An attention market would even be useful in a non-commercial context. An executive like Bill Gates could price access to his inbox to reflect the value of his time. And those who had legitimate reasons to correspond with Microsoft's chairman could rest easy, knowing that he wouldn't cash in the substantial bond required to get his attention.
In other words, the more you make per hour, the less spam you will recieve - in the true nature of the new corporate owned and controlled Internet(tm)(patent pending).
I believe it's $5 bucks a month for unlimited streaming, downloading is extra (burnable downloads are 79 cents a track).
Or, if you dont subscribe, you can pay a buck a track, just like iTunes, and listen to a handful of their free net-radio stations.
I don't really know technical details, I don't even listen to music anymore.
BTW, it's 7 bucks a month, it's only 4.99 a month if you bill annually (60 bucks a year).
I only know it's DRM'ed somehow (not plain jain MP3) because of this: Note: Yahoo! Music does not permit copying or transferring music files to other users.
and this:
iPod Users: If you're an iPod user with a Windows-based PC, you can transfer music you already own to an Apple iPod using the Yahoo! Music Engine. Unfortunately, iPods are not currently compatible with the Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service.
But then, iPod owners have already pretty much found out that iTunes or real world CDs are their only source for legal content.
And, instead, get nickel-and-dimed to death by every $5-dollar-per-hour hotspot out there. Maybe free wi-fi is everywhere where you live, but it's not where I am.
Halo 2 will still be popular when 360 launches, that's only about a month after they plan to release about a half dozen new maps for it.
People will still play the popular games on Live, much the same way as people still play Quake and Counterstrike on the PC.
That makes backwards compatibility for the XBox and PS3 a bigger selling point than it was on the PS2. As far as single player games, I agree.
Plus there's the whole size thing. Do you have room for an XBox AND a 360? Har har its teh big.
Now, what I read, is that "popular XBox games" will be backwards compatable. That is, it seems to me like a Bleemcast-style software emulation, maybe you download title-specific emulators?
If the 360 has enough power to emulate the original XBox at full speed, with full (or at least PS2-PSX full) compatibility, then I'm quite impressed, since that's a good indication of it's horsepower.
I know a WWII & Korean War veteran who claims he was subjected to radiation to "test it's effects".
I know a Vietnam vet who thinks that the government implanted him with a device that allows aliens to read his thoughts!
Here's the scary part, he claims that a tinfoil hat does nothing to prevent this, and the myth of the tinfoil hat is spread by government agents to misdirect the people who are affected!
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The people IN the pictures are real.
And the people looking at the pictures are generally the same as those who are in the pictures.
And yes, I personally think the man who rapes an 8 year old is worse than the man who murders another adult. But I don't buy into the whole "moral relativism" bullshit, both are evil.
And I also think people who try to shrug it off as "just pictures" are completely obtuse at best, or pedophiles themselves at worst. Those are real kids.
And I also think that anyone running a freenet node is legally on the hook for aiding and abetting child molestors, since it's widely known that it's a primary use of the network.
And, as a side note, all the "political dissident" stuff is pure horseshit and misdirection. It's illegal in China (and other countries with harsh free speech laws) to use encryption at all. Freenet is not even an option for the oppressed village of Wing Wang.
As for free speech, it's guaranteed. And NAMBLA has a presence on the real net, and as much as the organization and everything they say disgusts me, there's nothing I can do about it.
But I can sure as hell criticize those who would help them commit their crimes.
So I'll sum up with a big fuck you to the ACLU for providing free legal representation for NAMBLA members, lo these many years.
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Well, I also have the right to express MY viewpoints. And I sure as hell have the right to decide that any computer equipment I own will NEVER help the spread of child pornography.
I have the right to express that everytime freenet comes up. I have the right to let as many people I know understand that if they run a freenet node, they ARE aiding in the spread of child porn, that they are helping the worlds worst monsters commit their crimes. Most sensible people understand that.
It's why bittorrent is huge and fast, and freenet is slow. With BT, I can decide that I have no moral objection to spreading last nights episode of the Simpsons, with FreeNet (and others like it), I don't get the same choice.
I have the right to mention that videos and still images of real children being raped is NOT FREE SPEECH.
NAMBLA expresses their "viewpoints" on the regular internet.
If you choose to support Freenet, and it's userbase, it represents a tacit approval of the material it's used to dissiminate.
And I can say that all I want, and encourage anyone who feels the same to absolutely bury any discussion of Freenet with similar posts.
And Zonk can go right ahead and ban me again.
I hate assholes like you who basically tell everyone to "shut up" because of someone elses "freedom of speech". It works both ways.
