You forget, this is slashdot; we didn't go to prom night, and if we did goto prom, we looked like bad geeks and no girls would dance with us out of fear of social rejectition.
But now, those same cheerleaders will come to us BEGGING for us to change their proms around so they work. Reality is really strange.
I haven't watched TV in 3 years; instead, I either go to my local bittorrent site and get the shows from there if there's something worth watching, or I'll buy a DVD of anime here or there. I also don't get commercials this way, which is really really nice because I hate them with a vengance.
Frankly, TV is going to go downhill as better p2p networks, storage, and more bandwidth become available. And with those, better business practices. We've got 320 gig harddisks now, with dsl connections. In 10 years, we'll have several terrabyte sized disks with t3 pipes going to each household, if the economy keeps on it's path, not to mention more processing power. If a decent quality movie fits on a cd, then a 120 of them will fit on a drive; that's a quite a library...
I only see this as a law that will attempt to slow the speed of this adoption. We'll also see other adoptions such as being able to buy an entire season of some show for $5-$10, whereas you're paying for faster bandwidth to download a high quality copy that's insured against bad stuff and isn't crippled or bad quality in any way. P2P is reliable but it isn't fast, you don't get insurance against bad copies, low quality, or that someone didn't rename bad porn as a movie. I personally don't see it slowing down the adoption at all; whatever encryption they make, someone will inevitably break and rebroadcast.
As for the few topics above this that are talking about taxes going to fund corporations; as long as the people don't know, they won't care. Grease the monkey and he'll grease you back, that's the name of the game.
I think the more pertinant question is, how many of those will have their default password set to "password", and even more pertinant, how quickly can I map out and search those drives for, ahem, certain, er, uh, ah...porn...
...
I know I know, it's shameless! but still! Gigs and gigs of porn, warez, all for the taking! But there are OTHER applications, you know...
You know, if most of that town is running win boxes, and insecure ones at that, with a perminant internet connection through a wireless host...now there's a script kiddies playground. Can we say, wardriving?
It's going to be a real travesty to those who don't know how to secure their systems. Seriously; cc cards, free data, personal info, diaries, writing, not to mention what mischief you could have with some moron and subseven.
I can think of other applications, however...
"Oh, this asshole with this IP and MAC has kiddie porn, lets see where the signal is the strongest. Oh, that green house over there." I don't think the cops wouldn't mind a nice tipoff...or the RIAA For that matter.
Now the name of the game is encryption, heavy, weapons-grade encryption.
Now nerds can screw over bullies cars even easier than ever! I can just see it now.
*Nerd presses a few buttons, cars tires flatten and fall off, engine and components fall into a heap, seats, chairs, and straps fall down off of the interior, car trunk pops open and then flings off.*
Needless to say, whoever thought up this was is a fuckin moron. Why the HELL would I trade my screwdriver's torque for a couple small magnets?
I like that "you do not have the right to cancel this order if the date does not meet your needs" part. Meaning, if you don't like it tough luck. Then the "we also can push that back as far as we want to", which means they can decide never to deliver. I'd cancel the order, and when they ask why, you say "well, because you didn't deliver it on the date you said it would, and proceeded to tell me that you can push it back to an "Estemated" date which can be pushed back to anther estemated date."
They're reverse engineering something so they can add functionality to it. Seems to me real isn't doing anything illegal here. They aren't reverse engineering and selling their own I-pods or anything, they're giving users a different way to use their I-pod's.
Personally, I wouldn't want to have an i-pod with realplayer on it. Afterall, it'd request to be connected back to the internet so it can upload my listening statistics or something.
NP, although, you may want to go out and do something else than spend 4+ hours a day (as per indicated by your profile) browsing slashdot. You'll go insane and your head will explode. Unless you're an admin, inwhich case nice job shooting down the ravenous monkeys with a 10-gauge you crazy crazy nutcase.
As always, ye who gives the county much needed revenue through advertising gets special treatment when you need a favor from the country should something go arwy. Same thing as cop cars with coporate advertising awhile back; if there was a protest at the local mcdonalds, and the cop cars adorn the corporate logo of mcdonalds, the cops would be there quicker to help out mcdonalds than, say, some local woman who just got raped.
