I got worried when i saw a dodgy news-agent ATM, you stick your card in and then you hear a bloody modem dial out! hm i guess you could record the dial tones and see whats on the line:P
About fake mall machines - i read something about this over 5 years ago, shows you how they've been dealing with the problem. Stricter regulations my ass, stop using crappy windows ATMS and crappy windows networks and crappy diebold programmers and get some common sense.
1 FUCKING YEAR! that is a very long time to go to prision just for filming something, thats it we have already reached big brother stage and cinemas can fuck off. Im now only downloading films just like i only download music. Congratulations to the film industry they just lost another customer.
Its because games generally dont have the motion blur that TV does and use progressive scanning (actually the human eye can see 12 separate frames a second so this is doubled for film and 25 for PAL tv and 30 for NTSC. Both TV formats' framerates are doubled into sub-frames (fields) to make the motion even smoother ie 50 or 60 fields per second. If the game had motion blur and maybe interlacing it could be 25fps and would look like tv but really it should be upto the user to decide how much power to dedicate to fps and to quality etc.
Yes advertising is a slightly different parallel i was just using it as an example to say that in some circumstances one person doing something doesnt matter but allot of people doing something does.
Driving your car on the other hand you are actively polluting
I believe that the words "arrested for downloading..." should not be appearing in our lives because "arrested for downloading music" sounds very similar to "arrested for downloading political material" and this is exactly how a society moves from free to big-brother. Lets put things in perspective here: You are not gaining unauthorized entry to a remote system, you are not 'stealing' (as in bank notes) money, you are not diverting electronic funds to yourself. Flaim me all you want about what you 'are' doing but those facts remain.
What you are doing is partaking in an activity that may negatively effect a large economy. Now there is no definite case here, it could be that you were not taking a potential sale because you would never have intended to buy it in the first place, who knows? its a very blurry area and no-one can claim they know all the facts. Having said that there are allot of things in our society that follow similar logic:
Driving your car for example, now you may not contribute a significant amount to pollution yourself but everyone together does (this has more proof behind it than the case against music downloading). If you go get a drink during commercials then you aren't doing anything personally but if every single person got up during that commercial it would have a zero viewer figure (which leads to the question are the advertising companies doing their job if no-one wants to watch their adverts?). As a society we have deemed that some things are ok and some are not for whatever reason but if its deemed that filesharing is not ok then you will have put that over driving your car and a whole host of other things we do that are far worse, is that ok? its up to you.
Its society's job as a whole to decide the balance here, personally i think filesharing should be accepted and that it will lead to a positive change in the way things are done and the way music is made. Maybe it will lead to the downfall of the RIAA as we know it and music will suddenly become not a money driven thing but a enjoyment driven thing maybe like open source software, is that good? is society happy with the way things are now? are you happy with the way things are with the RIAA? because its the majority of the people that matter in a democracy not the richest and if you live in a democracy then thats the way it goes.
PS. It might happen that you dont live in a democracy or your democracy is broken and for example 2 million people all getting together in a park to demonstrate over something does not sway your PM's view atall even though it was one of the biggest demonstrations in your country's history. Or, your government openly receives funding from major corporations and just happens to churn out laws that suit those corporations and has now allowed one of those corporations to run its voting. If this is true for you then the above post means nothing, go back to your work, do what you are told and let it get worse. If you dont live in a democracy and dont want one than also ignore this post and i hope you have better luck than us and that we dont try and invade you anytime soon, if we do im sorry i had nothing to do with it.
Well actually no, speeding can be pretty dangerous and i would totally understand, your driving a potentially leathal box of metal around you can expect the police to be on their toes. However if I was hit by a police car doing 40 in a school zone because they were on their way to bust some kid for using kazaa i would be pretty pissed.
Yes crime is crime and you cant go around saying "oh this crime isnt as important as that crime we will only deal with that crime" because that is as bad as saying "we will arrest afew kids and make examples out of them and ignore all the others because there are too many". The fact that there are too many says alot about the law and how stupid it is.