No, I don't believe in freenet, and I don't believe in your "truly censorship-free" information system.
The govt hasnt mandated HDTV, just digital broadcasting - ie; 480i, so long as it's digital.
HDTV turned out to be a big, huge, gigantic clusterfuck. Most HDTV devices are fixed-pixel (LCD, plasma, DLP), yet they never nailed down a fixed resolution format. So if you get a native 720P, you're screwed for 540P or 1080i, and so on. I've been looking into HDTV, I have no idea what to get. What's the content going to be in? They say sports and such in 1080i, movies and such in 720P.. But then HD-DVD will be 1080P, so whatever I buy today will be obsolete..
Meh, like I said - a clusterfuck. Now throw EDTV and "HDTV" compatible sets on the pile, that aren't HDTV at all..
I started to try to explain this to a non-techie friend who wanted one of "those big flat TVs that hang on the wall".. Lost cause. Eventually I just shrugged and told him to buy whatever the guy at Sams club was selling - you're going to get fucked either way.
Digital content delivery is a mess. Where we used to have cassettes and CDs (ok, CDs are digital, but my point remains), we now have umpteen zillion audio formats, and umpteen zillion music stores. If I sign up for iTunes, I just know that my favorite band will be exclusively on Napster, and vice versa. In the end I'd be nickel-and-dimed to death by all these services.
So whats my point? Me, a lifelong geek, no longer gives a flying rats ass about the future of "digital media". I'll keep my analog cable, FM radio, and CD player for as long as they continue to work.
Get on with your lives. Paramount owns the rights, and if they say it's over, it's over.
It's not just about production costs to the studio. It's about a shitty show that ruins the image of the studio, and destroys 30 years of "Star Trek" branding.
They need to start showing Sailor Moon reruns to distract these knobs.
1) Doesn't it defeat the purpose of hiding something when you pay thousands of people to read it?
We're talking about a country with a population that just hit 3 billion. A few thousand out of that is nothing.
2) How effective can any system that relies on human judgement be?
As effective as slashdot moderation.
3) What's to stop a small dedicated group of people from letting a few "un-authorized" pages slip through the cracks.
Death squads who drag you out of your home in the middle of the night. These guys have no moral problem with driving tanks over college students.
Even if they did let a few pages through, citizenry would be generally too terrified of government reprisal to visit them. Same goes for all the other slashdotters spouting off about freenet or anonymous proxies. Just having encrypted data coming down your pipe is enough to get your door kicked in.
I don't know why they don't just have their own internet, why have any gateways to the rest of the world at all?
They have a population large enough to support it, and that way, if there's stuff they don't like, they have someone to drag out of his bed and murder in front of his children in the middle of the night.
No, I could have been more specific. It's not all sites, and not under all circumstances.
You cannot fly over the Pentagon, White House, or any of the other places you mentioned, so a "no aerial photo" ban is redundant.
But you cannot photograph, sketch, or take notes on many military installations. I drive past Anders air force base quite regularly, and see the signs that say just that.
I don't know the specifics of which locations, circumstances, or whatnot. I just know that's how it is, and how it's always been.
Has acceptance of web sites crammed with advertising content become part of my social contract with society?
The answer is yes. You get the content for free, the ads pay for the site.
Of course, "social contract" is just a PC euphamism for "not being a dick".
Blocking the ads makes you a dick, and does violate the "social contract". Lots of good sites are gone forever because of the attitude that "nobody has the right to show me advertisements".
However, when a site is "crammed with ads", or has popups or hijacks your browser, tries to mislead you, etc, then the webmaster has violated HIS side of the social contract (that is, he's being a dick).
There are worse atrocities in the world than a little advertising. I don't know why everyone has to be such a douchebag about it. I mean, having a speakeasy ad at the top of this page isn't going to be the end of my world.
So's "Area 51", or Quantico or the naval academy in Annapolis, etc..
It's been against the law to photograph many military or political institutions in the US for as long as there have been cameras, IIRC, so it's not really surprising, and not really one of those things you can blame on Bush either. Don't let that stop you though, slashdotters! Strap on the tinfoil and let the YRO rants ensue!
Like I said, I'm pretty much close enough to throw a rock into the Bay from my porch, I mean I'd have to throw pretty hard and arc it over my neighbours house and a little strip mall, and hope I don't bust a window out of the bridge authority HQ, but google's way off, I can't even tell what I'm looking at, since there's no water shown anywhere close.
Terraserver, interestingly enough, gives the exact same "location" of my house. Ie; it's wrong too. Maybe there's another street with my name, and both get confused, or maybe Google gets their pinmapping data from terraserver? I don't know....
