I got a cease and desist letter from the RIAA back when I ran a huge-ish FTP of music. They emailed my ISP, my ISP called me and a 20-something year old techie was like "uh, yeah, these people want you to stop serving music, so, uh, yeah, if you could stop that, um, that would be good." he obviously didn't care but when i told him about it being a passworded account (they actually logged in) he's like "yeah they're portscanning everybody now and using common login/pass combos to get in a look around." I promptly forwarded the message to the RIAA's anti-piracy email with a "fuck you" reply and accused them of breaking in. Wouldn't it be ironic if I sued them under the DMCA?
Vint Cerf also was the keynote speaker at the International Summit for Young Technology Leaders that I attended in Austin, TX in July. He gave what sounds like pretty much the same speech. He envisioned an interplanetary internet system and the need for satellites and interplanetary research equipment to be equipped with TCP/IP capabilities, perferrably IPv6, which he also spoke of the future importance of. He also offered some insight into his own job vitality and said despite the collapse of WorldCom, his division will probably be spared.
I've used audiogalaxy ever since it's launch. It was my only source for music. I refuse to buy cd's, at least not the ones under RIAA labels. When they shut down, I was lost. I can't bring myself to using a P2P. The problem with them is that they make it too easy for anybody to use, making the networks crowded, unreliable, slow, etc. At least with AG, you had to have a certain degree of ftp knowledge etc., something that kept the teenie boppers off and the geeks in control. Now I find myself struggling to find music. Screw you AG, screw you.
I also have a question? What is to prevent somebody from releasing some open source software that is a clone of AG? Surely it is not complicated, basically a database with online addition capabilities, search functions, and a crawler. Legal implications? If there was an easy to use open source solution, the databases would be created faster than the legal process works, something that happened with p2p clients.
I gave up caring. I now watch dvd length pornos fullscreen on a laptop on a plane with small children sitting next to me. They don't mind so much as the stewardesses. They won't say anything to you but you get some strange looks and probably some spit in your food. Good thing the food is already inedible.
IMO, if these people are being treated as criminals without actually committing a crime, they might as well commit crimes. I don't know about you, but if I were singled out as a potential criminal, my first order of business would be to remove all doubt by killing everybody dear to the person that lets this continue.
I understand your point but my best sound system, the only one that you could actually hear the 4.7 gig difference, is on my computer. If I can't play it on my DVD-ROM, it's not worth me buying it.
If the RIAA keeps attacking ISPs like this, especially the big ones who are obviously resisting, it may be their demise. Sure, the RIAA has a lot of money, enough to buy people off and pass legislation but the amount of money they can devote to this pales in comparison to the amount of money the ISPs can spend.
You know, terrorists are not always a bad thing...here's why:
Legistlation is obviously not stopping the RIAA in any capacity from stripping our rights from us under the guise of protecting themselves. Even boycotts barely make even a dent on their revenues. There are just too many people willing to just take their shit, and it is entirely too easy for them to buy people off. It IS happening and can't be denied.
I propose an entirely different solution to this resistance. Abandon all of this useless legislation and boycotting, because democracy and the free market has abandoned us here. The only way I forsee us winning this is if we make it harder for them to do business. I'm sure many people here have access to or control a good bit of their infrastructure. Unplug routers to their website, hack their servers, just do anything that will make it harder for them to operate. There a limited number of them and a hell of a lot more of people like me that are pissed off and resourceful. They will learn to fear us and we will be their demise. This is the new kind of terrorism, a good kind with a just cause. Join the fight!
me and my friend use to set up pillow bunkers in his room about 20 feet apart and use his 2 rubber band guns in wars. those things HURT. Especially when the main tactic was to make a fully enclosed bunker except for an eye hole...which in retrospect was not a good tactic. Ever been hit with super stretched rubber bands from 20 feet away in the eye at 5hits/sec? not fun...oh the blindness, the pain. all in all though it was good fun until one person decided "screw this" and rushed the other, ripping down his bunker and holding the gun up to whatever bare skin he could find and unloading.
must...avoid...reality tv...
