I used pure java for a web based email thing, but I wrote a whole webserver that handles requests for object methods rather then files. I don't really know how fast it is (It responds instantly to localhost, but Not that many people use the service).
Of course, launhing a new VM for each request would suck, but there are other ways to call java methods.
I read your interview on artistdirect.com, and you raised some interesting points, most notably, about napster being a for profit company, making money by facilitating illegal trading of Music.
I have a feeling that most of the people out there who are upset about the potential loss of napster are just teens who have been given the opportunity to acquire very expensive (for them) things for almost no money. Clearly, they don't want that to go away.
But for me, and a lot of other slashdoters, getting MP3's has never been difficult. I never even bothered to download napster, but I, and I think many other readers, still find something disturbing about this lawsuit and a lot of the legal aspects surrounding the internet in the past two or three years.
In 1996 congress passed the Communication decency act, in an attempt to illegalize pornography on the internet. The Supreme Court struck this down, but in the past few years, censorship has come up again. Not from the government itself, but from the corporations that control copyrights in this country. Illegalizing napster will in no way stop its use, just look at DeCSS for example. When the MPAA tried to ban it, its popularity only increased. The technology itself cannot simply be 'turned off'
But what I'm afraid of is that the Internet itself could be destroyed. Not in the sense of removing the capability of every computer to send IP packets, but in the sense of having freedom of speech removed. Already, we are seeing cable IP companies do things like banning servers. For bandwidth issues mostly, but by doing that they remove there own legal culpability as well. This is a severe restriction of freedom of speech, and I'm afraid that if Napster, a service provider, is shut down many other ISPs may crack down on personal servers as well.
Congress might even pass laws on the subject, they've already used the ridiculous 'War On Drugs' to put limits on our rights. What's to stop them from using an unwinable "war on copyrights" to take away our freedom of speech?
On they internet, there is no real way to tell the difference between copyrighted material and other stuff. The only true way to stop its flow is a draconian crackdown on sending anything over the net.
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If you would bother to look up some figures on the cancer rate(particularly brain cancer) of workers in other manufacturing fields you would see that something is obviously wrong and more studies need to be made.
did YOU look anything up, or just take verbatem what the artical said?
QUESTION: If this is FUD, why would this be aimed at the computer industry and who exactly is aiming it? 'The American Luddites Assocation for Computer Bad'?
Most likely the "San Fransicso Bay Chronical Editors Association for Selling More Papers". As if that wasn't obvious enough...
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Uh, a fire code violation can be as simple as using an exstention cord. In fact, thats one of the things that was mentioned in the artical.
The more people you have, the more mistakes are going to be made. This particular company had only about 150 violatoins out of tens of thousands of employees.
There is a huge difference between 'No conclusive scientific evidence' and 'no evidence'.
Only in connotation, really. If I have no evidence whatsoever, I can say that I have No conclusive scientific evidence and be just as right. Of course, if I do that, people will still belive what I have to say....
Well, what exactly would be breathing in from your computer? the stuff just dosn't turn into dust. I mean, yeh it probably wouldn't be a good idea to eat a motherboard, but who would do that?
Its a potential problem, but none of the flywheels produced by these companys (mentioned in the wired artical) have ever shown any signs of fatige other then a few small layers cracking (but not comming off) and that was when it was spinning way over spec. Battires are much more likely to blow up.
People have already been exposed to computers for over twenty years, and while there is some (mostly baseless) concerns about the genetic effects of plastics, there isn't much more plastic in computers then anything else. Its not like people are going inside there cases an licking there motherboards, and unlike asbestos, the stuff in computers doesn't become particles in the air.
Yes, i was going to put one of the reasons, but I figured that it would be obvious to anyone who knew. My only point was that we arn't orbiting the sun very fast, and that if you didn't figure distance in when figureing gravity, the attraction to the sun would be much greater.
I still have a subscription to wired. Why? beacuse it reminds be of the time when WIRED DIDN'T SUCK!
God wired sucks now, its like a mag for neo-yuppies. Terrible. A while back they posed this big artical about how great Al Gore was for tech, they actualy prased Gore's support of the DMCA. Tottaly sucky. Wired News, now a part of lycos, now a part of disny, I think, is still pretty idealistc still though.
Old wired: information tech is cool New wired: information tech is cool 'cuz it makes us more money
Never checked that button in my life. Read the FAQ on how default posting levels work moron.
Yeh, I know how it works. I also know what the +1 box is for. Just beacuse a certan number of your posts were good at one point in time dosn't mean that all of them will be all the time. If you want to say something usless, click the box.