I spose this is what we get for putting people in power who want government to make good business sense.
I buy a CD, I'm buying the ability to use that disk, which means reproducing the sound of that music. I don't care what these assclowns say, but if I buy their music, I can play that music, weither I hear it or I and 500 people hear it.
This just shows how much this really isn't about lost profits or dwindling sales, but about control. They want control over the industry, which is going away. But the harder they squeeze, the harder we fall through their fist. Already another industry of alternative music is rising up, and if that kind of legislation goes down, they'll completly lose to the alternative industry who doesn't charge gobs of money for their music.
And since I'm up here, I might as well plug Tales from the afternow ( www.theafternow.com , free download on the site, 24 and 128kbps). If you listen to that, from beginning to end, you'll know how they're going to try to implement the control.
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There's far more bottlenecks than that my friend; inter-southbridge comms speed, north/southbridge communication speed, the speed of a PCI Slot itself, harddrive data transfer speed, line transfer speed (harddrive to mobo), etc. If you used a striping raid array it'd go faster since you can double your throughput, but that's if you have a 64-bit 66mhz pci slot.
Once PCIexpress becomes standard, and 64bit procs get onto desktops in a few years, then you'll see a major improvement.
Looking at the news on the internet for damn near 3 years now, I'v noticed this pattern; insane bill that makes a corporation god gets introduced by a lousy representative who deserves to get thrown out of his post, insane bill gets rejected because corporations are not supposed to be god. Idiot representitve gets re-elected because there are only idiot representatives to elect (there are fewer now than before, thanks to the internet new people do exist).
Within the last year we've had a good 3 or 4 stupid proposals, and within the last 3 years we've had the TCPA, homeland security telling ISP's to setup their systems to be readily tappable, the RIAA wanting to be able to go into people's houses and search them for evidence, such and so on. With each of these bills, there are rabbid crazy people who pop up and say something to the degree "WTF ARE YOU THINKING!".
But, every onceinawhile, a stupid bill DOES get passed, like the DMCA, or patriot act, of which's stupidity are only obvious to those with even the slightest ability to think ahead. After talking to many different people, I'd have to say more than 70% of the populace (at least locally) do not think these bills are good ideas and moreso, they are enraged deep down about them. Unfortunstely people are so used to the the governments 3-foot long cock-job that they no longer notice their sphincter getting strected 6 inches wide when it is inserted in rapid sucession. Infact, most people have come to like the process, while others accept it.
I'v downloaded the D3 beta2, and all I have to say is "DAYAUM!". I'v got an 1800+ athxp, 512meg ddr, and a gf4ti4600/128, and frankly, if it ran that good back in febuary, it'll run super smooth and super nice now. I couldn't find a single jagged sharp edge on a single thing, everything had bumpmapping. The only problem I had with it is sound clipping, which slowed everything down.
One of the real nice things I like about the engine is that they replaced texture-changing shadows with shadow models; instead of casting a shadow onto a surface, you generate a model of it that deforms and acts much like a shadow, but in reality isn't a "real" shadow. Everything is bumpmapped primitives with a low level of AA turned on. It looks real good, and plays so-so.
If the demo is good, and the game is even better, and there's multiplayer and mods to be had, he's got a best-seller on his hands for sure.
Or, heaven forbid, I were to, oh, I don't know, hrm, assemble massive databases of information and make the available via P2P or sell them on the street via CD's?
Actually, under my understanding of it, it represents the unstoppable telling of gods truth; of course the antichrist is going to get in on that and try to sell people on other lies. Just look at conspiracy theorist websites, I'v never seen a more paranoid croud of people in my life.
If the internet were truely a demon, then why can I get unedited versions of the bible off of it? Because the antichrist doesn't control it, people do.
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X-Axis (Left right) and Y-Axis (up down) are determined by the Ball.
Z-Axis (Foward, backward)is determined by the scroll.
Or you can use the keyboard and mouse like in so many FPS games. DUH!
