I agree. Where there's some sort of network, there's always some sort of intrusion possible. What if the enemy manages to 'spoof' a trusted plane? What happens then? Or what happens if the enemy manages to reverse the signal of a friendly ground base? It would be pretty bad to reverse the signal of the air tower. All of the automated planes blow it up and then fall from the sky.
"A method of using computational devices with physical, human readable storage, to create and display on a (patent pending) forumlated grain pulp which, when handled properly, is entered into a database of protected ideas which may not be used without expressed permission and may necessitate royalties."
I say someone needs to patent the method of submitting a patent. That way, when anyone submits any stupid patents, we can sue the morons.
Well then, I suppose if I find some way to collect all of my works, that would be a database.
If a University decides to have its student's works collected before going out, that would be a database as well.
I'm pretty sure that this already goes on to some extent (at least with.edu's). So then if this database protection law goes into effect, wouldn't our good friends at Contentville have broken their own law?
It seems that if there is something that has not yet been tapped by some corporate source, and it is on the grassroots level (coders, geeks, and the like), then it must have some value in marketing. Since when has DCC and FTP been about marketing? Unless you consider 'selling' the 'name' of Razor1911 or Utopia being about marketing, never.
So, all of a sudden, something that wasn't invented in the 70's and can have a keen acronym (Oooh, let's go from B2C and B2C to P2P!) becomes a new paradigm for marketing!
It all reeks of greed to me.
What about technology for technology's sake? Wait, that doesn't have a place in the Marketeer's Internet. What's happening is that the same Marketeers who wanted some bucks out of the startup phenomenon (invented by geeks) ended up creating the dotCrash. Sites that used to have pure information have become disgusting monstrosities with hot flashing animated java-enabled banners that auto reload the browser every 30 seconds.
And now, the Marketeers have finally understood that their annoying auto-reload hot flashing java-enabled banner ads don't get clicked on. So, they want to have it so we'll either have to wait for the content we want (remember annoying shareware? 10 second countdown to click on 'OK' to get to the goods?), or it'll switch to banner ads every 30 seconds.
If these Marketeers have their way, the Internet is going to turn into the big section of ads that gets thrown away with the Sunday paper.
People want file sharing to get what they want now. They don't want to have to click through ads or go through the load 'Click on this ad, take the first letter of blah blah blah' to get pr0n or warez.
Which, as an avid user of Napster in the past, it's exactly what it's like. Money isn't the issue. I want what I want now. I might share files, I might not. But I want this song now and I don't want to have to go to a store and get it, or go online and wait for it to be delivered. I want it now.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for the chaos that ensues. It livens things up a little, and brings out the true nature of the parties involved (who would've guessed the MPAA, RIAA, Metallica, et al. were THAT greedy). The thing is, you try and take a transport method or abstract and tack on ads and sell things to people.
Maybe it all isn't about buying. It isn't about the abstract method, either. It's about the information that gets passed over the method. I want the song. I want the warez. I want the pr0n. The method is ignored, and that is the way it should be. File sharing isn't a new thing. But Marketeers hear a buzzword and sell it to other Marketeers which are blindly driving the industry to Core Meltdown.
I don't watch TV. Too many ads. I don't visit sites with plethoras of banner ads -- its disgusting. So much for Tom's Hardware, it used to be nice. Opera was very promising, and I was impressed at what it could do. Wait, version 5 has that nice ad. I understand that people need to make a living off of a webpage or off of a business, but I don't think ads are the answer. Ads end up turning people OFF of something, and people learn to tune them out. Isn't the whole point of advertising to turn people on to a product? And the whole product gets thrown away like the Sunday paper.
I'm glad Marketeers can't understand the acronym that the tech savvy are best at home with: RFC. Else there would be space set aside for a hot flashing java-enabled ActiveX animated banner ad. And probably space for a 'You've got mail!' bit, as well.
From my experiences in High School and a little time in College, it seems that there are three kinds of jocks:
1) Druggie jocks. The ones who don't mind getting stoned every now and again. These jocks are relatively harmless and are laid back and are easy to talk to, relatively speaking.
2) Drunkard jocks. These are the violent ones who are the assholes of them all. They can be OK at times, but usually they're the ones that cause trouble, thinking that they own the world.
3) "Normal" or "Geeky" jocks. The rarity, I've seen jocks involved in D&D or CompSci, which can be odd, especially when you talk to them and find out they're missing practice to write a program. How DIFFERENT.
I don't react violently, I had my bad days in middle and high school. Sometimes I'd come home and wring my pillow like it was someone's neck. I can feel the rage consuming me, and it's like the rage controls ME, instead of ME controlling the rage. So I gave up physical prospects of revenge, and stick to mental/technological revenge. Nothing like making your agressor realize that he's useless, and won't get anywhere in life. And deleting that term paper helps too;)
"Windows has detected the following resident program is not needed: COMMAND.COM. Do you wish to unload this before loading windows? (Y/N)" - Actual error message, God bless `em!
