Why don't they just play music that the RIAA group of companies doesn't own.
Let them know their artists aren't so special and that even without them we'll get along with our music needs just fine.
Sure probably every one likes at least one artist they've got their stupid hands on, but there's tons of other people who have nothing to do with the RIAA waiting to take their place.
Acting like we need them is what gives them any power at all. If I make a radio station of a bunch of local bands, surely we don't have to pay per song/listener to play our stuff, right?
I'm replying to myself here, but you have no idea how satisfying it is to really like a track, and be able to add that person to your friends list on some site, or write them an email telling them they kick ass and end up getting a grateful reply back.
Not every act can be small, and cost $10 if they have a million fans and put on an expensive and amazing show. An artist's ability to get big like that will grow as their fans and their career grows. This being 'discovered' or 'assembled' by the music industry, then loaned money to make a plastic disc no one wants anymore, and then exploited by a middle man who commodities their music, is fucking bullshit and it needs to stop.
I think we'll see current signed musicians and new independent musicians doing business for themselves in the future, the death of the album and it's often-times side effect filler music, and the death of commodity music pretty soon.
There is so much better music imo from independant and small labels and musicians that I don't have time to listen to or even consider buying almost anything from the companies that make up the RIAA.
There's an entire internet covering an entire planet of millions of talented musicians who would be ecstatic over the idea of you downloading their mp3s and listening to them completely for free.
I am going to stick with the people *want* me to hear their music.
At the heart of the matter appears to be Continental European copyright law, which grants the German film makers certain irrevocable rights to their creation which they cannot sign away.
Ok, but they just signed Relic enough rights to make a game about Warhammer so what the hell?
I am making something similar to create notifications for posts on craigslist right now. It is written in Ruby, and it basically enters the sections you specify on craigslist, and downloads and stores the last 100 postings into an Sqlite3 database.
Then, as a human might do if he were obsessive, checks the section indexes for updates say every 10 minutes and incrementally stores new posts.
The data in sqlite is then indexed by the ferret search engine library, so that it can perform searches on the post content and uses gtk2's libnotify to pop up a notification bubble if it has found anything you previously said you were interested in.
I have not gotten banned in any way from craigslist, and I don't expect to be, since beyond the initial download of the sections, it behaves no different than an obsessive human who might be looking at 10 pages every X minutes. With this, I would be necessarily one of the first people to notice anything on the site that I'm interested in.
I will probably release this on my site for everyone. I'm aware it's against the terms of service to completely mirror the entire site, but does this count as mirroring? Can it be deemed similar to greping your firefox cache, or personal mirroring and indexing?
I know I'm sure as hell going to use it, that's why I made it, but it is an awkward feeling that if I give it away for free and people liked it, that I could get into some kind of trouble.
Honeypots aren't to catch hackers, they're to lure them with an easy target, see what's new in haxor land in terms of tools they'll download to your box, and to watch and see how they operate.
If anything it's like going on haxor safari to observe and learn.
So an exploit is auctioned to the highest bidder, and then on a different account the researcher auctions the same exploit to yet another highest bidder.
Sounds good to me, but don't the buyers feel cheated? I can't see anything to stop this from happening, so it doesn't seem like much of an _auction_ to me.
Also, consequently, after you buy an exploit you could auction it off to a bunch of other people and potentially make all your money back and more.
I don't really see how the auction format can support non-tangible items, is all I'm saying.
Alexander Shulgin develops and ingests all of the psychoactive drugs that he has invented over the years, and has written two books on the subject; Phenethylamines I've known and loved ( PIHKAL ), and Tryptamines I've known and Loved (TIHKAL).
He was for a long time given immunity from the law in order to develop and test the substances he made basically by taking either a base phenethylamine or tryptamine molecule and then attaching every possible configuration of atoms around say, a phen's benzine ring and arm, until he exhausted possibilities. All the while he and his wife ate, smoked, and injected various dosages of the substances and recorded the effects.
So he's basically invented or at least scientificallly documented the effects of a plethora of psychedelic drugs which 95% of the population has never heard of, and some that everyone has heard of.
Phenethylamines such as MDMA (ecstacy) MDA, MDE, 2-CB, 2-CT7, 2-CI, DOB (Probably the Brown Acid)...
Tryptamines such as DMT (super powerful psychedelic and neurotransmitter), Ibogaine (being used to cure drug addicts/alcoholics), LSD, Melatonin & Seratonin (neurotransmitters), 5-HO-DMT (psilocin in magic mushrooms)
So you see, people can just be allowed to test out drugs, especially the willing and chemists who know what they're doing, and have an idea of the effect the substance might have. Because of Shulgin doing that, it has made way for helping a lot of people with depression, post truamatic stress disorder, migrane headaches, addiction, etc, so it is all not just for the sake of tripping out.
Seeing as how Slashdot is Taco's blog, and it has a multitude of advertisements with Microsoft slogans all over it, I fail to see a huge difference.
