"Distraction" by Bruce Sterling has lots of stuff with characters using this kind of tagging.. Smart building materials and digitally inventoried communues.. Neat stuff..
"Napster is going subscription? No, that's great, because you'll probably be able to pay a little subscription fee and then you'll get access to good proper ripped copies of all BMG artists.. That would be so worth it.."
I've said that quiet a few times in the last few months.. Now I find out the chunderheads aren't really embracing the future, they're throwing a bunch of bad close crypto at it..
I'm really suprised a big company like that doesn't have a better evil-master-plan then this.. Napster had a chance to use its userbase to lead the new mediaverse, now they're just going to be a hickup on the road.
I don't think Jim Allchin is an idiot.. This is just a good example of how differient the perspectives can get in this game.. For Jim, money from software=publishing=copyright=tech boom, which in his case, it totally does.. Open source has more hollistic relationship to 'tech boom', again, Jim's right, more education of policy makers would help, just probably not the way he thinks it would..
. We will lose our privacy. But it is up to us whether we will also lose the power over our life that privacy affords us and because of which we value it. Rather than bitch about privacy itself, we should concerns ourselves with the way the new technologies alter the balance of power in society and concentrate on new mechanisms that compensate for it.
Amen. You can't go back, and you shouldn't depend on regulatation for privacy because who will regulate the regulators? Adapt, look at the positive side.. No privacy means no shame about all those secret things you do, because you'll know everyone else is doing it too.. It means being grounded in reality because you don't live on intropolated perception based on TV anymore, you watch the real deal. Realistic body image, the death of make-up, no more stupid drug laws, I can dream..
I've said it before. I'm not sure I want to live in a world without privacy, but I'm not sure we have a choice in the long run..
Surveilence electronics get smaller and cheaper, same with DNA printing gear. Fifty years (or maybe five) and high school kids will be bugging and printing each other for kicks..
Electronics will make privacy go away, unless we sign up for a police state to make certain electronics illigal, which is even worse..
That said, how about an open database with everyones DNA in it. Access is open to all, police and high school kid alike. This way, if I'm going to be jailed on DNA evidence, at least the entire world can confirm it. People can dig about my medical history, but that's not too exciting as long as you live somewhere with civilized health care.
The trick (for me) is to just relize that privacy isn't that great anyway. What do you have to hide? It's probably not very exciting, if it's illigal, it probably shouldn't be because everyone does it.. I could live with camera in my house, as long as I had cameras in everyone elses.. The problem comes when big brother has cameras and I don't..
I used to be one of those prodigy kids.. Electronics and computers, since forever.. I could list my pre-teen milestones, but suffice to say I was a Doogie..
My advice, forget about it.. I work in the recording industry now and have never been happier.. Being the smartest whatever is a losing game, there is always some more driven smarter person more obsessed then you.. Thank god I dropped out of computer science.. The publishing game is way more challenging then any code anyway, and I have no competition for head keener..
Leave the kid alone.. Give him resources but force him to get out, not get in.. He's on the road to being a horribly depressed teenager dressed in black and reading SF in the library..
If it wasn't for the music for the walkman, I'd probably still be in that game..
As soon as my degree is finished, I'm taking the first decent job I can get in the Netherlands.
I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and support what I think is a goverment that actually gets civil rights.. Freedom is worth way more the cash..
I handle all the money and most of the code for lowpass.net.. We did Threatster and a few other semi-popular things.
We've been really lucky and collected every dime we've been owed so far, but not without staying on top of it.. Read the contracts, for real.. No-payment for network ads is clearly in ours, their stats page even shows how many we've served as a percentage of the total.
Lowtax mentions a clause about not seeking other sponsors, but honestly, that couldn't have been stopping him, he did change to backbeat after all..
Nothing would make me feel safer then a death dealing robot insect..
Yeah, yeah, this is great, where do I get one?
Pistol eh? I wonder if I can mount something bigger in there.. I'm not convinced anything less then chain driven.50cal will protect my stuff..
