Like all the non-RIAA labels on iTunes? Since they're not a part of the recording cartel they don't have to go along with the price fixing.
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P2P News Syndication?
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Remember back a year ago when CNN and the rest refused to show "unhelpful" footage that Al Jazeera shot of the POW's in Iraq? Sure, the networks eventually showed it, but before that it was available on p2p (specifically, it was on one of the very first BitTorrent sites that I can't remember the name of... had a black background).
Sure thing... right after I post a link to it so other people can have the choice to satisfy their morbid curiosity, or not.
I did quick search of ogrish.com's forum and couldn't find a mirror, but did determine that an alternate filename for this video was "suicidewash.mpg", which makes p2p search easy. So here's a direct eDonkey link:
This is really tame compared to the alltime worst shockvideo I've ever seen, named "Unknown Russian Soldier". Anyway, mod this post down if you're a "decent" person who's pro-censorship when it suits you.
The idea that $15 or even $20 is too much for a piece of art made by a genius makes me laugh.
And it's probably a nervous laugh too, seeing as the link in your sig sells pieces of plastic containing old work! Conflict of interest? nahhh, 'course not.
At least zogger's not hypocritical when he says he'll be happy giving away copies of the fruits of his labor once the marginal cost of its reproduction drops to nothing (and I'm with him on that). Copies aren't scarce, but originality & freshness is, and the REALITY is that that is what we're going to have to end up funding, since artifical-scarcity-enforcement cannot work - not legally (DMCA), not technically (DRM), and not socially (unless there's a patron & artist relationship).
How are you going to buy a CD from John Coltrane or Johnny Cash at their show if they're dead.
If you have to ask that then you didn't actually comprehend his post. you're presupposing that it makes sense to pay for a copy of a dead man's work.
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Re:continuously "working smarter" == ponzi scheme
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Train Your Own Replacement
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He also doesn't seem to be familiar with the notion that this time it's different - that everybody can't simply retrain for a new job like between the last few economic shifts, because the bar has been raised so much higher: outsourcing, huge productivity increases, and automation mean that it will increasingly be the case that not everyone who needs a job to survive will be able to get one, and yet welfare remains a dirty word.
I'm with Marshall Brain, and others, in thinking that we should eventually phase in a basic living wage (not 'welfare'), rather than letting our fellow man starve simply because he's unproductive dead weight.
Any others find that the idea of purchasing software now seems kind of strange?
Hell, the idea of purchasing food and other material objects has seemed quaint to me ever since I became aware of the inevitability of near-future nanotech. It's still a rare, and some would say naive point of view, but molecular nanotech will soon do for hardware what computing has done for software. Being able to manipulate atoms like bits means that, among other things, "putting food on the table" just got a whole lot easier, and hence whole lot more people can afford to be less greedy about old scarcity-based crutches such as "Intellectual Property".
In the meantime, there's nothing strange about volunteering funds/whoofie towards the ongoing development of OSS.
SuSE in particular seems to have gained a whole lot of momentum lately. Aided by RedHat's "mistake", by YaST being open sourced, and by Novell's good moves, I think that SuSE will soon have the mindshare (and desktop/server share) that RedHat used to enjoy (and this despite the fact that SuSE still doesn't offer downloadable x86 ISOs.)
I know that I, for one, will be switching in May from RH9 to SuSE 9.1 Pro, and will be recommending it to others in place of the other major contenders (RHEL, Fedora, Mandrake, "Java" desktop, etc.)
With a name like "QUEERIO", that poor robot is going to get teased by all the other macho hetero bots until one day it just *snaps* and takes over the world Columbine-style. That's how it happens you know.
I'm of the mind that the genie can't be put back - that open hardware will prevail, DRM will fail, and that alternative means of funding digital works will emerge such as variations on the street performer protocol, where it's the SCARCE act of creation that is funded, rather than the zero marginal cost of reproducing abundant old data.
FYI: Most newstands in 2011 are RFID-ready - that means that when you walk by the stand in your hip new RFID-laden clothing, your info is cross-ref'd and used to dynamically set the price and update the e-Ink covers for maximum purchase probability. If the newstand detects a human presence, but NO RFID, then it will assume you're an anonymous terrorist and report your location to the Ministry of Bush.
