That is very true but the problem is the general populace doesn't give a shit. As long as they have access to FaceBook, Twitter, etc. they remain clueless on what virtual freedom means. They are too busy watching the Super Bow going apeshit over juvenile humor as nipplegate.
It is only the geeks that see the laws out of sync with the "moral compass" of society. Even an idiot can see that it absurd that you can't copy / share a number -- yet this is precisely what the laws says you can't do! Share a number which is a representation of reality (audio, video, text, algorithm) because somebody has asserted their "copyright" -- people don't want to talk about digital ownership being an artificial right based on the false belief of "scarcity."
People won't do something -- change the laws -- until they perceive somebody else's "rights" are stopping their privileges. Until then, a small majority will keep on exercising their civil disobedience by ignoring copyright.
> I submit that mankind has been this way since we evolved from ooze. its always been about competition and conquest and domination. look at nature; we are not so different from animals, in this respect. You raise some good points but I must respectfully disagree with some of them.
1. Are you aware of what civilization was like 20,000 and 12,000 years ago?
2. While it is true that "you must kill something so that you can live" the world is becoming less about "us vs. them", and more "us AND them."
3. You are assuming that 'competition' is the only viable way to live. That is true -- it HAS been. Guess what though -- there is a better way -- it is called 'cooperation'. Some guy 2000 years ago says 'Hey, we should respect one another and get along' and so what does the ignorant masses do? They stake and killed him because he was a _perceived_ power threat.
While we have evolved from directly killing one another, the battle has changed from one about finance, to one about power -- controlling what people belief, think and feel. Television and Education are nothing more then propaganda tools (for the most part.) As people wake up to the fact that "WE _are_ the governments", the power will shift back to its those who created the government in the first place -- we, the people.
Conflict is an -unnecessary- aspect of life. It IS possible to live in balance with: a) nature b) each other
Its only the spiritual immature adults that don't "get it."
Proof:
Most people don't go around killing one another. They don't need "legal laws" to remind them there are consequences for their choices. At an intrinsic level, they grok "Treat others how you want to be treated."
Only children needs rules, because they don't know any better.
The human race are still children learning how to become a teen. Learning Authority & Accountability. As people _demand_ transparency in government (Accountability), and learn to separate Politics and corporate whoring of sponsoring *cough buying* laws, government will change.
Sadly, People (for the most part) do NOT deserve freedom, because they do NOT know how to govern themselves WITHOUT government. It is my hope the one day that everyone acts responsibly, civil, both as the governor,and governed, like some _advanced_ civilizations do. Until then, we have a long ways to go...
The idea of a government is a "hack" designed to teach everyone how to self-govern! It provides a "template". This is the reason people confuse "morality" with "legality" -- not understanding the purpose and difference between the two. (Government also serves another useful purpose by providing a 'standard' -- but a bad standard is worse then no standard at all, but that is another topic.)
Do you want to know what the secret root cause of conflict is? Aside from basic human nature (greed which is just another name for 'control' which is another name for 'power'), that is:
"The false belief that there is 'never enough' "
- There is never enough money - There is never enough land - There is never enough food - There is never enough time - There is never enough _insert_thing_i_want_
(Part of the problem is that we as a species only live ~ 100 years and therefore tend to have a myopic view of life. In ~400 years when when the average lifespan starts becoming 1,000 years, our view of "how the fuck to grow up" will drastically change.)
Ironically, the universe provides everything in abundance.
The sun provides us with free energy -- I don't see anyone whining about what we have to "pay it back."
The earth provides us with a place to live and food. It can support up to ~20 billion people. I don't see anyone whining about what we have to give back to it. Only those (maybe with justification) about 'other humans' because they want 'my land, my income, etc.'
Animals have survived on this planet for millions of years. Only idiot humans "demand
Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble! Howard Beale: [calmly strolling toward the audience] So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And *why* is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA - the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network? Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got
> the world Jesus was purportedly born into. Have you seen how highly-observant Jews "haggle" over their mitzvot, and debate them and argue about them looking for essentially loopholes and such?
Correct -- to expand on your point:
Notice how he said "ALLl the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. Love God with whole being. Love your neighbor as yourself." Basically, just respect everything.
