I'm not the original poster, but you have aboviosly not been following the trends. First off, M$ has monopoloy power as far as operating systems goes. Where they go most everyone is soon to follow. So where are they going? They are creating a DRM operating system that will be itegrated with Intels new DRM processor - the Pentium 5. Even AMD is likely to get in the game. This will be total digital lockdown. There are plenty of articles to inform yourslef about what this digital lockdown will entail - and it is not pretty. Any and all programs not specifically authorized, approved and certified by M$ will not be allowed to run. Read that line again so it will sink in. What this means is you loose many of the rights and freedoms that you have taken for granted up to this point on your PC. This will include no longer being able to run your own software on your own machine. You will not be able to create or obtain freeware ever again. You will not be able to run Linux, or any other program not directly or incorrectly kow-towing to M$ and the big boys at Hollywood. Say goodbye to free and open computing.
Now I can hear you saying, but this won't be illegal. Well, certainly. But for how long? Try a couple of years at most. And besides, if the entire internet is built with this DRM stuff, you won't be able to run anything that is not compliant anyway. So although it will not be illegal it will technically difficult to impossible and completely impractical to do anything else. And finally, since this will be the de-facto standard, those in power will see to it to make it a legal mandate to precent cyber-terrorism in the future. Running non-secure software will become a federal offense punishable by life in prison or worse.
USC receives much of its financing, especially its prestigious Film School, there can be no doubt that this was financially motivated on USC's part becuase of political pressure from the MPAA. This new rule is not a coincidence, not that the ruling is not economically sensible in some regards.
With Intel's recent announcment that they will be embedding DRM directly into their next generation Pentium's, I imagine this new system will have DRM measures in place. And if it does, I don't want it. So their so-called push into creating a digital home is a joke and is completely useless as far as I am concerned. Unless I will be able to play ANY of my current MP's on any future system, I won't buy it unless it allows me to freely use my own music and media the way *i* see fit.
Before 9-11, I was intensely happy, I saw a great future for myself and my children - now I worry, worry, worry. It all started when Ari Fleisher said, "Americans need to watch what they say, and watch what they do". It was a major slip-up on his part, or was it? The bottom line is, and sadly ironic, is that I do indeed watch what I say. I'm afraid of our own government.
I continue to hear increasing rumors of detention camps for Americans, Operation TIPS, and other totalitarian nightmarish stuff being cooked up by the shadow government. The Bush cabal is out of control in their power drunk lust and war mongering. It is indeed a rogue administration in charge of a rogue nation, as most people outside of the US keep telling us. But we are so immersed in the most sophisticated propoganda machine in history that we are too blind to see it. Before 9-11 I felt safe in my home, now because of the government, not some terrorist (as they want us to believe), I am afraid. The only thing terrorist have accompplished is to make me afraid of my own government. Were they doing us all a favor when they showed us the real man behind the current?
I'm even afriad of typing this very post. I worry that anytime now I will be geting that knock on my door too. Except it won't be a knock, but a battle-ram knocking down my door!
I always loved that line - it made the whole movie 'Sneakers' just hilarious. Too bad we don't hear about stuff like this in real life,
"Today the RIAA and MPAA found themselves bankrupt, and filing for chapter 7. But not everyone is going hungry, the EFF and ACLU received record donations this last week".
This case brings up an interesting proposition, and may hint at future threats to the DMCA. If a law is so draconian and restrictive, then eventually it can come around and bite the ass of the people originally supporting it. The same could be said for Bermans 'right to hack' bill, if it some how survives constitutional muster, then it could allow anyone (you and me) to hack the RIAA, MPAA back, looking for any copyrighted works we have created - art, digital home photos and movies, etc.
The first thing to do is copyright every digital work you have and then sue any company that modifies it without your permission - which apparently every software program out there will modify your creation on some level. I'm not a software engineer, so I don't know all the intricacies.
First of all, as another poster pointed out, the FCC's mandates cannot possibly silence the rest of the world's own input into the future of the internet. And lets not forget the emerging 802.11a-b networks and the growing potential for these ad-hoc networks to coalesce into larger and large independent, anonymous, and unregulated networks - until it becomes an internet in its own right.
So you are going on record to say that the currently unregulated 801.11 will become regulated. This is interesting, because that would mean that all of our handheld home phones would have to be regulated too. This would cause a bureaucratic nightmare for all of us.
