Alright, this is what the network is for. (actually, this is what freenet is for, but as far as I can tell, freenet has serious problems...) If you have a copy of the video that you have downloaded, please share it with the rest of us; Gnucleus is my cliant of choice. So far, I have only found one share, and this poor soal must have a poor connection;.75 Kb/sec is the rate. So how bout it slashdotters? Free the information!
Oh phulleezze. You are saying that the mass media is anti- cooperate? So, AOL/Time warner(CNN, Warner Brothers, People, Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Money, and In Style magazines) or News Corporation (FOX's parent company, owned by extreme right-wing Rupert Murdoch), or General electric (NBC, Military contractor) are anti-cooperate? You guys are blind! The media is controlled by large corporation, who are not liberal...they want things to be most favorable for business, and that means republicans, folks. (or libertarian, even though they are too ignorant to see that...)
Oh, one other thing. You think corporation can force you to put a chip in your ass? Let's say the government sells all of it's hospitals, and stops regulating them completely (a libertarian's dream!) A company named "Trackteck" develops a chip that can be implanted in your ass that can store your medical information. It works like those inventory control systems, it can be read remotely by moving near a reader. Now, all these private hospitals decide that this chip would make accessing medical records a breeze, so they refuse service to anyone who doesn't have one. Insurance companies won't insure you if you don't have one, because they want proof of your medical history.
So, people start walking around with chips in their ass. Trackteck realizes that they could put readers in supermarkets to track customers; really good profit potential. So they do. You walk to the checkout stand, you get read. I think you all can see where this is going. The corporation, because they have no oversight, could (and can, and have) destroyed the rights, lives, and happiness of individuals. (Think about the rail barrens...there is a very good reason for anti-trust)
You say that you would refuse the chip? Then you would be refused care at hospitals. You don't need hospitals? You would go to a private doctor? Private doctors don't have the latest equipment, and the equipment sellers have an interest in Trackteck...they require all medical facilities to use the ID chips (in the ass) as a condition for buying new equipment, or repairing old equipment. A few people would still resist (oh yeah, they are implanted at birth too....). And they would be removed from society (no chip? sorry, no sale. No insurance. No job. No loan.)
Not a pleasant picture. I like/. because it is one of the few places where everyone is allowed to comment, be heard. (and most people are fairly intelligent, although the IQ factor has gone down signifagantly over the past few years.) People are OFFENDED by CmdrTaco's (IMHO) enlightened opinions, because they are not used to seeing anything but the cooperate line. (oh, don't forget that public education should be abolished....can't have the government doing that....rather have either an ignorant or indoctrinated population....idiots.) (I am aware that the government does its own share of indoctrination....but far less than the Catholics did or General Electric would if they got involved.)
I truth, I tell you, part of me really likes the idea. But, what about emergancy calls? Could the owner of a jammer be responcible for a missed call by a doctor? If you had one of these things, and someone was walking by, outside your store, and they missed a stock trade and lost $1M, would you be libable? Would the government (for issueing the license)?
However, the most important questin I have is....Where can I get one and do they have a car kit available??
-Daniel
P.S. I apologise if these issues were brought up in the article, my browser refused to open it.
I don't know about standing, free librarys. I do know, however, that with a little bit of creativity, you can create almost any sound. For instance, if you place a Mic inside a paper bag and crush the bag, just by turning up the treble, it sounds just like a 2x4 being smashed over someone's back. (I did that for a video a few years ago.) Sound is so easy to create via Foly effects, it seems a waste to worry about finding an already existing library.
Maybe what is needed is a "creativity exchange". Is there a site where open-source projects can submit requests for sound effects or artwork that is better handled by creative types? I have always been a beleave in the open-source/free software movement, but have never known how to contribute because I am not a coder. Does anyone know if this site exists? Someone want to start one and let me (us) know?
Just for the record....Not all 14 year old slashdot readers are "Script kiddie hacker wannabies". I don't take exception to the "Script kiddie hacker wannabies"
secton of yor post, just the "14-year-old part". It is steriotyping. Just remove the 14-year-old part and replace it with the word "Asian" or some other group of people, and you will see why it is, well, crap. Writeing in a style that places a stigma on a group of people is biggoted.
