I was just thinking the same thing while reading the posts. I keep one junk email, but even that doesn't get more than 2 or 3 a week now. My hotmail rarely gets one, and my isp address hasn't gotton one yet. I remember years ago, clearing out 20-30 a day...it seems like it's improving. I never fill out a form with a real email address unless it's required that I recieve a message. For all other occurances, I use me@privacy.net.
Privacy isn't just an issue of "Big Brother." Identity theft is a real concern here in the US.
"More than 27 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, a survey released today by the Government estimated, including nearly 10 million in the last year alone. " (Source: NYTimes, September 3, 2003)
"According to the [2003 FTC] survey, 67 percent of the respondents said their credit card accounts had been misused in the past year. Another 19 percent said thieves had tapped into their checking or savings accounts." (Source: NYTimes, September 3, 2003)
"Around 80% of computer crime is committed by 'insiders'. The 20% that is not done by insiders, manage to steal $100 million by some estimates; $1 billion by others." (Source: Web Crime Statistics. www.intergov.org)
Europe has much stricter privacy laws and as a result, they have much less identity fraud. I'd welcome more restrictions in the US about privacy. The bottom line is, Google does business in Europe, and their privacy statement may conflict with their laws...complaint filed.
I wasn't really advocating selling the mp3's, but you bring up an interesting point. I'd argue that with the introduction of digital music, our lives already have adjusted. As long as we live in a capitalist society, market demand is what is going to dictate what the music/movie industry does to conform. They are the ones selling a product to us. If we, as in most people, are unwilling to go along with their ideas about the market, someone else will give us what we want. (i.e., David Bowie) That's the beauty of capitalism. Unless we are about to undergo major rewrites to our laws (which arguably is happening now) the music industry is the one that's going to have to adapt. I think the bottom line is, we don't value albums/cd's/tapes like we used to. With digital music, we're used to using our music in different ways...especially the younger (read largest demographic) crowd. Ironically, if we were ever able to sell our mp3's, I think DRM would be required.
When I spend $15.00 dollars on a CD, I own that media. I don't claim to own the copyright to it, just the CD itself. With my ownership, comes "fair use" rights and the ability to sell said CD. I can't copy it and sell multiple copies, but I can sell the CD....which to me confirms my ownership of it. When I buy a CD, I don't just purchase the "ability to listen to it", but also the ability to copy it for personal use, put it on an mp3 player or sell it./don't really buy CD's anymore, new music sounds strange
This is a little offtopic like many of the posts today. What better day to release a bomb on the tech community. If I were in charge of PR for a government agency or large company, I'd use April 1st to announce bad news. No one would believe it. Not that I think the UK is going to tax linux, but I wonder if anyone is sneaking in potentially bad news today in the hopes that it will be ignored as a joke.
I don't trust the tin foil/aluminum foil had ideas anyway. Don't you know that this is just misinformation fed to you by "Them?" If you really want to block the mind control device, turn off the TV.
This is probably obvious, but the reason that they can't sue the ISP's in the US for copyright infringement is that they are protected from the actions of their customers. This is why they are going after the networks (Napster, Kazaa,...) and the users. Does Canada have similar laws protecting the service providers? If that's the case, as long as the Canooks are around, p2p will have a steady stream of uploaders. I can't wait to go home and download some more Gordon Lightfoot and Anne Murrey. Just kidding, it's nice to see a court system back the privacy of the individual over the media conglomerates interests.
I'm not sure that p2p is really the issue. Before the printing press, publishing a book was expensive. People had a precieved value of a book, and it was extremely high priced and rare. Ten years ago, CD's were only published by the record companies, so the value to the customer was set. With mp3's, cd burners and mp3 players, people have a different precieved value of music. I'm not arguing morality at all here. People have adjusted to the new technologies and music doesn't hold the same value anymore. If you combine that with the rising costs of purchasing CD's in music stores you get a product with lower demand. The cat is out of the bag and the cat is compressed digital music, not the p2p networks. When I was in highschool, it was a status symbol to have stacks and stacks of CD's in your collection. Now that collection is compressed onto an Ipod. Our whole perception of music has changed and it's not going to ever go back to how it was before. Video, some could argue, is already there too.
That's a really good idea. I wouldn't mind downloading the commercials with the shows. (Fast forward would come in handy though) I think the biggest problem with the bittorent idea, it that this would open new legal ramifications. If media companies start releasing there own media to p2p networks, how is a user going to know which files are official/legal and which ones are pirated? Eventually, this type of delivery-on-demand makes the most sense for video. If they were smart, they would jump on it now while we're willing to contribute our own bandwidth towards distributing their content. Most likely, it will be through digital cable/sat subscriptions and cost the end user a lot more.