Maybe some sort of fragmentation explosive just in case I really want to make sure my things are defended.. Ten or twelve pounds of high order explosive stuck in the ass somewhere.. That way even it if gets flipped over or something, I can blast the whole house off the face of the earth.. Then my stuff will be truely safe..
As Low Pass Industries' polytheist chaplain, it is my daunting and unhappy task to write a fitting eulogy for the much-loved MP3 trading software Napster. In a controversial ruling this Wednesday, Napster was ordered to shut down by judge Marilyn Patel, much to the dismay of music-loving blue-collar criminals worldwide.
How does one summarize the world's feelings of loss for a service almost as cherished as it was morally ambiguous? How does one express the grief that each user must now be experiencing having been denied access to the precious Menudo, Ah-Ha and Jeff Foxworthy MP3s they have not yet downloaded? How does one communicate a loss unlike anything the world's wealthy have had to endure before?
If we are to believe countless tiresome and depressing eulogies: we must do it through remembrance.
Always remember how wonderful it felt downloading those first few songs knowing that you hadn't paid a dime for them. Remember the incredible thrill of committing misdemeanors in your underwear without the slightest threat of legal repercussion or exposure to the elements. Remember how relieving it was to finally be able to voice your latent hatred of Metallica without just seeming obsessive and crazy. Remember overcoming your guilt by using the Napster Forgiveness Machine. And remember how freeing it was to be able to get a copy of Eye of the Tiger whenever you needed it without having to endure the judgmental glare of the record store check-out clerk.
But most of all, always remember how exciting it felt to struggle for a worthy cause: that people shouldn't have to pay for anything that's really easy to steal.
Yes, friends, on this sad occasion it is certainly important that we mourn the tragic loss of the Napster company, a bold and fearless new breed of company that for once put the facilitation of theft ahead of having a solid business model, but it is important also to remember those suffering the most from this loss - the countless users that relied on Napster to supply them with copyrighted material free of charge.
They weren't, as the media so often portrayed them, faceless sociopathic monsters - they had lives, they had stories to tell, and they had names. Names like joebooty455 and tittylikr9449. And who could forget good old sirfuksal0t99 and his penchant for swearing at the ladies? Their suffering, along with the suffering of countless others affected by this tragedy, should not be forgotten.
But do not despair, friends. Humanity has always shown great resilience in the face of adversity -- and I believe this instance will be no different. It has been demonstrated throughout history, from the rejection of prohibition to our profound disregard for all modern anti-drug laws: we will continue, whenever it pleases us, to reject these ridiculous and inhuman laws that only serve to delay our true destiny of gouging each other's eyes out with shrimp forks.
Be brave, ladies and gentlemen, be brave. And remember, as Benjamin Franklin once almost said: "Where there is a will to not pay for copyrighted music, there is a way to not pay for copyrighted music."
Russian scientists are thinking of some really impressive ways to get headlines these days..
Mess up a landing even slightly and find your right leg propelled in a direction the bones don't want to go.. Even if you did learn to nail the landing everytime, the impacts would be totally jarring. Think jumping off a second story roof with every step.. Ouch.
A gas powered pogo stick would be as useful and safe, and someone did that ages ago.. I'll take a helicopter thanks..
Let's say I wanted HavenCo to host a stolen top secret document or I use space on your server to keep my cocain cartels bank records.. That's more or less the digital equivilant of hiding Osama Bin Laden in your basement.. Remember what happened to the country that did that? Precision guided boom.. And Afganistan is full of well armed combat vets who can live on sand, a lot scarier then a dozen nerds with a.22..
Are you really going to fight it out with a team of special forces types to try and save my data? What are you planning to do if someone starts chucking cruise missiles at you? A real datahaven(on earth anyway) needs a real army to back it up..
As I recall, you loaded their URL and it opened a page with a million little frames loading the WTO website.. I can see no way the WTOs admin could have no anything to stop this at the packet level. If he set it up to redirect anyone coming with the ehippies in their refer header, that would do it.. If the ehippes had been bigger nerds, they could have probably defeated that easilly.
"So we told our filtering software to redirect any packets coming from these machines back at the e-hippies Web server," says Brian Koref, senior security analyst at Conxion.
