Doesn't have to be as centralized as moderation, it could be a friend-of-a-friend system, where the fewer friends between you and another person the higher the person's score.
It could also be a percentage based system, where if I rated you as 80% cool and you rated Alice as 50% cool, she would show up in your list as 50% cool but in my list as 40% cool.
Instead of establishing baseline scores for people, you would be creating gaming social networks.
I suspect that reputation systems like http://www.gamertagdatabase.com/ will go a long way to keeping the service clean (at least as clean as eBay:) ), but that depends on them being integrated with the gamer matching system.
That's a pretty easy promise, it's like saying that Windows isn't as buggy as Slashdot makes it out to be. Set your baseline low enough and you can make pretty much any claim.
Publisher buy-in. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but I haven't seen (legal) downloads of Microsoft Office X, Adobe Photoshop, Unreal 2, or pretty much anything else that you might want. Publishers are leery to offer downloads, this gives them the peace of mind to put their downloads in the context of a store setting.
Besides, I have a cable modem and it would still take me less time to go to CompUSA, wait for a CD to burn, and go home than it would for me to download the image.
Don't forget his weblog, BoingBoing which should be in everyone's rss readers by now (bonus: he puts the full article in his rss feed, unlike some sites).
I would have thought the MPAA would be more concerned with the ReplayTV. The RIAA is still upset that we can back up our CDs, I don't know why they're worried about what you're doing with TV shows they have no financial interest in. Why is the poster being sued by the RIAA? Does it make unlicensed copies of music too?
I have Yellow Dog running on my 15" Powerbook, and it runs quite well. Bottom line is that I rarely use it, because OS X is a capable Unix and with Fink I don't really need to keep a second Unix around (even though I do). BTW the Powerbooks have a nifty graphical boot loader built in (I believe it's built in, could be a YD feature), so I just choose between the disk with the big X on it or the disk with the big penguin on it.
While the agreement allows program providers to prevent any recording of pay-per-view or video-on-demand programs, users of hard-disk-based recorders like TiVo would be allowed to record and then watch such a program up to 90 minutes later.
The only time I used my Tivo's "rewind live TV" functions was to make the ball go back up the pole and bring me back to 2002. Is this how they plan to kill Tivo, by getting rid of timeshifting? Doesn't this fly in the face of Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. or can ?
Why are hard-disk-based recorders singled out? If I make a PVR out lots and lots of flash memory that's OK?
I think the "kids under 13" rule is in order to comply with the COPPA which forbids collecting information online from children under 13. But then again, this is slashdot so you can safely assume I'm talking out of my ass.
If TV listings aren't worth $5/month then they certainly aren't worth the $13/month that TiVo charges. But if TV listings aren't worth that to you, then don't pay and the Tivo will still work - you'll just have to manually set up all the record times.
If you don't want to deal with modchips and swapping you can get a Qcast for $50 (thinkgeek sells 'em too) and play MP3, OGG, MPEG and DivX files streamed from a Windows, Mac OS X or Linux system over the network.
My phone already does this. I have AT&T's GSM service and I can find stuff reasonably close to where I am. Oh, there's a press release about it. My experience with the location service is pretty favorable, the "find-a-friend" feature is fun to show off too.
While not from the paper in question, my favorite quote on the topic is "The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me," - Jonathan Potter, Digital Media Association. (Found at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1982
Pretty much sums up my feelings on how the entertainment industry can survive.
Can you suggest something better? This is not a troll, I may be spending a good chunk of time learning Zope and if I can find something open source and better than their CMF I would love to hear about it.
A 10baseT patch cable with the TX wires clipped will get you a whole lotta nothing because the TX wires are used for heartbeat signals. You need to corrupt the outgoing frames instead, which is a PITA.
The easier method is to use a 10 Mbit AUI adapter with the TX pins cut. You can probably even find a 10baseT -> AUI adapter at a computer junk shop for a buck or three.
While OS X is unix-based and does support X11, it doesn't do it out of the box. Half the OS X users I know are geeks who have Terminal in their dock and use fink and XDarwin. The other half are the long time mac users who are being dragged kicking and screaming into OS X and would not be able to get X11 running rootless without a lot of help. Apple never wants to leave the less technical out.
And Java works pretty well on OS X, even if it usually breaks the human interface guidelines.
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You have to wonder if "hot swappable" is the right term for this kind of system.
Doesn't have to be as centralized as moderation, it could be a friend-of-a-friend system, where the fewer friends between you and another person the higher the person's score.