Ok here is the plan/possibility. Request slashdot feedback:
The idea mentioned in the story is a noble one, but what about this:
Already 801.11a-b networks are emerging. And soon UWB networks as well. What is to keep new protocols and p2p networks, and what Crngley mentioned as ad-hoc wireless mesh networks from popping up spontaneously all over the globe, and eventually having this island wireless networks start to connect and talk with each other - and before you know it - we have a whole NEW internet, one that does not go thru the big boys, one that is anarchistic, spontaneous, unregulated and wireless.
With 802.11 being built into all future chips, such a possibility seems more and more likely. Imagine the new internet - NAN's, WAN, LANS, all over the place.
Is this where things might go, or is it also doomed to invasion from large corporate and governmental forces?
I only have to say this in response to everyone who has a problem of me comparing the current administration to the Nazi's - what else can you compare it to. Name me one other administration that desires that all of its neighbors spy on one another and report "suspicious" activity to the authorities, and now want to intern American Citizens in concentration camps. Read it here:
Yes, indeed. Never in our 225 year history has there ever been such a phrase used in our venacular - I find the eerie 'Homeland' very close to 'Fatherland' more than a coincidence and just downright creepy. Along with this 'Homeland' we are getting everything that was instituted in Nazi Germany, only alarmningly its happening more than twice as fast.
I find the following quote sadly ironic:
Two recent political leaders allegedly had this nefarious habit (cocaine).
Both came to power after dubious elections, by non-electorial and irregular methods.
Both nations immediately experienced attacks on famous public buildings.
Both blamed an ethnic minority before forensics had any evidence.
Both led "witch-hunts" against the accused minority.
Both suspended civil liberties "temporarily."
Both put the citizenry under surveillance.
Both maintained secret and clandestine governments.
Both created a new agency for domestic security - one for the Fatherland and the other for the Homeland.
Both enlisted members of the citizenry to spy on their neighbors. see http://citizencorps.gov/tips.html
Both launched wars against most of the world.
One had a funny mustache. Can you name the other one?
His piece is filled with all sorts of contradictions. On the one hand he rightfully complains about draconian US laws being used like a sledgehammer against both US Citizens and those abroad, but then in the same breath he goes on to slam the one aspect of the internet that is free. He doesn't make any sense - my paraphrase , "We must free from US Hegonomony so we can institute our own more dranconian set of laws - DRM, censorship, etc.
Advanced in optronics alone will give us computers operating in the Thz range, and when we start seeing the fruits of nanotech, and nanotube circuitry, we will easily be getting into $1000 machines millions of times faster than what is available today.
You're right about a Terabyte being just in time to hold ALL of our music, videos, and digital photo's, as well as everything else.
Here is what I can see for future increases in storage:
Petabyte: Store your entire DVD collection, CD collection, MP3 collection, all of your digital photo's from a lifetime, books, documents, etc.
Exabyte (1 million Terabytes): This amount of storage will be useful if you want to record in hig-quality digital video all of yor life from your wearable computer that you take everywhere. You will be abel to access every moment of your life, every conversation and play it back at anytime. The type of memory would also come in handy for storing large, highly detailed Virtual Worlds of your own creation. This is exactly where I see 100GHz machines coming in handy - the ability to render realistic virtual worlds on the fly.
This is a tragedy, as this case is a clear cut examply of how the DMCA is unconstitutional because it violetes the First Ammendment. Now we may have to wait years before another sufficiently compelling case can be leveraged to bring down the DMCA.
Absolutely. Its all so clear to me now, just when I thought M$ couldn't be totally bent on World Domination, along comes this story. I think when you look at the bigger picture, M$ in the socio-political landscape is starting to behave and act like a country into itself. And now with its introduction of Palladium, and the secret meetings between top staff at Microsoft and the leaders withing the US Intelligence Community, its becoming clear just how powerful and ambitious M$ really is. I don't think there is any precedent like it in history. I'mleft feeling "WOW", except not in a good way at all.
There is only one flaw in your argument - going after specifically targeted songs is one thing, but a DoS attack disables the entire network regardless of what is crossing its wires. Now if you still think they have a right to do this, then by this same logic, banks should have the right to disable the entire transportation network, as some people use that network to carry large sums of cash they just got done steeling it from their banks. Or we should just allow cars, as some people use them for infringing purposes - robberies, hit and runs, drunk driving, reckless endangerment, kidnappings, etc.
Well unfortunately you are right, not only has the US slid increasingly into totaltarianism, but the tyranny around the world continues relatively unabated. So when I decry that in just in the last 15 years (as a US Citizen), I've seen plenty of our preciosu liberties and democracy diminish at the onslaught of money and special interests - everything from the Drug War and now the war on terrorism.
You're attributing way, way too much power to the office of the President. There are many levels and layers of government. In fact, the United States government was designed to insure that it didn't all hinge on one man or one single body of men.
