Is this post your nightmare yet? I can keep going if you like!
Ha! Interesting.
Here is an interesting story. I have gone camping with the same group of 4-6 friends for 10 years. We went hiking in Ontario's Algonquin Park last year. When we got out of the car we noticed how much of our conversation (and 'quips') had been 'stolen' from the popular media, be they commercials, television, movies, music etc etc. We were repeating lines from movies - singing pop songs etc.
It really startled us when we noticed, so we made a pact to *not* make any reference to ideas that were not of our own creation. No 'whazzup' or 'fascinating (in the spock voice from ST:TOS) etc.
Because we were in the woods - trying to enjoy nature and be self-sufficient (we were doing a 36km loop by backpack) we thought it was a good idea. When anyone would 'slip' we all would just act like we didnt understand what the person said - like he had said 'blabdallkdjkfjd' and it was incomprehensible. It was really weird making note - that even when you try - just how much influence popular media has on you. We were amazed.
It was an excellent trip. I suggest that next time you are talking in a group of close friends, stop and pay attention for a while - then tell them all that you had been paying attention.... it is very weird when you notice it.
Your right - America is a becoming irrelevant in World Affairs. The problem is that the American Government has very literally sold out to its Native TransNationals.
Kyoto was scuttled. The farce that is the 'energy crisis' is being sold to hood-wink the public. The 'resurrection' of the cold-war for the purposes of giving gifts to the military-industrial industry... The result of obvious cow-towing to business is really just beginning to show. The media outlets dump propaganda on the people like no tomorrow (and shore up the initiatives mentioned above). The American Public looks really foolish considering the crap they ingest. Look at Bush.. The guy is a literally a moron - and he's your president!
The rest of the world knows it. They realize that your government is are smiling, palm-pushing shills for your industries - and the AMERICAN PEOPLE let it continue.
Im sorry - this appears to be flamebait - but if some NON-Americans can please 'back-me-up' here Id appreciate it. This is why NASA is virtually irrelevant - they dont provide profit (directly in very near term(as in 'cash-for-someone-next-quarter-to-raise-stock-pric es-so-the-plutocrats-can-exercise-their-stock-opti ons' kind of 'near term...)).
BTW, your foreign policy is also tainted by self-interest. This is why America was recently shunned by the UN members... and that IS ALSO obvious to the rest of the world - how Americans can pretend its not the case (or think they are kidding anyone) is beyond me.
Vinton G. Cerf and others just released an Internet Draft about the Architectural Definition of the Interplanetary Internet (IPN).
Is this the same Vint Cerf that is a member of the ICANN? The very same Vint Cerf that is discussed in this article at The Reg. Is this the same Vint Cerf who is aptly portrayed in these (part 1 and part 2) cartoons describing the actions of ICANN and their mis-handling of the Root-DNS?
If it is I suggest we steer clear of his current intentions - I wonder if he'll still be interested building a community owned/run, democratic, system with the proper 'goals'.
Vint certainly deserves accolades for his TCP/IP work, technically he's top-notch, but based on his reported actions within ICANN Im wondering if he hasnt been compromised by personal/corporate ambition.
True leaders are usually humble people - Vint sounds to be neither. I would feel a little better about this proposal if he were a more honest person.
Why does it take the attrition guys long at all to set up the mirror? What is wrong with setting up a form to a cgi script - have a perl/phython/awk/whatever script do a GNU/wget and build a link somewhere.... they could also setup an email gateway for the kiddies if a form is too much trouble for them...BR> I fully understand that the Attrition people feel it is too much work - its completely there own choice - but does working a mirror of defacments have to be that labour intensive? Why didnt they set something up to work automagically for them...?
rhetoric is coming from the media, not the President
The Government && their corporate media cronies are purposefully whipping up a straw-man 'energy crisis'. There is no fucking energy crisis.
The screwed up thing is Americans dont realize you cannot live a wastefull, consumer-driven, styro-foam laden, convenience packaging, etc etc life and NOT have problems with energy... America spends more energy to make plastic straws than some third world countries use in a year.
America will have these 'energy crisis' forever until A) their thirst for energy destroyes the plant. B) their thirst for energy causes the world to descend into a horrific war C) They wake the fuck up and stop wasting energy on 'The American Way of Life'.
