It sounds to me like our biggest problems are with the legalware, not the software. Maybe if multimedia wasn't so bound up and encumbered by red tape we'd see better support.
At its heart this is really a conflict of interest between those who want to empower the user and those who want to dictate how sie you can use hir own media. As long as we are beholden to media created by fascist corporations, we will be subject to dealing with their bullshit.
You can't legislate that kind of pedantry, if you don't like a company because they don't release their spec then don't buy their products. Let the market decide just how important it is for specifications to be public.
Right but in those cases you are confined to a relatively small area in order to accomplish your dark purpose. In the case of a Metropolitan Area Network you don't even have to leave your house / apartment. Who wants to bet this will become the most popular way to introduce new worms into the wild, or initiate botnet DDoS attacks?
I've often wondered about the state of p2p on these networks. Are they largely anonymous? What's to keep me from buying a pcmcia wireless nic and then use it to do all kinds of illegal activity like download child porn, break into government computers, run botnets, upload viruses or even (shock, horror) download mp3s off Kazaa? After committing my crime I could throw the NIC away and have nothing to tie me to the crime. Even worse you can spoof your own random MAC on some Linksys NICs, so you can keep doing it again and again without buying new hardware. Is there some kind of mechanism to prevent this?
First, you aren't really sharing your credit card information with Russia proper, all bill payment goes through ChronoPay, a well established international transaction agency.
Second, as for paying the artists, the day they provide me with a reasonable alternative is the day I'll stop using allofmp3.com. Let them give me an option where I can download their music, without DRM, using a trusted payment service, and I'll gladly fork over a buck a song or more.
People who leech off p2p services without sharing out what they downloaded are the scum of the Internet. Oh you're pefectly willing to take advantage of the risks other people are taking, but won't help anyone else out? If everyone had that mentality then the RIAA would have already won.
If you do find the occasional pop chart hit to be enjoyable however, allofmp3.com has them un-DRMed and at very reasonable prices. Oh I agree, the indy stuff tends to be much better, but there is no need to be a musical elitist. It's okay to admit that 1 out of 5 of Britney Spear's songs are catchy and kind of fun to listen to. We won't judge you too harshly.
But they are a legitimate distributer. The parent company, MediaServices, does pay license fees for all material, which they are authorized to then rebroadcast. As long as you are using it for personal use and not rebroadcasting it yourself (same as with a CD you buy in the store), you are covered. IANAL.
With Google branching into so many fields, one day you'll drive your Google to the Goggle to buy some Goggle to eat while you watch Google on your Google.
I'm really kind of sorry to hear Google isn't making a browser. If they went ahead and made a Google-branded and oriented Gecko based browser (think Mozilla suite but replace Thunderbird with gmail, etc.) I think it'd add some more variety into the browser market, and also give Gecko-based browsers another head-up on proprietary solutions.
Granted I'd personally probably not use it over Firefox, but it'd be a nice semi-commercial, end-user target, corporate-driven alternative for the everyday Joe. Integration of information processing is becoming a big deal, and a single Google-branded suite that somehow managed to provide a single interface to all of Google's many services (search, news, mail, shopping, dmoz, etc.) would doubtless be highly successful.
And the funny thing is, not being a subscriber, when I click on the "Read More..." button, I see a big ad "Are you ready? HL2" on the side, and I'm thinking to myself, yeah I'm ready, my computer's ready, Valve and VU games are the only ones not ready... c'mon people!
I dunno, I always thought of computers and people with their covers removed as simply being 'in the nude', and it's not actually 'ponr' per se, unless of course the subject is turned on at the time.
This leads to the dubious example of situations in which the subject is likely not actually turned on, but made to appear so in order to increase the appeal of the picture.
Granted the line between nudity and porn is a thin one, and in America one might construe mere nudity as porn, but in more progressive nations actual Software EXchange has to be taking place to be classified as pornographic.
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Lucas's revisionist history really does bother me as a geek. While I agree some of the added scenes do add to the movies, some of them are simply unacceptable. Greedo shooting first for example.
If they were offering the original movies on DVD, I'd jump at it. I don't know how I feel about this revisionist version, but it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
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It sounds to me like our biggest problems are with the legalware, not the software. Maybe if multimedia wasn't so bound up and encumbered by red tape we'd see better support.
At its heart this is really a conflict of interest between those who want to empower the user and those who want to dictate how sie you can use hir own media. As long as we are beholden to media created by fascist corporations, we will be subject to dealing with their bullshit.
You can't legislate that kind of pedantry, if you don't like a company because they don't release their spec then don't buy their products. Let the market decide just how important it is for specifications to be public.
