Hmm...
MLB has claimed ownership of all facts (statistics) resulting from their 'performance art' They wanted to charge the media for the right to report game scores (as an anti-fan I considered this vindication in claiming that sports isn't news) The NFL took to trademarking the names fan groups applied to themselves - so they could charge the fans in direct proportion to their enthusiasm (being an anti-fan, I of course applauded this move - soak the fans for enough and they will eventually get a clue)
An important point to remember is that the sports cartels do spend most of their time dealing criminals and 'morally challenged' individuals. These people - which is what the sports cartels base their opinions of everyone else on are known as 'players', 'agents', 'media', and 'lawyers'. Given the nature of these people it is easy to understand how the sports cartels are concerned about the billions of dollars they are losing illegal viewing of their 'performance art'. All these talk of 'performance art' has reminded me - when will we be seeing the briefs from the real performance artists (pro wrestling). After all, they do have real money at stake here.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Diablo DaisyWheel printers were used with dumb terminals back in the 70's. Also the venerable TRS-80 (or as we early adopters called it - the TRASH-80) was available before the Apple I was a gleam in Wozniak's eye
Well Duh! yourself
Motorola - the same fine engineering firm whcih came up with the idea of using encrypted digital signals to monitors (and next gen HDTVs) - is the company pushing this concept. Perhaps someone at Motorola is looking for a high paying job as a consultant to the RIAA like the former Congressional staffer that "corrected a typo" in theHome Audio Recording Act and made all recorded music "works for hire"?
Could that be why the subject line said "Buy Intel!"?
I always liked reading his stuff, but his universe tended to be just a bit nicer than the one we live in. Many people now really aren't able to entertain themselves and would consider head piking acceptable. I'm sure we can count on the junior Senator from West Podunk to actually lead the mob. They won't be demanding their TV and stereos back, they will want blood for having been denied them
Or something
I can See It Now(tm).
It's 2012, we get hit by a bad solar flare. A Payload Assist Module accidentally ignites and in a freak accident takes out one of the GPS satellites. Every bit of consumer electronics in the 'North American Marketing Region' immediately shuts down because it is 'out of the authorized market area'. The crowds do go wild - but not in a nice way. The heads of the networks will go up on pikes right alongside the heads of the government for letting em foist the technology on us.
Now that would be a real plot for a disaster movie. But don't come a calling if you are a member of the MPAA. I'll sell the screenplay (already in progress) to an indie.
Oh, I don't know...
I'm sure the folks at NSI will keep their databases fully up to date, and automatically cull you from their herd of cash cows just because you switched registrations..
It seems to me like someone at Microsoft realized that Kylix is getting close to release and is desparately afraid that the legions of trained chimpanzees (VB programmers) might decide that as long as they have to learn a new language (VB.NET), they might as well learn something with real cross platform capability (Kylix/Delphi)
You might include the remarkably easy and clear (/sarcasm) opt out instructions that the article credits NSI with providing. If you don't want to participate in NSI's bulk/marketing bonanza, you'll need to avail yourself (now that you'll know about them) of their opt-outs.
Buried within their privacy policy it says that you can send notes with the
text:
remove bulk access
or:
remove domain
respectively, in the subject lines of e-mail to:
privacy@networksolutions.com
with a list in the body of the message detailing the domains (for which you are the registrant) that you wish to opt-out.
From the fine article:
Print (including game publications): Ads for Mature-rated games may not be placed in magazines where 45 percent or more of the readers are under 17.
And what do they suppose would happen to the readership demographics of those magazines that had a sufficiently "mature" readership to run the ads? Would more of the younger crowd start reading the otherwise boring magazines?
Hmm.. I can see it now. 13 yr old kid trying to convince his mom that he only reads Ultra-Violent Gamer for the articles and not the advertisements.