The Pharisees were too busy making money off their self-imposed legalism -- it was an exercise in what Paul called the "letter that killeth" while they missed the (spiritual) intent. i.e. They had rules _against_ doing good -- simply because it was a "sabbath" (Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, âoeIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?â But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way. Then he asked them, âoeIf one of you has a child[a] or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?â And they had nothing to say. )
-- "Any ideology taken to an extreme becomes legalism whose power corrupts"
>> It actually IS a relatively new idea. I mean, it is a bit over 100 years old which may SEEM old, but it's a newborn compared to the system it replaced. > Actually it's a bit over 300 years old, the earliest copyright law that comes to mind is the British Statute of Anne 1709.
And people seem to forget it was PUBLISHERS that were the driving force behind copyright because they didn't want other _publishers_ from selling public works !
Copyright, originally, was _never_ about stopping other authors who have the same idea -- only to stop other _publishers_ from DISTRIBUTING works (and thus PROFITING.)
Uhm, the Earth is effectively a bar magnet moving through space ==> when you move a magnet you create electricity. Therefore there is untapped free electricity. QED.
> It would then maintain a key-value pair of these megaupload links... > Well, you can always re-spider your site and replace all the megaupload links
Uh, you do know that's one problem Magnet links streamlines/solves, right? How to find content "somewhere" on the net, regardless of what it is called.
Because the Picture Quality and the Gamut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut of CRT is STILL way better when compared to shitty* looking LCD, LED, OLED, DLP, etc which is extremely sensitive to your viewing angle.
The author is extremely ignorant of history and case law and has so many mistakes it is not even funny...
> Everybody agrees that we need to battle online piracy of movies, books, TV shows and such. Not everyone. The _basis_ of civilization is based upon _sharing_, NOT greed. A few radicals propose banishing copyright all together.
> If piracy spreads, nobody will create anything because their work will be pirated as soon as it is finished. So people never made anything for the _thousands_ of years _before_ copyright exist, right??
> by abusing the system to get the goodies for free, we risk eliminating the goodies. People CREATE because they CAN, not because they are "afraid" somebody will "copy" their work.
> We wear seatbelts because we want to live. Actually, my brother doesn't and had the judge dismiss his case for refusing to wear one (The judge had the comment "Well, this is an interesting case!") Most people wear one because they think they _have to_, which is in fact, false.
> Copyright infringers can't make it if we don't buy it. This is false as it has been shown that people who pirate tend to buy MORE. You can't put a price on FREE "word-of-mouth" advertising.
I believe what the gist you are trying to say but failed too articulate, IMHO, is that...
Authority without Accountability is never a good idea in the long run.
Anonymous are a bunch of little shits* who think they have some power - which they do for now. Their belief is the "end justifies the means" except they haven't (yet) learnt the lesson that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." We'll see how much of an influence they have in the coming years...
The "problem" is copyright is not respected by the youth =) Which I say Good for them!
* Not all civil dis-obediance is bad.
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." ~Louis D. Brandeis
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It is :-/
The fashion industry has no copyright yet still manages to make a profit.
http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
That is very true but the problem is the general populace doesn't give a shit. As long as they have access to FaceBook, Twitter, etc. they remain clueless on what virtual freedom means. They are too busy watching the Super Bow going apeshit over juvenile humor as nipplegate.
It is only the geeks that see the laws out of sync with the "moral compass" of society. Even an idiot can see that it absurd that you can't copy / share a number -- yet this is precisely what the laws says you can't do! Share a number which is a representation of reality (audio, video, text, algorithm) because somebody has asserted their "copyright" -- people don't want to talk about digital ownership being an artificial right based on the false belief of "scarcity."
People won't do something -- change the laws -- until they perceive somebody else's "rights" are stopping their privileges. Until then, a small majority will keep on exercising their civil disobedience by ignoring copyright.
> I submit that mankind has been this way since we evolved from ooze. its always been about competition and conquest and domination. look at nature; we are not so different from animals, in this respect.
You raise some good points but I must respectfully disagree with some of them.
1. Are you aware of what civilization was like 20,000 and 12,000 years ago?
2. While it is true that "you must kill something so that you can live" the world is becoming less about "us vs. them", and more "us AND them."
3. You are assuming that 'competition' is the only viable way to live. That is true -- it HAS been. Guess what though -- there is a better way -- it is called 'cooperation'. Some guy 2000 years ago says 'Hey, we should respect one another and get along' and so what does the ignorant masses do? They stake and killed him because he was a _perceived_ power threat.