America - your 'energy crisis' is because you act like children in a candy store - too hopped up on sugar to know whats good for you... you eat and eat and eat until you end up sick to your stomach.
I just hope the rest of the planet can get their shit together and stop letting America try and lead us into the same oblivion.
Or checks CDDB first - if it retrieves a record query "would you like to submit this CD data to FreeDB?" if it is an unknown CD; "would you like to enter the data for CDDB"? Handy...
How could '3 years of CDDB's existance' have been overlooked in the prior art submitted by Scherf and/or Kan? I understood that people filing patent apps had to do a 'reasonable' attempt at providing PA.
How could even the most incompetent of searches on the part of the patent clerk not provide evidence of prior art?
Are the patent clerks simply fucking clueless about technology? Have they changed the policy - openly or not - at the Patent Office to STOP holding a patent application to the prior art -or- 'reasonably created by someone competent in the art'?
What is going on with the USPTO? Can someone phone the USPTO and just ask 'How the fcuk did you give this a patent? They published this as GPL 3 years prior!'
I am amazed at the USPTO - and terrified that this 'ip' land grab is increasing speed.
I read the article on midiclorians.. Interesting...
What really amazes me is the birth of $cientology. $cientology is a 'new religion' invented by Hubbard. Over the next 200 years - if we permit it to grow by giving it tax breaks etc etc and not identifying it as the sham cult it is - what stops it from becoming Christianity for the new age? They have a cool-new-hip techno hook (that emeter thingy), they have aliens, they have copyrights, they have celebrities - Fuck man, they have it down. Will $cientology will grow into a 'respectable religion'. $cientologists know how to play the 'fair game' with lawyers and whatnot to drum up 'popular' support by claiming refuge behind 'religious freedom'. "Middle America" who are Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus know how important it is to defend their 'religious freedoms'... they are going to get hoodwinked into supporting these crazies.
How long until the 'jedi movies', stories of 'midiclorians', claims by the Aussies of "jedi" as their religion are all tied together in a grand unified story of their acceptance (and righteousness). 300 years from now, will the fog of history cloud all the real stories behind the origins of these 'things'. Will they be mis-represented by the $cientologists as history (proof) of the birth of their religion. Hubbard's popular faux-pas will be lost - the quotes of him saying 'if you want to be rich start a religion', histories of his family of him being out of control with his drug use, the 'fair game' letters all hidden by copyright...
We are all truly lucky to live in these days - we may be witnessing the birth of a religion that will explode over the next 1000 years. We may sit back and think - smugly - at what a joke it is that this cult is taken seriously, how bizarre their 'tactics' are. Anyone who recounts these stories will be marginalized as a 'religious bigot' and put in jail (article shows its already happening). The 'Operation Clambake' event will be shown as a moral victory - a testament to the conviction of the founders of the religion to overcome religious persecution. But make no mistake; this is a very fucking big deal.
What do you do when humanity grows out of our old religions.. the old emotional crutches and fairy tales -- you create new ones with stories based on the times, one appealing to modern people - with technology, stories of aliens, religious-technology devices..
is anyone else as amazed at the whole event as I am? It tells as much about Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and their origins.
i agree - but in this arms race of hacker vs. transnational - the transnatinals are buying laws to make us all criminals... sooner or later we are going to have to deal with the REAL problem here. Im tired of having to fight some money-grubbing prick because he believes his right to make money is more important the the rights of all of the rest of the citizens around him... this shits gotta stop.
this copyright protection is just plain dumb, b. The fact remains that if you can see it or if you can hear it, it can be duplicated.
But who wants to spend their life hiding like a criminal simply because some Transnational feels it should buy laws, that are against nature and reality*, just to stuff their wallets?
I dont want to be a criminal of a corporate state...
...Freedom is just another word until theirs nothing left to loose...
* intellectual property is a concept - not a concrete thing.. it is an agreement we make as free citizens with people who want to produce and sell in the market. thoughts and ideas are NOT chattle. "Intellectual Property" does not exist. The Capitalists have forgot this...
Many people may have a bone to pick with Microsoft for some really annoying things, but DirectX was one of their better ideas
When you can tune an OS to the graphics/gaming library - and the graphics/gaming library to the OS how hard can it be? There is no magic there at all...
No... people are starting to see this.. more and more - everyday. This is what you saw in Seattle, Washington, Windsor and in Quebec City... this September the WTO/IMF is coming to Washington, DC. If this monopoly bullshit by MASSIVE companies scares you - come to Washington this September. Ill see you there.