Peer to peer networks often remind me of one of my favorite bible verses (hey, it may be corny but:P);
"Rev.6: 2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. "
That verse reminds me of peer to peer networks because the white horse represents truth and purity and that truth goes forth and conquers unstoppably; once a file hits a peer to peer network, and a few people find out and begin telling their friends, there's no stopping it. I put out an image file that was named to spread a year ago, and stopped sharing it about 4 or so months ago; it's still on gnutella on around 500 hosts last I checked. Just look at what happened to diebold's emails, heh. You can STILL find them on gnutella.
Once a government file hits the network, and it gets posted in a news story, you can kiss your control of that information goodbye. The entertaining part is that the governemnts can't stop it; isp's have tried, colleges have tried, I'v even seen powerpoints of companies that want to stop p2p traffic on their network but can't and try to talk it over with their people to find a way to do so.
I'm not so curious as to how BT knows what is and is not childporn, I'm far more curious as to why/if they're tracking their users, and more importantly, if they know the location/IP's of people who host the child porn, why that information isn't made public and passed to governments who can then deal with it.
If it is indeed generated by a childrens charity, they should be releasing the information publicly. I know a few people who wouldn't mind tracking the hosters down and then, shall we say, "taking the servers offline for awhile". I don't know of any country on earth that has doesn't have child porn laws anyway, and it only takes a few hours to whois those and figure out who the IP's are registered to or a few days/weeks to get the IP's tracked to logs.
Or perhaps, it's just me speculating here, they're using the system to censor information the UK government doesn't happen to like? Nobody's going to question when they get a 404 because it's "child porn"; information is the pornagraphy of the 21st century afterall. Frankly, lord only knows what the charity is asking to be blocked and why. They may want pics of naked children from nudist colonies or paintings/drawings of naked or molested children banned, neither of which I care about; it takes the interpreter to pervert a piece of art.
I dislike how people perpetuate the lie of the tradeoff between freedom and security. I can live free and still be secure; anyone can still purchase a wide range of assualt rifles, handguns, explosives making kits and get guides on how to use them which will aid someone in just about any situation. Additionally, I have several neighbors who are armed to the teeth that make me feel very secure in my home. The police are there to help people, not to replace their own self defense.
Once you've baught that lie they can then make the world seem like a scary place which it really isn't. Once you're in a perpetual state of paranoia, people can be made to accept the destruction of their freedom for a perceived increase in security.
Camera's don't stop crime; it ain't going to keep me from popping out of a car and letting loose a full clip out of an oozie. They just moniter law abiding citizens who buy into that lie, so that if and when they show signs of something they don't like, they can breed it out of the thought pool by eliminating them.
1984 would've never worked because there weren't enough people to watch everyone else and keep a healthy economy going. Now with computers, that kind of watchfullness can be made a reality.
It can only get worse from here if people buy that lie.
Well, I hardy think it's fair to fault members of corporations for wanting to protect their money making assets.
Tell that to the 5 year old in south africa working his ass off to make Nike Shoes at $.02 a pair, or his parents who are working to make a bit more at gunpoint. Need I point out Digital Rights Management hardware/software, or do you have enough wits about you to realize everything you just said was so incredibly wrong?
Here's another one for you; UNICOR, a prison-industry advocate who employes american prisoners to american and foreign companies for a fraction they'd have to pay americans, wants to protect the growth of their busieness. Wanna know how their business grows? By lobbying for more rediculous laws that put people in jail for no good reason (such as the guy who got thrown into jail for life on a 3 strikes you're out program in texas for stealing a can of BEER!), and better contracts and hand-outs to build prisons. Ultimatly, your ass will be thrown into prison when you can't earn to pay off your college loan working whatever you work at because a prisoner or foreigner is doing it.
There is something wrong with "for profit" corporations. They have no moral code, and therefore, we must make laws to restrict them. But, since we don't enforce those laws ever, the average joe ends up loosing more and more of their rights, and those laws end up stifling competition so companies like wallmart can grow bigger.
You can take your post and shove it; I have a 10 gauge that says if some corporate asshole wants to enslave my ass to "protect assets and market share growth" that he can have a nice ball full of FUCK YOU in his face!
All they need to do is to get enough people to install DRM'd computer systems and they can get a good deal of control; if they can get that, then they can pretty much p0wn the computer industry slowly but surely.
