"Mindawn will be a valuable partner for campuses instituting online entertainment programs because of its wide range of content by independent artists and its offer to allow UC students to market their own music. This is an important endeavor that we are embarking on, and we are pleased to be working with an established leader on the project."
The ability for students to market their music online easily is something other music services don't offer. This was possibly a significant factor in choosing this company. Its a very University of California type thing to do, and I as a UC student can't say I'm upset about this.
By the time these come out, (somewhat)affordable HD camcorders will also be hitting the market. Maybe they will have to make tripods illegal under the DMCA.
At my school(UCSB), 4 engineers made a self-tuning attachment for a guitar. Then a human can still play it, in perfect pitch. Thats alot more fun than watching a robot play. The demo was quite impressive, it would tune the guitar to any profile u set, with just one strum of the strings.
The Three Musketeers starring John Wayne. Thats right, John Wayne. 1$ at WalMart. Even the back of the DVD admits that it holds little resemblence to the original story, but who cares for a dollar.
Most of your points just aren't valid, and are addressed in the article. While this isn't the most user-friendly system ever, there will never be an "easy for everyone and their grandmother" solution to spam, so learn to compromise a bit. In theory atleast, this system is pretty damn solid. As for your complaints: 1. If you emailed an employer your resume, he would automatically be whitelisted. His reply would go through to your inbox, and he would be sent a valid subaddress in plaintext that could be automatically added to his mail client should he wish to contact you further. If he was first to initiate contact, then he would have to decode 1 CAPTCHA after which communication would be seemless. Hardly timeconsuming, especially since the bounce for the CAPTCHA would come to him right after he sent the first email. In the case of a university, it would be trivial for you to have a rule allowing all mail from a given domain. You certainly wouldn't want this for aol.com but I have no problem whitelisting any address@schoolIgoto.edu 2. Users, so to speak, don't have to maintain anything, their mail clients do. Current spam filters maintain a database of spam to perform bayesian analysis, which is more massive than a database of contacts. 3. The system will generate 1 (or maybe a few) bounces for initial correspondence between new users. This is nothing compared to the volume of wasted traffic due to spam. Furthermore, how many times do you send email to someone you've never mailed before. The 1 bounce to obtain a trusted method of communication seems worth it to me. 4. The system does not rely on both ISPs, however simply would be more efficient if the sending ISP is in the know. That way the addition of a trusted subaddress can be even more automated, but this is not neccesary. 5. The subaddresses are not suggested to be easily rememberable, but rather random. They will be stored by your mail client, and it is not really important for you to remember once you have decoded it the first time. 6. Your parents never have to know about subaddresses to recieve email. They can give out their address as before. When people email them, the bounce will be sent and all the contacts will establish subaddresses, without your parents ever realizing what happened.
Most of these "burdens" you bring up would be handled by software and would not be placed on the end user. You should read the webpage as all these things are pretty clearly explained.
My dad just bought a dell for $350 (and free shipping) with no monitor that would be plenty powerful for a DVR if you add a hardware encoding capture card. If you think you cant get a small dell in a decent looking black case for under 500, you need to look at an ad in the newspaper once in a while, cause this was no secret mega deal, just one of thousands of different promotions dell runs every day.
If we are going the route of RSA keys, we need a secure digital wallet, where one key contains all the credit cards and bank info we need. This will keep all the info just as secure but we wont need a billion different keys for all our different accounts.
Anyone who does computer repair (knows/should know) that Bart PE is a great windows based system that is built from the Windows XP Preinstall Environment and boots of CD. It runs most x86 programs, can use drivers with small modification, has a full registry hive and editor, has usb support, etc. However, to keep MS off his ass, Bart (the author) has limited the PE system to running 6 concurrent processes, so that it can't be used as a bootleg operating system. Not that I am suggesting or condoning it, but if someone was to make a HAL for Bart PE and remove the process limit, the XP on XBox project would be as close to done as your gonna get.
Well, I guess I was wrong. Apparently the DVDCCA won't let anyone make a product enabling fair use of dvd's, even if they do pay for a license and player key.
umm the largest population of prison inmates is non-violent drug offenders.
The U.S. nonviolent prisoner population is larger than the combined populations of Wyoming and Alaska.
Source: John Irwin, Ph. D., Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners (Washington, DC: Justice Policy Institute, 1999), pg. 4.
We are already at dual-layer and 16x speeds. I think the wait is over. I have an optorite dvd burner that does +r and -r and i got it for 150$ half a year ago. Remember how long it took for cd burners to get down to that price? Id say DVD burners are progressing really fast, and for the price there is really no reason to wait. There is plenty of software out for movie authoring, and now that dual-layer blanks are available, pretty much any disc can be duplicated. Sure I wish my burner was dual-layer, but Id rather buy another new one for 100$ in a few months then have waited and not had the dvd-burner I have now. If your gonna wait 2 years to get a dvd burner, Ill be laughing at you with my solid state terrabyte drive that just got upgraded from 500x to 1000x.
