the problem is, it requires balance between the sphere of intellectual output that is monetized, and that which naturally belongs to the sphere of shared common cultural riches. it need s afaster retirement timeline to private ownership obsolescence, and a rational realization of what cannot be controlled and owned (file trading on the internet)
as if these means somebody won't still make money, and good money! it is just that the old models won't work anymore, and the corporations are nervous about the unknown
but in the current world, the legions of lawyers representing the corporations, and the congressmen they buy (sonny bono, et al) push the scales firmly in the direction of irrational monetization. in a world where i cannot play "happy birthday" without paying someone, something is seriously broken
it is not that the students don't respect morality. it is that the students don't respect a legal system that is seriously broken and doesn't reflect morality. current ip law is nothing more than an overextended farce. it is not that it shouldn't be respected, but that there is no reasonable way to respect it
somehow, there must be a tension of powers between shared public wealth, and private corporate wealth. there is no such mechanism to legally reflect this tension in the current world. and so all we have is the the ever increasing encroachment of corporate ownership into what should naturally be public spheres of public ownership. and so none of corporate ownership is respected. when naturally some of it should, but not the overextended monstrosity that the corporations currently expect
and it is not up to the corporations to restrain themselves. it is their job to squeeze money out of every possible nook and cranny. that is what corporations to do, that is their nature, it is not their nature, nor should we expect it of them, to restrain themselves. it is our job to restrain them, so they do not become cancerous growths. and we, the legal world and our legal frameworks, are not currently doing that. so we must begin doing that then, so that some of private ownership is respected, not none of it, as currently is the case, because current private ownership laws overreach in time and in venue
i recognize every single negative of the war on drugs you can enumerate, a million more you don't, and i will acknowledge for the sake of rhetoric a few fanciful and imaginative negatives
and yet still, when we talk about ONLY the very highly and addictive substances (not just highly addicting, like nicotine, or just inebriating, like lsd, or moderately addictive inebriating, like alcohol) then we are talking about a ball of detrimental effects, due to the chemicals themselves, that is in fact worse than all of the negatives of the drug war
that's real life, on complex hard choices, not just drugs, the choices are all about various shades of grey. the drug war has negatives, no drug war has negatives. in real life, you do not get to choose between shit and roses, but pick which pile of shit smells less. for some drugs, like marijuana, a state of no drug war has less negatives, but still has negatives. for other drugs, like heroin, a state of drug war has less negatives, but still has negatives
but meth, coke, and heroin/ opiods must stay illegal for all time
all of the negatives of the drug war mean nothing when compared to what really hardcore addictive drugs do to people
and so marijuana will never be legal as long as mixed in with the marijuana legalization crowd (realistic, responsible people) are some really really ignorant souls about what the unholy trinity of meth/ coke/ heroin does to human beings
the side bonus to this system is that palau can widen the aperture and fuzzy the focus on the satellite, to the "ablate" setting, and burn off the ocean water encroaching on the last bit of high ground on the atoll
in this life, you can suffer from too much blind trust for authority. absolutely 100% true
but equally true, which escapes many people here, is that you can also suffer from a poverty in your ability to trust anything remotely government like
of equal import, which escapes you and the majority of paranoid posters you will find in this thread, is that blind distrust is equally moronic
the american government is not satan incarnate. it is also not the paragon of virtue. it is mostly bumbling bureaucrats who mean well
so when people go at the american government like they are talking about a sneaky evil out to enslave all of mankind, they sound like retarded matrix fanboys, not intelligent wary citizens out protecting our freedoms
did you hear that? if you want to defend yourself from an intrusive government and influence the minds of your fellow citizens to be more wary, you can be more effective in that fight by not sounding like you are fighting emperor palpatine. hysteria, a malignant distrust of government, fear, uncertainty, doubt: this will not protect us from what bothers you. because you simply don't understand what you are up against: you are up stupidity in the government, not evil in the government. your inability to perceive the nature of your enemy makes you engage in phantom battles with phantom foes that make you look stupid and foolish. no one listens to you, no one will be influenced by you, no one will follow you. you are all alone, on the fringe of absurdity
now you can mod me into obvlivion, i am obviously an employee of the illuminati, here on a retarded thread on slashdot, casting aspersions on the brave enlightened truth seekers here (rolls eyes)
you will find that the majority of americans won't be disturbed by this. there are some who will use this as proof that most americans are morons. as if insulting the average citizen is supposed to win you any points in the battle against big/ intrusive government, oh great genius?
