How many distinct 'communities' could emerge on a forum like Slashdot, with such a restricted demographic? Surely the only communities would be 'trolls' and 'us'.
It seems that almost all people on Slashdot support more or less the same points of view, but to a greater or lesser degree, and to a higher or lower level of cogency. Do we have any PETA supporters, fanatic feminists or RIAA conservatives here? Not many;-)
Napster to me now seems like a dying mouse, being played with by the enormous fat cat that is the RIAA. After all, since Napster got whacked, they would have been dead in the water if they had nto complied with the RIAA's requests and begun instituting a 'pay' service.
Isn't it entirely possible that Napster, with its big public image and long-running experience, is now the testign grounds for pay-per-play schemes the RIAA would like to impose? RIAA and Napster come up with a scheme, and try it out... and it will probably bomb. So, they come up with another (perhaps the RIAA will even partially fund Napster on the side; it's not inconceivable) and test that. Repeat until you have the best possible model for forcing people to pay for this service, and make everyone else use it.
Morpheus, Gnutella etc. will not have had any experience instituting pay-per-play business models, so there is no chance that they could compete with the (by now) new and streamlined Napster corporation.
As I understand it, the differences in speed will be "barely perceptible"... doesn't this potentially mean that the calculations could be wrecked by the tiny impacts of hydrogen atoms on the probe? It souds like something this fragile could be offset by anything. But tell me if I'm wrong.:-)
Side info: If you held open a matchbox in space, it would contain about 6 hydrogen atoms.
--See...freakn slashdot...nothing but eurotrash and commies these days...
Oops, perhaps you missed the part where I pointed out that I am also American. Whoo, guess who looks stupid now.
--I guess they'd just make you use it dumbass,much like the thousands of cameras that track you 24/7
I think you should read the article before making foolish snide remarks: They repeatedly talk about their efforts to 'market' the chip, and the sales revenues the expect. If you're forcing people to use something you hardly have to market it, and you certainly don't sell it.
--See what i mean...europe sticks a camera up your ass and it's just fine...but the US..they're all evil..they'll steal your info...gaawwddd
Pretty much, yeah. You live there, I would have figured you'd know by now. England may have crappy broadband access, but last time I chekced it wasn't funding the real IRA, fixing votes and repealing human rights while proclaiming itself to be the 'land of the free'. Glad I moved out when I did.
Now on the one hand, that means that most of you people here can stop freaking out. For once it's not America letting all hell break loose. However, I live in Europe, and while I'm not entirely sure who they hope to sell this daft thing to, it raises interesting issues (for me at least) to do with international travel. I happen to be a citizen of both America and England; so if I decide to buy one of these things, how can I be sure that the US won't illegally steal my information when I travel? Would it even be illegal? In fact, when walking through the airport scanners, might it get picked up and I would be rendered pereptually unable to travel?
It's all very well to panic about Big Brother and co., but do remember that this isn't actually happening in America (yet). And if it did, you would move to Canada or somewhere, yeah?:-)
But you can in principle share and find music files just using IE and Apache, say.
My point is that sending/receiving MP3s et al is not their sole, express purpose. But with Napster / KaZaA, it *is* their express purpose. If you were intending to download some MP3s, you would more liekly download KaZaA than Apache.
IE may receive HTML as files, but that is just splitting hairs.
Surely the demand to use this thing if it was ever built would be incredible. Everyone and his auntie would want an observatory up there, NASA would want to launch shuttle missions and whatnot from it, and many many multinationals would want to set up services to take people up on trips.
Not only that, but how would waste (of all sorts) be disposed of? It seems an ENORMOUS pipe would be required to take everything down (although launching it into space would be simple, I suppose); and an even bigger pipe needed to pump up water and oxygen (with an equally huge compressor at the bottom to pump it up).
I get the feeling that comments about it crashing into satellites and creating mountains of space junk are nonsense, but I also get the feeling that not many countries would be too pleased at America having a platform attached to land (or not; whatever) from which to spy on and potentially launch attacks from. It's sort of one step up from the spying capabilities of satellites, but I can't see all countries having space elevators very soon (though that would be cool).
I' done with my ramble. Rip into my logic noww, please do. Destroy my sense of self-worth.;)
You're taking things a bit too far. Why KazAa? Well, why not? I suspect they know about Morpheus, Gnutella and the rest, but they have to start somewhere, and KazaA is probably the easiest and biggest target.
