Should we care if some wanker who broadcasts mp3s of Christina Aguilera gets harassed by the RIAA bastards? Those are the people the RIAA should be harassing and leave everyone else alone. "Mess with the music mafia, the Genie in the Bottle will shove her dildo up your ass!" She wants to do it to everyone, but needs an excuse. So she hires people to put her crap on the internet. Down with the music mafia and their copyright infringing collaborators!
As to Wifi and police. I don't think they'll care if you are not doing anything which is actually illegal. Even if you do illegal things, they probably won't even pay much attention...unless you do a lot of ranting with threats to kill many people.;-)
The corporations won't be able to do much. They'll either have to find the exact position of your Wifi spot to serve a legal notice or try to disrupt your signal (probably get them in trouble with the FCC).
As to proxies and blocking, in most countries the ISPs seem to be doing this on their own. I doubt the police would care if you somehow made your own network. Maybe if your neighbors are really cool, you could all string some 10baseT cable to each other's houses/apartments. Have a neighborhood intranet. You'd have to be doing some wild things for any outsider to notice you.
Yeah, the solutions I suggest wouldn't protect you from the police, but if you're not doing crazy shit or something, then they may likely ignore you. You would only be able to comunicate locally, but something is better than nothing.
The corps probably wouldn't even be able to find you, let alone censor you if they did, which seemed to be part of your goal for Meta. However, having to deal with total internet blockout is an extreme situation and may not happen. Even so, if you can start your own ISP, then it may solve some of the problems. I've thought about trying it, but I am not sure how to start my own business--maybe it should be some sort of coop?
Fuck you AT&T and shove your port 80 blocks up your ass!
Ah Yeah! Great site.
The "Meta" is interesting, but will there be any advantages over Freenet? Though merging the two together may work out nicely. The thing is, I don't see how they'll stop ISPs (like AT&T BB--soon to be comcast) from blocking services. Won't they eventually just block all connections except outgoing to their mail servers and web proxies? Do you see WiFi as a potential local solution?
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How would a non-programmer know what a comment is or what it looks like? Why not tell someone who doesn't know Chinese to compare two documents in Chinese, and ask if they say the same thing? The results would be unreliable at best.
I bet if you ask the "non-programmer corporate analyst" if the comments were the same, you'd get "what the hell is a comment?"
No, maybe he just hates the Taliban. Like all sane people. You can follow a religion without harassing, abusing, or discriminating against people of other beliefs.
Who said the bomb would be sitting on the counter? WTF kind of crack are you and stormshadow smoking anyway? Who would go to the trouble of making bombs, just to kill/mame some random geocacher out in the woods, then use a second bomb to kill a handful of paramedics and police officers. There are a thousand more likely ways a psycho would plant a bomb.
No point in banning geocaching, unless you plan to also lock everyone in their own "safe" room where they are stripped and tied to a bed and police patrol the grounds on a regular basis. That would stop any possible terrorism! Of course more people would die of starvation than ever would have from terrorism because we would not be able to produce food.
God, you are really paranoid and stupid. How about this more likely scenario:
A "friend" you've never met opens up a McDonalds, all is fine and fun for a few months. Then some nutball gets an idea from the McDonalds shootings, except he doesn't want to risk his own life, so he uses a bomb with bullets inside to give the same effect. He also wants to kill police and emergency workers, so he hijacks a satellite laser and fires it down on the McDonalds when they show up.
OH MY GOD!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS NOW! Wait a sec... this could happen in any retaurant!!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL RESTAURANTS!!!
Wait a sec...someone could blow up my apartment complex. OH MY GOD!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL APARTMENT COMPLEXES!!! IN FACT, WE SHOULD BAN ALL BUILDINGS!!! Let's all go live in caves. Wait a sec...OH MY GOD!!! THEY CAN BOMB CAVES TOO!!! We'll just have to live out in a flat desert. Wait a sec...OH MY GOD!!! Then they'll form war parties and use humanities disorganization to kill us all!!! It's just like Mad Max!!! AAAAaaaaaahhhhhh.....
You have a point, but I think it should be pointed out one can't stop everything because someone may jump to a conclusion. On the opposite extreme, I remember hearing a story about a university where a guy left an old vcr, and some idiot decided it was a bomb. The bomb squad was called and everything. I think the police even charged the guy--even though the vcr was not a bomb, nor did he do anything to the vcr or say anything which would indicate it was a bomb! I wish I could find the story. It is an interesting read, and it happened before 11 Sept 2001.