While we have evolved from directly killing one another, the battle has changed from one about finance, to one about power -- controlling what people belief, think and feel. Television and Education are nothing more then propaganda tools (for the most part.) As people wake up to the fact that "WE _are_ the governments", the power will shift back to its those who created the government in the first place -- we, the people.
Conflict is an -unnecessary- aspect of life. It IS possible to live in balance with:
a) nature
b) each other
Its only the spiritual immature adults that don't "get it."
Proof:
Most people don't go around killing one another. They don't need "legal laws" to remind them there are consequences for their choices. At an intrinsic level, they grok "Treat others how you want to be treated."
Only children needs rules, because they don't know any better.
The human race are still children learning how to become a teen. Learning Authority & Accountability. As people _demand_ transparency in government (Accountability), and learn to separate Politics and corporate whoring of sponsoring *cough buying* laws, government will change.
Sadly, People (for the most part) do NOT deserve freedom, because they do NOT know how to govern themselves WITHOUT government. It is my hope the one day that everyone acts responsibly, civil, both as the governor,and governed, like some _advanced_ civilizations do. Until then, we have a long ways to go ...
The idea of a government is a "hack" designed to teach everyone how to self-govern! It provides a "template". This is the reason people confuse "morality" with "legality" -- not understanding the purpose and difference between the two. (Government also serves another useful purpose by providing a 'standard' -- but a bad standard is worse then no standard at all, but that is another topic.)
Do you want to know what the secret root cause of conflict is? Aside from basic human nature (greed which is just another name for 'control' which is another name for 'power'), that is:
"The false belief that there is 'never enough' "
- There is never enough money
- There is never enough land
- There is never enough food
- There is never enough time
- There is never enough _insert_thing_i_want_
(Part of the problem is that we as a species only live ~ 100 years and therefore tend to have a myopic view of life. In ~400 years when when the average lifespan starts becoming 1,000 years, our view of "how the fuck to grow up" will drastically change.)
Ironically, the universe provides everything in abundance.
The sun provides us with free energy -- I don't see anyone whining about what we have to "pay it back."
The earth provides us with a place to live and food. It can support up to ~20 billion people. I don't see anyone whining about what we have to give back to it. Only those (maybe with justification) about 'other humans' because they want 'my land, my income, etc.'
Animals have survived on this planet for millions of years. Only idiot humans "demand
You also forgot:
One man's noise is another man's music.
(for better, or worse :-/ )
Great movie.
Another great one is: Network (1976)
Some great quotes there ...
Howard Beale: [arms outstretched to the heavens] Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems, and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition, and woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!
Howard Beale: [calmly strolling toward the audience] So. A rich little man with white hair died. What has that got to do with the price of rice, right? And *why* is that woe to us? Because you people, and sixty-two million other Americans, are listening to me right now. Because less than three percent of you people read books! Because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers! Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the Gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome God-damned force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls in to the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA - the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome God-damned propoganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?
Howard Beale: [ascending the stage] So, you listen to me. Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth... Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever going to find any real truth.
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got
Yup, posted on /. a while back
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2237200/pac-mans-ghost-behavior-algorithms
--->
http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavior
--->
http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
I don't know what it is but reading about the internals of how games worked (algorithms, data structures, tricks, etc.) is neat.
> the world Jesus was purportedly born into. Have you seen how highly-observant Jews "haggle" over their mitzvot, and debate them and argue about them looking for essentially loopholes and such?
Correct -- to expand on your point:
Notice how he said "ALLl the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. Love God with whole being. Love your neighbor as yourself." Basically, just respect everything.
The Pharisees were too busy making money off their self-imposed legalism -- it was an exercise in what Paul called the "letter that killeth" while they missed the (spiritual) intent. i.e. They had rules _against_ doing good -- simply because it was a "sabbath" (Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, âoeIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?â But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way. Then he asked them, âoeIf one of you has a child[a] or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?â And they had nothing to say. )
--
"Any ideology taken to an extreme becomes legalism whose power corrupts"
>> It actually IS a relatively new idea. I mean, it is a bit over 100 years old which may SEEM old, but it's a newborn compared to the system it replaced.