Have you been paying attention to the news lately? The precious seperation of powers you speak of no longer exist in any meaningful degree since our war on terrorism begun. The executive branch has made the largest power grab in American history. Already the executive branch no longer requires the oversight of the judicial branch it carrying out many of its policely duties. The 4th ammendent has already been nullified by the Patriot Act, no longer requiring a warrant or criminal investigation for you to be searched without notification. The first ammendement has come under increasing attack, people are being held (and even tortured) without due process, habeus corpus has been suspended, military tribunals are a reality, the army is now involved in domestic policing (against the law only 1 year ago), biometrics are being used to search and suspect us with out cause prior to the fact (facial recognition), and now the Bush Administration has called to combine 88 seperate agencies in the government into one large single "secret" domestic spying and policing force - a Super Gestapo.
Teh only full of themselves is you from the simple fact that after all of your ranting you missed the basic and simple point of my argument - which is that we live in a system where the only real input any of us has is a single punch in a card once every four years!. That means that over a lifetime (say 60 adult years), we have only 15 punches of input that determines (if at all) our entire political climate. I and just about everyone I know had absolutely no say in the Patriot Act, the DMCA, the suspension of Habeus Corpus, the errosion of privacy rights, the copyright extension act, and thousands of other laws now on our books. To put it simply I'm living under a set of rules I an infinitesimal choice in. That's tyranny brother.
This is another one of my favorite responses - its kind of like saying, "why you are complaining that your torture session with cattle prods on your testicles you little baby, the poor fellow in the other dungeon is getting his limbs and testicles cut off and then dipped in hot oil. Stop your whining you little baby, you got it easy!". Ha!
Ah yes, "voting". I just love that response. So when my only two choices are two guys whom only got into that place becuase of the influence and permission of extreme wealth, and between those 2 guys, I get one tiny little input in the form of a punch card in which the rest of my fate for the next 4 years is entirely determined by the same extremely wealthy who control and influence their decsions, where is my freedom. From whence does so-called 'voting' actually make a difference at all?
There is a reason the majority of americans no longer vote, because they see it for the sham it already is. Not to mention flushing their electoral votes down the toilet when the a republic dominated Supreme court appoints our president.
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I'm not the original poster, but you have aboviosly not been following the trends. First off, M$ has monopoloy power as far as operating systems goes. Where they go most everyone is soon to follow. So where are they going? They are creating a DRM operating system that will be itegrated with Intels new DRM processor - the Pentium 5. Even AMD is likely to get in the game. This will be total digital lockdown. There are plenty of articles to inform yourslef about what this digital lockdown will entail - and it is not pretty. Any and all programs not specifically authorized, approved and certified by M$ will not be allowed to run. Read that line again so it will sink in. What this means is you loose many of the rights and freedoms that you have taken for granted up to this point on your PC. This will include no longer being able to run your own software on your own machine. You will not be able to create or obtain freeware ever again. You will not be able to run Linux, or any other program not directly or incorrectly kow-towing to M$ and the big boys at Hollywood. Say goodbye to free and open computing.
Now I can hear you saying, but this won't be illegal. Well, certainly. But for how long? Try a couple of years at most. And besides, if the entire internet is built with this DRM stuff, you won't be able to run anything that is not compliant anyway. So although it will not be illegal it will technically difficult to impossible and completely impractical to do anything else. And finally, since this will be the de-facto standard, those in power will see to it to make it a legal mandate to precent cyber-terrorism in the future. Running non-secure software will become a federal offense punishable by life in prison or worse.
USC receives much of its financing, especially its prestigious Film School, there can be no doubt that this was financially motivated on USC's part becuase of political pressure from the MPAA. This new rule is not a coincidence, not that the ruling is not economically sensible in some regards.
With Intel's recent announcment that they will be embedding DRM directly into their next generation Pentium's, I imagine this new system will have DRM measures in place. And if it does, I don't want it. So their so-called push into creating a digital home is a joke and is completely useless as far as I am concerned. Unless I will be able to play ANY of my current MP's on any future system, I won't buy it unless it allows me to freely use my own music and media the way *i* see fit.
Exactly!
Before 9-11, I was intensely happy, I saw a great future for myself and my children - now I worry, worry, worry. It all started when Ari Fleisher said, "Americans need to watch what they say, and watch what they do". It was a major slip-up on his part, or was it? The bottom line is, and sadly ironic, is that I do indeed watch what I say. I'm afraid of our own government.