One application for this could be local, anonymous filesharing. Think of a waste node, but instead of going through an ISP (bad idea if you want to stay private) you log onto a wifi lan and connect to a group of filesharers. It wouldn't be very cool in rural neighborhoods, but in urban areas you could probably find quite a few people. I'm not really sure the backpack is neccessary, but grassroots networks could be the last place for the p2p users.
I'm not saying it would make Google better, just that they don't have to be bigger than Google. Here's some marketshare stats I picked up at OneStat.com from last summer: 1. Google 55.2% 2. Yahoo 21.7% 3. MSN Search 9.6% 4. AOL Search 3.8% 5. Terra Lycos 2.6% 6. Altavista 2.2% 7. Askjeeves 1.5% If they bought Google, they'd have about 65% marketshare. I think they could build on Google's name.
Considering how important Google has become (at least in my geek world), I'd like to see lots of competition. I love Google now, but I think it was better a couple of years ago. How much longer before new corporate interests bias the search results. As long as there are competing search engines, there will be innovation and other sources of information. I don't want to see all of the eggs in one basket, even if the basket is Google.
What's to keep Microsoft from just buying google? They have plenty of money to buy it thousands of times over. I hope that msn search does just fine so they'll leave my google alone.
I would think for blind people, a text only option on Opera would be a nice feature to save on bandwidth(I haven't used Opera in a few years, so I'm not sure). I wonder how the voice enabled Opera would work with text only?
Now when I'm hiding from the sun in front of my monitor, I don't even have to move. No more pesky arm movements, no more mouse clicking/shudders/. Now I can browse the internet without the physical effort. Now if they could just come up with a 'thought-controlled' plugin, I won't even have to talk.
I think it's great that sun is trying something different. Anything that might interest new users to the platform sounds good. I mean, Linux is all about customization. If you want to keep your 2d interface, there's always plenty of WM's to choose from. Maybe when people see a 3d interface at their local CompUSA, they'll ask what it is. I know tons of people who have never heard of Linux. I'm not sure 3d is the way to go, but maybe going in a new direction for the gui will end up working out. It does look cool.
Not really. With xvid, divx, mp4 compression you could fit about 12.5 movies on a single disk. I've been waiting to buy a DVD burner for when the media gets cheaper, but this sounds pretty cool. You could easily use one DVD to ghost the important parts of your hd. Hard drive storage seems to be going for about $.80 - $1.00 per gig, so these DVD's are a little better (minus the drive.) Pretty cool.
I'm not sure how small it really is. If the picture is any indication of how it would fit on an arm....it looks way too bulky. I don't even like wearing a wristwatch because it bugs me while typing. I'm a bit clumsy too and this thing would last about a week on my arm before it was slammed gently into a doorjam/desk/coffee table. I like the idea, but maybe we should wait for virtual displays on glasses or better audio interfaces. On the flip side, it does look like a chick magnet......if you happen to be at a Star Trek convention.:)
I didn't say that I had to directly compensate the artist. When I buy a used CD, it has already been bought by somebody, so therefore the artist has been payed. Why should they get payed twice for the same product? If nobody bought used CD's anymore, there wouldn't be the same level of demand that you see now for new CD's. People wouldn't be as likely to shell out $17 for a new one. People who are "boycotting" the RIAA by only buying used CD's don't understand boycotting or economics. I don't buy new CD's because I'm over 25 and like my older music, it's not a political statement. For me, pop culture kinda frozen in 1999.
I laughed out loud at the first paragraph, "could be an early sign of enviromental problems" lol. I was sure you were linking to the scary-assed monkey thing from the other article.
OMG, I followed the link and yikes. It looks like a combination of the Terminator, Chucky and some scary-assed monkey thing. Very cool idea, but I'm going to have nightmares about this one.
I was reading about this earlier today. This article, FCC Reverses Ruling On Bono Profanity, Hits Howard Stern With Maximum Penalty talks about the reversed decisions of the FCC. Apparently (Howard Stern Show is not in my city anymore) Howard has changed a large portion of his show to criticize the Bush administration. He was a supporter for the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the censorship has pissed him off. He's urging his 8 million listeners to vote bush out. Here's the link: Does Howard Stern Have More Political Muscle Than Ralph Nader? Last, here is a Q&A about crackdown on indecency If you can walk around in your community and not be offended, you are not living in a free society.
