You can believe that all you want. It's still not *SCIENCE*. You can have ID in the classroom. But it's a religious studies or philosophy subject. It is not science any more than creative writing is mathematics.
Let mp3/ogg/wma/whatever propagate where they will. If you never pay for music now, you never will. And then there are those like me who like to sample things before spending money on it. If it's something I won't listen to more than a few times here and there, I likely am not going to buy it. Why should I? I'd be happy to just listen to it on the Internet streams or radio when it plays. No need to own something like that. Of the mp3s that I have downloaded, I've either bought the CD used (or borrowed from a friend if even the used price was ridiculous... usually the 'one good song on the whole disk' situations), or simply removed the downloaded stuff, since it isn't something I listened to much, and if I did, I'd want better quality.
Use compressed music as advertisement.
Artists should be making most of their money off of live performances.
Sell CDs for a reasonable price (this is the real problem, RIAA. Why are you too greedy to see this?). $10 instead of $20. I *might* pay $15, if it is an artist I really dig and there are a lot of good songs on the CD. For older music, sell it for $5-$8 per CD. Sell MP3 CDs with 3-10 albums on them in compressed format for $20 (or the equivalent online, whatever).
Why is this so difficult? People don't pay for the shit because it's ridiculously over-priced. I definitely won't pay for compressed music, and buy most stuff used these days, or from local bands themselves at CD release parties ($5 a CD).
Compressed music == advertisement for the real product. If your product isn't worth paying for, then maybe you should fix THAT problem. For stuff I like and want to add to my collection, I much prefer having the uncompressed 'master' to encode and catalog as I see fit. (on that note, stop with the bullshit DRM crap, Mmmkay?).
It's not like we pay them for our internet access or anything.
...or that we pay to see the show at the movie theater. I know, not exactly the same thing, but tv advertisements on the big screen are becoming quite annoying as well.
Get back to me when your computer network tortures you and your family, or outright blows you up or guns you down with automatic fire. Being without power and without computers is NOT terrifying. Look at the definitions of terrorism from Jay Dyson's 2002 Toorcon keynote:
"Cyber Terrorism" is not the problem. How easy it is to get potentially classified information from the DHS networks, which are likely linked without firewalls and such to the other government agencies is the problem. That a government 'security' agency can be so easily 0wn3d without needing to resort to a targeted attack is frightening.
There is no such thing as 'terrorism' on a computer or network. But information that can certainly be used to plan terrorism-type attacks most certainly exists on those networks, starting with information necessary to make that orgnization react in such a way as to make it more of a clusterfuck than usual.
I don't use digital cable yet. As part of my business-class broadband, I get a 'deal' on analog cable (I doubt it would be filtered just on my pole if I canceled the TV piece though).
Starting yesterday, I noticed that cinemax, HBO, and showtime, which previously had simply been scrambled, are now totally filtered. So are those holdouts who are still using analog cable and paying for those services (I don't) now being forced to migrate to digital cable? I highly doubt that comcast is going to spend the time and money to filter lines per customer, and assume this is a 'global' filter (or they stopped broadcasting those channels on analog altogether) that was just put in place.
Does comcast have a hard stop on when they'll stop sending analog signals? I don't recall having heard anything from them. Then again, I didn't when they took over my business line and screwed it up for a week while my mailing list subscribers yelled at me either.
If forced to digital, I think I'll just use the cable for the business Internet line and then just go to dish network for TV. I hate the cable TV monopoly and will do whatever I can within reason to not give them my business.
Using the stolen keys, Lodrick believes, Nelson made off with an unsolicited mailing from the bank. Lodrick said it contained two debit/credit cards she had not requested and, worse, a statement for a certificate of deposit that included her Social Security number. Personal identification numbers for the cards were in a separate envelope.
Of course, being able to steal master keys for the mailboxes is not good either, but WTF is the bank thinking??? I can't shred stuff if it is intercepted before I go to my friggin' mail box!
I used to live there. The police loved to harass me while on my bicycle, obeying the law too. I was harassed on several occasions. One was when I was straddled on the bike on a blocked-off road for some carnival (not riding, mind you). Another I was finishing a ride at dusk, and a cop pulled up behind me at a red light and used his PA system to tell me I had to walk because I didn't have a light on (never mind that none of the cars at the red light had their lights on yet either, and there were a couple of people illegally riding bikes down the sidewalks). I miss the trails up there, but certainly not the police force.
