What about the scenario of the independent content producer who is not able to pay large bandwidth fees? The great thing about the pricing structure of the 'net has been distributing text and images is cost effective for independents/ hobbyists / amateurs. That is not the case with large multimedia files.
That's part of the point of the overall lawsuit. The government management of the trust fund has been abysmal for its entire live, ie 100 years or so. For instance, various Secretaries of the Interior have been held in contempt of court for not fixing problems in record storage, problems like having them eaten by rats and covered in feces. So, the heart of the problem is not technology, its DOI willingness to manage Native American assets competently.
Flash ads got you down? Sounds like you need the Adblock plugin for Mozilla. Allows you to block flash, images, javascript, iframes, etc with regular expressions. I used privoxy before but having to edit text files everytime I wanted to block something sucked, adblock is integrated into the browser so it only takes a click or two.
What does the fact that they are Indian have to do with whether or not they read from a script? The Salon article demonstrates pretty well that the US has plenty of underinformed support drones that will do whatever they are instructed to do for money.
The recommendation if adopted by Congress will allow thousands of LPFM stations instead of the current hundreds. Now there are no slots for LPFMs in any of the top 50 markets, under the recommendation there would be some but as you point out not many. Proposed stations in major markets are also likely to be challenged.
Even an expanded LPFM service is only crumbs. Independently funded support for public media is what's really needed. That's why the CBC, BBC and all the various public broadcasting services in Europe put PBS/NPR to shame.
There is an LPFM service, Congress just scaled it back after being purchased by the commercial broadcasters. The result if no LPFM's in any of the top 50 markets and hundreds of stations instead of thousands.
You can play music and get a ASCAP/BMI rights for a few hundred dollars. There is a requirement of having a certain number of hours of original locally produced content per week.
There is a LPFM service established a few years ago. However, Congress cut by around 75 percent the number of stations by mandating a stronger interference threshold than the FCC said was necessary. The recent report issued by the FCC says it studied the issue in more depth and it was right the first time, interference from existing stations is so small as to be laughable.
The article doesn't mention that this would allow thousands of these low power stations to go on the air as opposed to the hundreds under the current guidelines. The findings were exactly what the FCC originally recommended but the commercial broadcasters purchased a Congressional override (with NPR's support).
For this to pass pressure will have to be put on Congress. Its only a recommendation from the FCC, Congress will have to pass legislation to recind their original overriding of the FCC. The Senate will probably be ok, McCain is chairman of the Commerce Committee that has purview.
The house is more of a problem. Billy Tauzin from Louisana, chairman of the Commerce Committee, is one of the most corrupt industry shills you'll ever come across, the MPAA wanted him as their replacement for Valenti. Also, if you live in Michigan, the ranking Democrat on that Committee, John Dingell, was against LPFM last time, he needs to hear from you.
Please let your Congress critters know how you feel about this. Its one of the most blatant examples of big corporations stomping the little guy. Media consolidation and the state of radio has been in the news, so there's a small window of opportunity to put thousands of neighborhood radio stations on the air if you contact Congress.
I got the book for Christmas, I read about half of it while traveling and didn't even bother finishing it. The tech was annoying and all the plot devices were as subtle as hitting someone over the head with a hammer.
It does sound like the guy is young and gotten better since this book, I've been wondering whether or not to give Code a read.
The majors are resistant to MPeg4 because since it is cheaper, uses smaller files and is easier to manipulate, the risk of piracy is seen as greater. For the time being, KinoCast machines will only be able to project independent and Brazilian movies, where there is less fear of piracy.
I was introduced to the 'net in a university, back before Netscape and popup ads. I sat around in a lab of computer geeks, we all procrastinated together and helped each other learn about how to be good netizens.
Now the vast majority of people are introduced to the Internet they see AOL, MSN or whatever corporation has paid for placement on their start screen. They barely understand email and they can only navigate a web browser by the links laid out for them. They don't understand that the 'net can be a medium of social empowerment.
Check out a movie called "Spin". Its available for free download in DVD, VCD and Real.
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
CC does not let you know *who* is asserting that a work falls under a particular license. How do you know if that Britney Spears mp3 is really in the public domain as the embedded CC metadata asserts?
Probably there needs to be some sort of online rights clearing house along with some sort of PKI infrastructure.
Talk to Prometheus Radio. They help LPFM's get setup, they've done several "barnraisings" now that help the new community stations in everything from software, to RF engineering, to how to do community news.
A few volunteers associated with that project have developed some software called Flow STL, which manages the link between the studio and the transmitter.
I wonder how much variation there will be in each team's ability to optimize the boxes, ie, which team is the better tweaker. Maybe this will be more of a determining factor in the outcome than the distro or OS used.
"Radio First Termer" was the name of a pirate radio station run by an anonymous DJ in South Vietnam during the war. "David Rabbit" was pretty raw and raunchy but he did quite a few public service announcements, things like there's some bad heroin going around and the MPs are going to bust such and such bar.
I came across it in '96, on the venerable ibiblio.org (then sunsite). Its one of the best things I've found on the 'net and its still there.
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What about the scenario of the independent content producer who is not able to pay large bandwidth fees? The great thing about the pricing structure of the 'net has been distributing text and images is cost effective for independents/ hobbyists / amateurs. That is not the case with large multimedia files.
That's part of the point of the overall lawsuit. The government management of the trust fund has been abysmal for its entire live, ie 100 years or so. For instance, various Secretaries of the Interior have been held in contempt of court for not fixing problems in record storage, problems like having them eaten by rats and covered in feces. So, the heart of the problem is not technology, its DOI willingness to manage Native American assets competently.