Also, ICQ / IE etc are not made for sending/receiving files. Thye have other main purposes; and besides, it is taking things too many steps down the chain to make sense (especially with IE). You might as well say that MP3 players allow people to listen to this 'illegal' music, or that Pentium chips power the computers that make this illegal transfer possible.
What you often find in boxes / other items in shops are small bags labeled 'Silica gel - dessicant: DO NOT EAT'. I can't imagine it would be too hard to get hold of alrge quantities of this stuff.
I do assume that your server room will be in the basement / garage? Good-o.
Is there any real reason why you can't just buy a couple of those big basement freezers and put them in there? It can't be too hard to put in extra lights if you need them, and I guess some silica dessicant would be a good thing to have in there too...
Every time I hear some news like this, my resolve to archive up all of the software I have now is renewed. I plan to upgrade as little as possible; at the moment, I can believe that my computer is more mine than Microsoft's (or anyone else's). It seems like it won't be like that for very long, and I can only wonder how many years it will be before my PC which I have control over is illiegal because of that fact.
Eeesh... you still use BabelFish? World Lingo has always been a better machine-translator:
Agreement with protection of children and young people in the
Internet
Federation and countries agreed after one year's negotiation on
principles for the protection of children and young people in the
InterNet. The measures to temporal limitations for youth-endangering contents
encounter criticism.
On the corner points the bosses of the state and Senatskanzleien of
the countries and the boss of the Office of the Federal Chancellor,
franc walter stone Meier agreed, on Thursday in Berlin. The paper is present the Financial Times Germany. Basically the countries are to be responsible for the protection of
children and young people in the media. The federation reserves itself rights of codetermination.
The introduction of a " positive Ratings for harmless supplies " is
suggested, which rejects the economy as " vorzensur ". The paper is to become basis for a youth medium protectorate contract
(JMStV). On portals such as T-Online on Erotik pages without sufficient acces
protection one link, says peace man Schindler of the Mainzer authority
protection of children and young people.net. It expects now a stronger printing on the contents contents of to
banish references to Sex supplies in the virtual Hinterzimmer.
Not youth-free contents only in certain times
According to the paper youth-free contents might not be made common "
or accessible " only between 23 o'clock and 6 o'clock, if no " pre and
free check techniques " are installed. Such demands were not practicably called of experts so far. " we can check not all contents in the network ", said Arthur
Waldenberger, Vorstand of the freiwilligen self-check Multimedia
(FSM). That is in view of billions on the part of " imbecility ". The fact that the self-check is to be subject to a " sovereign
certifying " by a " commission for the youth medium protection " is
not acceptable " ".
Experts reject sections
Also InterNet experts of the Bundestag factions reject sections of the
arrangement. " the youth medium protection is already monastery suited compared
with other countries almost in Germany ", says the medium-political
speaker of the FDP, Hans Joachim petrol. It is too simply, itself after land woman manners " bigott over the
dirt " consumed by million Germans too ereifern. Erotik providers are the only on-line industry, which writes black
numbers. Also the SPD wants to put " dinosaur discussions forward over
transmitting time delimitations and license obligations " for the
InterNet a latch plate, said Joerg Tauss, representative for new media
of the SPD. The corner points are not consentable.
Is it just me, or is it also exceedingly stupid of them to have their entire disclaimer page in extremely small text? 'Small text' is meant for icky stuff you don't want people to read; so if they must use such an Internet-useless convention then surely only the link to the disclaimer page should be tiny? Once I've found it, I'm damn well going to read it all.
Once again we must chortle heartily at the foolishness of KPMG.
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It does indeed, and in fact most space shuttle launch sites are down south (of America) for exactly this reason. It takes less fuel to get the ships into space from there, but I don't know the exact numbers.
My point is not the about the reasons and laws to do with forging, it is about the means. If people could, they would copy money willy-nilly, obviously much more than people copy CDs etc ATM. But people don't, partly because the penalties would be higher, and partly because it is a very very difficult thing to do.
The music industries are approaching it from the wrong angle, if they want to win. Making music impossible to listen to is not the sensible way to stop forgeries. The sensible way is to make it unprofitable for the forger; bump up the prices of CD burners, change the medium at a base level to make it more difficult to copy, something like that.
