" Ugh... as if we don't have enough Bang this and Bang that, now we'll have BangPlane.com."
Yeah, who is that guy who does BangBus and 8th Street Latinas and Milf Hunter and Cum Fiesta? I swear to god, he is an incredibly smart business man who is now filthy rich. I wonder if the girls are hookers or if he's just a really good pickup artist.
how long until the individual blades or the razor itself have RFIDs and Gilette goes after people who make other razor blades with the DMCA ala Lexmark? They both have the same kinda business model.....sell product for dirt cheap (razor and printers) and sell refills at sky high prices (razor blades and ink).
"Perhaps the new "Big 5" will be Apple, HP, Microsoft, Dell, and IBM.
Does this mean that music won't be run by fuckheads? No, but at least the fuckheads running the new music industry will live in the same world the rest of us do."
Would that be better? I think it would be 100 times worse. Do you think Microsoft is implementing DRM soley because they feel like it? No, they're doing it because Hollywood is prepared to pay them for it. If M$ were the label instead, do you really think they wouldn't care about piracy? Not only would they care a LOT more, but they would have the means to do whatever it took on both the hardware and software end to lock things up. I for one hope the labels die and never resurface under another name.
How about a plasma shredder? We can already create 'fields' of plasma as stated by that article a while ago on force fields. Why not feed paper into that?
I know this is just the latest trend in game tech, but this could be an important milestone. William Gibson wrote a letter to the Director's Guild which had some very interesting ideas for our future in it. Here's the link. The relevant part is towards the end where it talks about how the kid makes the movie however he wants and can change settings on the fly. Such as giving all the characters dog-heads, or adding in a kung-fu scene.
What if game engines and machinima are the first step in this 'do it yourself' movie? Now all someone needs to release is software that makes the directing and editing of such a movie very simple, and BAM! new generation of home movie making. I wonder what kind of software can be used to simplify this work and enable Joe Everybody to get their hands dirty in the wonderful world of home video production.
Yeah yeah...bad taste to reply to your own post and whatnot...but just for the record, I wasn't trying to flamebait here, I was trying to be funny. I apologize for those of you who read slashdot who are humor-impaired.
Looks like they borrowed, and are playing Daryl's "If you run Linux, we're going to sue you" card. What can citizens do to stop these insane litigation fiaSCOs from happening?
Explain to me again why uploading and sharing legal files to a P2P network is a felony? Now please explain why uploading a legal file (minus the P2P) would be a felony. Because in essence, all P2P does is enable you to upload a file to many people (or rather give them an easily accesible method of downloading it from you) while sharing the bandwidth. Its just a more complex form of a basic file upload.
Whats next? If you are sending packets out of your computer, you're a terrorist?
"Stop copying other people's stuff.
Take the moral highground.
Then, when the RIAA doesn't have a leg to stand on, push the balance of copyright law back to normal."
Nice theory, but uh...got any idea how to implement it?
How are you going to stop the millions of users across the globe who use P2P? Thats what I thought, nice try though.
"What if someone sets up a WiFi LAN just for file trading on their block? It's an open network, but there's no ISP at all. What would the RIAA do then, if they even noticed?"
Then its simply a matter of saturation. Once you get WiFi nodes overlapping each other and tapping into the network, guess what, RIAA can't touch ya.
"I doubt there will be a big group of people Wardriving for Tunes."
God I sure as hell hope not. Can you imagine a carpool of these Kazaa kids? I'm not talkin Kazaalite or K++ either. I'm talkin straight out of the wrapper, bloated with Brilliant Digital and spyware, plain ol' Kazaa. Now, think of the kind of person that uses this version...and think of the kind of music they listen to. God help us all.
Yes, your post is right on. EXCEPT for the fact that this article is dealing with WiFi. Now, you may be able to tell who accessed your wifi spot if you have people sign up to get access and have information about them...but this does not exactly apply to everybody, especially the people with the tools that make breaking WiFi encryption easy enough for an AOLer. And once they're in, guess what, they don't have to be within LoS to use it. So if some guy sets himself up in an apartment nearby, gets through your security, guess what, you have absolutely ZERO chance of finding him.
What if they setup a minimum of three hotspots for each connection...and then triangulated them using something like this which was posted earlier today? Not that I want the RIAA to find some way to destroy this last bastion of anonymity.....but technically speaking, wouldn't it work?