I probably didnt make myself clear enough, im not saying deal with only murderers etc then filesharers im saying that its a fallacy that its a crime and that its taking up police time.
What im saying is crime is crime, but some crimes should not be crimes, and certainly a 'crime' that involes the 'potential' loss of a sale that never existed and borders on the restriction of free speech is pushing the limits. The RIAA is paying the government to make laws to suit them and this is not even a secret.
One last thing: If you or someone you knew was mugged, murdered, raped, conned, assulted, run-down or robbed would you be happy in the knowledge that the police might be spending more time tracking down filesharers than tracking down someone else?
Stupid laws that cost thousands of extra police hours not only waste tax-payers money, they take police from their real job and priority number one which is keeping the peace. Not only that, but the RIAA is terrorising people with its tactics, it has become a mafia and should be shut down today. Whats going on here is a total inequality of justice. You cant choose people to make examples out of, and you cant have anyone in a cell for downloading music while there are muggers, murderers and rapists out on the streets. full fucking stop.
continue to download music online, but, send all the artists you download from a donation of the ammount they would have received if you had bought their CD. Make sure you do this for every artist you download and then wait for the RIAA to come after you. Now make absolute hell for them, the artists will be on your side, the people will be on your side, there will be no-one taking the RIAA's side not even "stealing CDs on the net is wrong" people will be able to argue with that. If you want to go even further - donate the amount the sound engineers would receive as well, comon its nothing! If this could be done easily and on a mass basis (centralised website, paypal?) it would slap the RIAA in the face, your downloading the music, free of DRM from where you want and your giving the artists the money, what can the RIAA do?
Personally i cant be bothered to give them any money and since im not in the US: nah nah nah nah yoooou cant catch me hahahaha in your face RIAA suckers ooooh look i just downloaded another britney album you want my ass? huh? huh?
Soon they will realise that voip is just another part of the internet and that they should have been regulating the whole internet all this time, then they will realise that actually the internet is just another form of human communication and thus speech and writing should be regulated. I propose a pen ownership license, and law enforcement needs to be aware that people might try and use their own blood as ink for lack of a pen. Also we need to divide up the audible sound spectrum and sell it off to the highest bidder, er humans can speak on 200 to 400Hz aslong as they own a general oparating license, dog whistles are classed as a low-power consumer transmitter.
Its a Micky Mouse court under layered by freedom restricting laws that serve only corporate interests. If the MPAA stopped making films today for example it would not matter there would be people who would make better films for less, just as if Microsoft stopped what they were doing, (well,people already make better software for less). What public interest do laws like the DMCA serve? I've never seen a real criminal busted by the DMCA, in fact "arrested under DMCA" would probably boost my trust for someone (if i were an employer i would hire them on the spot)
Then theres the inability for the court members to fully understand the situation. All they see is "this law says you cant do this because it violates this companies IP security, this kid has broken the law" which is the same thing the politicians see. What the people in charge don't see or understand is the free speech issue and all they listen to are well trained, well articulated expensive company lawyers who know exactly how to sell the case just like the salesperson at that electronics store knows exactly how to sell your parents the wrong thing. Law and politics shouldn't be like that, otherwise the whole system is useless.
With HD mp3 players its even easier to do! all we need now is a wireless attachment so you can swap music with people on the bus and some software to filter out diplicates and choose the best versions when you try and integrate someone elses collection with yours. (I still have a big "unsorted" music dir:(
In other news Microsoft is making progress implementing its new TCPA standard and co-oparating with the Linux community - "We want the linux kernal to only reside in a specific block of memory so that it can co-exist with a Windows OS at the same time and also so that the Windows OS can terminate it if needed." said Bill Gates.
Don't know about you but im starting to get siege mentality in that im scared the US will do something against Europe. Bush feels like a bully, and his recent visit to London felt like darth vadar breathing down our necks.
