I blame the RIAA. If they hadn't started the ball rolling, Slyck News might not have made that Excel document...
But, as one poster suggested I've got appreciate the fact that someone put together a list in the first place. I was actually shocked by the fact that my browser was trying to download a spreadsheet. I couldn't cancel the download fast enough:)
Personally, I valued your bamboo bike comment. As a proud owner of a Springer Softail, adults on bicycles (bamboo or not) already look like clowns on flaming unicycles to me!
And hey, looks like I'm winning the "Moderation Game";)
... The only way I'll find a pattern to any of this is if I spend the rest of the night playing rounds of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Frankly I'm disappointed (but not surprised) that the RIAA is more immediately interested in these newer performers than in first "protecting" those artists that made RIAA rich in the first place. I'm in the Lou Reed camp!
And to anyone who downloaded The Clash... just cough up the $20 to buy Sandinista, and support the only rock band that mattered!
CompUSA won't likely have it, but there are several Barnes & Nobles booksellers in major markets that would carry it. That's where you'll find the consumers like me who aren't techies, but still have specialized computing needs. I'm a Windows power user myself, but I used to use Solaris for work.
Does anyone know much about Solaris 9? Years ago when I wanted to take my work home with me, I picked up the free Solaris 7 release for Intel that SUN mailed out. It couldn't handle my hardware then. Does 9 even support typical PC hardware found today?
The national DNC list only asks for a phone number and your email address. The email address is a slightly harder to trace back to an owner, but the phone number easily resolves to a person. Why would I be putting my neighbor's number on the list? I'm responsible for at least half of the FingerHut catalogs they've gotten over the last severl years!
"ordering and downloading resources from computerized repositories;" a "computer system for management of resources;" and a "mechanism for dependably managing Web synchronization and tracking operations among multiple browsers,"
So technically everyone who runs a dynamic database-driven website that serves up content is violating at least three of the ten patents NCR holds.
Granted, such problems are to be expected when you do a product launch for a new business model; but I for one am thrilled that the service is wrought with technical and, from the sounds of the it, service problems.
What we need is more real world DRM failures like this where legitimate transactions are made riskier than illegal file-sharing.
If more and more DRM implementations fail during real world consumption and not during lab testing, eventually the cost of developing improved DRM methodologies will become so staggering, the entire business model will collapse.
The RIAA would not pull the strings on this model because of the profit potential. It's like a bating a mouse with cheese - any amount will do. There would be no alternative but to ease up on DRM all together or sell MP3s at a price that is comparable to ordinary purchases of CD singles in retail stores. Eventually, the price of CDs would drop, making my dollar go further;)
Game theories can be very useful, but this thing as a Faces of Death smell to it that's simply unavoidable. There are some real problems with the viability of an outcome being able to motivate the government.
First off, the government already has numerous methods by which a citizen can voice his/her concern. Generally speaking, unless you are already an insider, anything you say, however correct academically, will go unlistened. There's no reason to believe that the government will truly value any outcome in this game as being a valid predicator of future events. A couple of years ago if the game lead to an 97% outcome of an attack by airplane crash and a 95% chance of an attack on WTC, the government would still ignore it.
Keep in mind, this now information market must still deal with the current administration's arrogance problem as well as the infortion turf war being fought by the various government agencies. Sure your Ferrari is faster than my Volkswagen, but in NY City does it really matter?
It's inferred to by the Declaration of Independence (Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness).
Mixing the Right to Privacy with the Right to Profit isn't really a good thing. I see them both as opposites in a tug of war. As far back as I can remember, the Supreme Court has always sided with Profit when it was a Profit vs. Privacy issue. The Baby M case is the only exception I can think of, but even in that case there were other issues.
The Supreme Court and Congress really prefer that the market bear the burden of resolving privacy issues because it's easier, lessens the Court's case load, doesn't screw with the area of Constitutional Law, and creates jobs and content consumers. I really think that whole Broken Windows fallacy was started with Justice Scalia actually smashing in store windows on the way to work... That being said, vote Quimby!