Zonk, just go ahead and ban my IP again. Why waste your time trying to wreck "karma" that I don't give a flying rats ass about? Yeah, I know I told you off when you just started and attached a lame michaelesque comment to a story, and got modded +5 funny/informative, and it got under your skin enough for you to respond. Frankly, you're taking yourself way too seriously.
I could really not give a ripe shit. Actually I'm somewhat honored that you take the time to track all my posts to downmod them as "overrated".
At least not for my home address or work address, I'm not sure what it's showing me, but I just know the images aren't right since I live right next to a major geographical feature (ie; the Chesapeake bay), so it's pretty easy to tell.
Still, it's neat to scroll around and whatnot online. The technology isn't really new, our mapping software has had layers for aerial photos for a long while now.
Anyhow Zonk, why is it that every post I make to one of your stories eventually gets modbombed with "offtopics", after it's been modded up? Coincidence?
I know it's hard for zealots to wrap their tiny little heads around, but you can be critical of something and support it at the same time.
As a matter of fact, good criticism is the best kind of support. Ass kissing doesn't improve the product.
I'm a linux fan, I've been with it since the start. I'm also constantly criticizing it. It needs criticism, not fanboys. It will never get better, more usable, and gain more hardware and software support if we keep sitting there going "Good job Linus, make sure that ABI is constantly changing! Stable interfaces are gay M$ dumb stupid stuff!"
Likewise, I can like some Apple products like OSX, while at the same time think that iPod and iTunes are complete POS's targetted at the hipster doofus demographic, and that the G5 machines look like complete ass.
I can think the PS2, in general, is a piece of junk, while at the same time think that Ape Escape is the greatest game ever.
They're called opinions. Maybe one day you'll learn to form your own based on what you see and experience, and not just inherit them from whatever fan club of forums you frequent.
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You need to watch Chinatown too, because the line is "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
The finale is most certainly not "OK" to any character in the film.
Who gives a shit, they both suck.
That's the point:
An attention market would even be useful in a non-commercial context. An executive like Bill Gates could price access to his inbox to reflect the value of his time. And those who had legitimate reasons to correspond with Microsoft's chairman could rest easy, knowing that he wouldn't cash in the substantial bond required to get his attention.
In other words, the more you make per hour, the less spam you will recieve - in the true nature of the new corporate owned and controlled Internet(tm)(patent pending).
Well just hop a bus to Pyong-yang (or wherever) and collect, this stops spam and relays just like fines imposed by states do (not at all).
Why is a spammer going to put up money when relaying through a zombie net or open relay is easy and free?
You don't have to "prove" shit in civil court. It's not "beyond a reasonable doubt", its "a preponderance of the evidence".
In other words, the argument "your Honor, look at this kid, he's a punk - who ya gonna believe?" is pretty much valid.
20 bucks for an H. Upman? Ridiculous!
I believe it's $5 bucks a month for unlimited streaming, downloading is extra (burnable downloads are 79 cents a track).
Or, if you dont subscribe, you can pay a buck a track, just like iTunes, and listen to a handful of their free net-radio stations.
I don't really know technical details, I don't even listen to music anymore.
BTW, it's 7 bucks a month, it's only 4.99 a month if you bill annually (60 bucks a year).
I only know it's DRM'ed somehow (not plain jain MP3) because of this:
Note: Yahoo! Music does not permit copying or transferring music files to other users.
and this:
iPod Users: If you're an iPod user with a Windows-based PC, you can transfer music you already own to an Apple iPod using the Yahoo! Music Engine. Unfortunately, iPods are not currently compatible with the Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service.
But then, iPod owners have already pretty much found out that iTunes or real world CDs are their only source for legal content.
Yahoo doesn't offer DRM-free CD-quality downloads, either, IIRC.
It's also not just the cost of the merchandise, but also legal and court fees, and punative damages.
In the end, it really doesn't matter what Mark Cuban, random guy with a geocities page (or whatever free service hosts his blog), thinks.
And, instead, get nickel-and-dimed to death by every $5-dollar-per-hour hotspot out there. Maybe free wi-fi is everywhere where you live, but it's not where I am.
Halo 2 will still be popular when 360 launches, that's only about a month after they plan to release about a half dozen new maps for it.
People will still play the popular games on Live, much the same way as people still play Quake and Counterstrike on the PC.
That makes backwards compatibility for the XBox and PS3 a bigger selling point than it was on the PS2. As far as single player games, I agree.
Plus there's the whole size thing. Do you have room for an XBox AND a 360? Har har its teh big.
Now, what I read, is that "popular XBox games" will be backwards compatable. That is, it seems to me like a Bleemcast-style software emulation, maybe you download title-specific emulators?
