Not only that, but they've done a shit job of copy-protection too. Name one form of copy protection that hasn't been hacked shortly after inception, whether through reverse-engineering, number crunching, or a plain ol black sharpie. Not only that, but name ones that haven't made life more inconvenient for legal users than potential infringers.
The fact is that the ??AA would just love to have youtube create a system that could effectively single out copyrighted works, because it would save them the trouble and then they could cram it down the throats of every P2P provider and/or ISP around while threatening lawsuits for non-compliance.
Actually, it did the same for me. I wonder if it's a browser/plugin issue. I'm using an oldish version of Firefox, along with an old flash as well on XP (mainly out-of-date because I usually use the linux boot on XP, except I was playing some games today).
Chances are the parent is experiencing issues due to outdated browser/plugins rather than a problem with youtube itself.
It's been shown in the past that physical conditions can have a definitive affect upon mental processes. Super/subsonic noises, electromagnetic fields or even various varieties of music can in some ways affect the moods/personalities of people. I'm not sure how this would pertain to paedophilia though, as most of the prior cases affect what is more an emotional state (angry, frightened, paranoid, etc) whereas paedophilia could be constued as a specific thought pattern.
In reference to the parent, though, my dad once mentioned that his good friend's mom had a similar case. She was the nicest woman in the world, until one day when she suddenly became a horrible bitch. Nobody understood why, but a few months later she died suddenly. An operation unveiled a brain tumor which they figured has started putting pressure on various areas of her brain around the same time as her personality suddenly changed. She hadn't complained of headaches or anything similar, so I'm assuming it wasn't a pain response, but rather a reaction to the physical damage done to her brain by the tumor.
Maybe not actively, but what about subconsciously. I remember tales of experiments where they would flash something equivilient to "you're thirsty, drink coke" one frame in 50 during a movie - not enough to be consciously picked up - and have a definate increase in coke sales.
What I wonder is, how vast are the botnets? If there are 1000 botted machines in one spammers botnet, how long would it take to build up a list of IPs for said machines?
What I would like to do is keep a running list of dates + IP's. Any IP that's been in the list for the last 30 days should get the following rule in my firewall:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s ${SPAMMY_IP} --dport 25 -j DROP
or if you want to be a little less friendly, set a rule that rate-limits your packets to about 8 to 32 bits/sec (1-3 bytes). The spammer's machine is going to waste a *LOT* of time sending it's data through. If you wanted to go further with this, a co-worker has suggested you could re-route these connections (iptables -A REDIRECT... --to-ports 1234 ) to a secondary local SMTP server on an alternate port that will actually accept the message (once it finally gets through), and analyse it to update the spam filters of the primary SMTP server.
Perhaps when I've some extra time I'll add some postfix+iptables fun to accomplish this.
How about for vehicles? I wonder if you could put this stuff in the doors etc of a car body, resulting in more resiliance against point impacts (if done right)?
Hmmmm, I wonder how hard it would be to prove that somebody *didn't* die from a fatal blood clot, aneurism, etc when it could actually have been caused by a device like this. You don't need to shoot it from a distance, just use it to take somebody out and make it appear like natural causes. I'm not stating that the military will, but that's it's possible. Even the most benevolent technologies have been made into weapons in the past...
Donkey Kong (well, he's old, but was made anew) at one point moved into the spotlight previously held by mario. Certainly Donkey Kong Country (and to some extent DKC2) were as fun as the mario games, and nearly as memorable (if not moreso in some ways). Latter games with DK have been less lustrous, but why not let that franchise overpass the mario one, and perhaps find another character who would be just as memorable as Mario and the Kong Bros?
One of the things not mentioned on here that might be worthy is the chip size+heat issues. A lot of my earlier Athlons ran quite hot, and often required extra cooling etc during the summer. My Opteron (well yes, it's an Opteron so in general better than an Athlon) runs much cooler, and I've heard from people with Athlon-64's that this seems to be the case as well. It seems the actual die of the CPU is bigger, so we've theorized that the larger surface area allows for better contact with the heatsink, and thus more efficient heat dissipation. Could also be that it's a better chip for heat than previous 32-bit Athlons, but perhaps some others could comment on this?
