Something I have always wondered about the royalty one must pay on DATs, and if this dillweed had had his way, VCR tapes, is how something like this could happen. In the case of DATs, did congress pass a law or did the manufactures just decide to sign a contract with the RIAA?
Something that I would enjoy doing (if I had the resources) is start manufacturing DATs and selling them (even if I didn't make any money), and not pay the RIAA squat.
The way I see it, I would run into trouble if congress passed a law on this, but I have a VERY hard time thinking that that kind of tax would be legal (taxation without representation and it's a tax whose sole aim is to benefit a corporation?) However, if the manufactures where forced into a contract to get the physical specs of the cassette, I would be completely within my rights to buy a DAT player and reverse engineer it to make a compatible product. I just couldn't use the official logo for a DAT. Can someone inlighten me on this?
Also, here is my favorite analogy on the subject: Paying the 'RIAA tax' would be like being forced to spend a year in jail before you could buy a gun because you might use it to commit a murder. Nevermind the fact that the gun has many legitimate uses such as defending your self, a movie prop, hunting, target shooting, etc.
I have allways wondered why patents last for 20 years (that time has never been increased) but copyrights have been pushed to 95 years. I know that the term extentions have been bought by the IP industries). I definatly don't think patents should be extended, even though I am wouking on some nice inventions that could be profitable. I aggree with the 20 year term for patents and I would like to see copyright cut to 30 or 40 years.
Damn right! And here is another fun fact: Congress has never declared war on anybody. Bush did that all by himself, even though he has no athority to do so.
If it's too light, open the sucker up and hotglue or epoxy some chunks of lead inside. You will need a weird 3-pronged driver to remove the screws, other than that, it would be quite easy.
The real title if the bill is
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism = USA PATRIOT ACT
I'm sure that acronym was *Cough* totally accidental *Cough* so techincly the bill's name does reflect what it does (I won't get into weather or not the new government powers will accualy prevent terrorism). I definitely agree with the post by Dutchmaan about bills having numbers instead of names.
Would this same problem happen if the Guardian printed a paper in the UK and someone in that ass-baskwards country had it delivered to them? Either way the whole thing is BS and it seems that Zimbabwe might have something to hide.
The only way the cable companies could do this is by sitting outside your house with binoculars watching your TV and if they have a small TV in the van with a feed from the cable line, they could see if you are watching the same channel. Then they could look at your account profile to see if you are watching a channel that you shouldn't be. The problem with this is that you need to be watching an illegal channel at the time they are outside your house. One could then call the police on thair ass and take them to court for peeping.:) The only other way I can think of is to point a camera at your window shades at night or somewhere that it could grab the average light coming from a room with a TV. Then just compare that with some channel after running it through some basic algrothams.
This artical should be from the take-the-electrical-tape-off-the-VCR-and-put-it-on -the-cellphone dept.
But seriously, I think that the world has too many dolts with video cameras walking around allready. I have a feeling that a system like this would be abused. I assume that the raw data would be sent back to a few central servers in the bacement of the telcos and processed there. What's to prevent them from keeping a record of the matches alond side a time code and of corse the cell site. I see the posibilities of tracking people who might chose not to cary a cellphone specificly to avoid tracking. And yes I relize that there are cameras all over the place allready, but they are not ALL linked together.
I always thought thoes things worked on corona discharge. (Basically, corona discharge is what happens right before you get a spark. When the voltage quite literally pushes electrons off the (-)end of a wire. You can get it to do work.) It's way past my bed time but I think the Biefeld-Brown Effect that the lifters use is due to the time delay and the charge imbalance that the delay creates between the two plates. I came up with this from this pic.
As far as the electrogravatics, I don't have any URLs handy for that one, but I believe it has to do with exploiting the connection between electricity and gravity. People are working on this because of the unified field theory that brings together the different forces like electritcy, magnitizam, gravity, and acceleration. The link between electritcy and magnitizam is already apparent and we exploit it (motors, solonids, maglev trains). This has now become known as the electro-weak force and gravity is due to the strong force. The strong and weak forces are what hold the nucleus of atoms together. And I think that it's the 6 flavors of quarks that form the forces.
