I DO buy movies, music, and books. They just happened to have been purchased from used-media dealers, yard sales, and other places prices are 3$ per item. That's what I'm willing to lose if it doesnt play, or somehow "not allow" playing.
Books are the one item I dont mind paying more for. There's no such technology as a DRM on a paperback or hardback. I also purchase more from publishers who are nice to techie-friendly types (Baen comes to mind). One thing though, is I want a searchable book. I tend to read a book, and then go back to chapters or areas I like a lot.
Also, Ive seen new vinyl with a scratch-off code to download 320KBps mp3s. I'd be willing to buy them, but I've not found any groups that I like with this yet... but I'm looking.
I open a netbook. It boots up. It loads required drivers and userland programs. By the time I'm ready to take notes or whatever, its done and ready to use. I close it, and it shuts down fast too.
Vs.
Open it up. Boots for 1-2 minutes. I have a 1-2 minute lag on doing whatever I needed to. That may have been taking notes, using a webcam as a digicam, surfing for some details on a project or device, translations, or anything one might use a computer for 10 seconds or less. Or I just dont even use it.
NO-CD's are a type of electronic lock as stated in the DMCA. Sites that have NO-CD cracks are infringing on the DMCA. NO-CD's also infringe on copyright as derivative work, as seen in the Glider case.
Conclusion: cracks and NO-CD binaries are illegal.
In terms of economics, how much should an item cost if supplies are limited and demand is high? A lot. How much should an item cost if supplies are plentiful and demand is low? Not much. From a few datapoints, we can see there's an inverse relationship between supplies vs cost and a direct relationship between demand and cost.
I wonder what happens around the area where supply = infinity... Or better yet, what is the inverse of infinity? That's how much I'm willing to pay, plus or minus.10$
Services that sell physical media have quantities of bad-ware and other anti-user software. Services that sell online media promise nothing, including playing tomorrow.
Piraters guarantee good quality product that will 10 years from now. They also happen to be free.
Media corps, give me a good reason why I should put MY money through a shredder and buy locked down, limited term, no liability media. If not, fuck off torrents, IRC, and sneakernet work great for me.
Well, you're going to get caught for the killing of that sheriff anyways, so why not?
Link to copyright: Well, you buy a game and it doesn't work. You instead go download a no-cd or crack. Next time, you just go download the game from whoever has it and go get the patches. Why not? The no-cd and cracks are illegal.
Later on, after getting screwed with bad purchases one cant use and cant take back, one downloads everything they can. Movies, songs, applications, data.
The sites are easy to find. BitTyrant - modded azureus for opportunistic sharing WASTE - encrypted P2P private nets. high security for friends and contacts only TOR - onion router for hiding ones tracks and researching things that are considered "unpalatable" HTTrack - multi-platform friendly web mirroring IRC - get a good client. Stay away from MIRC. Xircon, BitchX and others are usable as well as scriptable.
Using TOR or another onion router-like tech, one can use IRC and initiate file trading via those channels. One could highlight a drop of a GPG'ed package at any number of file dumps online. Or, they could send it via email split in X many pieces.
Let me know if there's anything that might be interesting to get. I could post links.
And I'll just farm the captcha breaking to 3'rd worlders for.003$ per correct. Captcha takes the human element. I'll make an industry out of breaking it.
Then you test 20% as known good and verified and see what the spambots say. You also have a few select reCaptchas tested by trusted individuals and then refuse to serve reCaptchas to bots.
What makes you think that a big-above approach is better than a ground up approach? Because it IS an overview and big decision, many things fall through the cracks and are either ignored, or unplanned consequences.
Ground up approaches start with the small fry and grow up, considering the in-betweens. They HAVE to deal with the niche, the small.. the ignored.
I look at the combined approach of Linux. There's no real organization between all the pieces, though there is in each group. It's all just source floating around, and yet we have distributions that have 20 text editors, 5 spread sheet programs, oodles of graphics programs, and so much else. It's all free with no strings attached for the end user. Talk about communistic: those that can program well do so and share with those that cannot. However, one thing is here that traditional command economies did not have: freedom. It was a ground up effort with no ivory tower ideas.
And as we had an article about unit testing: Do you think that yourself and a bunch of other lawyer types could create and test laws so that they have no holes, and test for all side cases? Our current lawyers cant.
