I have lived rural for a long time,sevreral places, and have a lot of different dial up modems (and various boxes of course).(I build old systems and give them away as well) The older modems work MUCH better on staticy noisy rural phone lines than the newer ones, there's no comparison. I currently use a USR 33 sporster faxmodem external, because it works better (throughput, reliability, ability to stay online) than any of the 56k modems I have. they sit in a box, I have given up on them and won't purchase another. And just setting baud rate doesn't help the newer modems, for some reason they are much flakier and tempermental. And when it's storming out, I can drop down even further to a 14.4 and consisitently stay online, when even a 28 or 33 modem will click off and lose connection all the time.
I'm not an engineer with these things, but that is my anecdotal observation. I am assuming it is line noise. Ask folks where they live maybe, if they are in an area with dismal phone lines, those 33's might be the ticket, and could be used more effectively for the purpose intended.
I also have an extremely hard time putting any functional linux system on these old pen 1s I give away, I just posted on it elsewhere's, the problem I have is legacy ram, lack thereof, too expensive to track down and purchase, etc, so I slap 95 or 98 back on them after a nice format to remove whatever accumulated BS I inherited with the box. I boot to see what's on it, then erase it and start fresh. I WISH there was a gui linux that would work *without* being a guru and jumping through hoops on these older machines. I'm not about to try and setup some exotic combo of arcane stuff that would make me the tech support person forever, so heck with it, back MS goes on those boxes with their 16 or 32 megs of ram. And knoppix won't, either, tried it. You really need around 128 it appears for it to work adequately, at least when I have tried it, last release from a coupla months ago. It works well for me on 128 and up machines, 64 megs gave me fits. So that's not an option, neither was morphix, tried that, too. If someone has (is aware of) a distro on a CD that will graphically install(or sanely and easily text install for any newbie), run a decent GUI desktop once installed, has a lot of decent normal "joe surfer and do some text stuff and a little media action" apps, all on 16 megs minimum machine of at least pent 1 class of say 100 mghz,with the caveat they are barely 2 gig machines, usually even less, some under 1 gig hard drive, let me know. It has to be no harder to install than 95 or 98, and be useable by NON gurus. I'm not a guru, just a hobbyist, not much command line expertise. Some, not a lot..
--we've been having another good discussion on various hidden messaging in the other recent article lately -> "passive email monitoring leads to arrest". Check it out if you haven't already.
...of other nations, Japan makes no secret of the fact that they are a highly nationalistic country, and that they will do whatever it takes to protect their markets. Most other western industrialised nations are more fragmented and disingenous about it. Japan since WW2 and their rebuilding, sees economics as just another form of warfare basically, and acvts accordingly. They are polite about it, but ruthless. They are also really up the creek with the yen and the dollar, and are exploring different ways to ease the burden of supporting a still grossly over valued dollar. They have too many investments tied to it, but realise they needed major serious diversification like years ago, and are in max overdrive to rectify what to them is a national economic disaster in the making if it's not addressed past the lip service level. Same thing in the US, just we have.... stupider central bankers. They thought that they could keep pushing funny bux forever, like no one would ever notice. another subject there, but that is happening as well.
There's probably also a lot of other internal political action (politics=money, like any other place) going on around this, but I don't follow their internal affairs adequately enough to comment on it to any significant degree.
As an aside,I am also highly surprised that in this day and age that *any* intel chips get used in Japan.
... the major vendors made their desktops even easier to upgrade for people. If it was as easy as pop a few snaps, lift out the mobo and reinstall a new one, with the vendor taking back the old one, that might help. Yews, this is most doable for anyone on slashdot, blah blah, but for this typical/mythical "joe user" out there it is too intimidating by far.
It is also a shame it'sso hard to find legacy ram, with all it's randomness in config, and the expense. there are zillions of PCs out there that could be easily used several years longer if they were able to easily find/purchase/install the ram to it's max config, without having to shell out more than what a new lightweight system costs now. I've got a nice roomful of older machines, hardly any of them will run a modern linux with a gui desktop. the processor speed is adequate, it's the ram that makes it difficult. I'm on a 1996 IBM right now (FC1 OS), and it was only possible to make this functional-enough by installing a lot more ram. Yes, you can go online, use various vendors configurators, then get sticker shocked back to reality. And most people out there just don't bother,lack the skills, and it's hard to do for a lot of people, they are forced to upgrade their entire machine almost. This is inefficient to a large degree. I realise that is changing, and again, I am not referring to your typical slashdot reader here, but it's still a pain for most people. I know that the older machines I build to give away to local farm kids get given with older win OS (usually a fresh clean install of whichever was on the machine, usually 95 or 98 obviously) because I can't afford the utterly ridiculous prices that the RAM vendors charge, so I can't put a modern linux GUI system on them. And the prices are ridiculous in the first place BECAUSE the vendors are so freaking cheap, leaving the RAM slots unfilled in the vast bulk of PCs that have shipped over the years.
Perhaps if the (major) vendors only shipped machines with the maximum amount of RAM possible already installed as a universal industry default, this might help, machines would last longer as practical tools. That is as easy as "stroke of the pen, law of the land" action there. And if they all did it, the price ratios would still be the same, albeit higher, but, overall prices have dropped so much from even 10 years ago I don't see this as a problem.
it was decent,the link to the mirror, unfortunately I can't get to the mirror, either. I clicked off as soon as I realised I was contributing to the effect. It's easy to see it, nothing wants to load either at the direct link or the mirror. (for me anyway)
I am wondering if any kind soul might post a paragraph or two containing the gist of this? Sort of hard to discuss this subject without clue one besides "hidden in spam". I was more interested in how they find the originators of the spam, beating the obfuscatory manner in which most spam is sent. That to me is more interesting, as in "hunt them down / heads on pikes" I don't want to filter out spam from my email inbox, I want to filter out spam originators from the earth's "here" box....
Seems as good a reason as anything else for these "spontaneous" fires I've read so far. Perhaps gross random piezo electric effects might be pre cursors/indicators of building intensity?
Also, we don't know yet if similar phenomenon are ocurring any place else around the planet. Given what is happening in the village, with it's very low population insuring that ANY strange occurrence was well noted by everyone there, similar random appearing events that might be occurring elsewhere in largepopulation areas might be being dismissed as sabotage or vandalism or normal arson, etc, and the stories are just lost in the noise of normal reporting. And if it's ocurring in even more remote areas, well then it wouldn't be reported at all obviously. I don't know, might be though. We DO know that we are seeing other strange magnetic effects around the world, a lot of altered and strange weather, seismic disturbances, etc. Perhaps a unique feature of this villages geology structure beneath might have something to do with the effects being more intense there. I do think we should be paying attention to a variety of indicators relating to the planet's modalities, as there does exist most credible evidence of past.. well.. cataclsyms.
I never said they shouldn't push copies, whatever floats their boat, I merely said they were gonzo out to lunch on what they think those things are worth, and they are delibarately trying to monopolise technology. that's just observable data, skewing the laws to make tech only work for them, to protect clearly moribund industries on the way out, ie, "reedickalus expensive copies of stuff". So far out to lunch it's into "ludicrous speed". I shoulda just said that and shuddup about it...hahahaha!
no, I am an oddball, even for slashdot. I don't do movies or listen to much music. I used to when I was a kid into my 30's then one day I noticed it..didn't do anyting for me anymore. Nothing. No interest, doesn't seem important to me, not worth much. My girlfriend gets used vcr tapes, sometimes I am in the same room when they are played, can't really say I fully watch them. I might listen to one song a week averaged over the year on the radio, sometimes outside working when I can turn the machinery off I'll put a radio on. Paintings, don't own any. There are some originals here, again, girlfrienmnd does them, and she has some prints, but I don't recall ever buying any ever in my life, although I've been to a few museums. It just don't float my boat. I'm on my third great book collection in my life, the previous two I gave away, both numbered in the thousands. I have maybe around 2,000 now (that's a SWAG but closer than not), vast majority purchased used.