Taco is putting MS slogans and advertising material all over his site for money, the only thing different is that I wouldn't consider it astroturfing, while I do think blogging about "What MS bullshit means to me personally", is.
Oh no, the people in your free commercial didn't have perfect actors teeth. Welcome to the real world Heinz, what did you expect to get for free from amatures?
Maybe he was playing a video game and had to jump. Or wanted his media player to unpause. Or maybe, just maybe he was reenacting a phone conversation for the benefit of the camera and his movie.
Yes, we say "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched". What this has got do do with Ubuntu or Dell I have not figured out yet. People are preemptively worrying about something, this does not relate.
I thought they just meant getting rid of the previews you're made to watch before a movie, but they mean early preview screenings.
Anyway, that's less US media in our Country. Perhaps we can go see movies from other countries, or our own country instead those days.
I'm sorry but Rosegarden and Ardour are not able to replace Cubase or Ableton Live for me. No, not LMMS either. If they were able I seriously wouldn't have switched back to this horrible piece of shit windows OS.
Jack is the only thing that Linux has that I have used and thought was useful. I have been a Linux User for probably 8 years, but when I started making music, it had to go, and don't think I didn't try for a solid year to produce music with Linux before I gave up.
Linux can potentially do everything, but it cannot actually do everything yet, it is no musicians OS.
No, you can't and no you won't.
you think this...
You do not percieve your failure... ...the other person that makes your interactions appear to be more normal.
They are working very hard at fitting you in. Do you know this sbaker guy, like personally or what?
In my mind, it seems like you're being pretty rude towards him.
If you didn't mean to be, then maybe you don't have the greatest social skills either.
Why on earth would they name a health food company something so close to sanatorium?
A look at their web page does't say anything about Sanitarium making Froot Loops anyway, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Kellogg's makes Froot Loops.
[i]I mean, they paid their debt. Give them a break. If you are worried about relapse, increase the sentences or don't let them out![/i]
If you imagined all the people on earth in line waiting to be [i]given a break[/i], or to have us care about their rights, then sex offenders would be some of the last people in line.
There are far better people out there that we should make sure are treated fairly before we think of these assholes.
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Why don't they just play music that the RIAA group of companies doesn't own.
Let them know their artists aren't so special and that even without them we'll get along with our music needs just fine.
Sure probably every one likes at least one artist they've got their stupid hands on, but there's tons of other people who have nothing to do with the RIAA waiting to take their place.
Acting like we need them is what gives them any power at all. If I make a radio station of a bunch of local bands, surely we don't have to pay per song/listener to play our stuff, right?
I actually spend a lot of time on sites dedicated to making music, and the musicians there regularly post what they have made, and so do I.
I'm replying to myself here, but you have no idea how satisfying it is to really like a track, and be able to add that person to your friends list on some site, or write them an email telling them they kick ass and end up getting a grateful reply back.
Not every act can be small, and cost $10 if they have a million fans and put on an expensive and amazing show. An artist's ability to get big like that will grow as their fans and their career grows. This being 'discovered' or 'assembled' by the music industry, then loaned money to make a plastic disc no one wants anymore, and then exploited by a middle man who commodities their music, is fucking bullshit and it needs to stop.
I think we'll see current signed musicians and new independent musicians doing business for themselves in the future, the death of the album and it's often-times side effect filler music, and the death of commodity music pretty soon.
There is so much better music imo from independant and small labels and musicians that I don't have time to listen to or even consider buying almost anything from the companies that make up the RIAA.
There's an entire internet covering an entire planet of millions of talented musicians who would be ecstatic over the idea of you downloading their mp3s and listening to them completely for free.
I am going to stick with the people *want* me to hear their music.
How about because *everyone* has something to hide, even if it's just some silly small thing, and they deserve to be able to hide it.
From the fact that maybe you like to wear womens clothing, to some brilliant idea you have for an invention, people need privacy.
I am making something similar to create notifications for posts on craigslist right now. It is written in Ruby, and it basically enters the sections you specify on craigslist, and downloads and stores the last 100 postings into an Sqlite3 database.
Then, as a human might do if he were obsessive, checks the section indexes for updates say every 10 minutes and incrementally stores new posts.
The data in sqlite is then indexed by the ferret search engine library, so that it can perform searches on the post content and uses gtk2's libnotify to pop up a notification bubble if it has found anything you previously said you were interested in.
I have not gotten banned in any way from craigslist, and I don't expect to be, since beyond the initial download of the sections, it behaves no different than an obsessive human who might be looking at 10 pages every X minutes. With this, I would be necessarily one of the first people to notice anything on the site that I'm interested in.
I will probably release this on my site for everyone. I'm aware it's against the terms of service to completely mirror the entire site, but does this count as mirroring? Can it be deemed similar to greping your firefox cache, or personal mirroring and indexing?
I know I'm sure as hell going to use it, that's why I made it, but it is an awkward feeling that if I give it away for free and people liked it, that I could get into some kind of trouble.
