I think I may be lucky because I know a ton of open source nerds personally. I'm hoping it can become more normal to email a correction to an author when a mistake is found.
Try promoting it to you local LUG one person at a time. If they get excited about it, they will send you fixes.
Editing a book isn't like editing Wikipedia. It means "proofread for the purposes of quality control," not "create derivative versions."
Well said. This is not non-fiction. Non-fiction can have two contributers resolve disputes through civil discourse about the nature of the truth. Fiction is a lie. How would you resolve plot direction? Who can type faster?
The book was released under that license from the start. I was originally planning on getting it published by a traditional (see fearful) publisher and didn't want to do anything to risk a potential deal. I just couldn't stand the thought of someone buying it and sitting on it. (Which happens all the time)
I the complete draft. A dozen people submitting edits on their own. Some of the contributions just emails with lists of hundreds of edits per post. None of which where solicited beyond 'if you find any errors' It *WAS NOT* the original plan to have this book be community edited.
BTW I can count the number of books I have sold on my fingers and toes. I just put it up on Lulu and bought an ISBN. When I realized the CC+CE+fiction+novel might be the case I tried to verify it and could not get a affirmative response from CC community list or many people I emailed. Only a group this large could have affirmed this.
I'm sorry you don't approve, honestly I don't either. I am not shameless. I am actually rather ashamed.
I have received good to great reviews so far, but there are no avenues to promote an book that is strictly a creative commons download. I have submitted the book for more mainstream reviews but I always get the same answer back. Until you have a publisher, we consider you a vanity writer.
In fairness I am pretty sure I can get published but have not perused it yet in part because I do not want to take a chance that the contract I sign will enable my publisher to attack my fans in my name. Everything that I read indicates that new authors will likely only get one legitimate chance at a real printing with real promotion.
So here I sit. Punished for trying to contribute to this culture, while not attacking it. I feel like a sailor dehydrating while at sea. Water everywhere but not a drop to drink. You seem like the kind of person who is willing to give me the tough criticism I need either in my business strategy or my writing skills. Could you read the book and tell me what you think? How would you proceed from here? Any feedback is welcome.
They may not even care if the edits were caught. IIRC, there are several ways to detect stenography with the key and they all revolve around detecting altered pictures. If you alter every picture you release but only encrypt messages in some, it may make it harder to determine which ones actually contain information.
Most people think of the propaganda aspects of altered photographs first. It goes show what we are worried the most about in this country, an army of mindless angry sheeple marching full speed in the wrong direction. We are actually projecting our fears about ourselves onto them. People intuitively know that even a well coordinated Al-Qaeda is a minor threat compared to the damage angry/scared/misguided US voters can do.
Assuming it's adopted, the 40gb standard may be the first Ethernet standard to have widespread fraud in the capabilities of hardware sold. Lots of hardware will be built that can't even come close to actually getting 40 gigabits advertised. Why? Many motherboards still can't utilize the full 10gbps even if the card can. The bad guys will catch on to this the second time around.
If you are the type to do the numbers and get a MB with sufficent bus speed. Buyer beware. The lack of speed may not be obvious without an order of magnitude jump.
I bought a 1650 in early May. 3D has never funtioned in Linux. Just crashes the machine. Many distro, hardware combo's tried. Works fine in Windows. $50 + shipping takes it. $150 retail.
Yea ATI's drivers are great....
BTW I'll give it to any developer making a serious effort to write open source drivers. I'll even pay shipping.
The FCC has failed time after time at their core mission. How can they be critical of areas outside of their expertise? Their mandate is regulating and managing spectrum. Hold your cell phone up to any audio device, even one without any kind of transmitter and a receiver. Here that awful noise? That's the sound of one hand clapping. That is the sound of failure my friends.
Why is all the AM/FM bandwidth is allocated as high power? Is that the only way it will work? Is commonly accessible radio only useful on a regional scale. No they are a bunch of whores for the big companies that want big inaccessible radio only.
The no copy bit? WTF?
And BTW whatever dumbass defended Bush on this you are a civics retard. The President appoints the head of the FCC, and congress risks even bigger chaos if they cut funding and there is nobody at the wheel.
Who ever is president is largely responsible for the performance and policies of the FCC, and Bush sucks!!!
Encourage people toward independence from the grid. Especially stockpiling day to day goods.
Encourage collaborative biological science. Make IP law less aggressive to those perusing science for the common good, so more people are ramped up. We are one engineered virus from the apocalypse.