Dish has Free Speech TV. Probably most of interest to progressive leftists it has programming that you can't find carried anywhere else.
Flash ads got you down? Sounds like you need the Adblock plugin for Mozilla. Allows you to block flash, images, javascript, iframes, etc with regular expressions. I used privoxy before but having to edit text files everytime I wanted to block something sucked, adblock is integrated into the browser so it only takes a click or two.
The problem is getting the mac address back through to a central authorization server.
Relying on MAC addresses is not secure. VPN, 802.1x, and NoCat are better.
What does the fact that they are Indian have to do with whether or not they read from a script? The Salon article demonstrates pretty well that the US has plenty of underinformed support drones that will do whatever they are instructed to do for money.
You pay ASCAP / BMI for broadcast rights not RIAA. They have a lowish rate of a few hundred dollars that LPFMs fit into.
You are mistaken on several fronts here:
- you pay ASCAP / BMI for broadcast rights, RIAA if you want to sell copies
- non profit broadcast radio stations are not exempt from paying ASCAP / BMI, though the rate is lower
- non profit internet radio pays RIAA a reduced rate from commercial stations
The recommendation if adopted by Congress will allow thousands of LPFM stations instead of the current hundreds. Now there are no slots for LPFMs in any of the top 50 markets, under the recommendation there would be some but as you point out not many. Proposed stations in major markets are also likely to be challenged.
Even an expanded LPFM service is only crumbs. Independently funded support for public media is what's really needed. That's why the CBC, BBC and all the various public broadcasting services in Europe put PBS/NPR to shame.
There is an LPFM service, Congress just scaled it back after being purchased by the commercial broadcasters. The result if no LPFM's in any of the top 50 markets and hundreds of stations instead of thousands.
You can play music and get a ASCAP/BMI rights for a few hundred dollars. There is a requirement of having a certain number of hours of original locally produced content per week.
RTFA
There is a LPFM service established a few years ago. However, Congress cut by around 75 percent the number of stations by mandating a stronger interference threshold than the FCC said was necessary. The recent report issued by the FCC says it studied the issue in more depth and it was right the first time, interference from existing stations is so small as to be laughable.
The article doesn't mention that this would allow thousands of these low power stations to go on the air as opposed to the hundreds under the current guidelines. The findings were exactly what the FCC originally recommended but the commercial broadcasters purchased a Congressional override (with NPR's support).
For this to pass pressure will have to be put on Congress. Its only a recommendation from the FCC, Congress will have to pass legislation to recind their original overriding of the FCC. The Senate will probably be ok, McCain is chairman of the Commerce Committee that has purview.
The house is more of a problem. Billy Tauzin from Louisana, chairman of the Commerce Committee, is one of the most corrupt industry shills you'll ever come across, the MPAA wanted him as their replacement for Valenti. Also, if you live in Michigan, the ranking Democrat on that Committee, John Dingell, was against LPFM last time, he needs to hear from you.
Please let your Congress critters know how you feel about this. Its one of the most blatant examples of big corporations stomping the little guy. Media consolidation and the state of radio has been in the news, so there's a small window of opportunity to put thousands of neighborhood radio stations on the air if you contact Congress.
I got the book for Christmas, I read about half of it while traveling and didn't even bother finishing it. The tech was annoying and all the plot devices were as subtle as hitting someone over the head with a hammer.
It does sound like the guy is young and gotten better since this book, I've been wondering whether or not to give Code a read.
... freenet.
Read The Fine Article:
The majors are resistant to MPeg4 because since it is cheaper, uses smaller files and is easier to manipulate, the risk of piracy is seen as greater. For the time being, KinoCast machines will only be able to project independent and Brazilian movies, where there is less fear of piracy.
Let's just hope this company has someone on board that knows, unlike you, that a 32 bit OS does not mean a 32 bit filesystem address space.
I was introduced to the 'net in a university, back before Netscape and popup ads. I sat around in a lab of computer geeks, we all procrastinated together and helped each other learn about how to be good netizens.
Now the vast majority of people are introduced to the Internet they see AOL, MSN or whatever corporation has paid for placement on their start screen. They barely understand email and they can only navigate a web browser by the links laid out for them. They don't understand that the 'net can be a medium of social empowerment.
Its frightening.
Check out a movie called "Spin". Its available for free download in DVD, VCD and Real.
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
CC does not let you know *who* is asserting that a work falls under a particular license. How do you know if that Britney Spears mp3 is really in the public domain as the embedded CC metadata asserts?
Probably there needs to be some sort of online rights clearing house along with some sort of PKI infrastructure.
Talk to Prometheus Radio. They help LPFM's get setup, they've done several "barnraisings" now that help the new community stations in everything from software, to RF engineering, to how to do community news.
A few volunteers associated with that project have developed some software called Flow STL, which manages the link between the studio and the transmitter.
I wonder how much variation there will be in each team's ability to optimize the boxes, ie, which team is the better tweaker. Maybe this will be more of a determining factor in the outcome than the distro or OS used.
A boot up test tells me zero about the overall performance improvements in the kernel.
Shoutcast and Icecast have two big drawbacks:
-TCP only
-do not allow for seeking within an on-demand stream.
That's the second rule of war. The first rule of war is that innocent people die.
"Radio First Termer" was the name of a pirate radio station run by an anonymous DJ in South Vietnam during the war. "David Rabbit" was pretty raw and raunchy but he did quite a few public service announcements, things like there's some bad heroin going around and the MPs are going to bust such and such bar.
I came across it in '96, on the venerable ibiblio.org (then sunsite). Its one of the best things I've found on the 'net and its still there.
It was actually mp2's but who's counting.