(IT WILL BE ABUSED. And when it does, the public outcry will make it financially unadvisable to abuse it further.)
Boy Golly, I wish that I could believe that was true. What about the outcry against spam? Does that make it financially unadvisable to abuse further? Clearly not. It may focus peoples attention on one company and one type of abuse, but just saying that public outcry will make something financially unadvisable is wishful thinking. Especially since most abuse of this sort of info would be 'invisible' abuse.
I think they should charge MORE to companies running ads in unencrypted freely availiable shows - Hell integrate the ads into the shows so you can't skip them. Set them free online - every so often you'd get a 'killer' show that everyone is mailing links to, more product exposure, everybody wins.
Do you think it truely is only 0.01% that would have a problem with fake sig's / conglomerate data? I'm not talking about the idea of the problem.. I'm talking about the proverbial full mess. Someone fakes your ID.. Someone tracks you through publicly accesible data and makes life 'difficult' for you because they disagree with your stance on such-and-such an issue.. if this happens (OK- granted that is still the idea of the problem) do you really think that only 0.01% of the population would care? Even in the theoretical stage, is it only 0.01% of the population that cares?? Am I realy one of those tinfoil hat wearing paranoid weirdo's that thinks that something is problem regardless of the facts?.. Wait.. Don't answer that.
G'damn, but this is a tough issue (I'm speaking generally here) How do you:
(1) Insure that no one can fake your identity
(2) Insure that no one can conglomerate data from your identity
It seems to me that both (1) and (2) are desireable, yet mutually exlusive. How do you insure anonimity with a definite ID? These two issues have never been smashed together with such power before. Digital technology gives us the possibility for either (1) or (2), but can it ever give us both? Are they mutually exclusive? Is it either anarchy or buttonhole ID facism?
.. Personaly I would opt for Anarchy for myself, and button-hole facism for everybody else.. (for safety's sake of course).. How 'bout you?
..it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.
Is it? I hate to be elitist or something, no wait, I do like to be elitist. Why can't the mainstream get its own subculture? It seems to me that OFTEN when a subculture goes mainstream it becomes BORING..
Ah well, the Counter Culture always seems to become the Over-the-counter Culture.
That video sucks. It makes me think it is a hoax- For some reason they shoot the climber and keep the wall off the frame -You cant see what he's climbing!, They then show some close ups of the pads moving across what could be the ground. If this is *not* a hoax than the videographer should be ashamed of themselves.
.. I thought this was a particularly good bit of reasoning:
Not to mention the fact that we input a lot of data ourselves - we're CDDB users too.
Good lord! imagine how much work it must of been for them to input all that Data! I wonder, when I sent info to CDDB, did they have to hire somebody to type all that back into the system? Gawllee! -
I just got a discontinued virgin webplayer - I'm gonna put linux on it and strap it to my wrist. 640x480? please. I'm gonna have 800x600 in glorious 256 colour, 64 megs of ram & what with the three car batteries strapped to my back, I'll be able to tell the time all day long! -
With all of this back and forth on the issue from AOL, do we really need to use their system at all?
..Of course! Think about it, if you don't use it what will happen to AOL? They'll wither up and blow away, just like Yahoo. The economy is in bad enough shape without a bunch of freeloading geeks trying to get something fer nothin. Do your part for a healthy robust economy! Buy lots of stuff! Support the 'new' old new economy! Get crackin'
Closer inspection, however, shows Kenyanthropus to have a mixture of advanced and primitive features. For example, its small ear canal is more like that of chimpanzees and the very primitive members of the human lineage that lived in East Africa just over 4 million years ago
..But then it evolved, gaining great interest in musical forms of all kinds.. perfecting the sounds, its ear canal growing through the millenia.. Till the dawn of the 21st century- when it discovered MP3's, sending its evolutionary train spiraling sidways over a cliff. Uh.. That 32kbps NSYNC track sounds *fine* to me.. -
..This just *AINT* a pretty subject, no matter how you paint it. Is CDA 'good' or 'bad'? Could we just have a simple, straight-forward direction from Slashdot on the proper way to think?.. I just don't know what to say about this one.. Gonna have to check the archives to establish my POV..
This ain't about some lil' grainy *.avi you can download in a couple of minutes and chuckle to yourself over.. This is about full-quality video, freely availiable online. Now I don't know about you, but I like the possibilities inherent in full quality archival video footage availiable online to use in wacky video projects.. Some of us deal with a reality *beyond* bandwidth as you know it....
Wow! Gaddamn.. I dint see that there, but I honest-to-goodness have the 16mm film print of that.. Gonna' drag out the ol' bell and howell and take another look at it.. -
Slashdot Mirror
(IT WILL BE ABUSED. And when it does, the public outcry will make it financially unadvisable to abuse it further.)
Boy Golly, I wish that I could believe that was true. What about the outcry against spam? Does that make it financially unadvisable to abuse further? Clearly not. It may focus peoples attention on one company and one type of abuse, but just saying that public outcry will make something financially unadvisable is wishful thinking. Especially since most abuse of this sort of info would be 'invisible' abuse.
Now I can re-enact this scene
I've always wanted a pet robot, now I can feel like it's really the future.
I think they should charge MORE to companies running ads in unencrypted freely availiable shows - Hell integrate the ads into the shows so you can't skip them. Set them free online - every so often you'd get a 'killer' show that everyone is mailing links to, more product exposure, everybody wins.