(Please forgive me if I got the physics on this wrong, I am quite tired.)
"I still cannot figure out how he says storing data on DRAM is cheaper than storing it on hard-disks. Maybe, if you buy in bulk?"
I would think that using solid state memory would save money over hard disks because of the cost of electricity and cooling. Those mp3 players can run for like 10 hours on a SINGLE "AA", but most hard-drive based players kill batteries faster then you can recharge them.
Here is my rant:
I think that pay-per-use (and subscription) is a big fqat cop-out by the people that write the software. And I think that eventualy people will be less likely develope new and better software because they lose the financial motivatiion.
Let's say you write a program like Zone Alarm that people will use all the time. Let's also say that you charge $20 a copy. You will probably sell a ton of units and you end up making $1 million. You could live off that profit for a while, but eventualy the money would decrese and you might have a finantial insentive to write version 2 of your software and you would include new features that would give consumers an insentive to upgrade and pay you another $20 for the new program. This is good for the consumers because programers would want keep makeing money.
In the subscription model, one could write a program and if it's a good and robust program it could be "in service" for a long time. (I've been using the same copy of Win98 for 3 years, and I don't plan on upgrading for a long time). M$ would have to come up with something with enough cool new fetures before I would pay them any more money.* The point is that I am not paying the software developers any money. But what if I had to send them $50/year to keep using it. They would keep earning money weather they developed new stuff or not.
*I am not trolling for a shouting match over the marits of Win98 v. Win2000 v. WinXP v. WinNT v. MacOS v. Linux. And yes I AM considering moving to a different OS.
I have them on WinMX. I wasn't able to get For the Birds, sorry, search for SLASHDOT_02-11-01 to find them. If someone eles wants to help out see my comment yesterday.
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Something I have always wondered about the royalty one must pay on DATs, and if this dillweed had had his way, VCR tapes, is how something like this could happen. In the case of DATs, did congress pass a law or did the manufactures just decide to sign a contract with the RIAA?
Something that I would enjoy doing (if I had the resources) is start manufacturing DATs and selling them (even if I didn't make any money), and not pay the RIAA squat.
The way I see it, I would run into trouble if congress passed a law on this, but I have a VERY hard time thinking that that kind of tax would be legal (taxation without representation and it's a tax whose sole aim is to benefit a corporation?) However, if the manufactures where forced into a contract to get the physical specs of the cassette, I would be completely within my rights to buy a DAT player and reverse engineer it to make a compatible product. I just couldn't use the official logo for a DAT.
Can someone inlighten me on this?
Also, here is my favorite analogy on the subject:
Paying the 'RIAA tax' would be like being forced to spend a year in jail before you could buy a gun because you might use it to commit a murder. Nevermind the fact that the gun has many legitimate uses such as defending your self, a movie prop, hunting, target shooting, etc.
The lawyer might be looking for a position in the state government. If he pulls this off, I bet the legistators will be lining up to suck his dick.
I dought it. Can my sysadmin sue a host if I surf to a site and turns out to suck? Or can i sue CmdrTaco because somebody's post wasn't insightful?
Oh crap, does that mean my peins is a circumvention device?
You are aware that the road, inwhich a reader could be inbeded, is less than 12 inches away from your tire?
I have allways wondered why patents last for 20 years (that time has never been increased) but copyrights have been pushed to 95 years. I know that the term extentions have been bought by the IP industries). I definatly don't think patents should be extended, even though I am wouking on some nice inventions that could be profitable. I aggree with the 20 year term for patents and I would like to see copyright cut to 30 or 40 years.
Damn right!
And here is another fun fact: Congress has never declared war on anybody. Bush did that all by himself, even though he has no athority to do so.
If it's too light, open the sucker up and hotglue or epoxy some chunks of lead inside. You will need a weird 3-pronged driver to remove the screws, other than that, it would be quite easy.
The real title if the bill is
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism = USA PATRIOT ACT
I'm sure that acronym was *Cough* totally accidental *Cough* so techincly the bill's name does reflect what it does (I won't get into weather or not the new government powers will accualy prevent terrorism). I definitely agree with the post by Dutchmaan about bills having numbers instead of names.