Since Farscape is closer to Sci-Fantasy than Sci-Fi (or "SF"), my theory is that Rigel will unleash a magic fart that reacts with a special alien jello mold from that old hag witch doctors collection. This concoction will bring Chriton & Arin's molecules back together again, mostly - a few body parts will be swapped and disfigured for some hilarity to ensue right off the bat...
Instead of wasting my tax dollars on terabyte upon terabyte of bandwidth, they should have used BitTorrent to distribute these files; that's what it's designed for! Then, the money they save on bandwidth (by shifting it to my normally UNUSED and "unlimited" bandwidth) can be used more productively.
And don't give me the line about bittorrent being "hard" to setup, because 1) it's not, and 2) the type of people downloading these videos are slightly more technically inclined than Joe Average anyway.
You fail the empathy test - that puts you closer to the top of my "terrorist list" than some random muslim with shifty eyes wearing a large backpack. And *I'm* serious about that; complete lack of empathy for other human beings is the stuff assholes, spammers & terrorists are made of.
In fact, if I was to do airport security I'd implement various empathy tests to sniff out the sociopaths for added screening. "Sir! Show me your airline ticket or the puppy gets it!"... "What? You want to watch me cut Fluffy's throat?! Bend over!"
Ooookay, so you wait in line at FilePlanet (or whereever) while the rest of us swarm the download using our unused bandwidth. Schmuck. So what if the providers of the data you want aren't being bankrupted by bandwidth bills... you still benefit.
I didn't say ZERO cost, now did I - I said NEAR-zero cost.
somebody still has to pay the electric bill...
The same molecular manufacturing process that assembles the food can also make highly efficient solar panels that provide the power for the molecular manufacturing process... bootstrapping your self-sufficiency.
simple economics would mean that the price of "Ethiopian compost" and other suitable raw materials would rise due to increased demand.
There's an over-abundance of suitable raw material all around and underneath you, with the most useful stuff -- carbon,hydrogen,oxygen,nitrogen -- also being among the most common. And don't forget that atoms don't wear out, so the carbon in "your" diamond ring today can be the recycled carbon in somebody elses dinner tomorrow night.
Now, would Google have been able to be this kewl if they had gone public?
Of course not.
Everybody knows that on the day of IPO, a company is required to trade in their human souls for "professional" corporate-drone modules.
A sense of humor is a liability; it's much safer to offend no one by pandering to the lowest common denominator, and shareholders love the corporate monotone almost as much as they love short-sighted profits.
You laugh now, but in about a decade it won't be an April fools joke to "download food off the internet."
With the democratization of molecular manufacturing, anyone will be able to download a "molecular blueprint (scan)" of any object -- including food, clothing, iPods, diamond, etc. -- and recycle local component molecules into that configuration. Of course this doesn't mean that you can transmute nitrogen into gold, but it does mean that you can turn the raw atomic material in, say, Ethiopian compost, into a thanksgiving feast.
The concept behind PeerCast is great, but it won't get the Network Effect of lots of people using it until it "just works" better than conventional client-server streaming.
(Hey, is Howard Stern being streamed by fans on peercast? I'm just grabbing it off alt.binaries.howard-stern for now... those cocksucking ClearChannel bastards!:)
Molecular nanotech is new to you? If so then I'd highly recommend checking out the Foresight Institute for a lot of good information about the implications of this tech, from scientists much more objective (and credible) than I.
As to why I claim that nanotech is a near-term probability, rather than hundreds or thousands of years off - it's because the law of accelerating returns convinces me that the future will arrive much sooner than most people are comfortable thinking about.
nanotechnology notwithstanding, there is still a huge amount of material that has to be broken up and moved. And where would it all be put - into space?
No, not outer space. There's more than enough room to move the displaced tunnel waste material to using normal landfill methods. But a more elegant solution which requires slightly smarter nanotechnology is to highly compact the waste material and deposit it in the space of the lower density earth surrounding the tunnel.
The rampant commercialism is depressing for anyone who doesn't define their life in shallow materialistic terms. The other day I saw my (2yr-old) niece wearing some overpriced "J-Lo" branded clothing and I just all I could do was shake my head in disgust.