Yep, luxuries. I guess I don't have many. I live very frugally compared to most people, well under what passes for official poverty level in the US. And even back when I was scrambling and "making money" I purchased few reproductions of any sort of "art" (some, not much though), but I did go to live concerts, both at largevenues and at regular bars and small clubs. I even worked a few, some large bands, stones being the most well known..
Sorry, not impressed. Have yet to see any of those guys who I think deserves to be multi multi millionaires. Well off, sure, zillionaires? Nope. Plain old vanilla nope. But it ain't my call, one way or the other.
And I'm not a hypocrite, I don't download tunes or vids, etc, no interest. If they were a nickle, free of any legal crap, I might, but even then, not too much. When I was younger I watched a heckuva lot of TV, now I wished I hadn't wasted all that time, and thank God I never got addicted to "gaming", another abusine compuslive behavior I think, at least the addicts I know personally seem that way.. All of that I know makes me well outside the norm,especially here, so what, I could care less really. I'm just commenting on the social and economic ramifications of what is completely obvious, new technology is altering hell out of the concepts of "art" as business as it was known just even a decade ago, let alone a few decades ago, and those who ignore that reality will continue to wonder why what they believe -what they WANT to believe- just ain't so.
Naw, never seen any of the bored with the rings stuff. I read the hobbit back in junior high though. Never read the trilogy, too tedious, his characterzations and ponderous prose made me..just itchy, nervous,didn't like it. I'm sure the movie was all super dooper whizz bang. Oh well, 5 years from now I might watch it on tape. Maybe. Although I liked some other long tedious tomes in the sci fi and fantasy genre, back then anyway, I didn't read the rings. Hmm,., I am thinking, last time I paid normal price and went to a movie had to be the titanic, for the third time, girlfriend pressure. I should be nicer I guess... take her more, but frankly, very few of them hold any interest for me, that changed from years ago, just got...dissatisfied with fictionionalized reality. I can't put it any better than that.
I don't dig bread and circuses any more is the closest I can come to it.
More bad analogies. I know it's not close but what the heck. Prohibition was a complete farce and failure, it just created crime, but it
Better idea. Scrap it, top to bottom, stop throwing good money after bad. Much cheaper and more effective. Shrink government down to manageable size,following constitutional guidelines, go back to excise taxes for funding like we had for a LONG time, switch from the erroneously named "free trade" to "fair trade" with quid pro quo tariffs at the borders.
No way, no how, never - ever was the federal government designed or intended to be the out of control monstrosity it has become today.
It's broke. It's breaking us. It's an out of control raging monster. It's hideous. Lose it. Start with the IRS and the "federal" reserve "debt = wealth" congame scams, ashcan them. Work from there. Trying to fix it is like pouring oil into an engine with all bad rings, shot valve guides and every gasket blown and leaking-it's just stoopid.
There's a clear distinction. I think original work, audio or visual, can take what the market can bear, as to be expected and understood. We have no conflict there, as I explained elsewhere's. I disagree on what copies of original work are valued at, and I don't agree on the concept of residuals and royalties, at least not how they are structured now. The numbers don't compute any more, from technological advances, and it is my conviction that at this point in time they need to be radically altered. I also feel just as strongly that it will benefit artists in the short, medium and long term if they fully embrace the reality of the tech revolution, and not just pick and choose those which only favor them. We all benefit from sharing what we can, when it's done cooperatively. We all benefit from making our "work" being affordable and accessible to more people. It just seems to be working out that way, I think we should keep doing that and not hang on to past century's notions of how things worked business wise.
...my other thoughts elsewhere in this thread. I think you have developed an erroneous impression of me, at least as much as I can decipher. I fully understand the efforts that go into creating art. I think they should be rewarded commensurate with how many people appreciate it. I differ in what copies of the creativity are worth, and how they are currently marketed. I also appreciate what tools of the trade cost. I went to some lengths elsewhere to try and make the point, and yes, at best analogies are poor, mea culpa.
... on your major points. Right now we are barely even entering this paradigm altering time frame, so of course we need to sort all this out. I fully acknowledge that an artist in a lot of cases has years behind say a performance or a painting, years of skill developing for that few hours performing, etc or that one painting, or one..whatever.. Guess what though, so does the plumber, the carpenter, the mechanic, etc, and they don't charge royalties or get residuals for their work. Lots of training, lots of skills, applied effort, one check, done. Skills +native ability+ applied effort= something built, you get paid. You can't realistically keep insisting on getting paid over and over again for the same thing, or a weal copy of the original..
Yes, that's how things happen. The difference is, the artist makes it all at once for that effort, then he wants to keep getting it, and keep getting it, ad infinitum, the other sorts of employments build to it gradually, but there is never a residual.(patents are exceptios to this rule, and another discussion, although somewhat related),
The other point is, the artist knows in advance that even giving it his best shot, he might not be well received, and his efforts,past the origignal, will become intangible products, except for copies, and now, those copies can be reproduced very cheaply. My postulation is- we need to accept that, and get on with adjusting. We can't hang on to past levels of what those copies represent in terms of skill+ native ability+ effort, but it's orders of magnitudes easier now to make those copies. That is the central point.
ART is now a cheap mass produced product in it's copied form. In it's original form, it is little changed since way back in history, this is a given, and why today still originals fetch so much more, as they should. The business models around the COPIES though are skewed way out of prtoportion to their actual value, at least to untold millions they are now. You are being told, shown, and you can see it happening, wishing it wasn't so will not alter it. The two distinct data points need to be dramatically altered to reflect the changes in technology. Being drug kicking and screaming to the reality table does not bode well for the acceptance of the artist (and his retinuie of expensive copy peddlers), going willingly and accepting the changes as they exist and as they are rapidly changing is the correct business plan.
Again, IMO of course.
And like I said, just as soon as the tech is there, I mean the minute it's there, as soon as the combo of my skills + native ability + effort is cheaply replicable, for the use, benefit, advancement and pleasure of anyone else who desires it, anyone can have a copy,can trade it, share it, expand and expound on it, whatever they choose to do, gratis, my treat, have at it. I'd like to make a few clams off the original, then next week I'll do another original. but the copies, cheap, have at it. That's the best I can do now, and if I think I might like your work, I will purchase an original, or attend a "live" original, but don't expect me to pay much of anything for what I know for a fact are very inexpensive copies. I might pay a small sum, but nothing more than perhaps double the construction cost of the replication media + distribution, or perhaps double the bulk rate download bandwith. I think anyone should be happy with doubling their money with little effort, seems most reasonable to me. But 10 or 20 times? Magnfied by other millions? Nope, not for me. That is gouging, plain and simple.
...but make it a bona fide cooperative union on the outside. It's a word everyone knows and understands, helps sort it out. Unions are about collective bargaining. Nothing mysterious about it, you got more horsepower bargaining when you gopt a lot of displacement, and that means numbers. United we stand, divided blah blah yada blah, you know the drill. The fatcats have unions they just call them industry lobbies, and they have paid off legislators and judges to make sure they get what they want. don't be decieved about most of their public whining about this or that legislation, if they didn't want it at the tippy top levels, it wouldn't make it into law.
