It takes a fundamental shift in ideology by the masses, not a "whistlestop tour" of geeks going from one gathering to another where maybe 50 people at most will show up, for anything to take effect. People have to change their minds about capitalism and how it does not necessarily equate democracy, not just about the evils of the DMCA or [insert hated law here]. Otherwise, the RIAA and MPAA will simply invoke the "they're stealing our stuff" BS rhetoric because most Americans are convinced that intellectual property equates physical property in terms of stealing.
Until the bigger issues are addressed, these concerns are always going to crop up in a public that has been taught to buy into the unexamined idea of corporate priviledge since birth.
A counterpoint to the counterpoint, especially in the Appendix on American anime culture. Susan Napier's bias in favor of anime fan subculture is much more academic and lacks the axe to grind that the anti-anime webmaster seems intent to wield.
Having an apartment complex like this would be a social disaster. There would be people who would never leave their apartments, spending hours and hours surfing the web, playing Everquest, and posting continuously in online news forums...
Wait, never mind.
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Plato used the format of a somewhat-enlightened person vs. very enlightened person conversation in The Republic, which formed at least part of the basis of the Heglian dialect (thesis-antithesis-synthesis).
Scott's doing nothing new format-wise, but I'd be interested in what he has to say. Much of it sounds like the stuff he wrote towards the end of The Dilbert Principle
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What about if a tourist video tapes you and they happen to see someone that looks similar on America's Most Wanted? Should we ban all cameras in public? What's the difference?
The difference is who exactly is behind the camera and what the camera is being used for. A tourist is not an agent of the state, and the camera is being used for recreational purposes. By both context and chance, the opportunities for mistaken identity of those who *may have* committed criminal behavior are less likely than for a state-operated camera that is *supposed* to catch criminal suspects.
That and there's much less of a power imbalance involved when a tourist is photographing you. Wave to the guy in the oversized hat and Hawaiian shirt. When the state, officially the most powerful force on this planet, is photographing you, the equation changes drastically. Smile big (and nervously) and pray to your diety that you won't be ticketed for jaywalking on an empty street to get to your job on time by the city's new revenue machine.
When we try to convert our Napster.nap files to MP3's, call the new app KReader and have Adobe arrest us for breaking the DMCA after we've given our talk about our app at DefCon, I think oppression by machines would be a welcome replacement.
Was Sklyarov arrested immediately after his presentation? If so, didn't any DefCon attendees see what was going on and try to confront the arresting officers regarding what the hell was going on? If the attendees of DefCon are supposedly hard-core when it comes to liberty, then they should have formed a human fence around the cops' vehicle and not let it out, even *if* it meant their own arrest. Civil disobedience can only go so far when you only do it from a keyboard.
Someone here went to DefCon and saw this. What exactly went on, play by play?
NASA is a quasi-government body, so like the Postal Service, it's not (or wouldn't be) taxed in this case like a private company would.
What we should worry about being taxed like this in the future is space tourism. Even at a 5% tax, Dennis Tito would have had to pay an extra $1 million if he wanted to go up into space from LAX. Imagine if a space tourist company's floating property were subject to the same regulations. This ensures that space travel would remain in government hands.
This is an excellent rebuttal to my post. Conditioning to free content vs. increased corporate control of media. C'mon, when the rebuttee is the one who asks for a mod up, you know it's good.;-)
Those of us who have been on the Net for 5+ years have been used to not having to pay for content, whether it be streaming video clips or insightful Usenet discussions. It's hard psychologically for people to swallow costs for things that they used to get for free, even if paid content is better than free sometimes.
For instance, my introduction to anime was through going to anime meetings at the local university where they would show fansubs and copyrighted anime in an auditorium for free. That was my only anime exposure for a long time until I decided to branch out into other shows. When I saw that the DVD's where $20+, I was livid. How dare they charge for something that I watch for free! So, I did (and stil do) something that would have been unthinkable for me if I had began with anime I paid for myself - I trade in it. The ethics of it are debateable, but it's the psychology of the matter; to pay for something that used to be free is hard, even impossible to take, even if DVD quality is better than some of the DivX I get off the net.
Read.:) Most people *don't* advance, that's the problem, and that's why ephermal pop-culture crap will always dominate the the Top Ten rising category and then go into the Top Ten declining spot when the fad has fizzled.
This goes to show you how fickle most non-geeks are with the Internet. They're treating it like a remote control zipping through 50-odd channels, but they're not taking advantage of what the Net can be *outside* of the bounds of Big Media-determined culture. When the televised hype of a certain topic dies down, these will be in the Top Ten Declining list, and the experience of looking for them will be no different than sitting in front of the tube. Way to expand the Net's potential to free oneself from the TV Matrix.
that with the umpty-billion dollars that Disney makes just for sneezing, they could afford to hire a writer or three that could come up with an original story here and there.
Actually, it's precisely because of Disney's lack of originality that partly explains why they are successful (marketing usually fills in the rest). The public has been conditioned to enjoy familiarity and uninventiveness, or at least settle for this as the norm. A standardized committment to quality in all spheres of consumption usually emphasizes the standardization, and not the quality. *cough*Redmond*cough*
Come to think of it, does this make children's stories the breeding ground for Disney's crass expectations of what they'll eat up at the box office, since they have that built-in familiarity during those impressionable ages?
After I got my doctorate, my dream was to set up my own (literally) desert underground cyber-community where we would route 1/4 of the Net's traffic, have the biggest Quake LAN server, and basically be a h4X0r flophouse with RJ-45 all over the place. Screw the Gobi, now I know that Denmark is the place to go to have a similar dream come true, by helping the world's peeps trade their music and *still* having the biggest Quake server.
The failures of many of his [Netzero] competitors, he argued, simply means that only the largest and most efficient free providers will survive.