It could also be a percentage based system, where if I rated you as 80% cool and you rated Alice as 50% cool, she would show up in your list as 50% cool but in my list as 40% cool.
Instead of establishing baseline scores for people, you would be creating gaming social networks.
I suspect that reputation systems like http://www.gamertagdatabase.com/ will go a long way to keeping the service clean (at least as clean as eBay :) ), but that depends on them being integrated with the gamer matching system.
That's a pretty easy promise, it's like saying that Windows isn't as buggy as Slashdot makes it out to be. Set your baseline low enough and you can make pretty much any claim.
Publisher buy-in. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but I haven't seen (legal) downloads of Microsoft Office X, Adobe Photoshop, Unreal 2, or pretty much anything else that you might want. Publishers are leery to offer downloads, this gives them the peace of mind to put their downloads in the context of a store setting.
Besides, I have a cable modem and it would still take me less time to go to CompUSA, wait for a CD to burn, and go home than it would for me to download the image.
Don't forget his weblog, BoingBoing which should be in everyone's rss readers by now (bonus: he puts the full article in his rss feed, unlike some sites).
I would have thought the MPAA would be more concerned with the ReplayTV. The RIAA is still upset that we can back up our CDs, I don't know why they're worried about what you're doing with TV shows they have no financial interest in. Why is the poster being sued by the RIAA? Does it make unlicensed copies of music too?
I have Yellow Dog running on my 15" Powerbook, and it runs quite well. Bottom line is that I rarely use it, because OS X is a capable Unix and with Fink I don't really need to keep a second Unix around (even though I do). BTW the Powerbooks have a nifty graphical boot loader built in (I believe it's built in, could be a YD feature), so I just choose between the disk with the big X on it or the disk with the big penguin on it.
Tivo says it will be on tonight at 9:00 pm EST (now), tonight at midnight and then Monday the 20th at 6:00 pm EST.
Why are hard-disk-based recorders singled out? If I make a PVR out lots and lots of flash memory that's OK?
I think the "kids under 13" rule is in order to comply with the COPPA which forbids collecting information online from children under 13. But then again, this is slashdot so you can safely assume I'm talking out of my ass.
The wintel world has something that can get Gator and friends out the door - AdAware from Lavasoft.
If TV listings aren't worth $5/month then they certainly aren't worth the $13/month that TiVo charges. But if TV listings aren't worth that to you, then don't pay and the Tivo will still work - you'll just have to manually set up all the record times.
Better?
If you don't want to deal with modchips and swapping you can get a Qcast for $50 (thinkgeek sells 'em too) and play MP3, OGG, MPEG and DivX files streamed from a Windows, Mac OS X or Linux system over the network.
My phone already does this. I have AT&T's GSM service and I can find stuff reasonably close to where I am. Oh, there's a press release about it. My experience with the location service is pretty favorable, the "find-a-friend" feature is fun to show off too.
While not from the paper in question, my favorite quote on the topic is "The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me," - Jonathan Potter, Digital Media Association.
(Found at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1982
Pretty much sums up my feelings on how the entertainment industry can survive.
Can you suggest something better? This is not a troll, I may be spending
a good chunk of time learning Zope and if I can find something open source
and better than their CMF I would
love to hear about it.
A 10baseT patch cable with the TX wires clipped will get you a whole lotta nothing because the TX wires are used for heartbeat signals. You need to corrupt the outgoing frames instead, which is a PITA.
l #receive-only or read up on Antisniff (weird, I can't find anything about it on @stake's site).
The easier method is to use a 10 Mbit AUI adapter with the TX pins cut. You can probably even find a 10baseT -> AUI adapter at a computer junk shop for a buck or three.
For more about creating a receive-only ethernet adapter check out http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/sniffing-faq.htm
Space offers virtual desktops for OS X (kinda) and it's open source.
This won't fly, prior art can be found in this comment and this comment.
While OS X is unix-based and does support X11, it doesn't do it out of the box. Half the OS X users I know are geeks who have Terminal in their dock and use fink and XDarwin. The other half are the long time mac users who are being dragged kicking and screaming into OS X and would not be able to get X11 running rootless without a lot of help. Apple never wants to leave the less technical out.
And Java works pretty well on OS X, even if it usually breaks the human interface guidelines.
echo ":0:\
/dev/null" >> ~/.procmailrc
* [topic of abusive emails or name of website]\
Mime Sweeper must be really easy if that's a lot of work!