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dammit, I've been trying to avoid these reality TV shows. I'm proud to say I've seen only 1/2 an episode of survivor and no other reality tv shows for one simple reason...they suck. Go ahead and watch some other people live their lives instead of living yours...it's easier that way. These shows are becoming harder and harder to avoid. They've already been penetrated most of primetime, and I'm running out of ripped episodes of GOOD shows like Futurama and Family Guy.
when you have a perfectly good Atari 2600 in the basement. Seriously, although some of the new graphics intense games are cool, sometimes Pac-man holds just as much entertainment.
I don't know about you guys, but if I were to format c:\...I would need to load the cd rom drivers via floppy in order to install an OS from cd rom. no floppy == no OS.
Are you referring to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh? I know they have an omnimax and show led zepplin laser shows...
why is this new technology
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I've always wondered why thie hasn't existed for a long time already. All you need is a thermostat for each room and a servo controlled baffle for the vents in that room. Upstairs hotter than down? Close downstairs baffles a little...problem solved.
This is hardly innovative technology.
This is what I've been saying about WinXP since it's release. I could never use it. It's almost as if it's condescending and insults my intelligence by being too lay-person (read: user) friendly.
Perhaps this is the argument in itself. 99.99% of people reading/. have had to enter a text command into unix, linux, even dos at one time or another. Also, most people on/. know more about computers than the average user. However, these new OS and other software are being designed with the average user in mind unfortunately. This is fine, but I want software with functionality, not some cute asthetic animation every time you use one of those functions.
Fuctional software (heh: oxymoron?) will become a rarity in the future and will be replaced by something even the simplest of uses can understand. I believe only specialized software will continue to hold its complexity and required specific understanding to use.
I received a call from my ISP 3 years ago telling me the RIAA emailed them a cease and desist letter for me. I was running a pretty big mp3 ftp at the time. I asked my ISP to forward the letter and they did.
The letter basically said they discovered the ftp and it was hosting illegal files and they named specific bands and albums I hosted.
Now granted, my username/pass was mp3/mp3, but doesn't randomly portscanning, picking up carriers, and entering a private computer break some kind of law? I would hope so. My ISP didn't seem too concerned about it (The 20-something year old guy said: yeah we got this letter, so, uh, if you could stop, that would be good. They didn't even threaten to shut off service.) so I wasn't either. I politely emailed the RIAA back with a nice big F*** YOU. I never heard from them again.
I, like a lot of people, are quite skeptical about the success of your project. However, let us assume that you have launched yourself, everything went perfectly, and you are resting safely back on earth.
What do you think this will do to the future of space travel? Do you think this will set a precedent for the private industry to get involved in space travel?
And dammit, we tricked people into staying away from the city for decades with the air-is-tantamount-to-soot thing...now this comes along...every geek within 300mi will want to come here now. As if parking and traffic (especially with the Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel closed) isn't bad enough already.
The only thing that outdoes dictionaroke is E=MC Hawking which features Stephen Hawking's voice modulator in rap songs about physics. My favorite? Entropy.
Here's the lyrics:
Entropy
Trash Talk
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Verse 1
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
Trash Talk
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!
wait until somebody rear ends you one day because they were busy reading their 20 volume instruction manual trying to figure out how to put the window down.
You mean you guys still pay for intellectual property...ahahahah!
seriously though, how much easier has the proliferation of Kazaa and other file sharing programs, I have to wonder how hard it will be to obtain these violent games anyway. Kids are smarter than most people realize and given enough motivation such as playing the "coolest video game" on the block, they can do almost anything.
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sorry, I'll try to lay off it a bit
I got a cease and desist letter from the RIAA back when I ran a huge-ish FTP of music. They emailed my ISP, my ISP called me and a 20-something year old techie was like "uh, yeah, these people want you to stop serving music, so, uh, yeah, if you could stop that, um, that would be good." he obviously didn't care but when i told him about it being a passworded account (they actually logged in) he's like "yeah they're portscanning everybody now and using common login/pass combos to get in a look around." I promptly forwarded the message to the RIAA's anti-piracy email with a "fuck you" reply and accused them of breaking in. Wouldn't it be ironic if I sued them under the DMCA?