"Great marketing strategy--giving GBAs to those who already have them"
I know you were being sarcastic, but the pathetic thing is, for the largest of their target markets, this strategy works VERY well. To give an example: I was talking to my 12 year old brother about his GBA SP, and he said that he was getting another one. I was baffled as to why, wondering if it was new features or something. What was the reason you might be wondering? They were coming out with a new 'limited-edition' color. Yeah...I almost lost it and explained to him how much of a sheep he was, but there you have it, this marketing shit works.
Its the same reason some kid will buy the new pokemon game, which is really just the same game, different color cartridge, and one or two bytes of different data for the 1 or 2 different pokemon in that version. I don't know WHY this marketing tactic works, I just know that it DOES work.
With other search engines, its much more feasible to cross reference your results based on the results other people are getting. I don't know the address offhand, but there is a website that was made to track these 'filterings'. Obviously that becomes next to impossible to do for a snailmail search engine.
Is that someone else has judgement over what is to be considered most relevant. Sure you can pick from the sources they give you, but who's to say that the information they give you isn't filtered in some way?
Clippy: I see you are trying to run your police state. Would you like help:
-collecting data on pirates from WMP? -sending 'public service' announcements via Hotmail? -lock down computers of P2P users, who are probably terrorists? -forcing users to upgrade their computers to Windows 84?
When Halo was first being processed in the rumor-mill, the big hype was that you could use vehicles, both ground and air,and it had lots of details that were small, but greatly enhanced the gameplay, such as when you were shot with the spike gun thingy, the spikes stayed in you.
Well, guess what, every FPS game for the PC now lets you use vehicles. I'm hooked on bf1942...huge mod community with INCREDIBLE (read:rivaling the original product ala CounterStrike) and there's ground vehicles, air vehicles (even helicopters in the EoD mod) water vehicles, subs, etc. There's gun emplacements that you can use, its incredible.
Planetside is kind of the same thing, except less traditional FPS style (Cone-of-Fire anyone?)but makes up for it with massively multiplayer battles with hundreds of people.
I'm sorry, Halo just isn't going to cut it anymore...Bioware should try the PC market with Halo 2, but this time release it at the same time as the Xbox version so the game isn't completely outdated by the time we finally get it on the PC.
"(8) Porn censorship laws
(9) Dinners of seaweed, raw fish, and other nasty stuff
(10) The awful Japanese language
(11) Merchandising in your face everywhere and everyday "
Right, the porn sucks...yeah...but they also have love hotels, so you can make your own...and what about those of us who love sushi and other japanese food, and who enjoy learning new languages? I'm with ya on the merchandising though...but then again, its not much different than America, except its more insidious in the states.
"How orwellian our world is becoming. He must have had a time machine or something. Seriously if you havn't read 1984 you really should. Everything is coming true!!"
All hope is not lost however. Everyday new eyes are being opened to the horrors of our society and where its going. Two days ago, one of my fellow interns who I have previously thought to have the IQ of a beanbag came in telling me how she just finished 1984, and proceeded to launch into a speech that would have been modded +5 Insightful. Needless to say, my jaw was on the floor.
Last night, my mother's 55 year old friend complained to her about our society and about the RIAA. My mom told her she didn't want to hear it (lets just say I talk about slashdot a little too much at home) but that she knows a website she'd probably enjoy (take a guess at which one).
Informing the masses doesn't happen overnight. But if you poke and prod people, and point out aspects of the horrors that await us in ways that directly affect their life, you'd be surprised at how interested they suddenly become.
The thing I still wonder, but am understandably skeptical about, is whether or not my generation will become so disgusted with the way things are now that when we are running the show we will change things for the better, or more importantly, if we'll even be able to.
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Yeah, who is that guy who does BangBus and 8th Street Latinas and Milf Hunter and Cum Fiesta? I swear to god, he is an incredibly smart business man who is now filthy rich. I wonder if the girls are hookers or if he's just a really good pickup artist.
"New AOL Version 10.0, sign up now and NEVER get sued by the RIAA!!!
