Yup. And people want entertainment. Think of Apple as two concurrently executing threads: the one that makes insanely great hardware, and one that provides entertainment. Entertainment being the new product announcement event.
Does the leaking affect the 'insanely great hardware' thread ? Nope. But it does stand a chance of buggering the entertainment thread. Like it or not, thats one of the things Steve has done since his return. He has brought a sense of theatre back to Apple. After all, wasn't the 1984 commercial entertainment of a sort ?
Think of this as a tug-of-war between the forces of gossip (don't we all want to ?) and the forces of Surprise !
The article says that e-mail terminals might be installed at post offices, allowing people who might otherwise not have access to a computer to access e-mail.
Somehow I don't see this happening. Many years ago the USPO (as it was know then) established something called RFD (rural free delivery). There are very few places left (if any) where you do not get box delivery to your residence (or least out at the edge of the highway).
The little rural town where I live got a new post office last year. Up until then, everyone living in the small town got mail at a PO Box (no street delivery). Now everyone gets door delivery.
I just do not see someone driving 20 miles to the PO just to read the email. Sounds kinda kooky to me.
If msft had a patent (I'm not sure), Apple may have gotten rights to it via the 'Steve & Bill summit' a few years back.
Remember that one ? Its the one where msft parked $150M at apple and everyone kissed and made up. Somewhere in the midst of all that 'mutual admiration' I seem to recall a patent cross-licensing agreement between red and blue.
It would seem that the most applicable method would be to bypass the ISPs outgoing mail transport. Can you run an SMTP thru a dial-up account ? I don't see why not.
That leaves the receiving end as an exposed tap point. Use IRC/DCC as some kind of funky SMTP tunnel ?
One of these days we need a public mail-transport system *and* appropriate legislation to protect the priacy of such. Why is it so easy for the law enforcement agencies to get such draconian legislation passed, and so difficult for the average citizen to oppose it ?
I'm not sure that $1 per track is fair or resonable. The typical CD has about 15 tracks and sells for $15, so were paying a $1 per track now.
Were paying for all those inefficient layers of distribution. Get rid of those, and the track should be had for 25-cents or so.
At 25-cents there should be plenty to split between the artist, the label and the ecommerce provider.
Where this paradigm is going to wreck things, is with the concept of making a "CD" (or album or whatever). Artists could roll out songs in ones and twos.
It wrecks hell out of the existing artist contracts and the way Billboard tracks album sales.
The RIAA is behaving as the 'stalking dog' for the record labels. Each of the record labels could do exactly as the RIAA is doing. They seem to be taking the 'safety in numbers' approach. Let the industry association do the dirty work. In its purest sense, the RIAA itself has no product which could be boycott'ed, only the members do. If sales drop far enough, the record labels *might* get the message. Along the way, innocent stores, distributors and artists will get caught in the crossfire. The stores and distributors have the most to lose by a shift in the distribution paradigm. The artists have the most to gain.
Ya know, I went out and purchased a CD the other day. First one in a year or so. When all the bruhaha broke last night about napster and the judge, I checked the recording label: Red House Records. Nope, not a member of the RIAA. I feel good.
Perhaps we should all carry a list of RIAA member labels next time we go to the store. Boycott is just that, don't buy anything on that list.
What makes corporations work ? They provide services They provide goods They have IP
No corporation has ever created IP out of thin air. IP is created as a result of the employees (serfs) working for it.
By law corporations are treated as 'entities' which have many of the same rights and privledges as humanistic persons. Except for: (a) they don't die (in the traditional sense) (b) they can merge
Those two items have contributed to the existing situation (or problem). Witness the Time-Warner/TBS/AOL merger. No humanistic person could ever have garnered that much IP from their own creative works. Not the Beatles, nor John Wayne.
Too much IP is being concentrated in too few corporate entities. Those who control it, make decisions based on 'stock holder ROI', rather than the customers interests.
As the world grows in population, we need to move more towards an individual centric IP ownership paradigm. If 1000 people work on the creation of a movie, than 1000 people should share in the IP, maybe not equally, but they should all share.
quoting from J. Buffet: It ain't about the talent, it ain't about the skill It's all about the silly stupid horeshit deal
If I remember correctly, the PowerBook G3's weren't very hot on your lap because of their low power consumption.
While that may be true of the latest PBs, my '98 wallstreet G3 gets pretty warm on the bottom. And I only have the 233 version. I think the heat dissapated is greater when pluged into the AC adapter. Has anyone ever noticed that the AC adapter is rated at 45W !
I'd like to see Apple have a go at a tie-dye color swirl'ed iMac (like those greatful dead t-shirts).
Now that I would run right out and buy. However, I suspect that the inherent color swirling mold machinery would make each one different. Viva le difference !