Also,I want to make a point, outside this reply, in general, to any non USA people reading this. My advice applies to YOU too. This isn't any sort of xenophic diatribe, it's NOT. I am not. I want things good for you folks too! I will give you a few hints. US "dollars" right now are a precarious stand to hang your hat on. They are phony artifical constructs that some multi billionaire globalist skimmers pull out of their butts electronically. They are illusionary representations of wealth based on contractural DEBT, they don't represent PRODUCED WEALTH. Right now they are frantic to keep up the illusion, to keep ripping off the planet, so don't get suckered in. Work inside your own nations, for your own industries, develop well diversified enterprises, and don't sell yourselves cheap to the globalist manipulators, YOU got the power in your nations too. YOU control everything in your repspective nations. It's the GOONS who keep people on jingoistic tangents, it has nothing to do with how things should be, how wealth is produced, but it has everything to do with how wealth is skimmed and re directed to the hereditary and multiple generational manipulators. Taking a middle class job from another nation -a person there, someone else with a family and bills and hopes and dreams,-doesn't make you any wealth, nothing really lasting anyway. CREATING a middle class job inside your own nation DOES. Don't keep getting sucked into yet another form of geo colonialism, it's always sucked as an ethical business model. It's roughly akin to--well, it's thievery. They'll tell you it isn't, but it is. There's wealth creation, then wealth re-arrangement. the former works, the latter is what the goons always strive for.
...mnicrowave transmission of power is what's being discussed in that paper. Quite possible, probably not a good idea, but it is a dandy stealth way to build impressive weapons platforms in space. Nothing like dual use and multi tasking!:)
but pretty close, with lots of power, no emissions controls but surpassed the emissions requirements of the day. Run a google search on smokey yunick, and adiabatic engine. If you have access to a magazine microfiche, check out the cover story, april 1983 issue of popular science. He was the automotive editor at the time. Built an engine that was a v-2 config, 150 horse, 50-60 MPG and pretty fast. He had a few patents with it, but the combination itself of his adaptions (which is why it worked as well as it did) wasn't patentable. He was not just some urban legend, but a very credible engineer with a ton of professional racing wins and rewards to his credit. A famous guy, back in the day..
I have a photocopy of the article, but I can't place my hands on it right now, but you can find references to it on the net, enough to prove the validity of it. His engines and cars they were put in were well photographed, inspected, etc, it's all documented, verifiable data, not "urban legend". You can even find references to the relevant patents and look them up yourself, I have, it's real, they are there.
Yes, the globalists sit on things sometimes, you'll have to ask them why, my best guess is, it pays them to keep things expensive and complicated in the long run.
umm, I would be happy with an engine like that today, but no one makes one. gee..wonder why....
--to me, a reproduced text in dead tree form is worth X-money,it is a tangible that actually requires a bit of material cost, machinery cost, getting the trees, setting the presses, etc. It is still failry expensive to make, but not near as much as a few hundred years ago. Times changed. I won't pay any sort of exorbitant fee for a dead tree book, but I will purchase more reasonably priced works, and I purchase mostly used now, because I think even there the prices are inflated.
And yes, writers could if they so choose go on tour and read aloud their works, with the appropriate accents, inflections, etc as they wanted their work to represent. They could charge for that if they so chose, or let a theater company reproduce it live, and that is still being done. If it's in digital form sometime, it is worth much less if it's available to download and copy. It's not worth the same as an original work, or the dead trees reproductions are. It's a matter of degree and function. If you physically destroy what I have done last week, then yes, that is destroyed, you have destroyed an actual tangible, and I have no recourse other than to do the same amount of work all over again, which I do anyway. If there was some easy way for me to replicate my skills as applied to my labor, (same as artists can now replicate their skills very cheaply in an intangible form),to make copies of it, no way would I consider those copies to be of much value, I certainly wouldn't expect to be paid some never ending huge fee for those copies-and someday that might be possible, too. For now, intangibles as represented by sounds and visual images are extremely cheap to replicate, wheras in the not so far past, it was very expensive, and impossible in some cases, to reproduce them without resorting to exactly the same amount of skill and labor. The musician had to perform again, the actor had to mount the stage again. The book writer had to hand scribe another copy. It was expensive, labor intensive, and those sorts of tangible copies were valuable, and they got paid, but if they didn't work again, then no pay. Today, nope, copies of that sort of work are cheap, cheap, cheap, easy to do by almost anyone with a minimum of inexpensive equipment. The entertainment industry wants to stave off the inevitable, and frankly, they won't be successful, because it's ridiculous to try and stop humanity and technology moving forward. You can't turn back the clock. I say, let them make what the market will bear for an original-a live performance, actually working, but for the copies? Those copies are worth a nickle or a penny or something miniscule like that, even stamped or burnt on a piece of plastic and distributed, they aren't worth what they are charging, people know it, hence they don't want to pay it, and they aren't.
It's really that simple.
And it's because of technological advances, such that those industries want to monopolise and keep for themselves, but the vast majority of people are saying "uhh, I'm allowed to use this technology also". That's what's happening, and why it is happening.
No, I don't believe in royalties for intangibles, not in this day and age. No Way. Nope. Don't think so. We've had another one of them dad burn "paradigm shifting" moments in time, happens once in awhile, we all got to get with the program.
And I WEOLCOME the time that you may FREELY enjoy copying what I do for labor,what gets produced when I apply my skills and my labor to an end result, you are most welcome to it free of charge just as soon as the technology is there for that to occur, and I wish you well, I will seek no residuals or royalties from it. If you want a custom original, done in real time, I will provide it, that will cost you, but if it's replicable easily and cheaply, more power to you sir, enjoy! I look forward to it myself!
... of times that the music on a CD may be listened to? Is the listening supposed to be only the person who actually purchased the CD? Where's the line on using this stuff? How much more money do you want for copies of work that was done in the past?
I have a solution for the artists and distributiors, stop distributing completely. don't try to pawn off copies of work as something it isn't. Don't keep forcing people to believe that a copy is somehow all that valuable. In the olden days, ya, copies of anything were ridicvulously expensive in termsd of time and effort and materials to make, but today? GET REAL. Make your loot from day to day *working* live concerts ONLY,stop milking technology and BSing the people by recording and copying, and make all recordings illegal, then there won't be any conflicts or confusion, would there be? I say, put up or shutup. I will pay to enjoy being in the presence of someone WORKING, I WON'T pay for some vaporus copy of that experience. That's where I draw the line now. Any human on earth can make their own copies now with a pittance worth of gear, so that is where I draw the line, a copy is worth a PITTANCE. Same with movies, make those sorts of fictional representations be done completely live on stage, don't copy them to any media for redistribution. Same with television. Radio re broadcast. If the artist want to dilute their work by copying and distributing, then they can be happy with smaller amounts for a larger wider audience, by doing less work. Right now they want it both ways,sweet deal fopr them if they can manipulate the laws and media brainwashing mind control, big bucks for live honest work, big bucks for trivially copied media and the means to redistribute. sorry, it ain't worth it to more and more people because they can see reality.
When you go to a restaurant, you pay for the food and service, do you EXPECT to keep paying for the service, forever? I don't think so. Do some actual work, bring me some chow, and I'll pay you again. Virtual representations of real live work are COPIES and as such not "worth" what a live experience is, and never will be from here on out given our level of technology now. that's reality. too bad, expensive copies are the buggywhips of the 21st century, un needed, un wanted, and they WILL be ignored, more and more, except as curiosities for museums.
As long as they make up their minds I don't care, I don't download any music or videos, zip, nada, nothing, I could care less about it so I don't got a dog in this fight, but I can reason a little, and there ain't a hardly piece of this "official copy of work long done awhiles ago" stuff worth more than 2 cents to me. I've enjoyed live performances in the past,paid for it, that's cool, but reproduced fictitios representational copies... really... is just..so so, I could care less, it's not even worth unfilled hard drive space to me.
I think artists (and sports stars and movie stars) are tremendously over valued except during live performances, and with the new ways of copying, they are seeing what their non-live performances are really worth, about zilch. Live performance, equals work, day to day w.o.r.k like everyone else does, reproduced is a dilution,a chimera, it's attempting to get a lot of expensive somethings (everyones money) for the same labor, and in todays world, tough noogies. You can't keep pulling that trick.
That's my opinion anyway. And I'm sorry if that is semi offensive to anyone, but really. This is the year 2004, making copies of anything audio or visual is EXTREMELY easy to do, it's just not worth that much money, it's not even worth a bucka song. It's worth maybe a buck a cd, and that to someone to lazy to make their own copy for a dime.