But, I don't despair as much as I used to once I realized how profoundly molecular manufacturing will change our economy in the near-future. No longer will people have to SELL SELL SELL useless shit for the sake of TRADE in order to put food on the table; an economy of abundance means an end to the sad rat-race.
Lately, a scene keeps coming to my mind from the movie "THX 1138" where the people are required to fulfill their daily consumption quota by buying (and immediately disposing of) useless crap, soley to keep their screwed up economy churning.
The most efficient way to physically get around the planet in the near-future will turn out to be underground, rather than above -- in maglev trains through a global network of low-friction vacuum tunnels. Check out the Swissmetro site for pretty pictures.
Right now this is an impossibility because of the huge expense involved in making tunnels the old-fashioned way with TBMs. But, with near-term nanotechnology, moving hard bedrock molecules out of the way becomes almost as cheap and easy as manipulating databits; hardware essentially becomes software.
So, imagine a 20,000km nonstop train ride to the exact opposite side of the Earth in which you accelerate half-way at 1G and decelerate the other half at 1G. Your trip would only take just under 50 minutes! Hmm... but you'd be traveling 14,009m/s (or almost 31,337mph!) at the midpoint, which means there's enough centripetal force against the curved tunnel to lift you out of your seat... requiring the seats or the train to invert as you become weightless. (I'll leave it to someone else to figure the details out - I haven't done this physics since I was playing with the Babylon5 numbers).
Slashdot Mirror
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Sure thing... right after I post a link to it so other people can have the choice to satisfy their morbid curiosity, or not.
I did quick search of ogrish.com's forum and couldn't find a mirror, but did determine that an alternate filename for this video was "suicidewash.mpg", which makes p2p search easy. So here's a direct eDonkey link:
ed2k://|file|suicidewash.mpg|2087298|C2D67655E5E1C D5931DB10037F900FD3|/
This is really tame compared to the alltime worst shockvideo I've ever seen, named "Unknown Russian Soldier". Anyway, mod this post down if you're a "decent" person who's pro-censorship when it suits you.
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And it's probably a nervous laugh too, seeing as the link in your sig sells pieces of plastic containing old work! Conflict of interest? nahhh, 'course not.
At least zogger's not hypocritical when he says he'll be happy giving away copies of the fruits of his labor once the marginal cost of its reproduction drops to nothing (and I'm with him on that). Copies aren't scarce, but originality & freshness is, and the REALITY is that that is what we're going to have to end up funding, since artifical-scarcity-enforcement cannot work - not legally (DMCA), not technically (DRM), and not socially (unless there's a patron & artist relationship).
How are you going to buy a CD from John Coltrane or Johnny Cash at their show if they're dead.
If you have to ask that then you didn't actually comprehend his post. you're presupposing that it makes sense to pay for a copy of a dead man's work.
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I'm with Marshall Brain, and others, in thinking that we should eventually phase in a basic living wage (not 'welfare'), rather than letting our fellow man starve simply because he's unproductive dead weight.
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Hell, the idea of purchasing food and other material objects has seemed quaint to me ever since I became aware of the inevitability of near-future nanotech. It's still a rare, and some would say naive point of view, but molecular nanotech will soon do for hardware what computing has done for software. Being able to manipulate atoms like bits means that, among other things, "putting food on the table" just got a whole lot easier, and hence whole lot more people can afford to be less greedy about old scarcity-based crutches such as "Intellectual Property".
In the meantime, there's nothing strange about volunteering funds/whoofie towards the ongoing development of OSS.
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I know that I, for one, will be switching in May from RH9 to SuSE 9.1 Pro, and will be recommending it to others in place of the other major contenders (RHEL, Fedora, Mandrake, "Java" desktop, etc.)
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I'm of the mind that the genie can't be put back - that open hardware will prevail, DRM will fail, and that alternative means of funding digital works will emerge such as variations on the street performer protocol, where it's the SCARCE act of creation that is funded, rather than the zero marginal cost of reproducing abundant old data.
