Not expensive! Visit your local theater supply store and buy 1 sheet each of Congo Blue and Medium Red lighting gels... the sheets are like 10"x20" and you cut little squares less than 1/4", stack the two together, and you have an IR pass filter (filters out visible light, just allowing infrared through)
I loved my Ericsson phones. After Sony got involved, things got better in some regards, worse in others. Sony's insistence on pricey, proprietary memory when the world had moved to MicroSD. Sony's ongoing war against OS customizers, debranders, etc... made Apple look benevolent. Still, they made some lovely hardware here and there. I owned the K750i, which was the "best phone ever" for a few years. It was my first daily-carry cameraphone that performed like an acceptable point-n-shoot. They had the best Bluetooth stack. And when it came to U.S. customers... they completely dropped the ball. I blame the FCC for granting stupid, unique frequencies and preventing global competition, but Sony often planned to release new models to the U.S. and then usually pushed back those releases by a year or more. By the time the C905a was finally released, I had already left the brand for good.
Sony has conflicts of interest. Their "intellectual property" nonsense arm of the business has destroyed their consumer products division. Rootkits on audio CDs, Playstation fiascos every few months, harrassing Aibo software developers... The phone problems are more subtle, but annoy the enthusiastic customers. They have lacked vision and deliver a lot of "almost flagship" phones and very few "best of everything" models. The deal should be the other way around. I want to see Ericsson make phones without Sony mismanagement. Alternately, I want Sony to prove me wrong and get their house in order and release compelling new phones. How about a Qwerty slider, high resolution, Android phone with an amazing camera and well placed tactile media and camera controls? Nobody does that; SE phones used to have a unique corner on good interface; I'd love to see it happen again.
You know what, we need a better word / phrase. "Attention Leaches," "Attention Parasites," etc... Whores are hard working people who provide a service, completely using their own assets, in exchange for money. They've been vilified by religious types and oppressed by governments for millenia. Meanwhile, people who are destructive... who wish to ruin other peoples' days, get labelled "whores" and people who aren't destructive at all, but are revealed to have enjoyed sex at some point also get labelled "whores."
I'm barely aware of who the Kardashians are (for a while, I wondered how Star Trek: Deep Space 9 got popular again), but I'm pretty damn certain they, along with actual courtesans, aren't busy attacking anyone and everyone they can to spread a message of hate and theocracy. It demeans all sex positive people to call these nasty theocrats "whores."
If do-it-yourself sovereignty were going to work, the oil industry, which puts up many offshore structures, some of which are actual islands, would have done it years ago.
The mistake here is over-rating sovereignty. The oil companies have their way with numerous sovereign nations and their rulers. They have a handful of employees (in the US, these are called senators) instead of investing in all the diplomatic corp and defense institutions and bureaucracy of running an actual sovereign state.
Saddam Hussein had a standing militia of Iraqi and international lawyers. It didn't stop Operation Desert Fox, 11 years of airstrikes, or the invasion of Iraq. And they didn't save him from an execution.
And this set the stupidest precedent ever. The US president declared an "Axis of Evil" trio of countries... Saddam cooperated with weapons inspectors and insisted he had no "Weapons of Mass Destruction." North Korea and Iran's leaders, meanwhile, told the US and UN to bugger off. After the US invaded Iraq and had Saddam executed, Iran and North Korea's commitments to their nuclear ambitions skyrocketed. "Ohhhh helllll yeah, we got WMDs."
I call it "stupid," but only from the declared US interest in limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons. From the interest in increased military and military contractor spending, onward and forever, well, this was a brilliant move.
C'mon, has everyone forgotten about SpiderGoats? The progress has appeared slow (those articles are a decade apart), but that's possibly due to the more-military-than-civilian applications thus far.
Since this kind of DRM prevents the work from entering the public domain after a fixed amount of time... (ya know, the actual exchange brokered between the people and copyright holders), works with this kind of DRM have no valid copyright. There is zero moral disincentive against pirating it, cracking it, spreading it far and wide, and even repackaging the cracked version and selling it.