I know I can't keep making "royalties" off the work I did last week, work as in "sweat outside doing heavy nasty dangerous stuff", if I want another check, I need to do the same amount of work. That's how 99.99% of the planet earth makes their living, too bad most "artists" and their le
that's why I said start with noise (and video) artifacts as representations for letters. Or number sequences, and that would add another couple layers of random looking obscurity. No text gets put into the files, zee-ro. Even if you noticed the artifacts, what are they supposed to represent? Suppose they represented easy to remember pictures, icons, that in turn mean something else? And the entire message could be placed into a lot of different audio/video files, and those might be accessed using a one time pad as well to keep the correct order.
I think they (US and various government spook agencies) are good, real good, have smart people and good technique (benevolent or not, just good 5Ii115 )their boxes certainly better than any group of joe or achmed schmoos can cob together, but I don't think they are invincible in either finding nor unencrypting messages. Heck, one could conceivably come up with a messaging system that relied on all negatives, in *not* receiving anything in some sort of agreed upon sequence that could be randomized, and the not receiving could be very openly broadcast or disseminated. Way too many techniques out there to make absolute statements methinks, one way or the other, besides "nothing is 100% fool proof".
... this would outlaw such things as time shifting? And they could accomplish that...how?
Yes, I'm waiting for some smart guy who can understand lawspeek to read the PDF and translate it into a paragraph or so of normal english.
Next they'll want to brain scan you and make sure you don't REMEMBER a tune or news story or a video scene, because you would be avoiding some royalty payments...
first off, the method you outlined has some decent merit to it. it looks tremendously tedious, but it would work pretty well.
Here's another method--just use file sharing and put your seekrit msg inside some songs/videos. Stego on steroids. It won't matter who else downloads, only you and your email recipient friend know to even look for it. I think between the video part, the audio part, and the ability to insert some random data that will only show up as artifact noise, that this might be possible. You could create particular artifact noise and have it referenced to your normal alphabet/language of choice, then encrypt that. And even the unencrypted words could be within the context of a one time pad.
I'd like to see anyone krak that.....
The other way is what they have been doing anyway for millenia in muslim countries, they use trusted couriers and word of mouth. They keep it inside their religion, and family. Not fool proof, but so far it's been giving the spooks fits. The other thing they have done is gone to the independent cell method, there IS NO terrorist "central command" anymore, not anything of note. That's one thing that any agency can't deal with, very small independent cells down to the ultimate, the cell of one. It cannot be stopped, and no need therefore for messages, encrypted / obfuscated or not..
Begin generic rant just cuz I can:
Now, too bad that NSA (who I am sure actively monitors every single post on slashdot, so they will read this in the clear) won't reveal the identities of all the white guys in suits who had prior knowledge and involvement in 9-11. Like, hey NSA, remember the airline PUTS? RING A BELL DOES IT? Yas know, the ones that paid off for some millions yet NO ONE CAME TO COLLECT THE MONEY YET BECAUSE THE OPTION BECAME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE? How about THE FATCATS WHO GOT WARNED TO NOT FLY THAT DAY? AIN'T THAT A TAD SUSPICIOUS? How about THE CONNECTED FATCATS WHO DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR WORK THAT DAY IN THE TWIN TOWERS? WHO ORDERED NORAD TO STAND DOWN, WHO CHANGED THE RULES RIGHT BEFORE 9-11? WHY WERE PILOTS ALLOWED TO BE ARMED FOREVER UNTIL JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE 9-11 AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED? WAZZUP WITH THE COMPANY RUNNING AN "EXERCISE" OF ' HIJACKED PLANES SMACKING INTO BUILDINGS ON 9-11", WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IT'S A COINCIDENCE? HUH?
Stuff like that, there's dozens of interesting un answered questions out there, that seeminly no one in our glorious government "intel" agencies seems to be able to figure out.
Scuttlebutt has it that entire small obscure "connected" companies seemed to take the 9-11 day off, but it's hard to find that story anymore... hmmm.. gee whiz...hmm..wonder why that is...
Who bought 'em NSA? Who put in those orders? Why not make that info public? Oh? what's that you say? It's VERY IMPORTANT WHITE GUYS IN SUITS WHO GIVE YOU YOUR ORDERS WHO BOUGHT THEM?
thanks, we knew that
US intel=paid off and scared hypocrites. Most of them honest and patriotic, I don't intend to demean them on that score, but I will call a spade a spade here, because it don't stop them from being scared - scared into "going along to get along". A lot of them know there's serious high level treason-yes, I said treason- going on, yet only a small handful have had the balls to come forward. Non-boat rockers almost entirely. I have yet to meet anyone connected to any civilian or military agency in the government who isn't aware of serious malfeasance occuring, usually on an ongoing basis. To a man (and woman) they say you "don't rock the boat" about crookedness you might become aware of, because at a minimum it's a career buster, all the way up to you get disappeared, and everything in between.
You won't get em to say it on many internet forums,not too often anyway, no one will admit to being scared at work, etc, but you will hear it sometimes in meatworld if you are persistant and can build some trust.
9-11 = the modern reichstagg fire:end generic rant, sorry for the slideways on some issues
---redhat and linux can keep being publically damaged by the judge not really doing anything. Sucks, but typical. I hope the masses didn't think it was going to be different. Surface level it looks like a win, in reality this decision is a loss. The "wait and see" (with the IBM case) blather is just passing the buck for awhile while damage continues. There was little reason to do so, the wait and see, which is another odor du rodentia to me.
Perhaps what might speed it up is a large class action motion against SCO by interested end users, to either put up or shutup, or offer an out of court binding arbitration. Not the distro guys or or BB, real end users and small contractors. Perhaps even just a coordinated very local small claims effort, they would have to show up in a zillion local courts. If anyone "you" has lost a contract due to your potential clients "uncertainties" of "is linux free and legal" etc BS,anything along those lines that you can document, seems to me that is enough to go to small claims court with. That might be quite a few folks out there by now...
Back to arbitration, if sco really had anything, they would take it, if they rejected it, it would show that they have been fishing and using the courts to manipulate stock prices (more or less) and perhaps acting as the stalking horse and spoiler for MS,which I think has merit now but not much anecdotal and would never be actionable without serious insider leak- auge to help..
And is it still revolving around sysV? If so, is there any on-going work devoted to replacing that anyway, as a backup linux strategy? I mean, just go ahead and pull it out now, not wait for any court case? I don't know that, I guess I will assume that that might be a bear of a coding job.
-how to start one, never done it. Been in two before, that's why my advice to watch the bosses, they are human, the the goons have a lot of carrots and sticks to use in control, ie, bribery and blackmail.
Incidently, that's how so many politicians start out young with some ideals then they seem to lose steam, they actually get blackmailed, then they get bribed. That's another story for another time.
So, organizing. heh, this is geeks we are talking about,yes? Start a source forge collaborative employment security initiative. Something like that. Post on forums all over, use networking, try to get at least one person at every shop interested. Do a write up, have a page, get it submitted as a story/article here, and at other tech forums.There's a ton of political forums, tech forums, hardware and software apps forums, etc, out there, get accounts, be rational,be polite, drop links. Look at these people getting laid off all over, there's a place to start. This is the info age and one guy with a box and a phoneline can talk to the world.
It's what I do.....
An actual org takes incorporation, perhaps as a non profit in mostplaces. Start with a domain perhaps, a mission statement page? ITWORKERS.ORG, there ya go, there's your start, something like that. Goto groklaw, see what they say about the legalities of starting a union are, can't be all that difficult. I'm broke, got zip cash, small double figures in my account. Lucky to have that, too. I can pay attention because it's free, that's about it. I can write though. Not the best, but I can stick a little emotion in it, seasoned with a smidgen of logic, tempered with data, real time and historical. That's what I can contribute. That, and the goons have zero effect on me, been there, done that, a bunch, and I don't scare. Screw 'em.