Vint Cerf also was the keynote speaker at the International Summit for Young Technology Leaders that I attended in Austin, TX in July. He gave what sounds like pretty much the same speech. He envisioned an interplanetary internet system and the need for satellites and interplanetary research equipment to be equipped with TCP/IP capabilities, perferrably IPv6, which he also spoke of the future importance of. He also offered some insight into his own job vitality and said despite the collapse of WorldCom, his division will probably be spared.
I've used audiogalaxy ever since it's launch. It was my only source for music. I refuse to buy cd's, at least not the ones under RIAA labels. When they shut down, I was lost. I can't bring myself to using a P2P. The problem with them is that they make it too easy for anybody to use, making the networks crowded, unreliable, slow, etc. At least with AG, you had to have a certain degree of ftp knowledge etc., something that kept the teenie boppers off and the geeks in control. Now I find myself struggling to find music. Screw you AG, screw you.
I also have a question? What is to prevent somebody from releasing some open source software that is a clone of AG? Surely it is not complicated, basically a database with online addition capabilities, search functions, and a crawler. Legal implications? If there was an easy to use open source solution, the databases would be created faster than the legal process works, something that happened with p2p clients.
I gave up caring. I now watch dvd length pornos fullscreen on a laptop on a plane with small children sitting next to me. They don't mind so much as the stewardesses. They won't say anything to you but you get some strange looks and probably some spit in your food. Good thing the food is already inedible.
IMO, if these people are being treated as criminals without actually committing a crime, they might as well commit crimes. I don't know about you, but if I were singled out as a potential criminal, my first order of business would be to remove all doubt by killing everybody dear to the person that lets this continue.
bahahahaha......that just made my day...so much so that I won't even post anonymously...to hell with karma
I understand your point but my best sound system, the only one that you could actually hear the 4.7 gig difference, is on my computer. If I can't play it on my DVD-ROM, it's not worth me buying it.
If the RIAA keeps attacking ISPs like this, especially the big ones who are obviously resisting, it may be their demise. Sure, the RIAA has a lot of money, enough to buy people off and pass legislation but the amount of money they can devote to this pales in comparison to the amount of money the ISPs can spend.
You know, terrorists are not always a bad thing...here's why:
Legistlation is obviously not stopping the RIAA in any capacity from stripping our rights from us under the guise of protecting themselves. Even boycotts barely make even a dent on their revenues. There are just too many people willing to just take their shit, and it is entirely too easy for them to buy people off. It IS happening and can't be denied.
I propose an entirely different solution to this resistance. Abandon all of this useless legislation and boycotting, because democracy and the free market has abandoned us here. The only way I forsee us winning this is if we make it harder for them to do business. I'm sure many people here have access to or control a good bit of their infrastructure. Unplug routers to their website, hack their servers, just do anything that will make it harder for them to operate. There a limited number of them and a hell of a lot more of people like me that are pissed off and resourceful. They will learn to fear us and we will be their demise. This is the new kind of terrorism, a good kind with a just cause. Join the fight!
me and my friend use to set up pillow bunkers in his room about 20 feet apart and use his 2 rubber band guns in wars. those things HURT. Especially when the main tactic was to make a fully enclosed bunker except for an eye hole...which in retrospect was not a good tactic. Ever been hit with super stretched rubber bands from 20 feet away in the eye at 5hits/sec? not fun...oh the blindness, the pain. all in all though it was good fun until one person decided "screw this" and rushed the other, ripping down his bunker and holding the gun up to whatever bare skin he could find and unloading.
dammit, I've been trying to avoid these reality TV shows. I'm proud to say I've seen only 1/2 an episode of survivor and no other reality tv shows for one simple reason...they suck. Go ahead and watch some other people live their lives instead of living yours...it's easier that way. These shows are becoming harder and harder to avoid. They've already been penetrated most of primetime, and I'm running out of ripped episodes of GOOD shows like Futurama and Family Guy.
when you have a perfectly good Atari 2600 in the basement. Seriously, although some of the new graphics intense games are cool, sometimes Pac-man holds just as much entertainment.