Color me paranoid. I will never put my name on a government list of ANY kind. The DNC list, when read in the right light, by the right people, with the right motivation, can also be called a Against Free Market Capitalism list, or a Does Not Play Well with Others list. The next thing you know, your name has been added to two more government lists: the Persons of Interest list and the Giving Aid and Comfort to Terrorists list. If you're really against putting up your individual privacy and personal access to the free market, you might even be an Axis of Evil...
In America you're free only if you are off the radar.
In Hong Kong, where using steel can get very expensive, Chinese construction workers use frames and girders built from bamboo. The material has been very effective in aiding the construction of highrises while lowering costs. Go figure.
I meant it's like painting the Golden Gate. It's an ongoing job, and just as soon as the paint crew is done, they've got to start all over again from the beginning;)
For me it went like this until I learned that Service Pack I contains the patches that come before it.
Install Windows -> Drivers -> Critical Patches ->
Optional Patches -> IE -> DirectX ->
Media Player -> Secure system -> Tune system
Install Applications -> Reinstall Windows
There you have it. It's a neverending job, kinda like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The anonymous coward made an interesting implication. It's GNU/Linux... okay, maybe not. I don't think it is, but GNU does. That makes GNU a party to this issue. It's good to hear that GNU has that filing process as extra imdenification insurance. But what if SCO decided to argue that the Linux kernel was resultant from reverse-engineering or stealing copyrighted property and that GNU's tools were involved? SCO could then go for a DMCA-based claim against GNU.
This is surely grabbing at straws, but somehow I wouldn't put it past SCO to try this. Poisoning the well seems right up their alley.
... Or, after the downloads and installations have completed, just scan through your folders to find the.CAB and.EXE files for the patch. Burn them to a disc, and save for later. That's what I do. That way whenever I reinstall Windows, I won't spend several hours downloading service packs and patches.
Not to make light of a certain historical sore spot, but a long time ago a bunch of guys came after one group of people while everyone else sat quietly and did nothing, When that bunch was done, they turned and went after that other group.
My point is, the BSD people are pretty quiet about this issue. They might not necessarily be in the same camp, but the BSD community is no less vulnerable. The GNU people have seemed a little passive on the issue too. How long will it be before SCO "finds" proprietary code in various GNU sources?
Thanks for posting that article, Duck 'o Death. So apparently the RIAA selectively chooses its defendents by performing a search for a random Top 40 hit, and just jots down the screen-names of the users offering those titles. This probably means that if you are offering Avril Lavigne, you're screwed, but if your offering Men Without Hats, you're safe.
First off, the entire list of potential defendents should be public record and available for free. But that's another story...
But who the hell is being sued? Is the RIAA suing downloaders or sharers -- or both? Is the RIAA really selectively choosing defendents based on the particular songs? If I download an MP3 of an unsigned local band or an independent whose music is not owned by the RIAA, will the RIAA sue me anyway?
I'd like to see these details. They speak to the ultimate motive of the lawsuit, especially if it appears that the RIAA is intentionally trying to flatten the independent music scene or prevent artists from choosing production/distribution by an entity other than the RIAA and its members.
Incidentally, Munkeyspankers 1-20 can hide out at my place until the heat blows over. #21 is SOL.
I caught the guy on a talking heads program on cable news. According to Tommy Lee (of Motley Crue fame), everyday music companies are closing or laying off people over the revenues losses.
Wow. I didn't know the music biz was suffering so much. Next time I buy an album, I pay 15-20% more at Borders instead of shopping at BestBuy. I'm helping!
And before that, Sunsite and just about every public FTP. I remember when wuarchive.wustl.edu used to carry a bunch of pictures as well. Anyone remember why?? None of them were royalty-free (if that was a concern back in those days).
I use Google nowadays too. I used to frequent CNET for software/hardware reviews, but that was back when CNET had a show on Sci-Fi channel. Since then, software reviews have been stupid and irrelevent to say the least.:(
Well, Novell would certainly benefit from watching the UNIX and Linux communities cannibalize each other. It would leave behind a weak and uncertain UNIX/Linux market, giving Novell a chance to push NetWare again with only Windows as competition.
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I blame the RIAA. If they hadn't started the ball rolling, Slyck News might not have made that Excel document...
:)
But, as one poster suggested I've got appreciate the fact that someone put together a list in the first place. I was actually shocked by the fact that my browser was trying to download a spreadsheet. I couldn't cancel the download fast enough
Personally, I valued your bamboo bike comment. As a proud owner of a Springer Softail, adults on bicycles (bamboo or not) already look like clowns on flaming unicycles to me!