When I read a +2 I don't want to see a one line comment saying "Read the FAQ...moron". I don't litter in the +2 space please.
It's like all those DeCSS stories that claimed that it was a tool 'that let you copy DVD's'. Anyone who did a second of reserach knew that wasn't the case,
Uh, DeCSS DOES LET YOU COPY DVDS, AND IF YOU HAD DONE A SECOND OF REASARCH YOU WOULD KNOW THAT...
What is so hard to understand about this? With DeCSS, you can get the unecripted mpeg data with a consumer DVD rom Drive (witch can then be piped to a player app, or a file on your hard drive). Without it, you could not. get it?
I would like to see such a law, that when you bring out an immaterial product, it would be under "thou shalt not copy" laws for four (4) years, after which it would be placed into public domain.
Actualy, thats the way it was orgionaly defined in the constitution. However, media companys have been able to extend to the life of the author, plus another 90 years(!?).
In order to get the music is the music on CD. If you already have the music on CD, there isn't really much to stop from ripping the CDs yourself, now is there?
Instead of whining and complaining, just try to set up your own record company, and try to sell your music in another way than CD's. I think that if you would try that, your company wouldn't last very long, because everybody would be copying and stealing your music.
Well, that's what mp3.com is doing, among, uh, other things, And they are doing pretty well.
However, I'm a lazy person, and no matter how indignant you get, I still get free music. And, I get to watch you people get even more indignant, witch is always a lot of fun. Is it morally wrong, a little? Do I care? Nope.
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I used pure java for a web based email thing, but I wrote a whole webserver that handles requests for object methods rather then files. I don't really know how fast it is (It responds instantly to localhost, but Not that many people use the service).
Of course, launhing a new VM for each request would suck, but there are other ways to call java methods.
Havn't you ever heard of IRC?
Say it again, "The web is not the internet"
I tried to say the same thing, but I think you did a much better job :P
Unfortunetly, I think your a bit to optimistic. Unless something drastic happens, the corps are going to win..... (I think)
Like you've never said anything contradictory in your life. A single person would probably be less consistant then a team, don't you think?
I read your interview on artistdirect.com, and you raised some interesting points, most notably, about napster being a for profit company, making money by facilitating illegal trading of Music.
I have a feeling that most of the people out there who are upset about the potential loss of napster are just teens who have been given the opportunity to acquire very expensive (for them) things for almost no money. Clearly, they don't want that to go away.
But for me, and a lot of other slashdoters, getting MP3's has never been difficult. I never even bothered to download napster, but I, and I think many other readers, still find something disturbing about this lawsuit and a lot of the legal aspects surrounding the internet in the past two or three years.
In 1996 congress passed the Communication decency act, in an attempt to illegalize pornography on the internet. The Supreme Court struck this down, but in the past few years, censorship has come up again. Not from the government itself, but from the corporations that control copyrights in this country. Illegalizing napster will in no way stop its use, just look at DeCSS for example. When the MPAA tried to ban it, its popularity only increased. The technology itself cannot simply be 'turned off'
But what I'm afraid of is that the Internet itself could be destroyed. Not in the sense of removing the capability of every computer to send IP packets, but in the sense of having freedom of speech removed. Already, we are seeing cable IP companies do things like banning servers. For bandwidth issues mostly, but by doing that they remove there own legal culpability as well. This is a severe restriction of freedom of speech, and I'm afraid that if Napster, a service provider, is shut down many other ISPs may crack down on personal servers as well.
Congress might even pass laws on the subject, they've already used the ridiculous 'War On Drugs' to put limits on our rights. What's to stop them from using an unwinable "war on copyrights" to take away our freedom of speech?
On they internet, there is no real way to tell the difference between copyrighted material and other stuff. The only true way to stop its flow is a draconian crackdown on sending anything over the net.
Is that something that you would want to do?
She actualy used to have her strip published in the "toons" a weekly paper full of cartoons published here in ames.
anyway, I always figured her for the reactionary type. Annoying those people. Here is a self portrate she drew of herself. Interesting.
If you would bother to look up some figures on the cancer rate(particularly brain cancer) of workers in other manufacturing fields you would see that something is obviously wrong and more studies need to be made.
did YOU look anything up, or just take verbatem what the artical said?
QUESTION: If this is FUD, why would this be aimed at the computer industry and who exactly is aiming it? 'The American Luddites Assocation for Computer Bad'?
Most likely the "San Fransicso Bay Chronical Editors Association for Selling More Papers". As if that wasn't obvious enough...