I'm easy to find, I like to post, let me know when it's happening...
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I have lived rural for a long time,sevreral places, and have a lot of different dial up modems (and various boxes of course).(I build old systems and give them away as well) The older modems work MUCH better on staticy noisy rural phone lines than the newer ones, there's no comparison. I currently use a USR 33 sporster faxmodem external, because it works better (throughput, reliability, ability to stay online) than any of the 56k modems I have. they sit in a box, I have given up on them and won't purchase another. And just setting baud rate doesn't help the newer modems, for some reason they are much flakier and tempermental. And when it's storming out, I can drop down even further to a 14.4 and consisitently stay online, when even a 28 or 33 modem will click off and lose connection all the time.
I'm not an engineer with these things, but that is my anecdotal observation. I am assuming it is line noise. Ask folks where they live maybe, if they are in an area with dismal phone lines, those 33's might be the ticket, and could be used more effectively for the purpose intended.
I also have an extremely hard time putting any functional linux system on these old pen 1s I give away, I just posted on it elsewhere's, the problem I have is legacy ram, lack thereof, too expensive to track down and purchase, etc, so I slap 95 or 98 back on them after a nice format to remove whatever accumulated BS I inherited with the box. I boot to see what's on it, then erase it and start fresh. I WISH there was a gui linux that would work *without* being a guru and jumping through hoops on these older machines. I'm not about to try and setup some exotic combo of arcane stuff that would make me the tech support person forever, so heck with it, back MS goes on those boxes with their 16 or 32 megs of ram. And knoppix won't, either, tried it. You really need around 128 it appears for it to work adequately, at least when I have tried it, last release from a coupla months ago. It works well for me on 128 and up machines, 64 megs gave me fits. So that's not an option, neither was morphix, tried that, too. If someone has (is aware of) a distro on a CD that will graphically install(or sanely and easily text install for any newbie), run a decent GUI desktop once installed, has a lot of decent normal "joe surfer and do some text stuff and a little media action" apps, all on 16 megs minimum machine of at least pent 1 class of say 100 mghz,with the caveat they are barely 2 gig machines, usually even less, some under 1 gig hard drive, let me know. It has to be no harder to install than 95 or 98, and be useable by NON gurus. I'm not a guru, just a hobbyist, not much command line expertise. Some, not a lot..
--we've been having another good discussion on various hidden messaging in the other recent article lately -> "passive email monitoring leads to arrest". Check it out if you haven't already.
...of other nations, Japan makes no secret of the fact that they are a highly nationalistic country, and that they will do whatever it takes to protect their markets. Most other western industrialised nations are more fragmented and disingenous about it. Japan since WW2 and their rebuilding, sees economics as just another form of warfare basically, and acvts accordingly. They are polite about it, but ruthless. They are also really up the creek with the yen and the dollar, and are exploring different ways to ease the burden of supporting a still grossly over valued dollar. They have too many investments tied to it, but realise they needed major serious diversification like years ago, and are in max overdrive to rectify what to them is a national economic disaster in the making if it's not addressed past the lip service level. Same thing in the US, just we have.... stupider central bankers. They thought that they could keep pushing funny bux forever, like no one would ever notice. another subject there, but that is happening as well.
There's probably also a lot of other internal political action (politics=money, like any other place) going on around this, but I don't follow their internal affairs adequately enough to comment on it to any significant degree.
As an aside,I am also highly surprised that in this day and age that *any* intel chips get used in Japan.
... you really should re-read the parent post you are referring to. The poster said no such thing as you imply.
... the major vendors made their desktops even easier to upgrade for people. If it was as easy as pop a few snaps, lift out the mobo and reinstall a new one, with the vendor taking back the old one, that might help. Yews, this is most doable for anyone on slashdot, blah blah, but for this typical/mythical "joe user" out there it is too intimidating by far.
It is also a shame it'sso hard to find legacy ram, with all it's randomness in config, and the expense. there are zillions of PCs out there that could be easily used several years longer if they were able to easily find/purchase/install the ram to it's max config, without having to shell out more than what a new lightweight system costs now. I've got a nice roomful of older machines, hardly any of them will run a modern linux with a gui desktop. the processor speed is adequate, it's the ram that makes it difficult. I'm on a 1996 IBM right now (FC1 OS), and it was only possible to make this functional-enough by installing a lot more ram. Yes, you can go online, use various vendors configurators, then get sticker shocked back to reality. And most people out there just don't bother,lack the skills, and it's hard to do for a lot of people, they are forced to upgrade their entire machine almost. This is inefficient to a large degree. I realise that is changing, and again, I am not referring to your typical slashdot reader here, but it's still a pain for most people. I know that the older machines I build to give away to local farm kids get given with older win OS (usually a fresh clean install of whichever was on the machine, usually 95 or 98 obviously) because I can't afford the utterly ridiculous prices that the RAM vendors charge, so I can't put a modern linux GUI system on them. And the prices are ridiculous in the first place BECAUSE the vendors are so freaking cheap, leaving the RAM slots unfilled in the vast bulk of PCs that have shipped over the years.
Perhaps if the (major) vendors only shipped machines with the maximum amount of RAM possible already installed as a universal industry default, this might help, machines would last longer as practical tools. That is as easy as "stroke of the pen, law of the land" action there. And if they all did it, the price ratios would still be the same, albeit higher, but, overall prices have dropped so much from even 10 years ago I don't see this as a problem.
it was decent,the link to the mirror, unfortunately I can't get to the mirror, either. I clicked off as soon as I realised I was contributing to the effect. It's easy to see it, nothing wants to load either at the direct link or the mirror. (for me anyway)
I am wondering if any kind soul might post a paragraph or two containing the gist of this? Sort of hard to discuss this subject without clue one besides "hidden in spam". I was more interested in how they find the originators of the spam, beating the obfuscatory manner in which most spam is sent. That to me is more interesting, as in "hunt them down / heads on pikes" I don't want to filter out spam from my email inbox, I want to filter out spam originators from the earth's "here" box....
... it might be related to the theory outlined in this recent article on earths magnetic fields and polarity changes.
Seems as good a reason as anything else for these "spontaneous" fires I've read so far. Perhaps gross random piezo electric effects might be pre cursors/indicators of building intensity?
Also, we don't know yet if similar phenomenon are ocurring any place else around the planet. Given what is happening in the village, with it's very low population insuring that ANY strange occurrence was well noted by everyone there, similar random appearing events that might be occurring elsewhere in largepopulation areas might be being dismissed as sabotage or vandalism or normal arson, etc, and the stories are just lost in the noise of normal reporting. And if it's ocurring in even more remote areas, well then it wouldn't be reported at all obviously. I don't know, might be though. We DO know that we are seeing other strange magnetic effects around the world, a lot of altered and strange weather, seismic disturbances, etc. Perhaps a unique feature of this villages geology structure beneath might have something to do with the effects being more intense there. I do think we should be paying attention to a variety of indicators relating to the planet's modalities, as there does exist most credible evidence of past.. well.. cataclsyms.
I never said they shouldn't push copies, whatever floats their boat, I merely said they were gonzo out to lunch on what they think those things are worth, and they are delibarately trying to monopolise technology. that's just observable data, skewing the laws to make tech only work for them, to protect clearly moribund industries on the way out, ie, "reedickalus expensive copies of stuff". So far out to lunch it's into "ludicrous speed". I shoulda just said that and shuddup about it...hahahaha!
no, I am an oddball, even for slashdot. I don't do movies or listen to much music. I used to when I was a kid into my 30's then one day I noticed it
Yep, luxuries. I guess I don't have many. I live very frugally compared to most people, well under what passes for official poverty level in the US. And even back when I was scrambling and "making money" I purchased few reproductions of any sort of "art" (some, not much though), but I did go to live concerts, both at largevenues and at regular bars and small clubs. I even worked a few, some large bands, stones being the most well known..