Would that be better? I think it would be 100 times worse. Do you think Microsoft is implementing DRM soley because they feel like it? No, they're doing it because Hollywood is prepared to pay them for it. If M$ were the label instead, do you really think they wouldn't care about piracy? Not only would they care a LOT more, but they would have the means to do whatever it took on both the hardware and software end to lock things up. I for one hope the labels die and never resurface under another name.
What if game engines and machinima are the first step in this 'do it yourself' movie? Now all someone needs to release is software that makes the directing and editing of such a movie very simple, and BAM! new generation of home movie making. I wonder what kind of software can be used to simplify this work and enable Joe Everybody to get their hands dirty in the wonderful world of home video production.
Whats next? If you are sending packets out of your computer, you're a terrorist?
Nice theory, but uh...got any idea how to implement it?
How are you going to stop the millions of users across the globe who use P2P? Thats what I thought, nice try though.
Then its simply a matter of saturation. Once you get WiFi nodes overlapping each other and tapping into the network, guess what, RIAA can't touch ya.
God I sure as hell hope not. Can you imagine a carpool of these Kazaa kids? I'm not talkin Kazaalite or K++ either. I'm talkin straight out of the wrapper, bloated with Brilliant Digital and spyware, plain ol' Kazaa. Now, think of the kind of person that uses this version...and think of the kind of music they listen to. God help us all.
I know you were being sarcastic, but the pathetic thing is, for the largest of their target markets, this strategy works VERY well. To give an example: I was talking to my 12 year old brother about his GBA SP, and he said that he was getting another one. I was baffled as to why, wondering if it was new features or something. What was the reason you might be wondering? They were coming out with a new 'limited-edition' color. Yeah...I almost lost it and explained to him how much of a sheep he was, but there you have it, this marketing shit works.
Its the same reason some kid will buy the new pokemon game, which is really just the same game, different color cartridge, and one or two bytes of different data for the 1 or 2 different pokemon in that version. I don't know WHY this marketing tactic works, I just know that it DOES work.
-collecting data on pirates from WMP?
-sending 'public service' announcements via Hotmail?
-lock down computers of P2P users, who are probably terrorists?
-forcing users to upgrade their computers to Windows 84?
Well, guess what, every FPS game for the PC now lets you use vehicles. I'm hooked on bf1942...huge mod community with INCREDIBLE (read:rivaling the original product ala CounterStrike) and there's ground vehicles, air vehicles (even helicopters in the EoD mod) water vehicles, subs, etc. There's gun emplacements that you can use, its incredible.
Planetside is kind of the same thing, except less traditional FPS style (Cone-of-Fire anyone?)but makes up for it with massively multiplayer battles with hundreds of people.
I'm sorry, Halo just isn't going to cut it anymore...Bioware should try the PC market with Halo 2, but this time release it at the same time as the Xbox version so the game isn't completely outdated by the time we finally get it on the PC.
(9) Dinners of seaweed, raw fish, and other nasty stuff
(10) The awful Japanese language
(11) Merchandising in your face everywhere and everyday
"
Right, the porn sucks...yeah...but they also have love hotels, so you can make your own...and what about those of us who love sushi and other japanese food, and who enjoy learning new languages? I'm with ya on the merchandising though...but then again, its not much different than America, except its more insidious in the states.
How else will they get the computing power to handle the AI for Clippy in the next version of windows?
"I notice you haven't done anything in a while. Would you like me to:"
-Calculate the meaning of life?
-Cure cancer?
-Run Carnivore and send the answers back to our nations great protectors?
No thanks, I'll pass.
All hope is not lost however. Everyday new eyes are being opened to the horrors of our society and where its going. Two days ago, one of my fellow interns who I have previously thought to have the IQ of a beanbag came in telling me how she just finished 1984, and proceeded to launch into a speech that would have been modded +5 Insightful. Needless to say, my jaw was on the floor.
Last night, my mother's 55 year old friend complained to her about our society and about the RIAA. My mom told her she didn't want to hear it (lets just say I talk about slashdot a little too much at home) but that she knows a website she'd probably enjoy (take a guess at which one).
Informing the masses doesn't happen overnight. But if you poke and prod people, and point out aspects of the horrors that await us in ways that directly affect their life, you'd be surprised at how interested they suddenly become.
The thing I still wonder, but am understandably skeptical about, is whether or not my generation will become so disgusted with the way things are now that when we are running the show we will change things for the better, or more importantly, if we'll even be able to.