A lot of this stuff you can't even get on DVD ("so that means I'm justified in infringing on copyright until such time that a new business model legitimizes the market demand... MY demand.")
The steak isn't even really a completely free lunch. Someone has to cook it first, and that someone will probably want to earn royalties on that "intellectual property" for life, just like the copyright cartel does today.
Step 2) Get AI to do the design... taking the greedy humans out of the loop.:)
3D is great now, but it is about to get really really good.
You can say the same thing about almost anything at any point in time. The exponential nature of progress takes care of the rest... but it doesn't hurt to remind people how fast change is changing I guess. I mean... I expect to eat my sig in 30 years.:)
Uh, 1 gig of bandwidth is STILL pretty damn cheap. In bulk, that would cost less than ONE DOLLAR per GB, and paying only $1 per 500,000 victims would still payoff.
people claim they get to learn new kinds of music by P2P sharing. I won't say it isn't true, but how?
The best way is simply having people with eclectic tastes recommend random shit to you -- either IRL, IM, on message boards, etc. Another way, which I like, is using Amazon's recommendation system.
Also, some file sharing apps have a "Browse User" option, and this is very handy for queueing up bands you've never heard of from a user with possibly similar tastes.
Not everyone likes being spoonfed engineered culture...
Er, no, that's a result of a gnutella worm. That file is probably a something.jpg.vbs script and it propgates by being dl'd and executed by "morons" who don't look at file extentions.
Yeah, but that only happens with MS's wonderful ASF format. I got annoyed with that too and wrote a simple util that strips out all the ASF "Script_Command_Object's". No more popups.
but what is wrong in the heads of users that they don't understand that this is our network
Why do people piss in the pool? Why do punks tag bridges? Same thing.
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1. Randomly selecting and litigating against users engaging in piracy
countermeasure: encryption + the bad press that randomly sueing upstanding citizens would bring.
2. Creating fake users that carry (incorrectly named or damaged files)
countermeasure: webs of trust & md5 hashes.
3. Broadcasting fake queries in order to degrade network performance
countermeasure: evolve to shun the DoS nodes (again, webs of trust & a 'witness system' needed).
4. Selectively targeting litigation against the small percentage of users that carry the majority of the files
countermeasure: This being the most effective [scare] tactic of the four, the best way to deflect it would be hiding your identity, or somehow spreading everything available very thin (freenet style) for plausible deniability, or serving from offshore, or rotating selections...
because people lived longer, they took fewer chances.
That only makes sense for as long as we're unable to "backup" our minds while being stuck in one body.
Ultimately, we'll shed our fragile wetware bodies in favor of cyborg and then entirely robotic shells, and maybe even eventually cast away any remnant of a shell, and live as a "God" in a virtual world of our own creation.
That's my goal anyway.:)
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300 trillion kg is the same as 300 mega tonnes
I think you meant GIGA tons, not MEGA tons, and in that case B5 would be as massive as 3 MILLION aircraft carriers. That's still a number I can't begin to fathom.
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So, if you were to get flung off the section of the spinning habitat that was simulating Earth gravity, your "escape velocity" would be around 9.8m/s.
To escape Babylon5 completely, your kinetic energy would have to be greater than its mass gravity potential energy... so:
1/2mv2 -GMm/r >= 0
Let's say my mass 'm' is 90kg, and the radius 'r' of B5 is 420 meters (it is, I just looked it up)...
Solving for B5's mass 'M', it would have to be around 300 TRILLION kilograms (I hope I got this right) to eventually suck me back into its gravity well. The murderer just has to remember to give the body a little extra push.
Oh, and to go one better, this mass transit system shouldn't be like a convetional subway, but more like a form of Personal Rapid Transit so that you get the best of both worlds.
You get the independence of a "car" that you can also drive into the subway and link-up in wolfpack trains.
Until trains can equal planes in time, and be significant lower in cost this will not exist in the US. After that try getting land to do it and getting the environmentalist to allow you to put in the tracks and zip along at a high speed.
OK, imagine if you will a complex global network of underground vacuum tubes with maglev trains zipping along friction-free at potentially thousands of miles per hour. It's faster than a plane, cheaper per mile, and since it's mostly underground, the environmentalists would only get to bitch about a few earthworms and such.
Of course, we can't build this today because digging tunnels is super expensive, but it WILL eventually get built IMO.
The most important enabling technology will be nanotechnology -- so instead of digging tunnels the hard way, we can completely automate the process by programming our vat of "smart goo" to "eat" downward 10 miles, then westward 2500 miles to go the distance from NYC to Los Angeles, and build as it progresses.
Rereading my post, it doesn't make sense. I didn't mean to throw out the "ad-question" as a way of rewarding you for viewing an ad. I just meant to add that I should be paid for my attention before being subjected to it, and I only get to keep the "advance" if the end-question (which has got to be hard to automatically answer) is answered correctly.
That way I can set my offer price above most advertisers bid prices and be left alone. The way you have it, I have to watch the ads no matter what, but I get a "REBATE" if I answer each one right.