Honeypots aren't to catch hackers, they're to lure them with an easy target, see what's new in haxor land in terms of tools they'll download to your box, and to watch and see how they operate.
If anything it's like going on haxor safari to observe and learn.
Please don't make Slashdot turn into a bunch of speculative blog posts about random topics.
Seriously, I saw this artical on Digg the other day and that's where it should have stayed.
Man bites dog is news. This is not exactly news.
Anyway, now we have an *entire* week to speculate about how this amazing event will turn out, a la iPhone.
So an exploit is auctioned to the highest bidder, and then on a different account the researcher auctions the same exploit to yet another highest bidder.
Sounds good to me, but don't the buyers feel cheated? I can't see anything to stop this from happening, so it doesn't seem like much of an _auction_ to me.
Also, consequently, after you buy an exploit you could auction it off to a bunch of other people and potentially make all your money back and more.
I don't really see how the auction format can support non-tangible items, is all I'm saying.
Alexander Shulgin develops and ingests all of the psychoactive drugs that he has invented over the years, and has written two books on the subject; Phenethylamines I've known and loved ( PIHKAL ), and Tryptamines I've known and Loved (TIHKAL).
He was for a long time given immunity from the law in order to develop and test the substances he made basically by taking either a base phenethylamine or tryptamine molecule and then attaching every possible configuration of atoms around say, a phen's benzine ring and arm, until he exhausted possibilities. All the while he and his wife ate, smoked, and injected various dosages of the substances and recorded the effects.
So he's basically invented or at least scientificallly documented the effects of a plethora of psychedelic drugs which 95% of the population has never heard of, and some that everyone has heard of.
Phenethylamines such as MDMA (ecstacy) MDA, MDE, 2-CB, 2-CT7, 2-CI, DOB (Probably the Brown Acid)...
Tryptamines such as DMT (super powerful psychedelic and neurotransmitter), Ibogaine (being used to cure drug addicts/alcoholics), LSD, Melatonin & Seratonin (neurotransmitters), 5-HO-DMT (psilocin in magic mushrooms)
So you see, people can just be allowed to test out drugs, especially the willing and chemists who know what they're doing, and have an idea of the effect the substance might have. Because of Shulgin doing that, it has made way for helping a lot of people with depression, post truamatic stress disorder, migrane headaches, addiction, etc, so it is all not just for the sake of tripping out.
Seeing as how Slashdot is Taco's blog, and it has a multitude of advertisements with Microsoft slogans all over it, I fail to see a huge difference.
Taco is putting MS slogans and advertising material all over his site for money, the only thing different is that I wouldn't consider it astroturfing, while I do think blogging about "What MS bullshit means to me personally", is.
If something has entertainment or intellectual value, and it's a piece of writing, wouldn't it therefore have literary value?
Oh no, the people in your free commercial didn't have perfect actors teeth. Welcome to the real world Heinz, what did you expect to get for free from amatures?
Maybe he was playing a video game and had to jump. Or wanted his media player to unpause. Or maybe, just maybe he was reenacting a phone conversation for the benefit of the camera and his movie.
Yes, we say "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched". What this has got do do with Ubuntu or Dell I have not figured out yet. People are preemptively worrying about something, this does not relate.
...90% of slashdotters are coming to this article to either make a terminator joke or to read other people's terminator jokes.
I thought they just meant getting rid of the previews you're made to watch before a movie, but they mean early preview screenings. Anyway, that's less US media in our Country. Perhaps we can go see movies from other countries, or our own country instead those days.
After just reading TFA, I have to say it reads like a list of reasons NOT to use Linux.
I'm sorry but Rosegarden and Ardour are not able to replace Cubase or Ableton Live for me. No, not LMMS either. If they were able I seriously wouldn't have switched back to this horrible piece of shit windows OS. Jack is the only thing that Linux has that I have used and thought was useful. I have been a Linux User for probably 8 years, but when I started making music, it had to go, and don't think I didn't try for a solid year to produce music with Linux before I gave up. Linux can potentially do everything, but it cannot actually do everything yet, it is no musicians OS.
you think this...
You do not percieve your failure...
They are working very hard at fitting you in. Do you know this sbaker guy, like personally or what?
In my mind, it seems like you're being pretty rude towards him.
If you didn't mean to be, then maybe you don't have the greatest social skills either.
Why on earth would they name a health food company something so close to sanatorium? A look at their web page does't say anything about Sanitarium making Froot Loops anyway, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Kellogg's makes Froot Loops.
Shit, I used [] tags instead of html tags to quote you. Still not awake yet, sorry.
[i]I mean, they paid their debt. Give them a break. If you are worried about relapse, increase the sentences or don't let them out![/i] If you imagined all the people on earth in line waiting to be [i]given a break[/i], or to have us care about their rights, then sex offenders would be some of the last people in line. There are far better people out there that we should make sure are treated fairly before we think of these assholes.