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Since Farscape is closer to Sci-Fantasy than Sci-Fi (or "SF"), my theory is that Rigel will unleash a magic fart that reacts with a special alien jello mold from that old hag witch doctors collection. This concoction will bring Chriton & Arin's molecules back together again, mostly - a few body parts will be swapped and disfigured for some hilarity to ensue right off the bat...
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Instead of wasting my tax dollars on terabyte upon terabyte of bandwidth, they should have used BitTorrent to distribute these files; that's what it's designed for! Then, the money they save on bandwidth (by shifting it to my normally UNUSED and "unlimited" bandwidth) can be used more productively.
And don't give me the line about bittorrent being "hard" to setup, because 1) it's not, and 2) the type of people downloading these videos are slightly more technically inclined than Joe Average anyway.
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In fact, if I was to do airport security I'd implement various empathy tests to sniff out the sociopaths for added screening. "Sir! Show me your airline ticket or the puppy gets it!" ... "What? You want to watch me cut Fluffy's throat?! Bend over!"
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somebody still has to pay the electric bill...
The same molecular manufacturing process that assembles the food can also make highly efficient solar panels that provide the power for the molecular manufacturing process... bootstrapping your self-sufficiency.
simple economics would mean that the price of "Ethiopian compost" and other suitable raw materials would rise due to increased demand.
There's an over-abundance of suitable raw material all around and underneath you, with the most useful stuff -- carbon,hydrogen,oxygen,nitrogen -- also being among the most common. And don't forget that atoms don't wear out, so the carbon in "your" diamond ring today can be the recycled carbon in somebody elses dinner tomorrow night.
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Of course not.
Everybody knows that on the day of IPO, a company is required to trade in their human souls for "professional" corporate-drone modules.
A sense of humor is a liability; it's much safer to offend no one by pandering to the lowest common denominator, and shareholders love the corporate monotone almost as much as they love short-sighted profits.
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With the democratization of molecular manufacturing, anyone will be able to download a "molecular blueprint (scan)" of any object -- including food, clothing, iPods, diamond, etc. -- and recycle local component molecules into that configuration. Of course this doesn't mean that you can transmute nitrogen into gold, but it does mean that you can turn the raw atomic material in, say, Ethiopian compost, into a thanksgiving feast.
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(Hey, is Howard Stern being streamed by fans on peercast? I'm just grabbing it off alt.binaries.howard-stern for now... those cocksucking ClearChannel bastards! :)
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As to why I claim that nanotech is a near-term probability, rather than hundreds or thousands of years off - it's because the law of accelerating returns convinces me that the future will arrive much sooner than most people are comfortable thinking about.
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No, not outer space. There's more than enough room to move the displaced tunnel waste material to using normal landfill methods. But a more elegant solution which requires slightly smarter nanotechnology is to highly compact the waste material and deposit it in the space of the lower density earth surrounding the tunnel.
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The rampant commercialism is depressing for anyone who doesn't define their life in shallow materialistic terms. The other day I saw my (2yr-old) niece wearing some overpriced "J-Lo" branded clothing and I just all I could do was shake my head in disgust.
But, I don't despair as much as I used to once I realized how profoundly molecular manufacturing will change our economy in the near-future. No longer will people have to SELL SELL SELL useless shit for the sake of TRADE in order to put food on the table; an economy of abundance means an end to the sad rat-race.
Lately, a scene keeps coming to my mind from the movie "THX 1138" where the people are required to fulfill their daily consumption quota by buying (and immediately disposing of) useless crap, soley to keep their screwed up economy churning.
--
Right now this is an impossibility because of the huge expense involved in making tunnels the old-fashioned way with TBMs. But, with near-term nanotechnology, moving hard bedrock molecules out of the way becomes almost as cheap and easy as manipulating databits; hardware essentially becomes software.
So, imagine a 20,000km nonstop train ride to the exact opposite side of the Earth in which you accelerate half-way at 1G and decelerate the other half at 1G. Your trip would only take just under 50 minutes! Hmm... but you'd be traveling 14,009m/s (or almost 31,337mph!) at the midpoint, which means there's enough centripetal force against the curved tunnel to lift you out of your seat... requiring the seats or the train to invert as you become weightless. (I'll leave it to someone else to figure the details out - I haven't done this physics since I was playing with the Babylon5 numbers).
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