If I got "paid" to answer simple ad-questions like that, I'd be very tempted to "cheat" with smart (as can be) automation.
I think a better idea is if companies want to sell me their crap (or just burn their brand in my retina), then they should PAY ME for my attention first. As it is, they're used to captive audiences not being able to filter them out, so this is foreign idea I'm sure.
wrong... Society collectively(at least in the US most other countries) decided that using intellectual property without permission is theft.
Actually, I think weinerdog is right in saying that the jury is out on whether or not copyright infringement is outright theft punishable by death (ok, not death), in light of the times we live in. The constitutional "decision" you speak of, was made hundreds of years ago when content was tied to expensive physical media.
You can't ignore the fact that technology changes society in drastic ways, and it's the law playing catchup. The nature of digital tech makes enforcing copyright next to impossible, which renders copyright law toothless. Society will either agree that draconian copyright enforcement is a good thing, or they won't, and a new balance between creators and 'consumers' will emerge on its own (not hand-waiving).
Here's an appropriate quote I happen to agree with:
"...piracy laws are so practically unenforceable and breaking them has become so socially acceptable that only a thin minority appears compelled...to obey them.... Whenever there is such profound divergence between the law and social practice, it is not society that adapts."--John Perry Barlow
... no-one has come up with a safe solution to the waste problem
Well, since you bring it up, there is a much better solution to handling nuclear waste than simply burying it in limestone, and better even than placing it near subduction zones in the ocean and waiting for the Earth to gobble it up.
What is this "unrealistic" technofix you ask? geopolymerization -- we bind the liquid/solid waste in micron-sized "cages" which taken as a whole is like synthetic rock. It's many times safer than current containment; safe enough even to put on a playground (unless you completely pulverize the thing). Break a conventional waste container and it's game over; break the rock and you only release minute quanities from the cages shattered near the breakline.
Glad to meet you Pessimist. I'm an Optimist. Balance the two of us and we get Reality eventually.
any number of people who can physically view the surface can view the contents
You don't need a physical surface in order to share it. You could just as well have a group of people sharing a virtual whiteboard.
But you're right that 'normal surface' displays would be more accessable for quite a long time -- at least until virtual retinal scanning displays were so ubiquitous that newborns become cyborgs at the same time they're circumsized.:)
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Every time this subject comes up I like to list a few killer apps of AR:
Ad-blocking for the real world! Imagine how much more peaceful the world would be once you have the option of filtering out all that visual noise, especially in cities. e.g. billboards, posters, taxi-ads, jumbotrons, annoying T-shirts.
A realtime "nude patch":)
Face and object recognition which brings up pertinent floating info about the subjects in view.
Heads-up navigational aid and early warning system. Never get lost again. Be able to see more at night and through smoke.
Combine with GPS to add/substract objects based on your surroundings. e.g. "Add" virtual Twin Towers back into your view of the world or subtract that annoying tree from your view and extrapolate what should be behind it.
Fully immersive GAMES and MOVIES! Full FOV, true depth of field, "IMAX-like" entertainment.
definitely going to be a problem in the US within the next couple decades
No it won't. In the next couple decades molecular nanotechnology will be quite mature.
Once we have the ability to build things molecule-by-molecule (pollution-free), that would imply we'll also have the easier ability to take things apart and sort then store the basic molecular building blocks for later reuse.
The ultimate in clean recyclability isn't that far off...
<futurist>Your home 'trashcan' in 2030 will probably be more like a compost heap on speed, with pipes carrying away the constituent molecules into a future "feedstock grid"</futurist>
Sorry for going off on a tangent... I can't help myself sometimes.:)
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A lot of this stuff you can't even get on DVD ("so that means I'm justified in infringing on copyright until such time that a new business model legitimizes the market demand... MY demand.")
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Step 2) Get AI to do the design... taking the greedy humans out of the loop. :)
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Because we need good little consumers to keep our hyper-capitalist economy churning! Duh.
Durable Goods are UN-American, dont-cha-know?! :)
("Because we can, can, can ...")
Yes we can, can, can, can
Can, can, can, can, can
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You can say the same thing about almost anything at any point in time. The exponential nature of progress takes care of the rest... but it doesn't hurt to remind people how fast change is changing I guess. I mean... I expect to eat my sig in 30 years. :)
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The best way is simply having people with eclectic tastes recommend random shit to you -- either IRL, IM, on message boards, etc. Another way, which I like, is using Amazon's recommendation system.
Also, some file sharing apps have a "Browse User" option, and this is very handy for queueing up bands you've never heard of from a user with possibly similar tastes.
Not everyone likes being spoonfed engineered culture...
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Yeah, but that only happens with MS's wonderful ASF format. I got annoyed with that too and wrote a simple util that strips out all the ASF "Script_Command_Object's". No more popups.
but what is wrong in the heads of users that they don't understand that this is our network
Why do people piss in the pool? Why do punks tag bridges? Same thing.