If the 360 has enough power to emulate the original XBox at full speed, with full (or at least PS2-PSX full) compatibility, then I'm quite impressed, since that's a good indication of it's horsepower.
I know a WWII & Korean War veteran who claims he was subjected to radiation to "test it's effects".
I know a Vietnam vet who thinks that the government implanted him with a device that allows aliens to read his thoughts!
Here's the scary part, he claims that a tinfoil hat does nothing to prevent this, and the myth of the tinfoil hat is spread by government agents to misdirect the people who are affected!
The people IN the pictures are real.
And the people looking at the pictures are generally the same as those who are in the pictures.
And yes, I personally think the man who rapes an 8 year old is worse than the man who murders another adult. But I don't buy into the whole "moral relativism" bullshit, both are evil.
And I also think people who try to shrug it off as "just pictures" are completely obtuse at best, or pedophiles themselves at worst. Those are real kids.
And I also think that anyone running a freenet node is legally on the hook for aiding and abetting child molestors, since it's widely known that it's a primary use of the network.
And, as a side note, all the "political dissident" stuff is pure horseshit and misdirection. It's illegal in China (and other countries with harsh free speech laws) to use encryption at all. Freenet is not even an option for the oppressed village of Wing Wang.
As for free speech, it's guaranteed. And NAMBLA has a presence on the real net, and as much as the organization and everything they say disgusts me, there's nothing I can do about it.
But I can sure as hell criticize those who would help them commit their crimes.
So I'll sum up with a big fuck you to the ACLU for providing free legal representation for NAMBLA members, lo these many years.
Well, I also have the right to express MY viewpoints. And I sure as hell have the right to decide that any computer equipment I own will NEVER help the spread of child pornography.
I have the right to express that everytime freenet comes up. I have the right to let as many people I know understand that if they run a freenet node, they ARE aiding in the spread of child porn, that they are helping the worlds worst monsters commit their crimes. Most sensible people understand that.
It's why bittorrent is huge and fast, and freenet is slow. With BT, I can decide that I have no moral objection to spreading last nights episode of the Simpsons, with FreeNet (and others like it), I don't get the same choice.
I have the right to mention that videos and still images of real children being raped is NOT FREE SPEECH.
NAMBLA expresses their "viewpoints" on the regular internet.
If you choose to support Freenet, and it's userbase, it represents a tacit approval of the material it's used to dissiminate.
And I can say that all I want, and encourage anyone who feels the same to absolutely bury any discussion of Freenet with similar posts.
And Zonk can go right ahead and ban me again.
I hate assholes like you who basically tell everyone to "shut up" because of someone elses "freedom of speech". It works both ways.
No, I don't believe in freenet, and I don't believe in your "truly censorship-free" information system.
The govt hasnt mandated HDTV, just digital broadcasting - ie; 480i, so long as it's digital.
HDTV turned out to be a big, huge, gigantic clusterfuck. Most HDTV devices are fixed-pixel (LCD, plasma, DLP), yet they never nailed down a fixed resolution format. So if you get a native 720P, you're screwed for 540P or 1080i, and so on. I've been looking into HDTV, I have no idea what to get. What's the content going to be in? They say sports and such in 1080i, movies and such in 720P.. But then HD-DVD will be 1080P, so whatever I buy today will be obsolete..
Meh, like I said - a clusterfuck. Now throw EDTV and "HDTV" compatible sets on the pile, that aren't HDTV at all..
I started to try to explain this to a non-techie friend who wanted one of "those big flat TVs that hang on the wall".. Lost cause. Eventually I just shrugged and told him to buy whatever the guy at Sams club was selling - you're going to get fucked either way.
Digital content delivery is a mess. Where we used to have cassettes and CDs (ok, CDs are digital, but my point remains), we now have umpteen zillion audio formats, and umpteen zillion music stores. If I sign up for iTunes, I just know that my favorite band will be exclusively on Napster, and vice versa. In the end I'd be nickel-and-dimed to death by all these services.
So whats my point? Me, a lifelong geek, no longer gives a flying rats ass about the future of "digital media". I'll keep my analog cable, FM radio, and CD player for as long as they continue to work.
Seriously, it's over. Shows get cancelled.
Get on with your lives. Paramount owns the rights, and if they say it's over, it's over.
It's not just about production costs to the studio. It's about a shitty show that ruins the image of the studio, and destroys 30 years of "Star Trek" branding.
They need to start showing Sailor Moon reruns to distract these knobs.
1) Doesn't it defeat the purpose of hiding something when you pay thousands of people to read it?