It makes sense depending on your point of view. My girlfriend's camera charges by the USB port with a standard male USB->mini-usb cable. For when you aren't around a PC it also has an AC adaptor with a female RCA plug, so you can still plug your standard USB cable into the phone and then the wall-wart.
Well, this is just the first step. To avoid loss and/or other confusion in the future, the ID number will be tattooed on the skin of the individual, with a later movement to the installation of a subdermal RFID chip. Pretty hard to lose or misplace that unless you lose a limb, etc.
You might think I'm joking, but it's really not that funny. Special identification and tattoos have been used before, albeit for certain classes of indivuals... there was once this place called Auschwitz.
Again, you might think I'm going a little too far in my allusions, but it seems more and more to me that the current government is reading the Hitler Handbook. Give the people an enemy (in this case, Arabs rather than Jews, and possible pedos etc), slowly take away rights, institute tracking and control measures, and stomp out all resistance. Secret camps, torture, it's all there... and I think that this particular slippery slope is getting steeper every day.
With pirated copies of XP I've seen around, installing windows has been rather easy. No annoying activation, and in the early days windows update worked nicely and there was no WGA (it's slightly more difficult now, but not overly so).
Now here at work, I've got about 50 machines with fresh XP Professional reinstalls. Since they've all been reformatted (moving departments), that means that for every freakin' one I've had the authentication fail (it only works once online). To fix it, I need to call MS, talk to a damn machine voice agent, type out the confirmation ID to the machine (about 10-12 sets of 6 digits) on the phone keypad, and then have it reject my number. Then I get forwarded on to tech support in India (judging by the accent) and have to explain that NO, I am not installing on multiple machines etc etc, and have them read out another 10-12 sets of 6-digit keys which I must enter to validate the damn install.
And we're paying customers.
So yes, while the issues of crashing and viruses had previously given me a certain amount of dislike for MS's Operating System, needing to call tech support 50 times (or at least several times for sets of machines on my KVM) has pushed me towards the hate spectrum.
Tried paying for my girlfriend's account on Paypal (which is convenient for my Canadian Credit-Card due to conversion charges etc), it went through and then for some reason came back and refunded the charge (didn't work). I ended up paying for it with my less-used credit-card which converts currencies for free (but I don't get travel points on it like I do the one attached to Paypal).
And this is one thing in Canada that I'm rather happy about. When you've got a guy in prison, and his evaluation says he is 99% likely to reoffend, you should not let him loose on the world. There's a new law going into place that basically says after three strikes (for violent/sex offenders), your release can be held back unless it can be shown you are no longer a risk to society. Room for error, yes, but after three times I think that it's unlikely you're going to have a huge amount of collateral damage.
There's absolutely no benefit to under-reporting your profitability when you're a publicly traded company.
There are plenty of benefits. It just depends on to whom and under what circumstances. The RIAA (and to some extent, MPAA) are using the arguement that they're losing money due to piracy, not only in the streets but in the courts. If their net profit climbs overly noticably, even a judge would have to question that. While they're down in the lower percentiles, even if it is a huge dollar figure, they can still complain that "piracy is hurting our business."
Further to that, it has an overall impact on tax reporting and various other things as well. Keep cooking the books, and certain individuals can skim the fat while paying less to the man, less to the artists, and still show a little 'limp' in court like a dog with a hurt paw.
So long as they continue to make money on the old (through music sales, or lawsuits, etc) they will happily continue to squeeze as much as they can out of their old lemon-model until there's no juice left. Change requires money, or at least risk. Bullying tactics and market dominance might take less of such in the short run (but they're slowly losing said market dominance).