Problem is, that right now, I'm typeing from my first linux install (mandrake 10.0), and after taking a good look around it, even being a n00bie, I rather like it; it was easier and faster to install than windows (the windows CD-Key makes it more difficult to install, heh) and it all works outta the box (that's partially due to good hardware planning on my part). Infact, a few more stable versions, a better driver library, and mabye a few more user-oriented applications and automations and my educating myself, and I think it may be ready to give to my parents (of course, they get no root). Point is, there's something better out there already, and people are already moving onto platforms the RIAA/MPAA won't neccissarily be able to lock down as easily as they can windows.
Point here is, there's already vaible alternatives to the RIAA/MPAA's produces in circulation. As p2p services get more popular and search services for smaller bands are introduced, the RIAA will become a big, expensive pile of crap and 2 different cultures will arise; the dwindeling one that fallows the RIAA via traditional media sources, and the one that fallows internet music.
They aren't afraid of their music being pirated half as much as they are afraid of loosing market dominance through their monopoly.
Yes, but you see, there's a problem with that; Adolescance. If people weren't immature and incapable of handling their rights, then how would government officials be able to take pay from corporations who make money off of people's stupidity? If people got their rights at 13, you can't get them to accept not having rights, or more approriatly, using their rights and understanding what using them means.
You've got to remove mass media, large corporations, corrupt governemnt officials, bad laws and court judgements, and about a million lawyers before you can even think about solving the problem of american stupidity.
Well, if the truely worthless american currency continues to devalue (when it was taken off of the gold standard, and the government and banks got the ability to coin it out of nothing, and backed by oil, it's worth became entirely based off of americans will to take it), you'll soon be making about 40% less.
And who says they can't carry around a 6 inch knife on their side, or learn martial arts? If your kid can run and won't get into some strangers car, as well as walks to school in a group with other kids and doesn't take shorcuts through dark alleyways, chances are they're pretty safe.
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You forget, this is slashdot; we didn't go to prom night, and if we did goto prom, we looked like bad geeks and no girls would dance with us out of fear of social rejectition.
But now, those same cheerleaders will come to us BEGGING for us to change their proms around so they work. Reality is really strange.
I haven't watched TV in 3 years; instead, I either go to my local bittorrent site and get the shows from there if there's something worth watching, or I'll buy a DVD of anime here or there. I also don't get commercials this way, which is really really nice because I hate them with a vengance.
Frankly, TV is going to go downhill as better p2p networks, storage, and more bandwidth become available. And with those, better business practices. We've got 320 gig harddisks now, with dsl connections. In 10 years, we'll have several terrabyte sized disks with t3 pipes going to each household, if the economy keeps on it's path, not to mention more processing power. If a decent quality movie fits on a cd, then a 120 of them will fit on a drive; that's a quite a library...
I only see this as a law that will attempt to slow the speed of this adoption. We'll also see other adoptions such as being able to buy an entire season of some show for $5-$10, whereas you're paying for faster bandwidth to download a high quality copy that's insured against bad stuff and isn't crippled or bad quality in any way. P2P is reliable but it isn't fast, you don't get insurance against bad copies, low quality, or that someone didn't rename bad porn as a movie. I personally don't see it slowing down the adoption at all; whatever encryption they make, someone will inevitably break and rebroadcast.
As for the few topics above this that are talking about taxes going to fund corporations; as long as the people don't know, they won't care. Grease the monkey and he'll grease you back, that's the name of the game.
I think the more pertinant question is, how many of those will have their default password set to "password", and even more pertinant, how quickly can I map out and search those drives for, ahem, certain, er, uh, ah...porn...
...
I know I know, it's shameless! but still! Gigs and gigs of porn, warez, all for the taking! But there are OTHER applications, you know...
You know, if most of that town is running win boxes, and insecure ones at that, with a perminant internet connection through a wireless host...now there's a script kiddies playground. Can we say, wardriving?
It's going to be a real travesty to those who don't know how to secure their systems. Seriously; cc cards, free data, personal info, diaries, writing, not to mention what mischief you could have with some moron and subseven.
I can think of other applications, however...
"Oh, this asshole with this IP and MAC has kiddie porn, lets see where the signal is the strongest. Oh, that green house over there." I don't think the cops wouldn't mind a nice tipoff...or the RIAA For that matter.