Does anyone else see the XBox as a flagrant slap in the face of the DOJ?
Microsoft is about to use its monopoly power to introduce a competing platform to play games on. Games that would normally be played on PCs.
The Consumo-tron-2000 level PC buyer will consider buying a console over a PC now.
What are Dell, Compaq, IBM, eMachines, etc, etc, and all the other big computer builders going to think when the XBox starts to eat into the sales of its Home-PC lines! M$ is breaking an important business rule here: "Dont compete with your customers." Now the fact that they can do this - and dell, compaq, ibm and everyone else dont immediately turn their backs and use another OS helps prove that there are NOT ALTERNATIVES in the market - further proving their monopoly. The fact that they are trying this AFTER the DOJ ruled against them is bizarre. The fact that more people havent raised this issue is also wierd... this is like microsoft beginning to sell its own computer... why hasnt the DOJ fired up the lawyers and stopped this?
As much as I would *love* to see that - M$ is going to spend alot of time making damn-fucking sure NOTHING runs on the XBOX besides WinCE(whatever).
Ill bet they hobble the NVIDIA chips and the CPU - the whole thing will have changes made to 'standard pc architecture' for the sole purpose of making it unique.
Im sorry - this is not going to be a hack in the class of the IOpener.
They should offer the.biz &&.info domains to present.com holders only if the.com holders wants to GIVE UP their present.com - if not, sorry, get in line.
Slashdot Mirror
My old Hauppage card does mpeg-1 recording, but it only has one tuner, so you have to watch the same thing you record.
I wonder if anyone ever put more than one hauppage TV tuner cards in a computer - and (*gasp*) used them at the same time.
...thank you...
...thank you.
Is this post your nightmare yet? I can keep going if you like!
Ha! Interesting.
Here is an interesting story. I have gone camping with the same group of 4-6 friends for 10 years. We went hiking in Ontario's Algonquin Park last year. When we got out of the car we noticed how much of our conversation (and 'quips') had been 'stolen' from the popular media, be they commercials, television, movies, music etc etc. We were repeating lines from movies - singing pop songs etc.
It really startled us when we noticed, so we made a pact to *not* make any reference to ideas that were not of our own creation. No 'whazzup' or 'fascinating (in the spock voice from ST:TOS) etc. Because we were in the woods - trying to enjoy nature and be self-sufficient (we were doing a 36km loop by backpack) we thought it was a good idea. When anyone would 'slip' we all would just act like we didnt understand what the person said - like he had said 'blabdallkdjkfjd' and it was incomprehensible. It was really weird making note - that even when you try - just how much influence popular media has on you. We were amazed.
It was an excellent trip. I suggest that next time you are talking in a group of close friends, stop and pay attention for a while - then tell them all that you had been paying attention.... it is very weird when you notice it.
Your right - America is a becoming irrelevant in World Affairs. The problem is that the American Government has very literally sold out to its Native TransNationals.
c es-so-the-plutocrats-can-exercise-their-stock-opti ons' kind of 'near term...)).
Kyoto was scuttled. The farce that is the 'energy crisis' is being sold to hood-wink the public. The 'resurrection' of the cold-war for the purposes of giving gifts to the military-industrial industry... The result of obvious cow-towing to business is really just beginning to show. The media outlets dump propaganda on the people like no tomorrow (and shore up the initiatives mentioned above). The American Public looks really foolish considering the crap they ingest. Look at Bush.. The guy is a literally a moron - and he's your president!
The rest of the world knows it. They realize that your government is are smiling, palm-pushing shills for your industries - and the AMERICAN PEOPLE let it continue.
Im sorry - this appears to be flamebait - but if some NON-Americans can please 'back-me-up' here Id appreciate it. This is why NASA is virtually irrelevant - they dont provide profit (directly in very near term(as in 'cash-for-someone-next-quarter-to-raise-stock-pri
BTW, your foreign policy is also tainted by self-interest. This is why America was recently shunned by the UN members... and that IS ALSO obvious to the rest of the world - how Americans can pretend its not the case (or think they are kidding anyone) is beyond me.
One word: seti@home
Vinton G. Cerf and others just released an Internet Draft about the Architectural Definition of the Interplanetary Internet (IPN).
