I thought about this after my post and you're absolutely right. There are two huge holes, one is proving you own the CD and two is preventing you from using the CD once you have shared it with everyone else (thus violating the "fair use"). The only real option _is_ to physically send in your CD which I for one wouldn't really want to do and would make for a terrible storage/archiving/keeping straight what belongs to who issue for the central location. Good thing we've blown holes in an otherwise cool system!
I think you're misunderstanding here (from the way I understand it). Each member contributes their CDs to the collection. With each song you contribute, snapster would have the right to stream that song to one more person. So you don't have to own the CD at all, someone somewhere on the network does. So if 4,000 people contributed "Black Hole Sun", then snapster could have 4,000 simultaneous streams. The main problem I see here is a possibly queue for more popular songs....
If they implemented the suggestion of charging.05 per song and giving the song owner.01 per play, people might even stand to _make_ money off of offering thier songs up for play (or at least help offset their own costs).
Seems like a killer idea to me, now let's integrate this into my XM radio somehow...
The problem is airline security doesn't think like someone who is in the business of getting something done. I don't think I have ever been through any kind of general security checkpoint that could have kept me from getting weapons or anything else in if I so desired. True, it is impossible to account for EVERYTHING someone might try, but instead of putting more and more useless security checkpoints and provisions in place that aren't going to stop anyone with the will and the know how to f something up, how about hiring some completely whacked at security guys (and I _know_ some completely whacked out in the head security guys, those kids ain't right) to plan for the kind of situations that anyone who is serious about terror is going to do.
We had cameras on our busses too, however, for the entire school district (maybe around 60 busses?) there were only like 5-6 cameras to go around. They were randomly (or by driver request) loaded into little boxes with two way mirrors.
Seeing as I have always been a conspiracy theorist little geek I figured "hey, there's only a one in ten chance we have the camera" then started paying attention when the driver would crank the bus after school. After a few weeks of watching I came to the conclusion that if the little red light next to the camera blinked several times before being steady on, we didn't have the camera. If it immediately went steady, we were being watched, better behave.
Well, or possibly my bus was just so bad that we had the camera 90% of the time... Never really figured on that part...
Not that it has any relevance now, but just in case you're ever "possibly" being monitored on a school bus...
I don't have a can of SPAM in front of me (sadly enough), but it was always my understanding that it wasn't "Spam" = Spiced Ham, it was "SPAM" = Specially Processed Alternative Meat... Who knows, maybe this is something I just made up in my warped childhood. Anyone know?
Those weren't fake IDs, those were IDs taken from people with dead end jobs that he "enlightened". Remember when Tyler drags the guy out behind the convenience store?
I believe I radiate a similar aura. I worked in tech support for about 3 year some time back and experienced the same thing countless times. The best though was this one time, A customer hadn't been able to connect to the internet for like a week. I stood over his shoulder and watched him try to connect to the internet 3 times, his modem would never complete the connection. We switched places, I never even closed a window, clicked on connect and *bam* fixed, connected every time without a hitch.
It's odd, but I really think there is something to people just haveing a "touch" with electronics
and if your logic prevails we'll all be little piles of goo.
Building shelter and moving out of caves doesn't have a lot of very clear and distinct possibilities of terrible outcomes. Sure, my shelter might fall on me, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
With this new technology on the other hand, we're looking at some VERY real VERY possible VERY bad outcomes. It's not just that this MAY lead to something which COULD be warped to 'bad' uses, it's that it COULD VERY easily be used to f' up lots of shit.
I'm not anti research here, I'm just saying this is something to be very very careful with.
And, yes, you could make a mousepad out of it to use with a wireless mouse, but then your mouse pad would have to be plugged in. What would be the point of that?
No no no... You don't get it, you would get TWO of the pads, lay the second (unplugged) one on top of the first one (which will supply power to the not plugged in one, aka your mousepad) and wallah!
duh!
Seriously though, I wonder what the range on these things is? Could you maybe stick one to the bottom of your desk and it radiate through?
Stealing files with fingerprint information isn't as helpful as it sounds. Fingerpint scanners don't compare against graphic files, they look for similarities between distinct features of your fingerprint (where ridges are, how far apart loops, etc...) Not enough information is stored in these files to make a working duplicate of someone's fingerprint (you might could hit a few of the features, but not enough). On the other hand, you could always lift someone's print off a glass and use the ole gelatin trick...
Not sure about retinal scans, maybe that's an answer
I agree though, the use of SSN is outdated, it is security through obscurity using a less than obscure number. If I want to steal your identity, all trying to hide your SSN from me does is make it take me a little longer and piss me off that much more, you'll be owned soon enough;).