> Actually it's a bit over 300 years old, the earliest copyright law that comes to mind is the British Statute of Anne 1709.
And people seem to forget it was PUBLISHERS that were the driving force behind copyright because they didn't want other _publishers_ from selling public works !
Copyright, originally, was _never_ about stopping other authors who have the same idea -- only to stop other _publishers_ from DISTRIBUTING works (and thus PROFITING.)
> We live in a world where 8GB of RAM costs $50.
Ah sweet, so you're offering to pay for upgrading/replacing netbooks and embedded devices with more RAM !
Stop being a myopic PC developer with RAM means nothing -- there are other platforms where we actually care about RAM usage.
> Apple's success is the limited variance. They make a few models of each device, and generally a good/better/best option for each
That is certainly a factor.
See: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html
For why choice is a bad thing for consumers.
Uhm, the Earth is effectively a bar magnet moving through space ==> when you move a magnet you create electricity.
Therefore there is untapped free electricity.
QED.
> They're just not cheap.
That's the advantage CRT has. =)
Speaking of price and PQ -- are there any cheap 10-bit/channel displays? 24-bit color sucks and so do 8-bit/channel displays...
Oblg.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1726#comic
LOL! nice ...
Why don't you start with ShaderToy ?
http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/
And some interesting code snippets ...
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/losip/shader_toy/
-- /. -- group herd-think, circle jerking, wankers, and the rare insightful / informative comment.
Reddit is the Dig of
So funny its sad but true :-/
> It would then maintain a key-value pair of these megaupload links ...
> Well, you can always re-spider your site and replace all the megaupload links
Uh, you do know that's one problem Magnet links streamlines/solves, right? How to find content "somewhere" on the net, regardless of what it is called.
Because the Picture Quality and the Gamut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut of CRT is STILL way better when compared to shitty* looking LCD, LED, OLED, DLP, etc which is extremely sensitive to your viewing angle.
Do you even _know_ what a _reference_ tube is?
http://www.glennchan.info/broadcast-monitors/manufacturers/listing.htm
* LCD, LED are "good enough" -- thin, lightweight, and low power. The trade-off is crap color consistency.
Exactly, America was founded on this principle:
"I (may) disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it."
LOL. Touché =)
The author is extremely ignorant of history and case law and has so many mistakes it is not even funny ...
> Everybody agrees that we need to battle online piracy of movies, books, TV shows and such.
Not everyone. The _basis_ of civilization is based upon _sharing_, NOT greed. A few radicals propose banishing copyright all together.
> If piracy spreads, nobody will create anything because their work will be pirated as soon as it is finished.
So people never made anything for the _thousands_ of years _before_ copyright exist, right??
> by abusing the system to get the goodies for free, we risk eliminating the goodies.
People CREATE because they CAN, not because they are "afraid" somebody will "copy" their work.
> We wear seatbelts because we want to live.
Actually, my brother doesn't and had the judge dismiss his case for refusing to wear one (The judge had the comment "Well, this is an interesting case!") Most people wear one because they think they _have to_, which is in fact, false.
> Copyright infringers can't make it if we don't buy it.
This is false as it has been shown that people who pirate tend to buy MORE. You can't put a price on FREE "word-of-mouth" advertising.
> Printing press. That's also about when copyright protection began.
Correct.
Copyright was due to English _publishers_ who didn't want Scottish _publishers_ from selling public domain works.
It was NEVER about the artists, but about stopipng other publishers (distributors) from making a buck.
> From the same industry that says every download is a lost sale?
Agreed.
SHOW ME THE BOOKS!
Oh wait, how come they _never_ list "Piracy" on their Expenses??
I believe what the gist you are trying to say but failed too articulate, IMHO, is that ...
Authority without Accountability is never a good idea in the long run.
Anonymous are a bunch of little shits* who think they have some power - which they do for now. Their belief is the "end justifies the means" except they haven't (yet) learnt the lesson that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." We'll see how much of an influence they have in the coming years ...
The "problem" is copyright is not respected by the youth =) Which I say Good for them!
* Not all civil dis-obediance is bad.
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." ~Louis D. Brandeis
> Taking something without paying just because you can is selfish and wrong.
Some when my family watches a movie or listens to a CD with me that I paid for they are being selfish and wrong ??
You forgot the keyword: context
The majority of people share music because they _want_ too, not because "they can"