Of course, issues like this are decided not by the actual text of the laws, nor by the background intention of the laws, but by who can throw the most money at lawyers... so do it quietly.:-)
Now that you mention it, that same sort of propeller-meets-bad-guy death occurred in GP's mention of Raiders of the Lost Arc. Overall, if GP saw Raiders at the same age, he or she can base the decision on that being pretty comparable in terms of scariness or violence.
Over and over, continuously, we see this sort of purely abusive behavior on the part of police in several "civilized" countries. Every single time, some poor individual, if lucky enough with press coverage and donated legal assistance, has to go through a huge ordeal to get charges dropped against his/herself, and usually no repercussions are faced by the abusers... or the individual does jail/prison time, gets assaulted... even murdered. Either way, next step is that we see it happen again. Even the rest of us, who aren't being assaulted by police, are paying those officers to stay employed, paying for their defense, paying to prosecute and imprison someone for trumped charges, etc....
How do people in "free" countries enact preventative measures? How do we turn the tide against the police state? Systems like the TSA seem bent on making "official vs citizen" interactions more and more degrading, and if nothing is done soon, there will be less and less public support for any sort of stand for our rights movement. So what works? Has any other country repaired this kind of damage?
I'll say it again: Do extra, voluntary action to cooperate with the police state in legitimizing the "papers please" nonsense, and get exactly what you deserve.
It started as a simple excuse to lock you into your ticket purchases. It still has that negative effect, and not a single positive. After all, matching ID to ticket had been done for decades leading to, and of course on, 9/11.
I actually said nothing about the topics of treason, libel, or fraud. What I was addressing is the perceived "validity" of traditional news organizations over a perceived non-validity for "new media" like Wikileaks.
Your argument suggests that you consider the actions of Wikileaks and contributors "treasonous." If so, how about the actions of Woodward and Bernstein and the Washington Post during Watergate? If you are consistent and feel they also commited treason, then my topic has nothing to do with yours. Those I address are the ones who think the Washington Post's actions are protected by some form of "press credentials" and Wikileak's actions are not.
We keep seeing court cases and lively debate over "Freedom of the Press," usually with regards to whether this blogger or that product reviewer etc... have a right to say what they say without "press credentials" or a large corporate news organization backing them, etc... A lot of self-professed "patriotic" US citizens want Wikileaks destroyed.
So where does the phrase "Freedom of the Press" come from? First Amendement of the US Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
At the time this was written, what was "the press?" What was the relationship between the authors and founders of this country and "the press?" The press was a nifty machine that several of these men owned... a printing press. They used these devices to take their speech and propogate it further than mere voice could. They used this kind of speech to foment revolution against an unjust government and the press was a vital tool in this effort. Upon establishing a new government, they sought to extend that protection to all citizens.
So, when someone issues communications through technology, that is the press protected by the 1st Amendement.
They're criminals and parasites and should be treated as such. Their tactics, their war against P2P, the censored and ad-laden radio paradigm being focused on while trying to sue MP3 player manufacturers into oblivion, etc... put them at odds with most of us. It was a declaration of war, so our side took up Letters of Marque and started running boycotts and embargoes. I still buy CDs... directly from indie artists selling them for around 50% or more profit. I still buy concert tickets and merch. I haven't bought an RIAA pressed CD in well over a decade now. I haven't listened to the radio willingly in around the same timeframe. I don't support terrorism. My favorite kind of music as a child was sample-heavy rap... guess what they destroyed? Now my favorite genre is completely illegal: mashups. But it's all good... at some point soon, thankfully due to articles like this, and technology replacing the utility of RIAA "services" across the board, they will fall, because the more anyone knows about them, the quicker they turn away. The only thing I've missed out on is knowing who the Top 40 overplayed band of the week is... and whenever I do find out, I'm glad I missed it.:-)
It's just a matter of time before a line gets crossed and a relationship gets ruined by trying to post the largest Fitbit numbers for the evening.
It's just a matter of time before a line gets crossed and a relationship gets saved / rekindled by trying to post the largest Fitbit numbers for the evening.
Mt. Gox's homepage had something to the effect that they were working directly with Google to lock the accounts in question as a safety measure. I found out about this when my Gmail was locked, unlocked it, and then read my emails from Mt. Gox. I also checked the list of IP addresses that hit my Gmail (below inbox list) and there were none beside my own.