Sorry, not impressed. Have yet to see any of those guys who I think deserves to be multi multi millionaires. Well off, sure, zillionaires? Nope. Plain old vanilla nope. But it ain't my call, one way or the other.
And I'm not a hypocrite, I don't download tunes or vids, etc, no interest. If they were a nickle, free of any legal crap, I might, but even then, not too much. When I was younger I watched a heckuva lot of TV, now I wished I hadn't wasted all that time, and thank God I never got addicted to "gaming", another abusine compuslive behavior I think, at least the addicts I know personally seem that way.. All of that I know makes me well outside the norm,especially here, so what, I could care less really. I'm just commenting on the social and economic ramifications of what is completely obvious, new technology is altering hell out of the concepts of "art" as business as it was known just even a decade ago, let alone a few decades ago, and those who ignore that reality will continue to wonder why what they believe -what they WANT to believe- just ain't so.
Naw, never seen any of the bored with the rings stuff. I read the hobbit back in junior high though. Never read the trilogy, too tedious, his characterzations and ponderous prose made me..just itchy, nervous,didn't like it. I'm sure the movie was all super dooper whizz bang. Oh well, 5 years from now I might watch it on tape. Maybe. Although I liked some other long tedious tomes in the sci fi and fantasy genre, back then anyway, I didn't read the rings. Hmm,., I am thinking, last time I paid normal price and went to a movie had to be the titanic, for the third time, girlfriend pressure. I should be nicer I guess... take her more, but frankly, very few of them hold any interest for me, that changed from years ago, just got...dissatisfied with fictionionalized reality. I can't put it any better than that.
I don't dig bread and circuses any more is the closest I can come to it.
More bad analogies. I know it's not close but what the heck. Prohibition was a complete farce and failure, it just created crime, but it
Better idea. Scrap it, top to bottom, stop throwing good money after bad. Much cheaper and more effective. Shrink government down to manageable size,following constitutional guidelines, go back to excise taxes for funding like we had for a LONG time, switch from the erroneously named "free trade" to "fair trade" with quid pro quo tariffs at the borders.
No way, no how, never - ever was the federal government designed or intended to be the out of control monstrosity it has become today.
It's broke. It's breaking us. It's an out of control raging monster. It's hideous. Lose it. Start with the IRS and the "federal" reserve "debt = wealth" congame scams, ashcan them. Work from there. Trying to fix it is like pouring oil into an engine with all bad rings, shot valve guides and every gasket blown and leaking-it's just stoopid.
There's a clear distinction. I think original work, audio or visual, can take what the market can bear, as to be expected and understood. We have no conflict there, as I explained elsewhere's. I disagree on what copies of original work are valued at, and I don't agree on the concept of residuals and royalties, at least not how they are structured now. The numbers don't compute any more, from technological advances, and it is my conviction that at this point in time they need to be radically altered. I also feel just as strongly that it will benefit artists in the short, medium and long term if they fully embrace the reality of the tech revolution, and not just pick and choose those which only favor them. We all benefit from sharing what we can, when it's done cooperatively. We all benefit from making our "work" being affordable and accessible to more people. It just seems to be working out that way, I think we should keep doing that and not hang on to past century's notions of how things worked business wise.
...my other thoughts elsewhere in this thread. I think you have developed an erroneous impression of me, at least as much as I can decipher. I fully understand the efforts that go into creating art. I think they should be rewarded commensurate with how many people appreciate it. I differ in what copies of the creativity are worth, and how they are currently marketed. I also appreciate what tools of the trade cost. I went to some lengths elsewhere to try and make the point, and yes, at best analogies are poor, mea culpa.
... on your major points. Right now we are barely even entering this paradigm altering time frame, so of course we need to sort all this out. I fully acknowledge that an artist in a lot of cases has years behind say a performance or a painting, years of skill developing for that few hours performing, etc or that one painting, or one..whatever.. Guess what though, so does the plumber, the carpenter, the mechanic, etc, and they don't charge royalties or get residuals for their work. Lots of training, lots of skills, applied effort, one check, done. Skills +native ability+ applied effort= something built, you get paid. You can't realistically keep insisting on getting paid over and over again for the same thing, or a weal copy of the original..
Yes, that's how things happen. The difference is, the artist makes it all at once for that effort, then he wants to keep getting it, and keep getting it, ad infinitum, the other sorts of employments build to it gradually, but there is never a residual.(patents are exceptios to this rule, and another discussion, although somewhat related),
The other point is, the artist knows in advance that even giving it his best shot, he might not be well received, and his efforts,past the origignal, will become intangible products, except for copies, and now, those copies can be reproduced very cheaply. My postulation is- we need to accept that, and get on with adjusting. We can't hang on to past levels of what those copies represent in terms of skill+ native ability+ effort, but it's orders of magnitudes easier now to make those copies. That is the central point.
ART is now a cheap mass produced product in it's copied form. In it's original form, it is little changed since way back in history, this is a given, and why today still originals fetch so much more, as they should. The business models around the COPIES though are skewed way out of prtoportion to their actual value, at least to untold millions they are now. You are being told, shown, and you can see it happening, wishing it wasn't so will not alter it. The two distinct data points need to be dramatically altered to reflect the changes in technology. Being drug kicking and screaming to the reality table does not bode well for the acceptance of the artist (and his retinuie of expensive copy peddlers), going willingly and accepting the changes as they exist and as they are rapidly changing is the correct business plan.
Again, IMO of course.
And like I said, just as soon as the tech is there, I mean the minute it's there, as soon as the combo of my skills + native ability + effort is cheaply replicable, for the use, benefit, advancement and pleasure of anyone else who desires it, anyone can have a copy,can trade it, share it, expand and expound on it, whatever they choose to do, gratis, my treat, have at it. I'd like to make a few clams off the original, then next week I'll do another original. but the copies, cheap, have at it. That's the best I can do now, and if I think I might like your work, I will purchase an original, or attend a "live" original, but don't expect me to pay much of anything for what I know for a fact are very inexpensive copies. I might pay a small sum, but nothing more than perhaps double the construction cost of the replication media + distribution, or perhaps double the bulk rate download bandwith. I think anyone should be happy with doubling their money with little effort, seems most reasonable to me. But 10 or 20 times? Magnfied by other millions? Nope, not for me. That is gouging, plain and simple.
...but make it a bona fide cooperative union on the outside. It's a word everyone knows and understands, helps sort it out. Unions are about collective bargaining. Nothing mysterious about it, you got more horsepower bargaining when you gopt a lot of displacement, and that means numbers. United we stand, divided blah blah yada blah, you know the drill. The fatcats have unions they just call them industry lobbies, and they have paid off legislators and judges to make sure they get what they want. don't be decieved about most of their public whining about this or that legislation, if they didn't want it at the tippy top levels, it wouldn't make it into law.
Also,I want to make a point, outside this reply, in general, to any non USA people reading this. My advice applies to YOU too. This isn't any sort of xenophic diatribe, it's NOT. I am not. I want things good for you folks too! I will give you a few hints. US "dollars" right now are a precarious stand to hang your hat on. They are phony artifical constructs that some multi billionaire globalist skimmers pull out of their butts electronically. They are illusionary representations of wealth based on contractural DEBT, they don't represent PRODUCED WEALTH. Right now they are frantic to keep up the illusion, to keep ripping off the planet, so don't get suckered in. Work inside your own nations, for your own industries, develop well diversified enterprises, and don't sell yourselves cheap to the globalist manipulators, YOU got the power in your nations too. YOU control everything in your repspective nations. It's the GOONS who keep people on jingoistic tangents, it has nothing to do with how things should be, how wealth is produced, but it has everything to do with how wealth is skimmed and re directed to the hereditary and multiple generational manipulators. Taking a middle class job from another nation -a person there, someone else with a family and bills and hopes and dreams,-doesn't make you any wealth, nothing really lasting anyway. CREATING a middle class job inside your own nation DOES. Don't keep getting sucked into yet another form of geo colonialism, it's always sucked as an ethical business model. It's roughly akin to--well, it's thievery. They'll tell you it isn't, but it is. There's wealth creation, then wealth re-arrangement. the former works, the latter is what the goons always strive for.
