BMRT was a great program, Pixar's behavior towards it was destructive (if tactically necessary, from the standpoint of a corporation seeing a free competitor poised to eat their lunches). But in the end, BMRT died because it was not open source, because there was a single point of failiure conveniently avaiable to be attacked.
As I understand it, full data journaling is not really practical for most user applications. If you journal to the same physical device that the main filesystem is on, there's a big performance penalty because you essentially have to write everything twice.
Not always so. Full data journalling can speed up situations where you rapidly read and write the same file or many small files - because you are reading and writing directly to/from the journal (a small area of disk). Hence shorter seek times.
First: you'd get caught instantaneously. The ranking engine that scores you for display == the spammer detection engine.
Second: for persistent offenders, don't just delete the spamming site, delete all the sites they own or operate. Or threaten the ISP with black-holing.
If a site is "convicted" of google-spamming (use the ranking engine to prescreen, and human checking to verify), or of helping to spam, it should be permanently blocked from the results by name and IP.
Result: pr0n sites will be too terrified of deletion to munge their ratings.
*sighs* The only constant in climate science is the overblown claims to predict the unpredictable, intended to suck up to / interestingly challenge the ecopolitical orthodoxy and stir up panic for the purpose of getting grants.
Shesh.
The REAL weather forecast, by moi: weather will happen, the climate will shift to and fro, people will adapt just like they always do and get on with their lives.
This is NOT worth abandoning your SUVs for, people!
Something that REALLY needs to be put on Crypto-Gram: the current guesstimated safety ratings of crypto algorithms, ranked safest-first.
Yeah I know this can never be guaranteed, but it's a damn sight better than making uneducated guesses. Because, eventually, ya gotta pick one when developing/choosing crypto based stuff. If the mathematicians won't say, Jow Blow has to guess and hope.
Pushing TV out over radio is a business plan that will only survive until computer networks get good enough to carry the same viewing quality. After that point, who would want to view lowest-common-denominator shows? Who would waste their money on untargeted advertising?
Far more likely: streaming video, as a freebie (because p2p makes paying for static content pointless), funded by individually targeted product placements and explicit sponsorship. "today's episode of Commander Bush and the Axis of Evil is sponsored by Exxon, Lockheed, and the NSA".
Yeah, Private property, the thing which all you socialist types seem to forget.
ITS THEIR DAMN NETWORK AND THEY CAN DO AS THEY PLEASE WITH IT!
They have NO obligation to carry any IP packet they don't actively want to. They're an ISP, so they run the network to profit by providing for customers' desires. Realistically, they've decided that alienating the RIAA loses them nothing, while giving a helping hand to their paying customers will be lucrative. I applaud their entrepreneurial spirit.
"I hope someone mugs you for saying that, and the police don't come out to help because you didn't want to pay them."
In a free country I'd have shot the mugger with my privately owned handgun. Or he'd have never attacked, because he knows most folks carry guns as a point of pride in self reliance. Or, the rentacops who I and the other residents of my street had willingly paid would have turned him away before he ever got here. And if I hadn't paid the rentacops, probably like doctors they'd save me first and work out a payment plan with me after.
The reality of the government police: they aren't there to save you, they're there to rule you. Sure they'll try and save you if they're on the spot. I'm not saying they're not nice people. But mostly they'll arrive too late to do anything but clean up the mess and try (not always very hard) to catch the culprit.
...because tax is literally and only theft. One robber is a thief. Ten robbers are thieves. A nationful of voting robbers-by-proxy are thieves, and entitled to precicely nothing.
You earned your property, keep it, by any means you can.
- a central organization allocating goods, in leases, itself the sole owner
- goods granted on condition of "need" and taken away from those who "don't need"
- ownership of goods to which others are felt to have a higher claim given nasty propagandistic names like "cyber squatting"
- those names being flip-round from their normal meaning - real squatting is trespass in and theft of existing property.
- allocation requiring allocators, allocators being corruptable, the result is corruption in which the little guy always loses - and in which the only way to become a "big guy" is to belong to some exclusive group.
Can anyone say "U.S.S.R."? Or, "communism in action"?
Time for private, permanent, tradeable ownership of domain names, methinks.
"These people are no less statist than the people they criticize."
Yeah, I've noticed. Which is why the post languishes unmoderated while "soak the rich!!! ban the capitali$t pigs!!! give us freebies and we don't care who has to pay for them!!!" lunacy gets "+5 proper Chairman Mao thought".