Yeah, it's a bad idea to leave anything near a military base, but I just had to say this because I know there are lots of stupid "zero tolerance" people out there who would change this issue into forbidding everything. You can't even take a crap in the toilet anymore without someone saying you are "ruining the environment."
90% of their piracy "statistics" are probably open source/free/"Free" software anyway. The BSA is an organization created and run by big for-profit software companies. Their reason for existing appears to be making up FUD and shaking down those who don't use BSA member's software. 99.9% of their statistics are made up crap.
I know all about this "show and tell time" Mr McBride talks about. Let me describe the scene:
Someone yells, "hey look at the shiny quarter on the ground!" Mr. McBride bends over to pick it up. A penguin shows its big dong, and places it in an obvious spot. Instant goatse.cx for McBride! Tell the world.
Simplistic view? In the past, M$ has proven they will lie, cheat, and steal to control their users and to try trapping everyone into using their product. It is like working with Hitler. Making a compromise or alliance with such people is suicide. Just ask Stalin.
What good would "open implementations" of DRM do? Allowing others to control what your computer does with their file/data is the entire point of DRM. When that fails, M$ and the MPAA will create a censorship system under the guise they need to delete infringing files. To do so, a M$ controlled DRM system will need to be in place--to trap everyone into only using M$ systems, and/or to hide the fact they are censoring people.
An open implementation would defeat the entire purpose. An open implementation would not even be good for most of the other purposes touted for DRM. Anyone would be able to counterfeit Eca$h, or copy those secret emails. A trusted third party would be required to control your computer. I will never trust M$, only a fool would.
The "mp3 download of a song as a loss" is what they say in public. They perceive the low cost and easy distribution of music as creating competition--which is a huge loss for them.
Paladdium is designed to give programmers and users a medium of trust between the software, hardware and computer data.
This sounds like TCPA, not Palladium. I think you are confusing them. Palladium is Microsoft's implementation, and it is quite clear MS and only MS will be able to sign applications who touch Palladium content and hardware drivers (which could take control of the machine).
That is why I need my own fab, so I can make any sort of chip I want, and the terrorists can't stop me!
Having the Palladium master keys would help as well.
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posters that say Slackware is better because "you have to compile all of the applications for yourself"
Funny. Complile what? They don't even have any source code on the main disk--except for the kernel. Maybe you are confused by all the development packages. Oh no! Slackware allows one to write one's own programs and compile them too. Aaahhh! What a bunch of crazies!
Most of the time I put anyone who seems annoying on my foes list. I usually look at past posts too, so it's not completely arbitrary.
Upon review of your recent posts, you don't seem annoying. In fact, I almost wonder if, late one night, I intended to put you on my friends list, but my finger slipped? Not sure. Maybe I was in a bad mood that day.
However, while looking through your posts, I found a very eeevveeil grammar nazi! Alan Porridge or something like that. Now there is a prized addition to my list! I have to wonder why he's not on your foe list after the senseless reaming he gave you...
I don't know. I set Mozilla to override a site's colours.;-)
I did see a weird thing with this story. It first showed up without a body or subject, so I clicked the "Read More..." link to see what it was, and I got the story. Did someone submit the story blank and correct it?
It looked something like this:
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The big question is, if the RIAA/MPAA are just fighting copyright infringement, then why would they dislike BitTorrent more than HTTP or FTP? After all, they can still send a DMCA complaint to the main server's admin or hosting company. Or easily find and sue the person who uploaded the infringing file in the first place. If the RIAA/MPAA had heard about HTTP and the Web when it was created, would they have tried to sue the developers? Unfortunately, I suspect the answer is "yes".
If they do go after BitTorrent, it will be solid and indisputable evidence they wish to control technology and restrain trade, not protect their copyrights.
I have them set to -6, but I usually check below my threshold for replies to interesting posts. You set it under the preferences, in the comments area. The setting is called "Anonymous Modifier". A value of -6 will guarantee ACs get a -1 rating even if they are modded up.
"Clean code" and "optimized code" are opposing forces!
Maybe back in the days programmers knew what they were doing and were optimizing with assembly, but not these days. Nowadays, they write thirty lines of code when they should've just written i++. It's even at the design level. They'll use a beowulf cluster of XML parsers when they just need to write a few integer values into a file. In these troubled days, "optimized" means "leave out the crap".
No, people found out how shitty it is. The original movie was somewhat decent. Reloaded is a bunch of crap slapped together to capitalize off of the first one's reputation. Yeah, the special effects were good, but only 10 year old kids go to see a movie just for special effects.
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Ahh...someone who knows the message. Here is a news story about it.