I keep asking myself how the mac, with its limited install base, keeps developers?
Because something I wrote for the Mac in 1985 (System 1.0g) still runs. Try that on windoz. Apple has tried to keep upward compatability since the inception.
I don't know how many caught it, but they gave out *free* mice to those in the convention hall. Under each chair was a special 'apple' card, that entitled you to one free mouse as you left the hall.
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Acutally, all the existing TLD's were created prior to the 'great domain name buildout'. As we all know, there are four TLDs plus the various country codes. Whose to say how the remaining countries are going to like a US-centric new TLD (like the big 4: com, org, net, gov. It may happen that all new TLD entries will have to be under (to the left of).US.
point 1: where does it say email only. If they have said warrant, I would suggest that it covers all electronic traffic thru the ISP.
point 2: if indeed it is a sniffer, then that device could easily sniff traffic other than that which is covered by the warrant. If I ran an ISP and I were servered with said warrant, I would certainly want some form of certification that the device will only be monitoring the person in question. Don't the telco's have security departments to deal with warrants and associated issues ? If the sniffer is/can gather electronic traffic from other than the intended target, shouldn't the remaining users of the ISP have a right to know when it is installed ?
point 3: what happens if the ISP is hotmail (or AOL or someone big) ? see points 1 & 2.
point 4: why does this smack of McCarthyism ? Wasn't JEH in bed with McCarthy on rooting out the red menace (meant figuratively of course) ?
one minor nit.. The way you described it, is the way I thought it worked too. Several admins (smaller ISPs) tell me that their DNS machines point to caching servers at their upstream providers. Those machines are probably talking to the root servers.
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Yup. And people want entertainment. Think of Apple as two concurrently executing threads: the one that makes insanely great hardware, and one that provides entertainment. Entertainment being the new product announcement event.
Does the leaking affect the 'insanely great hardware' thread ? Nope. But it does stand a chance of buggering the entertainment thread. Like it or not, thats one of the things Steve has done since his return. He has brought a sense of theatre back to Apple. After all, wasn't the 1984 commercial entertainment of a sort ?
Think of this as a tug-of-war between the forces of gossip (don't we all want to ?) and the forces of Surprise !
Its too damn early, I should go back to bed.
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Bedsheets !
See if someone can find a textile mill that will take a (huge) hex rendered image of a Metallica mp3 and print it onto a bedsheet.
Next best thing to sleeping on lars
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Have you seen the technology that lets them print a photograph on a cake ?
How about rendering the source code into a jpg, gif or tiff, and get them to burn it onto a couple of sheet cakes ?
Lends a whole new meaning to the old phrase 'let them eat cake'
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Somehow I don't see this happening. Many years ago the USPO (as it was know then) established something called RFD (rural free delivery). There are very few places left (if any) where you do not get box delivery to your residence (or least out at the edge of the highway).
The little rural town where I live got a new post office last year. Up until then, everyone living in the small town got mail at a PO Box (no street delivery). Now everyone gets door delivery.
I just do not see someone driving 20 miles to the PO just to read the email. Sounds kinda kooky to me.
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Does that mean that the USPS will have to provide us all with minitel terminals ? Or better yet, iMacs ? LOL
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The one time I had contact with a real postal employee via email, they didn't seem to know how to use the subject line.
If that wasn't bad enough, the header trace on the email looked some mainframe mail system. All the names in uppercase, etc.
I'm worried.
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LOL... great plot idea for a geeky takeoff on a james bond movie.
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If msft had a patent (I'm not sure), Apple may have gotten rights to it via the 'Steve & Bill summit' a few years back.
Remember that one ? Its the one where msft parked $150M at apple and everyone kissed and made up. Somewhere in the midst of all that 'mutual admiration' I seem to recall a patent cross-licensing agreement between red and blue.
- just another cosmic ray -
It would seem that the most applicable method would be to bypass the ISPs outgoing mail transport. Can you run an SMTP thru a dial-up account ? I don't see why not.
That leaves the receiving end as an exposed tap point. Use IRC/DCC as some kind of funky SMTP tunnel ?
One of these days we need a public mail-transport system *and* appropriate legislation to protect the priacy of such. Why is it so easy for the law enforcement agencies to get such draconian legislation passed, and so difficult for the average citizen to oppose it ?
- just another costmic ray -
I'm not sure that $1 per track is fair or resonable. The typical CD has about 15 tracks and sells for $15, so were paying a $1 per track now.
Were paying for all those inefficient layers of distribution. Get rid of those, and the track should be had for 25-cents or so.
At 25-cents there should be plenty to split between the artist, the label and the ecommerce provider.
Where this paradigm is going to wreck things, is with the concept of making a "CD" (or album or whatever). Artists could roll out songs in ones and twos.
