Anybody who wants to create music or literature or anything else that can be copyrighted can become a copyright holder.
It has nothing to do with classes based on heredity or inheritance. Indeed, it's only because a bunch of sheeple insist on worshipping 'popular culture icons' that there's any kind of problem at all.
The star system needs to be taken down. 'Rock stars' are seldom the most talented musicians around, they're just the ones wrapped up in a sheen of mass-media driven 'popular culture' marketing.
I go into a place, like a resturant that purports to be 'old fashioned' and what do I see? Faux antique 'Coca-cola' advertisements, reproduction advertising from the era of the demise of 'old fashioned' due to advertising. It's like modern people can't let go of the idea that a big marketing firm in Chicago or New York should define our culture, and that it's been that way forever.
We have lived in a 'mass media culture' for almost 100 years now, spurred by the rise of Radio, Motion Pictures, and Television. One of the things breaking that up is the demise of the mass 'broadcast' model, as people gain more and more freedom to share what they want, in a decentralized fashion.
It's really pitiful that what people then choose to share, on the P2P networks, is the same mass-culture drivel they should be moving away from.
Share some music, some poetry or fiction that you, yourself, actually came up with. Stop using the channels to shuffle around copies of the same stuff, over and over again.
Well, you'll be able to engage in 'poision the well' DOS of the sort being propose here. Which will weaken the network on which you're distributing your works.
The P2P network having an EULA and an 'authentication' scheme falls in the face of the way P2P networks thrive. You're proposing an end to anonymous file sharing. People will shy away from sharing their files if their ostensible anonymnity goes away. All the Music Industry has to do is yank a few prominent sharers into court and many, many people will drop off the network.
I would liken it more to the use of 'Terro' ant poision to kill an ant colony.
We had an ant problem in our kitchen this spring. Terro is an ant poision. But it takes the form of a mild poision that is a sweet syrup. The ants really really like it. After putting out some little bits of Terro for the ants to enjoy I noticed that they all congregated around the Terro and didn't get into everything else in the kitchen.
They hauled the Terro back to the ant colony and it slowly poisioned and killed the entire colony.
I wouldn't go out into the yard and spray a poision like Diazinon, which would kill all the wild ants and everything else in the yard. I will use toxins like Terro, so that ants which actively come into my house are poisioned and their colonies exterminated.
I would submit that this proposed (already begun?) campaign to take out the P2P networks is fairly similar to my use of Terro to kill the ants in my kitchen.
The malevolent file sharer submits a fingerprint of the 'legit' file for fingerprinting. They then thow out the defective file for sharing. A file can't be 'fingerprinted' until it has been transmitted. Voila: you don't know you've gotten a sack of stinking dead fish until you're holding it.
Microsoft is trying to make the XBox more than a gaming platform. That was a big part of my message. Yet you reply with a long filler-response that talks about nothing BUT Microsoft's XBox as a gaming platform.
I have a feeling that Nintendo knows the game market, and that the game market is about all they know.
That isn't what Microsoft is really after. There's this thing called bandwidth now that there wasn't nearly enough of back when Nintendo fumbled around with 'Family computing.' Microsoft may well do it right.
Microsoft came out with XBox to get into the Home Entertainment market. XBox is a game console. Their next move into the market is something more, a new version with added functionality.
When you're reaching out to a new market, you need to get something on the shelf. Now that the XBox is established and available, they can just add another model to the same retail space.
Microsoft is in this for far more than a gaming console. They want their XBox line to become the home entertainment/communications appliance.
It means Microsoft is 'growing' the Xbox out to be the 'Home Entertainment Appliance' that everybody knew was their aim. They got hardware out into the retail channel with the first product (Xbox) and now can roll out something more.
People who bought an Xbox can plug those Xbox game discs into the new box, which takes the place of the old box in the living room. The old Xbox goes down in the rec room for the kids.
People who think Microsoft was intending Xbox to just be a gaming platform competing head to head with Nintendo and Sony are short sighted.
That kind of action has always occured during a 'National Emergency.' Check out the kind of power Roosevelt had during WWII. It isn't permanent, it won't be permanent. The opposition won't put up with it.
You've been reading too many paranoid leftie sites.
Was it a linear taper potentiometer, or some special non-linear taper? What's it's rated wear life? One rated for the continual change that a throttle goes through would have to be pretty high quality. Motion control hardware, if designed for duty in extreme environments (i.e. the hot and cold of an engine compartment) isn't the same as the potentiometer you buy at Radio Shack.
The biometric data is collected in real-time with an instrument that is uncrackable enough to make it not practical to falsify it.
The querying end of the system sends out a token. That token, plus a timestamp, is public key encrypted by the scanning device before being sent over the wire.
It's really rather trivial, and disappointing how many people here at Slashdot don't get it.
