User: Xeth

Re:Broadband deployments?

On: Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas

For some reason I can't get the article link to come up

Best excuse to not RTFA I've hear in a while...

Re:Reputation, Online Communities, and User Number

On: The Reality of Online Reputation

Don't forget post count, that Anonymous Coward guy is extremely active on Slashdot!

Yeah, but the content is rarely worth reading...

Clarification

On: Penny Black Project Investigates Sender-Pays E-mail

We're considering several currencies for payment: CPU cycles, memory cycles...

So, Microsoft is just considering writing an extra inefficient mail protocol?

Re:And why the government would want this

On: Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards

Taken from the Alpha Centauri computer game.

You can find the complete text of The Prince here:

Bibliomania

It's certainly a good read.

Hey, since it's a dupe...

On: Environmental Impact of the Ubiquitous Microchip

I can finally post that really witty reply it took me these past three days to come up with. ... ... Oh, damn. I probably should've spent some time coming up with a witty reply.

An even better solution...

On: Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody!

... would be to reverse the flow of money. Not from consumer-provider but from creator-middleman. Right now, we give our money to the middleman, who makes the discs, provides for recording, etc. They own the artist becausr the artists have to come to them. I think that, instead, we should have a way to kick off successful artists, and give them money directly. Once the artists have a fair bit, they can go out and finance their own distribution, through a company who does that sort of thing. Then, distributors who see that the artists produces music that people want, can begin to order discs from the artist. So, essentially, the power is in the hands of the artist; they control the work, and the recorders, sellers, and so forth need to be nice to *them* instead of vice versa.

Unfortunately, for this to work, we would need some way for the public to find cool music so they could try it out for free, and then see which artists they'd like to support.

Damn... any ideas?

Well...

On: Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses

Surely there'll be an appeal, right? Right? I mean, we're not actually stuck with this are we?

Oh. Damn...

Umm

On: Cable Companies Despise PVRs

What other industries would it be that have to produce better content to ensure they get customers' money? The Music industry? Software? (MS)

This just in...

On: Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups

Motorists not staring at billboards for a full ten seconds are now considered thieves, and will be prosecuted accordingly. Time to invest in Geico...

Not any of us

On: Judge In RIAA Test Case Calls DMCA Unclear

It was mentioned a while back that this guy had been trading songs by Britney Spears. Man was I glad to hear that.