Well, if it works according to plan, then they'll be exactly the kinds of citizen you think they will... more then willing to let themselves and their movements (purchases, information, desires, etc) be sold out to supposedly wiser authorities:)
the NYTimes has a nice piece on him here (free reg blah blah)
Damn.... I was having such a nice morning, too, until I read that. I've never read a series more consistantly funny than HHGTG, or a more convoluted one than Dirk Gently. And I guess this means no resolution to the loose ends from "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" and no movie. *sigh*
Just to throw in an example of this... Three Doors Down (you know, the guys who sing that "Kryponite" song) were total unknowns down in Mississippi(?) before steps 1-6 happened. The only difference is that instead of distributing through a Napster or a Gnutella, they got signed.
Right away, the music companies started to screw them out of their profits. I wish I remembered where I read it, there was a great interview with/article about the band where they talked about how they'd all immediately started putting a big chunk of their money in 401Ks, blue-chip investments, and attempting not to let the music company sucker the dough back into their own pockets.
I happen to like Three Doors Down, and think they have a good sound. It's a damn shame that the time they used to spend playing in local joints to make cash, they now have to spend defending what should be their profits against the people who have already taken so much ca$h for the dubious privelege of putting them on the top 40.
I have to admit, I'm glad someone's going after ICANN, even if it's too little, too late. $50,000 for ".museum"?? Apparently, ICANN isn't too familiar with existing museum nomenclenture. Taken from the.us doman page (http://www.nic.us/overview/special.html):
e. MUS - Museums
This branch is used for museums. For example:
<museum-name>.MUS.<stat e-code>.US.
If this wasn't a scheme to bilk people and honest (if not very clued-in) groups out of a bunch of cash, I don't know what would be. I say let the ACLU sue 'em until the cows come home.
In the end, no matter how well this works right now, it will be brought down for the exact same reasons as the first Great Wall of China: someone on the inside opening the gates to the outsiders for money.
Now if only I could inherit something useful that the government doesn't need.... Like that Harrier jet that I couldn't buy with Pepsi points (those welchers!)
Is it possible that they've given this place to radio astronomers because they can do the least damage with it? Imagine a satellite set-up this intense in the hands of dedicated SETI guys.
Wow, will NBC ever get a ratings boost from this! What a windfall... some jerk like Richard from Survivor winning the "Vacation on Mir" contest, only to be plunged to his fiery doom (and watery grave) aboard a Russian deathtrap! Take that, Richard, you bastard! Die! Die! Oh, my sweet Colleen, YOU should have won! My love for--
Wait... what? What do you mean they take the guy off first? What the hell's the point in that?
Musicals (like a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar) are INSANELY regulated, I can tell you. Having stage managed said show, I had to read the contracts, and the amount they bind you, restrict you, and charge you per use (even for things as small as logos and scores) is ridiculous. I think because any recording of a dramatical work would be classified as a "performance," the owners (like MTI, Music Theatre International) would pitch a fit. Just my guess.
It's a little vague. There's that whole bit about is received only by a recipient who has provided to the transmitting organization proof that the recipient lawfully possesses a phonorecord of such sound recording. The obvious question, of course, is what constitutes "proof." Although the post says that this would have invalidated the mp3.com lawsuit, I don't know if that's wholly true: the RIAA could have harped, instead, upon the strength of "proof" checks... dollars to donuts that BeamIt wouldn't have passed corporate muster.
I have a sad feeling that if this makes it to law (and I'm going to snail-mail my congressman) that it'll be twisted such that only the proprietary systems of the RIAA will be considered "proof." Meaning woe to those who buy CDs and don't get the keycode or something similarly (inappropriately) lowtech that gets shipped with it...
or, worse, unique identifiers per CD, to defeat those who would buy, BeamIt, and then return the CD... said CD is back off the market, there go Joe User's priveleges. Ok, maybe that's a valid use, but how in god's name can you say they wouldn't then use it to do some serious tracking.... don't play Bobby's CD in Judy's CD player, or the authorities will be notified!
Because there's a huge debt there waiting to be repaid, run up for services you and I both use, provided by the government. Paying it back not only makes economic sense, it's the right thing to do.
Re:Like USENET, what DNS needs is an ".alt" TLD.