But when comes down to it, the US is generally the one who goes off and polices the globe as well as prevents strong negative leaders from gaining too much power or weaponry.
a) Thats the job of a world body not one country to play judge and jury
b) The US sells weaponry and weapon support to many countries and has done to both iraq and iran their recent war.
c) The last war has yet to turn up evidence of "too much weaponry" (but we know it must be there because the US gov and half the world sold it to them)
d) Bush is a strong negative leader with too much weaponry and power whos election result is questionable
I heard that the reason longhorn won't come out til 2006 is because there was a judgement in 2000 that Microsoft had to share certain source code with certain companies for 5 years (ie until 2005) and that they dont want to write the bulk of the DRM in until after that? Can anyone confirm or is that total crap?
Theres one simple way to instantly eliminate all VB script virii and IE security flaws and i think we all know what it is? yes thats right its our trusty friend "Add/Remove Programs" and our even more trusty friend, an alternative browser and mail client. People its not like there arnt alternatives and its not like there arnt good alternatives. Personally I use Opera because it feels faster than anything (including IE) and it has a whole host of features IE doesnt. It took me one week a few years ago to make the switch and ive never looked back - I was stuck with an old computer and a slow connection abroad for a week, instead of downloading a 30Mb IE install i decided to go with Opera and when i came back home it was the first thing i installed. I even got my girlfriend to switch to opera! (and she uses flash of all things!) So basically theres no excuse for IE flaws and VB scripts which are pretty much the major annoyences for the average user on the net so lets look at a comparison:
IE user: Ah why are all these pop-ups opening ah ill close them oh shit more are opening its like i dont have control ah i knew i shouldnt have visited goats cx! Oh crap IE just crashed, oh well ive lost all the windows i had open. Ill start it up again but ahh its taken my home page to something else! Ok ill check my mail. Oh fuck it just mailed my entire address book with some new virus.
Alternative user: hm lets see, la la la, oh dear my browser crashed, one sec ill start it up again, *clicks restore* ok there we go all my windows are back up:) hm thats a strange pr0n site there are no annoying pop-ups killing me except that one i requested. Now for my email, lets see "enlarge your boobs" er no, "clear your browser history" er thats ok i can already do that, "eliminate pop-ups" er nah thats ok. ok thats that taken care of, now for some hot sex.
You dont need bountys or legislation just better software.
Piss poor entertainment? its a scandel is what it is. Its not even a good advert, ive totally forgotten the last winner and i would have just downloaded the music anyway:P
Yeah but we do have channel 5, and the BBC has started going down hill with fame academy (someone must get fired for that):( they do have excellent R&D and training though:)
How about, instead of complaining that no-body will watch your adverts, you actually make adverts that people want to watch. No no i dont mean you force them at gun point HEY put the gun down! What im saying is that your adverts at the moment are crap, no its not your fault its just that most of them are so crap that not only do people not care to watch them, they actually dont want to watch them, and they certainly dont want to be interrupted from whatever they are watching to watch them. Now fixing this involves two things, firstly you have to make adverts that people want to watch because people watch tv for a reason - people want to watch the show they are watching because.. well they like it, so you have to make the adverts like that. Secondly, and this is really important, where i come from we get adverts every 15 or 30 minutes, and when i watch a show from the US i can see the bits where it fades to black for a second and i think "oh that must be a suggested place to put adverts in, that would totally suck" if you interrupt people all the damn time they are going to get totally sick of you and just slam the door in your face, how would you like it if your advert was inturrupted every 7 seconds by another show? yeah i dont think it would work do you?
To sum up: If you tell people they cant use PVRs or VCRs to skip adverts they will be pissed off and not watch your adverts. If you make crap adverts that no-one wants to watch or you repete them 500 times, then no-one will watch. If you Keep putting them on all the damn time, people will get fed up and do what ever it takes (leaving the room to get a drink is pretty much a habit) to not watch them. However, if you make very good adverts that people enjoy watching them and you make them the right length and put them on at the right time then people might just watch.
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I got worried when i saw a dodgy news-agent ATM, you stick your card in and then you hear a bloody modem dial out! hm i guess you could record the dial tones and see whats on the line :P
About fake mall machines - i read something about this over 5 years ago, shows you how they've been dealing with the problem. Stricter regulations my ass, stop using crappy windows ATMS and crappy windows networks and crappy diebold programmers and get some common sense.