Threatster: Automatic Napster Legal Threat Generator Tired of being the only one on your block who hasn't issued a rambling, meaningless legal threat to Napster? Can't afford high priced, low moral legal representation to craft elegant claims of damages and wrongdoing you have suffered at their cruel and perverted hand? Just click through this easy multiple choice form and your one hundred percent screwball legal threat will be generated and sent by Low Pass catfish to the acting CEO of Napster, Eileen Richardson. Don't delay, start now!
Napster Forgiveness Machine Once again, Low Pass Industries is here to bail you out of your seemingly hopeless predicament. Our in-house polytheist chaplain (Mark Anthony Lynett) has agreed to read and provide nearly instant absolution for any confessions submitted via the form below. As everyone knows, the first step to forgiveness is the admission of sin.
People in the tape/CD trading scene use eBay their eBay rating to present themselves as trustworthy all the time.. I assume other groups of people use it for the same thing. It's certainly possible to abuse this system, but a dozen positive comments from other ebay nicks I trust goes a long way to my piece of mind..
Unfortionitly, this system wouldn't help cameloid.. The company here is worried that you're some h4x0r nerd with a stolen card, not just a jerk who doesn't pay. It's not a question of trust, it's the old question of identification. If cameloid had a unique MAC address on file with VISA, the site would be able to verify off and happly ship whatever to wherever. Of course, that leads to terrible privacy problems and custom coupons on your microwave.
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"Distraction" by Bruce Sterling has lots of stuff with characters using this kind of tagging.. Smart building materials and digitally inventoried communues.. Neat stuff..
"Napster is going subscription? No, that's great, because you'll probably be able to pay a little subscription fee and then you'll get access to good proper ripped copies of all BMG artists.. That would be so worth it.."
I've said that quiet a few times in the last few months.. Now I find out the chunderheads aren't really embracing the future, they're throwing a bunch of bad close crypto at it..
I'm really suprised a big company like that doesn't have a better evil-master-plan then this.. Napster had a chance to use its userbase to lead the new mediaverse, now they're just going to be a hickup on the road.
I don't think Jim Allchin is an idiot.. This is just a good example of how differient the perspectives can get in this game.. For Jim, money from software=publishing=copyright=tech boom, which in his case, it totally does.. Open source has more hollistic relationship to 'tech boom', again, Jim's right, more education of policy makers would help, just probably not the way he thinks it would..
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Amen. You can't go back, and you shouldn't depend on regulatation for privacy because who will regulate the regulators? Adapt, look at the positive side.. No privacy means no shame about all those secret things you do, because you'll know everyone else is doing it too.. It means being grounded in reality because you don't live on intropolated perception based on TV anymore, you watch the real deal. Realistic body image, the death of make-up, no more stupid drug laws, I can dream..
I've said it before. I'm not sure I want to live in a world without privacy, but I'm not sure we have a choice in the long run..
Surveilence electronics get smaller and cheaper, same with DNA printing gear. Fifty years (or maybe five) and high school kids will be bugging and printing each other for kicks..
Electronics will make privacy go away, unless we sign up for a police state to make certain electronics illigal, which is even worse..
That said, how about an open database with everyones DNA in it. Access is open to all, police and high school kid alike. This way, if I'm going to be jailed on DNA evidence, at least the entire world can confirm it. People can dig about my medical history, but that's not too exciting as long as you live somewhere with civilized health care.
The trick (for me) is to just relize that privacy isn't that great anyway. What do you have to hide? It's probably not very exciting, if it's illigal, it probably shouldn't be because everyone does it.. I could live with camera in my house, as long as I had cameras in everyone elses.. The problem comes when big brother has cameras and I don't..
No universal heathcare, it's your own fault America. The fact that you can be 'denied' heathcare in an otherwise fully first world country is insane..
I used to be one of those prodigy kids.. Electronics and computers, since forever.. I could list my pre-teen milestones, but suffice to say I was a Doogie..