I continue to hear increasing rumors of detention camps for Americans, Operation TIPS, and other totalitarian nightmarish stuff being cooked up by the shadow government. The Bush cabal is out of control in their power drunk lust and war mongering. It is indeed a rogue administration in charge of a rogue nation, as most people outside of the US keep telling us. But we are so immersed in the most sophisticated propoganda machine in history that we are too blind to see it. Before 9-11 I felt safe in my home, now because of the government, not some terrorist (as they want us to believe), I am afraid. The only thing terrorist have accompplished is to make me afraid of my own government. Were they doing us all a favor when they showed us the real man behind the current?
I'm even afriad of typing this very post. I worry that anytime now I will be geting that knock on my door too. Except it won't be a knock, but a battle-ram knocking down my door!
I always loved that line - it made the whole movie 'Sneakers' just hilarious. Too bad we don't hear about stuff like this in real life,
"Today the RIAA and MPAA found themselves bankrupt, and filing for chapter 7. But not everyone is going hungry, the EFF and ACLU received record donations this last week".
This case brings up an interesting proposition, and may hint at future threats to the DMCA. If a law is so draconian and restrictive, then eventually it can come around and bite the ass of the people originally supporting it. The same could be said for Bermans 'right to hack' bill, if it some how survives constitutional muster, then it could allow anyone (you and me) to hack the RIAA, MPAA back, looking for any copyrighted works we have created - art, digital home photos and movies, etc.
The first thing to do is copyright every digital work you have and then sue any company that modifies it without your permission - which apparently every software program out there will modify your creation on some level. I'm not a software engineer, so I don't know all the intricacies.
First of all, as another poster pointed out, the FCC's mandates cannot possibly silence the rest of the world's own input into the future of the internet. And lets not forget the emerging 802.11a-b networks and the growing potential for these ad-hoc networks to coalesce into larger and large independent, anonymous, and unregulated networks - until it becomes an internet in its own right.
why not?
So you are going on record to say that the currently unregulated 801.11 will become regulated. This is interesting, because that would mean that all of our handheld home phones would have to be regulated too. This would cause a bureaucratic nightmare for all of us.
Ok here is the plan/possibility. Request slashdot feedback:
The idea mentioned in the story is a noble one, but what about this:
Already 801.11a-b networks are emerging. And soon UWB networks as well. What is to keep new protocols and p2p networks, and what Crngley mentioned as ad-hoc wireless mesh networks from popping up spontaneously all over the globe, and eventually having this island wireless networks start to connect and talk with each other - and before you know it - we have a whole NEW internet, one that does not go thru the big boys, one that is anarchistic, spontaneous, unregulated and wireless.
With 802.11 being built into all future chips, such a possibility seems more and more likely. Imagine the new internet - NAN's, WAN, LANS, all over the place.
Is this where things might go, or is it also doomed to invasion from large corporate and governmental forces?
me too - people mod this up!!
I only have to say this in response to everyone who has a problem of me comparing the current administration to the Nazi's - what else can you compare it to. Name me one other administration that desires that all of its neighbors spy on one another and report "suspicious" activity to the authorities, and now want to intern American Citizens in concentration camps. Read it here:
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http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.stor
Yes, indeed. Never in our 225 year history has there ever been such a phrase used in our venacular - I find the eerie 'Homeland' very close to 'Fatherland' more than a coincidence and just downright creepy. Along with this 'Homeland' we are getting everything that was instituted in Nazi Germany, only alarmningly its happening more than twice as fast.
I find the following quote sadly ironic:
Two recent political leaders allegedly had this
nefarious habit (cocaine).
Both came to power after dubious elections, by
non-electorial and irregular methods.
Both nations immediately experienced attacks on famous
public buildings.
Both blamed an ethnic minority before forensics had
any evidence.
Both led "witch-hunts" against the accused minority.
Both suspended civil liberties "temporarily."
Both put the citizenry under surveillance.
Both maintained secret and clandestine governments.
Both created a new agency for domestic security - one
for the Fatherland and the other for the Homeland.
Both enlisted members of the citizenry to spy on their
neighbors. see http://citizencorps.gov/tips.html
Both launched wars against most of the world.
One had a funny mustache. Can you name the other one?
His piece is filled with all sorts of contradictions. On the one hand he rightfully complains about draconian US laws being used like a sledgehammer against both US Citizens and those abroad, but then in the same breath he goes on to slam the one aspect of the internet that is free. He doesn't make any sense - my paraphrase , "We must free from US Hegonomony so we can institute our own more dranconian set of laws - DRM, censorship, etc.
I'm left with a big "Huh?".
Advanced in optronics alone will give us computers operating in the Thz range, and when we start seeing the fruits of nanotech, and nanotube circuitry, we will easily be getting into $1000 machines millions of times faster than what is available today.