Enforce immigration law, or change the law so it can be enforced. People don't attack cultures they are part off.
Fix the trade gap. Increase American manufacturing. The numbers of goods flowing into the country are uncheckable. It's fiscally impossible. Too many containers.
We can react to each attack, either through personal action or indirectly through orginizations like the EFF's legal efforts. But we always be reacting. Reacting as consumers to the content providers.
It's not hard to see who has the postion of power.
Or we can elivate ourselves to their level. If the conscientious become content providers their weapons can be turned against them. Class actions. Opposition lobbies. Awareness drives. Situations can be easily contrived even designed to drum up outrage aginst their abuses.
That is exactly what the famed copyleft aims to do. Their abuse counts on their solidarity and consistancy to give abuse the look and feel of normalcy.
Generate content. Become the orginal and honerable society. Become the new better Hollywood. The stakes are higher than you think. What happens to ordinary people when meatspace is commoditized like the Internet? What do muggles do when rules like this control their access to everything? They suffer.
We have to fix this now, while we still can. Write a story. Sing a song. Be the good guy.
Someone could also argue this is the other "CSI effect" After commiting a murder as a crime of passion, a new criminal realizes the he will be caught and sent to to jail or even killed. The perception is genetic science insures he(or she) will be caught. They then decide to 'go for it' and settle every grudge in the time before they are caught because there is nothing else to lose.
We need to restrict access to police dramas depicting successful investigations!
And why is everyone so hard on masterbation. Geez, you'd think God killed a kitten every time.
Look, now we have somthing in common. We both missed the point.:)
I know movies are complex, but there are already many shorts set in video game worlds on utube that prove the above is plausable. My leap in logic is that people are holding back from 1:45 min movies becase they agreed to a licence that may prohibit video distribution of game sequences.
Look at Toy story. Only 46 people are listed on the staff and that was a polished production! Above and beyond my scenerio, they had to draw all the story boards by hand, build all the 3d models themselves, and had to service major voice actors.
Compare this to other movies made that year like Seven or Ace Ventura. They had hundreds of actors, and many hundreds of staff members for those movies.
I'm not suggesting that voice actors will have no value, just that there are more hungry talented people at large than the west coast crowd imagines. In this scenerio they don't even need to be physically attractive! Even if the second movie costs a million, we are reaching a point where groups of talented teenagers can make an enjoyable movie for a few grand (for hardware not software) and a long summer vacation.
I'm guessing the restricted distribution model won't hold up very long if there is a new worthy starter movie comming out of the woodwork every month.
But it was pointless for me to elaborate like that wasn't it? You knew what I meant didn't you? Common admit it.
Notible, fully animated, $3000 budget movies with desktop directors should show up in the next couple of years. The first software vendor to sell a wide open game engine with a diverse enviornment like GTA, WOW, etc and an explicit disclaimer that they won't sue you or ask for a cut if you make financially successful commercial movies with it will make a killing!
Forget about it if the company gives you tools and permision remap/redraw everything easily with 2d sources.
Desktop directors will be the garage band rock stars of the next few decades.
You might know me by my old.sig
Your civilization has built the Internet.(+2sci) This obsoletes the Hollywood wonder.(+1hap)
I strongly recommend creating your own creative works, and releasing them under open licences. It's invigorating.
You find yourself in the enlightened position of rooting for 100% effective enforcement of any laws on the books, while still being horrified at the stupidity of the 'we have way too much money, with little of it encouraging artists' lobby.
There are some open authors and musicians and other creative types who are actually worthy of your attention who refuse to attack their fans. They show a subtle attention to your best interest that the heavy handed conglomerates can only wish to imitate
It's enough to cover my electrical needs. At 350 kwh a month in a 2 bedroom apt in queens with two adults and a baby living in it. That's with near full time use of two window air conditioners in the summer, and part time use of a dishwasher and a couple of nasty CRTs. All in an ancient, very inefficent building.
Of course there still is the issue of heat 8 months a year since those would be the less sunny days.
I was confusing the lack of write once/checksum (per boot) hardware memory protection on commodity hardware and random access meanings as interchangable. But you are correct. That is the original meaning.
'He pointed to a system devised by Ted Selker, co-director of the CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project. "The state of the art systems aren't even on the market."'
Warning RANT!
Then the people creating the current systems should all be fired. What kind of computer scientist doesn't understand that with any random access storage there is a risk of accidental or intentional destruction or alteration, at any time, in a random fasion. That's why it's called uhh random access. Hello? This is like a CS 101 second week quiz question. They even still call it RAM!