Note, I did not call you a bigot. I don't know you, and don't mean to say that you are. Just be aware of what you say...and what you are actually communicateing.
For the record, Sony (among others) has been trying to force people to buy the so called "Audio CDRs" You can find them at your local Wallmart. They are about 2x/3x more expencive then "Data" CDRs. Why? Because the record companies get a chunk of the money to account for piracy. If normal CDRs won't work in your player, try an audio CDR. I haven't heard about their DVD players, but I know that sony and others were going to make their CD players only compatable with the Audio CD format. Someone with more knowlage than me can tell me what the difference between the formats is (something about lead-in data probubly, but I don't know)
The only problem with having to use anonymous proxies the same as the problem with deCss. It limits the access to Hacker/nerd types and people who already have no problem breaking the law. As long as it is illeagal, it will never be popular or widespread, and china will maintain it's control of media. For real change in China, ordanary people need to get real information, not just the dissadents.
P.S. Yes, I am aware I just compared the motion picture association to communist china. And don't critizize my spelling, I suck and I know it.
The ADA has been significantly weakened in the last few years thanks to our lovely supreme court. They decided that anything that could be corrected (through medicine, eyeglasses, whatever) was not a disability. Therefore, you could be fired for a disability which is correctable. See here for some info about the decision. Our lovely supreme court has done some wonderful things for workers rights and freedom...Those of us who have studied law knew about their conservative biases long before Florida. (Flaimbait, maybe. But hard to argue...)
We (in the US) need laws protecting our medical records from anyone whom we have not given explicit written permission to access them. We also need to restrict the companies who have the right to ask for the info to insurance companies and doctors, NEVER employers.
Your point is well taken, I just hope people reolise that the ADA has been dismantled by the court and is no longer an effective protection. This law by the clinton adminastration is a start, but more needs to be done.
-Daniel
Hi. I am a long-time lurker on slashdot, and I have just seen something reprehesable.
[other then my spelling, I know about that. Leave me alone:)]
This was the most poorly moderated argument I have ever seen. Whoever did it (probubly a young republican) should be ashamed of him/herself. Just moderating every post you agree with up and every post you disagree with down does not make for a good debate. In fact, it is bad Kharma.
Most of you have never been to a protest rally. You should try it some time. Go as an oberver if you disagree with the prostesters, but still go. I can tell you from personal experiance that having your civl rights suspended is not a good experiance. Even if you think that is the police's right....
I went to the "Battle in Seattle" last December as a photojournalist for my school paper. (I work for a real paper too, but it is local in scope) I saw some things that would rattle the nerves of anyone, whether or not you think the police should be trusted and allowed to do what they want. I saw a girl (couldn't have been more then 20), dressed in civilian clothing (She was not involved in the protests), pepper-sprayed when the police decided to clear a sidewalk which had about 50 union members kneeling in silent protest (not a street, a SIDEWALK) They brought in their armord personell carrior, tear-gassed the people on the sidewalk, then ran across the street (where she was standing, just watching) they sprayed pepper-sprey right into her eyes, and she started to run, screaming. She got about 20 feet, and slowed down to rub her eyes. The cop then ran back up to spray her again. (he did it) He then turned towards me (an independant journalist with nothing more thretaning then my 35mm Cannon AE-1 camera) and started running with his pepper-sprey can. Needless to say, I ran, as fast as I could.
The police CAN get out of hand, and they hurt real people. (pepper spreay REALLY hurts) (so does tear gas) (so do nightstiks). Some people have criticized the protesters and their causes. (Someone wondered why they were protesting poverty) That is your right. But they have the right to protest. It's in the constitution, something the repblican who moderated most of the string did not seem to understand. (read the 1st ammendmant, folks) I guess you just need to have your civil rights revoked once before you understand.
-Daniel
P.S. POVERTY STILL EXISTS IN AMERACA. A LOT OF IT!!! I'm sorry that some of you can't see past the hood ordament on your expencive german cars to the rest of the world. We can argue about the causes for ever, but there are starving children in ameraca, whether or not you want to admit it...
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...umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Reagan's "Star Wars" fiasco designed to attack nuclear wepons? Not that it could have ever worked for anyone but the defence contractors...
