atavists are rottenly arrested for bicycling in groups... At my own university students were put on a "credible threat" list for their "hobby" which was peacefully trying to end the American occupation of Iraq.
We need not speak in theoretical when talking about police throwing people in jail for their "hobbies" The value of online being anonymous and protections for free speech should not be downplayed given our current cultural/political context.
Google has been dropping in and out for me in the past few days. But bit-torrent traffic seems unaffected... I just downloaded the latest ubuntu at full 6Mbs / ~600K a second... maybe cuz I have Azureus set up to encrypt when possible and use a random port?
children growing up knowing Windows is actually a good thing for the children and the local economy
How can ever-lasting dependence on foreign corporations be good for the children? Its simply in the interest of social structures (governments) to maximize the freedoms of the collective and minimize foreign dependencies that threaten to restrict the freedoms of the group.
In the US for example we have huge foreign dependencies on oil.
Other countries that don't have the largest military budget on the planet, can't just go kill people, occupy nations, and transform foreign economies on a whim to improve future geopolitical economic/energy positioning.
So..it would do good for poor countries to plan ahead and use linux. else their growth and prosperity is bounded by the platform provider. Hundreds of years of experience with colonial economics will inform these choices... (if the choices are made by "the majority" rather than the local collaborative oligarchs that have done quite well through colonialisms and present day 3rd world neo-liberal foreign ownership of all the key sectors of the economy).
I don't know if its moral or not to maximize ones collective freedom, but it seems like a good idea.
Keep in mind these senators can reduce what was once a core constitutional freedom to a debate about giving prisoners chunky or creamy peanut butter. Our freedom is fragile at best.
The problem with flash and great projects like gnash is that it will never be a full freely distributable implementation as long as we have draconian patent laws. Components such as flash video are patented. Likewise the silverlight won't be complete in a free distribution.
I think people need to get informed about what is happening in the open platform space. Check out the firefox3 builds with ogg theora support. This combined with canvas, svg and the hardware accelerated rendering via cairo we can see the platform for rich open media coming into place.
A demo that everyone should check out is the SVG theora demo A Rich Open Media Platform is already on its way;) All we have to do is build some killer apps for it and push these open pieces into IE, safari etc. Instead of the other around where propitiatory components being pushed into open platforms.
its an uphill battle given the sudo standardization around flash... but ultimately free and open system have inherit advantages that will eventually outweigh the proprietary solutions in free flowing information environments... It's only a matter of time;)
coal only produces 1/2 of the US electricity. Additionally clean[er] coal technology could be mandated ie filtered smoke stacks and co2 recuperation is much easier to engineer/mandate in the power plants than it is with micro fuel consumption. Plus as others mention, solar panels, wind hydroelectric, tiddle currents etc are much easier to use if cars support being powered by electricity.
The big wtf for me is the 8miile range... the EV1 with non-lithium batteries had around a 70mile range if I recall correctly...
I have concern for the whole downward spiral. War is already almost completely abstracted, sanitized and removed from the day to day life of the majority of the domestic populations that enable wars of foreign aggression. Be it passive support, apathy, ambivalence or even "opposition" its of little consequence to the war machinery which is embed in the system where they all exist as supporters. As war becomes more and more abstracted & disconnected from consequence for these people it becomes easier and easier to neglect the hellish reality for whoever happens to be on the wrong side of the unmanned remote controlled drone. (in this case the Iraqi people / "terrorists")
This makes it harder and harder for any population to oppose state repression as the consequences for rebelling against the state (or in this case the occupying forces) become more and more sever at the same time that your capacity for rebelling against that repression become less and less. This machinery enables little relative risk for the occupying force. The occupied become terrorists hitting soft targets as all that is left to attack as the state has no exposure when drooping bombs from 5000ft or attacking with unmanned drones. Terrorism, kidnappings death squads, a expanding cycle violent reprisals inflame the entire population. But hey "we only lost" 3000 people and a few hundred billion.