no, the average american won't care, because the average american, when given news like this, doesn't see a big downside to this. when told the downside to this as displayed here in some posts, they will think the average slashdot poster has been watching too many paranoid hollywood movies
now give my troll mod for not toeing the party line here
by hitting upon the clever solution of submitting the puzzle to slashdot as a story subject and letting random slashdot commentors solve the puzzle for you, you have displayed a high level of ingenuity and cleverness. we therefore would like to hire you as the manager of the 3 other programmer applicants who slogged and plodded it out and solved the puzzle through brute mental force on their own. your salary will be 250% of theirs.
2. load the shared folder with gigs of porn. small files (the point is: lots of files to mask your download)
3. start sharing the porn. wait for awhile, a few hours. this will stuff your upload queue
4. pick an album you want. for example for my gf, it was alisha keys "as i am". find the copy with the most sources. pay attention to the comments (denotes a good source or a bad source)
5. suck that sucker down by itself, your only download, high priority, as fast as possible. when done, immediately remove the album from your incoming file directory
the point here is that you are not being a "bad" file sharer (only taking, not giving). you are just segregating what you give/ take by your legal exposure
the point of all the porn is that it masks any requests for the file the riaa will go after you for. even when the file is half downloaded, people can start taking it from you, so you don't want an empty upload queu. you must mask and flood out any requests for the riaa loaded file while it is being downloaded with tons of harmless porn uploads that no one will go after you for sharing
that's about as safe as you can get sharing pop music files in the usa (if you are not technically astute)
all security measures are incomplete. because it doesn't protect against everything doesn't mean it doesn't have value as a wise modus operandi
i have a credit card with a limit of $300 i make online purchases with and small change/ restaurant purchases. that doesn't protect me from someone who gets my driver's license number and my ssn and opens a new card in my name. but it still is a simple easy form of limited protection, just like using this guy using 2 browsers
this is not the first time ebooks were attempted, and they perennially appeal to those who don't get it, so this is not the last time ebooks will be attempted either
if standard scumbag police procedure is pursuing people who engage in reckless endagerment, i'm quite curious as to what your definition of standard virtuous police procedure is
the best book reader is wood pulp, pressed and cut into pages
its cheap, its battery life is infinite, it has excellent contrast in bright light, and no DRM
eBooks to me are like electronic voting or verbally asking computers natural language questions rather than using a keyboard: weird technofetishist fantasies that don't improve upon existing technology, and are forever doomed to fail
you watch, kindle, and the sony reader will be forgotten in 6 months, like all the previous eBook tech that came with great fanfare and disappeared like a fart in the wind
eBooks don't improve upon real books folks, they simply don't
you may now continue ignoring the little kid saying the king is naked
before the internet, if i wanted to listen to britney spears in the privacy of my dorm room, i needed to buy an lp, tape, or cd
now i don't have to do that. that's a big difference
additionally, the financial wherewithall to create a media conglomerate meant only a few could play that game. now you have websites like the drudgereport, created by one man, that outshines news organizations like the new york times, or myspace pages that pull in more teenaged ears and eyeballs than entire radio stations
the world is changing in fundamental ways friend, your mind needs to change with it
how do you get people to listen your music? that answer, is, as you suggest, by putting music in front of them. but with the internet, putting music in front of them doesn't have to involve money changing hands anymore
it shows the extent that the old power structure is eroding under the stress of the influence of the web on music
the eventual nirvana, of course, is completely free digital music
artists get paid for concerts, and advertising deals, no more. and this represents no decrease in filthy lucre for the artists, since in today's paradigm they don't get that much for recordings anyway: the music cartels screw them for pennies
the internet simply represents where people find new bands (rather than the radio, which is controlled, the internet is free), and also represents where they will get their free recordings, which artists will distribute themselves
the music companies?
