I agree on all points. Police raids are rare and hard to prevent. Just have some money set aside for a lawyer and new dog, and avoid seriously illegal behavior. You can't let fear rule your life, especially fear of lightning.
It doesn't matter if they're unsigned, SoundExchange doesn't have an option for not collecting royalties and as the only register EVERYONE is represented by them. I've wondered why someone hasn't started another non-profit registry for CC licensed music, since the framework which created SoundExchange allows for that. It would have to get approved by the Library of Congress, and there are a few requirements, but it's doable. Note that SoundExchange does offer an opt-out for Polka.
Haven't tried git, because I have no complaints about svn. It looks to me like git will end up with more unintentional branches and merge operations, I like how for svn you have to be rather deliberate about it.
Confluence is a mess, it organizes documents poorly and its search function sucks. Stuff gets lost there too easily, folders and files would be better. Atlassian's JIRA bug tracking software is pretty good though.
BTW: don't some very famous, large, geographically dispersed software projects get along just fine without weekly conference calls? Apache, GCC, and Linux come to mind.
I was wondering the same thing. I've worked in similar situations, and gone months without voice calls or facetime. Just email, IM, bugzilla, etc. worked ok for those projects.
It looks like they decided to stop copying Apple indirectly by copying Windows, and start directly mimicking Apple's OS X. The universal search, the dock, and the integrated settings all look like OS X, without the fancy quartz graphics.
Yup, storing and streaming all of that music in massive redundancy is going to be very wasteful and expensive. It's also going to be rather inconvenient, and runs into the same problem local music libraries have, which is organizing the music, and getting bored with the songs you own. Without a convenient and free mechanism for music discovery, this service isn't going to amount to much more than a small value-added service to Amazon purchases. But it may crack the door open for others to deliver an efficient and convenient service.
Raising fuel taxes fails to tax electric and hybrid vehicles appropriately. Raising registration fees would unfairly tax low-mileage drivers the same as high-mileage drivers. This GPS tracking system would be much more expensive to implement than raising gas or registration taxes, penalizes vehicles regardless of weight distribution, and raise privacy issues.
So working with these constraints; we want a system that will have minimum overhead and paperwork costs, is based on a vehicle's impact on the road, is not based on the type of fuel used, and doesn't infringe our basic Constitutional rights. Just base it on mileage and vehicle weight, which the DMV already has:
Dropping the fuel tax would reduce overhead and paperwork, although perhaps that should be left alone to discourage gas use, kinda like cigarette taxes. And efficient governance is achieved once again through the application of basic math!:-) (unless my congressman doesn't read slashdot, or he really likes the idea of tracking my every move).
Well, now I am. It's a good point really, with the great expense and effort large internet corporations are going through to build server farms capable of handling the load of their customers, that business model may be rendered obsolete by a smart small corporation which takes advantage of the bittorrent effect and delivers the same service for a fraction of the cost (to themselves). Something which could even be done with streams, which apparently the VODO firefox plugin does.
I think the acting is spot on for what they are trying to portray; people who only know artificial emotions (genetically manipulated or drug-induced). Looks very professional to me. Pacing is a bit slow, but I'll give it a shot.
Interesting. I'd mod you up if I could. I doubt many people here are actually arguing for the elimination of copyright, but let's consider that a bit more carefully. Software is the easier one to look at, because it's always a work in progress. There are improvements, upgrades, bug fixes, and compatibility updates to make. If Microsoft took my software and started selling it as their own and put me out of business, they'd be stuck with static buggy code and a lot of upset customers. Consumers would have a natural incentive to buy from the true author (me), because I'll keep it running and they'll get their improvements. For songwriters and composers, the absence of copyright would probably break that business model. But it would also open a world of possibilities, where mashups and samples could be freely applied as the artist desires, without having to negotiate or investigate the legality of each piece. It would create a world where we could watch babies dance to Prince songs, or sing "Happy Birthday" to our niece without having to first negotiate performance rights. It would be different than the current market model, but I doubt it would be the catastrophe you envision. It might even be kinda neat.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree on all points. Police raids are rare and hard to prevent. Just have some money set aside for a lawyer and new dog, and avoid seriously illegal behavior. You can't let fear rule your life, especially fear of lightning.
that's pretty cool, thanks for sharing
WPA2 encryption
network name: "password is Orange1"
problem solved
It doesn't matter if they're unsigned, SoundExchange doesn't have an option for not collecting royalties and as the only register EVERYONE is represented by them. I've wondered why someone hasn't started another non-profit registry for CC licensed music, since the framework which created SoundExchange allows for that. It would have to get approved by the Library of Congress, and there are a few requirements, but it's doable. Note that SoundExchange does offer an opt-out for Polka.
mod parent up
Perhaps doubters will find SoundExchange's own list of unpaid artists more convincing.