Umm, the retinal scanning devices used for critical authentication won't be boxes with a floppy disk drive on the front for criminals to 'patch' in a retina pattern. The authentication will by necessity be a real time retinal scan. The scan proves that you were there, at that instant in time. There are trivial methods of insuring that a faked scan isn't 'patched in'. Your actual retina scan might as well be public record, in fact for the system to work well, it probably will be.
Who cares? The retinal scan used to authenticate will be protected by some form of real-time instantization method, i.e. a public key system that encodes it with a timestamp. Probably with a token from the querying side of the connection in it as well. A 'raw' retinal scan pattern by itself won't mean anything.
Cracking into the box to inject a pattern won't be trivial. The actual retina pattern might as well be public record.
You're attributing way, way too much power to the office of the President. There are many levels and layers of government. In fact, the United States government was designed to insure that it didn't all hinge on one man or one single body of men.
Hell, you can even take an active role and be elected yourself to have your voice heard. I'd recommend you drop the cynicism, first, of course.
You can't have a Caldera distro CD that predates Yggdrasil. It's established fact that Yggdrasil was the first Linux distribution released on CD. In the fall of 1993.
Possibly you have a Caldera distro CD older than any Yggdrasil CD you've encountered. The Fall '93 CD set isn't very common....
Part of the role of 'society' as a body is to define what is within the limits of acceptability. It doesn't have to do with a 'right not to be offended' it has to do with the fact that there is, in fact, such a thing as good and evil.
I would contend that speech is not 'arbitrarily' being made illegal. It's a very deliberative process.
Yggdrasil's entire system was essentially X-based. You put the boot floppy into the machine, the CD-ROM in the drive, booted the machine and it eventually booted up into X.
It was awfully, horribly slow, if I remember right, on my 486-33 with a 1x CDROM drive.
IMHO, we should be trying to commercialize space (for humans not just satellites).
Umm, the satellites are for human use.
The last thing I want to see is the productive use of space being tied up by those same fat rich old people who tow a Saturn around on the back of a big hulking RV.
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Anybody who wants to create music or literature or anything else that can be copyrighted can become a copyright holder.
It has nothing to do with classes based on heredity or inheritance. Indeed, it's only because a bunch of sheeple insist on worshipping 'popular culture icons' that there's any kind of problem at all.
The star system needs to be taken down. 'Rock stars' are seldom the most talented musicians around, they're just the ones wrapped up in a sheen of mass-media driven 'popular culture' marketing.
I go into a place, like a resturant that purports to be 'old fashioned' and what do I see? Faux antique 'Coca-cola' advertisements, reproduction advertising from the era of the demise of 'old fashioned' due to advertising. It's like modern people can't let go of the idea that a big marketing firm in Chicago or New York should define our culture, and that it's been that way forever.
We have lived in a 'mass media culture' for almost 100 years now, spurred by the rise of Radio, Motion Pictures, and Television. One of the things breaking that up is the demise of the mass 'broadcast' model, as people gain more and more freedom to share what they want, in a decentralized fashion.
It's really pitiful that what people then choose to share, on the P2P networks, is the same mass-culture drivel they should be moving away from.
Share some music, some poetry or fiction that you, yourself, actually came up with. Stop using the channels to shuffle around copies of the same stuff, over and over again.
Well, you'll be able to engage in 'poision the well' DOS of the sort being propose here. Which will weaken the network on which you're distributing your works.
Someone posts the IP addresses of the "legit hackers" on the web? You can bet that all the script kiddies will come out of the woodwork then...
Yes. Then somebody throws the IP addresses of a few prominent Linux kernal hackers into the stew and the script kiddies do their thing....
The P2P network having an EULA and an 'authentication' scheme falls in the face of the way P2P networks thrive. You're proposing an end to anonymous file sharing. People will shy away from sharing their files if their ostensible anonymnity goes away. All the Music Industry has to do is yank a few prominent sharers into court and many, many people will drop off the network.
I would liken it more to the use of 'Terro' ant poision to kill an ant colony.
We had an ant problem in our kitchen this spring. Terro is an ant poision. But it takes the form of a mild poision that is a sweet syrup. The ants really really like it. After putting out some little bits of Terro for the ants to enjoy I noticed that they all congregated around the Terro and didn't get into everything else in the kitchen.
They hauled the Terro back to the ant colony and it slowly poisioned and killed the entire colony.
I wouldn't go out into the yard and spray a poision like Diazinon, which would kill all the wild ants and everything else in the yard. I will use toxins like Terro, so that ants which actively come into my house are poisioned and their colonies exterminated.
I would submit that this proposed (already begun?) campaign to take out the P2P networks is fairly similar to my use of Terro to kill the ants in my kitchen.
The malevolent file sharer submits a fingerprint of the 'legit' file for fingerprinting. They then thow out the defective file for sharing. A file can't be 'fingerprinted' until it has been transmitted. Voila: you don't know you've gotten a sack of stinking dead fish until you're holding it.
This 'chain of trust' implies a lack of anonymnity.
That means the gophers start having names, the prominent gophers get whacked.