I was just thinking of something kind of like this, except maybe with this slant: When you recieve an e-mail, you can whitelist the sender or mark it as spam and have the offending sender charged a nickle (or however much). That way, even if my friend/listserv/whatever isn't already on my whitelist, I have the option not to charge them. As soon as I get spam (or if I really want to send the message to someone to leave me the hell alone), I charge em.
As others have mentioned there are huge problems in implementing this (who gets the cash, how do force people to pay, track people down, etc...) but it's a neat idea.
Obligatory Monty Python....
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The directors of the firm hired to continue the marketing after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The marketing has now been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
Yeah, I realize Nintendo doesn't appear to endorse that, I was speaking more of the general geek community.
There seems to be this constant struggle to make devices do things other than what they're designed for (Gameboy PDA, Linux on the iPod, Linux on the xbox, Linux on your toaster, etc...) While I agree it is interesting/fun to do, all I'm saying is we shouldn't try to play it off as something "useful", just fun.
I'm not even sure where to begin. To me, this falls under the "sure, it can be done, but... um... why?"
I mean, really, I could modify my $0.89 bic lighter into a gas grill of some sort, maybe cook up some food in a really shoddy fashion, but is that really a solution?
Why don't we just let these devices stick to what they really are. A Game Boy is a Game Boy, not a PDA. Want a PDA? Drop the money on a PDA. Can't afford a PDA? Then you probably don't actually need a PDA, you just want a PDA.
Just my.02. I really do understand having fun with this stuff, I hack around on useless crap all the time, I just don't see the point in saying there's a lot of real good use to this. Let's call it geeky fun and be done with it!;)
Actually, I'd be really interested in seeing some stats on browsers that hit slashdot. Granted a large percentage of regular posters are running mozilla, opera, netscape, whatever, I bet there is a very high percentage of MSIE users hitting slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
...that I would be able to get a reliable "first post"... Boy have I been let down...
I thought about this after my post and you're absolutely right. There are two huge holes, one is proving you own the CD and two is preventing you from using the CD once you have shared it with everyone else (thus violating the "fair use"). The only real option _is_ to physically send in your CD which I for one wouldn't really want to do and would make for a terrible storage/archiving/keeping straight what belongs to who issue for the central location. Good thing we've blown holes in an otherwise cool system!
I think you're misunderstanding here (from the way I understand it). Each member contributes their CDs to the collection. With each song you contribute, snapster would have the right to stream that song to one more person. So you don't have to own the CD at all, someone somewhere on the network does. So if 4,000 people contributed "Black Hole Sun", then snapster could have 4,000 simultaneous streams. The main problem I see here is a possibly queue for more popular songs....
.05 per song and giving the song owner .01 per play, people might even stand to _make_ money off of offering thier songs up for play (or at least help offset their own costs).
If they implemented the suggestion of charging
Seems like a killer idea to me, now let's integrate this into my XM radio somehow...
The problem is airline security doesn't think like someone who is in the business of getting something done. I don't think I have ever been through any kind of general security checkpoint that could have kept me from getting weapons or anything else in if I so desired. True, it is impossible to account for EVERYTHING someone might try, but instead of putting more and more useless security checkpoints and provisions in place that aren't going to stop anyone with the will and the know how to f something up, how about hiring some completely whacked at security guys (and I _know_ some completely whacked out in the head security guys, those kids ain't right) to plan for the kind of situations that anyone who is serious about terror is going to do.
We had cameras on our busses too, however, for the entire school district (maybe around 60 busses?) there were only like 5-6 cameras to go around. They were randomly (or by driver request) loaded into little boxes with two way mirrors.
Seeing as I have always been a conspiracy theorist little geek I figured "hey, there's only a one in ten chance we have the camera" then started paying attention when the driver would crank the bus after school. After a few weeks of watching I came to the conclusion that if the little red light next to the camera blinked several times before being steady on, we didn't have the camera. If it immediately went steady, we were being watched, better behave.
Well, or possibly my bus was just so bad that we had the camera 90% of the time... Never really figured on that part...
Not that it has any relevance now, but just in case you're ever "possibly" being monitored on a school bus...
I don't have a can of SPAM in front of me (sadly enough), but it was always my understanding that it wasn't "Spam" = Spiced Ham, it was "SPAM" = Specially Processed Alternative Meat... Who knows, maybe this is something I just made up in my warped childhood. Anyone know?
Those weren't fake IDs, those were IDs taken from people with dead end jobs that he "enlightened". Remember when Tyler drags the guy out behind the convenience store?
Dude, you're stuck in the past, direct deposit is the way to go! Saves you from even having to sign your name!
If not direct deposit, I usually just demand payment in suitcases of cocaine...