Sometimes worst case scenarios help people view the problem of the downward spiral we are facing. In this case consider remote control destruction of arbitrary individuals in arbitrary locations, with little to no risk for the ones doing the destruction. Democracy is easily subverted, automating the destruction of others makes the "god mandated mission to free those people" that much easier to swallow. This always comes back around to domestic oppression (if you don't care about killing others). We can see very the same drones (unarmed right now) being deployed on the border and some cities
DN also airs western propaganda when its relevant to the story. For example when the main stream media was buying the WMD story like it was gospel, Democracy Now would air the administration propaganda and then air voices from the many critics and dissidents that poked many holes in the WMD story. Unlike the mainstream media that would air countless Bush admires building up support for an unjust war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Meanwhile DN viewers knew the administrations claims where highly dubious, years before the MSM woke up and realized they had been acting as loudspeaker for government propaganda. Likewise if you followed DN you would know they are critical of human rights volitions wherever they occur including... gasp cuba, ie they don't neglect to mention the human rights violations that Cuba commits against its dissidents and those organizing democracy there. Your point is valid in that we should scrutinize all our information sources but I value democracy now because it does a much better job at exactly that.
Of course DN is not perfect... but no information source is, and its naive/religious dogma to think any information source is/can be absolutely authoritative or "objective".
Wow... your garbage rant has almost nothing to do with the topic of the article.
By almost nothing I think you meant absolutely nothing which is fair, the meta data for the above post is certainly missing...
Maybe I should explain.. lets see burning rainforest = more CO2...but wait... capitalism also builds a device that helps reduce CO2 emissions... maybe things are not black and white... the broad strokes of absolutism in the above post are there in hopes to illustrate the fallacy of absolutism in hole hearted support of anything...be that absolutist anti-capital rhetoric or the dogmatic belief the current economic model is as natural as the sky above us, and the pinnacle of egalitarian social structures.
(and the process of modernization and industrialization of previously subsistence populations into a global economic framework. Basically a lot of people became really poor and desperate to make money once neo-liberal policies forced the integration of local economies into the global market. Survival instincts quickly take over and once the race to the bottom takes full swing. Who can make deals with corrupt officials the fastest and stake a claim to land & burn the most rain frost possible, grow your net worth, integrate indigenous populations into a profitable business. Have them work for you instead of for themselves in a system outside of global capitalism.
Ofcourse even the boss won't make shit compared to the corporate execs, pushing the deals, pushing the neo-liberal reforms, and "new" economic models of production... but that is the beauty of capitalism makes selling out/buying in much more attractive than the actual participation.
For the majority at the bottom, raising beef simply becomes much more particle when local means of substance are debased via privatization of previously subsistence resources such as land, watter and the flooding of the local food markets with foreign subsidized imports eliminating diversity in local economies and pushing people into the global market where burning Rainforst is simply the best they can offer.
And what to do... We live in a culture where the aesthetics of consumption is hole-heartily disconnected from the means of production. Consuming the bigMac brand and animal caucus is completely disconnected from torching the Rainfroest and watching the last family of a particular species of some fury creature in a failed attempt to escape a fiery inferno.
But I imagine most people understand from since childhood when they first see a picture of earth from outer space at night and bother to ask what are all those lights doing in the Rainforest Mommy? That's the rain forest burning for progress, economic growth and global market integration honey, now finish your bigMac or you won't get a frosty (or whatever the fuck they call their ice cream now):P
sorry for continuing a off topic thread... but A lot of animal rights activist that I have talked to are more concerned with factory farming, hormonal injections, and genetic modification. Genetic modification in-of-itself is not 'wrong' rather the problem comes in when decisions on maximizing profit dictate design such as plants that don't reproduce, or plants that produce organic pesticides being deployed in the wild without testing in a complex hetrogenus environment. These decisions risk apocalyptic famine.
When an animal activist that I knew entered into an alternate context where people where hutting & cultivating their own food curing their own meet and serving it to guests with respect for the animals they killed, she was open to trying the food. This is entirely different from the toxicity of factory farms, the torture and alteration of the natural systems for sustaining life. Making large non-robust shifts in the genetic structure of plants and livestock with more concern for immediate capital gains than long term testing is hugely problematic. We should not thrown millions of years of semiotic evolution to the wind.
We are lucking people are resisting this and fighting for change.