Is this the same Vint Cerf that is a member of the ICANN? The very same Vint Cerf that is discussed in this article at The Reg. Is this the same Vint Cerf who is aptly portrayed in these (part 1 and part 2) cartoons describing the actions of ICANN and their mis-handling of the Root-DNS?
If it is I suggest we steer clear of his current intentions - I wonder if he'll still be interested building a community owned/run, democratic, system with the proper 'goals'.
Vint certainly deserves accolades for his TCP/IP work, technically he's top-notch, but based on his reported actions within ICANN Im wondering if he hasnt been compromised by personal/corporate ambition.
True leaders are usually humble people - Vint sounds to be neither. I would feel a little better about this proposal if he were a more honest person.
Why does it take the attrition guys long at all to set up the mirror? What is wrong with setting up a form to a cgi script - have a perl/phython/awk/whatever script do a GNU/wget and build a link somewhere.... they could also setup an email gateway for the kiddies if a form is too much trouble for them...BR>
I fully understand that the Attrition people feel it is too much work - its completely there own choice - but does working a mirror of defacments have to be that labour intensive? Why didnt they set something up to work automagically for them...?
rhetoric is coming from the media, not the President
The Government && their corporate media cronies are purposefully whipping up a straw-man 'energy crisis'. There is no fucking energy crisis.
The screwed up thing is Americans dont realize you cannot live a wastefull, consumer-driven, styro-foam laden, convenience packaging, etc etc life and NOT have problems with energy... America spends more energy to make plastic straws than some third world countries use in a year.
America will have these 'energy crisis' forever until A) their thirst for energy destroyes the plant. B) their thirst for energy causes the world to descend into a horrific war C) They wake the fuck up and stop wasting energy on 'The American Way of Life'.
America - your 'energy crisis' is because you act like children in a candy store - too hopped up on sugar to know whats good for you... you eat and eat and eat until you end up sick to your stomach.
I just hope the rest of the planet can get their shit together and stop letting America try and lead us into the same oblivion.
This is a project to build multi-media to be used with the GPLed Quake Source.
The article sounds a bit mis-leading in that there is no new 'game engine' here - its an art project.
The telephone.
Each phone both sends and receives data.
Wow - the US is spinning in a sea of shitte. Is P2P on trial now...?
Or checks CDDB first - if it retrieves a record query "would you like to submit this CD data to FreeDB?" if it is an unknown CD; "would you like to enter the data for CDDB"? Handy...
Here's a question:
How could '3 years of CDDB's existance' have been overlooked in the prior art submitted by Scherf and/or Kan? I understood that people filing patent apps had to do a 'reasonable' attempt at providing PA.
How could even the most incompetent of searches on the part of the patent clerk not provide evidence of prior art?
Are the patent clerks simply fucking clueless about technology? Have they changed the policy - openly or not - at the Patent Office to STOP holding a patent application to the prior art -or- 'reasonably created by someone competent in the art'?
What is going on with the USPTO? Can someone phone the USPTO and just ask 'How the fcuk did you give this a patent? They published this as GPL 3 years prior!'
I am amazed at the USPTO - and terrified that this 'ip' land grab is increasing speed.
Well - how about speaking ill of Ford Motor Company?
Did anyone know that our friends @ 2600 mag are being sued by Ford now? Please see fordreallysucks.com
If you are in Windsor/Detroit you can come to the Courthouse and support them tomorrow.
I read the article on midiclorians.. Interesting...
What really amazes me is the birth of $cientology. $cientology is a 'new religion' invented by Hubbard. Over the next 200 years - if we permit it to grow by giving it tax breaks etc etc and not identifying it as the sham cult it is - what stops it from becoming Christianity for the new age? They have a cool-new-hip techno hook (that emeter thingy), they have aliens, they have copyrights, they have celebrities - Fuck man, they have it down. Will $cientology will grow into a 'respectable religion'. $cientologists know how to play the 'fair game' with lawyers and whatnot to drum up 'popular' support by claiming refuge behind 'religious freedom'. "Middle America" who are Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus know how important it is to defend their 'religious freedoms'... they are going to get hoodwinked into supporting these crazies.