"To be shaped by one's background or to be shaped by the force of structural circumstance is to be in a context of past meanings from which newly created meaning is hewn." (32 words)
Translation (as best I can tell): "Your past influences how you see the world." (8 words, a 4 fold savings)
Or, my favorite, from "Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives"
"For those whose roles primarily involved the performance of services, as distinguished from assumption of leadership responsibilities, the main pattern seems to have been a response to the leadership's invoking obligations that were concomitants of the status of membership in the societal community and various of it's segmental units. The closest modern analogy is the military service performed by an ordinary citizen, except that the leader of the Egyptian bureaucracy did not need a special emergency to invoke legitimate obligations." (80 words)
Translation: "In ancient Egypt, the peasants could be conscripted for work." (10 words, an 8 fold savings)
Look, my point is: Mr. Katz does a fairly good job with reviews. They get to the point, and are informative and fairly easy to read. I'm not saying they are up for pulitzers, but be fair. If you really hate them, go into your prefs and turn Mr. Katz off.
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...dude. The plant he was talking about was marijuana. Hence the "junk food."
-Daniel
Oh phulleezze. You are saying that the mass media is anti- cooperate? So, AOL/Time warner(CNN, Warner Brothers, People, Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Money, and In Style magazines) or News Corporation (FOX's parent company, owned by extreme right-wing Rupert Murdoch), or General electric (NBC, Military contractor) are anti-cooperate? You guys are blind! The media is controlled by large corporation, who are not liberal...they want things to be most favorable for business, and that means republicans, folks. (or libertarian, even though they are too ignorant to see that...)
/. because it is one of the few places where everyone is allowed to comment, be heard. (and most people are fairly intelligent, although the IQ factor has gone down signifagantly over the past few years.) People are OFFENDED by CmdrTaco's (IMHO) enlightened opinions, because they are not used to seeing anything but the cooperate line. (oh, don't forget that public education should be abolished....can't have the government doing that....rather have either an ignorant or indoctrinated population....idiots.) (I am aware that the government does its own share of indoctrination....but far less than the Catholics did or General Electric would if they got involved.)
Oh, one other thing. You think corporation can force you to put a chip in your ass? Let's say the government sells all of it's hospitals, and stops regulating them completely (a libertarian's dream!) A company named "Trackteck" develops a chip that can be implanted in your ass that can store your medical information. It works like those inventory control systems, it can be read remotely by moving near a reader. Now, all these private hospitals decide that this chip would make accessing medical records a breeze, so they refuse service to anyone who doesn't have one. Insurance companies won't insure you if you don't have one, because they want proof of your medical history.
So, people start walking around with chips in their ass. Trackteck realizes that they could put readers in supermarkets to track customers; really good profit potential. So they do. You walk to the checkout stand, you get read. I think you all can see where this is going. The corporation, because they have no oversight, could (and can, and have) destroyed the rights, lives, and happiness of individuals. (Think about the rail barrens...there is a very good reason for anti-trust)
You say that you would refuse the chip? Then you would be refused care at hospitals. You don't need hospitals? You would go to a private doctor? Private doctors don't have the latest equipment, and the equipment sellers have an interest in Trackteck...they require all medical facilities to use the ID chips (in the ass) as a condition for buying new equipment, or repairing old equipment. A few people would still resist (oh yeah, they are implanted at birth too....). And they would be removed from society (no chip? sorry, no sale. No insurance. No job. No loan.)
Not a pleasant picture. I like
Sorry for the rant, but it needed to be said.
-Daniel
Um....They make ATMs. Lots of them. And they fix them too. So unless you want to give them up....
-Daniel
However, the most important questin I have is....Where can I get one and do they have a car kit available??
-Daniel
P.S. I apologise if these issues were brought up in the article, my browser refused to open it.
P.P.S. I can't spell. Deal with it.
LED heart!!!
-Daniel
-Daniel
Maybe what is needed is a "creativity exchange". Is there a site where open-source projects can submit requests for sound effects or artwork that is better handled by creative types? I have always been a beleave in the open-source/free software movement, but have never known how to contribute because I am not a coder. Does anyone know if this site exists? Someone want to start one and let me (us) know?
-Daniel
Note, I did not call you a bigot. I don't know you, and don't mean to say that you are. Just be aware of what you say...and what you are actually communicateing.
(I can't spell, and I know it...)