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Speaking of garbage seeping in... other than.not my personal fave is a.sex one. Solves two problems:
Allows parents who can't be bothered to actually talk to their children to easily filter out "smut"
Allows college students and the chronically single (not that I'm -- ahem -- either of those...) to easily access "smut":)
Personally, i hate it when I have to remember "Wait, was is goatsex.com, or goat.cx, or what?"
Reading the.web proposal application (posted here on ICANN, I see there's a bit about watching out for copyright infringement, etc..... What I would love to see is a sort of a ".not" TLD, where copyright laws simply don't apply. A pipe dream, to be sure, but it would nice to be a place where the government would guarantee the right to parody, mock, implicate, and point out the faults of various corporations, etc. Insure our "fair use" policies, essentially. And, hey, apparently there haven't been any submissions for.not to ICANN (not that anme, anyway). Any lawyers out there want to take up the charge?
Maybe he limits his earnings to keep below a limit that he considers morally palatable. This is a guy, after all, who has refused all kinds of donations outright because he felt they violated his sense of propriety...
The problem with the idea of leaving your job if you're not getting enough money is that they'll just hire someone younger for what they were paying you (if not less). Great for you, bad for the industry as a whole. If you're not mission-critical (and I know, everyone likes to think of themselves as mission-critical, but it just ain't true), the company will barely blink...
Please. That's like saying "only the majority can be rascist." Just because *nix is the "light side of the force" or whatever the term is this week doesn't mean they can't sling mud with the best of 'em. Or, for that matter, disgruntled MS ex-worker-bees with a yen for all things command prompted.
What if the only reason that the MPAA fought/fights so hard against DeCSS is so that it WOULD become so well known? Free publicity, and correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they make much of their money on the selling of the DVDs themselves, not the players? EGAD, what crafty little schnooks...
Ok, ok, not very likely. Had to exercise my consipirsy center in the ol' brain.
The NYTimes has an article on it as well, here... I think you may have to register.
Ok, yes, of course we must consider that it's just FUD, and these people seem like flacks, but it doesn't necessarily mean that these aren't true statistics. I'm struck particularly by the refernece by the store owner that singles' sales are dropping most precipitously. That's where the RIAA and all really take a hit.... singles cost, what, $5(?) and have only one or two songs.... much better profitablity than LP discs. I think Napster does affect the sales of those things.
But I hate those things. If singles became primarily distributed over the Net, for $.50 a pop, that'd make me a happy happy camper. CD prices are ungodly, it's true, but why RIAA goons can't wake up and exploit the living hell out of the public's desire for instant downloads of the New Big Thing (tm) like Britney or who-the-tanj-ever for dirt cheap.... well, it sucks.
My personal favorite possible application is quantum encrypting, where (IIRC) the presence of an interfering (read: listening) party between the parties passing messages instantly causes the encryption to change subtly due to synchronicity between seperated particles of some such.... if folks have a link to confirm or deny this, that'd be keen.
The upside of this, of course, is that private conversations would be safe as never before. the downside is that corprate entities would have the same powers. I personally trumpet governmental attempts to regulate corporations -- not business, but the megalithic entities that have are wrapped around the concept of "business" like a tumor -- and I feel that one of the most useful tools in chasing them down are internal communiques. Imagine if these were locked behind an encryption where even the attempt to decrypt them automatically made them further unreadable. Perhaps I'm assuming that storage of quantum-encrypted messages is possible, which I don't think it is yet.... This isn't a screed about the need for less privacy, but rather that corporate entities shouldn't receive all the benefits that private citizens do with respect to this (and many other things).
Anyone out there get the "I Kinda Like you" virus for *nix? It's on the honor system: rm a few files your not using and forward to your friends. Wish I'd thought of it:)
Actually, each country does have its own air space. That's always a big problem when guys try to fly around the world in a ballon... Libya or China or someone inconveniently placed right in the jet stream path refuses to grant passage throuh their airspace.
What about an undersea server? Hidden deep withing the Marianas Trench, protected from coporate mercenaries by those aliens from The Abyss....
I need to stop smoking so much crack while at work.
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*sigh* Another day, another partitiion on my hard drive.... what's that, now 5?