How long until the 'jedi movies', stories of 'midiclorians', claims by the Aussies of "jedi" as their religion are all tied together in a grand unified story of their acceptance (and righteousness). 300 years from now, will the fog of history cloud all the real stories behind the origins of these 'things'. Will they be mis-represented by the $cientologists as history (proof) of the birth of their religion. Hubbard's popular faux-pas will be lost - the quotes of him saying 'if you want to be rich start a religion', histories of his family of him being out of control with his drug use, the 'fair game' letters all hidden by copyright...
We are all truly lucky to live in these days - we may be witnessing the birth of a religion that will explode over the next 1000 years. We may sit back and think - smugly - at what a joke it is that this cult is taken seriously, how bizarre their 'tactics' are. Anyone who recounts these stories will be marginalized as a 'religious bigot' and put in jail (article shows its already happening). The 'Operation Clambake' event will be shown as a moral victory - a testament to the conviction of the founders of the religion to overcome religious persecution. But make no mistake; this is a very fucking big deal.
What do you do when humanity grows out of our old religions.. the old emotional crutches and fairy tales -- you create new ones with stories based on the times, one appealing to modern people - with technology, stories of aliens, religious-technology devices..
is anyone else as amazed at the whole event as I am? It tells as much about Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and their origins.
i agree - but in this arms race of hacker vs. transnational - the transnatinals are buying laws to make us all criminals... sooner or later we are going to have to deal with the REAL problem here. Im tired of having to fight some money-grubbing prick because he believes his right to make money is more important the the rights of all of the rest of the citizens around him... this shits gotta stop.
the FCC has lost it's collective mind
You want to see crazy? You wait until they start SELLING the airwaves instead of licensing them.
this copyright protection is just plain dumb, b. The fact remains that if you can see it or if you can hear it, it can be duplicated.
But who wants to spend their life hiding like a criminal simply because some Transnational feels it should buy laws, that are against nature and reality*, just to stuff their wallets?
I dont want to be a criminal of a corporate state...
...Freedom is just another word until theirs nothing left to loose...
* intellectual property is a concept - not a concrete thing.. it is an agreement we make as free citizens with people who want to produce and sell in the market. thoughts and ideas are NOT chattle. "Intellectual Property" does not exist. The Capitalists have forgot this...
Many people may have a bone to pick with Microsoft for some really annoying things, but DirectX was one of their better ideas
When you can tune an OS to the graphics/gaming library - and the graphics/gaming library to the OS how hard can it be? There is no magic there at all...
And you know what else? No one gives a damn...
No... people are starting to see this.. more and more - everyday. This is what you saw in Seattle, Washington, Windsor and in Quebec City... this September the WTO/IMF is coming to Washington, DC. If this monopoly bullshit by MASSIVE companies scares you - come to Washington this September. Ill see you there.
www.protest.net www.indymedia.org
can we mod this above +5? if anyone deserves it is Mr. TWR - The Wisest Man on Slashdot Today(TM).
Does anyone else see the XBox as a flagrant slap in the face of the DOJ?
Microsoft is about to use its monopoly power to introduce a competing platform to play games on. Games that would normally be played on PCs.
The Consumo-tron-2000 level PC buyer will consider buying a console over a PC now.
What are Dell, Compaq, IBM, eMachines, etc, etc, and all the other big computer builders going to think when the XBox starts to eat into the sales of its Home-PC lines! M$ is breaking an important business rule here: "Dont compete with your customers." Now the fact that they can do this - and dell, compaq, ibm and everyone else dont immediately turn their backs and use another OS helps prove that there are NOT ALTERNATIVES in the market - further proving their monopoly. The fact that they are trying this AFTER the DOJ ruled against them is bizarre. The fact that more people havent raised this issue is also wierd... this is like microsoft beginning to sell its own computer... why hasnt the DOJ fired up the lawyers and stopped this?
I give it all of 3 months
As much as I would *love* to see that - M$ is going to spend alot of time making damn-fucking sure NOTHING runs on the XBOX besides WinCE(whatever).
Ill bet they hobble the NVIDIA chips and the CPU - the whole thing will have changes made to 'standard pc architecture' for the sole purpose of making it unique.
Im sorry - this is not going to be a hack in the class of the IOpener.
ummm MP3s? probably not... ill be there will be a M$ only audio format w/ fair-use defeating technology built right in...
They should offer the .biz && .info domains to present .com holders only if the .com holders wants to GIVE UP their present .com - if not, sorry, get in line.