Yet another reason to not own an inkjet. Get yourself a nice color laser printer (laserjet 2605dn here). It will have postscript, so will talk to linux perfectly (http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/). It's toner does not go bad if you don't print for a few months. You'll be able to print thousands of pages, even with the starter cartridges that come with the printer. It will print much faster. It will print on normal paper without bleeding. It will pay for itself very quickly (have you seen the prices on inkjet cartridges lately?).
On the occasions you want photo prints, send them to Wal-Mart or Target. They'll be printed chemically with the real photo-printing hardware and don't cost that much.
You are forgetting about authentication. Email is trivial to spoof. If you *always* sign your messages, then when some asshat, say, decides to send an explicitly detailed nastygram to your boss from 'you', it is easy to prove otherwise...
Or maybe from your secret lover, etc. You get the picture.
rsync is a far cry from setting up a versioning system. And WTF would you want versioning on music unless you are the one creating it?
Is an icon that points to a script that does this so difficult? (mine is a symlink in ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/.inode_mount- point, so I have a "backup USB drive" menu item when I right click the mount point). No, it wasn't difficult to figure those paths out, it is handled by the gui in the filer. Imagine that. You can have your GUI *AND* the convenience of a script!
exec aterm -e rsync --delete -rtv $src $dst
Computers should be useful and serve us, not the other way around. Set up a little script once, and it is then forever convenient. GUIs have their place, but there is absolutely no use to bring them into this simple repetitive task that requires no input from the user.
I'd certainly buy a lot more stuff if that would occur. As it is now, I won't buy it b/c it is too much of a hassle to copy and it seems things are obsoleted every few years. This becomes a big deal if you end up with a large collection of 'stuff'.
Perhaps food companies should stop putting that crap in everything that they make. Just a thought. 2 birds with one stone. Obesity problems are likely to go down too.
Then use the alternatives. "Piracy" is what got microsoft to its dominant position in the first place. If you can't pay for it, then use something else. If everyone would do *that* instead, then we may not have had this monopoly-abusing asshat of a company with so much power these days.
...is to simply make CDs cost a reasonable amount. Oh, and have more than 1 good song on them.
Let customers then encode as they see fit. I certainly don't want to pay for stuff that is lower quality, and cannot be used as a master to re-encode in different formats, or the same format with VBR, etc.
With the terrorists probably not using the most advanced triggering mechanisms, couldn't the jamming itself cause a bomb to go off? Anybody who understands how it all works, please comment.
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You can believe that all you want. It's still not *SCIENCE*. You can have ID in the classroom. But it's a religious studies or philosophy subject. It is not science any more than creative writing is mathematics.
Let mp3/ogg/wma/whatever propagate where they will. If you never pay for music now, you never will. And then there are those like me who like to sample things before spending money on it. If it's something I won't listen to more than a few times here and there, I likely am not going to buy it. Why should I? I'd be happy to just listen to it on the Internet streams or radio when it plays. No need to own something like that. Of the mp3s that I have downloaded, I've either bought the CD used (or borrowed from a friend if even the used price was ridiculous ... usually the 'one good song on the whole disk' situations), or simply removed the downloaded stuff, since it isn't something I listened to much, and if I did, I'd want better quality.
Use compressed music as advertisement.
Artists should be making most of their money off of live performances.
Sell CDs for a reasonable price (this is the real problem, RIAA. Why are you too greedy to see this?). $10 instead of $20. I *might* pay $15, if it is an artist I really dig and there are a lot of good songs on the CD. For older music, sell it for $5-$8 per CD. Sell MP3 CDs with 3-10 albums on them in compressed format for $20 (or the equivalent online, whatever).
Why is this so difficult? People don't pay for the shit because it's ridiculously over-priced. I definitely won't pay for compressed music, and buy most stuff used these days, or from local bands themselves at CD release parties ($5 a CD).
Compressed music == advertisement for the real product. If your product isn't worth paying for, then maybe you should fix THAT problem. For stuff I like and want to add to my collection, I much prefer having the uncompressed 'master' to encode and catalog as I see fit. (on that note, stop with the bullshit DRM crap, Mmmkay?).
Just some of my thoughts on the subject.
you forgot the '-- Benjamin Franklin' part.
None of what you describe is terrorism.
s /the_myth_of_cyber-terrorism/
Get back to me when your computer network tortures you and your family, or outright blows you up or guns you down with automatic fire. Being without power and without computers is NOT terrifying. Look at the definitions of terrorism from Jay Dyson's 2002 Toorcon keynote:
http://www.treachery.net/articles_papers/tutorial
"Cyber Terrorism" is not the problem. How easy it is to get potentially classified information from the DHS networks, which are likely linked without firewalls and such to the other government agencies is the problem. That a government 'security' agency can be so easily 0wn3d without needing to resort to a targeted attack is frightening.