"Any land you want, you gotta rent it from the state. They'll hunt you down and take it away otherwise. They accept or refuse rents for political and pork reasons; they decide based on what you plan to do, which vested interests and campaign contributors you might threaten. Supposedly they aren't allowed to tell you what you may and may not put on your land, but in reality they'll refuse your rent and reposess your property unless you do things their way. In fact they can do that to you, any time, push you right off your land and take if for themselves or their favourites for any reason or no reason, and you can't complain because it's not your land, you're just renting. Naturally a few big boys hold most of the land, and anyone who wants to get anything done has to go through them, and boy does it cost but they're not scared of the market, there is no market except them and a few other good buddies, and they all play the same game. And don't even think of trying some technical innovation in land use, that might worry city hall."
Anyone see any similarity between that and the radio licensing scheme?
Time for a free market and private property in the EM spectrum.
...is the the deliberate agreement to weaken the patents that apply to VP3. With looming patents, VP3 was a GIF shakedown waiting to happe, and thus little more than a geek toy. Without, it becomes viable open source - and Xiph are well placed to nurture and popularize it.
There is no natural right to police protection of your person or of your property either. Taxes pay for that.
Truth. Taxes shouldn't, though.
In a free society, I'd protect myself, with my own gun, and I'd protect my neighbors and they'd protect me, because that's the neighborly thing to do. Enlightened mutual self interest. And if I wanted police, I'd hire some. We already have those, they're called "security guards", "bouncers", "private detectives", "bounty hunters", "mercs".
"services" paid for by stealing are morally wrong and "but the majority want it" is no excuse for stealing from anyone - eg: me - who doesn't.
Then why would the founding fathers establish copyrights and patents from the onset of the founding of America? That would be not legislative fiat but constitutional establishment for the promotion of intellectual activity.
That IS legislative fiat. they pulled it out of their asses, it doesn't matter what variety of law, constitution, edict, encyclical, or verdict it's written on, it is still an invented pseudo right that muddies the principle of honest rights.
Music is tangible not virtual though it can be represeted in a virtual state.
Music is a pattern, in fact a collection of similar patterns, with the "sameness" at the level of interpretation and cognition. You don't think that every time an artist plays the same song, it's precisely the same sound wave?
It can be written on paper and generally is before being changed into "patterns" as you describe it. With your mindset, the GPL-ed software is nothing more than patterns on a hard drive representing "pseudo property" that anyone can manipulate without regard for the content of the license. Thus making the license null and void.
Yup. Principle is principle - the GPL is as much a violation of physical private property as any other copyright license. However working within the broken and destructive system, it's a comparatively less broken outcome.
Yeah, taxes are indeed literally theft. There is no way you can split apart the definition except by pretending there are no natural rights and law defines rights, which is utter BS.
"All in all, these arguments supporting theft of music are smoke screens to justify boorish behavior by people that are irresponsible and do not want to respect other's property."
I own my computer. Period, end of discussion and any chance of compromise.
I can make it do what I damn well please. I can record patterns onto the hard disk that when read back via ext3 and xmms sound like music. My hard disk, my magnetized-iron-oxide, my cpu, my speakers, MY DAMN COMPUTER THROUGH AND THROUGH, therefore MY music output.
Copyright and patents are an attempt to dilute genuine physical property by making pseudo property out of patterns. But the truth is that you cannot create property by legislative fiat. Physical property is a natural right and inherent in the fact that matter has identity - you can't have your cake and eat it too. Trying to cram patterns into the definition of property just fucks up property and results in snooping, external audits and such like denials of ownership rights.
Graceful slow precision is wonderful when beating off unarmed brawlers. And extremely useless when beating off a weapon with no safe places to touch. You cannot slap aside a lightsaber - your fingers fall off. The only thing that you can do is fence. Fencing with an opponent while being eye-level to their knee is stupid - by contrast Yoda has an advantage when jumping because he's light, manoeverable, and a small target.
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BMRT was a great program, Pixar's behavior towards it was destructive (if tactically necessary, from the standpoint of a corporation seeing a free competitor poised to eat their lunches). But in the end, BMRT died because it was not open source, because there was a single point of failiure conveniently avaiable to be attacked.
Never underestimate the bandwith of carrier pigeons with compact-flash cards strapped to their backs.
