and to the same effect....what if i want to play a DVD on my self-designed, self-built, and self-programmed computer? DeCSS is necessary to any innovator who wishes to implement DVD. period.
i'd say that my SSN isnt very private...i seem to need to give it out left and right to schools and companies. but i wont argue over that point, as i understand that i could never trust the general public enough to make all information free....it would be nice if you could tho.
i will admit that spreading an artist's name around is giving the minimal of credit (although i do have friends who have purchaced albums by artists after they heard my copy). but, if an artist makes a song that i happen to like enough to put on my play list, i'm not gonna buy the cd...and in some cases, depending on how much i like the song, i may not want to pay much for it either! there's some music i keep on my play list just so i will have music that my friends like when they visit. if i feel that i enjoy an artist's music enough to pay him and give him credit, then i will do so in a much more effective way. if i truely love the artist's music, i will probably buy the album (esp if i could get it in a more permenent/durrable form). the credit i give an artist who's music i truely love will most certainly recieve credit in the fact that i wouldnt miss one of their concerts if i could help it. the songs should be advertisements for the albums which are advertisements for the live concert. besides, when it comes down to my desire to pay money for music, i'd feel much more comfortable handing over a bunch of cash to have the artist blast the music in my face.
so what this comes down to in my book is that i will pay for the performance or production, but not for the information alone.
you've got the idea a little off... its not like i'd like to have a 386 as my desktop, its just that i'd rather build my new computer my self, rather than have compaq or some other computer company building it for me. i want to have a good idea of what is going into this installation...and so that if something goes wrong, i can fix it myself instead of calling the tech support line. you know what we're talking about....its the geek way of doing anything.
yes....exactly. i'm 19 now, and in college, and i mannaged to get through high school making money flipping bits (and other intresting stuff) rather than flipping burgers. its just that more and more kids are wising up and realizing that they dont wanna flip burgers. ever.
...seriously! i'd be stoked to write my own OS from the ground up...or better yet, barrow bits and pieces of various other OS's to build one that fits my needs and my computer's needs perfectly...then hand optimize it for my processor.
i say more OS's is better (not that its a bad idea to continue a combined effort on one OS)...more options is always better.
-james
Re:Cool... is this the modernized Amiga?
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I felt the same way about installing mandrake last week...i'd never tried that distro before, and i ended up scraping it and going with the distro and install thats still my favorite: slackware expert install.
...and thats for my i-opener, so the adventure goes on...
we should maybe have more support for organizations like KFMF (Kosmic Free Music Foundation)....i like a lot of their music...like i've said few times on/. already: all information and knowledge should be free...and my hard drive is meerly an extention to the memory in my head.
too bad those listening stations never have the album or artist I want to listen to....thats when i go home and fire up napster. but when it comes down to it, i've bought more CD's because of the new artists i've been introduced to thru mp3 technology than i ever would have. there've been artists i've had an intrest in but never realized their music would be so good...so i went out and bought the CD. on the other hand, there's artists i heard were good, and if i hadnt been able to listen to their mp3's first, i may have bought the CD then turned around and returned it.
my solution to the problem would be for the recording industry to publish music in an analog form again, so that a digitally copied version could NEVER be of the same quality as the original recording. furthermore, the physical package should be worth more...this makes me drool: every piece of music pink floyd ever recorded -- recorded in analog onto a holographic data storage cube. then sold in a fancy velvet lined case with a full color hard-cover booklet full of pictures and bios and history. and if i could take the cube to my local music store once a year or so and have the artist's new music added on. hell i'd pay over 100 bucks for something like that.
another big problem w/ CD's is that my primary drive to rip and encode everything i've got is that all my music is getting scratched up. then, once its on my computer, what can i do....my computer is fully open to all of my users...thats my policy. they wouldnt be users if i didnt trust them.... but a friend of mine grabbing a song off my computer isnt a breach of trust. i didnt tell him not to...i cant. all i can say is that its copyrighted material and that its mine.
the fact that some organization wants to own a bunch of noise is bullshit. _all_ information is free in my book (well, sensitive info will be witheld until this culture can handle it.)
what happens when i refuse to make anything i know private...and make everything i know public (note: as far as i'm concerned, the info stored on my hard drive is meerly an extention to the info stored in my head)
and if you are sensitive to high frequancies, poor compression can stand out like a sore thumb...and a low bitrate will just make the whole song sound like crap...esp when there is a high pitch sound alone and no other noise to cover up the distortion.
it seems like the recording industry, and much of the us government is falling into the convient hole that people in power often sumble or jump into head-first: taking money rather than earning it. it must be simply easier and cheaper for the recording industry to hire an army of lawyers than to innovate a solution to the problem.
sounds to me like the US government is just ASKING for trouble. dont they know it doesnt pay to piss the citizens off??? -james
unix is a state of mind...kinda
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unix will never die... it cant... not unless C dies with it. i feel that unix is simply the natural product of the minds that created C and ultamatly the seed from which the structure of our technology has been assembled.
unix wont die, because the people who choose to use it, due to its practicality or otherwise, will never give up the power that unix gives them. furthermore, they will not give up an OS that fits the way they think and they way they wish to deal with information.
basically, its the same reason that Reverse Polish Notation will never die... it can't, because it works better for the people who use it than anything else would.