AOL
I believe I radiate a similar aura. I worked in tech support for about 3 year some time back and experienced the same thing countless times. The best though was this one time, A customer hadn't been able to connect to the internet for like a week. I stood over his shoulder and watched him try to connect to the internet 3 times, his modem would never complete the connection. We switched places, I never even closed a window, clicked on connect and *bam* fixed, connected every time without a hitch.
It's odd, but I really think there is something to people just haveing a "touch" with electronics
and if your logic prevails we'll all be little piles of goo.
Building shelter and moving out of caves doesn't have a lot of very clear and distinct possibilities of terrible outcomes. Sure, my shelter might fall on me, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
With this new technology on the other hand, we're looking at some VERY real VERY possible VERY bad outcomes. It's not just that this MAY lead to something which COULD be warped to 'bad' uses, it's that it COULD VERY easily be used to f' up lots of shit.
I'm not anti research here, I'm just saying this is something to be very very careful with.
Looks like it's time to invest in Old Glory Robot Insurance
http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
And, yes, you could make a mousepad out of it to use with a wireless mouse, but then your mouse pad would have to be plugged in. What would be the point of that?
No no no... You don't get it, you would get TWO of the pads, lay the second (unplugged) one on top of the first one (which will supply power to the not plugged in one, aka your mousepad) and wallah!
duh!
Seriously though, I wonder what the range on these things is? Could you maybe stick one to the bottom of your desk and it radiate through?
SCSI = Small Computer Systems Interface.
If it had been up to me, I would have moved the vowel sound and called it "Sexy" instead of "Scuzzy"
Stealing files with fingerprint information isn't as helpful as it sounds. Fingerpint scanners don't compare against graphic files, they look for similarities between distinct features of your fingerprint (where ridges are, how far apart loops, etc...) Not enough information is stored in these files to make a working duplicate of someone's fingerprint (you might could hit a few of the features, but not enough). On the other hand, you could always lift someone's print off a glass and use the ole gelatin trick...
;).
Not sure about retinal scans, maybe that's an answer
I agree though, the use of SSN is outdated, it is security through obscurity using a less than obscure number. If I want to steal your identity, all trying to hide your SSN from me does is make it take me a little longer and piss me off that much more, you'll be owned soon enough
Compared to what? I mean, you have no way of knowing how much better your sense of taste might be had you not been smoking since you were 15.
You've been buying from CompUSA? Sir, you've probably lost much more money from the ridiculous markups than fraudulent credit card use...
ROT-13? Not so fast!
here
Maybe YOU want to risk the jail time, but me, I'll pass!
I was just thinking of something kind of like this, except maybe with this slant: When you recieve an e-mail, you can whitelist the sender or mark it as spam and have the offending sender charged a nickle (or however much). That way, even if my friend/listserv/whatever isn't already on my whitelist, I have the option not to charge them. As soon as I get spam (or if I really want to send the message to someone to leave me the hell alone), I charge em.
As others have mentioned there are huge problems in implementing this (who gets the cash, how do force people to pay, track people down, etc...) but it's a neat idea.
The directors of the firm hired to continue the marketing after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The marketing has now been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
Yeah, I realize Nintendo doesn't appear to endorse that, I was speaking more of the general geek community.
There seems to be this constant struggle to make devices do things other than what they're designed for (Gameboy PDA, Linux on the iPod, Linux on the xbox, Linux on your toaster, etc...) While I agree it is interesting/fun to do, all I'm saying is we shouldn't try to play it off as something "useful", just fun.
I'm not even sure where to begin. To me, this falls under the "sure, it can be done, but... um... why?"
.02. I really do understand having fun with this stuff, I hack around on useless crap all the time, I just don't see the point in saying there's a lot of real good use to this. Let's call it geeky fun and be done with it! ;)
I mean, really, I could modify my $0.89 bic lighter into a gas grill of some sort, maybe cook up some food in a really shoddy fashion, but is that really a solution?
Why don't we just let these devices stick to what they really are. A Game Boy is a Game Boy, not a PDA. Want a PDA? Drop the money on a PDA. Can't afford a PDA? Then you probably don't actually need a PDA, you just want a PDA.
Just my
Actually, I'd be really interested in seeing some stats on browsers that hit slashdot. Granted a large percentage of regular posters are running mozilla, opera, netscape, whatever, I bet there is a very high percentage of MSIE users hitting slashdot.
Anybody got any numbers?
Heck, I'm a popular dude, but I've never been attacked by tape worms, horses, or herpes
See, the deal is you have to be popular AND easy to exploit to get herpes! The easy to exploit unpopular kids have no chance...
As for the horses, you just have to be from Arkansas or Alabama....
/me ducks
Watching the Matrix on VHS is akin to watching The Blair Witch Project on DVD...