...mnicrowave transmission of power is what's being discussed in that paper. Quite possible, probably not a good idea, but it is a dandy stealth way to build impressive weapons platforms in space. Nothing like dual use and multi tasking! :)
but pretty close, with lots of power, no emissions controls but surpassed the emissions requirements of the day. Run a google search on smokey yunick, and adiabatic engine. If you have access to a magazine microfiche, check out the cover story, april 1983 issue of popular science. He was the automotive editor at the time. Built an engine that was a v-2 config, 150 horse, 50-60 MPG and pretty fast. He had a few patents with it, but the combination itself of his adaptions (which is why it worked as well as it did) wasn't patentable. He was not just some urban legend, but a very credible engineer with a ton of professional racing wins and rewards to his credit. A famous guy, back in the day..
I have a photocopy of the article, but I can't place my hands on it right now, but you can find references to it on the net, enough to prove the validity of it. His engines and cars they were put in were well photographed, inspected, etc, it's all documented, verifiable data, not "urban legend". You can even find references to the relevant patents and look them up yourself, I have, it's real, they are there.
Yes, the globalists sit on things sometimes, you'll have to ask them why, my best guess is, it pays them to keep things expensive and complicated in the long run.
umm, I would be happy with an engine like that today, but no one makes one. gee..wonder why....
--to me, a reproduced text in dead tree form is worth X-money,it is a tangible that actually requires a bit of material cost, machinery cost, getting the trees, setting the presses, etc. It is still failry expensive to make, but not near as much as a few hundred years ago. Times changed. I won't pay any sort of exorbitant fee for a dead tree book, but I will purchase more reasonably priced works, and I purchase mostly used now, because I think even there the prices are inflated.
And yes, writers could if they so choose go on tour and read aloud their works, with the appropriate accents, inflections, etc as they wanted their work to represent. They could charge for that if they so chose, or let a theater company reproduce it live, and that is still being done. If it's in digital form sometime, it is worth much less if it's available to download and copy. It's not worth the same as an original work, or the dead trees reproductions are. It's a matter of degree and function. If you physically destroy what I have done last week, then yes, that is destroyed, you have destroyed an actual tangible, and I have no recourse other than to do the same amount of work all over again, which I do anyway. If there was some easy way for me to replicate my skills as applied to my labor, (same as artists can now replicate their skills very cheaply in an intangible form),to make copies of it, no way would I consider those copies to be of much value, I certainly wouldn't expect to be paid some never ending huge fee for those copies-and someday that might be possible, too. For now, intangibles as represented by sounds and visual images are extremely cheap to replicate, wheras in the not so far past, it was very expensive, and impossible in some cases, to reproduce them without resorting to exactly the same amount of skill and labor. The musician had to perform again, the actor had to mount the stage again. The book writer had to hand scribe another copy. It was expensive, labor intensive, and those sorts of tangible copies were valuable, and they got paid, but if they didn't work again, then no pay. Today, nope, copies of that sort of work are cheap, cheap, cheap, easy to do by almost anyone with a minimum of inexpensive equipment. The entertainment industry wants to stave off the inevitable, and frankly, they won't be successful, because it's ridiculous to try and stop humanity and technology moving forward. You can't turn back the clock. I say, let them make what the market will bear for an original-a live performance, actually working, but for the copies? Those copies are worth a nickle or a penny or something miniscule like that, even stamped or burnt on a piece of plastic and distributed, they aren't worth what they are charging, people know it, hence they don't want to pay it, and they aren't.
It's really that simple.
And it's because of technological advances, such that those industries want to monopolise and keep for themselves, but the vast majority of people are saying "uhh, I'm allowed to use this technology also". That's what's happening, and why it is happening.
No, I don't believe in royalties for intangibles, not in this day and age. No Way. Nope. Don't think so. We've had another one of them dad burn "paradigm shifting" moments in time, happens once in awhile, we all got to get with the program.
And I WEOLCOME the time that you may FREELY enjoy copying what I do for labor,what gets produced when I apply my skills and my labor to an end result, you are most welcome to it free of charge just as soon as the technology is there for that to occur, and I wish you well, I will seek no residuals or royalties from it. If you want a custom original, done in real time, I will provide it, that will cost you, but if it's replicable easily and cheaply, more power to you sir, enjoy! I look forward to it myself!
... of times that the music on a CD may be listened to? Is the listening supposed to be only the person who actually purchased the CD? Where's the line on using this stuff? How much more money do you want for copies of work that was done in the past?
I have a solution for the artists and distributiors, stop distributing completely. don't try to pawn off copies of work as something it isn't. Don't keep forcing people to believe that a copy is somehow all that valuable. In the olden days, ya, copies of anything were ridicvulously expensive in termsd of time and effort and materials to make, but today? GET REAL. Make your loot from day to day *working* live concerts ONLY,stop milking technology and BSing the people by recording and copying, and make all recordings illegal, then there won't be any conflicts or confusion, would there be? I say, put up or shutup. I will pay to enjoy being in the presence of someone WORKING, I WON'T pay for some vaporus copy of that experience. That's where I draw the line now. Any human on earth can make their own copies now with a pittance worth of gear, so that is where I draw the line, a copy is worth a PITTANCE. Same with movies, make those sorts of fictional representations be done completely live on stage, don't copy them to any media for redistribution. Same with television. Radio re broadcast. If the artist want to dilute their work by copying and distributing, then they can be happy with smaller amounts for a larger wider audience, by doing less work. Right now they want it both ways,sweet deal fopr them if they can manipulate the laws and media brainwashing mind control, big bucks for live honest work, big bucks for trivially copied media and the means to redistribute. sorry, it ain't worth it to more and more people because they can see reality.
When you go to a restaurant, you pay for the food and service, do you EXPECT to keep paying for the service, forever? I don't think so. Do some actual work, bring me some chow, and I'll pay you again. Virtual representations of real live work are COPIES and as such not "worth" what a live experience is, and never will be from here on out given our level of technology now. that's reality. too bad, expensive copies are the buggywhips of the 21st century, un needed, un wanted, and they WILL be ignored, more and more, except as curiosities for museums.
As long as they make up their minds I don't care, I don't download any music or videos, zip, nada, nothing, I could care less about it so I don't got a dog in this fight, but I can reason a little, and there ain't a hardly piece of this "official copy of work long done awhiles ago" stuff worth more than 2 cents to me. I've enjoyed live performances in the past,paid for it, that's cool, but reproduced fictitios representational copies... really... is just..so so, I could care less, it's not even worth unfilled hard drive space to me.
I think artists (and sports stars and movie stars) are tremendously over valued except during live performances, and with the new ways of copying, they are seeing what their non-live performances are really worth, about zilch. Live performance, equals work, day to day w.o.r.k like everyone else does, reproduced is a dilution,a chimera, it's attempting to get a lot of expensive somethings (everyones money) for the same labor, and in todays world, tough noogies. You can't keep pulling that trick.
That's my opinion anyway. And I'm sorry if that is semi offensive to anyone, but really. This is the year 2004, making copies of anything audio or visual is EXTREMELY easy to do, it's just not worth that much money, it's not even worth a bucka song. It's worth maybe a buck a cd, and that to someone to lazy to make their own copy for a dime.
I know I can't keep making "royalties" off the work I did last week, work as in "sweat outside doing heavy nasty dangerous stuff", if I want another check, I need to do the same amount of work. That's how 99.99% of the planet earth makes their living, too bad most "artists" and their le
that's why I said start with noise (and video) artifacts as representations for letters. Or number sequences, and that would add another couple layers of random looking obscurity. No text gets put into the files, zee-ro. Even if you noticed the artifacts, what are they supposed to represent? Suppose they represented easy to remember pictures, icons, that in turn mean something else? And the entire message could be placed into a lot of different audio/video files, and those might be accessed using a one time pad as well to keep the correct order.
