Their are two problems with the SVP technology that I see.
1. Straight copies: It seems to only affect the playing of the DVD. It does nothing about the ability for the computer to read physical bits on a computer. Why couldn't someone just burn a direct copy of the DVD. Or copy the data to a disk image and share that with someone that owns a computer with an SVP processor. I mean they explain in their propaganda that their technology that they are stopping piracy, bullshit.
2. The MPAA and RIAA are backwards luddites. They aren't operating in a mindset of using technology to further competition. If they came out with better products then we would buy them because they are better. If we don't want the better product then they need to come out with a new product. If they spent the same amount of money on advancing the state of viewing devices(lcds, dvd players, tvs and monitors) and delivery methods(higher capacity dvd, video on demand...) then we would be satisfied customers and buy their products. If we are not satisfied then they need to lower the prices. It is capitalism and they are operating in a monopolist bubble.
It is not very surprising to hear a public official claim that email and web traffic is not private. For the most part ISPs will tell you as much in their disclaimers, and most schools and colleges will claim that email is the property of the school. Companies vary on policy, but most of them consider email and web traffic as part of their business and ultimately as their domain to moderate. What we should be doing is creating an online bill of rights to secure rights to privacy in electronic transactions and communications.
No, it isn't entirely the consumers part. Blame IBM first, then people like HP and Compaq. IBM was there when MS needed a platform to exist on. IBM agreed to "license" the operating system. Millions of users/businesses bought there computers with dos and started amassing data on DOS systems then came windows, they upgraded, then came more windows, they upgraded. By the time MS had become huge, too many people had too much valuable data to risk a complete platform change. MS may have a shitload of market force now, but it was given to them by the OEMs not the least of them all --IBM. At least IBM is atoning for some of this with there new open source policies..
-Brent
If you mean geek related as in the useful promotion of technology, why not call the United Way or Boys and Girls Clubs. They often have computer related afterschool programs or at least would like the facilities to be able to start them. A lot of normal charities realize the potential of technology to help families, and especially children, of the American underclasses to overcome obstacles in their learning and economic situations.
-Brent
It is not as if they tell all their customers that they will be charging the sites that the customer visits for bring the websurfer and the site together.. Things like this need to get well beyond Slashdot to affect AT&T's customer base.
-Brent
"you then sue the fuck out of every single company using your idea. there is a whole separate revenue stream coming from just that."
Case in point RAMbus and SDRAM..
I started out on a debian machine(well aside from that short encounter with mandrake..) and Apt is a kick ass package management system. And with aptitude it is even better. I admit I only really use aptitude to find out what packages are available, but it is a step in the right direction. I manage Redhat boxes at work and rpm is difficult to deal with in comparison to apt. I can't easily query a trusted source of packages and it is hard to understand all the commands. APT is it..
Information as species?? More like environment.
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Okay.. there are certain directions that one can explore with the analogy between the proliferation of a species and the proliferation of information, but some one has already dutifully pointed out that information dies when we cannot consume it. Either it dies for us individually or for the population as a whole as it becomes unuseful and unwanted.
Another point that might have been made in the articles below my threshold is that information is part of the contemporary environment. Our ability to process information is our determinate of success (actually, information processing has been a determinate for success for our species and all species for as long as life has had senses, but I am speaking specifically of data/media/modern infomation). Darwinism says that the strong survive and in contemporary society one strength is to be able to parse and make sense of all the information that is available and then put it to use. These people succeed according to the general values of our society. The threshold system of ranking messages is a prime example of such information parsing. Someone is out there deciding whether what I am saying right now is worth hearing.. I don't think the proliferation of information should be the concern of our society, but we should probably worry more about how to decide what information we need or want. All the crap becomes irrelevant at that point.
-Brent
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Their are two problems with the SVP technology that I see.
1. Straight copies: It seems to only affect the playing of the DVD. It does nothing about the ability for the computer to read physical bits on a computer. Why couldn't someone just burn a direct copy of the DVD. Or copy the data to a disk image and share that with someone that owns a computer with an SVP processor. I mean they explain in their propaganda that their technology that they are stopping piracy, bullshit.
2. The MPAA and RIAA are backwards luddites. They aren't operating in a mindset of using technology to further competition. If they came out with better products then we would buy them because they are better. If we don't want the better product then they need to come out with a new product. If they spent the same amount of money on advancing the state of viewing devices(lcds, dvd players, tvs and monitors) and delivery methods(higher capacity dvd, video on demand...) then we would be satisfied customers and buy their products. If we are not satisfied then they need to lower the prices. It is capitalism and they are operating in a monopolist bubble.
My 2 cents
-b
somehow this seems entirely unrelated.
It is not very surprising to hear a public official claim that email and web traffic is not private. For the most part ISPs will tell you as much in their disclaimers, and most schools and colleges will claim that email is the property of the school. Companies vary on policy, but most of them consider email and web traffic as part of their business and ultimately as their domain to moderate. What we should be doing is creating an online bill of rights to secure rights to privacy in electronic transactions and communications.
just my $.02
No, it isn't entirely the consumers part. Blame IBM first, then people like HP and Compaq. IBM was there when MS needed a platform to exist on. IBM agreed to "license" the operating system. Millions of users/businesses bought there computers with dos and started amassing data on DOS systems then came windows, they upgraded, then came more windows, they upgraded. By the time MS had become huge, too many people had too much valuable data to risk a complete platform change. MS may have a shitload of market force now, but it was given to them by the OEMs not the least of them all --IBM. At least IBM is atoning for some of this with there new open source policies.. -Brent
If you mean geek related as in the useful promotion of technology, why not call the United Way or Boys and Girls Clubs. They often have computer related afterschool programs or at least would like the facilities to be able to start them. A lot of normal charities realize the potential of technology to help families, and especially children, of the American underclasses to overcome obstacles in their learning and economic situations. -Brent
It is not as if they tell all their customers that they will be charging the sites that the customer visits for bring the websurfer and the site together.. Things like this need to get well beyond Slashdot to affect AT&T's customer base. -Brent
"you then sue the fuck out of every single company using your idea. there is a whole separate revenue stream coming from just that." Case in point RAMbus and SDRAM..
I started out on a debian machine(well aside from that short encounter with mandrake..) and Apt is a kick ass package management system. And with aptitude it is even better. I admit I only really use aptitude to find out what packages are available, but it is a step in the right direction. I manage Redhat boxes at work and rpm is difficult to deal with in comparison to apt. I can't easily query a trusted source of packages and it is hard to understand all the commands. APT is it..
Okay.. there are certain directions that one can explore with the analogy between the proliferation of a species and the proliferation of information, but some one has already dutifully pointed out that information dies when we cannot consume it. Either it dies for us individually or for the population as a whole as it becomes unuseful and unwanted. Another point that might have been made in the articles below my threshold is that information is part of the contemporary environment. Our ability to process information is our determinate of success (actually, information processing has been a determinate for success for our species and all species for as long as life has had senses, but I am speaking specifically of data/media/modern infomation). Darwinism says that the strong survive and in contemporary society one strength is to be able to parse and make sense of all the information that is available and then put it to use. These people succeed according to the general values of our society. The threshold system of ranking messages is a prime example of such information parsing. Someone is out there deciding whether what I am saying right now is worth hearing.. I don't think the proliferation of information should be the concern of our society, but we should probably worry more about how to decide what information we need or want. All the crap becomes irrelevant at that point. -Brent +~+~+~ interi.yi.org just because