It wrecks hell out of the existing artist contracts and the way Billboard tracks album sales.
It levels the playing field.
- just another cosmic ray -
Used CDs prices are based on supply and demand. If the demand for used CDs goes up, expect the price to do so also.
I would say we should concentrate our purchases (if any) on non-RIAA record labels. And make that fact as public as possible.
Make sure that the real result from the RIAA-napster action is to decrease the revenue flow to the RIAA member labels.
Tell your friends. Pass out copies of the RIAA membership list. Encourage the non-RIAA labels to sell music (electronically) via the net.
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I have a problem with this...
The RIAA is behaving as the 'stalking dog' for the record labels. Each of the record labels could do exactly as the RIAA is doing. They seem to be taking the 'safety in numbers' approach. Let the industry association do the dirty work. In its purest sense, the RIAA itself has no product which could be boycott'ed, only the members do. If sales drop far enough, the record labels *might* get the message. Along the way, innocent stores, distributors and artists will get caught in the crossfire. The stores and distributors have the most to lose by a shift in the distribution paradigm. The artists have the most to gain.
- just another cosmic ray -
Ya know, I went out and purchased a CD the other day. First one in a year or so. When all the bruhaha broke last night about napster and the judge, I checked the recording label: Red House Records. Nope, not a member of the RIAA. I feel good.
Perhaps we should all carry a list of RIAA member labels next time we go to the store. Boycott is just that, don't buy anything on that list.
- just another cosmic ray -
Lets back up and think for a minute...
What makes corporations work ?
They provide services
They provide goods
They have IP
No corporation has ever created IP out of thin air. IP is created as a result of the employees (serfs) working for it.
By law corporations are treated as 'entities' which have many of the same rights and privledges as humanistic persons. Except for:
(a) they don't die (in the traditional sense)
(b) they can merge
Those two items have contributed to the existing situation (or problem). Witness the Time-Warner/TBS/AOL merger. No humanistic person could ever have garnered that much IP from their own creative works. Not the Beatles, nor John Wayne.
Too much IP is being concentrated in too few corporate entities. Those who control it, make decisions based on 'stock holder ROI', rather than the customers interests.
As the world grows in population, we need to move more towards an individual centric IP ownership paradigm. If 1000 people work on the creation of a movie, than 1000 people should share in the IP, maybe not equally, but they should all share.
quoting from J. Buffet:
It ain't about the talent, it ain't about the skill
It's all about the silly stupid horeshit deal
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- just another cosmic ray -
While that may be true of the latest PBs, my '98 wallstreet G3 gets pretty warm on the bottom. And I only have the 233 version. I think the heat dissapated is greater when pluged into the AC adapter. Has anyone ever noticed that the AC adapter is rated at 45W !
- just another cosmic ray -
Now that I would run right out and buy. However, I suspect that the inherent color swirling mold machinery would make each one different. Viva le difference !
- just another cosmic ray -
Because something I wrote for the Mac in 1985 (System 1.0g) still runs. Try that on windoz. Apple has tried to keep upward compatability since the inception.
- just another cosmic ray -
I don't know how many caught it, but they gave out *free* mice to those in the convention hall. Under each chair was a special 'apple' card, that entitled you to one free mouse as you left the hall.
:/ ]
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[ who watched on the satellite feed
Slashintosh ;)
ALl of this is well and good for *traditional* magnetic recording media (disk & tape).
What about Magneto-Optical ? Since it is allowed to change state by heating with a laser, does that make the old data less descernable ?
What about flash memory cards ?
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Europe ? did you say they can buy it from Europe ?
I seem to remember that our friends north of the border trade pretty freely with the Cubans.
- just another cosmic ray --
Acutally, all the existing TLD's were created prior to the 'great domain name buildout'. As we all know, there are four TLDs plus the various country codes. Whose to say how the remaining countries are going to like a US-centric new TLD (like the big 4: com, org, net, gov. It may happen that all new TLD entries will have to be under (to the left of) .US.
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point 1: where does it say email only. If they have said warrant, I would suggest that it covers all electronic traffic thru the ISP.
point 2: if indeed it is a sniffer, then that device could easily sniff traffic other than that which is covered by the warrant. If I ran an ISP and I were servered with said warrant, I would certainly want some form of certification that the device will only be monitoring the person in question. Don't the telco's have security departments to deal with warrants and associated issues ? If the sniffer is/can gather electronic traffic from other than the intended target, shouldn't the remaining users of the ISP have a right to know when it is installed ?
point 3: what happens if the ISP is hotmail (or AOL or someone big) ? see points 1 & 2.
point 4: why does this smack of McCarthyism ? Wasn't JEH in bed with McCarthy on rooting out the red menace (meant figuratively of course) ?
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