Match GPS coords against a web server (Wireless Query maybe) to tell me my closest ATM from my bank. I get damn tired of paying mucho $$$ because I am using someone else's machine.
One of the most notorious examples of sampling irony is the Negativland/Coca-Cola connection. The California-based band Negativland, copyright infringers of the highest reverence, "illegally" sampled a 1966 religious record and calls their version of the song "Michael Jackson". Samplist Fatboy Slim decides to sample Negativland's song, licenses the Negativland version of the religious sample from SST records, and also calls the song "Michael Jackson." After Fatboy's ensuing popularity, creative advertising executives decide to license Fatboy Slim's song for a Coca-Cola television commercial. Result: Coca-Cola unwittingly engages in copyright infringement. Negativland, whose calling is to debase advertising on all levels, find their music selling soft drinks. Fatboy Slim deposits a huge check in his bank account.
Negativland writes: "The track 'Michael Jackson' from this Fatboy Slim CD ['Better Living Through Chemistry' (Astralwerks) 1998] samples from the Negativland track 'Michael Jackson' from our 1987 release 'Escape From Noise' on SST Records.
"Stupidly, Fatboy Slim went to SST Records to get permission to use this sample. SST charged him $1000, which they are keeping all for themselves, of course. Besides the fact that Fatboy could have kept his $1000 and taken the sample from us without permission and we wouldn't have cared, the Negativland sample he used was itself appropriated by us without permission from a religious flexi-disc originally issued in 1966. [In fact, a Negativland member LITERALLY stole this record from the basement of a church in Concord CA.]
Well, first of all, I think that if Darl did know he was lying and was lying, that's even worse.
Clearly, he lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.
Because, absolutely, it was a lie. They said he knew SCO code was there.
So I hope he knew he was lying, because if he didn't, and just went in some kind of crazy, psychological breakdown, then we are really in trouble.
Clearly, you know, I'm a minister. Why do people lie? Because they're liars. He is lying in this case; he's lied several times. I believe he lied about IBM.
Here are the lyrics,...
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Jenny, Jenny you're the girl for me
You don't know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before
But I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination
But I was disturbed
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
I got it (I got it), I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time call
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I've got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Solo
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I call your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Next two lines sung over
background refrain of "867-5309"
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
For the price of a dime
I can always turn to you
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Fade out repeating "5309"
Lead Singer Tommy Heath actually grew up in Texas, Montana and spent some time in Japan.
Because if not then every area code supports this number. 867-5309 for everybody! Using Vonage where you can change your area code to anything (for home usage) you could get 867-5309 with a Wyoming area code.
I had a few attorneys to look over it and generally speaking it's wasn't that expensive to do so. My company wanted me to disclose and list all the IP that I had before signing the thing. The idea being that anything I came up with after that belonged to them even if I thought of it at 3am.
I declined to sign it period. Two attorneys told me that these things never stand up in court and I mentioned that to my company's legal department. They didn't push the issue and I never signed anything. They are intended generally to send a shudder down your spine. I didn't sign it because if I know they don't stand up in court and the company knows it, what's the point?
However what I did start doing after that was copyrighting programs that I thought may be potentially valuable. I do a lot of programming of perl apps and have taken to copyrighting all of the valuable ones.
Does my company have a right to those apps? I don't think so, they can't produce a signed NDA.
About 4 years ago. I registered "whitearyanresistance.com", org and net.
I put a nice little cgi in place that sent people to random sites
sites like blacksonblondes.com, algore2000.com, NAMBLA and so
forth.
Next step was to modify the cgi to regurgitate the IP address where the
user got a message that said..
Your IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx has been recorded for forwarding to the
proper authorities. Have a nice day
Then I got tired of picking on Tom Metzger
and his retarded ilk and just donated the domains to another group (not the W.A.R.).
You bet your ass I used fake info in my WHOIS then.
I do wonder though if there are legitimate cases of where people
run sites where it's best to not know the identity. Much in the same
way that an abused woman could never call home from a shelter because
her husband who beats her would know where she is thanks to caller ID.
Maybe the Chinese Communists would send goons to whack all the Falun Gong website owners or something (I'm sure you have better examples).
Always register for customer loyalty cards under phony names: Ted Nugent, Harry Truman, and John Cocktosen are favorites.
Need a fake SSN for your long distance service? (Really they don't need this) use 078-05-1120. It's an Eisenhower era specimen number that works 99% of the time.
Wired has a great story that these are pulled from. See it here
Slashdot Mirror
The station you rip is streaming their songs with the ID3 tags otherwise the software won't know when to stop one MP3 and start another one.
I work for the Corps of Engineers and we love it. And I was against the war too.....
Because all they have to do is tell the universities "Let us install this and we promise we won't prosecute you if we find any infringers".
Very crafty....
why not? Especially when all you're getting is a slap on the wrist by Uncle Sammy for your monopolistic behavior.
I remember reading somewhere that if Bill Gates drops $100 it isn't worth his time to pick it up (longer than 1.24 seconds).
.NET Passport is considered a failure (although not by Microsoft).
Just what does Microsoft admit to as a failure?
XENIX? OK I'll buy that....
I Use Opera to read my mail. I haven't had a problem since then. In fact since I TOTALLY boycott Exchange I haven't had a problem.
Maybe it will work for you too.
Google's PageRank algorithm takes known good information and twists its context
Yeah it isn't like lawyers to do that is it?
It has unintentionally made life miserable for some many people who actually deserve it.
