the chain is really artist ---> people, right? Anyway. Word.
Maybe you are deliberatley failing to mention Web content as opposed to web design when you speak of cardinal sins but if i get it straight; you would miss and pruposely skip usable (don't mind the pun) content entirely because of a cardinal sin? Authority will always shift with the tides of change, but for future reference, even with Zeldman's anti-database web interface design: Zeldman has many more points of interest when it comes to creating web pages that blend in perfectly well with the next gernations of web designers who will be using (sorry dude) generated and templated HTML/XML as opposed to Designed code. More thought will be placed into the information (see XML) than the presentation. Most of zeldmans rules apply more tightly overall to this paradigm than nielsens.
Why?
Minimal Crude layout exposes the information more readily than information/presentation overload. And I don't mean color scheming by this (even though Zeldmans only thot on Slashdot was Teal color). To get to the point before I sink myself: If I, a non-designer with a some taste in look and feel but more apt to figure into business logic more than anything, was working with a small team of individuals and did not have the ability for cash outlay to create a team of so called "experts" were to design a "page" (or plate of info) I would definatley make the information and not the design clear to the users, but in a tasteful way and in a way that will stick around for at least 3 years. Black borders are ubiq. Splash is Ubiq. Anything else is fringe and frill.
To be honest, I didn't know about Jeffery Zeldman before I read his response to the dotters questions. And I was completely unaware about his influence on web design. It's extremely refreshing to get another point of view because as an OOP turned Semi web, i was extremely turned of by Jakob N's "Web Usability guides", and hunting through the avant-art-production realm of the web looking for techniques became more of a bother that took way from the enertaining side of things. Zeldman is simply blending the many worlds (usability, crispness, presentation and performace) and not taking a bite out of anyones headspace with comments about "The future should be this". It was nice to see more of a geek coder point of view. In the nicest way possible. It's nice to take a breath from all the "Pshockwave Psychos" and "Image freaks". I'd like to incorporate many more design ideas (even if they are crude, it renders well on my brain as well on the screen) on my site Media-Mixer. It's very nice to be able to sponge some knowledge from someone who gets techincal but is nowhere near as airheaded as Brute Force Art Design people.
With this as a proposed concept, wouldn't this open the doors to Home-based game development due to the open sourced "nature" that any console with linux as it's guts will have? Kinda like all the home-brew development happening for the old Atari 2600 systems and Jaguars and along the same lines as the Black Ps development box and the same type of tools for the game boy and neo geo pocket. I think it would set home based development up for actual networking instead of the black holes in which it exists today. Apologies if this was already brought up.
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The particulars of the viruses behavior itself are really really bad. Sending off all of the machines cached passwords to an email address at an easily accessable and cloakable free email site would totally cloak my identity. I don't think anyone who would write something as malicious as this would even worry about people's passwords. I really am starting to think along the lines that this I Love You Virus could be a cover-up for something else. Focusing everyone on a particularly malicious and (I think purposefully) poorly written script could have let something else thru the IS Security Fishing Net (full of holes). And I really don't think that people's behavior will change because of it (People rarely call the geek they know and question (How do i not get viruses). Since most of the focus on the net is on E-Com nowadays, security is also more focused on a particular tenant; privacy instead of including integrity. 'I hate go to school.. I think Mahir wrote this one..
.. across the legal dimension. This seems to produce a cascading effect of actual tangible breaking of law across many many fields. I don't think i've ever seen intellectual law/ownership/copyright bring about so many different paradigms to view, most of which are created from the 20 year existance of a band that is built from being rebels and having it's own integrity comprimised. Now it chooses to comprimise many of the things that are taken for granted (not mp3's, but chaos in and of itself) to exist to provide many of the mutations necessary to see new technology be put into place. I'm not a lawyer tho, so watching anything like this blows my mind. Crap Rock ----> Thrash = Metallica. Thrash ----> Sellout = Metallica. Other forms of music rose to power in peoples heads as well as in the industry itself when the main paradigm of power fell or became outdated. Napster is just a thorn in The conglomerates sides right now. PEOPLE NETWORK YOUR RIOS.
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Max/MSP programming environment has what you need - it can process audio.
A Multipurpose simulator with programmable rules called Starlogo is available at Starlogo.org
Also read "Emergence" - that book must have been reviewed on Slashdot long ago - same concepts.
Originally the "Internet" was an aggregate of mostly Academic and Military organizations. The NSF (National Science Foundation) provided the backbone support until 1994 I believe (I may be wrong). Basically that means that the NSF controlled it and the organizations who paid for the net were the organizations that used it, Academic and military. Along the way it grew into something that could financially benefit (or in other words be abused) commercial interests. The comercialization of the net has sprouted new technology (Voice over IP) and grew technology that was originally never intended for "internetworking" (Java).
The cook report has monitored the economic aspects of the net since 1994.
Here's something that gives you a techy rundown of the physical aspect of the net and how the powers that be controlled it up until 1996.