Any write once technology will be infinately better. Which one is academic. You can use a variety of write once technologies with a diverse amount of write confidence levels, number of rereads possible and techniqiue used, and cost. Just write the votes at they happen, in a sequential fasion, in a way that you cannot backtrack and rewrite.
a dot matrix printer?
a laser printer?
a cdrw?
a writable dvd?
a WORM tape drive?
Sevral of the above?
Why the hell are do Sarb-Ox and Hipaa require worm tape and encryption in many cases, yet our voting systems have nothing but the seat of their pants.
As an aside Bruce Schneier chimed in on this recently. I wonder if this had any effect on NIST's comments.
On the surface this seems to be the perfect test case to be appealed to the top. It is blatent political censorship. a 1:10 second clip of a many minute interview on a one hour show to demonstrate the untrustworthyness of a news source is as political and as vital to the Democratic process as it gets. The dicovery process required by the DMCA just wiped it's butt with the first ammendment.
Sorry Bill or Larry or who ever in the media companies where threatened and told to abuse this law. You just made the case.
It's good that you mention multipath support. Have seens any docs out there on how to do a simple multipath setup with both Linux target and initiators? I tested iscsi about 8 months ago and found 0 docs on it.
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Try promoting it to you local LUG one person at a time. If they get excited about it, they will send you fixes.
In this case, the editors for TTB understood that this was meant to be sold with their edits.
It sounds like the kuro5hin crowd was less offended that it was posted at all. :)
Well said. This is not non-fiction. Non-fiction can have two contributers resolve disputes through civil discourse about the nature of the truth. Fiction is a lie. How would you resolve plot direction? Who can type faster?
The book was released under that license from the start. I was originally planning on getting it published by a traditional (see fearful) publisher and didn't want to do anything to risk a potential deal. I just couldn't stand the thought of someone buying it and sitting on it. (Which happens all the time)
I the complete draft. A dozen people submitting edits on their own. Some of the contributions just emails with lists of hundreds of edits per post. None of which where solicited beyond 'if you find any errors' It *WAS NOT* the original plan to have this book be community edited.
BTW I can count the number of books I have sold on my fingers and toes. I just put it up on Lulu and bought an ISBN. When I realized the CC+CE+fiction+novel might be the case I tried to verify it and could not get a affirmative response from CC community list or many people I emailed. Only a group this large could have affirmed this.
Yup I was amazed. Unreal. I wonder how often they spot the scout, or if there are enough of them to cook the whole invasion.
I have received good to great reviews so far, but there are no avenues to promote an book that is strictly a creative commons download. I have submitted the book for more mainstream reviews but I always get the same answer back. Until you have a publisher, we consider you a vanity writer.
In fairness I am pretty sure I can get published but have not perused it yet in part because I do not want to take a chance that the contract I sign will enable my publisher to attack my fans in my name. Everything that I read indicates that new authors will likely only get one legitimate chance at a real printing with real promotion.
So here I sit. Punished for trying to contribute to this culture, while not attacking it. I feel like a sailor dehydrating while at sea. Water everywhere but not a drop to drink. You seem like the kind of person who is willing to give me the tough criticism I need either in my business strategy or my writing skills. Could you read the book and tell me what you think? How would you proceed from here? Any feedback is welcome.
I am sorry.
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Come give me a takedown notice for my own book. I'll sue the crap out of you.
For some reason the song "The Final Countdown" popped into my head. The worst part is, now I have to go buy a whole album so I can get it out.
Most people think of the propaganda aspects of altered photographs first. It goes show what we are worried the most about in this country, an army of mindless angry sheeple marching full speed in the wrong direction. We are actually projecting our fears about ourselves onto them. People intuitively know that even a well coordinated Al-Qaeda is a minor threat compared to the damage angry/scared/misguided US voters can do.
If you are the type to do the numbers and get a MB with sufficent bus speed. Buyer beware. The lack of speed may not be obvious without an order of magnitude jump.
Yea ATI's drivers are great....
BTW I'll give it to any developer making a serious effort to write open source drivers. I'll even pay shipping.
"Kill multi button gadgets! Steve Jobs robot army angry!"
The FCC has failed time after time at their core mission. How can they be critical of areas outside of their expertise? Their mandate is regulating and managing spectrum. Hold your cell phone up to any audio device, even one without any kind of transmitter and a receiver. Here that awful noise? That's the sound of one hand clapping. That is the sound of failure my friends.