There's nothing whatsoever limiting you from going to the source, just as they did. Nothing at all. The original material still exists.
actually its pretty hard to get press credentials... we would love to put a box in there and get direct access to the public domain feed, its just that its very very hard to get access as they are very uptight about credentials. And even if we did manage to get press credentials their a good deal of costs associated with access to that feed. You have to run fiber over to another building for example. See Carl Malamud public memory plan for an outline of the costs.
at this point in time C-SPAN & the low quality government webcasts are all we have access to as individuals...
C-SPAN has made broad claims of copyright without being specific in their take down requests.. see the dem bloggers situation in particular
For our readers and members this means that we will no longer post videos or information from C-SPAN including Senate speeches
but their present stance is a step away from such actions and a step in the right direction. Metavid is applauds their efforts but ofcourse metavid will continue its efforts to maximize the freedom of participants. This means capturing the public domain feeds and putting them online in free and open formats, freely distributing the entirety of the meta-data (close captions, person tags etc), and freely distributing all of the software which mediates that meta data.
Evil is the systemic conditions that allow the formation of imagined binary morality. Enabling the US population to support a foreign occupation of a region with no timetable for withdraw until it reflects a un-declared imaged state thats ostensibly in our "leader" head. And then say that this violent hellish world our leaders have unleashed on the Iraqi population is the Iraqis own fault and if we don't continue to escalate and maintain this complete failure that the "terrorists win". As if there is some sort of binary evil terrorist that simply exists completely unrelated to the violent occupation. The occupation is the massive blow-torch being applied to sectarian violence via preferential sectarian collaboration, but hey its probably the liberals fault for not understanding the binary moral simplicity of the situation. The Occupation has created many thousands of actual acts of real life violence against people that has inspire actual acts of real terrorism not some imagined "liberal" moral relativist giving people permission to do so....
but hey...that straw man terrorism sympathizer sure is easy to knock down... congratulations.
Reading these documents really crystallize Microsoft's most recent efforts to incorporate patent agreement legal language into their deal with Novel. It is the only front on which Microsoft can wage any form of defense against the inevitable commodification of software. Making everyone a participant is simply much more efficient than top down closed development.
While It turned out MS approach to appropriate the linux evangelization though transparency was laughed at "shared source" anyone?...You have to give them credit for clearly identifying the potential week point:
"additionally, strong patent procurement is a key enabler which allows us to publish more of our source code to
leverage evangelization benefits (the patent application process is, in a manner of speaking, a
form of source publication)"
This patent approach could theoretically allow microsoft to benefit from the work of everyone that touches their code while still charging any person that distributes the code for profit via licensing patents. And I imagine that is the direction they are going with their novel agreement. We already have that situation with some open source projects that implement patented technology's forced to have free and non-free (patent licensed) versions for corporate customers while giving away the source for non-commercial usage/development. This is un-free hopefully people will generally recognize it as such & hopefully GL3 will also help. Else we could see Microsoft transform from software licenser into a patent licenser.
Well there is the java cortado player that we use on metavid. So IE users support it out of the box. For in browser playing we also support the VLC Mozilla and IE active X plugin.
NO video editing software supports it
Besides the directShow filters that enable ogg theora to work in all windows media editing application and the QuickTime extension that allows ogg theora to work in all apple quicktime applications there is native cross platform ogg support in open source editors such as jahsaka and in linux editors such as cinelerra
and finally
no streaming server for Theora
there is icecast which we have used on metavid.org to do live broadcasts to the java based player. Also the gstreamer flumotion suite.
A recent blog post on metavid explains the issue in more detail. For example we already can't use the footage of Alito's Confirmation until 2101 assuming copyright is not extended again.
And the wikipedia article on C-SPAN IP enforcement which documents some of C-SPAN's take down requests to people that have used legislative footage online.
Making that content freely available is exactly what metavid is trying to do. This is important because if C-SPAN gets control of the cameras we will have to take down future floor footage as well. We have already been forced by C-SPAN to take down the committee hearings. See our most recent blog post for more info
Microsoft is positioning themselves to capitalize on the participation & creativity of their user-base. Being a producer is the new consumer v2.0;)
We can see this transformation across corporate culture with the flood of web 2.0 software and services. It simply far more profitable to have your consumers produce the content that you service that it is to make content your self. This also shapes the traditional big budget game productions look at what EA is trying to do with Spore or the popularity of EverQuest like MMORPGs where participants produce experiences with each other under the domain of corporate context provider. These experiences are enriched by this appropriation and therefore accumulate social capital, and whats important to remember about capital is that is transferable.