Well, if it works according to plan, then they'll be exactly the kinds of citizen you think they will... more then willing to let themselves and their movements (purchases, information, desires, etc) be sold out to supposedly wiser authorities :)
Viva la Corporacion!
the NYTimes has a nice piece on him here (free reg blah blah)
Damn.... I was having such a nice morning, too, until I read that. I've never read a series more consistantly funny than HHGTG, or a more convoluted one than Dirk Gently. And I guess this means no resolution to the loose ends from "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" and no movie. *sigh*
For those of you who are big H.P.Lovecraft fans, it's interesting to note that Miskatonic.edu has been taken since before '96....
Just to throw in an example of this... Three Doors Down (you know, the guys who sing that "Kryponite" song) were total unknowns down in Mississippi(?) before steps 1-6 happened. The only difference is that instead of distributing through a Napster or a Gnutella, they got signed.
Right away, the music companies started to screw them out of their profits. I wish I remembered where I read it, there was a great interview with/article about the band where they talked about how they'd all immediately started putting a big chunk of their money in 401Ks, blue-chip investments, and attempting not to let the music company sucker the dough back into their own pockets.
I happen to like Three Doors Down, and think they have a good sound. It's a damn shame that the time they used to spend playing in local joints to make cash, they now have to spend defending what should be their profits against the people who have already taken so much ca$h for the dubious privelege of putting them on the top 40.
I have to admit, I'm glad someone's going after ICANN, even if it's too little, too late. $50,000 for ".museum"?? Apparently, ICANN isn't too familiar with existing museum nomenclenture. Taken from the .us doman page (http://www.nic.us/overview/special.html):
e. MUS - Museums
This branch is used for museums. For example:
<museum-name>.MUS.<stat e-code>.US.
If this wasn't a scheme to bilk people and honest (if not very clued-in) groups out of a bunch of cash, I don't know what would be. I say let the ACLU sue 'em until the cows come home.
In the end, no matter how well this works right now, it will be brought down for the exact same reasons as the first Great Wall of China: someone on the inside opening the gates to the outsiders for money.
Now if only I could inherit something useful that the government doesn't need.... Like that Harrier jet that I couldn't buy with Pepsi points (those welchers!)
Is it possible that they've given this place to radio astronomers because they can do the least damage with it? Imagine a satellite set-up this intense in the hands of dedicated SETI guys.
Wow, will NBC ever get a ratings boost from this! What a windfall... some jerk like Richard from Survivor winning the "Vacation on Mir" contest, only to be plunged to his fiery doom (and watery grave) aboard a Russian deathtrap! Take that, Richard, you bastard! Die! Die! Oh, my sweet Colleen, YOU should have won! My love for--
Wait... what? What do you mean they take the guy off first? What the hell's the point in that?
Right.... the bill allows for all nonmusical dramatic works. I was just trying to explain why a MDW would be specifially disallowed. :)
Musicals (like a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar) are INSANELY regulated, I can tell you. Having stage managed said show, I had to read the contracts, and the amount they bind you, restrict you, and charge you per use (even for things as small as logos and scores) is ridiculous. I think because any recording of a dramatical work would be classified as a "performance," the owners (like MTI, Music Theatre International) would pitch a fit. Just my guess.
It's a little vague. There's that whole bit about is received only by a recipient who has provided to the transmitting organization proof that the recipient lawfully possesses a phonorecord of such sound recording. The obvious question, of course, is what constitutes "proof." Although the post says that this would have invalidated the mp3.com lawsuit, I don't know if that's wholly true: the RIAA could have harped, instead, upon the strength of "proof" checks... dollars to donuts that BeamIt wouldn't have passed corporate muster.
I have a sad feeling that if this makes it to law (and I'm going to snail-mail my congressman) that it'll be twisted such that only the proprietary systems of the RIAA will be considered "proof." Meaning woe to those who buy CDs and don't get the keycode or something similarly (inappropriately) lowtech that gets shipped with it...
or, worse, unique identifiers per CD, to defeat those who would buy, BeamIt, and then return the CD... said CD is back off the market, there go Joe User's priveleges. Ok, maybe that's a valid use, but how in god's name can you say they wouldn't then use it to do some serious tracking.... don't play Bobby's CD in Judy's CD player, or the authorities will be notified!
Paranoia is fun. Eep.
Because there's a huge debt there waiting to be repaid, run up for services you and I both use, provided by the government. Paying it back not only makes economic sense, it's the right thing to do.