With new technology from Microsoft, you dont have to jam phones with expensive equipment. Now you can just send them an RPC virus!
1 FUCKING YEAR! that is a very long time to go to prision just for filming something, thats it we have already reached big brother stage and cinemas can fuck off. Im now only downloading films just like i only download music. Congratulations to the film industry they just lost another customer.
And a cheep hooker still costs 10 bucks, go figure
Its because games generally dont have the motion blur that TV does and use progressive scanning (actually the human eye can see 12 separate frames a second so this is doubled for film and 25 for PAL tv and 30 for NTSC. Both TV formats' framerates are doubled into sub-frames (fields) to make the motion even smoother ie 50 or 60 fields per second. If the game had motion blur and maybe interlacing it could be 25fps and would look like tv but really it should be upto the user to decide how much power to dedicate to fps and to quality etc.
$103 for a 2 minute deal?
Back when i was in 'nam it was 10!
And driving your car?
Yes advertising is a slightly different parallel i was just using it as an example to say that in some circumstances one person doing something doesnt matter but allot of people doing something does.
Driving your car on the other hand you are actively polluting
I believe that the words "arrested for downloading..." should not be appearing in our lives because "arrested for downloading music" sounds very similar to "arrested for downloading political material" and this is exactly how a society moves from free to big-brother. Lets put things in perspective here: You are not gaining unauthorized entry to a remote system, you are not 'stealing' (as in bank notes) money, you are not diverting electronic funds to yourself. Flaim me all you want about what you 'are' doing but those facts remain.
What you are doing is partaking in an activity that may negatively effect a large economy. Now there is no definite case here, it could be that you were not taking a potential sale because you would never have intended to buy it in the first place, who knows? its a very blurry area and no-one can claim they know all the facts. Having said that there are allot of things in our society that follow similar logic:
Driving your car for example, now you may not contribute a significant amount to pollution yourself but everyone together does (this has more proof behind it than the case against music downloading). If you go get a drink during commercials then you aren't doing anything personally but if every single person got up during that commercial it would have a zero viewer figure (which leads to the question are the advertising companies doing their job if no-one wants to watch their adverts?). As a society we have deemed that some things are ok and some are not for whatever reason but if its deemed that filesharing is not ok then you will have put that over driving your car and a whole host of other things we do that are far worse, is that ok? its up to you.
Its society's job as a whole to decide the balance here, personally i think filesharing should be accepted and that it will lead to a positive change in the way things are done and the way music is made. Maybe it will lead to the downfall of the RIAA as we know it and music will suddenly become not a money driven thing but a enjoyment driven thing maybe like open source software, is that good? is society happy with the way things are now? are you happy with the way things are with the RIAA? because its the majority of the people that matter in a democracy not the richest and if you live in a democracy then thats the way it goes.
PS. It might happen that you dont live in a democracy or your democracy is broken and for example 2 million people all getting together in a park to demonstrate over something does not sway your PM's view atall even though it was one of the biggest demonstrations in your country's history. Or, your government openly receives funding from major corporations and just happens to churn out laws that suit those corporations and has now allowed one of those corporations to run its voting. If this is true for you then the above post means nothing, go back to your work, do what you are told and let it get worse. If you dont live in a democracy and dont want one than also ignore this post and i hope you have better luck than us and that we dont try and invade you anytime soon, if we do im sorry i had nothing to do with it.
Well actually no, speeding can be pretty dangerous and i would totally understand, your driving a potentially leathal box of metal around you can expect the police to be on their toes. However if I was hit by a police car doing 40 in a school zone because they were on their way to bust some kid for using kazaa i would be pretty pissed.
Yes crime is crime and you cant go around saying "oh this crime isnt as important as that crime we will only deal with that crime" because that is as bad as saying "we will arrest afew kids and make examples out of them and ignore all the others because there are too many". The fact that there are too many says alot about the law and how stupid it is.
I probably didnt make myself clear enough, im not saying deal with only murderers etc then filesharers im saying that its a fallacy that its a crime and that its taking up police time.