As I understand it, full data journaling is not really practical for most user applications. If you journal to the same physical device that the main filesystem is on, there's a big performance penalty because you essentially have to write everything twice.
Not always so. Full data journalling can speed up situations where you rapidly read and write the same file or many small files - because you are reading and writing directly to/from the journal (a small area of disk). Hence shorter seek times.
First: you'd get caught instantaneously. The ranking engine that scores you for display == the spammer detection engine.
Second: for persistent offenders, don't just delete the spamming site, delete all the sites they own or operate. Or threaten the ISP with black-holing.
If a site is "convicted" of google-spamming (use the ranking engine to prescreen, and human checking to verify), or of helping to spam, it should be permanently blocked from the results by name and IP.
Result: pr0n sites will be too terrified of deletion to munge their ratings.
Global warming? Panic, panic, panic!
Ice age? Panic, panic, panic!
*sighs* The only constant in climate science is the overblown claims to predict the unpredictable, intended to suck up to / interestingly challenge the ecopolitical orthodoxy and stir up panic for the purpose of getting grants.
Shesh.
The REAL weather forecast, by moi: weather will happen, the climate will shift to and fro, people will adapt just like they always do and get on with their lives.
This is NOT worth abandoning your SUVs for, people!
I wonder if the jello finger trick works against it?
"Two parties cannot agree to relinquish the rights of a third party!!!"
Essay question for 100 marks: compare and contrast the above statement of moral truth with:
- the political system "democracy" (or for that matter any other form of coercive state)
- anarchic, consensual free trade
Something that REALLY needs to be put on Crypto-Gram: the current guesstimated safety ratings of crypto algorithms, ranked safest-first.
Yeah I know this can never be guaranteed, but it's a damn sight better than making uneducated guesses. Because, eventually, ya gotta pick one when developing/choosing crypto based stuff. If the mathematicians won't say, Jow Blow has to guess and hope.
They laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at the Marx brothers.
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Pushing TV out over radio is a business plan that will only survive until computer networks get good enough to carry the same viewing quality. After that point, who would want to view lowest-common-denominator shows? Who would waste their money on untargeted advertising?
Far more likely: streaming video, as a freebie (because p2p makes paying for static content pointless), funded by individually targeted product placements and explicit sponsorship. "today's episode of Commander Bush and the Axis of Evil is sponsored by Exxon, Lockheed, and the NSA".
Yeah, Private property, the thing which all you socialist types seem to forget.
ITS THEIR DAMN NETWORK AND THEY CAN DO AS THEY PLEASE WITH IT!
They have NO obligation to carry any IP packet they don't actively want to. They're an ISP, so they run the network to profit by providing for customers' desires. Realistically, they've decided that alienating the RIAA loses them nothing, while giving a helping hand to their paying customers will be lucrative. I applaud their entrepreneurial spirit.
NASA is the problem - go read Kings of the High Frontier to understand the solution.
"I hope someone mugs you for saying that, and the police don't come out to help because you didn't want to pay them."
In a free country I'd have shot the mugger with my privately owned handgun. Or he'd have never attacked, because he knows most folks carry guns as a point of pride in self reliance. Or, the rentacops who I and the other residents of my street had willingly paid would have turned him away before he ever got here. And if I hadn't paid the rentacops, probably like doctors they'd save me first and work out a payment plan with me after.
The reality of the government police: they aren't there to save you, they're there to rule you. Sure they'll try and save you if they're on the spot. I'm not saying they're not nice people. But mostly they'll arrive too late to do anything but clean up the mess and try (not always very hard) to catch the culprit.
...because tax is literally and only theft. One robber is a thief. Ten robbers are thieves. A nationful of voting robbers-by-proxy are thieves, and entitled to precicely nothing.
You earned your property, keep it, by any means you can.
I recommend GoldMoney
Anyone remember the pattern?
- a central organization allocating goods, in leases, itself the sole owner
- goods granted on condition of "need" and taken away from those who "don't need"
- ownership of goods to which others are felt to have a higher claim given nasty propagandistic names like "cyber squatting"
- those names being flip-round from their normal meaning - real squatting is trespass in and theft of existing property.
- allocation requiring allocators, allocators being corruptable, the result is corruption in which the little guy always loses - and in which the only way to become a "big guy" is to belong to some exclusive group.