#!/usr/bin/perl ...etc
use strict; #always
use LWP::Simple;
$html = get('http://imdb.com/title/tt0151804/');
the fundamental issue being that you can't copy a pound of sugar from one box to another and still ahve the same amount of sugar in the first box.
You can if you clone it.
I own a webhosting company and I give away hosting to a couple of sites (for karmic purposes). </PLUG>
All I do is set hard limits on the bandwidth. Problem solved.
what the Rock is cooking?
Match GPS coords against a web server (Wireless Query maybe) to tell me my closest ATM from my bank. I get damn tired of paying mucho $$$ because I am using someone else's machine.
You now have your instructions. Code this....
1. Huge number of movies
2. Rip them
3. ????
4. Profit!!!
After all I don't want to sample without giving credit.
Superswell's Sample Law
One of the most notorious examples of sampling irony is the Negativland/Coca-Cola connection. The California-based band Negativland, copyright infringers of the highest reverence, "illegally" sampled a 1966 religious record and calls their version of the song "Michael Jackson". Samplist Fatboy Slim decides to sample Negativland's song, licenses the Negativland version of the religious sample from SST records, and also calls the song "Michael Jackson." After Fatboy's ensuing popularity, creative advertising executives decide to license Fatboy Slim's song for a Coca-Cola television commercial. Result: Coca-Cola unwittingly engages in copyright infringement. Negativland, whose calling is to debase advertising on all levels, find their music selling soft drinks. Fatboy Slim deposits a huge check in his bank account.
Negativland writes: "The track 'Michael Jackson' from this Fatboy Slim CD ['Better Living Through Chemistry' (Astralwerks) 1998] samples from the Negativland track 'Michael Jackson' from our 1987 release 'Escape From Noise' on SST Records.
"Stupidly, Fatboy Slim went to SST Records to get permission to use this sample. SST charged him $1000, which they are keeping all for themselves, of course. Besides the fact that Fatboy could have kept his $1000 and taken the sample from us without permission and we wouldn't have cared, the Negativland sample he used was itself appropriated by us without permission from a religious flexi-disc originally issued in 1966. [In fact, a Negativland member LITERALLY stole this record from the basement of a church in Concord CA.]
The article I sampled this from is here
Monsterous Asteroid Wiffle Ball Initiative?
Well, first of all, I think that if Darl did know he was lying and was lying, that's even worse.
Clearly, he lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.
Because, absolutely, it was a lie. They said he knew SCO code was there.
So I hope he knew he was lying, because if he didn't, and just went in some kind of crazy, psychological breakdown, then we are really in trouble.
Clearly, you know, I'm a minister. Why do people lie? Because they're liars. He is lying in this case; he's lied several times. I believe he lied about IBM.
Here are the lyrics,...
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Jenny, Jenny you're the girl for me
You don't know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before
But I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination
But I was disturbed
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
I got it (I got it), I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time call
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I've got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Solo
Jenny don't change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I call your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Next two lines sung over
background refrain of "867-5309"
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
For the price of a dime
I can always turn to you
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Fade out repeating "5309"
Lead Singer Tommy Heath actually grew up in Texas, Montana and spent some time in Japan.
He is though, a software engineer
Because if not then every area code supports this number. 867-5309 for everybody! Using Vonage where you can change your area code to anything (for home usage) you could get 867-5309 with a Wyoming area code.
Sadly I still cannot have BR-549.
say "Having access to source code is bad. See how damaging it is to us? You want Linux now?"
Part of OSSs problem is that John Q Public just can't understand the benefits or the way things work with OSS.
is that it's growing among companies. Companies litigating the little guy out of business over patents is relatively straightforward.
Hopefully when enough 800, 1200 and 1600 pound gorillas start beating up on each other then there will be some reform. (Hopefully)
I had a few attorneys to look over it and generally speaking it's wasn't that expensive to do so. My company wanted me to disclose and list all the IP that I had before signing the thing. The idea being that anything I came up with after that belonged to them even if I thought of it at 3am.
I declined to sign it period. Two attorneys told me that these things never stand up in court and I mentioned that to my company's legal department. They didn't push the issue and I never signed anything. They are intended generally to send a shudder down your spine. I didn't sign it because if I know they don't stand up in court and the company knows it, what's the point?
However what I did start doing after that was copyrighting programs that I thought may be potentially valuable. I do a lot of programming of perl apps and have taken to copyrighting all of the valuable ones.
Does my company have a right to those apps? I don't think so, they can't produce a signed NDA.
About 4 years ago. I registered "whitearyanresistance.com", org and net. I put a nice little cgi in place that sent people to random sites sites like blacksonblondes.com, algore2000.com, NAMBLA and so forth.
Next step was to modify the cgi to regurgitate the IP address where the user got a message that said..
Your IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx has been recorded for forwarding to the proper authorities. Have a nice day
Then I got tired of picking on Tom Metzger and his retarded ilk and just donated the domains to another group (not the W.A.R.).
You bet your ass I used fake info in my WHOIS then.
I do wonder though if there are legitimate cases of where people run sites where it's best to not know the identity. Much in the same way that an abused woman could never call home from a shelter because her husband who beats her would know where she is thanks to caller ID.
Maybe the Chinese Communists would send goons to whack all the Falun Gong website owners or something (I'm sure you have better examples).
Always register for customer loyalty cards under phony names: Ted Nugent, Harry Truman, and John Cocktosen are favorites.
Need a fake SSN for your long distance service? (Really they don't need this) use 078-05-1120. It's an Eisenhower era specimen number that works 99% of the time.
Wired has a great story that these are pulled from. See it here