Well, with a painting, the original - if famous enough - will not only still be worth money after your death, but will probably increase in value and accrue additional value over time. See for example the Mona Lisa, copies exist in plenty, but the original is still worth the big bucks. What if everyone who published an article about it or an encyclopedia reference etc etc had to pay DaVinci's great great great great great grandchildren. How is that useful to society?
Code doesn't work quite so well, but then again little is overly useful after a decade or two has passed. An alghorithm might be, but as a programmer myself I hardly expect that if I came up with something unique and with strong future use, that my great-grandkids would be able to leech on it for perpetuity.
As for music... well digital copies more or less should apply just as the do to the Mona Lisa, but if the artists keep their orginals I'd quite imagine those would be worth a lot of value over time. I know many who would pay a pretty penny for some of the original Pink Floyd vinyl etc
I remember when the "free music" thing first startup up. A lot of people didn't have any realization of the copyright issues. You might argue that nobody expects a free lunch, but the reality is that many products are paid for with things other than money (for example, advertising). Certainly there isn't a per-search charge for things such as google, they're pulling their cash from advertisers. Same with the "free dialup" account days, where your dialup client popped up ads that paid for the service.
Given the ads bundled with and within kazaa, and the warcry of "free stuff", it's not that unreasonable an assumption that many people truely believed they were getting a product that wasn't so much "free" as paid for in a different manner. There are also plenty of sites that do offer free music, legally. In fact, I have several songs from what was mp3.com that were legally downloaded, but have since become more popular and are on the radio etc (and mp3.com doesn't exist anymore).
I've had quiet a few people ask me about the "free music" or "free music" and they were genuinely shocked when I explained the legal rammifications.
Constrasting this to your analogy of drugs, where the knowledge of drugs such as crack being illegal is hammered into us since childhood, I'd say it's an unfair comparison. People *know* that drugs not coming from a pharmacy are generally dubious if not illegal, and they certainly know that crack, heroin, etc are not legal. Given the mish-mash of free promo songs, ad-paid sites, and those such as garageband, etc... the music industry is far less clear.
Heck, I just had a band send me a free disc the other day. I didn't even pay shipping.
Assuming that the women was honestly misled by Kazaa (which given the marketing used, isn't so unbelieveable), I'd say she has a case. Furthermore, before the advent of iTunes etc, many ISP's were advertising fast download speeds for music, movies, etc... but not offering any legal services. Given the number of people without 'net who signed up purely based on this, I think that the overall market has some liability in this case.
Much as I dislike the theory of loading up cellphones with tons of crap, the higher-resolution, streaming-capable phones are almost the perfect tool in this case. Many cameraphones exist with decent megapixel ratings, and camera that can capture+broadcast live video. Of course, the data-plans are currently expensive, but I'd imagine that as such things move more and more into the mainstream they will become more reasonable.
I'm not sure 100% how the video works, but I'd be very pleased if providers offered a "picture/video server" option so that you could live-upload/stream your pictures and/or videos to a safe off-site location. That way, if you catch somebody doing something bad, and camera them... you still have the pics/video even if they steal or break your phone. This applies to all sorts of criminals including cops (because if you're breaking the law - i.e. by taking somebody's phone - you're a criminal, even if you're also a cop at the time).
Why not create players that support both standards? For the first while they'll still need to pay the DVD licensing, but over time as dual-mode players take over the market, they could sell more discs as compatible EVD players emerge. Eventually, they could replace DVD enough that ditching the DVD-compatability wouldn't be quite as painful.
As for benefit to consumer, how about not having the cost of licensing passed along to them, not having region-locked discs, not having unskippable ads (see: Shrek 2 disc), etc
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Not only that, but they've done a shit job of copy-protection too. Name one form of copy protection that hasn't been hacked shortly after inception, whether through reverse-engineering, number crunching, or a plain ol black sharpie. Not only that, but name ones that haven't made life more inconvenient for legal users than potential infringers.