Film stock can simply cut (with a razor blade) and taped back together at specific frames to cut out scenes. It's old school, but it works.
I don't want a talking dog, how about something cuter like a talking bird?
or UNITED STATES CITIZENS of Japanese decent in world war 2?
All I do is NOT share my incoming folder then the files are moved to a shared folder after I verify them.
Would this same problem happen if the Guardian printed a paper in the UK and someone in that ass-baskwards country had it delivered to them? Either way the whole thing is BS and it seems that Zimbabwe might have something to hide.
The only way the cable companies could do this is by sitting outside your house with binoculars watching your TV and if they have a small TV in the van with a feed from the cable line, they could see if you are watching the same channel. Then they could look at your account profile to see if you are watching a channel that you shouldn't be. The problem with this is that you need to be watching an illegal channel at the time they are outside your house. One could then call the police on thair ass and take them to court for peeping. :)
The only other way I can think of is to point a camera at your window shades at night or somewhere that it could grab the average light coming from a room with a TV. Then just compare that with some channel after running it through some basic algrothams.
This artical should be from the take-the-electrical-tape-off-the-VCR-and-put-it-on -the-cellphone dept.
But seriously, I think that the world has too many dolts with video cameras walking around allready. I have a feeling that a system like this would be abused. I assume that the raw data would be sent back to a few central servers in the bacement of the telcos and processed there. What's to prevent them from keeping a record of the matches alond side a time code and of corse the cell site. I see the posibilities of tracking people who might chose not to cary a cellphone specificly to avoid tracking. And yes I relize that there are cameras all over the place allready, but they are not ALL linked together.
I always thought thoes things worked on corona discharge. (Basically, corona discharge is what happens right before you get a spark. When the voltage quite literally pushes electrons off the (-)end of a wire. You can get it to do work.) It's way past my bed time but I think the Biefeld-Brown Effect that the lifters use is due to the time delay and the charge imbalance that the delay creates between the two plates. I came up with this from this pic.
As far as the electrogravatics, I don't have any URLs handy for that one, but I believe it has to do with exploiting the connection between electricity and gravity. People are working on this because of the unified field theory that brings together the different forces like electritcy, magnitizam, gravity, and acceleration. The link between electritcy and magnitizam is already apparent and we exploit it (motors, solonids, maglev trains). This has now become known as the electro-weak force and gravity is due to the strong force. The strong and weak forces are what hold the nucleus of atoms together. And I think that it's the 6 flavors of quarks that form the forces.
(Please forgive me if I got the physics on this wrong, I am quite tired.)
for Operation Foot Bullet.)
(http://www.xenu.net/archive/footbullet/
<Nelson Munts>HA-Ha</Nelson Munts>
I would think that using solid state memory would save money over hard disks because of the cost of electricity and cooling. Those mp3 players can run for like 10 hours on a SINGLE "AA", but most hard-drive based players kill batteries faster then you can recharge them.
Let's say you write a program like Zone Alarm that people will use all the time. Let's also say that you charge $20 a copy. You will probably sell a ton of units and you end up making $1 million. You could live off that profit for a while, but eventualy the money would decrese and you might have a finantial insentive to write version 2 of your software and you would include new features that would give consumers an insentive to upgrade and pay you another $20 for the new program. This is good for the consumers because programers would want keep makeing money.
In the subscription model, one could write a program and if it's a good and robust program it could be "in service" for a long time. (I've been using the same copy of Win98 for 3 years, and I don't plan on upgrading for a long time). M$ would have to come up with something with enough cool new fetures before I would pay them any more money.* The point is that I am not paying the software developers any money. But what if I had to send them $50/year to keep using it. They would keep earning money weather they developed new stuff or not.
*I am not trolling for a shouting match over the marits of Win98 v. Win2000 v. WinXP v. WinNT v. MacOS v. Linux. And yes I AM considering moving to a different OS.
Remember this, if I was to write a virus .net seems like a nice vector.
Search WinMX for "Vendetta_Part_2" and you will find me. (/.ers get priorety)
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I have them on WinMX. I wasn't able to get For the Birds, sorry, search for SLASHDOT_02-11-01 to find them. If someone eles wants to help out see my comment yesterday.