Bitcoin also represents two other major breakthroughs that have been dreamed about since the Internet gained public awareness: viable microtransactions, and electronic payments sans middlemen and fees.
This method of value exchange may change the earning dynamic for thousands of starving artists... the new band that gives its MP3s away but gets a few more cents worth from appreciating fans than they would from their share of an album's sale... the web comic author who finally has a tipjar equivalent working on her site, the author getting his feet wet writing short stories can gauge how interested people are in paying for his writings by asking for tips before putting in the time to write a full length novel. The maintainer of a freeware application can be encouraged to build more features or fix more bugs, etc...
Bitcoin's largest and most powerful enemies in the near term may actually be companies like Paypal and Visa, when people start exchanging value without their involvement. I expect legislation to be drafted by said companies, handed to the senators and congresspersons they own, and placed into law as the first real effort to destroy or fight Bitcoin.
I see people running for office, getting their name out there, sometimes making platform statements, promises... I never see them talk about how they'll turn the state's resources against us for their corporate masters. But that is what they do. It is what they are paid to do. It's completely transparent that law is for sale to the highest non-human bidder, and tax dollars will be used towards those interests. The human-level debates must be focused on emotional issues that the government really has no rightful jurisdiction over in the first place, to distract from this open secret.
Disenfranchised. Every man and woman in the United States.
I may not be a huge fan of democracy, nor of representative systems like a republic, but I laugh sorrowfully at any and all who claim this country still has such a form of government.
The invisible problem here is that corporations aren't actually aiming for real cost savings, or real cash generation... when "shareholder value" is the target, perception rules. And the perception around outsourcing is that it *of course* saves money.
Keep exposing the truth... once "outsourcing == more expensive and fail" is a mainstream meme, the trend dies.
They kinda already did... there's a 100 mile radius of all "border crossings" that's considered outside of Constitutional protections, so the north border, the south border, the coasts, and everywhere close enough to an airport, and the government has declared it can violate its founding document there. The courts upheld challenges to this. Here, found it: http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone
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Not expensive! Visit your local theater supply store and buy 1 sheet each of Congo Blue and Medium Red lighting gels... the sheets are like 10"x20" and you cut little squares less than 1/4", stack the two together, and you have an IR pass filter (filters out visible light, just allowing infrared through)
You go to a web cafe and post it on 4chan, as Anonymous of course. That is what the system has encouraged.
I loved my Ericsson phones. After Sony got involved, things got better in some regards, worse in others. Sony's insistence on pricey, proprietary memory when the world had moved to MicroSD. Sony's ongoing war against OS customizers, debranders, etc... made Apple look benevolent. Still, they made some lovely hardware here and there. I owned the K750i, which was the "best phone ever" for a few years. It was my first daily-carry cameraphone that performed like an acceptable point-n-shoot. They had the best Bluetooth stack. And when it came to U.S. customers... they completely dropped the ball. I blame the FCC for granting stupid, unique frequencies and preventing global competition, but Sony often planned to release new models to the U.S. and then usually pushed back those releases by a year or more. By the time the C905a was finally released, I had already left the brand for good.
Sony has conflicts of interest. Their "intellectual property" nonsense arm of the business has destroyed their consumer products division. Rootkits on audio CDs, Playstation fiascos every few months, harrassing Aibo software developers... The phone problems are more subtle, but annoy the enthusiastic customers. They have lacked vision and deliver a lot of "almost flagship" phones and very few "best of everything" models. The deal should be the other way around. I want to see Ericsson make phones without Sony mismanagement. Alternately, I want Sony to prove me wrong and get their house in order and release compelling new phones. How about a Qwerty slider, high resolution, Android phone with an amazing camera and well placed tactile media and camera controls? Nobody does that; SE phones used to have a unique corner on good interface; I'd love to see it happen again.
You know what, we need a better word / phrase. "Attention Leaches," "Attention Parasites," etc... Whores are hard working people who provide a service, completely using their own assets, in exchange for money. They've been vilified by religious types and oppressed by governments for millenia. Meanwhile, people who are destructive... who wish to ruin other peoples' days, get labelled "whores" and people who aren't destructive at all, but are revealed to have enjoyed sex at some point also get labelled "whores."