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I was just thinking the same thing while reading the posts. I keep one junk email, but even that doesn't get more than 2 or 3 a week now. My hotmail rarely gets one, and my isp address hasn't gotton one yet. I remember years ago, clearing out 20-30 a day...it seems like it's improving. I never fill out a form with a real email address unless it's required that I recieve a message. For all other occurances, I use me@privacy.net.
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Privacy isn't just an issue of "Big Brother." Identity theft is a real concern here in the US.
"More than 27 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, a survey released today by the Government estimated, including nearly 10 million in the last year alone. " (Source: NYTimes, September 3, 2003)
"According to the [2003 FTC] survey, 67 percent of the respondents said their credit card accounts had been misused in the past year. Another 19 percent said thieves had tapped into their checking or savings accounts." (Source: NYTimes, September 3, 2003)
"Around 80% of computer crime is committed by 'insiders'. The 20% that is not done by insiders, manage to steal $100 million by some estimates; $1 billion by others." (Source: Web Crime Statistics. www.intergov.org)
Europe has much stricter privacy laws and as a result, they have much less identity fraud. I'd welcome more restrictions in the US about privacy. The bottom line is, Google does business in Europe, and their privacy statement may conflict with their laws...complaint filed.
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I wasn't really advocating selling the mp3's, but you bring up an interesting point. I'd argue that with the introduction of digital music, our lives already have adjusted. As long as we live in a capitalist society, market demand is what is going to dictate what the music/movie industry does to conform. They are the ones selling a product to us. If we, as in most people, are unwilling to go along with their ideas about the market, someone else will give us what we want. (i.e., David Bowie) That's the beauty of capitalism. Unless we are about to undergo major rewrites to our laws (which arguably is happening now) the music industry is the one that's going to have to adapt. I think the bottom line is, we don't value albums/cd's/tapes like we used to. With digital music, we're used to using our music in different ways...especially the younger (read largest demographic) crowd. Ironically, if we were ever able to sell our mp3's, I think DRM would be required.
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When I spend $15.00 dollars on a CD, I own that media. I don't claim to own the copyright to it, just the CD itself. With my ownership, comes "fair use" rights and the ability to sell said CD. I can't copy it and sell multiple copies, but I can sell the CD....which to me confirms my ownership of it. When I buy a CD, I don't just purchase the "ability to listen to it", but also the ability to copy it for personal use, put it on an mp3 player or sell it. /don't really buy CD's anymore, new music sounds strange
I'd still love to see a Sliders mini-series if they started off where season 2 ended. I doubt it will happen now though.
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This is a little offtopic like many of the posts today. What better day to release a bomb on the tech community. If I were in charge of PR for a government agency or large company, I'd use April 1st to announce bad news. No one would believe it. Not that I think the UK is going to tax linux, but I wonder if anyone is sneaking in potentially bad news today in the hopes that it will be ignored as a joke.
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I don't trust the tin foil/aluminum foil had ideas anyway. Don't you know that this is just misinformation fed to you by "Them?" If you really want to block the mind control device, turn off the TV.
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I'm picturing what a Denial of Service attack would be like.....Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" comes to mind.
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This is probably obvious, but the reason that they can't sue the ISP's in the US for copyright infringement is that they are protected from the actions of their customers. This is why they are going after the networks (Napster, Kazaa, ...) and the users. Does Canada have similar laws protecting the service providers? If that's the case, as long as the Canooks are around, p2p will have a steady stream of uploaders. I can't wait to go home and download some more Gordon Lightfoot and Anne Murrey. Just kidding, it's nice to see a court system back the privacy of the individual over the media conglomerates interests.
I'm not sure that p2p is really the issue. Before the printing press, publishing a book was expensive. People had a precieved value of a book, and it was extremely high priced and rare. Ten years ago, CD's were only published by the record companies, so the value to the customer was set. With mp3's, cd burners and mp3 players, people have a different precieved value of music. I'm not arguing morality at all here. People have adjusted to the new technologies and music doesn't hold the same value anymore. If you combine that with the rising costs of purchasing CD's in music stores you get a product with lower demand. The cat is out of the bag and the cat is compressed digital music, not the p2p networks. When I was in highschool, it was a status symbol to have stacks and stacks of CD's in your collection. Now that collection is compressed onto an Ipod. Our whole perception of music has changed and it's not going to ever go back to how it was before. Video, some could argue, is already there too.
That's a really good idea. I wouldn't mind downloading the commercials with the shows. (Fast forward would come in handy though) I think the biggest problem with the bittorent idea, it that this would open new legal ramifications. If media companies start releasing there own media to p2p networks, how is a user going to know which files are official/legal and which ones are pirated? Eventually, this type of delivery-on-demand makes the most sense for video. If they were smart, they would jump on it now while we're willing to contribute our own bandwidth towards distributing their content. Most likely, it will be through digital cable/sat subscriptions and cost the end user a lot more.
