It's clear that there's just too much money at play here to play the new game by the old rules. That, and those justices probably don't know the first thing about filesharing.
However, there are tons of good non-'industry' musicians out there that love what the 'net is doing for music. If you don't like this ruling, buy their music and start supporting industry change. This isn't sticking it to the man or boycotting or anything. It's creating the new music industry. Simple as that. The old one just needs to go away.
Start at CDBaby, and go from there. You can also support the ones who spoke up for filesharing tech (as listed in the article).
So let's say the FCC is allowed to enforce this rule on a technicality or whatever.
Doesn't mean it won't come up again. And it doesn't mean that it won't eventually be struck down. And if it takes a couple years to do such a thing, all these HDTVs will be out on the market using the older technology. The 'content producers' will have shot themselves in another foot. They can't try any new tricks due to the large installed base. And by then the average consumer might be savvy enough to start demanding flag unaware televisions.
They'll really have no choice but to remove broadcast flags altogether. Sure, it's alot of ifs, but they could have royally blundered their diabolical plan for eeevil world domination through their own over reliance on lobbying the FCC.
...when you ask them why you must use plaintext telnet to maintain routers you bought as recently as a year or two ago...they mumble around and then say "have you heard of our self defending networks?"
Then there are other little things, like the limited authentication options unless you spend bookoo bucks...or the very limited logging/audit functions...or the way PIX assumes all 'outgoing' connections are valid (the very concept of 'outgoing' is a SOHO concept and not an enterprise firewalling concept)...ugh...don't get me started on the pix....
The more you look at Cisco products hands-on, it just highlight what Cisco does: Make networking products.
Granted, they make networking products *very* well and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them over anyone else. But myself and just about every security pro I know sees them as networking devices with security kind of bolted on...NOT security devices. It's more like some IOS networking programmers tried to figure out what security folks need instead of researching what's actually going on out there or getting some real world infosec experience.
If they are becoming a security company, great. But they've said this for awhile now and it hasn't changed the fact that the focus is networking networking networking.
What if you could podcast a playlist in the Rhapsody service?
In other words, you could play whatever music you want in your podcast(well...music that was available via the subscription) with talking in between. The licensing features kick in so it's an end-run around the music webcasting licensing junk.
And what makes you think we don't monitor for that type of thing? Heaven help the fool who sends sensitive customer information unencrypted out of here. Re-education with a large wooden mallet usually ensues.
Heh heh...I banking industry fanboy? Well, there's always a first. (j/k)
Of course...I'm talking about sensitive information into a bank...by customers. I have yet to encounter a bank or credit union who will close an account (or apply a large wooden mallet treatment) because the member/customer sends too much information via email.
What I'm talking about is people who sent things TO the FBI. Anonymous tips, etc. I'm sure there are people who are interested in the information, and if joe random had a servers eye view of all of it for any length of time....well let's just say that email is probably always more fun to read than it should be...almost definitely more sensitive than they are letting on.
I have worked with FBI agents on a few things, and I can't imagine this email server didn't have sensitive info flow through it.
I'm sure it's FBI policy to avoid it, but it's like a bank...how many people do you think send account numbers, SSN's, etc. to a bank via email? Do you think most people are going to see "fbi.gov" and not think it's safe to email them?
Regardless of what they say, IF this server was compromised, I bet the attacker saw all sorts of interesting things. It's not their fault, but it's probably more serious than they are letting on.
These are the Americans who voted for Bush, who can't see the problems with the Patriot Act or the war on Iraq,
Bush or Kerry or Clinton or Gore or whoever...it's not the nature of a candidate or party to erode freedoms. It's the nature of government to erode freedoms. It's been this way since the dawn of history.
Whoever we elect may be great for a year or so...but give 'em time. This really isn't a partisan or politicial issue.
IMHO, once we got addicted to the 'free' cash of entitlements, we pretty much ensured that people would be too distracted to care about freedom. Americans these days don't think about free-DOM as much as 'free' prescription medicine, 'free' retirement, 'free' education....etc. Don't believe me? Compare the upcoming brouhaha over social security to the debate over patriot act renewal. See which one people care about more.
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The real task of a good manager is to take what you have and create a whole greater than the sum of the parts, and this is true even if you already start with great people... even more so if you think about it because if you have a really stellar team and you get them to create things that value more than the sum of the parts... you can literally change the world.