I think they (US and various government spook agencies) are good, real good, have smart people and good technique (benevolent or not, just good 5Ii115 )their boxes certainly better than any group of joe or achmed schmoos can cob together, but I don't think they are invincible in either finding nor unencrypting messages. Heck, one could conceivably come up with a messaging system that relied on all negatives, in *not* receiving anything in some sort of agreed upon sequence that could be randomized, and the not receiving could be very openly broadcast or disseminated. Way too many techniques out there to make absolute statements methinks, one way or the other, besides "nothing is 100% fool proof".
... this would outlaw such things as time shifting? And they could accomplish that...how?
Yes, I'm waiting for some smart guy who can understand lawspeek to read the PDF and translate it into a paragraph or so of normal english.
Next they'll want to brain scan you and make sure you don't REMEMBER a tune or news story or a video scene, because you would be avoiding some royalty payments...
thas raght, lindoze
seems a natcherall
A serious one
GnuLin but spelled newlin as in NewLin OS
first off, the method you outlined has some decent merit to it. it looks tremendously tedious, but it would work pretty well.
:end generic rant, sorry for the slideways on some issues
Here's another method--just use file sharing and put your seekrit msg inside some songs/videos. Stego on steroids. It won't matter who else downloads, only you and your email recipient friend know to even look for it. I think between the video part, the audio part, and the ability to insert some random data that will only show up as artifact noise, that this might be possible. You could create particular artifact noise and have it referenced to your normal alphabet/language of choice, then encrypt that. And even the unencrypted words could be within the context of a one time pad.
I'd like to see anyone krak that.....
The other way is what they have been doing anyway for millenia in muslim countries, they use trusted couriers and word of mouth. They keep it inside their religion, and family. Not fool proof, but so far it's been giving the spooks fits. The other thing they have done is gone to the independent cell method, there IS NO terrorist "central command" anymore, not anything of note. That's one thing that any agency can't deal with, very small independent cells down to the ultimate, the cell of one. It cannot be stopped, and no need therefore for messages, encrypted / obfuscated or not..
Begin generic rant just cuz I can:
Now, too bad that NSA (who I am sure actively monitors every single post on slashdot, so they will read this in the clear) won't reveal the identities of all the white guys in suits who had prior knowledge and involvement in 9-11. Like, hey NSA, remember the airline PUTS? RING A BELL DOES IT? Yas know, the ones that paid off for some millions yet NO ONE CAME TO COLLECT THE MONEY YET BECAUSE THE OPTION BECAME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE? How about THE FATCATS WHO GOT WARNED TO NOT FLY THAT DAY? AIN'T THAT A TAD SUSPICIOUS? How about THE CONNECTED FATCATS WHO DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR WORK THAT DAY IN THE TWIN TOWERS? WHO ORDERED NORAD TO STAND DOWN, WHO CHANGED THE RULES RIGHT BEFORE 9-11? WHY WERE PILOTS ALLOWED TO BE ARMED FOREVER UNTIL JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE 9-11 AND THE LAW WAS CHANGED? WAZZUP WITH THE COMPANY RUNNING AN "EXERCISE" OF ' HIJACKED PLANES SMACKING INTO BUILDINGS ON 9-11", WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IT'S A COINCIDENCE? HUH?
Stuff like that, there's dozens of interesting un answered questions out there, that seeminly no one in our glorious government "intel" agencies seems to be able to figure out.
Scuttlebutt has it that entire small obscure "connected" companies seemed to take the 9-11 day off, but it's hard to find that story anymore... hmmm.. gee whiz...hmm..wonder why that is...
Who bought 'em NSA? Who put in those orders? Why not make that info public? Oh? what's that you say? It's VERY IMPORTANT WHITE GUYS IN SUITS WHO GIVE YOU YOUR ORDERS WHO BOUGHT THEM?
thanks, we knew that
US intel=paid off and scared hypocrites. Most of them honest and patriotic, I don't intend to demean them on that score, but I will call a spade a spade here, because it don't stop them from being scared - scared into "going along to get along". A lot of them know there's serious high level treason-yes, I said treason- going on, yet only a small handful have had the balls to come forward. Non-boat rockers almost entirely. I have yet to meet anyone connected to any civilian or military agency in the government who isn't aware of serious malfeasance occuring, usually on an ongoing basis. To a man (and woman) they say you "don't rock the boat" about crookedness you might become aware of, because at a minimum it's a career buster, all the way up to you get disappeared, and everything in between.
You won't get em to say it on many internet forums,not too often anyway, no one will admit to being scared at work, etc, but you will hear it sometimes in meatworld if you are persistant and can build some trust.
9-11 = the modern reichstagg fire
oh well. Sorry you have such lamer users. You have to wonder about people who really want to view/install cootieware on their machines...
---redhat and linux can keep being publically damaged by the judge not really doing anything. Sucks, but typical. I hope the masses didn't think it was going to be different. Surface level it looks like a win, in reality this decision is a loss. The "wait and see" (with the IBM case) blather is just passing the buck for awhile while damage continues. There was little reason to do so, the wait and see, which is another odor du rodentia to me.
Perhaps what might speed it up is a large class action motion against SCO by interested end users, to either put up or shutup, or offer an out of court binding arbitration. Not the distro guys or or BB, real end users and small contractors. Perhaps even just a coordinated very local small claims effort, they would have to show up in a zillion local courts. If anyone "you" has lost a contract due to your potential clients "uncertainties" of "is linux free and legal" etc BS,anything along those lines that you can document, seems to me that is enough to go to small claims court with. That might be quite a few folks out there by now...
Back to arbitration, if sco really had anything, they would take it, if they rejected it, it would show that they have been fishing and using the courts to manipulate stock prices (more or less) and perhaps acting as the stalking horse and spoiler for MS,which I think has merit now but not much anecdotal and would never be actionable without serious insider leak- auge to help..
And is it still revolving around sysV? If so, is there any on-going work devoted to replacing that anyway, as a backup linux strategy? I mean, just go ahead and pull it out now, not wait for any court case? I don't know that, I guess I will assume that that might be a bear of a coding job.
--just read a synopsis, and dang if it isn't ringing a bell with me. I think I read it a long time ago. Thanks for the tip.
-how to start one, never done it. Been in two before, that's why my advice to watch the bosses, they are human, the the goons have a lot of carrots and sticks to use in control, ie, bribery and blackmail.
Incidently, that's how so many politicians start out young with some ideals then they seem to lose steam, they actually get blackmailed, then they get bribed. That's another story for another time.
So, organizing. heh, this is geeks we are talking about,yes? Start a source forge collaborative employment security initiative. Something like that. Post on forums all over, use networking, try to get at least one person at every shop interested. Do a write up, have a page, get it submitted as a story/article here, and at other tech forums.There's a ton of political forums, tech forums, hardware and software apps forums, etc, out there, get accounts, be rational,be polite, drop links. Look at these people getting laid off all over, there's a place to start. This is the info age and one guy with a box and a phoneline can talk to the world.
It's what I do.....
An actual org takes incorporation, perhaps as a non profit in mostplaces. Start with a domain perhaps, a mission statement page? ITWORKERS.ORG, there ya go, there's your start, something like that. Goto groklaw, see what they say about the legalities of starting a union are, can't be all that difficult. I'm broke, got zip cash, small double figures in my account. Lucky to have that, too. I can pay attention because it's free, that's about it. I can write though. Not the best, but I can stick a little emotion in it, seasoned with a smidgen of logic, tempered with data, real time and historical. That's what I can contribute. That, and the goons have zero effect on me, been there, done that, a bunch, and I don't scare. Screw 'em.
I'm easy to find, I like to post, let me know when it's happening...