People should be more concerned with things like those stupid smoking pot = terrorism ads, cause those are a waste (like the MS ads), but are paid for with our tax dollars! Frankly, Im more concerned with where my money is going than were Microsoft's is. Let MS give their money to Linux mags if they want, we should have bigger conerns.
Who the fuck do these people think are going to make games for these 1823192837 different devices? Here's a hint: not Nintendo or Sony.
But if it plays exisiting pc games, they dont need an exclusive publisher of any type. The Gamepark GP32 seems to do pretty well, and people really just put MAME on it.
Yes thats exactly the difference. Cyberlink pays lots of money to license a player key from the DVD CCA. The authors of livdvdcss have never paid a cent. The reason there was never a linux dvd player in the first place is cause no company thought it was worth it, from a strictly economic standpoint, to spend money to develope and license a dvd player for an operating system with minimal marketshare in the home/entertainment demographic. Honestly, I cant blaim them. Because of all the DeCSS commotion, Cyberlink has seen that there is a demand for dvd on linux, and now they are investing in it. You can't fault them for not putting out a linux dvd player before they knew if it was even worth it. There wasn't really any conspiracy against linux, its all economics. With that said, if there was a linux dvd player from the start, we wouldnt have DeCSS and all dvd playback today would still be proprietay, so I'm glad no one decided to make a legal linux dvd player too early on in the game.
Just about 3 hours ago I was reading an article, cant remember where..cough cough.. about how evil the Sun desktop is because they are licensing technology from Microsoft and are therefore desecrating the GPL somehow. Got it, Sun uses proprietary third party code in their distro, and are therefore evil. So I better find a new distro. I was thinking about Turbolinux 10F. I hear it can play proprietary Windows Media and Real formats, isn't that awesome!!! Man I can't wait. Ill never use that stupid evil Sun distro again.
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Well if you were using the now released Google Talk client you would click 'hide contacts not on my friends list'.
"Mindawn will be a valuable partner for campuses instituting online entertainment programs because of its wide range of content by independent artists and its offer to allow UC students to market their own music. This is an important endeavor that we are embarking on, and we are pleased to be working with an established leader on the project."
The ability for students to market their music online easily is something other music services don't offer. This was possibly a significant factor in choosing this company. Its a very University of California type thing to do, and I as a UC student can't say I'm upset about this.
By the time these come out, (somewhat)affordable HD camcorders will also be hitting the market. Maybe they will have to make tripods illegal under the DMCA.
At my school(UCSB), 4 engineers made a self-tuning attachment for a guitar. Then a human can still play it, in perfect pitch. Thats alot more fun than watching a robot play. The demo was quite impressive, it would tune the guitar to any profile u set, with just one strum of the strings.
The Three Musketeers starring John Wayne. Thats right, John Wayne. 1$ at WalMart. Even the back of the DVD admits that it holds little resemblence to the original story, but who cares for a dollar.
It's called Tempest for Eliza. I remember it being pretty cool when I tried it a few years ago in high school.
http://www.pokercoaching.com/primatepoker/
If not, they don't deserve the prize!
So it must be perfect for playing Delta Force in 3D!
Most of your points just aren't valid, and are addressed in the article. While this isn't the most user-friendly system ever, there will never be an "easy for everyone and their grandmother" solution to spam, so learn to compromise a bit. In theory atleast, this system is pretty damn solid. As for your complaints:
1. If you emailed an employer your resume, he would automatically be whitelisted. His reply would go through to your inbox, and he would be sent a valid subaddress in plaintext that could be automatically added to his mail client should he wish to contact you further. If he was first to initiate contact, then he would have to decode 1 CAPTCHA after which communication would be seemless. Hardly timeconsuming, especially since the bounce for the CAPTCHA would come to him right after he sent the first email. In the case of a university, it would be trivial for you to have a rule allowing all mail from a given domain. You certainly wouldn't want this for aol.com but I have no problem whitelisting any address@schoolIgoto.edu
2. Users, so to speak, don't have to maintain anything, their mail clients do. Current spam filters maintain a database of spam to perform bayesian analysis, which is more massive than a database of contacts.
3. The system will generate 1 (or maybe a few) bounces for initial correspondence between new users. This is nothing compared to the volume of wasted traffic due to spam. Furthermore, how many times do you send email to someone you've never mailed before. The 1 bounce to obtain a trusted method of communication seems worth it to me.
4. The system does not rely on both ISPs, however simply would be more efficient if the sending ISP is in the know. That way the addition of a trusted subaddress can be even more automated, but this is not neccesary.