"'...you don't own your genes.... Genes belong to the race; they're simply lent to the individual for his-her lifetime.'" -Rober Heinlein, _Time Enough for Love_
for a young "hackerish" techie, the only thing more rewarding than tinkering with a computer is tinkering with your own brain.
thats the way kids are these days. they are are entertained by things that "fuck with their head." a perfect example of this being in how bizare recent big movies have been.
Plant wasnt exagerating as much as it might seem when she said products try to be as much like as drug as possible without actually being one.
i thought we were supposed to be crawling out of the dark ages of taking fundamental rights away from people.
there better be a lot of noise over this or i'll have to wonder if this society is falling apart under our noses because most people dont think to stand back and observe how absurd situations like this really are.
which is exactly what they've done at UCDavis... "You are not allowed to do it." but that doesnt stop anybody. my biggest problem with this is that i can think of various occasions when i've gone and bought a cd by an artist after i downloaded their music online. in other words...think of all the music i wouldnt have bought and artists i wouldnt have discovered if i didnt trade mp3's.
on the other hand, you dont blame the person who opens a mail bomb, you blame the person who made it. likewise, a virus... or any program that is destructive upon use should be blamed on the creator.
i definetly agree that demos are definetly worthy of observation for the best hack. although 2nd reality was truely impressive, i imagine some of the earlyer amiga demos were even more impressive both in what they did and the worthyness of the hack. some of the 4k demos are really impressive too. all ASM and highly optimized.
on another note...what about that article that was on slashdot a while back about the worlds smallest web server.
i also once heard a story about an altair that was programmed to play a tune on a radio reciever nearby that picked up radiation from the computer and created tones of various frequancies based on the size of the loop in the program. i dont know about that hack...i heard about that a while back.
i typically glance across my desk and pick out a few fragments of text and digits (usually off lables and barcodes) then change a couple of letters to hax0r numbers, write it down, use it a few times, then swallow or flush the paper.
as was mentioned in this thread, after using the passwords a few times, they're easy to remember.
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on sealand perhaps...
serious tho... if the major governments wont support you, at least their geeks will.
and to the same effect....what if i want to play a DVD on my self-designed, self-built, and self-programmed computer? DeCSS is necessary to any innovator who wishes to implement DVD. period.
-james
oh, no guessing necessary.
i'd say that my SSN isnt very private...i seem to need to give it out left and right to schools and companies. but i wont argue over that point, as i understand that i could never trust the general public enough to make all information free....it would be nice if you could tho.
i will admit that spreading an artist's name around is giving the minimal of credit (although i do have friends who have purchaced albums by artists after they heard my copy). but, if an artist makes a song that i happen to like enough to put on my play list, i'm not gonna buy the cd...and in some cases, depending on how much i like the song, i may not want to pay much for it either! there's some music i keep on my play list just so i will have music that my friends like when they visit. if i feel that i enjoy an artist's music enough to pay him and give him credit, then i will do so in a much more effective way. if i truely love the artist's music, i will probably buy the album (esp if i could get it in a more permenent/durrable form). the credit i give an artist who's music i truely love will most certainly recieve credit in the fact that i wouldnt miss one of their concerts if i could help it. the songs should be advertisements for the albums which are advertisements for the live concert. besides, when it comes down to my desire to pay money for music, i'd feel much more comfortable handing over a bunch of cash to have the artist blast the music in my face.
so what this comes down to in my book is that i will pay for the performance or production, but not for the information alone.
-james
you've got the idea a little off... its not like i'd like to have a 386 as my desktop, its just that i'd rather build my new computer my self, rather than have compaq or some other computer company building it for me. i want to have a good idea of what is going into this installation...and so that if something goes wrong, i can fix it myself instead of calling the tech support line. you know what we're talking about....its the geek way of doing anything.
-james
yes....exactly. i'm 19 now, and in college, and i mannaged to get through high school making money flipping bits (and other intresting stuff) rather than flipping burgers. its just that more and more kids are wising up and realizing that they dont wanna flip burgers. ever.
-james
...seriously! i'd be stoked to write my own OS from the ground up...or better yet, barrow bits and pieces of various other OS's to build one that fits my needs and my computer's needs perfectly...then hand optimize it for my processor.
i say more OS's is better (not that its a bad idea to continue a combined effort on one OS)...more options is always better.
-james
-james
I felt the same way about installing mandrake last week...i'd never tried that distro before, and i ended up scraping it and going with the distro and install thats still my favorite: slackware expert install.
...and thats for my i-opener, so the adventure goes on...
-james
we should maybe have more support for organizations like KFMF (Kosmic Free Music Foundation)....i like a lot of their music...like i've said few times on /. already: all information and knowledge should be free...and my hard drive is meerly an extention to the memory in my head.