;)
And hey, looks like I'm winning the "Moderation Game"
... The only way I'll find a pattern to any of this is if I spend the rest of the night playing rounds of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Frankly I'm disappointed (but not surprised) that the RIAA is more immediately interested in these newer performers than in first "protecting" those artists that made RIAA rich in the first place. I'm in the Lou Reed camp!
And to anyone who downloaded The Clash... just cough up the $20 to buy Sandinista , and support the only rock band that mattered!
Ah, scratch that. I found the new HCL, and my hardware is still not supported.
CompUSA won't likely have it, but there are several Barnes & Nobles booksellers in major markets that would carry it. That's where you'll find the consumers like me who aren't techies, but still have specialized computing needs. I'm a Windows power user myself, but I used to use Solaris for work.
Does anyone know much about Solaris 9? Years ago when I wanted to take my work home with me, I picked up the free Solaris 7 release for Intel that SUN mailed out. It couldn't handle my hardware then. Does 9 even support typical PC hardware found today?
The national DNC list only asks for a phone number and your email address. The email address is a slightly harder to trace back to an owner, but the phone number easily resolves to a person. Why would I be putting my neighbor's number on the list? I'm responsible for at least half of the FingerHut catalogs they've gotten over the last severl years!
"ordering and downloading resources from computerized repositories;" a "computer system for management of resources;" and a "mechanism for dependably managing Web synchronization and tracking operations among multiple browsers,"
So technically everyone who runs a dynamic database-driven website that serves up content is violating at least three of the ten patents NCR holds.
Yet another reason to hate ATM machines...
Granted, such problems are to be expected when you do a product launch for a new business model; but I for one am thrilled that the service is wrought with technical and, from the sounds of the it, service problems.
;)
What we need is more real world DRM failures like this where legitimate transactions are made riskier than illegal file-sharing.
If more and more DRM implementations fail during real world consumption and not during lab testing, eventually the cost of developing improved DRM methodologies will become so staggering, the entire business model will collapse.
The RIAA would not pull the strings on this model because of the profit potential. It's like a bating a mouse with cheese - any amount will do. There would be no alternative but to ease up on DRM all together or sell MP3s at a price that is comparable to ordinary purchases of CD singles in retail stores. Eventually, the price of CDs would drop, making my dollar go further
Game theories can be very useful, but this thing as a Faces of Death smell to it that's simply unavoidable. There are some real problems with the viability of an outcome being able to motivate the government.
First off, the government already has numerous methods by which a citizen can voice his/her concern. Generally speaking, unless you are already an insider, anything you say, however correct academically, will go unlistened. There's no reason to believe that the government will truly value any outcome in this game as being a valid predicator of future events. A couple of years ago if the game lead to an 97% outcome of an attack by airplane crash and a 95% chance of an attack on WTC, the government would still ignore it.
Keep in mind, this now information market must still deal with the current administration's arrogance problem as well as the infortion turf war being fought by the various government agencies. Sure your Ferrari is faster than my Volkswagen, but in NY City does it really matter?
It's inferred to by the Declaration of Independence (Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness).
Mixing the Right to Privacy with the Right to Profit isn't really a good thing. I see them both as opposites in a tug of war. As far back as I can remember, the Supreme Court has always sided with Profit when it was a Profit vs. Privacy issue. The Baby M case is the only exception I can think of, but even in that case there were other issues.
The Supreme Court and Congress really prefer that the market bear the burden of resolving privacy issues because it's easier, lessens the Court's case load, doesn't screw with the area of Constitutional Law, and creates jobs and content consumers. I really think that whole Broken Windows fallacy was started with Justice Scalia actually smashing in store windows on the way to work... That being said, vote Quimby!
Color me paranoid. I will never put my name on a government list of ANY kind. The DNC list, when read in the right light, by the right people, with the right motivation, can also be called a Against Free Market Capitalism list, or a Does Not Play Well with Others list. The next thing you know, your name has been added to two more government lists: the Persons of Interest list and the Giving Aid and Comfort to Terrorists list. If you're really against putting up your individual privacy and personal access to the free market, you might even be an Axis of Evil...