We could use this argument to say that cave man got by without any technology at all other than the use of fire and chiseled bone and rock.
Here is what I can see for future increases in storage:
Petabyte: Store your entire DVD collection, CD collection, MP3 collection, all of your digital photo's from a lifetime, books, documents, etc.
Exabyte (1 million Terabytes): This amount of storage will be useful if you want to record in hig-quality digital video all of yor life from your wearable computer that you take everywhere. You will be abel to access every moment of your life, every conversation and play it back at anytime. The type of memory would also come in handy for storing large, highly detailed Virtual Worlds of your own creation. This is exactly where I see 100GHz machines coming in handy - the ability to render realistic virtual worlds on the fly.
This is a tragedy, as this case is a clear cut examply of how the DMCA is unconstitutional because it violetes the First Ammendment. Now we may have to wait years before another sufficiently compelling case can be leveraged to bring down the DMCA.
Absolutely. Its all so clear to me now, just when I thought M$ couldn't be totally bent on World Domination, along comes this story. I think when you look at the bigger picture, M$ in the socio-political landscape is starting to behave and act like a country into itself. And now with its introduction of Palladium, and the secret meetings between top staff at Microsoft and the leaders withing the US Intelligence Community, its becoming clear just how powerful and ambitious M$ really is. I don't think there is any precedent like it in history. I'mleft feeling "WOW", except not in a good way at all.
There is only one flaw in your argument - going after specifically targeted songs is one thing, but a DoS attack disables the entire network regardless of what is crossing its wires. Now if you still think they have a right to do this, then by this same logic, banks should have the right to disable the entire transportation network, as some people use that network to carry large sums of cash they just got done steeling it from their banks. Or we should just allow cars, as some people use them for infringing purposes - robberies, hit and runs, drunk driving, reckless endangerment, kidnappings, etc.
Well unfortunately you are right, not only has the US slid increasingly into totaltarianism, but the tyranny around the world continues relatively unabated. So when I decry that in just in the last 15 years (as a US Citizen), I've seen plenty of our preciosu liberties and democracy diminish at the onslaught of money and special interests - everything from the Drug War and now the war on terrorism.
You're attributing way, way too much power to the office of the President. There are many levels and layers of government. In fact, the United States government was designed to insure that it didn't all hinge on one man or one single body of men.
Have you been paying attention to the news lately? The precious seperation of powers you speak of no longer exist in any meaningful degree since our war on terrorism begun. The executive branch has made the largest power grab in American history. Already the executive branch no longer requires the oversight of the judicial branch it carrying out many of its policely duties. The 4th ammendent has already been nullified by the Patriot Act, no longer requiring a warrant or criminal investigation for you to be searched without notification. The first ammendement has come under increasing attack, people are being held (and even tortured) without due process, habeus corpus has been suspended, military tribunals are a reality, the army is now involved in domestic policing (against the law only 1 year ago), biometrics are being used to search and suspect us with out cause prior to the fact (facial recognition), and now the Bush Administration has called to combine 88 seperate agencies in the government into one large single "secret" domestic spying and policing force - a Super Gestapo.
What am I missing? hmm. What are you missing?
Teh only full of themselves is you from the simple fact that after all of your ranting you missed the basic and simple point of my argument - which is that we live in a system where the only real input any of us has is a single punch in a card once every four years!. That means that over a lifetime (say 60 adult years), we have only 15 punches of input that determines (if at all) our entire political climate. I and just about everyone I know had absolutely no say in the Patriot Act, the DMCA, the suspension of Habeus Corpus, the errosion of privacy rights, the copyright extension act, and thousands of other laws now on our books. To put it simply I'm living under a set of rules I an infinitesimal choice in. That's tyranny brother.
This is another one of my favorite responses - its kind of like saying, "why you are complaining that your torture session with cattle prods on your testicles you little baby, the poor fellow in the other dungeon is getting his limbs and testicles cut off and then dipped in hot oil. Stop your whining you little baby, you got it easy!". Ha!
Ah yes, "voting". I just love that response. So when my only two choices are two guys whom only got into that place becuase of the influence and permission of extreme wealth, and between those 2 guys, I get one tiny little input in the form of a punch card in which the rest of my fate for the next 4 years is entirely determined by the same extremely wealthy who control and influence their decsions, where is my freedom. From whence does so-called 'voting' actually make a difference at all?
There is a reason the majority of americans no longer vote, because they see it for the sham it already is. Not to mention flushing their electoral votes down the toilet when the a republic dominated Supreme court appoints our president.