sorry, no room for them in such a world
as if this were somehow a bad thing, in any way
you do not cry for the jobs of chimney sweeps, horseshoe blacksmiths, and cabin boys that progress has rendered obsolete
you certainly don't have to cry for the historical ireelevancy and extinction of music conglomerates
like any dying dinosaur, they flail about like a great horrible wounded beast, lashing out at everyone and everything they can
lay low, wait, and in due time their coffers will be dry, and they will dead, and not threaten our culture any more with their insane need to preserve a defunct business model based on distributing CDs and tapes, in a world of tcp/ip
i also support implantable rfid to combat global warming (how does that work?)
and i support artificial breast implants to combat third world hunger (how does that work?)
how the HELL does GPS, nevermind implantable, combat drug use in sports?
i think the particular athletes who came up with this lame brain idea should do more running and weight lifting and less thinking, it doesn't suit them
there is no compelling reason to make voting more complex than that, and any more complexity just means less transparency and more attack vectors for shady characters
hell, mechanical voting is more complex than that, and has a history of tampering shenanigans
of course people can still mess with pencil and paper. however, in LESS ways than mechanical or electronic voting
but you go ahead mr. slow-witted bureaucrat and champion a voting scheme that undermines faith in our democracy and our government
figure it the f*** out
just figure it the f*** out before we become a fascist state. k thx
Slashdot Mirror
the problem is, it requires balance between the sphere of intellectual output that is monetized, and that which naturally belongs to the sphere of shared common cultural riches. it need s afaster retirement timeline to private ownership obsolescence, and a rational realization of what cannot be controlled and owned (file trading on the internet)
as if these means somebody won't still make money, and good money! it is just that the old models won't work anymore, and the corporations are nervous about the unknown
but in the current world, the legions of lawyers representing the corporations, and the congressmen they buy (sonny bono, et al) push the scales firmly in the direction of irrational monetization. in a world where i cannot play "happy birthday" without paying someone, something is seriously broken
it is not that the students don't respect morality. it is that the students don't respect a legal system that is seriously broken and doesn't reflect morality. current ip law is nothing more than an overextended farce. it is not that it shouldn't be respected, but that there is no reasonable way to respect it
somehow, there must be a tension of powers between shared public wealth, and private corporate wealth. there is no such mechanism to legally reflect this tension in the current world. and so all we have is the the ever increasing encroachment of corporate ownership into what should naturally be public spheres of public ownership. and so none of corporate ownership is respected. when naturally some of it should, but not the overextended monstrosity that the corporations currently expect
and it is not up to the corporations to restrain themselves. it is their job to squeeze money out of every possible nook and cranny. that is what corporations to do, that is their nature, it is not their nature, nor should we expect it of them, to restrain themselves. it is our job to restrain them, so they do not become cancerous growths. and we, the legal world and our legal frameworks, are not currently doing that. so we must begin doing that then, so that some of private ownership is respected, not none of it, as currently is the case, because current private ownership laws overreach in time and in venue
i recognize every single negative of the war on drugs you can enumerate, a million more you don't, and i will acknowledge for the sake of rhetoric a few fanciful and imaginative negatives
and yet still, when we talk about ONLY the very highly and addictive substances (not just highly addicting, like nicotine, or just inebriating, like lsd, or moderately addictive inebriating, like alcohol) then we are talking about a ball of detrimental effects, due to the chemicals themselves, that is in fact worse than all of the negatives of the drug war
that's real life, on complex hard choices, not just drugs, the choices are all about various shades of grey. the drug war has negatives, no drug war has negatives. in real life, you do not get to choose between shit and roses, but pick which pile of shit smells less. for some drugs, like marijuana, a state of no drug war has less negatives, but still has negatives. for other drugs, like heroin, a state of drug war has less negatives, but still has negatives
welcome to reality, its messy
so should psilocybin/ lsd
but meth, coke, and heroin/ opiods must stay illegal for all time
all of the negatives of the drug war mean nothing when compared to what really hardcore addictive drugs do to people
and so marijuana will never be legal as long as mixed in with the marijuana legalization crowd (realistic, responsible people) are some really really ignorant souls about what the unholy trinity of meth/ coke/ heroin does to human beings
all drugs legal != intelligent drug policy
marijuana/ psilocybin/ lsd legal, meth/ coke/ heroin illegal = intelligent drug policy
not all drugs are equal, they must be evaluated on a substance by substance basis