-james
too bad those listening stations never have the album or artist I want to listen to....thats when i go home and fire up napster. but when it comes down to it, i've bought more CD's because of the new artists i've been introduced to thru mp3 technology than i ever would have. there've been artists i've had an intrest in but never realized their music would be so good...so i went out and bought the CD. on the other hand, there's artists i heard were good, and if i hadnt been able to listen to their mp3's first, i may have bought the CD then turned around and returned it.
my solution to the problem would be for the recording industry to publish music in an analog form again, so that a digitally copied version could NEVER be of the same quality as the original recording. furthermore, the physical package should be worth more...this makes me drool: every piece of music pink floyd ever recorded -- recorded in analog onto a holographic data storage cube. then sold in a fancy velvet lined case with a full color hard-cover booklet full of pictures and bios and history. and if i could take the cube to my local music store once a year or so and have the artist's new music added on. hell i'd pay over 100 bucks for something like that.
another big problem w/ CD's is that my primary drive to rip and encode everything i've got is that all my music is getting scratched up. then, once its on my computer, what can i do....my computer is fully open to all of my users...thats my policy. they wouldnt be users if i didnt trust them.... but a friend of mine grabbing a song off my computer isnt a breach of trust. i didnt tell him not to...i cant. all i can say is that its copyrighted material and that its mine.
the fact that some organization wants to own a bunch of noise is bullshit. _all_ information is free in my book (well, sensitive info will be witheld until this culture can handle it.)
what happens when i refuse to make anything i know private...and make everything i know public (note: as far as i'm concerned, the info stored on my hard drive is meerly an extention to the info stored in my head)
-james
and if you are sensitive to high frequancies, poor compression can stand out like a sore thumb...and a low bitrate will just make the whole song sound like crap...esp when there is a high pitch sound alone and no other noise to cover up the distortion.
-james
it seems like the recording industry, and much of the us government is falling into the convient hole that people in power often sumble or jump into head-first: taking money rather than earning it. it must be simply easier and cheaper for the recording industry to hire an army of lawyers than to innovate a solution to the problem.
-james
sounds to me like the US government is just ASKING for trouble. dont they know it doesnt pay to piss the citizens off??? -james
unix will never die... it cant... not unless C dies with it. i feel that unix is simply the natural product of the minds that created C and ultamatly the seed from which the structure of our technology has been assembled.
unix wont die, because the people who choose to use it, due to its practicality or otherwise, will never give up the power that unix gives them. furthermore, they will not give up an OS that fits the way they think and they way they wish to deal with information.
basically, its the same reason that Reverse Polish Notation will never die... it can't, because it works better for the people who use it than anything else would.
"'...you don't own your genes.... Genes belong to the race; they're simply lent to the individual for his-her lifetime.'"
-Rober Heinlein, _Time Enough for Love_
for a young "hackerish" techie, the only thing more rewarding than tinkering with a computer is tinkering with your own brain.
thats the way kids are these days. they are are entertained by things that "fuck with their head." a perfect example of this being in how bizare recent big movies have been.
Plant wasnt exagerating as much as it might seem when she said products try to be as much like as drug as possible without actually being one.
echo-e
perhaps we should get rid of all the parties and just create a stupid politician party and a smart politician party, then forget about the former.
hmmm... but then we'd end up where we started... a handful of decent politicians with a few different opposing view.
i thought we were supposed to be crawling out of the dark ages of taking fundamental rights away from people.
there better be a lot of noise over this or i'll have to wonder if this society is falling apart under our noses because most people dont think to stand back and observe how absurd situations like this really are.
how long till jennicam and other realtime cams have a realtime scent too...?
which is exactly what they've done at UCDavis... "You are not allowed to do it." but that doesnt stop anybody. my biggest problem with this is that i can think of various occasions when i've gone and bought a cd by an artist after i downloaded their music online. in other words...think of all the music i wouldnt have bought and artists i wouldnt have discovered if i didnt trade mp3's.
on the other hand, you dont blame the person who opens a mail bomb, you blame the person who made it. likewise, a virus... or any program that is destructive upon use should be blamed on the creator.
-james
i definetly agree that demos are definetly worthy of observation for the best hack. although 2nd reality was truely impressive, i imagine some of the earlyer amiga demos were even more impressive both in what they did and the worthyness of the hack. some of the 4k demos are really impressive too. all ASM and highly optimized.
on another note...what about that article that was on slashdot a while back about the worlds smallest web server.
i also once heard a story about an altair that was programmed to play a tune on a radio reciever nearby that picked up radiation from the computer and created tones of various frequancies based on the size of the loop in the program. i dont know about that hack...i heard about that a while back.
-james
i typically glance across my desk and pick out a few fragments of text and digits (usually off lables and barcodes) then change a couple of letters to hax0r numbers, write it down, use it a few times, then swallow or flush the paper.
as was mentioned in this thread, after using the passwords a few times, they're easy to remember.
-james