Its only logical that microsoft will try to capitalize on the home-brew game community. When those high up in the corporate hierarchy were shown a moded xbox and the home-brew software library, their question was not how do we stomp this out rather it was how do we appropriate this into our business model.
The tragedy of corporate appropriation is the tendency to make things suck. For example by shifting around generated social capital (ie your coolness becomes our brand) Your youtube videos are 1.6 billion for a few people at the top and free hosting for those at the bottom.
As the service model integrates the qualities/coolness of free & user generated software with open APIs, customizable interfaces and in this case low cost "development kits", the qualities that made free software so desirable are appropriated and generally potentially crippled as generated social capital is siphoned off to disproportionately support the (relatively minor) contributions of a few at the top.
So we see the rise of free service models wikipedia, creative commons, participatory culture foundation, the linux platform etc. (they are still appropriated and ofcourse people profit disproportionate to their contributions but at least there are some structural qualities in place that limit the disproportional profitability such as the GPL, open platforms, copyleft etc. We should probably chose to participate in those spaces if possible or given circumstance and specific goals you decide to make content for microsoft/google/sony, that fine as long as you think about it first;)
Lots of people have been executed for lack of shared metaphor... For example here in the US native people had to be taught the metaphor of private property the hard way..ie cultural & human genocide. You can look at a lot of human tragedy as a lack of shared metaphors.
If congressman Ron Paul is so tech centric why does he link to proprietary windows media for his video clips, when he could link to the all open source ogg theora archive of his appearances:P
I am sort of joking but seriously its not like Ron Paul is campaigning for full transparency (he falls under the Transparency is not a priority list. He is not campaigning for open source software in government nor an end to DMCA. Although he does appear good on de-federalization...
In terms of so called "free trade"...the removal of local/national government regulatory structures in favor of transnational corporate regulatory structures against labor, the environment and local determinism guided by the single metric of maximizing profit does not really fall on either side of tech-friendly IMHO.
So I guess we operate under different interpretations of reality, thats fine...
Does a left wing CEO make his whole company left wing as well? Be fair. I bet you defend CNN as not liberal.
Well I would never defend CNN to quote a hero "I have nothing but disdain for those people". I despise CNN not because of its political POV... its more to do with the inherit hieratical/authoritative structure set by its commercial/corporate operating conditions. In other words its represents everything that wikipedia is not.
"All your post proves is that the Diebold CEO is a right winger. Bet he's never written a line of code in his life."
... I guess you did not read the leaked Diebold memos which confirmed their were negative votes for Gore in 2000, the leaked source code and the analysis done by several independent projects, showing among other things that Diebold used an outdated and encryption system with well known vulnerabilities and a single key for all instillations.
But I guess you could interpret it as company wide criminal negligence which concentrically favored a particular party. Or well theres lots of potential interpretations. But lets not biker about the past...as Jeremi points out
Our electoral system should be set up in such a way that its integrity shouldn't depend on the honesty of any one company or individual.
Lets move towards a better system. One could be designed in a way where a live human fingerprint could be used as the registration key. A few years off...but these keys could be assigned vote values and the results could be downloaded by anyone to do lookups on their own fingerprint to confirm their vote was cast as intended, while preserving anonymity as the fingerprint keys would be encrypted and could only be looked up by the voter with their key/word. This open source software would be signed to run only on hardware that only could run singed software, and of course it goes without saying that we should have confirmed paper print outs.
Well I mean I would be happy with any of the features relative to what we have now (listed from ideal to essential...)
Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc said in 2003 he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." from numerous reports including democracy now
If you accept traditional definitions of left-right and that Bush is to the right then I think it would be fair to say that Diebold is a right wing company only with that piece of information.
If we were to further research the matter I think we would quickly discover that the top of most corporate hierarchy's are right leaning in that they represent the interest of concentrated power outside democratic control. Self interest/self preservation make corporations lean to the right by what I would consider traditional definitions of right and left, but maybe your running on different metaphors and or language syntax.