The fact is that the ??AA would just love to have youtube create a system that could effectively single out copyrighted works, because it would save them the trouble and then they could cram it down the throats of every P2P provider and/or ISP around while threatening lawsuits for non-compliance.
Actually, it did the same for me. I wonder if it's a browser/plugin issue. I'm using an oldish version of Firefox, along with an old flash as well on XP (mainly out-of-date because I usually use the linux boot on XP, except I was playing some games today).
Chances are the parent is experiencing issues due to outdated browser/plugins rather than a problem with youtube itself.
It's been shown in the past that physical conditions can have a definitive affect upon mental processes. Super/subsonic noises, electromagnetic fields or even various varieties of music can in some ways affect the moods/personalities of people. I'm not sure how this would pertain to paedophilia though, as most of the prior cases affect what is more an emotional state (angry, frightened, paranoid, etc) whereas paedophilia could be constued as a specific thought pattern.
In reference to the parent, though, my dad once mentioned that his good friend's mom had a similar case. She was the nicest woman in the world, until one day when she suddenly became a horrible bitch. Nobody understood why, but a few months later she died suddenly. An operation unveiled a brain tumor which they figured has started putting pressure on various areas of her brain around the same time as her personality suddenly changed. She hadn't complained of headaches or anything similar, so I'm assuming it wasn't a pain response, but rather a reaction to the physical damage done to her brain by the tumor.
Maybe not actively, but what about subconsciously. I remember tales of experiments where they would flash something equivilient to "you're thirsty, drink coke" one frame in 50 during a movie - not enough to be consciously picked up - and have a definate increase in coke sales.
If it works for movies, why not games?
What I wonder is, how vast are the botnets? If there are 1000 botted machines in one spammers botnet, how long would it take to build up a list of IPs for said machines?
... --to-ports 1234 ) to a secondary local SMTP server on an alternate port that will actually accept the message (once it finally gets through), and analyse it to update the spam filters of the primary SMTP server.
What I would like to do is keep a running list of dates + IP's. Any IP that's been in the list for the last 30 days should get the following rule in my firewall:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s ${SPAMMY_IP} --dport 25 -j DROP
or if you want to be a little less friendly, set a rule that rate-limits your packets to about 8 to 32 bits/sec (1-3 bytes). The spammer's machine is going to waste a *LOT* of time sending it's data through. If you wanted to go further with this, a co-worker has suggested you could re-route these connections (iptables -A REDIRECT
Perhaps when I've some extra time I'll add some postfix+iptables fun to accomplish this.
So that's California and Texas. Are there any other States/countries/etc that are still bringing about charges/damages against Sony?
How about for vehicles? I wonder if you could put this stuff in the doors etc of a car body, resulting in more resiliance against point impacts (if done right)?
Hmmmm, I wonder how hard it would be to prove that somebody *didn't* die from a fatal blood clot, aneurism, etc when it could actually have been caused by a device like this. You don't need to shoot it from a distance, just use it to take somebody out and make it appear like natural causes. I'm not stating that the military will, but that's it's possible. Even the most benevolent technologies have been made into weapons in the past...
Donkey Kong (well, he's old, but was made anew) at one point moved into the spotlight previously held by mario. Certainly Donkey Kong Country (and to some extent DKC2) were as fun as the mario games, and nearly as memorable (if not moreso in some ways). Latter games with DK have been less lustrous, but why not let that franchise overpass the mario one, and perhaps find another character who would be just as memorable as Mario and the Kong Bros?
One of the things not mentioned on here that might be worthy is the chip size+heat issues. A lot of my earlier Athlons ran quite hot, and often required extra cooling etc during the summer. My Opteron (well yes, it's an Opteron so in general better than an Athlon) runs much cooler, and I've heard from people with Athlon-64's that this seems to be the case as well. It seems the actual die of the CPU is bigger, so we've theorized that the larger surface area allows for better contact with the heatsink, and thus more efficient heat dissipation. Could also be that it's a better chip for heat than previous 32-bit Athlons, but perhaps some others could comment on this?