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I agree. Where there's some sort of network, there's always some sort of intrusion possible. What if the enemy manages to 'spoof' a trusted plane? What happens then? Or what happens if the enemy manages to reverse the signal of a friendly ground base? It would be pretty bad to reverse the signal of the air tower. All of the automated planes blow it up and then fall from the sky.
"A method of using computational devices with physical, human readable storage, to create and display on a (patent pending) forumlated grain pulp which, when handled properly, is entered into a database of protected ideas which may not be used without expressed permission and may necessitate royalties."
I say someone needs to patent the method of submitting a patent. That way, when anyone submits any stupid patents, we can sue the morons.
Well then, I suppose if I find some way to collect all of my works, that would be a database.
.edu's). So then if this database protection law goes into effect, wouldn't our good friends at Contentville have broken their own law?
If a University decides to have its student's works collected before going out, that would be a database as well.
I'm pretty sure that this already goes on to some extent (at least with
Of course, it's after the fact.
And, the ubiquitous IANAL =)
Try Alternative Tentacles. They do Dead Kennedys and the like :)
It seems that if there is something that has not yet been tapped by some corporate source, and it is on the grassroots level (coders, geeks, and the like), then it must have some value in marketing. Since when has DCC and FTP been about marketing? Unless you consider 'selling' the 'name' of Razor1911 or Utopia being about marketing, never.
So, all of a sudden, something that wasn't invented in the 70's and can have a keen acronym (Oooh, let's go from B2C and B2C to P2P!) becomes a new paradigm for marketing!
It all reeks of greed to me.
What about technology for technology's sake? Wait, that doesn't have a place in the Marketeer's Internet. What's happening is that the same Marketeers who wanted some bucks out of the startup phenomenon (invented by geeks) ended up creating the dotCrash. Sites that used to have pure information have become disgusting monstrosities with hot flashing animated java-enabled banners that auto reload the browser every 30 seconds.
And now, the Marketeers have finally understood that their annoying auto-reload hot flashing java-enabled banner ads don't get clicked on. So, they want to have it so we'll either have to wait for the content we want (remember annoying shareware? 10 second countdown to click on 'OK' to get to the goods?), or it'll switch to banner ads every 30 seconds.
If these Marketeers have their way, the Internet is going to turn into the big section of ads that gets thrown away with the Sunday paper.
People want file sharing to get what they want now. They don't want to have to click through ads or go through the load 'Click on this ad, take the first letter of blah blah blah' to get pr0n or warez.
Which, as an avid user of Napster in the past, it's exactly what it's like. Money isn't the issue. I want what I want now. I might share files, I might not. But I want this song now and I don't want to have to go to a store and get it, or go online and wait for it to be delivered. I want it now.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for the chaos that ensues. It livens things up a little, and brings out the true nature of the parties involved (who would've guessed the MPAA, RIAA, Metallica, et al. were THAT greedy). The thing is, you try and take a transport method or abstract and tack on ads and sell things to people.
Maybe it all isn't about buying. It isn't about the abstract method, either. It's about the information that gets passed over the method. I want the song. I want the warez. I want the pr0n. The method is ignored, and that is the way it should be. File sharing isn't a new thing. But Marketeers hear a buzzword and sell it to other Marketeers which are blindly driving the industry to Core Meltdown.
I don't watch TV. Too many ads. I don't visit sites with plethoras of banner ads -- its disgusting. So much for Tom's Hardware, it used to be nice. Opera was very promising, and I was impressed at what it could do. Wait, version 5 has that nice ad. I understand that people need to make a living off of a webpage or off of a business, but I don't think ads are the answer. Ads end up turning people OFF of something, and people learn to tune them out. Isn't the whole point of advertising to turn people on to a product? And the whole product gets thrown away like the Sunday paper.
I'm glad Marketeers can't understand the acronym that the tech savvy are best at home with: RFC. Else there would be space set aside for a hot flashing java-enabled ActiveX animated banner ad. And probably space for a 'You've got mail!' bit, as well.
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Now all we need are a set of nano-people to play the guitar. Heh.
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From my experiences in High School and a little time in College, it seems that there are three kinds of jocks:
;)
1) Druggie jocks. The ones who don't mind getting stoned every now and again. These jocks are relatively harmless and are laid back and are easy to talk to, relatively speaking.
2) Drunkard jocks. These are the violent ones who are the assholes of them all. They can be OK at times, but usually they're the ones that cause trouble, thinking that they own the world.
3) "Normal" or "Geeky" jocks. The rarity, I've seen jocks involved in D&D or CompSci, which can be odd, especially when you talk to them and find out they're missing practice to write a program. How DIFFERENT.
I don't react violently, I had my bad days in middle and high school. Sometimes I'd come home and wring my pillow like it was someone's neck. I can feel the rage consuming me, and it's like the rage controls ME, instead of ME controlling the rage. So I gave up physical prospects of revenge, and stick to mental/technological revenge. Nothing like making your agressor realize that he's useless, and won't get anywhere in life. And deleting that term paper helps too
"Windows has detected the following resident program is not needed: COMMAND.COM. Do you wish to unload this before loading windows? (Y/N)"
- Actual error message, God bless `em!