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We need not speak in theoretical when talking about police throwing people in jail for their "hobbies" The value of online being anonymous and protections for free speech should not be downplayed given our current cultural/political context.
Google has been dropping in and out for me in the past few days. But bit-torrent traffic seems unaffected... I just downloaded the latest ubuntu at full 6Mbs / ~600K a second... maybe cuz I have Azureus set up to encrypt when possible and use a random port?
In the US for example we have huge foreign dependencies on oil. Other countries that don't have the largest military budget on the planet, can't just go kill people, occupy nations, and transform foreign economies on a whim to improve future geopolitical economic/energy positioning.
So..it would do good for poor countries to plan ahead and use linux. else their growth and prosperity is bounded by the platform provider. Hundreds of years of experience with colonial economics will inform these choices... (if the choices are made by "the majority" rather than the local collaborative oligarchs that have done quite well through colonialisms and present day 3rd world neo-liberal foreign ownership of all the key sectors of the economy).
I don't know if its moral or not to maximize ones collective freedom, but it seems like a good idea.
Keep in mind these senators can reduce what was once a core constitutional freedom to a debate about giving prisoners chunky or creamy peanut butter. Our freedom is fragile at best.
The problem with flash and great projects like gnash is that it will never be a full freely distributable implementation as long as we have draconian patent laws. Components such as flash video are patented. Likewise the silverlight won't be complete in a free distribution.
;) All we have to do is build some killer apps for it and push these open pieces into IE, safari etc. Instead of the other around where propitiatory components being pushed into open platforms.
;)
I think people need to get informed about what is happening in the open platform space. Check out the firefox3 builds with ogg theora support. This combined with canvas, svg and the hardware accelerated rendering via cairo we can see the platform for rich open media coming into place.
A demo that everyone should check out is the SVG theora demo A Rich Open Media Platform is already on its way
its an uphill battle given the sudo standardization around flash... but ultimately free and open system have inherit advantages that will eventually outweigh the proprietary solutions in free flowing information environments... It's only a matter of time
we can use javascript libraries to support html5 video elements today
The big wtf for me is the 8miile range... the EV1 with non-lithium batteries had around a 70mile range if I recall correctly...
I have concern for the whole downward spiral. War is already almost completely abstracted, sanitized and removed from the day to day life of the majority of the domestic populations that enable wars of foreign aggression. Be it passive support, apathy, ambivalence or even "opposition" its of little consequence to the war machinery which is embed in the system where they all exist as supporters. As war becomes more and more abstracted & disconnected from consequence for these people it becomes easier and easier to neglect the hellish reality for whoever happens to be on the wrong side of the unmanned remote controlled drone. (in this case the Iraqi people / "terrorists")
This makes it harder and harder for any population to oppose state repression as the consequences for rebelling against the state (or in this case the occupying forces) become more and more sever at the same time that your capacity for rebelling against that repression become less and less.
This machinery enables little relative risk for the occupying force. The occupied become terrorists hitting soft targets as all that is left to attack as the state has no exposure when drooping bombs from 5000ft or attacking with unmanned drones. Terrorism, kidnappings death squads, a expanding cycle violent reprisals inflame the entire population. But hey "we only lost" 3000 people and a few hundred billion.
Sometimes worst case scenarios help people view the problem of the downward spiral we are facing. In this case consider remote control destruction of arbitrary individuals in arbitrary locations, with little to no risk for the ones doing the destruction. Democracy is easily subverted, automating the destruction of others makes the "god mandated mission to free those people" that much easier to swallow. This always comes back around to domestic oppression (if you don't care about killing others). We can see very the same drones (unarmed right now) being deployed on the border and some cities
DN also airs western propaganda when its relevant to the story. For example when the main stream media was buying the WMD story like it was gospel, Democracy Now would air the administration propaganda and then air voices from the many critics and dissidents that poked many holes in the WMD story.
Unlike the mainstream media that would air countless Bush admires building up support for an unjust war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Meanwhile DN viewers knew the administrations claims where highly dubious, years before the MSM woke up and realized they had been acting as loudspeaker for government propaganda.