It makes sense depending on your point of view. My girlfriend's camera charges by the USB port with a standard male USB->mini-usb cable. For when you aren't around a PC it also has an AC adaptor with a female RCA plug, so you can still plug your standard USB cable into the phone and then the wall-wart.
Well, this is just the first step. To avoid loss and/or other confusion in the future, the ID number will be tattooed on the skin of the individual, with a later movement to the installation of a subdermal RFID chip. Pretty hard to lose or misplace that unless you lose a limb, etc.
You might think I'm joking, but it's really not that funny. Special identification and tattoos have been used before, albeit for certain classes of indivuals... there was once this place called Auschwitz.
Again, you might think I'm going a little too far in my allusions, but it seems more and more to me that the current government is reading the Hitler Handbook. Give the people an enemy (in this case, Arabs rather than Jews, and possible pedos etc), slowly take away rights, institute tracking and control measures, and stomp out all resistance. Secret camps, torture, it's all there... and I think that this particular slippery slope is getting steeper every day.
With pirated copies of XP I've seen around, installing windows has been rather easy. No annoying activation, and in the early days windows update worked nicely and there was no WGA (it's slightly more difficult now, but not overly so).
Now here at work, I've got about 50 machines with fresh XP Professional reinstalls. Since they've all been reformatted (moving departments), that means that for every freakin' one I've had the authentication fail (it only works once online). To fix it, I need to call MS, talk to a damn machine voice agent, type out the confirmation ID to the machine (about 10-12 sets of 6 digits) on the phone keypad, and then have it reject my number. Then I get forwarded on to tech support in India (judging by the accent) and have to explain that NO, I am not installing on multiple machines etc etc, and have them read out another 10-12 sets of 6-digit keys which I must enter to validate the damn install.
And we're paying customers.
So yes, while the issues of crashing and viruses had previously given me a certain amount of dislike for MS's Operating System, needing to call tech support 50 times (or at least several times for sets of machines on my KVM) has pushed me towards the hate spectrum.
Tried paying for my girlfriend's account on Paypal (which is convenient for my Canadian Credit-Card due to conversion charges etc), it went through and then for some reason came back and refunded the charge (didn't work). I ended up paying for it with my less-used credit-card which converts currencies for free (but I don't get travel points on it like I do the one attached to Paypal).
Great definition.As I felt it needed to be immortalized I've taken the initiative to do so
How about spellcheck support in windows? It works fine in linux, but for some reason getting it to work properly in windows is very confusing.
Anyone notice any improvements (or can offer pointers)?
And this is one thing in Canada that I'm rather happy about. When you've got a guy in prison, and his evaluation says he is 99% likely to reoffend, you should not let him loose on the world. There's a new law going into place that basically says after three strikes (for violent/sex offenders), your release can be held back unless it can be shown you are no longer a risk to society. Room for error, yes, but after three times I think that it's unlikely you're going to have a huge amount of collateral damage.
There's absolutely no benefit to under-reporting your profitability when you're a publicly traded company.
There are plenty of benefits. It just depends on to whom and under what circumstances. The RIAA (and to some extent, MPAA) are using the arguement that they're losing money due to piracy, not only in the streets but in the courts. If their net profit climbs overly noticably, even a judge would have to question that. While they're down in the lower percentiles, even if it is a huge dollar figure, they can still complain that "piracy is hurting our business."
Further to that, it has an overall impact on tax reporting and various other things as well. Keep cooking the books, and certain individuals can skim the fat while paying less to the man, less to the artists, and still show a little 'limp' in court like a dog with a hurt paw.
So long as they continue to make money on the old (through music sales, or lawsuits, etc) they will happily continue to squeeze as much as they can out of their old lemon-model until there's no juice left. Change requires money, or at least risk. Bullying tactics and market dominance might take less of such in the short run (but they're slowly losing said market dominance).