One application for this could be local, anonymous filesharing. Think of a waste node, but instead of going through an ISP (bad idea if you want to stay private) you log onto a wifi lan and connect to a group of filesharers. It wouldn't be very cool in rural neighborhoods, but in urban areas you could probably find quite a few people. I'm not really sure the backpack is neccessary, but grassroots networks could be the last place for the p2p users.
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I'm not saying it would make Google better, just that they don't have to be bigger than Google. Here's some marketshare stats I picked up at OneStat.com from last summer:
1. Google 55.2%
2. Yahoo 21.7%
3. MSN Search 9.6%
4. AOL Search 3.8%
5. Terra Lycos 2.6%
6. Altavista 2.2%
7. Askjeeves 1.5%
If they bought Google, they'd have about 65% marketshare. I think they could build on Google's name.
Considering how important Google has become (at least in my geek world), I'd like to see lots of competition. I love Google now, but I think it was better a couple of years ago. How much longer before new corporate interests bias the search results. As long as there are competing search engines, there will be innovation and other sources of information. I don't want to see all of the eggs in one basket, even if the basket is Google.
I wouldn't want to pay Google's bandwidth costs. Would you be willing to pay a membership/service fee for google without ads?
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What's to keep Microsoft from just buying google? They have plenty of money to buy it thousands of times over. I hope that msn search does just fine so they'll leave my google alone.
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I would think for blind people, a text only option on Opera would be a nice feature to save on bandwidth(I haven't used Opera in a few years, so I'm not sure). I wonder how the voice enabled Opera would work with text only?
Now when I'm hiding from the sun in front of my monitor, I don't even have to move. No more pesky arm movements, no more mouse clicking /shudders/. Now I can browse the internet without the physical effort. Now if they could just come up with a 'thought-controlled' plugin, I won't even have to talk.
I think it's great that sun is trying something different. Anything that might interest new users to the platform sounds good. I mean, Linux is all about customization. If you want to keep your 2d interface, there's always plenty of WM's to choose from. Maybe when people see a 3d interface at their local CompUSA, they'll ask what it is. I know tons of people who have never heard of Linux. I'm not sure 3d is the way to go, but maybe going in a new direction for the gui will end up working out. It does look cool.
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Not really. With xvid, divx, mp4 compression you could fit about 12.5 movies on a single disk. I've been waiting to buy a DVD burner for when the media gets cheaper, but this sounds pretty cool. You could easily use one DVD to ghost the important parts of your hd. Hard drive storage seems to be going for about $.80 - $1.00 per gig, so these DVD's are a little better (minus the drive.) Pretty cool.
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I'm not sure how small it really is. If the picture is any indication of how it would fit on an arm....it looks way too bulky. I don't even like wearing a wristwatch because it bugs me while typing. I'm a bit clumsy too and this thing would last about a week on my arm before it was slammed gently into a doorjam/desk/coffee table. I like the idea, but maybe we should wait for virtual displays on glasses or better audio interfaces. On the flip side, it does look like a chick magnet......if you happen to be at a Star Trek convention. :)
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I didn't say that I had to directly compensate the artist. When I buy a used CD, it has already been bought by somebody, so therefore the artist has been payed. Why should they get payed twice for the same product? If nobody bought used CD's anymore, there wouldn't be the same level of demand that you see now for new CD's. People wouldn't be as likely to shell out $17 for a new one. People who are "boycotting" the RIAA by only buying used CD's don't understand boycotting or economics. I don't buy new CD's because I'm over 25 and like my older music, it's not a political statement. For me, pop culture kinda frozen in 1999.
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I laughed out loud at the first paragraph, "could be an early sign of enviromental problems" lol. I was sure you were linking to the scary-assed monkey thing from the other article.
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OMG, I followed the link and yikes. It looks like a combination of the Terminator, Chucky and some scary-assed monkey thing. Very cool idea, but I'm going to have nightmares about this one.
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I was reading about this earlier today. This article, FCC Reverses Ruling On Bono Profanity, Hits Howard Stern With Maximum Penalty talks about the reversed decisions of the FCC. Apparently (Howard Stern Show is not in my city anymore) Howard has changed a large portion of his show to criticize the Bush administration. He was a supporter for the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the censorship has pissed him off. He's urging his 8 million listeners to vote bush out. Here's the link: Does Howard Stern Have More Political Muscle Than Ralph Nader? Last, here is a Q&A about crackdown on indecency If you can walk around in your community and not be offended, you are not living in a free society.