Ah...that's a great point. A good manager can bring *out* the best in the folks they have.
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first, get a million dollars.
Re-read what I said. You're assuming that all the 'best people' want is money. That isn't always the case, and over the long haul it rarely is.
Having said that, the salary requirements of a great employee vs. an average one are usually negligible. Often the money saved is illusory. When it's all worked out 2 average employees are more expensive than 1 really good one.
Show me ONE manager that got himself fired to protect an employee that was simply doing what he was told. They do not exist.
Oh, I have seen at least 2 do more than that..they did it for something that the employee WASN'T told to do. And I personally have put my job on the line for the boneheaded actions of an employee.
That's part of being a good manager, and it's a great way to stay employed. Think about it...if you treat people right and work with integrity, word gets out. When and if layoffs hit (and over the years...they will), you have an ever growing number of references who will go to bat for you--people who you've helped and developed relationships with. In a way it's just being a good networker, but it's more important to be a decent human being.
You seem to only have observed BAD managers. I would think that someone asking an employee to do something illegal would by definition be a bad manager. They may appear fabulously successful in burning the souls of their employees like gasoline....but sooner or later they're going to spill that bad will on themselves. You may not be around to see justice, but it always works out that way.
Sooner or later you'll see what good managers and supervisors can be. And you may just consider becoming one.
Oh...and thanks for making me become a freakin' after school special!!!
"In order to sound knowledgeable you must practice talking out of your arse"
Actually, this particular wisdom comes from the Bible:
Mark 10:42 But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. 44 And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
While lots of people have issues with the Bible, studying the Gospels and the 12 disciples is a great lesson in small group management. Remember what these people accomblished.
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"Surround yourself with the best people and you will succeed as a manager."
And here are some other principles I learned while managing and being managed:
As a manager, you cannot succeed without your employees succeeding. Any of their major accomplishments are shared with you inherently...broadcast these accomplishments and sing their praises to the masses. Recognition is a great incentive, and when your employees get credit for something, YOU get credit as a good manager.
When they do something wrong, defend them to the hilt...even if it was something stupid. Then behind closed doors let them have it and make it clear that you put your butt on the line for them. Be willing to take a personal hit on their behalf...NEVER sell them out.
Realize that to be first, you must be last. You are there to facilitate their performance as someone who works for them.
For cryin' out loud...never micromanage anything. All employees are different, but for the most part you can measure them by results and not stupid timeclock things, etc.
And I stress that all people are motivated by different things. Money, recognition, who and what they work with....learn and listen. If you reverse engineer their motivation you have very important information in your hands.
Be very careful of minority groups--and no I don't mean the legal minority groups--whoever the smallest group is in your team be they white male or indian female. The smallest subgroup tends to fight amongst themselves, or unite to destroy the rest of the group. Watch those situations carefully.
Not really. An average zombie network these days would be able to handle a large volume pretty easy. In fact, this makes the whole zombie thing worse...because now a compromised machine means you might have private keys too....so you can send completely legitimate looking mail from the poor 'flicted person's machine.
WRT keys, that would be no harder than harvesting email addy's just like they do now. Any system where non-specific people need info to contact you will require that the info be easy to access.
The only benefit against spam here is that the overhead in storing keys and computing the mail might slow things up a bit. But I'd wager this won't be much of an impediment in the grand scheme of things.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not poo-pooing it. I think usable encryption is looong overdue (I work in the financial industry and have to re-teach PGP many times). The problem is that on today's 'innerweb', you have to consider how ANY feature/functionality can be comprimised or abused for cheap advertising and spam.
All this encryption is great for spammers, as it will render most scanning methods useless.
Sure, the encryption can be used to only allow trusted email addresses, etc...but the headaches involved in defending against spam in this set up will make it too much trouble for the average user.
In my technology and civilization class in College we had to memorize quite a bit about WWI warplanes.
I was playing Sierra's Red Baron at the time, and you actually got to fly all those planes. It was much easier to learn those specs when you had to fly using them (and fly against them) in mock combat.
I think a education/gaming revolution would be a true innovation that would create a huge advantage to any country that adopted it. I don't mean glorified quizzes and gameshows...I mean actual simulation of the things we're supposed to learn.
