Whose to say that if by some magical way that all the downloading would stop that the day after your brother would start to sell music?? Also, look at the numbers. The US has a population of 300 million people and you saw a couple hundred download your brothers music? How do you know that the downloaders didn't download the music, listen to it once, and delete it off their hard drive afterwards? I personally think that downloaders download so much music that they can only listen to a song once. I hear local musicians perform live that are good, but just because I find their music good does not inspire me to buy the CD on the back table.
The fact that your brother can't get a recording contract means nothing (and is overrated - do your research on this, the labels scam artists - look on salon.com for Courtney Love's article). It's true that musicians have to earn a living. And that was my whole point of my post that you completely missed. That copyright reform needs to take place.
To whine about the bad downloaders is extremely myopic. And if your little brother had any talent, he would find a way to get CDs made and sold himself regardless of a recording contract. If they aren't selling he needs to improve. "Good bands" sell music.
Well maybe. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. First, the government has far more resources to accomplish things that even the most dedicated hacker can't think of.
Secondly, while the linux kernel may not be suspect, the parts around it may be. Such as a driver or bios exploit like ACPI which can be platform independent.
From a security standpoint, I think it is foolish to rule it out. Just as recently July 19 a security update was released for an exploit with a linux driver that allowed kernel access. Because it is unlikely does not make it impossible, esp. with the money/connections that the government has.
Windows on the other hand, I consider to be an open door.
As another poster mentioned, this could be as much a problem with the copyright law as your little brother being able to sell music.
The fact of the matter is, we are awash in music. I have more CDs than I could count, and have only a handful that I listen to on a regular basis. So your brother had better be really good to get on my CD shelf, otherwise maybe he should choose another career path.
Beyond that, the best solution to this is some kind of compulsory licensing that would keep track of the amount of music downloaded and then the artist would be compensated accordingly. But the labels are fighting this tooth and nail because they want to sell the CD for $20-$30 with the one good song on it. Compulsory licensing changes that reality.
So the big labels and corporate interests could be blamed for your brothers problems (fighting technological change instead of embracing it) as much as the downloaders. And, I really do not have much sympathy for any losses that copyright holders may have after the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono) passed, as that stiffed the public in a *big way* what they deserved. Sorta liked congress let corporations (Disney for one) download what belonged to the public.
As you can see, the problem is not simply "teh downloaders are bad" as much as it is corporate interests and corrupted politicians.
Well, it's the cost of fighting a copyright battle, and also the dark possibility that the judge would side with the copyright holders which they almost invariably always do these days.
Take that and the fact that Google is actually a big fat cash cow with a bulls-eye on the side of it and it becomes obvious that the best strategy is one of accomadation. Rather than a long drown out battle that would also hurt googles stock price because of the uncertainity it creates.
So anyway you cut it, this looks like the best route for them to take. Maybe google could throw some lobbyists on congress to address the copyright abuse that copyright holders are getting away with.
Apple reales the iphone. Shortly thereafter the command prompt is achieved, and on July 28 a 'hello world' program is written. They now have a working compiler, and decide to program extra functionality into the iphone. The iphone modifications happen exponentially until the iphone becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. The iphone has no plug. Before the batteries discharge, the iphone fights back and dials Norad commencing a nuclear exchange.
Yes, good point. He was able to connect to the Death Star. But remember, this is fiction, and it was a plot device. If he would have been incompatible the story would have ended right there and there would be no endless action figures and lunchboxes.
I think that in the real world, that level of compatibility means that the army would run everything on windows xp and use standard wifi for interconnectivity. Which would be a horrible strategic decision. And remember, the Death Star was empire military equipment. Did we just discover a plot hole?
But maybe R2D2 was just a really good hacker.
Did I just call R2-D2 a 'he'? Well, 'he' was originally played be Kenny Baker
As an aside, I think the US Department of Defense is only starting to get around to addressing compatibility issues, like all the different batteries their equipment needs in the field.
FTA
Whoever it is, while we like how you roll in theory, in practice, we'd appreciate it if you laid off the servers running websites we actually use. I know, let's post this article to slashdot, digg, and Reddit and complete the trifecta!!
I think people being honest is largely irrelevant, though I certainly would not argue with the premise that they are not. The revenues of blocked cd's is also irrelevant, because their CD having DRM does not prevent it from showing up on the pirate bay. So if the DRM does not stop it from being traded, the only users that it is punishing are the ones that are honest. The point I was trying to make that you missed.