Should we care if some wanker who broadcasts mp3s of Christina Aguilera gets harassed by the RIAA bastards? Those are the people the RIAA should be harassing and leave everyone else alone. "Mess with the music mafia, the Genie in the Bottle will shove her dildo up your ass!" She wants to do it to everyone, but needs an excuse. So she hires people to put her crap on the internet. Down with the music mafia and their copyright infringing collaborators!
As to Wifi and police. I don't think they'll care if you are not doing anything which is actually illegal. Even if you do illegal things, they probably won't even pay much attention...unless you do a lot of ranting with threats to kill many people. ;-)
The corporations won't be able to do much. They'll either have to find the exact position of your Wifi spot to serve a legal notice or try to disrupt your signal (probably get them in trouble with the FCC).
As to proxies and blocking, in most countries the ISPs seem to be doing this on their own. I doubt the police would care if you somehow made your own network. Maybe if your neighbors are really cool, you could all string some 10baseT cable to each other's houses/apartments. Have a neighborhood intranet. You'd have to be doing some wild things for any outsider to notice you.
Yeah, the solutions I suggest wouldn't protect you from the police, but if you're not doing crazy shit or something, then they may likely ignore you. You would only be able to comunicate locally, but something is better than nothing.
The corps probably wouldn't even be able to find you, let alone censor you if they did, which seemed to be part of your goal for Meta. However, having to deal with total internet blockout is an extreme situation and may not happen. Even so, if you can start your own ISP, then it may solve some of the problems. I've thought about trying it, but I am not sure how to start my own business--maybe it should be some sort of coop?
Ah Yeah! Great site.
The "Meta" is interesting, but will there be any advantages over Freenet? Though merging the two together may work out nicely. The thing is, I don't see how they'll stop ISPs (like AT&T BB--soon to be comcast) from blocking services. Won't they eventually just block all connections except outgoing to their mail servers and web proxies? Do you see WiFi as a potential local solution?
How would a non-programmer know what a comment is or what it looks like? Why not tell someone who doesn't know Chinese to compare two documents in Chinese, and ask if they say the same thing? The results would be unreliable at best.
I bet if you ask the "non-programmer corporate analyst" if the comments were the same, you'd get "what the hell is a comment?"
No, maybe he just hates the Taliban. Like all sane people. You can follow a religion without harassing, abusing, or discriminating against people of other beliefs.
Who said the bomb would be sitting on the counter? WTF kind of crack are you and stormshadow smoking anyway? Who would go to the trouble of making bombs, just to kill/mame some random geocacher out in the woods, then use a second bomb to kill a handful of paramedics and police officers. There are a thousand more likely ways a psycho would plant a bomb.
No point in banning geocaching, unless you plan to also lock everyone in their own "safe" room where they are stripped and tied to a bed and police patrol the grounds on a regular basis. That would stop any possible terrorism! Of course more people would die of starvation than ever would have from terrorism because we would not be able to produce food.
God, you are really paranoid and stupid. How about this more likely scenario:
A "friend" you've never met opens up a McDonalds, all is fine and fun for a few months. Then some nutball gets an idea from the McDonalds shootings, except he doesn't want to risk his own life, so he uses a bomb with bullets inside to give the same effect. He also wants to kill police and emergency workers, so he hijacks a satellite laser and fires it down on the McDonalds when they show up.
OH MY GOD!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS NOW! Wait a sec... this could happen in any retaurant!!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL RESTAURANTS!!!
Wait a sec...someone could blow up my apartment complex. OH MY GOD!!! WE HAVE TO BAN ALL APARTMENT COMPLEXES!!! IN FACT, WE SHOULD BAN ALL BUILDINGS!!! Let's all go live in caves. Wait a sec...OH MY GOD!!! THEY CAN BOMB CAVES TOO!!! We'll just have to live out in a flat desert. Wait a sec...OH MY GOD!!! Then they'll form war parties and use humanities disorganization to kill us all!!! It's just like Mad Max!!! AAAAaaaaaahhhhhh.....
You have a point, but I think it should be pointed out one can't stop everything because someone may jump to a conclusion. On the opposite extreme, I remember hearing a story about a university where a guy left an old vcr, and some idiot decided it was a bomb. The bomb squad was called and everything. I think the police even charged the guy--even though the vcr was not a bomb, nor did he do anything to the vcr or say anything which would indicate it was a bomb! I wish I could find the story. It is an interesting read, and it happened before 11 Sept 2001.
Yeah, it's a bad idea to leave anything near a military base, but I just had to say this because I know there are lots of stupid "zero tolerance" people out there who would change this issue into forbidding everything. You can't even take a crap in the toilet anymore without someone saying you are "ruining the environment."