Like complexity that is orders of magnitude higher than any given physical object we built to date?
Hmmmm....I don't know about that. A 747 is pretty complex. A skyscraper is pretty complex. I've seen plenty of art projects that are far more complex than at least one of these failed software project.
Come to think of it, a CPU is pretty complex...and a CPU is a software development area. But in a CPU the physical design seems to keep things in a world that we can manage.
Most of these software projects are no more complex in their requirements than things we used to do with iron, concrete, paper, and pencil. The failure is caused by our attempts to deal with the complexity in dimensions that we have a hard time grasping.
No...I don't think it has anything to do with complexity. Humans deal with complexity all the time. It's still the nature of the environment, and we really are still a kitten mewing in that woods.
Perhaps using the Duke Nukem engine as a front end was a bad idea?
Seriously, when you look around it's amazing how many software projects just completely fail with no usable code produced. It's not uncommon for companies to spend several million and just shut the thing down a couple years into it.
I think we're about a century behind our technology. We still try to use industrial age models for 'building' things...and the digital/info/[buzzword] age has major implications that those models just don't take into account.
I set up one for a buddy of mine with this SSID. His building is right next to a post office, so it adds credibility. It's hilarious to watch people come in and see "do you want to connect to noconnect-federaloffense?" One literally jumped back from his laptop.
I was working for my company for over one year in a really interesting proyect, suddenly the owner of the company woke up one day and said that the proyect was end. Why? if the proyect is great and is working perfectly in the company? I don't know What I know is that still today, we are using what we'd developed in the company, we didn't sell it doh.
It appears that even a script that replaces "j"s with "y"s in selected words could have gotten millions of IPO money in the dot-com boom.
And yes we can see you're still using it. Just goes to show that good ideas don't need funding to survive.
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It's clear that there's just too much money at play here to play the new game by the old rules. That, and those justices probably don't know the first thing about filesharing.
However, there are tons of good non-'industry' musicians out there that love what the 'net is doing for music. If you don't like this ruling, buy their music and start supporting industry change. This isn't sticking it to the man or boycotting or anything. It's creating the new music industry. Simple as that. The old one just needs to go away.
Start at CDBaby, and go from there. You can also support the ones who spoke up for filesharing tech (as listed in the article).
It's called "An electronic method fo timing out connections to mp3's containing silence by pointing like a bazillion web browsers at it"!
So let's say the FCC is allowed to enforce this rule on a technicality or whatever.
Doesn't mean it won't come up again. And it doesn't mean that it won't eventually be struck down. And if it takes a couple years to do such a thing, all these HDTVs will be out on the market using the older technology. The 'content producers' will have shot themselves in another foot. They can't try any new tricks due to the large installed base. And by then the average consumer might be savvy enough to start demanding flag unaware televisions.
They'll really have no choice but to remove broadcast flags altogether. Sure, it's alot of ifs, but they could have royally blundered their diabolical plan for eeevil world domination through their own over reliance on lobbying the FCC.
Oh come on! I thought it was funny!
The cover just didn't feel right.
Oh yeah, France? Well we're calling it Google Freedom search now!
If it weren't for my grandpa...you'd be googlin' GERMAN!
"French library website surrenders to hackers"
What would life be like without the joy of silly international personality conflicts?
Makes you wonder what's happening in the world of real music......
"The Man" may be in more trouble than he thinks.
...when you ask them why you must use plaintext telnet to maintain routers you bought as recently as a year or two ago...they mumble around and then say "have you heard of our self defending networks?"
Then there are other little things, like the limited authentication options unless you spend bookoo bucks...or the very limited logging/audit functions...or the way PIX assumes all 'outgoing' connections are valid (the very concept of 'outgoing' is a SOHO concept and not an enterprise firewalling concept)...ugh...don't get me started on the pix....
The more you look at Cisco products hands-on, it just highlight what Cisco does: Make networking products.
Granted, they make networking products *very* well and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them over anyone else. But myself and just about every security pro I know sees them as networking devices with security kind of bolted on...NOT security devices. It's more like some IOS networking programmers tried to figure out what security folks need instead of researching what's actually going on out there or getting some real world infosec experience.
If they are becoming a security company, great. But they've said this for awhile now and it hasn't changed the fact that the focus is networking networking networking.