Right but in those cases you are confined to a relatively small area in order to accomplish your dark purpose. In the case of a Metropolitan Area Network you don't even have to leave your house / apartment. Who wants to bet this will become the most popular way to introduce new worms into the wild, or initiate botnet DDoS attacks?
I've often wondered about the state of p2p on these networks. Are they largely anonymous? What's to keep me from buying a pcmcia wireless nic and then use it to do all kinds of illegal activity like download child porn, break into government computers, run botnets, upload viruses or even (shock, horror) download mp3s off Kazaa? After committing my crime I could throw the NIC away and have nothing to tie me to the crime. Even worse you can spoof your own random MAC on some Linksys NICs, so you can keep doing it again and again without buying new hardware. Is there some kind of mechanism to prevent this?
First, you aren't really sharing your credit card information with Russia proper, all bill payment goes through ChronoPay, a well established international transaction agency.
Second, as for paying the artists, the day they provide me with a reasonable alternative is the day I'll stop using allofmp3.com. Let them give me an option where I can download their music, without DRM, using a trusted payment service, and I'll gladly fork over a buck a song or more.
People who leech off p2p services without sharing out what they downloaded are the scum of the Internet. Oh you're pefectly willing to take advantage of the risks other people are taking, but won't help anyone else out? If everyone had that mentality then the RIAA would have already won.
If you do find the occasional pop chart hit to be enjoyable however, allofmp3.com has them un-DRMed and at very reasonable prices. Oh I agree, the indy stuff tends to be much better, but there is no need to be a musical elitist. It's okay to admit that 1 out of 5 of Britney Spear's songs are catchy and kind of fun to listen to. We won't judge you too harshly.
>something else to play "Final Fantasy XVI" on - or
>hopefully "Zelda: Twilight Princess" by then
Or hell maybe even Duke Nukem Forever. Wait, am I being too optimistic?
Ah, no, no it shouldn't.
Sure, here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html
Oh-ho, the Bush bashers get modded +5 funny and the Clinton bashers get -1 offtopic. And they say ./ isn't partisan.
But they are a legitimate distributer. The parent company, MediaServices, does pay license fees for all material, which they are authorized to then rebroadcast. As long as you are using it for personal use and not rebroadcasting it yourself (same as with a CD you buy in the store), you are covered. IANAL.
But the point is, it's NOT illegal right now, so until that's the case, we're good to go.
I'm constantly surprised how many people DON'T know about allofmp3.com. For me, it is simply the only legal option.
Link please?
Um, IDSPISPOPD.
And yeah, I didn't even have to look that up.
Try a CGI Proxy w/ SSL. Very few companies block SSL, as it is required for banking and online shopping.
It's not even 1 April, I'm so confused!
With Google branching into so many fields, one day you'll drive your Google to the Goggle to buy some Goggle to eat while you watch Google on your Google.
I'm serious. Please do not mod funny.
I'm really kind of sorry to hear Google isn't making a browser. If they went ahead and made a Google-branded and oriented Gecko based browser (think Mozilla suite but replace Thunderbird with gmail, etc.) I think it'd add some more variety into the browser market, and also give Gecko-based browsers another head-up on proprietary solutions.
Granted I'd personally probably not use it over Firefox, but it'd be a nice semi-commercial, end-user target, corporate-driven alternative for the everyday Joe. Integration of information processing is becoming a big deal, and a single Google-branded suite that somehow managed to provide a single interface to all of Google's many services (search, news, mail, shopping, dmoz, etc.) would doubtless be highly successful.
And the funny thing is, not being a subscriber, when I click on the "Read More..." button, I see a big ad "Are you ready? HL2" on the side, and I'm thinking to myself, yeah I'm ready, my computer's ready, Valve and VU games are the only ones not ready... c'mon people!
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Subject: No Subject
Date: PDPT
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Do you remember?
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I dunno, I always thought of computers and people with their covers removed as simply being 'in the nude', and it's not actually 'ponr' per se, unless of course the subject is turned on at the time.
This leads to the dubious example of situations in which the subject is likely not actually turned on, but made to appear so in order to increase the appeal of the picture.
Granted the line between nudity and porn is a thin one, and in America one might construe mere nudity as porn, but in more progressive nations actual Software EXchange has to be taking place to be classified as pornographic.
What? Pay for media? You must be new here.
And me without mod points...
Lucas's revisionist history really does bother me as a geek. While I agree some of the added scenes do add to the movies, some of them are simply unacceptable. Greedo shooting first for example.
If they were offering the original movies on DVD, I'd jump at it. I don't know how I feel about this revisionist version, but it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.