One also needs to alter the least significant bits by a random factor, else the TLA's will be able to match it to a specific CCD.
Even using one of those programs that enter data via stenography into images would work, as they store data in the least significant bits. Just make sure to take input from/dev/urandom or from a semi-random source online for the stego source.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
It'd be like "Either I can rape my kids, or have no children". Guess what? There's a third, and very palatable answer. We'll let YOU figure that out, if you are mentally able.
If you communicate within your ISP network, it would be the least cost, preferably 0 cost per packet. If you communicate within the local network (peering ISP's, geographically local), it would be a low cost but non-zero. If you communicate over large distances in which high utilization lines are used (undersea, satellite..) you have a high cost per packet.
One is only charged for sending, NOT receiving. This is usable using ONLY QoS already built in TCP/IP and could be set up per program or even per packet if the OS ever granted it.
Well, we see the bandwidth caps here in Oz, and the transatlantic cables are why there's caps and high costs. It costs a lot to communicate out of this island-continent.
The other thing is the local comm is free part: P2P sucks down every ounce of bandwidth. I'd rather have P2P coming from local than remote. It just makes sense.
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I've always said that I'm for complete strip-mining of the Earth.
It takes Earth back before a pre-biotic state. Its before we damned humans set foot here, so it HAS to be good.
Politics on a wiki is downright bad and lie-heavy.
Dry scienc-y and math-y stuff is most likely right.
For Politick, I go to Faux-News for my daily News(R) and CNN for my other News(D).
I'm con-choice.
What choice are we making again?
I've got a clean VBox XP install. I just timed it from startup. 30 seconds.
No AV, no on-start programs. I havent cleaned the services to what I need. It's a flat-out fresh install.
Granted, VBox does have only a 5 second bios compared to some systems 30 seconds, but I'd imagine that COREboot could solve that.
What makes you think I do not?
I DO buy movies, music, and books. They just happened to have been purchased from used-media dealers, yard sales, and other places prices are 3$ per item. That's what I'm willing to lose if it doesnt play, or somehow "not allow" playing.
Books are the one item I dont mind paying more for. There's no such technology as a DRM on a paperback or hardback. I also purchase more from publishers who are nice to techie-friendly types (Baen comes to mind). One thing though, is I want a searchable book. I tend to read a book, and then go back to chapters or areas I like a lot.
Also, Ive seen new vinyl with a scratch-off code to download 320KBps mp3s. I'd be willing to buy them, but I've not found any groups that I like with this yet... but I'm looking.
I open a netbook.
It boots up.
It loads required drivers and userland programs.
By the time I'm ready to take notes or whatever, its done and ready to use.
I close it, and it shuts down fast too.
Vs.
Open it up.
Boots for 1-2 minutes.
I have a 1-2 minute lag on doing whatever I needed to. That may have been taking notes, using a webcam as a digicam, surfing for some details on a project or device, translations, or anything one might use a computer for 10 seconds or less.
Or I just dont even use it.
Its ok. He asked me.
I said it was OK.
<hint><hint><nudge><nudge>
NO-CD's are a type of electronic lock as stated in the DMCA.
Sites that have NO-CD cracks are infringing on the DMCA.
NO-CD's also infringe on copyright as derivative work, as seen in the Glider case.
Conclusion: cracks and NO-CD binaries are illegal.
Wow, talk about the WRONG question to ask.
In terms of economics, how much should an item cost if supplies are limited and demand is high? A lot.
How much should an item cost if supplies are plentiful and demand is low? Not much.
From a few datapoints, we can see there's an inverse relationship between supplies vs cost and a direct relationship between demand and cost.
I wonder what happens around the area where supply = infinity ... Or better yet, what is the inverse of infinity? That's how much I'm willing to pay, plus or minus .10$
That's why I pirate.
Services that sell physical media have quantities of bad-ware and other anti-user software.
Services that sell online media promise nothing, including playing tomorrow.
Piraters guarantee good quality product that will 10 years from now. They also happen to be free.
Media corps, give me a good reason why I should put MY money through a shredder and buy locked down, limited term, no liability media. If not, fuck off torrents, IRC, and sneakernet work great for me.