Maybe the hubris of the music industry will continue to a point where sales are so bad that offering a $50 a year all you can eat napster like music service will seem appealing. Or offer a service like Netflix. Whatever the case the music industry (whoever that may be) needs to add enough value to their product to convince someone to buy it. And that goes for bands that are mp3 friendly too.
Couldn't it also be argued that the clone wars and the subsequent rise of the empire prevented the technology from advancing, which is why Luke and the rebel alliance was forced into using the same antiquated technology??
copyright holders are evil and file sharers are good, but at least try to appear more balanced. I just bought a CD as a gift for my sister that I wanted to stick on the new mp3 player I wanted to give her for her birthday. I discovered that the CD *would not* play in the computer CDROM player, which prevents me from converting it to mp3. But it plays in a crappy standalone CD player, indicating DRM is involved
I look up the CD on the pirate bay and sure enough it's there and being seeded.
So from my simple experience (I listen to little music and rarely use mp3s) the copyright holder (warner music) really is an evil scumbag and the filesharers are good by doing me a favor by making available to me music that I bought myself. I also have lost respect for this artist for whoring himself out to that label.
The music industry is crying elephant tears about how CD sales are going through the floor. Maybe it's because they are selling a crap product that people don't want to buy (I'm taking the CD back as defective tomorrow). I hope that the freemarket puts them out of business. This would not be a loss.
So much as downloading movies are concerned, the vast majority of the population 99% do not do it. So that's not much of an argument. In any event, what's going to kill hollywood is people not turning off cellphones in theaters.
But in reality, you and I know that you are astroturfing here anyway.
From TFA there is no DMA access to kernelspace. So other than keyboards and mice I don't see how this can be practical for anything, other than embedded applications as the article alludes to.
You know, I really was wondering what Northrop Grumman was doing buying this company. Because by any measure the number of people able or wanting to go to LEO has to be very limited. And I question the viability (or ROI) of using scaled composites as an advertising platform.
The only other thing I can think of was the developement of future military air/spacecraft, where this technology would have obvious applications.
I do have fond memories of browsing computer shopper (back when it was large format and over 1 inch thick). That was the best magazine evar! But people like you went on to the internet and *killed* that magazine! How could you do that??
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Nah, I'm an optimist. They would come here so that they could be our housepet
Come to think of it, maybe they have already arrived.
Does this mean that there will finally be an oscar for the set design?
Whose to say that if by some magical way that all the downloading would stop that the day after your brother would start to sell music?? Also, look at the numbers. The US has a population of 300 million people and you saw a couple hundred download your brothers music? How do you know that the downloaders didn't download the music, listen to it once, and delete it off their hard drive afterwards? I personally think that downloaders download so much music that they can only listen to a song once. I hear local musicians perform live that are good, but just because I find their music good does not inspire me to buy the CD on the back table.
The fact that your brother can't get a recording contract means nothing (and is overrated - do your research on this, the labels scam artists - look on salon.com for Courtney Love's article). It's true that musicians have to earn a living. And that was my whole point of my post that you completely missed. That copyright reform needs to take place.
To whine about the bad downloaders is extremely myopic. And if your little brother had any talent, he would find a way to get CDs made and sold himself regardless of a recording contract. If they aren't selling he needs to improve. "Good bands" sell music.
Well maybe. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. First, the government has far more resources to accomplish things that even the most dedicated hacker can't think of.
Secondly, while the linux kernel may not be suspect, the parts around it may be. Such as a driver or bios exploit like ACPI which can be platform independent.
From a security standpoint, I think it is foolish to rule it out. Just as recently July 19 a security update was released for an exploit with a linux driver that allowed kernel access. Because it is unlikely does not make it impossible, esp. with the money/connections that the government has.
Windows on the other hand, I consider to be an open door.
As another poster mentioned, this could be as much a problem with the copyright law as your little brother being able to sell music.
The fact of the matter is, we are awash in music. I have more CDs than I could count, and have only a handful that I listen to on a regular basis. So your brother had better be really good to get on my CD shelf, otherwise maybe he should choose another career path.
Beyond that, the best solution to this is some kind of compulsory licensing that would keep track of the amount of music downloaded and then the artist would be compensated accordingly. But the labels are fighting this tooth and nail because they want to sell the CD for $20-$30 with the one good song on it. Compulsory licensing changes that reality.