Now the name of the game is encryption, heavy, weapons-grade encryption.
Now nerds can screw over bullies cars even easier than ever! I can just see it now.
*Nerd presses a few buttons, cars tires flatten and fall off, engine and components fall into a heap, seats, chairs, and straps fall down off of the interior, car trunk pops open and then flings off.*
Needless to say, whoever thought up this was is a fuckin moron. Why the HELL would I trade my screwdriver's torque for a couple small magnets?
I like that "you do not have the right to cancel this order if the date does not meet your needs" part. Meaning, if you don't like it tough luck. Then the "we also can push that back as far as we want to", which means they can decide never to deliver. I'd cancel the order, and when they ask why, you say "well, because you didn't deliver it on the date you said it would, and proceeded to tell me that you can push it back to an "Estemated" date which can be pushed back to anther estemated date."
They're reverse engineering something so they can add functionality to it. Seems to me real isn't doing anything illegal here. They aren't reverse engineering and selling their own I-pods or anything, they're giving users a different way to use their I-pod's.
Personally, I wouldn't want to have an i-pod with realplayer on it. Afterall, it'd request to be connected back to the internet so it can upload my listening statistics or something.
NP, although, you may want to go out and do something else than spend 4+ hours a day (as per indicated by your profile) browsing slashdot. You'll go insane and your head will explode. Unless you're an admin, inwhich case nice job shooting down the ravenous monkeys with a 10-gauge you crazy crazy nutcase.
Why are you even replying to that? Anonymous cowards are to be ignored for their flamebait, trolling, or other nonsense.
As always, ye who gives the county much needed revenue through advertising gets special treatment when you need a favor from the country should something go arwy. Same thing as cop cars with coporate advertising awhile back; if there was a protest at the local mcdonalds, and the cop cars adorn the corporate logo of mcdonalds, the cops would be there quicker to help out mcdonalds than, say, some local woman who just got raped.
I spose this is what we get for putting people in power who want government to make good business sense.
I buy a CD, I'm buying the ability to use that disk, which means reproducing the sound of that music. I don't care what these assclowns say, but if I buy their music, I can play that music, weither I hear it or I and 500 people hear it.
This just shows how much this really isn't about lost profits or dwindling sales, but about control. They want control over the industry, which is going away. But the harder they squeeze, the harder we fall through their fist. Already another industry of alternative music is rising up, and if that kind of legislation goes down, they'll completly lose to the alternative industry who doesn't charge gobs of money for their music.
And since I'm up here, I might as well plug Tales from the afternow ( www.theafternow.com , free download on the site, 24 and 128kbps). If you listen to that, from beginning to end, you'll know how they're going to try to implement the control.
There's far more bottlenecks than that my friend; inter-southbridge comms speed, north/southbridge communication speed, the speed of a PCI Slot itself, harddrive data transfer speed, line transfer speed (harddrive to mobo), etc. If you used a striping raid array it'd go faster since you can double your throughput, but that's if you have a 64-bit 66mhz pci slot.
Once PCIexpress becomes standard, and 64bit procs get onto desktops in a few years, then you'll see a major improvement.
Looking at the news on the internet for damn near 3 years now, I'v noticed this pattern; insane bill that makes a corporation god gets introduced by a lousy representative who deserves to get thrown out of his post, insane bill gets rejected because corporations are not supposed to be god. Idiot representitve gets re-elected because there are only idiot representatives to elect (there are fewer now than before, thanks to the internet new people do exist).
Within the last year we've had a good 3 or 4 stupid proposals, and within the last 3 years we've had the TCPA, homeland security telling ISP's to setup their systems to be readily tappable, the RIAA wanting to be able to go into people's houses and search them for evidence, such and so on. With each of these bills, there are rabbid crazy people who pop up and say something to the degree "WTF ARE YOU THINKING!".