What im saying is crime is crime, but some crimes should not be crimes, and certainly a 'crime' that involes the 'potential' loss of a sale that never existed and borders on the restriction of free speech is pushing the limits. The RIAA is paying the government to make laws to suit them and this is not even a secret.
One last thing: If you or someone you knew was mugged, murdered, raped, conned, assulted, run-down or robbed would you be happy in the knowledge that the police might be spending more time tracking down filesharers than tracking down someone else?
Stupid laws that cost thousands of extra police hours not only waste tax-payers money, they take police from their real job and priority number one which is keeping the peace. Not only that, but the RIAA is terrorising people with its tactics, it has become a mafia and should be shut down today. Whats going on here is a total inequality of justice. You cant choose people to make examples out of, and you cant have anyone in a cell for downloading music while there are muggers, murderers and rapists out on the streets. full fucking stop.
Why not increase even more awareness:
continue to download music online, but, send all the artists you download from a donation of the ammount they would have received if you had bought their CD. Make sure you do this for every artist you download and then wait for the RIAA to come after you. Now make absolute hell for them, the artists will be on your side, the people will be on your side, there will be no-one taking the RIAA's side not even "stealing CDs on the net is wrong" people will be able to argue with that. If you want to go even further - donate the amount the sound engineers would receive as well, comon its nothing! If this could be done easily and on a mass basis (centralised website, paypal?) it would slap the RIAA in the face, your downloading the music, free of DRM from where you want and your giving the artists the money, what can the RIAA do?
Personally i cant be bothered to give them any money and since im not in the US: nah nah nah nah yoooou cant catch me hahahaha in your face RIAA suckers ooooh look i just downloaded another britney album you want my ass? huh? huh?
Microsoft's elaborate security is designed to lock users into Microsoft software at the expense of privacy and choice
I think the correct syntax is "Doing something good, at the expense of a bad side-effect"
Where as this sentence literally reads "Doing something bad, at the expense of a bad side-effect"
Soon they will realise that voip is just another part of the internet and that they should have been regulating the whole internet all this time, then they will realise that actually the internet is just another form of human communication and thus speech and writing should be regulated. I propose a pen ownership license, and law enforcement needs to be aware that people might try and use their own blood as ink for lack of a pen. Also we need to divide up the audible sound spectrum and sell it off to the highest bidder, er humans can speak on 200 to 400Hz aslong as they own a general oparating license, dog whistles are classed as a low-power consumer transmitter.
Its a Micky Mouse court under layered by freedom restricting laws that serve only corporate interests. If the MPAA stopped making films today for example it would not matter there would be people who would make better films for less, just as if Microsoft stopped what they were doing, (well,people already make better software for less). What public interest do laws like the DMCA serve? I've never seen a real criminal busted by the DMCA, in fact "arrested under DMCA" would probably boost my trust for someone (if i were an employer i would hire them on the spot)
Then theres the inability for the court members to fully understand the situation. All they see is "this law says you cant do this because it violates this companies IP security, this kid has broken the law" which is the same thing the politicians see. What the people in charge don't see or understand is the free speech issue and all they listen to are well trained, well articulated expensive company lawyers who know exactly how to sell the case just like the salesperson at that electronics store knows exactly how to sell your parents the wrong thing. Law and politics shouldn't be like that, otherwise the whole system is useless.
With HD mp3 players its even easier to do! all we need now is a wireless attachment so you can swap music with people on the bus and some software to filter out diplicates and choose the best versions when you try and integrate someone elses collection with yours. (I still have a big "unsorted" music dir :(
In other news Microsoft is making progress implementing its new TCPA standard and co-oparating with the Linux community - "We want the linux kernal to only reside in a specific block of memory so that it can co-exist with a Windows OS at the same time and also so that the Windows OS can terminate it if needed." said Bill Gates.
Don't know about you but im starting to get siege mentality in that im scared the US will do something against Europe. Bush feels like a bully, and his recent visit to London felt like darth vadar breathing down our necks.