Now, clearly these ideas are almost as absurd as what they are currently doing (and far more impossible). What they really need is to start seling music on a brand new and very-expensive-and-difficult-to-copy medium, and sell it only on that medium. That would solve the 'problem', but it is of course the most impossible solution of all. Hurrah!:)
You guys all seem pretty harsh on bleem!. I live in England, and we can't get bleem! over here; on my last visit to the States, I was very happy to see it unexpectedly sitting on a shop shelf, and I'm even happier now that I bought it.
I took it home and played Gran Turismo straight away (and pretty darn nicely) on my clunky old AMD 500. Whoo-ee!:) Plus, when I tripped over to the website, it didn't seem that out-of-date.
I, for one, give bleem! a most hearty salute. They battled in many lawsuits against a huge company and came out tops each time; they did grand at a VERY tough job on emulating the process involved inside a PSX, and not specifically the output. The options were plentiful and the majority of things worked very well. Not at all a bad way to spend some US$ in my opinion.
If you think you can do better, then why aren't you?
It's such a shame to see the (inherently good) idea of copyrighting, patenting, copyprotection etc. all coming down in such a shambles.
I just sit back and laugh, personally. Because if it is possible for the medium to be recorded and perceived originally, then it can be again. This is why there will never be an end to forgery, illicit copies and that sort of thing.
On that note, why has the music industry not taken a tip from mints? After all, why don't more people forge money all over the place? Because it is too expensive. (i.e. Printing equipment, speical paper, etc etc.)
Just remember it is not the copying that is the problem, it is the distribtion.
One the one hand: Globalisation is a Bad Thing, because it means everyone will end up eating in government-sponsored KFCs and wearing Nike trainers, and probably listening to Steps or S Club 7. The end of 'culture' and 'exotic' things.
On the other hand: It is a Good Thing, because if everyone does the same, wears the same, speaks the same and acts the same (exaggeration, but bear with me) then people will have little or nothing to fight about anymore. Could bring harmony to the world.
On the third hand: It is a Bad Thing, because people always fight, whether they have reason to or not. And is it worth trading individual cultures, tradition and exoticism (is that a word) in exchange for potential peace and harmony?
CD Player +
Person +
Memory = circumvention device...
Or:
CD Player +
Person +
Lending to another person = circumvention device...
My advice? Sit back and laugh; these enormous dolts of corporations are so insanely desperate to stop this free tade of music, and they can't. In any way at all. HAHAHA!:-)
I'm not knowledgeable about all of the technical stuff being said here (e.g. "you can never get more energy out of hydrogen than you put in"). However, I do know that this is unlikely to become a reality until it is also a necessity; simply because it isn't profitable.
It would be nice to think that people would wise up and convert before all of the fossil fuels are gone, but we know it won't happen until someone either takes out OPEC or manages to invent a hydrogen engine more efficient (and crucially, more profitable) than a petrol engine.
Money makes the world go round. Not common sense.:-(
Aside from all that, it is good to see that someone has realised what an atrocity the previous judgement would have been. Finding a balance will be tricky, agreed; but what they were running with before just wasn't it.
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It seems that almost all people on Slashdot support more or less the same points of view, but to a greater or lesser degree, and to a higher or lower level of cogency. Do we have any PETA supporters, fanatic feminists or RIAA conservatives here? Not many ;-)
Isn't it entirely possible that Napster, with its big public image and long-running experience, is now the testign grounds for pay-per-play schemes the RIAA would like to impose? RIAA and Napster come up with a scheme, and try it out... and it will probably bomb. So, they come up with another (perhaps the RIAA will even partially fund Napster on the side; it's not inconceivable) and test that. Repeat until you have the best possible model for forcing people to pay for this service, and make everyone else use it.
Morpheus, Gnutella etc. will not have had any experience instituting pay-per-play business models, so there is no chance that they could compete with the (by now) new and streamlined Napster corporation.
Probably and hopefully won't happen... but...?
Is this about where I send my line-out to my line-in and say thank you very much ma'am, and goodnight?
Side info: If you held open a matchbox in space, it would contain about 6 hydrogen atoms.