What if you could podcast a playlist in the Rhapsody service?
Actually, scratch that....replace with the Janus enabled Napster service.
What if you could podcast a playlist in the Rhapsody service?
In other words, you could play whatever music you want in your podcast(well...music that was available via the subscription) with talking in between. The licensing features kick in so it's an end-run around the music webcasting licensing junk.
That may be a hole in the iPods armor.
And what makes you think we don't monitor for that type of thing? Heaven help the fool who sends sensitive customer information unencrypted out of here. Re-education with a large wooden mallet usually ensues.
Heh heh...I banking industry fanboy? Well, there's always a first. (j/k)
Of course...I'm talking about sensitive information into a bank...by customers. I have yet to encounter a bank or credit union who will close an account (or apply a large wooden mallet treatment) because the member/customer sends too much information via email.
What I'm talking about is people who sent things TO the FBI. Anonymous tips, etc. I'm sure there are people who are interested in the information, and if joe random had a servers eye view of all of it for any length of time....well let's just say that email is probably always more fun to read than it should be...almost definitely more sensitive than they are letting on.
I have worked with FBI agents on a few things, and I can't imagine this email server didn't have sensitive info flow through it.
I'm sure it's FBI policy to avoid it, but it's like a bank...how many people do you think send account numbers, SSN's, etc. to a bank via email? Do you think most people are going to see "fbi.gov" and not think it's safe to email them?
Regardless of what they say, IF this server was compromised, I bet the attacker saw all sorts of interesting things. It's not their fault, but it's probably more serious than they are letting on.
These are the Americans who voted for Bush, who can't see the problems with the Patriot Act or the war on Iraq,
Bush or Kerry or Clinton or Gore or whoever...it's not the nature of a candidate or party to erode freedoms. It's the nature of government to erode freedoms. It's been this way since the dawn of history.
Whoever we elect may be great for a year or so...but give 'em time. This really isn't a partisan or politicial issue.
IMHO, once we got addicted to the 'free' cash of entitlements, we pretty much ensured that people would be too distracted to care about freedom. Americans these days don't think about free-DOM as much as 'free' prescription medicine, 'free' retirement, 'free' education....etc. Don't believe me? Compare the upcoming brouhaha over social security to the debate over patriot act renewal. See which one people care about more.
The real task of a good manager is to take what you have and create a whole greater than the sum of the parts, and this is true even if you already start with great people... even more so if you think about it because if you have a really stellar team and you get them to create things that value more than the sum of the parts... you can literally change the world. Ah...that's a great point. A good manager can bring *out* the best in the folks they have.
first, get a million dollars.
Re-read what I said. You're assuming that all the 'best people' want is money. That isn't always the case, and over the long haul it rarely is.
Having said that, the salary requirements of a great employee vs. an average one are usually negligible. Often the money saved is illusory. When it's all worked out 2 average employees are more expensive than 1 really good one.
Show me ONE manager that got himself fired to protect an employee that was simply doing what he was told. They do not exist.
Oh, I have seen at least 2 do more than that..they did it for something that the employee WASN'T told to do. And I personally have put my job on the line for the boneheaded actions of an employee.
That's part of being a good manager, and it's a great way to stay employed. Think about it...if you treat people right and work with integrity, word gets out. When and if layoffs hit (and over the years...they will), you have an ever growing number of references who will go to bat for you--people who you've helped and developed relationships with. In a way it's just being a good networker, but it's more important to be a decent human being.
You seem to only have observed BAD managers. I would think that someone asking an employee to do something illegal would by definition be a bad manager. They may appear fabulously successful in burning the souls of their employees like gasoline....but sooner or later they're going to spill that bad will on themselves. You may not be around to see justice, but it always works out that way.
Sooner or later you'll see what good managers and supervisors can be. And you may just consider becoming one.
Oh...and thanks for making me become a freakin' after school special!!!
"In order to sound knowledgeable you must practice talking out of your arse"
Actually, this particular wisdom comes from the Bible:
Mark 10:42 But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. 44 And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
While lots of people have issues with the Bible, studying the Gospels and the 12 disciples is a great lesson in small group management. Remember what these people accomblished.
"Surround yourself with the best people and you will succeed as a manager."