But when comes down to it, the US is generally the one who goes off and polices the globe as well as prevents strong negative leaders from gaining too much power or weaponry.
a) Thats the job of a world body not one country to play judge and jury
b) The US sells weaponry and weapon support to many countries and has done to both iraq and iran their recent war.
c) The last war has yet to turn up evidence of "too much weaponry" (but we know it must be there because the US gov and half the world sold it to them)
d) Bush is a strong negative leader with too much weaponry and power whos election result is questionable
I heard that the reason longhorn won't come out til 2006 is because there was a judgement in 2000 that Microsoft had to share certain source code with certain companies for 5 years (ie until 2005) and that they dont want to write the bulk of the DRM in until after that? Can anyone confirm or is that total crap?
Theres one simple way to instantly eliminate all VB script virii and IE security flaws and i think we all know what it is? yes thats right its our trusty friend "Add/Remove Programs" and our even more trusty friend, an alternative browser and mail client. People its not like there arnt alternatives and its not like there arnt good alternatives. Personally I use Opera because it feels faster than anything (including IE) and it has a whole host of features IE doesnt. It took me one week a few years ago to make the switch and ive never looked back - I was stuck with an old computer and a slow connection abroad for a week, instead of downloading a 30Mb IE install i decided to go with Opera and when i came back home it was the first thing i installed. I even got my girlfriend to switch to opera! (and she uses flash of all things!) So basically theres no excuse for IE flaws and VB scripts which are pretty much the major annoyences for the average user on the net so lets look at a comparison:
:) hm thats a strange pr0n site there are no annoying pop-ups killing me except that one i requested. Now for my email, lets see "enlarge your boobs" er no, "clear your browser history" er thats ok i can already do that, "eliminate pop-ups" er nah thats ok. ok thats that taken care of, now for some hot sex.
IE user:
Ah why are all these pop-ups opening ah ill close them oh shit more are opening its like i dont have control ah i knew i shouldnt have visited goats cx! Oh crap IE just crashed, oh well ive lost all the windows i had open. Ill start it up again but ahh its taken my home page to something else! Ok ill check my mail. Oh fuck it just mailed my entire address book with some new virus.
Alternative user:
hm lets see, la la la, oh dear my browser crashed, one sec ill start it up again, *clicks restore* ok there we go all my windows are back up
You dont need bountys or legislation just better software.
Piss poor entertainment? its a scandel is what it is. Its not even a good advert, ive totally forgotten the last winner and i would have just downloaded the music anyway :P
Yeah but we do have channel 5, and the BBC has started going down hill with fame academy (someone must get fired for that) :( they do have excellent R&D and training though :)
Er.. Lucy Liu?
How about, instead of complaining that no-body will watch your adverts, you actually make adverts that people want to watch. No no i dont mean you force them at gun point HEY put the gun down! What im saying is that your adverts at the moment are crap, no its not your fault its just that most of them are so crap that not only do people not care to watch them, they actually dont want to watch them, and they certainly dont want to be interrupted from whatever they are watching to watch them. Now fixing this involves two things, firstly you have to make adverts that people want to watch because people watch tv for a reason - people want to watch the show they are watching because.. well they like it, so you have to make the adverts like that. Secondly, and this is really important, where i come from we get adverts every 15 or 30 minutes, and when i watch a show from the US i can see the bits where it fades to black for a second and i think "oh that must be a suggested place to put adverts in, that would totally suck" if you interrupt people all the damn time they are going to get totally sick of you and just slam the door in your face, how would you like it if your advert was inturrupted every 7 seconds by another show? yeah i dont think it would work do you?
To sum up: If you tell people they cant use PVRs or VCRs to skip adverts they will be pissed off and not watch your adverts. If you make crap adverts that no-one wants to watch or you repete them 500 times, then no-one will watch. If you Keep putting them on all the damn time, people will get fed up and do what ever it takes (leaving the room to get a drink is pretty much a habit) to not watch them. However, if you make very good adverts that people enjoy watching them and you make them the right length and put them on at the right time then people might just watch.