Uh, a fire code violation can be as simple as using an exstention cord. In fact, thats one of the things that was mentioned in the artical.
The more people you have, the more mistakes are going to be made. This particular company had only about 150 violatoins out of tens of thousands of employees.
There is a huge difference between 'No conclusive scientific evidence' and 'no evidence'.
Only in connotation, really. If I have no evidence whatsoever, I can say that I have No conclusive scientific evidence and be just as right. Of course, if I do that, people will still belive what I have to say....
Well, what exactly would be breathing in from your computer? the stuff just dosn't turn into dust. I mean, yeh it probably wouldn't be a good idea to eat a motherboard, but who would do that?
well, we wouldn't want there deaths to be in vain, now would we?
Those of you who think the bunny suits are cute, remember - they are not just for decorations. :-)
No there not, they provent dust and skin from your body from contaminating the CPUs.
I doubt those suits could protect you from anything...
Its a potential problem, but none of the flywheels produced by these companys (mentioned in the wired artical) have ever shown any signs of fatige other then a few small layers cracking (but not comming off) and that was when it was spinning way over spec. Battires are much more likely to blow up.
they had no conclusive scientific evidence that the chemicals they found are linked to various workplace health hazards.
Yes, the best time to ban things is when you have no evidence that something is bad. THIS STUFF SMELLS FUNY, BAN IT!
what the hell are you talking about?
People have already been exposed to computers for over twenty years, and while there is some (mostly baseless) concerns about the genetic effects of plastics, there isn't much more plastic in computers then anything else. Its not like people are going inside there cases an licking there motherboards, and unlike asbestos, the stuff in computers doesn't become particles in the air.
Evironmental storys are always "scary stuff," they write it that way. And most of the time, its nothing but hyperbolie
Yes, i was going to put one of the reasons, but I figured that it would be obvious to anyone who knew. My only point was that we arn't orbiting the sun very fast, and that if you didn't figure distance in when figureing gravity, the attraction to the sun would be much greater.
I still have a subscription to wired. Why? beacuse it reminds be of the time when WIRED DIDN'T SUCK!
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God wired sucks now, its like a mag for neo-yuppies. Terrible. A while back they posed this big artical about how great Al Gore was for tech, they actualy prased Gore's support of the DMCA. Tottaly sucky. Wired News, now a part of lycos, now a part of disny, I think, is still pretty idealistc still though.
Old wired: information tech is cool
New wired: information tech is cool 'cuz it makes us more money
Lame, lame, lame
Never checked that button in my life. Read the FAQ on how default posting levels work moron.
Yeh, I know how it works. I also know what the +1 box is for. Just beacuse a certan number of your posts were good at one point in time dosn't mean that all of them will be all the time. If you want to say something usless, click the box.
When I read a +2 I don't want to see a one line comment saying "Read the FAQ...moron". I don't litter in the +2 space please.
It's like all those DeCSS stories that claimed that it was a tool 'that let you copy DVD's'. Anyone who did a second of reserach knew that wasn't the case,
Uh, DeCSS DOES LET YOU COPY DVDS, AND IF YOU HAD DONE A SECOND OF REASARCH YOU WOULD KNOW THAT...
What is so hard to understand about this? With DeCSS, you can get the unecripted mpeg data with a consumer DVD rom Drive (witch can then be piped to a player app, or a file on your hard drive). Without it, you could not. get it?
I would like to see such a law, that when you bring out an immaterial product, it would be under "thou shalt not copy" laws for four (4) years, after which it would be placed into public domain.
Actualy, thats the way it was orgionaly defined in the constitution. However, media companys have been able to extend to the life of the author, plus another 90 years(!?).
1) Just becase you can't afford it, doesn't mean you have the right to steal it.
That dosn't mean I have to care. If the RIAA wants my money, they are going to have to make it worth my time. Untill then, they won't get it.
Steal music, Steal comments. That isn't hypocracy, thats consistancy, idiot.
In order to get the music is the music on CD. If you already have the music on CD, there isn't really much to stop from ripping the CDs yourself, now is there?
Instead of whining and complaining, just try to set up your own record company, and try to sell your music in another way than CD's. I think that if you would try that, your company wouldn't last very long, because everybody would be copying and stealing your music.
Well, that's what mp3.com is doing, among, uh, other things, And they are doing pretty well.
However, I'm a lazy person, and no matter how indignant you get, I still get free music. And, I get to watch you people get even more indignant, witch is always a lot of fun. Is it morally wrong, a little? Do I care? Nope.