(trolling for Katz) Maybe the nice folks at Wave America could add posession of "those magazines" to their list of potentially dangerous behaviors that will earn their snitches free sweatshirts or those nifty red armbands with white circles containing that ancient Indian (subcontinent) symbol for good luck and protection from evil spirits
My bad, was considering how long TV might be left on per week - based on admittedly small and possibly biased samples. I know of people who leave TVs on just for the extra sound etc.. the way some folks use radios for background "noise" I did try some search engine and found studies that put TV time by adolescents at 20+ hours per week (plus whatever their parents, other family member watch as well). So I won't stand by 50 hours per week as watching time, but folks that leave em on a lot can rack up that many hours pretty easily.
That might work for a monitor... But SONY is talking television applications. What is the expected lifespan for current CRT / LCD projection TVs.
I mean 50hrs per week average TV viewing * 52 weeks says these puppies croak in four years of average use. I'm still using the same TV's I bought in the mid-80s (my sole indication of Scottish heritage). I sure wouldn't want to be replacing a big screen every four or five years.
First, I don't have a major problem with surveillance cameras in public places (a minor one yes) It is just a side effect of living in a high tech police state. There will be fewer Stasi drones trying to look better by turning up/manufacturing dirt on their neighbors than in the tried and true low tech police state.
But I do have some problems with the biometric nonsense
Lets see now, from the article: Unknown to the 100,000 people who passed through the turnstiles... The cameras identified 19 people with criminal histories, none of them of a "significant" nature, Tampa authorities said.
19 out of 100,000 or 99.981% accurate!
Now, the article didn't mention how many false positives there were, but my (limited) understanding of probability suggests that there should be people with no criminal histories misidentifed, and people with criminal histories who went undetected.
What is the percentage of the population of Florida at large that has a criminal history(note they said history not outstanding warrants)? I suspect it is more than the 1 in 5000 suggested by the results above. Although they didn't explain what constitutes an "insignificant" history, lets assume that anything that makes it into a history - parking tickets, public intoxication, being a registered Democrat... Even after excluding all those currently in prison (well relatively safely.. when the StuporBowl comes to Texas a reasonable person would expect a "significant" portion of the prison population to be exercising their religious right to watch f'ball from the stadium with a beer in their paw).
I'm rambling a bit, but I hope my point was in there somewhere.
How did Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario?
Gee, there are sure a lot of elite hacker babies here.
Rather than waiting for JVC to actually finish this thing so ya'll can engage in more alpha geek breastbeating, I have a modest proposal.
Hack the system not the product.
Contact JVC.
Be polite.
Ask them how many units they will sell, and how much of their profit is based on sales of blank tapes.
Tell them that you personally will not buy a system that places any restrictions on your ability to use
it in any way you want. Then tell them you are not going to deprive copyright holders of compensation for their work, but that you will not be deprived of your fair use rights.
Remind them that (for example) the hardware companies are pulling out of SDMI because they recognize that restricting the
ability of the consumer to use their product is actually harming their sales.
Ask them how many cameras capable of recording in this format they could sell if it could be easily edited on a PC based system.
And of course, how many more blank tapes for those cameras
Here are some contact points from JVC's website. Unfortunately marketingdroidsneedingclues@jvc.com is not one of them
Customer Relations 1-800-252-5722 (call on their nickel)
webmaster@jvc.com
media@jvc.com
I thought I'd post a comment on their article, but first I had to join up and become a member. After filling out their nice form and submitting it, they rejected my application. Seems I don't make purchasing decisions worth enough money for my opinions to matter:)
Anyhoo, the article reads (between the lines) like the writer has a clue. They spend four pages explaining how CSS was designed to prevent "piracy", how it failed, and what factions are involved in the next generation of "copy protection". The holograms to identify legit DVDs is actually a good way (for now) of detecting counterfeit (read commercially pirated) disks, but what evidence have we seen that the MPAA even remebers that the commercial pirates are the people who are really hurting their members bottom lines?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm...