Well, you're going to get caught for the killing of that sheriff anyways, so why not?
Link to copyright: Well, you buy a game and it doesn't work. You instead go download a no-cd or crack.
Next time, you just go download the game from whoever has it and go get the patches. Why not? The no-cd and cracks are illegal.
Later on, after getting screwed with bad purchases one cant use and cant take back, one downloads everything they can. Movies, songs, applications, data.
The sites are easy to find.
BitTyrant - modded azureus for opportunistic sharing
WASTE - encrypted P2P private nets. high security for friends and contacts only
TOR - onion router for hiding ones tracks and researching things that are considered "unpalatable"
HTTrack - multi-platform friendly web mirroring
IRC - get a good client. Stay away from MIRC. Xircon, BitchX and others are usable as well as scriptable.
Using TOR or another onion router-like tech, one can use IRC and initiate file trading via those channels. One could highlight a drop of a GPG'ed package at any number of file dumps online. Or, they could send it via email split in X many pieces.
Let me know if there's anything that might be interesting to get. I could post links.
No man. A to the motherfucking K homeboy.
And I'll just farm the captcha breaking to 3'rd worlders for .003$ per correct. Captcha takes the human element. I'll make an industry out of breaking it.
Then you test 20% as known good and verified and see what the spambots say. You also have a few select reCaptchas tested by trusted individuals and then refuse to serve reCaptchas to bots.
Honest question.. Im not trying to bait you,
What makes you think that a big-above approach is better than a ground up approach? Because it IS an overview and big decision, many things fall through the cracks and are either ignored, or unplanned consequences.
Ground up approaches start with the small fry and grow up, considering the in-betweens. They HAVE to deal with the niche, the small.. the ignored.
I look at the combined approach of Linux. There's no real organization between all the pieces, though there is in each group. It's all just source floating around, and yet we have distributions that have 20 text editors, 5 spread sheet programs, oodles of graphics programs, and so much else. It's all free with no strings attached for the end user. Talk about communistic: those that can program well do so and share with those that cannot. However, one thing is here that traditional command economies did not have: freedom. It was a ground up effort with no ivory tower ideas.
And as we had an article about unit testing: Do you think that yourself and a bunch of other lawyer types could create and test laws so that they have no holes, and test for all side cases? Our current lawyers cant.
I thought that HIV went after the brain itself after a long amount of time.
Most cases, the body is attacked by the multitudes of junk viruses and bacteria.
No. Anonymous remailers In Soviet Russia on Netcraft servers run you!
Hmm. A lot of footwork to simply explain that there is no grammar in mathematics.
Nonono, you cant just clean the EXIF data.
One also needs to alter the least significant bits by a random factor, else the TLA's will be able to match it to a specific CCD.
Even using one of those programs that enter data via stenography into images would work, as they store data in the least significant bits. Just make sure to take input from /dev/urandom or from a semi-random source online for the stego source.
We'll pay WHEN China and India decides to.
And I quote.
Article 2, Section 2, Paragraph 2
Why in the hell should we do anything?
OUR money props up these African dictators.
OUR food props up the African dictators.
OUR clothing only warm up the African dictators.
In a way, WE are blame. Let the Africans solve their problems. Once we stop funding them, they will do things right.
Try asking your congresscritter why they dont impeach ANY president who attempts to do such?
That's a legislative issue, not executive one.
Talk about false dichotomy.
It'd be like "Either I can rape my kids, or have no children". Guess what? There's a third, and very palatable answer. We'll let YOU figure that out, if you are mentally able.
Oh, come on.
If you communicate within your ISP network, it would be the least cost, preferably 0 cost per packet.
If you communicate within the local network (peering ISP's, geographically local), it would be a low cost but non-zero.
If you communicate over large distances in which high utilization lines are used (undersea, satellite..) you have a high cost per packet.
One is only charged for sending, NOT receiving. This is usable using ONLY QoS already built in TCP/IP and could be set up per program or even per packet if the OS ever granted it.
Well, we see the bandwidth caps here in Oz, and the transatlantic cables are why there's caps and high costs. It costs a lot to communicate out of this island-continent.
The other thing is the local comm is free part: P2P sucks down every ounce of bandwidth. I'd rather have P2P coming from local than remote. It just makes sense.