I'm barely aware of who the Kardashians are (for a while, I wondered how Star Trek: Deep Space 9 got popular again), but I'm pretty damn certain they, along with actual courtesans, aren't busy attacking anyone and everyone they can to spread a message of hate and theocracy. It demeans all sex positive people to call these nasty theocrats "whores."
"The more you tighten your grip [...], the more [...] systems will slip through your fingers."
And haven't all the Linux distros had an "app store" for at least a decade now?
The mistake here is over-rating sovereignty. The oil companies have their way with numerous sovereign nations and their rulers. They have a handful of employees (in the US, these are called senators) instead of investing in all the diplomatic corp and defense institutions and bureaucracy of running an actual sovereign state.
And this set the stupidest precedent ever. The US president declared an "Axis of Evil" trio of countries... Saddam cooperated with weapons inspectors and insisted he had no "Weapons of Mass Destruction." North Korea and Iran's leaders, meanwhile, told the US and UN to bugger off. After the US invaded Iraq and had Saddam executed, Iran and North Korea's commitments to their nuclear ambitions skyrocketed. "Ohhhh helllll yeah, we got WMDs."
I call it "stupid," but only from the declared US interest in limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons. From the interest in increased military and military contractor spending, onward and forever, well, this was a brilliant move.
Kaczynski was anti-technology... GP has a two digit Slashdot ID and still posts!
C'mon, has everyone forgotten about Spider Goats? The progress has appeared slow (those articles are a decade apart), but that's possibly due to the more-military-than-civilian applications thus far.
Since this kind of DRM prevents the work from entering the public domain after a fixed amount of time... (ya know, the actual exchange brokered between the people and copyright holders), works with this kind of DRM have no valid copyright. There is zero moral disincentive against pirating it, cracking it, spreading it far and wide, and even repackaging the cracked version and selling it.
Of course, issues like this are decided not by the actual text of the laws, nor by the background intention of the laws, but by who can throw the most money at lawyers... so do it quietly. :-)
Now that you mention it, that same sort of propeller-meets-bad-guy death occurred in GP's mention of Raiders of the Lost Arc. Overall, if GP saw Raiders at the same age, he or she can base the decision on that being pretty comparable in terms of scariness or violence.
Over and over, continuously, we see this sort of purely abusive behavior on the part of police in several "civilized" countries. Every single time, some poor individual, if lucky enough with press coverage and donated legal assistance, has to go through a huge ordeal to get charges dropped against his/herself, and usually no repercussions are faced by the abusers... or the individual does jail/prison time, gets assaulted... even murdered. Either way, next step is that we see it happen again. Even the rest of us, who aren't being assaulted by police, are paying those officers to stay employed, paying for their defense, paying to prosecute and imprison someone for trumped charges, etc....
How do people in "free" countries enact preventative measures? How do we turn the tide against the police state? Systems like the TSA seem bent on making "official vs citizen" interactions more and more degrading, and if nothing is done soon, there will be less and less public support for any sort of stand for our rights movement. So what works? Has any other country repaired this kind of damage?
This worked out really well for the collaborators last time:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/1435209/Out-of-Business-Clear-May-Sell-Customer-Data
I'll say it again: Do extra, voluntary action to cooperate with the police state in legitimizing the "papers please" nonsense, and get exactly what you deserve.
It started as a simple excuse to lock you into your ticket purchases. It still has that negative effect, and not a single positive. After all, matching ID to ticket had been done for decades leading to, and of course on, 9/11.
I actually said nothing about the topics of treason, libel, or fraud. What I was addressing is the perceived "validity" of traditional news organizations over a perceived non-validity for "new media" like Wikileaks.
Your argument suggests that you consider the actions of Wikileaks and contributors "treasonous." If so, how about the actions of Woodward and Bernstein and the Washington Post during Watergate? If you are consistent and feel they also commited treason, then my topic has nothing to do with yours. Those I address are the ones who think the Washington Post's actions are protected by some form of "press credentials" and Wikileak's actions are not.
We keep seeing court cases and lively debate over "Freedom of the Press," usually with regards to whether this blogger or that product reviewer etc... have a right to say what they say without "press credentials" or a large corporate news organization backing them, etc... A lot of self-professed "patriotic" US citizens want Wikileaks destroyed.