I don't know about you guys, but if I were to format c:\...I would need to load the cd rom drivers via floppy in order to install an OS from cd rom. no floppy == no OS.
to find a way to write 20,000 lines of code to preform a task as simple as walking to the fridge...
Are you referring to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh? I know they have an omnimax and show led zepplin laser shows...
I've always wondered why thie hasn't existed for a long time already. All you need is a thermostat for each room and a servo controlled baffle for the vents in that room. Upstairs hotter than down? Close downstairs baffles a little...problem solved. This is hardly innovative technology.
This is what I've been saying about WinXP since it's release. I could never use it. It's almost as if it's condescending and insults my intelligence by being too lay-person (read: user) friendly.
/. have had to enter a text command into unix, linux, even dos at one time or another. Also, most people on /. know more about computers than the average user. However, these new OS and other software are being designed with the average user in mind unfortunately. This is fine, but I want software with functionality, not some cute asthetic animation every time you use one of those functions.
Perhaps this is the argument in itself. 99.99% of people reading
Fuctional software (heh: oxymoron?) will become a rarity in the future and will be replaced by something even the simplest of uses can understand. I believe only specialized software will continue to hold its complexity and required specific understanding to use.
I received a call from my ISP 3 years ago telling me the RIAA emailed them a cease and desist letter for me. I was running a pretty big mp3 ftp at the time. I asked my ISP to forward the letter and they did.
The letter basically said they discovered the ftp and it was hosting illegal files and they named specific bands and albums I hosted.
Now granted, my username/pass was mp3/mp3, but doesn't randomly portscanning, picking up carriers, and entering a private computer break some kind of law? I would hope so. My ISP didn't seem too concerned about it (The 20-something year old guy said: yeah we got this letter, so, uh, if you could stop, that would be good. They didn't even threaten to shut off service.) so I wasn't either. I politely emailed the RIAA back with a nice big F*** YOU. I never heard from them again.
I, like a lot of people, are quite skeptical about the success of your project. However, let us assume that you have launched yourself, everything went perfectly, and you are resting safely back on earth.
What do you think this will do to the future of space travel? Do you think this will set a precedent for the private industry to get involved in space travel?
and I never heard anything about this.
And dammit, we tricked people into staying away from the city for decades with the air-is-tantamount-to-soot thing...now this comes along...every geek within 300mi will want to come here now. As if parking and traffic (especially with the Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel closed) isn't bad enough already.
The only thing that outdoes dictionaroke is E=MC Hawking which features Stephen Hawking's voice modulator in rap songs about physics. My favorite? Entropy.
Here's the lyrics:
Entropy Trash Talk Harm me with harmony. Doomsday, drop a load on 'em. Verse 1 Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it, to have you all jumping, shouting saying it. Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder, in a system that is closed, like with a border. It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness, proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress. "What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming, it seems I gotta start the explaining. You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true, if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new. That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die. Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity. Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility, at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy. That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it, if you are here's your membership. Chorus You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! (x3) Who's down with entropy? Every last homey! Verse 2 Defining entropy as disorder's not complete, 'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat. So my first definition I would now like to withdraw, and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law. First we need to understand that entropy is energy, energy that can't be used to state it more specifically. In a closed system entropy always goes up, that's the second law, now you know what's up. You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game, 'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame. The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state, that entropy must increase and not dissipate. Creationists always try to use the second law, to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies, only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun, so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun! That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about, you're now down with a discount. Chorus Trash Talk Hit it! Doomsday, kick it in!
wait until somebody rear ends you one day because they were busy reading their 20 volume instruction manual trying to figure out how to put the window down.
You mean you guys still pay for intellectual property...ahahahah!
seriously though, how much easier has the proliferation of Kazaa and other file sharing programs, I have to wonder how hard it will be to obtain these violent games anyway. Kids are smarter than most people realize and given enough motivation such as playing the "coolest video game" on the block, they can do almost anything.
whens that last time you played a video game in which someone was raped? I sure as hell have never heard or such a game.