90% of their piracy "statistics" are probably open source/free/"Free" software anyway. The BSA is an organization created and run by big for-profit software companies. Their reason for existing appears to be making up FUD and shaking down those who don't use BSA member's software. 99.9% of their statistics are made up crap.
Just think of the whole OpenOffice scandal.
I know all about this "show and tell time" Mr McBride talks about. Let me describe the scene:
Someone yells, "hey look at the shiny quarter on the ground!" Mr. McBride bends over to pick it up. A penguin shows its big dong, and places it in an obvious spot. Instant goatse.cx for McBride! Tell the world.
Simplistic view? In the past, M$ has proven they will lie, cheat, and steal to control their users and to try trapping everyone into using their product. It is like working with Hitler. Making a compromise or alliance with such people is suicide. Just ask Stalin.
What good would "open implementations" of DRM do? Allowing others to control what your computer does with their file/data is the entire point of DRM. When that fails, M$ and the MPAA will create a censorship system under the guise they need to delete infringing files. To do so, a M$ controlled DRM system will need to be in place--to trap everyone into only using M$ systems, and/or to hide the fact they are censoring people.
An open implementation would defeat the entire purpose. An open implementation would not even be good for most of the other purposes touted for DRM. Anyone would be able to counterfeit Eca$h, or copy those secret emails. A trusted third party would be required to control your computer. I will never trust M$, only a fool would.
The "mp3 download of a song as a loss" is what they say in public. They perceive the low cost and easy distribution of music as creating competition--which is a huge loss for them.
This sounds like TCPA, not Palladium. I think you are confusing them. Palladium is Microsoft's implementation, and it is quite clear MS and only MS will be able to sign applications who touch Palladium content and hardware drivers (which could take control of the machine).
That is why I need my own fab, so I can make any sort of chip I want, and the terrorists can't stop me!
Having the Palladium master keys would help as well.
Funny. Complile what? They don't even have any source code on the main disk--except for the kernel. Maybe you are confused by all the development packages. Oh no! Slackware allows one to write one's own programs and compile them too. Aaahhh! What a bunch of crazies!
It's better than Mi$roCrap$, anything is.
Most of the time I put anyone who seems annoying on my foes list. I usually look at past posts too, so it's not completely arbitrary.
Upon review of your recent posts, you don't seem annoying. In fact, I almost wonder if, late one night, I intended to put you on my friends list, but my finger slipped? Not sure. Maybe I was in a bad mood that day.
However, while looking through your posts, I found a very eeevveeil grammar nazi! Alan Porridge or something like that. Now there is a prized addition to my list! I have to wonder why he's not on your foe list after the senseless reaming he gave you...
The guy you are replying to sounds more like an AOL luser than a "pyrate". "All my friends are on AIM, so why shouldn't everyone use AIM?"
I don't know. I set Mozilla to override a site's colours. ;-)
I did see a weird thing with this story. It first showed up without a body or subject, so I clicked the "Read More..." link to see what it was, and I got the story. Did someone submit the story blank and correct it?
It looked something like this:
Games: Posted by on 2003.05.29 4:24
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Why would it have to be GPL?
The big question is, if the RIAA/MPAA are just fighting copyright infringement, then why would they dislike BitTorrent more than HTTP or FTP? After all, they can still send a DMCA complaint to the main server's admin or hosting company. Or easily find and sue the person who uploaded the infringing file in the first place. If the RIAA/MPAA had heard about HTTP and the Web when it was created, would they have tried to sue the developers? Unfortunately, I suspect the answer is "yes".
If they do go after BitTorrent, it will be solid and indisputable evidence they wish to control technology and restrain trade, not protect their copyrights.
I have them set to -6, but I usually check below my threshold for replies to interesting posts. You set it under the preferences, in the comments area. The setting is called "Anonymous Modifier". A value of -6 will guarantee ACs get a -1 rating even if they are modded up.
Maybe back in the days programmers knew what they were doing and were optimizing with assembly, but not these days. Nowadays, they write thirty lines of code when they should've just written i++. It's even at the design level. They'll use a beowulf cluster of XML parsers when they just need to write a few integer values into a file. In these troubled days, "optimized" means "leave out the crap".
Not only that, but they may put in a pic of the goatse.cx guy in place of the one you linked to.
No, people found out how shitty it is. The original movie was somewhat decent. Reloaded is a bunch of crap slapped together to capitalize off of the first one's reputation. Yeah, the special effects were good, but only 10 year old kids go to see a movie just for special effects.