Any scheme by which people need to become 'known' by a community becomes subject to such problems.
Microsoft is trying to make the XBox more than a gaming platform. That was a big part of my message. Yet you reply with a long filler-response that talks about nothing BUT Microsoft's XBox as a gaming platform.
What gives?
I have a feeling that Nintendo knows the game market, and that the game market is about all they know.
That isn't what Microsoft is really after. There's this thing called bandwidth now that there wasn't nearly enough of back when Nintendo fumbled around with 'Family computing.' Microsoft may well do it right.
Microsoft came out with XBox to get into the Home Entertainment market. XBox is a game console. Their next move into the market is something more, a new version with added functionality.
When you're reaching out to a new market, you need to get something on the shelf. Now that the XBox is established and available, they can just add another model to the same retail space.
Microsoft is in this for far more than a gaming console. They want their XBox line to become the home entertainment/communications appliance.
It means Microsoft is 'growing' the Xbox out to be the 'Home Entertainment Appliance' that everybody knew was their aim. They got hardware out into the retail channel with the first product (Xbox) and now can roll out something more.
People who bought an Xbox can plug those Xbox game discs into the new box, which takes the place of the old box in the living room. The old Xbox goes down in the rec room for the kids.
People who think Microsoft was intending Xbox to just be a gaming platform competing head to head with Nintendo and Sony are short sighted.
I took a look at Microsoft Bob.
It looks surprisingly like the AOL interface that that huge number of people are presently using.
Sales are kinda slow in the Schottky product line anyway.
I've seen a lot of T.I. parts with the SN prefix.
That kind of action has always occured during a 'National Emergency.' Check out the kind of power Roosevelt had during WWII. It isn't permanent, it won't be permanent. The opposition won't put up with it.
You've been reading too many paranoid leftie sites.
Was it a linear taper potentiometer, or some special non-linear taper? What's it's rated wear life? One rated for the continual change that a throttle goes through would have to be pretty high quality. Motion control hardware, if designed for duty in extreme environments (i.e. the hot and cold of an engine compartment) isn't the same as the potentiometer you buy at Radio Shack.
The biometric data is collected in real-time with an instrument that is uncrackable enough to make it not practical to falsify it.
The querying end of the system sends out a token. That token, plus a timestamp, is public key encrypted by the scanning device before being sent over the wire.
It's really rather trivial, and disappointing how many people here at Slashdot don't get it.
Umm, the retinal scanning devices used for critical authentication won't be boxes with a floppy disk drive on the front for criminals to 'patch' in a retina pattern. The authentication will by necessity be a real time retinal scan. The scan proves that you were there, at that instant in time. There are trivial methods of insuring that a faked scan isn't 'patched in'. Your actual retina scan might as well be public record, in fact for the system to work well, it probably will be.
Who cares? The retinal scan used to authenticate will be protected by some form of real-time instantization method, i.e. a public key system that encodes it with a timestamp. Probably with a token from the querying side of the connection in it as well. A 'raw' retinal scan pattern by itself won't mean anything.
Cracking into the box to inject a pattern won't be trivial. The actual retina pattern might as well be public record.
You're attributing way, way too much power to the office of the President. There are many levels and layers of government. In fact, the United States government was designed to insure that it didn't all hinge on one man or one single body of men.
Hell, you can even take an active role and be elected yourself to have your voice heard. I'd recommend you drop the cynicism, first, of course.
You can't have a Caldera distro CD that predates Yggdrasil. It's established fact that Yggdrasil was the first Linux distribution released on CD. In the fall of 1993.
Possibly you have a Caldera distro CD older than any Yggdrasil CD you've encountered. The Fall '93 CD set isn't very common....
Part of the role of 'society' as a body is to define what is within the limits of acceptability. It doesn't have to do with a 'right not to be offended' it has to do with the fact that there is, in fact, such a thing as good and evil.
I would contend that speech is not 'arbitrarily' being made illegal. It's a very deliberative process.
And it needs to remain very deliberative.
You know, equating social change political protest with jabbering about TV shows and pirating copyrighted materials from said TV shows...
That and your inane 'some places are ruled by ideology.... some places are ruled by money' nonsense.
Good grief.
Yggdrasil's entire system was essentially X-based. You put the boot floppy into the machine, the CD-ROM in the drive, booted the machine and it eventually booted up into X.
It was awfully, horribly slow, if I remember right, on my 486-33 with a 1x CDROM drive.
But it was graphical.
Mr. Love claims that Caldera was the first to provide a 'graphical' install.
That's certainly incorrect. Yggdrasil had a graphical install in the Fall of 1993.
I wonder how much of the other stuff he mentions in his answers is incorrect?
IMHO, we should be trying to commercialize space (for humans not just satellites).
Umm, the satellites are for human use.
The last thing I want to see is the productive use of space being tied up by those same fat rich old people who tow a Saturn around on the back of a big hulking RV.