Why is all the AM/FM bandwidth is allocated as high power? Is that the only way it will work? Is commonly accessible radio only useful on a regional scale. No they are a bunch of whores for the big companies that want big inaccessible radio only.
The no copy bit? WTF?
And BTW whatever dumbass defended Bush on this you are a civics retard. The President appoints the head of the FCC, and congress risks even bigger chaos if they cut funding and there is nobody at the wheel.
Who ever is president is largely responsible for the performance and policies of the FCC, and Bush sucks!!!
It's not hard to see who has the postion of power.
Or we can elivate ourselves to their level. If the conscientious become content providers their weapons can be turned against them. Class actions. Opposition lobbies. Awareness drives. Situations can be easily contrived even designed to drum up outrage aginst their abuses.
That is exactly what the famed copyleft aims to do. Their abuse counts on their solidarity and consistancy to give abuse the look and feel of normalcy.
Generate content. Become the orginal and honerable society. Become the new better Hollywood. The stakes are higher than you think. What happens to ordinary people when meatspace is commoditized like the Internet? What do muggles do when rules like this control their access to everything? They suffer.
We have to fix this now, while we still can. Write a story. Sing a song. Be the good guy.
Someone could also argue this is the other "CSI effect" After commiting a murder as a crime of passion, a new criminal realizes the he will be caught and sent to to jail or even killed. The perception is genetic science insures he(or she) will be caught. They then decide to 'go for it' and settle every grudge in the time before they are caught because there is nothing else to lose.
We need to restrict access to police dramas depicting successful investigations!
Oh wait that's stupid. :/
BTW the Think Outside keyboard is awsome, and mega handy.
Look, now we have somthing in common. We both missed the point. :)
I know movies are complex, but there are already many shorts set in video game worlds on utube that prove the above is plausable. My leap in logic is that people are holding back from 1:45 min movies becase they agreed to a licence that may prohibit video distribution of game sequences.
Look at Toy story. Only 46 people are listed on the staff and that was a polished production! Above and beyond my scenerio, they had to draw all the story boards by hand, build all the 3d models themselves, and had to service major voice actors.
Compare this to other movies made that year like Seven or Ace Ventura. They had hundreds of actors, and many hundreds of staff members for those movies.
I'm not suggesting that voice actors will have no value, just that there are more hungry talented people at large than the west coast crowd imagines. In this scenerio they don't even need to be physically attractive! Even if the second movie costs a million, we are reaching a point where groups of talented teenagers can make an enjoyable movie for a few grand (for hardware not software) and a long summer vacation.
I'm guessing the restricted distribution model won't hold up very long if there is a new worthy starter movie comming out of the woodwork every month.
But it was pointless for me to elaborate like that wasn't it? You knew what I meant didn't you? Common admit it.
Forget about it if the company gives you tools and permision remap/redraw everything easily with 2d sources.
Desktop directors will be the garage band rock stars of the next few decades.
You might know me by my old .sig
Your civilization has built the Internet.(+2sci) This obsoletes the Hollywood wonder.(+1hap)
You find yourself in the enlightened position of rooting for 100% effective enforcement of any laws on the books, while still being horrified at the stupidity of the 'we have way too much money, with little of it encouraging artists' lobby.
There are some open authors and musicians and other creative types who are actually worthy of your attention who refuse to attack their fans. They show a subtle attention to your best interest that the heavy handed conglomerates can only wish to imitate
Of course there still is the issue of heat 8 months a year since those would be the less sunny days.
*hangs head* I've been sick this week.
Warning RANT!
Then the people creating the current systems should all be fired. What kind of computer scientist doesn't understand that with any random access storage there is a risk of accidental or intentional destruction or alteration, at any time, in a random fasion. That's why it's called uhh random access. Hello? This is like a CS 101 second week quiz question. They even still call it RAM!
Any write once technology will be infinately better. Which one is academic. You can use a variety of write once technologies with a diverse amount of write confidence levels, number of rereads possible and techniqiue used, and cost. Just write the votes at they happen, in a sequential fasion, in a way that you cannot backtrack and rewrite.
Why the hell are do Sarb-Ox and Hipaa require worm tape and encryption in many cases, yet our voting systems have nothing but the seat of their pants.
As an aside Bruce Schneier chimed in on this recently. I wonder if this had any effect on NIST's comments.
Sorry Bill or Larry or who ever in the media companies where threatened and told to abuse this law. You just made the case.
Thanks.