Likewise if you followed DN you would know they are critical of human rights volitions wherever they occur including... gasp cuba, ie they don't neglect to mention the human rights violations that Cuba commits against its dissidents and those organizing democracy there.
Your point is valid in that we should scrutinize all our information sources but I value democracy now because it does a much better job at exactly that. Of course DN is not perfect... but no information source is, and its naive/religious dogma to think any information source is/can be absolutely authoritative or "objective".
Maybe I should explain.. lets see burning rainforest = more CO2
(and the process of modernization and industrialization of previously subsistence populations into a global economic framework. Basically a lot of people became really poor and desperate to make money once neo-liberal policies forced the integration of local economies into the global market. Survival instincts quickly take over and once the race to the bottom takes full swing. Who can make deals with corrupt officials the fastest and stake a claim to land & burn the most rain frost possible, grow your net worth, integrate indigenous populations into a profitable business. Have them work for you instead of for themselves in a system outside of global capitalism.
Ofcourse even the boss won't make shit compared to the corporate execs, pushing the deals, pushing the neo-liberal reforms, and "new" economic models of production... but that is the beauty of capitalism makes selling out/buying in much more attractive than the actual participation.
For the majority at the bottom, raising beef simply becomes much more particle when local means of substance are debased via privatization of previously subsistence resources such as land, watter and the flooding of the local food markets with foreign subsidized imports eliminating diversity in local economies and pushing people into the global market where burning Rainforst is simply the best they can offer.
And what to do... We live in a culture where the aesthetics of consumption is hole-heartily disconnected from the means of production. Consuming the bigMac brand and animal caucus is completely disconnected from torching the Rainfroest and watching the last family of a particular species of some fury creature in a failed attempt to escape a fiery inferno.
But I imagine most people understand from since childhood when they first see a picture of earth from outer space at night and bother to ask what are all those lights doing in the Rainforest Mommy? That's the rain forest burning for progress, economic growth and global market integration honey, now finish your bigMac or you won't get a frosty (or whatever the fuck they call their ice cream now) :P
sorry for continuing a off topic thread... but
A lot of animal rights activist that I have talked to are more concerned with factory farming, hormonal injections, and genetic modification. Genetic modification in-of-itself is not 'wrong' rather the problem comes in when decisions on maximizing profit dictate design such as plants that don't reproduce, or plants that produce organic pesticides being deployed in the wild without testing in a complex hetrogenus environment. These decisions risk apocalyptic famine.
When an animal activist that I knew entered into an alternate context where people where hutting & cultivating their own food curing their own meet and serving it to guests with respect for the animals they killed, she was open to trying the food.
This is entirely different from the toxicity of factory farms, the torture and alteration of the natural systems for sustaining life. Making large non-robust shifts in the genetic structure of plants and livestock with more concern for immediate capital gains than long term testing is hugely problematic. We should not thrown millions of years of semiotic evolution to the wind.
We are lucking people are resisting this and fighting for change.
at this point in time C-SPAN & the low quality government webcasts are all we have access to as individuals...
Evil is the systemic conditions that allow the formation of imagined binary morality. Enabling the US population to support a foreign occupation of a region with no timetable for withdraw until it reflects a un-declared imaged state thats ostensibly in our "leader" head. And then say that this violent hellish world our leaders have unleashed on the Iraqi population is the Iraqis own fault and if we don't continue to escalate and maintain this complete failure that the "terrorists win". As if there is some sort of binary evil terrorist that simply exists completely unrelated to the violent occupation. The occupation is the massive blow-torch being applied to sectarian violence via preferential sectarian collaboration, but hey its probably the liberals fault for not understanding the binary moral simplicity of the situation. The Occupation has created many thousands of actual acts of real life violence against people that has inspire actual acts of real terrorism not some imagined "liberal" moral relativist giving people permission to do so....
but hey...that straw man terrorism sympathizer sure is easy to knock down... congratulations.