Huh?
.. Wait.. Don't answer that.
Do you think it truely is only 0.01% that would have a problem with fake sig's / conglomerate data? I'm not talking about the idea of the problem.. I'm talking about the proverbial full mess. Someone fakes your ID.. Someone tracks you through publicly accesible data and makes life 'difficult' for you because they disagree with your stance on such-and-such an issue.. if this happens (OK- granted that is still the idea of the problem) do you really think that only 0.01% of the population would care? Even in the theoretical stage, is it only 0.01% of the population that cares?? Am I realy one of those tinfoil hat wearing paranoid weirdo's that thinks that something is problem regardless of the facts?
You mainstream ain't you?
I design your eyes.
If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes..
D.. M.. C.. A..
Don't Mess with Company Assets
Decieving Many Consumer Assholes
Devious Money Consumes All
Diabolical Medling Corporate Attorneys
Etc.. etc..
EVERYBODY NOW.. It fun to violate the D.M.C.A..
D.M.C.A.
G'damn, but this is a tough issue (I'm speaking generally here) How do you:
(1) Insure that no one can fake your identity
(2) Insure that no one can conglomerate data from your identity
It seems to me that both (1) and (2) are desireable, yet mutually exlusive. How do you insure anonimity with a definite ID? These two issues have never been smashed together with such power before. Digital technology gives us the possibility for either (1) or (2), but can it ever give us both? Are they mutually exclusive? Is it either anarchy or buttonhole ID facism?
.. Personaly I would opt for Anarchy for myself, and button-hole facism for everybody else.. (for safety's sake of course).. How 'bout you?
..it's cool to see a mainstream source talk up something that was so much subculture just a few years ago.
Is it? I hate to be elitist or something, no wait, I do like to be elitist. Why can't the mainstream get its own subculture? It seems to me that OFTEN when a subculture goes mainstream it becomes BORING..
Ah well, the Counter Culture always seems to become the Over-the-counter Culture.
Microsoft will want to hear about this!
Industry Plans to Restrict Use of HDTV Broadcasts, Harming Innovation
It funny you know, I think if anything I've been at my least innovative while watching TV. 'course maybe if its High Def...
yep, if an suv crashes into a wall its toast because of the design
Your SUV proly just ain't big enough - Try the Avalanche instead!
Its Huge-riffic!
It'll be interesting to see what the next version of MS XP World Encyclopedia 3000 has to say about Massachusetts..
We're too busy spending all our money blowing the hell out of each other..
I imagine you probly' meant "WOO" them back, but in this case I think "Woe" could work too..
"Woe is me, this VBS script just deleted my pr0n collection!"
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You people have such dirty minds..
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That video sucks. It makes me think it is a hoax- For some reason they shoot the climber and keep the wall off the frame -You cant see what he's climbing!, They then show some close ups of the pads moving across what could be the ground. If this is *not* a hoax than the videographer should be ashamed of themselves.
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.. I thought this was a particularly good bit of reasoning:
Not to mention the fact that we input a lot of data ourselves - we're CDDB users too.
Good lord! imagine how much work it must of been for them to input all that Data! I wonder, when I sent info to CDDB, did they have to hire somebody to type all that back into the system? Gawllee!
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I just got a discontinued virgin webplayer - I'm gonna put linux on it and strap it to my wrist. 640x480? please. I'm gonna have 800x600 in glorious 256 colour, 64 megs of ram & what with the three car batteries strapped to my back, I'll be able to tell the time all day long!
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For Gods sake - It puts cookies all over your hard-drive! Do you know how hard crumbs are on a motherboard? Jeez.
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With all of this back and forth on the issue from AOL, do we really need to use their system at all?
..Of course! Think about it, if you don't use it what will happen to AOL? They'll wither up and blow away, just like Yahoo. The economy is in bad enough shape without a bunch of freeloading geeks trying to get something fer nothin. Do your part for a healthy robust economy! Buy lots of stuff! Support the 'new' old new economy! Get crackin'
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Closer inspection, however, shows Kenyanthropus to have a mixture of advanced and primitive features. For example, its small ear canal is more like that of chimpanzees and the very primitive members of the human lineage that lived in East Africa just over 4 million years ago
..But then it evolved, gaining great interest in musical forms of all kinds.. perfecting the sounds, its ear canal growing through the millenia.. Till the dawn of the 21st century- when it discovered MP3's, sending its evolutionary train spiraling sidways over a cliff. Uh.. That 32kbps NSYNC track sounds *fine* to me..
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Whatchoo talkin' bout? You cant patent life forms.. can you?
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Well sure ya'll do- Gosh just look at the evidence
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..This just *AINT* a pretty subject, no matter how you paint it. Is CDA 'good' or 'bad'? Could we just have a simple, straight-forward direction from Slashdot on the proper way to think?.. I just don't know what to say about this one.. Gonna have to check the archives to establish my POV..
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This ain't about some lil' grainy *.avi you can download in a couple of minutes and chuckle to yourself over.. This is about full-quality video, freely availiable online. Now I don't know about you, but I like the possibilities inherent in full quality archival video footage availiable online to use in wacky video projects.. Some of us deal with a reality *beyond* bandwidth as you know it. ...
(ooh.. that sounded a bit conspiratorial..)
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Wow! Gaddamn.. I dint see that there, but I honest-to-goodness have the 16mm film print of that.. Gonna' drag out the ol' bell and howell and take another look at it..
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