Oops, perhaps you missed the part where I pointed out that I am also American. Whoo, guess who looks stupid now.
--I guess they'd just make you use it dumbass,much like the thousands of cameras that track you 24/7
I think you should read the article before making foolish snide remarks: They repeatedly talk about their efforts to 'market' the chip, and the sales revenues the expect. If you're forcing people to use something you hardly have to market it, and you certainly don't sell it.
--See what i mean...europe sticks a camera up your ass and it's just fine...but the US..they're all evil..they'll steal your info...gaawwddd
Pretty much, yeah. You live there, I would have figured you'd know by now. England may have crappy broadband access, but last time I chekced it wasn't funding the real IRA, fixing votes and repealing human rights while proclaiming itself to be the 'land of the free'. Glad I moved out when I did.
Now on the one hand, that means that most of you people here can stop freaking out. For once it's not America letting all hell break loose. However, I live in Europe, and while I'm not entirely sure who they hope to sell this daft thing to, it raises interesting issues (for me at least) to do with international travel. I happen to be a citizen of both America and England; so if I decide to buy one of these things, how can I be sure that the US won't illegally steal my information when I travel? Would it even be illegal? In fact, when walking through the airport scanners, might it get picked up and I would be rendered pereptually unable to travel?
It's all very well to panic about Big Brother and co., but do remember that this isn't actually happening in America (yet). And if it did, you would move to Canada or somewhere, yeah? :-)
My point is that sending/receiving MP3s et al is not their sole, express purpose. But with Napster / KaZaA, it *is* their express purpose. If you were intending to download some MP3s, you would more liekly download KaZaA than Apache.
IE may receive HTML as files, but that is just splitting hairs.
Not only that, but how would waste (of all sorts) be disposed of? It seems an ENORMOUS pipe would be required to take everything down (although launching it into space would be simple, I suppose); and an even bigger pipe needed to pump up water and oxygen (with an equally huge compressor at the bottom to pump it up).
I get the feeling that comments about it crashing into satellites and creating mountains of space junk are nonsense, but I also get the feeling that not many countries would be too pleased at America having a platform attached to land (or not; whatever) from which to spy on and potentially launch attacks from. It's sort of one step up from the spying capabilities of satellites, but I can't see all countries having space elevators very soon (though that would be cool).
I' done with my ramble. Rip into my logic noww, please do. Destroy my sense of self-worth. ;)
Also, ICQ / IE etc are not made for sending/receiving files. Thye have other main purposes; and besides, it is taking things too many steps down the chain to make sense (especially with IE). You might as well say that MP3 players allow people to listen to this 'illegal' music, or that Pentium chips power the computers that make this illegal transfer possible.
Although now I think about it, why not put *those* freezers in *other* freezers? Mwa ha!!
How often it needs replacing is anybody's guess.
Is there any real reason why you can't just buy a couple of those big basement freezers and put them in there? It can't be too hard to put in extra lights if you need them, and I guess some silica dessicant would be a good thing to have in there too...
After all, it is only a home server room. ;-)
Every time I hear some news like this, my resolve to archive up all of the software I have now is renewed. I plan to upgrade as little as possible; at the moment, I can believe that my computer is more mine than Microsoft's (or anyone else's). It seems like it won't be like that for very long, and I can only wonder how many years it will be before my PC which I have control over is illiegal because of that fact.
Agreement with protection of children and young people in the Internet
Federation and countries agreed after one year's negotiation on principles for the protection of children and young people in the InterNet. The measures to temporal limitations for youth-endangering contents encounter criticism. On the corner points the bosses of the state and Senatskanzleien of the countries and the boss of the Office of the Federal Chancellor, franc walter stone Meier agreed, on Thursday in Berlin. The paper is present the Financial Times Germany. Basically the countries are to be responsible for the protection of children and young people in the media. The federation reserves itself rights of codetermination. The introduction of a " positive Ratings for harmless supplies " is suggested, which rejects the economy as " vorzensur ". The paper is to become basis for a youth medium protectorate contract (JMStV). On portals such as T-Online on Erotik pages without sufficient acces protection one link, says peace man Schindler of the Mainzer authority protection of children and young people.net. It expects now a stronger printing on the contents contents of to banish references to Sex supplies in the virtual Hinterzimmer.