For the record, Sony (among others) has been trying to force people to buy the so called "Audio CDRs" You can find them at your local Wallmart. They are about 2x/3x more expencive then "Data" CDRs. Why? Because the record companies get a chunk of the money to account for piracy. If normal CDRs won't work in your player, try an audio CDR. I haven't heard about their DVD players, but I know that sony and others were going to make their CD players only compatable with the Audio CD format. Someone with more knowlage than me can tell me what the difference between the formats is (something about lead-in data probubly, but I don't know)
-Daniel
P.S. Yes, I am aware I just compared the motion picture association to communist china. And don't critizize my spelling, I suck and I know it.
Your point is well taken, I just hope people reolise that the ADA has been dismantled by the court and is no longer an effective protection. This law by the clinton adminastration is a start, but more needs to be done. -Daniel
I never read the law myself, but isn't port scanning illeagal now???
Alright folks....
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Hi. I am a long-time lurker on slashdot, and I have just seen something reprehesable.
[other then my spelling, I know about that. Leave me alone
This was the most poorly moderated argument I have ever seen. Whoever did it (probubly a young republican) should be ashamed of him/herself. Just moderating every post you agree with up and every post you disagree with down does not make for a good debate. In fact, it is bad Kharma.
Most of you have never been to a protest rally. You should try it some time. Go as an oberver if you disagree with the prostesters, but still go. I can tell you from personal experiance that having your civl rights suspended is not a good experiance. Even if you think that is the police's right....
I went to the "Battle in Seattle" last December as a photojournalist for my school paper. (I work for a real paper too, but it is local in scope) I saw some things that would rattle the nerves of anyone, whether or not you think the police should be trusted and allowed to do what they want. I saw a girl (couldn't have been more then 20), dressed in civilian clothing (She was not involved in the protests), pepper-sprayed when the police decided to clear a sidewalk which had about 50 union members kneeling in silent protest (not a street, a SIDEWALK) They brought in their armord personell carrior, tear-gassed the people on the sidewalk, then ran across the street (where she was standing, just watching) they sprayed pepper-sprey right into her eyes, and she started to run, screaming. She got about 20 feet, and slowed down to rub her eyes. The cop then ran back up to spray her again. (he did it) He then turned towards me (an independant journalist with nothing more thretaning then my 35mm Cannon AE-1 camera) and started running with his pepper-sprey can. Needless to say, I ran, as fast as I could.
The police CAN get out of hand, and they hurt real people. (pepper spreay REALLY hurts) (so does tear gas) (so do nightstiks). Some people have criticized the protesters and their causes. (Someone wondered why they were protesting poverty) That is your right. But they have the right to protest. It's in the constitution, something the repblican who moderated most of the string did not seem to understand. (read the 1st ammendmant, folks) I guess you just need to have your civil rights revoked once before you understand.
-Daniel
P.S. POVERTY STILL EXISTS IN AMERACA. A LOT OF IT!!! I'm sorry that some of you can't see past the hood ordament on your expencive german cars to the rest of the world. We can argue about the causes for ever, but there are starving children in ameraca, whether or not you want to admit it...
...umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Reagan's "Star Wars" fiasco designed to attack nuclear wepons? Not that it could have ever worked for anyone but the defence contractors...
"To be shaped by one's background or to be shaped by the force of structural circumstance is to be in a context of past meanings from which newly created meaning is hewn." (32 words)
Translation (as best I can tell): "Your past influences how you see the world." (8 words, a 4 fold savings)
Or, my favorite, from "Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives"
"For those whose roles primarily involved the performance of services, as distinguished from assumption of leadership responsibilities, the main pattern seems to have been a response to the leadership's invoking obligations that were concomitants of the status of membership in the societal community and various of it's segmental units. The closest modern analogy is the military service performed by an ordinary citizen, except that the leader of the Egyptian bureaucracy did not need a special emergency to invoke legitimate obligations." (80 words)
Translation: "In ancient Egypt, the peasants could be conscripted for work." (10 words, an 8 fold savings)
Look, my point is: Mr. Katz does a fairly good job with reviews. They get to the point, and are informative and fairly easy to read. I'm not saying they are up for pulitzers, but be fair. If you really hate them, go into your prefs and turn Mr. Katz off.
Thank you.
-Daniel