But, every onceinawhile, a stupid bill DOES get passed, like the DMCA, or patriot act, of which's stupidity are only obvious to those with even the slightest ability to think ahead. After talking to many different people, I'd have to say more than 70% of the populace (at least locally) do not think these bills are good ideas and moreso, they are enraged deep down about them. Unfortunstely people are so used to the the governments 3-foot long cock-job that they no longer notice their sphincter getting strected 6 inches wide when it is inserted in rapid sucession. Infact, most people have come to like the process, while others accept it.
There's no 4800.
I'v downloaded the D3 beta2, and all I have to say is "DAYAUM!". I'v got an 1800+ athxp, 512meg ddr, and a gf4ti4600/128, and frankly, if it ran that good back in febuary, it'll run super smooth and super nice now. I couldn't find a single jagged sharp edge on a single thing, everything had bumpmapping. The only problem I had with it is sound clipping, which slowed everything down.
One of the real nice things I like about the engine is that they replaced texture-changing shadows with shadow models; instead of casting a shadow onto a surface, you generate a model of it that deforms and acts much like a shadow, but in reality isn't a "real" shadow. Everything is bumpmapped primitives with a low level of AA turned on. It looks real good, and plays so-so.
If the demo is good, and the game is even better, and there's multiplayer and mods to be had, he's got a best-seller on his hands for sure.
Or, heaven forbid, I were to, oh, I don't know, hrm, assemble massive databases of information and make the available via P2P or sell them on the street via CD's?
AFAIK, there is no law forbiding that in the US.
In otherwords, bring it on.
The RIAA has been sueing people for sharing music via p2p. I believe they've filed, what, 1000 cases against people in a year?
By pure mathematics, if just 1 million people were sharing, it'd take them a millenia to sue them all.
Intotherwords, they are bitched.
Actually, under my understanding of it, it represents the unstoppable telling of gods truth; of course the antichrist is going to get in on that and try to sell people on other lies. Just look at conspiracy theorist websites, I'v never seen a more paranoid croud of people in my life.
If the internet were truely a demon, then why can I get unedited versions of the bible off of it? Because the antichrist doesn't control it, people do.
X-Axis (Left right) and Y-Axis (up down) are determined by the Ball.
Z-Axis (Foward, backward)is determined by the scroll.
Or you can use the keyboard and mouse like in so many FPS games. DUH!
Peer to peer networks often remind me of one of my favorite bible verses (hey, it may be corny but :P);
"Rev.6: 2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. "
That verse reminds me of peer to peer networks because the white horse represents truth and purity and that truth goes forth and conquers unstoppably; once a file hits a peer to peer network, and a few people find out and begin telling their friends, there's no stopping it. I put out an image file that was named to spread a year ago, and stopped sharing it about 4 or so months ago; it's still on gnutella on around 500 hosts last I checked. Just look at what happened to diebold's emails, heh. You can STILL find them on gnutella.
Once a government file hits the network, and it gets posted in a news story, you can kiss your control of that information goodbye. The entertaining part is that the governemnts can't stop it; isp's have tried, colleges have tried, I'v even seen powerpoints of companies that want to stop p2p traffic on their network but can't and try to talk it over with their people to find a way to do so.
I'm not so curious as to how BT knows what is and is not childporn, I'm far more curious as to why/if they're tracking their users, and more importantly, if they know the location/IP's of people who host the child porn, why that information isn't made public and passed to governments who can then deal with it.
If it is indeed generated by a childrens charity, they should be releasing the information publicly. I know a few people who wouldn't mind tracking the hosters down and then, shall we say, "taking the servers offline for awhile". I don't know of any country on earth that has doesn't have child porn laws anyway, and it only takes a few hours to whois those and figure out who the IP's are registered to or a few days/weeks to get the IP's tracked to logs.
Or perhaps, it's just me speculating here, they're using the system to censor information the UK government doesn't happen to like? Nobody's going to question when they get a 404 because it's "child porn"; information is the pornagraphy of the 21st century afterall. Frankly, lord only knows what the charity is asking to be blocked and why. They may want pics of naked children from nudist colonies or paintings/drawings of naked or molested children banned, neither of which I care about; it takes the interpreter to pervert a piece of art.
I dislike how people perpetuate the lie of the tradeoff between freedom and security. I can live free and still be secure; anyone can still purchase a wide range of assualt rifles, handguns, explosives making kits and get guides on how to use them which will aid someone in just about any situation. Additionally, I have several neighbors who are armed to the teeth that make me feel very secure in my home. The police are there to help people, not to replace their own self defense.