Can anyone say "U.S.S.R."? Or, "communism in action"?
Time for private, permanent, tradeable ownership of domain names, methinks.
"These people are no less statist than the people they criticize."
Yeah, I've noticed. Which is why the post languishes unmoderated while "soak the rich!!! ban the capitali$t pigs!!! give us freebies and we don't care who has to pay for them!!!" lunacy gets "+5 proper Chairman Mao thought".
A story:
"Any land you want, you gotta rent it from the state. They'll hunt you down and take it away otherwise. They accept or refuse rents for political and pork reasons; they decide based on what you plan to do, which vested interests and campaign contributors you might threaten. Supposedly they aren't allowed to tell you what you may and may not put on your land, but in reality they'll refuse your rent and reposess your property unless you do things their way. In fact they can do that to you, any time, push you right off your land and take if for themselves or their favourites for any reason or no reason, and you can't complain because it's not your land, you're just renting. Naturally a few big boys hold most of the land, and anyone who wants to get anything done has to go through them, and boy does it cost but they're not scared of the market, there is no market except them and a few other good buddies, and they all play the same game. And don't even think of trying some technical innovation in land use, that might worry city hall."
Anyone see any similarity between that and the radio licensing scheme?
Time for a free market and private property in the EM spectrum.
...is the the deliberate agreement to weaken the patents that apply to VP3. With looming patents, VP3 was a GIF shakedown waiting to happe, and thus little more than a geek toy. Without, it becomes viable open source - and Xiph are well placed to nurture and popularize it.
There is no natural right to police protection of your person or of your property either. Taxes pay for that.
Truth. Taxes shouldn't, though.
In a free society, I'd protect myself, with my own gun, and I'd protect my neighbors and they'd protect me, because that's the neighborly thing to do. Enlightened mutual self interest. And if I wanted police, I'd hire some. We already have those, they're called "security guards", "bouncers", "private detectives", "bounty hunters", "mercs".
"services" paid for by stealing are morally wrong and "but the majority want it" is no excuse for stealing from anyone - eg: me - who doesn't.
Then why would the founding fathers establish copyrights and patents from the onset of the founding of America? That would be not legislative fiat but constitutional establishment for the promotion of intellectual activity.
That IS legislative fiat. they pulled it out of their asses, it doesn't matter what variety of law, constitution, edict, encyclical, or verdict it's written on, it is still an invented pseudo right that muddies the principle of honest rights.
Music is tangible not virtual though it can be represeted in a virtual state.
Music is a pattern, in fact a collection of similar patterns, with the "sameness" at the level of interpretation and cognition. You don't think that every time an artist plays the same song, it's precisely the same sound wave?
It can be written on paper and generally is before being changed into "patterns" as you describe it. With your mindset, the GPL-ed software is nothing more than patterns on a hard drive representing "pseudo property" that anyone can manipulate without regard for the content of the license. Thus making the license null and void.
Yup. Principle is principle - the GPL is as much a violation of physical private property as any other copyright license. However working within the broken and destructive system, it's a comparatively less broken outcome.
Yeah, taxes are indeed literally theft. There is no way you can split apart the definition except by pretending there are no natural rights and law defines rights, which is utter BS.
"All in all, these arguments supporting theft of music are smoke screens to justify boorish behavior by people that are irresponsible and do not want to respect other's property."
I own my computer. Period, end of discussion and any chance of compromise.
I can make it do what I damn well please. I can record patterns onto the hard disk that when read back via ext3 and xmms sound like music. My hard disk, my magnetized-iron-oxide, my cpu, my speakers, MY DAMN COMPUTER THROUGH AND THROUGH, therefore MY music output.
Copyright and patents are an attempt to dilute genuine physical property by making pseudo property out of patterns. But the truth is that you cannot create property by legislative fiat. Physical property is a natural right and inherent in the fact that matter has identity - you can't have your cake and eat it too. Trying to cram patterns into the definition of property just fucks up property and results in snooping, external audits and such like denials of ownership rights.
Graceful slow precision is wonderful when beating off unarmed brawlers. And extremely useless when beating off a weapon with no safe places to touch. You cannot slap aside a lightsaber - your fingers fall off. The only thing that you can do is fence. Fencing with an opponent while being eye-level to their knee is stupid - by contrast Yoda has an advantage when jumping because he's light, manoeverable, and a small target.