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countermeasure: encryption + the bad press that randomly sueing upstanding citizens would bring.
2. Creating fake users that carry (incorrectly named or damaged files)
countermeasure: webs of trust & md5 hashes.
3. Broadcasting fake queries in order to degrade network performance
countermeasure: evolve to shun the DoS nodes (again, webs of trust & a 'witness system' needed).
4. Selectively targeting litigation against the small percentage of users that carry the majority of the files
countermeasure: This being the most effective [scare] tactic of the four, the best way to deflect it would be hiding your identity, or somehow spreading everything available very thin (freenet style) for plausible deniability, or serving from offshore, or rotating selections...
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That only makes sense for as long as we're unable to "backup" our minds while being stuck in one body.
Ultimately, we'll shed our fragile wetware bodies in favor of cyborg and then entirely robotic shells, and maybe even eventually cast away any remnant of a shell, and live as a "God" in a virtual world of our own creation.
That's my goal anyway. :)
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I think you meant GIGA tons, not MEGA tons, and in that case B5 would be as massive as 3 MILLION aircraft carriers. That's still a number I can't begin to fathom.
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To escape Babylon5 completely, your kinetic energy would have to be greater than its mass gravity potential energy... so:
1/2mv2 -GMm/r >= 0
Let's say my mass 'm' is 90kg, and the radius 'r' of B5 is 420 meters (it is, I just looked it up)...
Solving for B5's mass 'M', it would have to be around 300 TRILLION kilograms (I hope I got this right) to eventually suck me back into its gravity well. The murderer just has to remember to give the body a little extra push.
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You get the independence of a "car" that you can also drive into the subway and link-up in wolfpack trains.
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OK, imagine if you will a complex global network of underground vacuum tubes with maglev trains zipping along friction-free at potentially thousands of miles per hour. It's faster than a plane, cheaper per mile, and since it's mostly underground, the environmentalists would only get to bitch about a few earthworms and such.
Of course, we can't build this today because digging tunnels is super expensive, but it WILL eventually get built IMO.
The most important enabling technology will be nanotechnology -- so instead of digging tunnels the hard way, we can completely automate the process by programming our vat of "smart goo" to "eat" downward 10 miles, then westward 2500 miles to go the distance from NYC to Los Angeles, and build as it progresses.
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That way I can set my offer price above most advertisers bid prices and be left alone. The way you have it, I have to watch the ads no matter what, but I get a "REBATE" if I answer each one right.
If I got "paid" to answer simple ad-questions like that, I'd be very tempted to "cheat" with smart (as can be) automation.
I think a better idea is if companies want to sell me their crap (or just burn their brand in my retina), then they should PAY ME for my attention first. As it is, they're used to captive audiences not being able to filter them out, so this is foreign idea I'm sure.
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Actually, I think weinerdog is right in saying that the jury is out on whether or not copyright infringement is outright theft punishable by death (ok, not death), in light of the times we live in. The constitutional "decision" you speak of, was made hundreds of years ago when content was tied to expensive physical media.
You can't ignore the fact that technology changes society in drastic ways, and it's the law playing catchup. The nature of digital tech makes enforcing copyright next to impossible, which renders copyright law toothless. Society will either agree that draconian copyright enforcement is a good thing, or they won't, and a new balance between creators and 'consumers' will emerge on its own (not hand-waiving).
Here's an appropriate quote I happen to agree with:
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Here's how you make bad predictions (from UTF):
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Well, since you bring it up, there is a much better solution to handling nuclear waste than simply burying it in limestone, and better even than placing it near subduction zones in the ocean and waiting for the Earth to gobble it up.
What is this "unrealistic" technofix you ask? geopolymerization -- we bind the liquid/solid waste in micron-sized "cages" which taken as a whole is like synthetic rock. It's many times safer than current containment; safe enough even to put on a playground (unless you completely pulverize the thing). Break a conventional waste container and it's game over; break the rock and you only release minute quanities from the cages shattered near the breakline.
Glad to meet you Pessimist. I'm an Optimist. Balance the two of us and we get Reality eventually.
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You don't need a physical surface in order to share it. You could just as well have a group of people sharing a virtual whiteboard.
But you're right that 'normal surface' displays would be more accessable for quite a long time -- at least until virtual retinal scanning displays were so ubiquitous that newborns become cyborgs at the same time they're circumsized. :)
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No it won't. In the next couple decades molecular nanotechnology will be quite mature.
Once we have the ability to build things molecule-by-molecule (pollution-free), that would imply we'll also have the easier ability to take things apart and sort then store the basic molecular building blocks for later reuse.
The ultimate in clean recyclability isn't that far off...
<futurist>Your home 'trashcan' in 2030 will probably be more like a compost heap on speed, with pipes carrying away the constituent molecules into a future "feedstock grid"</futurist>
Sorry for going off on a tangent... I can't help myself sometimes. :)
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I'm still waiting for the pendulum to start swinging back towards sanity... but it appears the FUD powergrabbing isn't over yet.
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