5. The subaddresses are not suggested to be easily rememberable, but rather random. They will be stored by your mail client, and it is not really important for you to remember once you have decoded it the first time.
6. Your parents never have to know about subaddresses to recieve email. They can give out their address as before. When people email them, the bounce will be sent and all the contacts will establish subaddresses, without your parents ever realizing what happened.
Most of these "burdens" you bring up would be handled by software and would not be placed on the end user. You should read the webpage as all these things are pretty clearly explained.
My dad just bought a dell for $350 (and free shipping) with no monitor that would be plenty powerful for a DVR if you add a hardware encoding capture card. If you think you cant get a small dell in a decent looking black case for under 500, you need to look at an ad in the newspaper once in a while, cause this was no secret mega deal, just one of thousands of different promotions dell runs every day.
If we are going the route of RSA keys, we need a secure digital wallet, where one key contains all the credit cards and bank info we need. This will keep all the info just as secure but we wont need a billion different keys for all our different accounts.
Anyone who does computer repair (knows/should know) that Bart PE is a great windows based system that is built from the Windows XP Preinstall Environment and boots of CD. It runs most x86 programs, can use drivers with small modification, has a full registry hive and editor, has usb support, etc. However, to keep MS off his ass, Bart (the author) has limited the PE system to running 6 concurrent processes, so that it can't be used as a bootleg operating system. Not that I am suggesting or condoning it, but if someone was to make a HAL for Bart PE and remove the process limit, the XP on XBox project would be as close to done as your gonna get.
Aren't there much better licenses for dictionaries than the GPL? Creative Commons comes to mind. What does the Guttenberg project use?
Well, I guess I was wrong. Apparently the DVDCCA won't let anyone make a product enabling fair use of dvd's, even if they do pay for a license and player key.
umm the largest population of prison inmates is non-violent drug offenders.
The U.S. nonviolent prisoner population is larger than the combined populations of Wyoming and Alaska.
Source: John Irwin, Ph. D., Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners (Washington, DC: Justice Policy Institute, 1999), pg. 4.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm
The makers of the popular p2p network eDonkey have already been working on this for a while. Its called K:Drive. Check it out.
The Marijuana Policy Project Voters Guide
the web server got slashdotted before we could slashdot the sign!
We are already at dual-layer and 16x speeds. I think the wait is over. I have an optorite dvd burner that does +r and -r and i got it for 150$ half a year ago. Remember how long it took for cd burners to get down to that price? Id say DVD burners are progressing really fast, and for the price there is really no reason to wait. There is plenty of software out for movie authoring, and now that dual-layer blanks are available, pretty much any disc can be duplicated. Sure I wish my burner was dual-layer, but Id rather buy another new one for 100$ in a few months then have waited and not had the dvd-burner I have now. If your gonna wait 2 years to get a dvd burner, Ill be laughing at you with my solid state terrabyte drive that just got upgraded from 500x to 1000x.
People should be more concerned with things like those stupid smoking pot = terrorism ads, cause those are a waste (like the MS ads), but are paid for with our tax dollars! Frankly, Im more concerned with where my money is going than were Microsoft's is. Let MS give their money to Linux mags if they want, we should have bigger conerns.
well said
Who the fuck do these people think are going to make games for these 1823192837 different devices? Here's a hint: not Nintendo or Sony.
But if it plays exisiting pc games, they dont need an exclusive publisher of any type. The Gamepark GP32 seems to do pretty well, and people really just put MAME on it.
can we say steganography? File names are superficial, an attachment is an attachment.
Yes thats exactly the difference. Cyberlink pays lots of money to license a player key from the DVD CCA. The authors of livdvdcss have never paid a cent. The reason there was never a linux dvd player in the first place is cause no company thought it was worth it, from a strictly economic standpoint, to spend money to develope and license a dvd player for an operating system with minimal marketshare in the home/entertainment demographic. Honestly, I cant blaim them. Because of all the DeCSS commotion, Cyberlink has seen that there is a demand for dvd on linux, and now they are investing in it. You can't fault them for not putting out a linux dvd player before they knew if it was even worth it. There wasn't really any conspiracy against linux, its all economics. With that said, if there was a linux dvd player from the start, we wouldnt have DeCSS and all dvd playback today would still be proprietay, so I'm glad no one decided to make a legal linux dvd player too early on in the game.
Just about 3 hours ago I was reading an article, cant remember where ..cough cough.. about how evil the Sun desktop is because they are licensing technology from Microsoft and are therefore desecrating the GPL somehow. Got it, Sun uses proprietary third party code in their distro, and are therefore evil. So I better find a new distro. I was thinking about Turbolinux 10F. I hear it can play proprietary Windows Media and Real formats, isn't that awesome!!! Man I can't wait. Ill never use that stupid evil Sun distro again.