MLB has claimed ownership of all facts (statistics) resulting from their 'performance art' They wanted to charge the media for the right to report game scores (as an anti-fan I considered this vindication in claiming that sports isn't news)
The NFL took to trademarking the names fan groups applied to themselves - so they could charge the fans in direct proportion to their enthusiasm (being an anti-fan, I of course applauded this move - soak the fans for enough and they will eventually get a clue)
An important point to remember is that the sports cartels do spend most of their time dealing criminals and 'morally challenged' individuals. These people - which is what the sports cartels base their opinions of everyone else on are known as 'players', 'agents', 'media', and 'lawyers'. Given the nature of these people it is easy to understand how the sports cartels are concerned about the billions of dollars they are losing illegal viewing of their 'performance art'.
All these talk of 'performance art' has reminded me - when will we be seeing the briefs from the real performance artists (pro wrestling). After all, they do have real money at stake here.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Diablo DaisyWheel printers were used with dumb terminals back in the 70's. Also the venerable TRS-80 (or as we early adopters called it - the TRASH-80) was available before the Apple I was a gleam in Wozniak's eye
Well Duh! yourself
Motorola - the same fine engineering firm whcih came up with the idea of using encrypted digital signals to monitors (and next gen HDTVs) - is the company pushing this concept. Perhaps someone at Motorola is looking for a high paying job as a consultant to the RIAA like the former Congressional staffer that "corrected a typo" in theHome Audio Recording Act and made all recorded music "works for hire"?
Could that be why the subject line said "Buy Intel!"?
I always liked reading his stuff, but his universe tended to be just a bit nicer than the one we live in. Many people now really aren't able to entertain themselves and would consider head piking acceptable. I'm sure we can count on the junior Senator from West Podunk to actually lead the mob. They won't be demanding their TV and stereos back, they will want blood for having been denied them
Or something
I can See It Now(tm).
It's 2012, we get hit by a bad solar flare. A Payload Assist Module accidentally ignites and in a freak accident takes out one of the GPS satellites. Every bit of consumer electronics in the 'North American Marketing Region' immediately shuts down because it is 'out of the authorized market area'. The crowds do go wild - but not in a nice way. The heads of the networks will go up on pikes right alongside the heads of the government for letting em foist the technology on us.
Now that would be a real plot for a disaster movie. But don't come a calling if you are a member of the MPAA. I'll sell the screenplay (already in progress) to an indie.
Oh, I don't know...
I'm sure the folks at NSI will keep their databases fully up to date, and automatically cull you from their herd of cash cows just because you switched registrations..
It seems to me like someone at Microsoft realized that Kylix is getting close to release and is desparately afraid that the legions of trained chimpanzees (VB programmers) might decide that as long as they have to learn a new language (VB.NET), they might as well learn something with real cross platform capability (Kylix/Delphi)
You might include the remarkably easy and clear (/sarcasm) opt out instructions that the article credits NSI with providing.
If you don't want to participate in NSI's bulk/marketing bonanza, you'll need to avail yourself (now that you'll know about them) of their opt-outs. Buried within their privacy policy it says that you can send notes with the text:
remove bulk access
or:
remove domain
respectively, in the subject lines of e-mail to:
privacy@networksolutions.com
with a list in the body of the message detailing the domains (for which you are the registrant) that you wish to opt-out.
From the fine article:
Print (including game publications): Ads for Mature-rated games may not be placed in magazines where 45 percent or more of the readers are under 17.
And what do they suppose would happen to the readership demographics of those magazines that had a sufficiently "mature" readership to run the ads? Would more of the younger crowd start reading the otherwise boring magazines?
Hmm.. I can see it now. 13 yr old kid trying to convince his mom that he only reads Ultra-Violent Gamer for the articles and not the advertisements.