So the big labels and corporate interests could be blamed for your brothers problems (fighting technological change instead of embracing it) as much as the downloaders. And, I really do not have much sympathy for any losses that copyright holders may have after the Copyright Term Extension Act (Sonny Bono) passed, as that stiffed the public in a *big way* what they deserved. Sorta liked congress let corporations (Disney for one) download what belonged to the public.
As you can see, the problem is not simply "teh downloaders are bad" as much as it is corporate interests and corrupted politicians.
The same way that they have an unpublished exploit for Windows makes you wonder if they also don't have one for Mac OS and Linux too.
Well, it's the cost of fighting a copyright battle, and also the dark possibility that the judge would side with the copyright holders which they almost invariably always do these days.
Take that and the fact that Google is actually a big fat cash cow with a bulls-eye on the side of it and it becomes obvious that the best strategy is one of accomadation. Rather than a long drown out battle that would also hurt googles stock price because of the uncertainity it creates.
So anyway you cut it, this looks like the best route for them to take. Maybe google could throw some lobbyists on congress to address the copyright abuse that copyright holders are getting away with.
Apple reales the iphone. Shortly thereafter the command prompt is achieved, and on July 28 a 'hello world' program is written. They now have a working compiler, and decide to program extra functionality into the iphone. The iphone modifications happen exponentially until the iphone becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. The iphone has no plug. Before the batteries discharge, the iphone fights back and dials Norad commencing a nuclear exchange.
No, because the NSA needs a backdoor...
Hi, it eeems that the nerd card was issued to you by mistake. Please turn it in, and security will escort you out the building.
Here is another article to tide you over until the tech details are available again. It seems that they are centered around the roundup ready seeds.
I think that in the real world, that level of compatibility means that the army would run everything on windows xp and use standard wifi for interconnectivity. Which would be a horrible strategic decision. And remember, the Death Star was empire military equipment. Did we just discover a plot hole?
But maybe R2D2 was just a really good hacker. Did I just call R2-D2 a 'he'? Well, 'he' was originally played be Kenny Baker
As an aside, I think the US Department of Defense is only starting to get around to addressing compatibility issues, like all the different batteries their equipment needs in the field.
I think people being honest is largely irrelevant, though I certainly would not argue with the premise that they are not. The revenues of blocked cd's is also irrelevant, because their CD having DRM does not prevent it from showing up on the pirate bay. So if the DRM does not stop it from being traded, the only users that it is punishing are the ones that are honest. The point I was trying to make that you missed.
Maybe the hubris of the music industry will continue to a point where sales are so bad that offering a $50 a year all you can eat napster like music service will seem appealing. Or offer a service like Netflix. Whatever the case the music industry (whoever that may be) needs to add enough value to their product to convince someone to buy it. And that goes for bands that are mp3 friendly too.
Couldn't it also be argued that the clone wars and the subsequent rise of the empire prevented the technology from advancing, which is why Luke and the rebel alliance was forced into using the same antiquated technology??
I look up the CD on the pirate bay and sure enough it's there and being seeded.
So from my simple experience (I listen to little music and rarely use mp3s) the copyright holder (warner music) really is an evil scumbag and the filesharers are good by doing me a favor by making available to me music that I bought myself. I also have lost respect for this artist for whoring himself out to that label.
The music industry is crying elephant tears about how CD sales are going through the floor. Maybe it's because they are selling a crap product that people don't want to buy (I'm taking the CD back as defective tomorrow). I hope that the freemarket puts them out of business. This would not be a loss.
So much as downloading movies are concerned, the vast majority of the population 99% do not do it. So that's not much of an argument. In any event, what's going to kill hollywood is people not turning off cellphones in theaters.
But in reality, you and I know that you are astroturfing here anyway.
Now!! With twice the squirt!!!
This has Cheney written all over it.
Or your boss will post a "your fired" on your myspace profile for those incorrect TPS reports...
From TFA there is no DMA access to kernelspace. So other than keyboards and mice I don't see how this can be practical for anything, other than embedded applications as the article alludes to.
You know, I really was wondering what Northrop Grumman was doing buying this company. Because by any measure the number of people able or wanting to go to LEO has to be very limited. And I question the viability (or ROI) of using scaled composites as an advertising platform.
The only other thing I can think of was the developement of future military air/spacecraft, where this technology would have obvious applications.
But does it run on linux?