Tell me what is fraudulent about collecting royalties for public performance - 45% of which go straight to the featured artist.
5% to the session players.
50% to the sound recording copyright owner, which can be an Indie label or the artist himself.
Most artists don't get paid anything because they haven't bothered to register.
I concur
that's a good opportunity to educate the public.
Haven't tried git, because I have no complaints about svn. It looks to me like git will end up with more unintentional branches and merge operations, I like how for svn you have to be rather deliberate about it.
That's a keeper, thanks for sharing.
(but "old and busted"? seriously, I've have a mind to canesmack you)
Confluence is a mess, it organizes documents poorly and its search function sucks. Stuff gets lost there too easily, folders and files would be better. Atlassian's JIRA bug tracking software is pretty good though.
BTW: don't some very famous, large, geographically dispersed software projects get along just fine without weekly conference calls? Apache, GCC, and Linux come to mind.
I was wondering the same thing. I've worked in similar situations, and gone months without voice calls or facetime. Just email, IM, bugzilla, etc. worked ok for those projects.
I always enjoyed the dickless homunculis in my neuroanatomy books. A minor oversight! ;-)
In other news, outlawing abortions in Washington DC will balance the US budget in 2050!
ha! I look forward to the TV show, and suggest casting Sarah Palin (as herself) and Matt Stone.
ha! that never gets old
It looks like they decided to stop copying Apple indirectly by copying Windows, and start directly mimicking Apple's OS X. The universal search, the dock, and the integrated settings all look like OS X, without the fancy quartz graphics.
Yup, storing and streaming all of that music in massive redundancy is going to be very wasteful and expensive. It's also going to be rather inconvenient, and runs into the same problem local music libraries have, which is organizing the music, and getting bored with the songs you own. Without a convenient and free mechanism for music discovery, this service isn't going to amount to much more than a small value-added service to Amazon purchases. But it may crack the door open for others to deliver an efficient and convenient service.
That's some funny stuff
Raising fuel taxes fails to tax electric and hybrid vehicles appropriately. Raising registration fees would unfairly tax low-mileage drivers the same as high-mileage drivers. This GPS tracking system would be much more expensive to implement than raising gas or registration taxes, penalizes vehicles regardless of weight distribution, and raise privacy issues.
So working with these constraints; we want a system that will have minimum overhead and paperwork costs, is based on a vehicle's impact on the road, is not based on the type of fuel used, and doesn't infringe our basic Constitutional rights. Just base it on mileage and vehicle weight, which the DMV already has:
Annual Registration Mileage Fee = $Mileage_Tax_Coefficient * Miles_Driven_Last_Year * (Gross_Vehicular_Weight/Number_of_Axles)^4
where
$Mileage_Tax_Coefficient = Federal_Rate + State_Rate + County_Rate + City_Rate
Dropping the fuel tax would reduce overhead and paperwork, although perhaps that should be left alone to discourage gas use, kinda like cigarette taxes. :-) (unless my congressman doesn't read slashdot, or he really likes the idea of tracking my every move).
And efficient governance is achieved once again through the application of basic math!
+1 stating the obvious
Well, now I am. It's a good point really, with the great expense and effort large internet corporations are going through to build server farms capable of handling the load of their customers, that business model may be rendered obsolete by a smart small corporation which takes advantage of the bittorrent effect and delivers the same service for a fraction of the cost (to themselves). Something which could even be done with streams, which apparently the VODO firefox plugin does.
I think the acting is spot on for what they are trying to portray; people who only know artificial emotions (genetically manipulated or drug-induced). Looks very professional to me. Pacing is a bit slow, but I'll give it a shot.
Interesting. I'd mod you up if I could. I doubt many people here are actually arguing for the elimination of copyright, but let's consider that a bit more carefully. Software is the easier one to look at, because it's always a work in progress. There are improvements, upgrades, bug fixes, and compatibility updates to make. If Microsoft took my software and started selling it as their own and put me out of business, they'd be stuck with static buggy code and a lot of upset customers. Consumers would have a natural incentive to buy from the true author (me), because I'll keep it running and they'll get their improvements. For songwriters and composers, the absence of copyright would probably break that business model. But it would also open a world of possibilities, where mashups and samples could be freely applied as the artist desires, without having to negotiate or investigate the legality of each piece. It would create a world where we could watch babies dance to Prince songs, or sing "Happy Birthday" to our niece without having to first negotiate performance rights. It would be different than the current market model, but I doubt it would be the catastrophe you envision. It might even be kinda neat.