Not youth-free contents only in certain times
According to the paper youth-free contents might not be made common " or accessible " only between 23 o'clock and 6 o'clock, if no " pre and free check techniques " are installed. Such demands were not practicably called of experts so far. " we can check not all contents in the network ", said Arthur Waldenberger, Vorstand of the freiwilligen self-check Multimedia (FSM). That is in view of billions on the part of " imbecility ". The fact that the self-check is to be subject to a " sovereign certifying " by a " commission for the youth medium protection " is not acceptable " ".
Experts reject sections
Also InterNet experts of the Bundestag factions reject sections of the arrangement. " the youth medium protection is already monastery suited compared with other countries almost in Germany ", says the medium-political speaker of the FDP, Hans Joachim petrol. It is too simply, itself after land woman manners " bigott over the dirt " consumed by million Germans too ereifern. Erotik providers are the only on-line industry, which writes black numbers. Also the SPD wants to put " dinosaur discussions forward over transmitting time delimitations and license obligations " for the InterNet a latch plate, said Joerg Tauss, representative for new media of the SPD. The corner points are not consentable.
Once again we must chortle heartily at the foolishness of KPMG.
It does indeed, and in fact most space shuttle launch sites are down south (of America) for exactly this reason. It takes less fuel to get the ships into space from there, but I don't know the exact numbers.
What an odd place to put such a rant, since no mention of Microsoft or the DMCA is anywhere within 5 miles of this page.
I bet you think you're patriotic.
Library documents doubleplusbad crimethink securewise. Slashdot doubleplusbad crimethink duckspeak purgewise. America doublsplusgood keep citizens safewise via purges rightswise recordswise miscellaneous.
The music industries are approaching it from the wrong angle, if they want to win. Making music impossible to listen to is not the sensible way to stop forgeries. The sensible way is to make it unprofitable for the forger; bump up the prices of CD burners, change the medium at a base level to make it more difficult to copy, something like that.
Now, clearly these ideas are almost as absurd as what they are currently doing (and far more impossible). What they really need is to start seling music on a brand new and very-expensive-and-difficult-to-copy medium, and sell it only on that medium. That would solve the 'problem', but it is of course the most impossible solution of all. Hurrah! :)
I took it home and played Gran Turismo straight away (and pretty darn nicely) on my clunky old AMD 500. Whoo-ee! :) Plus, when I tripped over to the website, it didn't seem that out-of-date.
I, for one, give bleem! a most hearty salute. They battled in many lawsuits against a huge company and came out tops each time; they did grand at a VERY tough job on emulating the process involved inside a PSX, and not specifically the output. The options were plentiful and the majority of things worked very well. Not at all a bad way to spend some US$ in my opinion.
If you think you can do better, then why aren't you?
I just sit back and laugh, personally. Because if it is possible for the medium to be recorded and perceived originally, then it can be again. This is why there will never be an end to forgery, illicit copies and that sort of thing.
On that note, why has the music industry not taken a tip from mints? After all, why don't more people forge money all over the place? Because it is too expensive. (i.e. Printing equipment, speical paper, etc etc.)
Just remember it is not the copying that is the problem, it is the distribtion.
On the other hand: It is a Good Thing, because if everyone does the same, wears the same, speaks the same and acts the same (exaggeration, but bear with me) then people will have little or nothing to fight about anymore. Could bring harmony to the world.
On the third hand: It is a Bad Thing, because people always fight, whether they have reason to or not. And is it worth trading individual cultures, tradition and exoticism (is that a word) in exchange for potential peace and harmony?
Hmm. And hmm some more.
CD Player + Person + Memory = circumvention device...
Or:
CD Player + Person + Lending to another person = circumvention device...
My advice? Sit back and laugh; these enormous dolts of corporations are so insanely desperate to stop this free tade of music, and they can't. In any way at all. HAHAHA! :-)
It would be nice to think that people would wise up and convert before all of the fossil fuels are gone, but we know it won't happen until someone either takes out OPEC or manages to invent a hydrogen engine more efficient (and crucially, more profitable) than a petrol engine.
Money makes the world go round. Not common sense. :-(
Also, the BBC is running this story.
Aside from all that, it is good to see that someone has realised what an atrocity the previous judgement would have been. Finding a balance will be tricky, agreed; but what they were running with before just wasn't it.