We're talking about a country with a population that just hit 3 billion. A few thousand out of that is nothing.
2) How effective can any system that relies on human judgement be?
As effective as slashdot moderation.
3) What's to stop a small dedicated group of people from letting a few "un-authorized" pages slip through the cracks.
Death squads who drag you out of your home in the middle of the night. These guys have no moral problem with driving tanks over college students.
Even if they did let a few pages through, citizenry would be generally too terrified of government reprisal to visit them. Same goes for all the other slashdotters spouting off about freenet or anonymous proxies. Just having encrypted data coming down your pipe is enough to get your door kicked in.
But, General Tsao makes better chicken than Colonel Sanders.
I don't know why they don't just have their own internet, why have any gateways to the rest of the world at all?
They have a population large enough to support it, and that way, if there's stuff they don't like, they have someone to drag out of his bed and murder in front of his children in the middle of the night.
No, I could have been more specific. It's not all sites, and not under all circumstances.
You cannot fly over the Pentagon, White House, or any of the other places you mentioned, so a "no aerial photo" ban is redundant.
But you cannot photograph, sketch, or take notes on many military installations. I drive past Anders air force base quite regularly, and see the signs that say just that.
I don't know the specifics of which locations, circumstances, or whatnot. I just know that's how it is, and how it's always been.
Has acceptance of web sites crammed with advertising content become part of my social contract with society?
The answer is yes. You get the content for free, the ads pay for the site.
Of course, "social contract" is just a PC euphamism for "not being a dick".
Blocking the ads makes you a dick, and does violate the "social contract". Lots of good sites are gone forever because of the attitude that "nobody has the right to show me advertisements".
However, when a site is "crammed with ads", or has popups or hijacks your browser, tries to mislead you, etc, then the webmaster has violated HIS side of the social contract (that is, he's being a dick).
There are worse atrocities in the world than a little advertising. I don't know why everyone has to be such a douchebag about it. I mean, having a speakeasy ad at the top of this page isn't going to be the end of my world.
So's "Area 51", or Quantico or the naval academy in Annapolis, etc..
It's been against the law to photograph many military or political institutions in the US for as long as there have been cameras, IIRC, so it's not really surprising, and not really one of those things you can blame on Bush either. Don't let that stop you though, slashdotters! Strap on the tinfoil and let the YRO rants ensue!
Like I said, I'm pretty much close enough to throw a rock into the Bay from my porch, I mean I'd have to throw pretty hard and arc it over my neighbours house and a little strip mall, and hope I don't bust a window out of the bridge authority HQ, but google's way off, I can't even tell what I'm looking at, since there's no water shown anywhere close.
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Terraserver, interestingly enough, gives the exact same "location" of my house. Ie; it's wrong too. Maybe there's another street with my name, and both get confused, or maybe Google gets their pinmapping data from terraserver? I don't know.
Zonk, just go ahead and ban my IP again. Why waste your time trying to wreck "karma" that I don't give a flying rats ass about? Yeah, I know I told you off when you just started and attached a lame michaelesque comment to a story, and got modded +5 funny/informative, and it got under your skin enough for you to respond. Frankly, you're taking yourself way too seriously.
I could really not give a ripe shit. Actually I'm somewhat honored that you take the time to track all my posts to downmod them as "overrated".
At least not for my home address or work address, I'm not sure what it's showing me, but I just know the images aren't right since I live right next to a major geographical feature (ie; the Chesapeake bay), so it's pretty easy to tell.
Still, it's neat to scroll around and whatnot online. The technology isn't really new, our mapping software has had layers for aerial photos for a long while now.
Anyhow Zonk, why is it that every post I make to one of your stories eventually gets modbombed with "offtopics", after it's been modded up? Coincidence?
I know it's hard for zealots to wrap their tiny little heads around, but you can be critical of something and support it at the same time.
As a matter of fact, good criticism is the best kind of support. Ass kissing doesn't improve the product.
I'm a linux fan, I've been with it since the start. I'm also constantly criticizing it. It needs criticism, not fanboys. It will never get better, more usable, and gain more hardware and software support if we keep sitting there going "Good job Linus, make sure that ABI is constantly changing! Stable interfaces are gay M$ dumb stupid stuff!"
Likewise, I can like some Apple products like OSX, while at the same time think that iPod and iTunes are complete POS's targetted at the hipster doofus demographic, and that the G5 machines look like complete ass.
I can think the PS2, in general, is a piece of junk, while at the same time think that Ape Escape is the greatest game ever.
They're called opinions. Maybe one day you'll learn to form your own based on what you see and experience, and not just inherit them from whatever fan club of forums you frequent.