There is no such thing as 'terrorism' on a computer or network. But information that can certainly be used to plan terrorism-type attacks most certainly exists on those networks, starting with information necessary to make that orgnization react in such a way as to make it more of a clusterfuck than usual.
I don't use digital cable yet. As part of my business-class broadband, I get a 'deal' on analog cable (I doubt it would be filtered just on my pole if I canceled the TV piece though).
Starting yesterday, I noticed that cinemax, HBO, and showtime, which previously had simply been scrambled, are now totally filtered. So are those holdouts who are still using analog cable and paying for those services (I don't) now being forced to migrate to digital cable? I highly doubt that comcast is going to spend the time and money to filter lines per customer, and assume this is a 'global' filter (or they stopped broadcasting those channels on analog altogether) that was just put in place.
Does comcast have a hard stop on when they'll stop sending analog signals? I don't recall having heard anything from them. Then again, I didn't when they took over my business line and screwed it up for a week while my mailing list subscribers yelled at me either.
If forced to digital, I think I'll just use the cable for the business Internet line and then just go to dish network for TV. I hate the cable TV monopoly and will do whatever I can within reason to not give them my business.
Of course, being able to steal master keys for the mailboxes is not good either, but WTF is the bank thinking??? I can't shred stuff if it is intercepted before I go to my friggin' mail box!
I used to live there. The police loved to harass me while on my bicycle, obeying the law too. I was harassed on several occasions. One was when I was straddled on the bike on a blocked-off road for some carnival (not riding, mind you). Another I was finishing a ride at dusk, and a cop pulled up behind me at a red light and used his PA system to tell me I had to walk because I didn't have a light on (never mind that none of the cars at the red light had their lights on yet either, and there were a couple of people illegally riding bikes down the sidewalks). I miss the trails up there, but certainly not the police force.
Why is this modded as funny? Sad truth, maybe.
Yet another reason to not own an inkjet. Get yourself a nice color laser printer (laserjet 2605dn here). It will have postscript, so will talk to linux perfectly (http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/). It's toner does not go bad if you don't print for a few months. You'll be able to print thousands of pages, even with the starter cartridges that come with the printer. It will print much faster. It will print on normal paper without bleeding. It will pay for itself very quickly (have you seen the prices on inkjet cartridges lately?).
On the occasions you want photo prints, send them to Wal-Mart or Target. They'll be printed chemically with the real photo-printing hardware and don't cost that much.
You are forgetting about authentication. Email is trivial to spoof. If you *always* sign your messages, then when some asshat, say, decides to send an explicitly detailed nastygram to your boss from 'you', it is easy to prove otherwise...
Or maybe from your secret lover, etc. You get the picture.
Is an icon that points to a script that does this so difficult? (mine is a symlink in ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/.inode_mount
Use rsync.
See subject.
I've always wanted something with the libretto form factor with a modern processor, memory, etc. Could this be what I'm looking for?
And, of course, that's the way the data should be handled in the first place...
If this is so 'standard', then why do no other players support it, and why aren't apple accessories compatible with other players?
Some companies have a different opinion
I'd certainly buy a lot more stuff if that would occur. As it is now, I won't buy it b/c it is too much of a hassle to copy and it seems things are obsoleted every few years. This becomes a big deal if you end up with a large collection of 'stuff'.
Perhaps food companies should stop putting that crap in everything that they make. Just a thought. 2 birds with one stone. Obesity problems are likely to go down too.
Then use the alternatives. "Piracy" is what got microsoft to its dominant position in the first place. If you can't pay for it, then use something else. If everyone would do *that* instead, then we may not have had this monopoly-abusing asshat of a company with so much power these days.
The NSA publishes some very useful guides for dealing with sensitive information here:
.doc is detailed in this document:f
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/
Specifically, how to properly redact a Microsoft Word
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nsa-redact.pd
...is to simply make CDs cost a reasonable amount. Oh, and have more than 1 good song on them.
Let customers then encode as they see fit. I certainly don't want to pay for stuff that is lower quality, and cannot be used as a master to re-encode in different formats, or the same format with VBR, etc.
With the terrorists probably not using the most advanced triggering mechanisms, couldn't the jamming itself cause a bomb to go off? Anybody who understands how it all works, please comment.