My advice, forget about it.. I work in the recording industry now and have never been happier.. Being the smartest whatever is a losing game, there is always some more driven smarter person more obsessed then you.. Thank god I dropped out of computer science.. The publishing game is way more challenging then any code anyway, and I have no competition for head keener..
Leave the kid alone.. Give him resources but force him to get out, not get in.. He's on the road to being a horribly depressed teenager dressed in black and reading SF in the library..
If it wasn't for the music for the walkman, I'd probably still be in that game..
Exactly my point, even though you horribly missed it..
Holland is the only country in the world where I have the right to legally end my life.. That's just one of the many examples of their coolness..
As soon as my degree is finished, I'm taking the first decent job I can get in the Netherlands.
I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and support what I think is a goverment that actually gets civil rights.. Freedom is worth way more the cash..
Relax, that's just the Threatster URL forward.. Press back twice fast..
I suppose I'll have to change that to a proper header forward now..
I handle all the money and most of the code for lowpass.net.. We did Threatster and a few other semi-popular things.
We've been really lucky and collected every dime we've been owed so far, but not without staying on top of it.. Read the contracts, for real.. No-payment for network ads is clearly in ours, their stats page even shows how many we've served as a percentage of the total.
Lowtax mentions a clause about not seeking other sponsors, but honestly, that couldn't have been stopping him, he did change to backbeat after all..
Lockard: I'm old and didn't grow up online. I don't really understand.
If you made it before the net, it's really hard to appreachate just what it's doing community wise.
But perhaps I'm a utopian who doesn't understand either..
It's THREATSTER! An all purpose Napster automatic legal threat generator.
Still, it's cool to see them taking the spunky route instead of getting all legitious; like we did..
It's nice to see that 60% of CNN poll voters wouldn't lynch us. You'd never guess based on the email we got..
If Sega was gonna play that way, I'm sure they'd dispatch some ziabatsu ninja assassins before they resorted to handing over stock..
Where can I buy one? I want to put my head on Walker Texas Rangers body.
Nothing would make me feel safer then a death dealing robot insect..
.50cal will protect my stuff..
Yeah, yeah, this is great, where do I get one?
Pistol eh? I wonder if I can mount something bigger in there.. I'm not convinced anything less then chain driven
Maybe some sort of fragmentation explosive just in case I really want to make sure my things are defended.. Ten or twelve pounds of high order explosive stuck in the ass somewhere.. That way even it if gets flipped over or something, I can blast the whole house off the face of the earth.. Then my stuff will be truely safe..
As Low Pass Industries' polytheist chaplain, it is my daunting and unhappy task to write a fitting eulogy for the much-loved MP3 trading software Napster. In a controversial ruling this Wednesday, Napster was ordered to shut down by judge Marilyn Patel, much to the dismay of music-loving blue-collar criminals worldwide.
How does one summarize the world's feelings of loss for a service almost as cherished as it was morally ambiguous? How does one express the grief that each user must now be experiencing having been denied access to the precious Menudo, Ah-Ha and Jeff Foxworthy MP3s they have not yet downloaded? How does one communicate a loss unlike anything the world's wealthy have had to endure before?
If we are to believe countless tiresome and depressing eulogies: we must do it through remembrance.
Always remember how wonderful it felt downloading those first few songs knowing that you hadn't paid a dime for them. Remember the incredible thrill of committing misdemeanors in your underwear without the slightest threat of legal repercussion or exposure to the elements. Remember how relieving it was to finally be able to voice your latent hatred of Metallica without just seeming obsessive and crazy. Remember overcoming your guilt by using the Napster Forgiveness Machine. And remember how freeing it was to be able to get a copy of Eye of the Tiger whenever you needed it without having to endure the judgmental glare of the record store check-out clerk.
But most of all, always remember how exciting it felt to struggle for a worthy cause: that people shouldn't have to pay for anything that's really easy to steal.
Yes, friends, on this sad occasion it is certainly important that we mourn the tragic loss of the Napster company, a bold and fearless new breed of company that for once put the facilitation of theft ahead of having a solid business model, but it is important also to remember those suffering the most from this loss - the countless users that relied on Napster to supply them with copyrighted material free of charge.