You've got to understand too that it would have never become this popular unless a browser, Mosiac, came to be. Mosiac turned into Netscape after some time. Without this tool, you'd be limited to gophering around places (which wasn't bad in and of it self).
I dunno man, I can't see where you are going with the CD/DVD stuff. Of course you don't own the material on it. Just like you don't own my home page -- you can view it all you want, but is it yours? Can you copy it and say it's yours? No. The fundamentals of the Internet have behaved exactly as they should given the current owners and the like. You still have the capability to put up a page and you still have the ability to play on a level playing field with anyone who decides to use the internet as a tool for whatever -- it's not just banner ads out there, it's the information. You watch TV shows right - not TV commercials.
And I think that Personal Area Networks will over take the Internet as most important technology in lives -- only cause it will be so god damn fun to interact with your environment. There I predict it.
Damn, people haven't even intergrated spell-checkers into HTML elements -- there's still a long way to go with the current set up.
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But what about the old WORMS game. I saw that on a Nokia phone the other day. Does anyone get royalties for that game?
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Who's to say someone's not going to (and someone really should!!!) hook up Rio's or pocket mp3's players to provide PAN and maybe even WAN solutions to trade mp3's with someone elses RIO?
Locking it down and forcing technology to chagne in this legal/business paranoia manner is like chaining yourself to your seat in case of a car crash.. You've solved one problem but now you've got a host of other problems when the tahish hits the fan.
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Now unless it was just the NY Times article spin on the issue, I read that the report and proposed meeting that will take place has already assumed that this technology in question is wrong and the meeting is to scold and restrict napster soley based on the fact that it was simple file sharing.
Now I agree with the previous post about "Oh ban or restrict some technology because it's first use was piracy". But aren't other solutions possible like having Napster and/or and other ASP out there provide the Music INdustry with extremely discounted royalties (that actually go to the artists, i mean Digital takes the Retail stores, production and warehouse distribution out of the picture) I would think that any song that is downloaded using napster could have a small royalty (that the user pays, sort of like Ebay, a very small amount) tacked onto it that is paid for by either the User or Napster Inc itself (with ad space or however the business model revenue generation works). Maybe this is where they are going with this Credit Card Verification gig ("Oh, we have your CC, why not charge you, you're not anonymous anymore"). At the least you'll wipe out the 50% (my own estimate of Napsters role in piracy) of the facilitation of piracy by Napster Users. Surely there are other issues, but hell if you dig it, you're going to buy the CD and support the artist you're digging anyway. And if an artist wishes to choose MP3 as a major medium in thier own product/art distribution ("Well as an artist I either sign a contract and whore myself at the whim of the record company, or Damn, just go mp3 and cut out the middleman and recieve some profit off my work!") then the should be able to. I'm seriously fearing that these battles are between the insudtry and People, where the chain is really artist ---> people, right?
Anyway. Word.
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Why?
Minimal Crude layout exposes the information more readily than information/presentation overload. And I don't mean color scheming by this (even though Zeldmans only thot on Slashdot was Teal color). To get to the point before I sink myself: If I, a non-designer with a some taste in look and feel but more apt to figure into business logic more than anything, was working with a small team of individuals and did not have the ability for cash outlay to create a team of so called "experts" were to design a "page" (or plate of info) I would definatley make the information and not the design clear to the users, but in a tasteful way and in a way that will stick around for at least 3 years. Black borders are ubiq. Splash is Ubiq. Anything else is fringe and frill.
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It's nice to take a breath from all the "Pshockwave Psychos" and "Image freaks". I'd like to incorporate many more design ideas (even if they are crude, it renders well on my brain as well on the screen) on my site Media-Mixer. It's very nice to be able to sponge some knowledge from someone who gets techincal but is nowhere near as airheaded as Brute Force Art Design people.
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I think it would set home based development up for actual networking instead of the black holes in which it exists today.
Apologies if this was already brought up.
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You consent
You consent to be sued.
By!
4 hippies
4 hippies from Frisco.
We!
Aren't broke
But we arent the same now.
Sad but truuuuueeeeee.
Now!
You consent
or your parents are doomed.
For!
Plaguing us
with your current fanship.
Why!
Don't you just
cough up 20 dollars
For!
Our Album
or the new garth brooks one.
it's the same thing..
Sad but true....
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Sending off all of the machines cached passwords to an email address at an easily accessable and cloakable free email site would totally cloak my identity. I don't think anyone who would write something as malicious as this would even worry about people's passwords.
I really am starting to think along the lines that this I Love You Virus could be a cover-up for something else. Focusing everyone on a particularly malicious and (I think purposefully) poorly written script could have let something else thru the IS Security Fishing Net (full of holes). And I really don't think that people's behavior will change because of it (People rarely call the geek they know and question (How do i not get viruses). Since most of the focus on the net is on E-Com nowadays, security is also more focused on a particular tenant; privacy instead of including integrity.
'I hate go to school..
I think Mahir wrote this one..
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