So where does the phrase "Freedom of the Press" come from? First Amendement of the US Constitution:
At the time this was written, what was "the press?" What was the relationship between the authors and founders of this country and "the press?" The press was a nifty machine that several of these men owned... a printing press. They used these devices to take their speech and propogate it further than mere voice could. They used this kind of speech to foment revolution against an unjust government and the press was a vital tool in this effort. Upon establishing a new government, they sought to extend that protection to all citizens.
So, when someone issues communications through technology, that is the press protected by the 1st Amendement.
I guess his "email girl" finally told him about it?
They're criminals and parasites and should be treated as such. Their tactics, their war against P2P, the censored and ad-laden radio paradigm being focused on while trying to sue MP3 player manufacturers into oblivion, etc... put them at odds with most of us. It was a declaration of war, so our side took up Letters of Marque and started running boycotts and embargoes. I still buy CDs... directly from indie artists selling them for around 50% or more profit. I still buy concert tickets and merch. I haven't bought an RIAA pressed CD in well over a decade now. I haven't listened to the radio willingly in around the same timeframe. I don't support terrorism. My favorite kind of music as a child was sample-heavy rap... guess what they destroyed? Now my favorite genre is completely illegal: mashups. But it's all good... at some point soon, thankfully due to articles like this, and technology replacing the utility of RIAA "services" across the board, they will fall, because the more anyone knows about them, the quicker they turn away. The only thing I've missed out on is knowing who the Top 40 overplayed band of the week is... and whenever I do find out, I'm glad I missed it. :-)
It's just a matter of time before a line gets crossed and a relationship gets saved / rekindled by trying to post the largest Fitbit numbers for the evening.
FTFY
Oddly enough, the word "Rybka" in Indo-Ukranian translates as "Net of the Sky."
Mt. Gox's homepage had something to the effect that they were working directly with Google to lock the accounts in question as a safety measure. I found out about this when my Gmail was locked, unlocked it, and then read my emails from Mt. Gox. I also checked the list of IP addresses that hit my Gmail (below inbox list) and there were none beside my own.
Bitcoin also represents two other major breakthroughs that have been dreamed about since the Internet gained public awareness: viable microtransactions, and electronic payments sans middlemen and fees.
This method of value exchange may change the earning dynamic for thousands of starving artists... the new band that gives its MP3s away but gets a few more cents worth from appreciating fans than they would from their share of an album's sale... the web comic author who finally has a tipjar equivalent working on her site, the author getting his feet wet writing short stories can gauge how interested people are in paying for his writings by asking for tips before putting in the time to write a full length novel. The maintainer of a freeware application can be encouraged to build more features or fix more bugs, etc...
Bitcoin's largest and most powerful enemies in the near term may actually be companies like Paypal and Visa, when people start exchanging value without their involvement. I expect legislation to be drafted by said companies, handed to the senators and congresspersons they own, and placed into law as the first real effort to destroy or fight Bitcoin.
I see people running for office, getting their name out there, sometimes making platform statements, promises... I never see them talk about how they'll turn the state's resources against us for their corporate masters. But that is what they do. It is what they are paid to do. It's completely transparent that law is for sale to the highest non-human bidder, and tax dollars will be used towards those interests. The human-level debates must be focused on emotional issues that the government really has no rightful jurisdiction over in the first place, to distract from this open secret.
Disenfranchised. Every man and woman in the United States.
I may not be a huge fan of democracy, nor of representative systems like a republic, but I laugh sorrowfully at any and all who claim this country still has such a form of government.
The invisible problem here is that corporations aren't actually aiming for real cost savings, or real cash generation... when "shareholder value" is the target, perception rules. And the perception around outsourcing is that it *of course* saves money.
Keep exposing the truth... once "outsourcing == more expensive and fail" is a mainstream meme, the trend dies.
They kinda already did... there's a 100 mile radius of all "border crossings" that's considered outside of Constitutional protections, so the north border, the south border, the coasts, and everywhere close enough to an airport, and the government has declared it can violate its founding document there. The courts upheld challenges to this. Here, found it: http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone
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