And here are some other principles I learned while managing and being managed:
As a manager, you cannot succeed without your employees succeeding. Any of their major accomplishments are shared with you inherently...broadcast these accomplishments and sing their praises to the masses. Recognition is a great incentive, and when your employees get credit for something, YOU get credit as a good manager.
When they do something wrong, defend them to the hilt...even if it was something stupid. Then behind closed doors let them have it and make it clear that you put your butt on the line for them. Be willing to take a personal hit on their behalf...NEVER sell them out.
Realize that to be first, you must be last. You are there to facilitate their performance as someone who works for them.
For cryin' out loud...never micromanage anything. All employees are different, but for the most part you can measure them by results and not stupid timeclock things, etc.
And I stress that all people are motivated by different things. Money, recognition, who and what they work with....learn and listen. If you reverse engineer their motivation you have very important information in your hands.
Be very careful of minority groups--and no I don't mean the legal minority groups--whoever the smallest group is in your team be they white male or indian female. The smallest subgroup tends to fight amongst themselves, or unite to destroy the rest of the group. Watch those situations carefully.
Not really. An average zombie network these days would be able to handle a large volume pretty easy. In fact, this makes the whole zombie thing worse...because now a compromised machine means you might have private keys too....so you can send completely legitimate looking mail from the poor 'flicted person's machine.
WRT keys, that would be no harder than harvesting email addy's just like they do now. Any system where non-specific people need info to contact you will require that the info be easy to access.
The only benefit against spam here is that the overhead in storing keys and computing the mail might slow things up a bit. But I'd wager this won't be much of an impediment in the grand scheme of things.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not poo-pooing it. I think usable encryption is looong overdue (I work in the financial industry and have to re-teach PGP many times). The problem is that on today's 'innerweb', you have to consider how ANY feature/functionality can be comprimised or abused for cheap advertising and spam.
All this encryption is great for spammers, as it will render most scanning methods useless.
Sure, the encryption can be used to only allow trusted email addresses, etc...but the headaches involved in defending against spam in this set up will make it too much trouble for the average user.
In my technology and civilization class in College we had to memorize quite a bit about WWI warplanes.
I was playing Sierra's Red Baron at the time, and you actually got to fly all those planes. It was much easier to learn those specs when you had to fly using them (and fly against them) in mock combat.
I think a education/gaming revolution would be a true innovation that would create a huge advantage to any country that adopted it. I don't mean glorified quizzes and gameshows...I mean actual simulation of the things we're supposed to learn.
Like complexity that is orders of magnitude higher than any given physical object we built to date?
Hmmmm....I don't know about that. A 747 is pretty complex. A skyscraper is pretty complex. I've seen plenty of art projects that are far more complex than at least one of these failed software project.
Come to think of it, a CPU is pretty complex...and a CPU is a software development area. But in a CPU the physical design seems to keep things in a world that we can manage.
Most of these software projects are no more complex in their requirements than things we used to do with iron, concrete, paper, and pencil. The failure is caused by our attempts to deal with the complexity in dimensions that we have a hard time grasping.
No...I don't think it has anything to do with complexity. Humans deal with complexity all the time. It's still the nature of the environment, and we really are still a kitten mewing in that woods.
Perhaps using the Duke Nukem engine as a front end was a bad idea?
Seriously, when you look around it's amazing how many software projects just completely fail with no usable code produced. It's not uncommon for companies to spend several million and just shut the thing down a couple years into it.
I think we're about a century behind our technology. We still try to use industrial age models for 'building' things...and the digital/info/[buzzword] age has major implications that those models just don't take into account.
I set up one for a buddy of mine with this SSID. His building is right next to a post office, so it adds credibility. It's hilarious to watch people come in and see "do you want to connect to noconnect-federaloffense?" One literally jumped back from his laptop.
I guess the Man has us trained well!
I was working for my company for over one year in a really interesting proyect, suddenly the owner of the company woke up one day and said that the proyect was end. Why? if the proyect is great and is working perfectly in the company? I don't know What I know is that still today, we are using what we'd developed in the company, we didn't sell it doh.
It appears that even a script that replaces "j"s with "y"s in selected words could have gotten millions of IPO money in the dot-com boom.
And yes we can see you're still using it. Just goes to show that good ideas don't need funding to survive.