if you don't understand that, you are idealistic and ignorant on the subject
the side bonus to this system is that palau can widen the aperture and fuzzy the focus on the satellite, to the "ablate" setting, and burn off the ocean water encroaching on the last bit of high ground on the atoll
please watch this space for 3 hours in order to view it
my comment is currently being transmitted from schenectady to poughkeepsie and the bad weather is interfereing with the candles staying lit
so is blind distrust
in this life, you can suffer from too much blind trust for authority. absolutely 100% true
but equally true, which escapes many people here, is that you can also suffer from a poverty in your ability to trust anything remotely government like
this is not wisdom, it is a deficit in reasoning
of equal import, which escapes you and the majority of paranoid posters you will find in this thread, is that blind distrust is equally moronic
the american government is not satan incarnate. it is also not the paragon of virtue. it is mostly bumbling bureaucrats who mean well
so when people go at the american government like they are talking about a sneaky evil out to enslave all of mankind, they sound like retarded matrix fanboys, not intelligent wary citizens out protecting our freedoms
did you hear that? if you want to defend yourself from an intrusive government and influence the minds of your fellow citizens to be more wary, you can be more effective in that fight by not sounding like you are fighting emperor palpatine. hysteria, a malignant distrust of government, fear, uncertainty, doubt: this will not protect us from what bothers you. because you simply don't understand what you are up against: you are up stupidity in the government, not evil in the government. your inability to perceive the nature of your enemy makes you engage in phantom battles with phantom foes that make you look stupid and foolish. no one listens to you, no one will be influenced by you, no one will follow you. you are all alone, on the fringe of absurdity
now you can mod me into obvlivion, i am obviously an employee of the illuminati, here on a retarded thread on slashdot, casting aspersions on the brave enlightened truth seekers here (rolls eyes)
you will find that the majority of americans won't be disturbed by this. there are some who will use this as proof that most americans are morons. as if insulting the average citizen is supposed to win you any points in the battle against big/ intrusive government, oh great genius?
no, the average american won't care, because the average american, when given news like this, doesn't see a big downside to this. when told the downside to this as displayed here in some posts, they will think the average slashdot poster has been watching too many paranoid hollywood movies
now give my troll mod for not toeing the party line here
yawn
i phrased what i said as a joke, and yet it is a sterling example of business intelligence
we would like to extend a job offer to you.
by hitting upon the clever solution of submitting the puzzle to slashdot as a story subject and letting random slashdot commentors solve the puzzle for you, you have displayed a high level of ingenuity and cleverness. we therefore would like to hire you as the manager of the 3 other programmer applicants who slogged and plodded it out and solved the puzzle through brute mental force on their own. your salary will be 250% of theirs.
congratulations again,
anonymoustech inc.
1. download emule
2. load the shared folder with gigs of porn. small files (the point is: lots of files to mask your download)
3. start sharing the porn. wait for awhile, a few hours. this will stuff your upload queue
4. pick an album you want. for example for my gf, it was alisha keys "as i am". find the copy with the most sources. pay attention to the comments (denotes a good source or a bad source)
5. suck that sucker down by itself, your only download, high priority, as fast as possible. when done, immediately remove the album from your incoming file directory
the point here is that you are not being a "bad" file sharer (only taking, not giving). you are just segregating what you give/ take by your legal exposure
the point of all the porn is that it masks any requests for the file the riaa will go after you for. even when the file is half downloaded, people can start taking it from you, so you don't want an empty upload queu. you must mask and flood out any requests for the riaa loaded file while it is being downloaded with tons of harmless porn uploads that no one will go after you for sharing
that's about as safe as you can get sharing pop music files in the usa (if you are not technically astute)
happy holidays!
is that the type of mod you were going for?
all security measures are incomplete. because it doesn't protect against everything doesn't mean it doesn't have value as a wise modus operandi
i have a credit card with a limit of $300 i make online purchases with and small change/ restaurant purchases. that doesn't protect me from someone who gets my driver's license number and my ssn and opens a new card in my name. but it still is a simple easy form of limited protection, just like using this guy using 2 browsers
listen to the market
in 6 months, eat crow
this is not the first time ebooks were attempted, and they perennially appeal to those who don't get it, so this is not the last time ebooks will be attempted either
pure folly
into the shape of a tin foil hat, and you have a paranoid schizophrenic's deepest nightmare
and if it does morph into sneakers, does that mean we need tin foil socks too?