Reading these documents really crystallize Microsoft's most recent efforts to incorporate patent agreement legal language into their deal with Novel. It is the only front on which Microsoft can wage any form of defense against the inevitable commodification of software. Making everyone a participant is simply much more efficient than top down closed development. While It turned out MS approach to appropriate the linux evangelization though transparency was laughed at "shared source" anyone? ...You have to give them credit for clearly identifying the potential week point:
"additionally, strong patent procurement is a key enabler which allows us to publish more of our source code to
leverage evangelization benefits (the patent application process is, in a manner of speaking, a
form of source publication)"
This patent approach could theoretically allow microsoft to benefit from the work of everyone that touches their code while still charging any person that distributes the code for profit via licensing patents. And I imagine that is the direction they are going with their novel agreement. We already have that situation with some open source projects that implement patented technology's forced to have free and non-free (patent licensed) versions for corporate customers while giving away the source for non-commercial usage/development. This is un-free hopefully people will generally recognize it as such & hopefully GL3 will also help. Else we could see Microsoft transform from software licenser into a patent licenser.
and finally
there is icecast which we have used on metavid.org to do live broadcasts to the java based player. Also the gstreamer flumotion suite.A recent blog post on metavid explains the issue in more detail. For example we already can't use the footage of Alito's Confirmation until 2101 assuming copyright is not extended again.
And the wikipedia article on C-SPAN IP enforcement which documents some of C-SPAN's take down requests to people that have used legislative footage online.
Making that content freely available is exactly what metavid is trying to do. This is important because if C-SPAN gets control of the cameras we will have to take down future floor footage as well. We have already been forced by C-SPAN to take down the committee hearings. See our most recent blog post for more info
Yea one of the first instances is the proposed "secrete" meeting proposed by senator Reid. http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/1641
We can see this transformation across corporate culture with the flood of web 2.0 software and services. It simply far more profitable to have your consumers produce the content that you service that it is to make content your self. This also shapes the traditional big budget game productions look at what EA is trying to do with Spore or the popularity of EverQuest like MMORPGs where participants produce experiences with each other under the domain of corporate context provider. These experiences are enriched by this appropriation and therefore accumulate social capital, and whats important to remember about capital is that is transferable.
Its only logical that microsoft will try to capitalize on the home-brew game community. When those high up in the corporate hierarchy were shown a moded xbox and the home-brew software library, their question was not how do we stomp this out rather it was how do we appropriate this into our business model.
The tragedy of corporate appropriation is the tendency to make things suck. For example by shifting around generated social capital (ie your coolness becomes our brand) Your youtube videos are 1.6 billion for a few people at the top and free hosting for those at the bottom.
As the service model integrates the qualities/coolness of free & user generated software with open APIs, customizable interfaces and in this case low cost "development kits", the qualities that made free software so desirable are appropriated and generally potentially crippled as generated social capital is siphoned off to disproportionately support the (relatively minor) contributions of a few at the top.
So we see the rise of free service models wikipedia, creative commons, participatory culture foundation, the linux platform etc. (they are still appropriated and ofcourse people profit disproportionate to their contributions but at least there are some structural qualities in place that limit the disproportional profitability such as the GPL, open platforms, copyleft etc. We should probably chose to participate in those spaces if possible or given circumstance and specific goals you decide to make content for microsoft/google/sony, that fine as long as you think about it first ;)
Lots of people have been executed for lack of shared metaphor... For example here in the US native people had to be taught the metaphor of private property the hard way..ie cultural & human genocide. You can look at a lot of human tragedy as a lack of shared metaphors.
I am sort of joking but seriously its not like Ron Paul is campaigning for full transparency (he falls under the Transparency is not a priority list. He is not campaigning for open source software in government nor an end to DMCA. Although he does appear good on de-federalization...
In terms of so called "free trade"...the removal of local/national government regulatory structures in favor of transnational corporate regulatory structures against labor, the environment and local determinism guided by the single metric of maximizing profit does not really fall on either side of tech-friendly IMHO.
Well I mean I would be happy with any of the features relative to what we have now (listed from ideal to essential...)
Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc said in 2003 he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." from numerous reports including democracy now If you accept traditional definitions of left-right and that Bush is to the right then I think it would be fair to say that Diebold is a right wing company only with that piece of information.
If we were to further research the matter I think we would quickly discover that the top of most corporate hierarchy's are right leaning in that they represent the interest of concentrated power outside democratic control. Self interest/self preservation make corporations lean to the right by what I would consider traditional definitions of right and left, but maybe your running on different metaphors and or language syntax.