(trolling for Katz) Maybe the nice folks at Wave America could add posession of "those magazines" to their list of potentially dangerous behaviors that will earn their snitches free sweatshirts or those nifty red armbands with white circles containing that ancient Indian (subcontinent) symbol for good luck and protection from evil spirits
My bad, was considering how long TV might be left on per week - based on admittedly small and possibly biased samples. I know of people who leave TVs on just for the extra sound etc.. the way some folks use radios for background "noise"
I did try some search engine and found studies that put TV time by adolescents at 20+ hours per week (plus whatever their parents, other family member watch as well).
So I won't stand by 50 hours per week as watching time, but folks that leave em on a lot can rack up that many hours pretty easily.
That might work for a monitor... But SONY is talking television applications. What is the expected lifespan for current CRT / LCD projection TVs.
I mean 50hrs per week average TV viewing * 52 weeks says these puppies croak in four years of average use.
I'm still using the same TV's I bought in the mid-80s (my sole indication of Scottish heritage). I sure wouldn't want to be replacing a big screen every four or five years.
First, I don't have a major problem with surveillance cameras in public places (a minor one yes) It is just a side effect of living in a high tech police state. There will be fewer Stasi drones trying to look better by turning up/manufacturing dirt on their neighbors than in the tried and true low tech police state.
But I do have some problems with the biometric nonsense
Lets see now, from the article: Unknown to the 100,000 people who passed through the turnstiles... The cameras identified 19 people with criminal histories, none of them of a "significant" nature, Tampa authorities said.
19 out of 100,000 or 99.981% accurate!
Now, the article didn't mention how many false positives there were, but my (limited) understanding of probability suggests that there should be people with no criminal histories misidentifed, and people with criminal histories who went undetected.
What is the percentage of the population of Florida at large that has a criminal history(note they said history not outstanding warrants)? I suspect it is more than the 1 in 5000 suggested by the results above. Although they didn't explain what constitutes an "insignificant" history, lets assume that anything that makes it into a history - parking tickets, public intoxication, being a registered Democrat...
Even after excluding all those currently in prison (well relatively safely.. when the StuporBowl comes to Texas a reasonable person would expect a "significant" portion of the prison population to be exercising their religious right to watch f'ball from the stadium with a beer in their paw).
I'm rambling a bit, but I hope my point was in there somewhere.
How did Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario?
Gee, there are sure a lot of elite hacker babies here.
Rather than waiting for JVC to actually finish this thing so ya'll can engage in more alpha geek breastbeating, I have a modest proposal.
Hack the system not the product.
Contact JVC.
Be polite.
Ask them how many units they will sell, and how much of their profit is based on sales of blank tapes.
Tell them that you personally will not buy a system that places any restrictions on your ability to use it in any way you want. Then tell them you are not going to deprive copyright holders of compensation for their work, but that you will not be deprived of your fair use rights.
Remind them that (for example) the hardware companies are pulling out of SDMI because they recognize that restricting the ability of the consumer to use their product is actually harming their sales.
Ask them how many cameras capable of recording in this format they could sell if it could be easily edited on a PC based system.
And of course, how many more blank tapes for those cameras
Here are some contact points from JVC's website.
Unfortunately marketingdroidsneedingclues@jvc.com is not one of them
Customer Relations 1-800-252-5722 (call on their nickel)
webmaster@jvc.com
media@jvc.com
I thought I'd post a comment on their article, but first I had to join up and become a member. After filling out their nice form and submitting it, they rejected my application. Seems I don't make purchasing decisions worth enough money for my opinions to matter :)
Anyhoo, the article reads (between the lines) like the writer has a clue. They spend four pages explaining how CSS was designed to prevent "piracy", how it failed, and what factions are involved in the next generation of "copy protection". The holograms to identify legit DVDs is actually a good way (for now) of detecting counterfeit (read commercially pirated) disks, but what evidence have we seen that the MPAA even remebers that the commercial pirates are the people who are really hurting their members bottom lines?