if standard scumbag police procedure is pursuing people who engage in reckless endagerment, i'm quite curious as to what your definition of standard virtuous police procedure is
the best book reader is wood pulp, pressed and cut into pages
its cheap, its battery life is infinite, it has excellent contrast in bright light, and no DRM
eBooks to me are like electronic voting or verbally asking computers natural language questions rather than using a keyboard: weird technofetishist fantasies that don't improve upon existing technology, and are forever doomed to fail
you watch, kindle, and the sony reader will be forgotten in 6 months, like all the previous eBook tech that came with great fanfare and disappeared like a fart in the wind
eBooks don't improve upon real books folks, they simply don't
you may now continue ignoring the little kid saying the king is naked
in the middle of the highway, but no one actually gets hurt, he shouldn't get punished?
or if a guy starts shooting his gun into an apartment complex, but no one actually gets hit, he shouldn't get punished?
that's the same thing you are saying
its reckless endangerment
it's wrong
it's punishable
by any common sense understanding
before the internet, if i wanted to listen to britney spears in the privacy of my dorm room, i needed to buy an lp, tape, or cd
now i don't have to do that. that's a big difference
additionally, the financial wherewithall to create a media conglomerate meant only a few could play that game. now you have websites like the drudgereport, created by one man, that outshines news organizations like the new york times, or myspace pages that pull in more teenaged ears and eyeballs than entire radio stations
the world is changing in fundamental ways friend, your mind needs to change with it
how do you get people to listen your music? that answer, is, as you suggest, by putting music in front of them. but with the internet, putting music in front of them doesn't have to involve money changing hands anymore
it shows the extent that the old power structure is eroding under the stress of the influence of the web on music
the eventual nirvana, of course, is completely free digital music
artists get paid for concerts, and advertising deals, no more. and this represents no decrease in filthy lucre for the artists, since in today's paradigm they don't get that much for recordings anyway: the music cartels screw them for pennies
the internet simply represents where people find new bands (rather than the radio, which is controlled, the internet is free), and also represents where they will get their free recordings, which artists will distribute themselves
the music companies?
sorry, no room for them in such a world
as if this were somehow a bad thing, in any way
you do not cry for the jobs of chimney sweeps, horseshoe blacksmiths, and cabin boys that progress has rendered obsolete
you certainly don't have to cry for the historical ireelevancy and extinction of music conglomerates
like any dying dinosaur, they flail about like a great horrible wounded beast, lashing out at everyone and everything they can
lay low, wait, and in due time their coffers will be dry, and they will dead, and not threaten our culture any more with their insane need to preserve a defunct business model based on distributing CDs and tapes, in a world of tcp/ip
i also support implantable rfid to combat global warming (how does that work?)
and i support artificial breast implants to combat third world hunger (how does that work?)
how the HELL does GPS, nevermind implantable, combat drug use in sports?
i think the particular athletes who came up with this lame brain idea should do more running and weight lifting and less thinking, it doesn't suit them
so we can melt it
i am not happy with just denuding mt kilimanjaro of glaciers and melting greenland
we must do better than this
global warming? this is the mark of an inferior life form
solar system warming or darest i dream galactic warming, that should be the goal of mankind!
send the probe to enceladus anyways
just put a salt shaker on it
problem solved
sheesh these scientist types and their "problems"
pencil
paper
ovals
optical scanner
end of f***ing story
there is no compelling reason to make voting more complex than that, and any more complexity just means less transparency and more attack vectors for shady characters
hell, mechanical voting is more complex than that, and has a history of tampering shenanigans
of course people can still mess with pencil and paper. however, in LESS ways than mechanical or electronic voting
but you go ahead mr. slow-witted bureaucrat and champion a voting scheme that undermines faith in our democracy and our government
figure it the f*** out
just figure it the f*** out before we become a fascist state. k thx
remove the above poster for reprogramming before any of the other subjects notice