In America you're free only if you are off the radar.
Sorry, I'm not in the construction business... just a girl with a cable subscription ;) But, yes I meant scaffolding.
Mr Wizard (if you youngens rememeber him) taught me to build a low power battery using oranges and copper wire.
No point here, move along...
In Hong Kong, where using steel can get very expensive, Chinese construction workers use frames and girders built from bamboo. The material has been very effective in aiding the construction of highrises while lowering costs. Go figure.
Oh okay. Then I'm probably wrong in thinking that GNU could be targetted by SCO.
I meant it's like painting the Golden Gate. It's an ongoing job, and just as soon as the paint crew is done, they've got to start all over again from the beginning ;)
For me it went like this until I learned that Service Pack I contains the patches that come before it.
Install Windows -> Drivers -> Critical Patches -> Optional Patches -> IE -> DirectX -> Media Player -> Secure system -> Tune system Install Applications -> Reinstall Windows
There you have it. It's a neverending job, kinda like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The anonymous coward made an interesting implication. It's GNU/Linux... okay, maybe not. I don't think it is, but GNU does. That makes GNU a party to this issue. It's good to hear that GNU has that filing process as extra imdenification insurance. But what if SCO decided to argue that the Linux kernel was resultant from reverse-engineering or stealing copyrighted property and that GNU's tools were involved? SCO could then go for a DMCA-based claim against GNU.
This is surely grabbing at straws, but somehow I wouldn't put it past SCO to try this. Poisoning the well seems right up their alley.
... Or, after the downloads and installations have completed, just scan through your folders to find the .CAB and .EXE files for the patch. Burn them to a disc, and save for later. That's what I do. That way whenever I reinstall Windows, I won't spend several hours downloading service packs and patches.
But what if SCO targets BSD next?
Not to make light of a certain historical sore spot, but a long time ago a bunch of guys came after one group of people while everyone else sat quietly and did nothing, When that bunch was done, they turned and went after that other group.
My point is, the BSD people are pretty quiet about this issue. They might not necessarily be in the same camp, but the BSD community is no less vulnerable. The GNU people have seemed a little passive on the issue too. How long will it be before SCO "finds" proprietary code in various GNU sources?
Thanks for posting that article, Duck 'o Death. So apparently the RIAA selectively chooses its defendents by performing a search for a random Top 40 hit, and just jots down the screen-names of the users offering those titles. This probably means that if you are offering Avril Lavigne, you're screwed, but if your offering Men Without Hats, you're safe.
First off, the entire list of potential defendents should be public record and available for free. But that's another story...
But who the hell is being sued? Is the RIAA suing downloaders or sharers -- or both? Is the RIAA really selectively choosing defendents based on the particular songs? If I download an MP3 of an unsigned local band or an independent whose music is not owned by the RIAA, will the RIAA sue me anyway?
I'd like to see these details. They speak to the ultimate motive of the lawsuit, especially if it appears that the RIAA is intentionally trying to flatten the independent music scene or prevent artists from choosing production/distribution by an entity other than the RIAA and its members.
Incidentally, Munkeyspankers 1-20 can hide out at my place until the heat blows over. #21 is SOL.
Jack-O may say no, but Tommy Lee says wee!
I caught the guy on a talking heads program on cable news. According to Tommy Lee (of Motley Crue fame), everyday music companies are closing or laying off people over the revenues losses.
Wow. I didn't know the music biz was suffering so much. Next time I buy an album, I pay 15-20% more at Borders instead of shopping at BestBuy. I'm helping!
Windows95.com my friend... Windows95.com...
:(
And before that, Sunsite and just about every public FTP. I remember when wuarchive.wustl.edu used to carry a bunch of pictures as well. Anyone remember why?? None of them were royalty-free (if that was a concern back in those days).
I use Google nowadays too. I used to frequent CNET for software/hardware reviews, but that was back when CNET had a show on Sci-Fi channel. Since then, software reviews have been stupid and irrelevent to say the least.
Well, Novell would certainly benefit from watching the UNIX and Linux communities cannibalize each other. It would leave behind a weak and uncertain UNIX/Linux market, giving Novell a chance to push NetWare again with only Windows as competition.