Speaking of garbage seeping in... other than
- Allows parents who can't be bothered to actually talk to their children to easily filter out "smut"
- Allows college students and the chronically single (not that I'm -- ahem -- either of those...) to easily access "smut"
:)
Personally, i hate it when I have to remember "Wait, was is goatsex.com, or goat.cx, or what?"Reading the .web proposal application (posted here on ICANN, I see there's a bit about watching out for copyright infringement, etc..... What I would love to see is a sort of a ".not" TLD, where copyright laws simply don't apply. A pipe dream, to be sure, but it would nice to be a place where the government would guarantee the right to parody, mock, implicate, and point out the faults of various corporations, etc. Insure our "fair use" policies, essentially. And, hey, apparently there haven't been any submissions for .not to ICANN (not that anme, anyway). Any lawyers out there want to take up the charge?
Maybe he limits his earnings to keep below a limit that he considers morally palatable. This is a guy, after all, who has refused all kinds of donations outright because he felt they violated his sense of propriety...
... Many Bothans died to bring us this information. :)
The problem with the idea of leaving your job if you're not getting enough money is that they'll just hire someone younger for what they were paying you (if not less). Great for you, bad for the industry as a whole. If you're not mission-critical (and I know, everyone likes to think of themselves as mission-critical, but it just ain't true), the company will barely blink...
Please. That's like saying "only the majority can be rascist." Just because *nix is the "light side of the force" or whatever the term is this week doesn't mean they can't sling mud with the best of 'em. Or, for that matter, disgruntled MS ex-worker-bees with a yen for all things command prompted.
What if the only reason that the MPAA fought/fights so hard against DeCSS is so that it WOULD become so well known? Free publicity, and correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they make much of their money on the selling of the DVDs themselves, not the players? EGAD, what crafty little schnooks...
Ok, ok, not very likely. Had to exercise my consipirsy center in the ol' brain.
The NYTimes has an article on it as well, here... I think you may have to register.
Ok, yes, of course we must consider that it's just FUD, and these people seem like flacks, but it doesn't necessarily mean that these aren't true statistics. I'm struck particularly by the refernece by the store owner that singles' sales are dropping most precipitously. That's where the RIAA and all really take a hit.... singles cost, what, $5(?) and have only one or two songs.... much better profitablity than LP discs. I think Napster does affect the sales of those things.
But I hate those things. If singles became primarily distributed over the Net, for $.50 a pop, that'd make me a happy happy camper. CD prices are ungodly, it's true, but why RIAA goons can't wake up and exploit the living hell out of the public's desire for instant downloads of the New Big Thing (tm) like Britney or who-the-tanj-ever for dirt cheap.... well, it sucks.
In conclusion... um... go Napster?
My personal favorite possible application is quantum encrypting, where (IIRC) the presence of an interfering (read: listening) party between the parties passing messages instantly causes the encryption to change subtly due to synchronicity between seperated particles of some such.... if folks have a link to confirm or deny this, that'd be keen.
The upside of this, of course, is that private conversations would be safe as never before. the downside is that corprate entities would have the same powers. I personally trumpet governmental attempts to regulate corporations -- not business, but the megalithic entities that have are wrapped around the concept of "business" like a tumor -- and I feel that one of the most useful tools in chasing them down are internal communiques. Imagine if these were locked behind an encryption where even the attempt to decrypt them automatically made them further unreadable. Perhaps I'm assuming that storage of quantum-encrypted messages is possible, which I don't think it is yet.... This isn't a screed about the need for less privacy, but rather that corporate entities shouldn't receive all the benefits that private citizens do with respect to this (and many other things).
Anyone out there get the "I Kinda Like you" virus for *nix? It's on the honor system: rm a few files your not using and forward to your friends. Wish I'd thought of it :)
Actually, each country does have its own air space. That's always a big problem when guys try to fly around the world in a ballon... Libya or China or someone inconveniently placed right in the jet stream path refuses to grant passage throuh their airspace.
What about an undersea server? Hidden deep withing the Marianas Trench, protected from coporate mercenaries by those aliens from The Abyss....
I need to stop smoking so much crack while at work.
I always thought /. used a sorta Matrix green.
Teal's a lot more blue.
(Why do I know this? Why do I care? Oh, why, god, why?)
Speaking of color, though, why is Mr. Jeff so against black backgrounds? Next he'll be dissing the BLINK tag.