So "free" service means that only the biggest will survive, that they'll eventually become bigger, bloated, and more inefficient (as large companies with little competition tend to do *cough*Redmond*cough*), and that sooner or later they'll face either competitive or legal demise. Thus the cycle completes and begins anew. Everyone say "oohhhmmmm".
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It takes a fundamental shift in ideology by the masses, not a "whistlestop tour" of geeks going from one gathering to another where maybe 50 people at most will show up, for anything to take effect. People have to change their minds about capitalism and how it does not necessarily equate democracy, not just about the evils of the DMCA or [insert hated law here]. Otherwise, the RIAA and MPAA will simply invoke the "they're stealing our stuff" BS rhetoric because most Americans are convinced that intellectual property equates physical property in terms of stealing.
Until the bigger issues are addressed, these concerns are always going to crop up in a public that has been taught to buy into the unexamined idea of corporate priviledge since birth.
Users don't need to know when "Friends" is on.
Neither do I, but the rest of America makes sure I do. =P
A counterpoint to the counterpoint, especially in the Appendix on American anime culture. Susan Napier's bias in favor of anime fan subculture is much more academic and lacks the axe to grind that the anti-anime webmaster seems intent to wield.
Here's a nice way to demonstrate the fall of Ion Storm.
Having an apartment complex like this would be a social disaster. There would be people who would never leave their apartments, spending hours and hours surfing the web, playing Everquest, and posting continuously in online news forums...
Wait, never mind.
Plato used the format of a somewhat-enlightened person vs. very enlightened person conversation in The Republic, which formed at least part of the basis of the Heglian dialect (thesis-antithesis-synthesis).
Scott's doing nothing new format-wise, but I'd be interested in what he has to say. Much of it sounds like the stuff he wrote towards the end of The Dilbert Principle
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When another company plucks away Wired's pride and joy, they advertise the competition.
Computer crash delays flights in Japan
The difference is who exactly is behind the camera and what the camera is being used for. A tourist is not an agent of the state, and the camera is being used for recreational purposes. By both context and chance, the opportunities for mistaken identity of those who *may have* committed criminal behavior are less likely than for a state-operated camera that is *supposed* to catch criminal suspects.
That and there's much less of a power imbalance involved when a tourist is photographing you. Wave to the guy in the oversized hat and Hawaiian shirt. When the state, officially the most powerful force on this planet, is photographing you, the equation changes drastically. Smile big (and nervously) and pray to your diety that you won't be ticketed for jaywalking on an empty street to get to your job on time by the city's new revenue machine.
When we try to convert our Napster .nap files to MP3's, call the new app KReader and have Adobe arrest us for breaking the DMCA after we've given our talk about our app at DefCon, I think oppression by machines would be a welcome replacement.
http://www.goodwebsites.com/defcon.ppt
Someone here went to DefCon and saw this. What exactly went on, play by play?
What we should worry about being taxed like this in the future is space tourism. Even at a 5% tax, Dennis Tito would have had to pay an extra $1 million if he wanted to go up into space from LAX. Imagine if a space tourist company's floating property were subject to the same regulations. This ensures that space travel would remain in government hands.
no one can hear you bitch. Great tax collection plan!
This is an excellent rebuttal to my post. Conditioning to free content vs. increased corporate control of media. C'mon, when the rebuttee is the one who asks for a mod up, you know it's good. ;-)
For instance, my introduction to anime was through going to anime meetings at the local university where they would show fansubs and copyrighted anime in an auditorium for free. That was my only anime exposure for a long time until I decided to branch out into other shows. When I saw that the DVD's where $20+, I was livid. How dare they charge for something that I watch for free! So, I did (and stil do) something that would have been unthinkable for me if I had began with anime I paid for myself - I trade in it. The ethics of it are debateable, but it's the psychology of the matter; to pay for something that used to be free is hard, even impossible to take, even if DVD quality is better than some of the DivX I get off the net.
Read. :) Most people *don't* advance, that's the problem, and that's why ephermal pop-culture crap will always dominate the the Top Ten rising category and then go into the Top Ten declining spot when the fad has fizzled.
This goes to show you how fickle most non-geeks are with the Internet. They're treating it like a remote control zipping through 50-odd channels, but they're not taking advantage of what the Net can be *outside* of the bounds of Big Media-determined culture. When the televised hype of a certain topic dies down, these will be in the Top Ten Declining list, and the experience of looking for them will be no different than sitting in front of the tube. Way to expand the Net's potential to free oneself from the TV Matrix.
Hmmm, pitiful lack of ethics and total disregard for academic knowledge. A CEO with potential.
Actually, it's precisely because of Disney's lack of originality that partly explains why they are successful (marketing usually fills in the rest). The public has been conditioned to enjoy familiarity and uninventiveness, or at least settle for this as the norm. A standardized committment to quality in all spheres of consumption usually emphasizes the standardization, and not the quality. *cough*Redmond*cough*
Come to think of it, does this make children's stories the breeding ground for Disney's crass expectations of what they'll eat up at the box office, since they have that built-in familiarity during those impressionable ages?
After I got my doctorate, my dream was to set up my own (literally) desert underground cyber-community where we would route 1/4 of the Net's traffic, have the biggest Quake LAN server, and basically be a h4X0r flophouse with RJ-45 all over the place. Screw the Gobi, now I know that Denmark is the place to go to have a similar dream come true, by helping the world's peeps trade their music and *still* having the biggest Quake server.
So "free" service means that only the biggest will survive, that they'll eventually become bigger, bloated, and more inefficient (as large companies with little competition tend to do *cough*Redmond*cough*), and that sooner or later they'll face either competitive or legal demise. Thus the cycle completes and begins anew. Everyone say "oohhhmmmm".
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