Well, with a painting, the original - if famous enough - will not only still be worth money after your death, but will probably increase in value and accrue additional value over time. See for example the Mona Lisa, copies exist in plenty, but the original is still worth the big bucks. What if everyone who published an article about it or an encyclopedia reference etc etc had to pay DaVinci's great great great great great grandchildren. How is that useful to society?
Code doesn't work quite so well, but then again little is overly useful after a decade or two has passed. An alghorithm might be, but as a programmer myself I hardly expect that if I came up with something unique and with strong future use, that my great-grandkids would be able to leech on it for perpetuity.
As for music... well digital copies more or less should apply just as the do to the Mona Lisa, but if the artists keep their orginals I'd quite imagine those would be worth a lot of value over time. I know many who would pay a pretty penny for some of the original Pink Floyd vinyl etc
Ahhhh, but do they offer dental? If not, they could probably manage to add you to somebody else's plan :-)
but the majority of what was on there was put up by independed artists trying to make a name for themselves
Yup, and for some of those I'm fairly sure they weren't all that well known at the time, but they have since become more popular.
I remember when the "free music" thing first startup up. A lot of people didn't have any realization of the copyright issues. You might argue that nobody expects a free lunch, but the reality is that many products are paid for with things other than money (for example, advertising). Certainly there isn't a per-search charge for things such as google, they're pulling their cash from advertisers. Same with the "free dialup" account days, where your dialup client popped up ads that paid for the service.
Given the ads bundled with and within kazaa, and the warcry of "free stuff", it's not that unreasonable an assumption that many people truely believed they were getting a product that wasn't so much "free" as paid for in a different manner. There are also plenty of sites that do offer free music, legally. In fact, I have several songs from what was mp3.com that were legally downloaded, but have since become more popular and are on the radio etc (and mp3.com doesn't exist anymore).
I've had quiet a few people ask me about the "free music" or "free music" and they were genuinely shocked when I explained the legal rammifications.
Constrasting this to your analogy of drugs, where the knowledge of drugs such as crack being illegal is hammered into us since childhood, I'd say it's an unfair comparison. People *know* that drugs not coming from a pharmacy are generally dubious if not illegal, and they certainly know that crack, heroin, etc are not legal. Given the mish-mash of free promo songs, ad-paid sites, and those such as garageband, etc... the music industry is far less clear.
Heck, I just had a band send me a free disc the other day. I didn't even pay shipping.
Assuming that the women was honestly misled by Kazaa (which given the marketing used, isn't so unbelieveable), I'd say she has a case. Furthermore, before the advent of iTunes etc, many ISP's were advertising fast download speeds for music, movies, etc... but not offering any legal services. Given the number of people without 'net who signed up purely based on this, I think that the overall market has some liability in this case.
Much as I dislike the theory of loading up cellphones with tons of crap, the higher-resolution, streaming-capable phones are almost the perfect tool in this case. Many cameraphones exist with decent megapixel ratings, and camera that can capture+broadcast live video. Of course, the data-plans are currently expensive, but I'd imagine that as such things move more and more into the mainstream they will become more reasonable.
I'm not sure 100% how the video works, but I'd be very pleased if providers offered a "picture/video server" option so that you could live-upload/stream your pictures and/or videos to a safe off-site location. That way, if you catch somebody doing something bad, and camera them... you still have the pics/video even if they steal or break your phone. This applies to all sorts of criminals including cops (because if you're breaking the law - i.e. by taking somebody's phone - you're a criminal, even if you're also a cop at the time).
Why not create players that support both standards? For the first while they'll still need to pay the DVD licensing, but over time as dual-mode players take over the market, they could sell more discs as compatible EVD players emerge. Eventually, they could replace DVD enough that ditching the DVD-compatability wouldn't be quite as painful.
As for benefit to consumer, how about not having the cost of licensing passed along to them, not having region-locked discs, not having unskippable ads (see: Shrek 2 disc), etc