They weren't, as the media so often portrayed them, faceless sociopathic monsters - they had lives, they had stories to tell, and they had names. Names like joebooty455 and tittylikr9449. And who could forget good old sirfuksal0t99 and his penchant for swearing at the ladies? Their suffering, along with the suffering of countless others affected by this tragedy, should not be forgotten.
But do not despair, friends. Humanity has always shown great resilience in the face of adversity -- and I believe this instance will be no different. It has been demonstrated throughout history, from the rejection of prohibition to our profound disregard for all modern anti-drug laws: we will continue, whenever it pleases us, to reject these ridiculous and inhuman laws that only serve to delay our true destiny of gouging each other's eyes out with shrimp forks.
Be brave, ladies and gentlemen, be brave. And remember, as Benjamin Franklin once almost said: "Where there is a will to not pay for copyrighted music, there is a way to not pay for copyrighted music."
Thank you and good night,
http://www.lowpass.net
I'm going to have to move to Sealand or learn dutch at this rate. It's times like this I understand why gun control nuts get so upset..
Russian scientists are thinking of some really impressive ways to get headlines these days..
Mess up a landing even slightly and find your right leg propelled in a direction the bones don't want to go.. Even if you did learn to nail the landing everytime, the impacts would be totally jarring. Think jumping off a second story roof with every step.. Ouch.
A gas powered pogo stick would be as useful and safe, and someone did that ages ago.. I'll take a helicopter thanks..
Let's say I wanted HavenCo to host a stolen top secret document or I use space on your server to keep my cocain cartels bank records.. That's more or less the digital equivilant of hiding Osama Bin Laden in your basement.. Remember what happened to the country that did that? Precision guided boom.. And Afganistan is full of well armed combat vets who can live on sand, a lot scarier then a dozen nerds with a .22..
Are you really going to fight it out with a team of special forces types to try and save my data? What are you planning to do if someone starts chucking cruise missiles at you? A real datahaven(on earth anyway) needs a real army to back it up..
Time to call Sandline I guess..
As I recall, you loaded their URL and it opened a page with a million little frames loading the WTO website.. I can see no way the WTOs admin could have no anything to stop this at the packet level. If he set it up to redirect anyone coming with the ehippies in their refer header, that would do it.. If the ehippes had been bigger nerds, they could have probably defeated that easilly.
"So we told our filtering software to redirect any packets coming from these machines back at the e-hippies Web server," says Brian Koref, senior security analyst at Conxion.
What's up Brian?
Tired of being the only one on your block who hasn't issued a rambling, meaningless legal threat to Napster? Can't afford high priced, low moral legal representation to craft elegant claims of damages and wrongdoing you have suffered at their cruel and perverted hand? Just click through this easy multiple choice form and your one hundred percent screwball legal threat will be generated and sent by Low Pass catfish to the acting CEO of Napster, Eileen Richardson. Don't delay, start now!
Napster Forgiveness Machine
Once again, Low Pass Industries is here to bail you out of your seemingly hopeless predicament. Our in-house polytheist chaplain (Mark Anthony Lynett) has agreed to read and provide nearly instant absolution for any confessions submitted via the form below. As everyone knows, the first step to forgiveness is the admission of sin.
People in the tape/CD trading scene use eBay their eBay rating to present themselves as trustworthy all the time.. I assume other groups of people use it for the same thing. It's certainly possible to abuse this system, but a dozen positive comments from other ebay nicks I trust goes a long way to my piece of mind..
Unfortionitly, this system wouldn't help cameloid.. The company here is worried that you're some h4x0r nerd with a stolen card, not just a jerk who doesn't pay. It's not a question of trust, it's the old question of identification. If cameloid had a unique MAC address on file with VISA, the site would be able to verify off and happly ship whatever to wherever. Of course, that leads to terrible privacy problems and custom coupons on your microwave.
I see the IM2 trailer and think to myself, "Sunglasses with built in headphones, what a great idea.. Where can I buy some?"
The answer seems to be no where.. Jeez.
www.lowpass.net