Once you've baught that lie they can then make the world seem like a scary place which it really isn't. Once you're in a perpetual state of paranoia, people can be made to accept the destruction of their freedom for a perceived increase in security.
Camera's don't stop crime; it ain't going to keep me from popping out of a car and letting loose a full clip out of an oozie. They just moniter law abiding citizens who buy into that lie, so that if and when they show signs of something they don't like, they can breed it out of the thought pool by eliminating them.
1984 would've never worked because there weren't enough people to watch everyone else and keep a healthy economy going. Now with computers, that kind of watchfullness can be made a reality.
It can only get worse from here if people buy that lie.
Well, I hardy think it's fair to fault members of corporations for wanting to protect their money making assets.
Tell that to the 5 year old in south africa working his ass off to make Nike Shoes at $.02 a pair, or his parents who are working to make a bit more at gunpoint. Need I point out Digital Rights Management hardware/software, or do you have enough wits about you to realize everything you just said was so incredibly wrong?
Here's another one for you; UNICOR, a prison-industry advocate who employes american prisoners to american and foreign companies for a fraction they'd have to pay americans, wants to protect the growth of their busieness. Wanna know how their business grows? By lobbying for more rediculous laws that put people in jail for no good reason (such as the guy who got thrown into jail for life on a 3 strikes you're out program in texas for stealing a can of BEER!), and better contracts and hand-outs to build prisons. Ultimatly, your ass will be thrown into prison when you can't earn to pay off your college loan working whatever you work at because a prisoner or foreigner is doing it.
There is something wrong with "for profit" corporations. They have no moral code, and therefore, we must make laws to restrict them. But, since we don't enforce those laws ever, the average joe ends up loosing more and more of their rights, and those laws end up stifling competition so companies like wallmart can grow bigger.
You can take your post and shove it; I have a 10 gauge that says if some corporate asshole wants to enslave my ass to "protect assets and market share growth" that he can have a nice ball full of FUCK YOU in his face!
All they need to do is to get enough people to install DRM'd computer systems and they can get a good deal of control; if they can get that, then they can pretty much p0wn the computer industry slowly but surely.
Problem is, that right now, I'm typeing from my first linux install (mandrake 10.0), and after taking a good look around it, even being a n00bie, I rather like it; it was easier and faster to install than windows (the windows CD-Key makes it more difficult to install, heh) and it all works outta the box (that's partially due to good hardware planning on my part). Infact, a few more stable versions, a better driver library, and mabye a few more user-oriented applications and automations and my educating myself, and I think it may be ready to give to my parents (of course, they get no root). Point is, there's something better out there already, and people are already moving onto platforms the RIAA/MPAA won't neccissarily be able to lock down as easily as they can windows.
Point here is, there's already vaible alternatives to the RIAA/MPAA's produces in circulation. As p2p services get more popular and search services for smaller bands are introduced, the RIAA will become a big, expensive pile of crap and 2 different cultures will arise; the dwindeling one that fallows the RIAA via traditional media sources, and the one that fallows internet music.
They aren't afraid of their music being pirated half as much as they are afraid of loosing market dominance through their monopoly.
Yes, but you see, there's a problem with that; Adolescance. If people weren't immature and incapable of handling their rights, then how would government officials be able to take pay from corporations who make money off of people's stupidity? If people got their rights at 13, you can't get them to accept not having rights, or more approriatly, using their rights and understanding what using them means.
You've got to remove mass media, large corporations, corrupt governemnt officials, bad laws and court judgements, and about a million lawyers before you can even think about solving the problem of american stupidity.
Well, if the truely worthless american currency continues to devalue (when it was taken off of the gold standard, and the government and banks got the ability to coin it out of nothing, and backed by oil, it's worth became entirely based off of americans will to take it), you'll soon be making about 40% less.
And who says they can't carry around a 6 inch knife on their side, or learn martial arts? If your kid can run and won't get into some strangers car, as well as walks to school in a group with other kids and doesn't take shorcuts through dark alleyways, chances are they're pretty safe.