I agree - We chatted about something similar in our office the other day.
If the spelling and grammar of the email were to be checked and weighted as part of the filtering process you'd get around a lot of the deliberate misspelling of words.
To elaborate further on my quick post, it also depends what sort of results you want to achieve at the end of the day. Financial? Kudos? Fun?
Assuming you want to achieve some financial result, and you know your idea will work, then I have found it reasonably straightforward to convince others of the quality of the idea or concept.
Once you have convinced others, you then can potentially have the resources of those who believe in the idea to assist you. These resources can be physical, or labor, or financial or all of the above.
I'm currently running a small company with 3 partners. While we consult for clients during the day, in the evenings we jointly develop our other ideas.
As we all have different, but complementary, skills we have found this approach to work rather well. It could work for you too.
You do it. I've seen ideas come and go, some of "mine" made millions too. I swore if I ever had a good idea again, I'd go for it.
What's stopping you executing on your idea? Skills? Money? Something else?
Mike
Ok, so you, me and 10,000 other geeks will buy non-trusted computing motherboards. Meanwhile, Joe Sixpack and all his buddies ignorantly purchase millions of the "trusted" and "safe" offering.
Of course, you can always try charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest. Just think of all the money you'll save not having to implement DRM'.
But they already charge a reasonable price! Just ask them. If they charged $10, some people would consider that reasonable. $5 would be other people's benchmark.
Unfortunately, at the bottom end of the scale you'll have the "music is intangible, therefore it's not stealing so I will take it anyway" brigade, ruining it for everyone.
If music were only a dollar, then the "hey, it's only a buck" mindset would kick in and people would still 'steal' music.
The web-enabled features of.NET/VS make it killer for me. I've previously developed CGI/DLL's with SOAP API's using Delphi, which is my personal language of choice. However, for anything involving a web server, I'm seriously loving c# and.NET.
1) Writing SOAP applications. It is pretty much as simple as declaring a c# method as a web-method, and hey-presto, it's SOAP-able.
2) Step through debugging web applications (including web services).
3) Performance - nice fast execution, nice fast development.
4) If I develop now using.NET, at least I have the possibility to port to Linux in future using MONO.
Stocks in all major Antivirus vendors were down on the news.
CEO's of major Antivirus vendors were unanimous in advising their shareholders that "there's nothing to worry about - there are plenty of other Microsoft products out there..."
If I were sneaky, I'd log the IP of every comment made. Then go check out everyone who leaves an RIAA sucks to see if they were "sharing illegal content".
That would be a nice way to prioritise the millions of lawsuits.
Apparently, there is a company in Nigeria that can help. They just need $1000 to cover the expenses of relating the patents.
nelamason@mailsurf.com contacted me with respect to large amounts of money I could earn for pretending to be a dead relative.
The Late Engineer MARK JOHNSON, Lebanese national and
an oil merchant/contractor with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, until his death five years
ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at
the UNION BANK PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance
of USD12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million Dollars) which
the bank now unquestionably expect it to be claimed
by MARK JOHNSON'S next of kin or alternatively be
donated to a Charity Organisation here. Efforts
have been made by the UNION BANK, to get in touch
with any of the JOHNSON'S family but to no avail.
It is because of the perceived impossibility of not
being able to locate ENGR MARK JOHNSON'S next of kin
that the management under the influence of our
Chairman Board of Directors, Major General Kalu Ike
Kalu who has agreed that since the incident occurred
in 1998 and has left the fund dormant and devalued
we should transfer the fund overseas and utilize it
either on stock exchange market or personal business
interest.
He can possibly put you in contact for a suitable fee. I'd recommend instead understanding humour as a method of expression. Far easier on the bank account.
The sneaky part of me says that an encrypted TCP/IP link on the internet could be a good way of providing international links. However, someone has to pay for this stuff.
I dunno, maybe there is some value in Freenet after all?
the other major piece missing is backbone. I doubt that Sydney --> Melbourne has a line-of sight connection (that could be fulfilled cheaply, by geeks, with this technology) - never mind Sydney to San-Francisco
While your aims may be noble, I doubt it would be possible.
I'm not 100% certain that there is a risk. More and more things are becoming commoditised and freely (beer and speech) available. While many sheep will follow the herd, there will always be people that don't want and don't accept restrictions.
Don't underestimate peer pressure. Remember at school when you had the Speccy and your mate had the Amiga? How much more could he do? Did you go out and buy one? My Linux box can do this? Can your Windows box?
Legislation notwithstanding (the major fear) there will always be a group of people that can get a free OS running on three toothpicks and a tube of toothpaste.
Hmmm. I can't help but agree with you there. I don't know whether it is an Anti-US sentiment (implied dislike) but perhaps a feeling that the US isn't quite so predictable as she used to be.
I'm a firm believer in the best tool for the job - open source or not, so I don't think open source software should be used for its own sake. However, I could imagine many governments (or companies) would like to have some perceived control of their own technical destiny.
Open source is a simple way to reduce reliance on third-parties, be they countries or corporations... assuming of course you have downloaded the source and not just the binaries before the sanctions kick in !
*grin* I wish I had some mod points so I could mod your post as funny.
Australian companies won't have to invest money into the development of innovative, high-tech business model and are protect from paying any patent fees by Australian law. Thus they gain a huge advantage by cutting their e-commerce cost by 20 percent.
I think the argument is because of the *obviousness* of this. Mail order companies have operated for years (hell, back in the 80's they were all the rage for consoles and games) and they calculated shipping dependant on destination - as does the post office, for want of another example of prior art.
Take also the airline industry. A massive, private network. Tickets priced in your local currency. This patent is laughable.
Good comment. I'd say that if the proxy were general purpose (ie not tied to just downloading illegal content) then I would have as much chance about being prosecuted as an ISP that had a member downloading kiddie porn thru their proxy.
While the final user must eventually download the data, it would be trivial for the RIAA or other interested parties to get the IP of the end user of a product such as Kazaa.
It would take twice the data (see my post on paying for this) but the idea is to provide a layer of obfucscation bewteen the snooper and the downloader.
One could imagine a scene similar to a movie where the proxies bounce off each other around the world to obtain the data... the RIAA has 45 seconds to trace the transmission;)
Here's a project for a good developer to take up...
1. Develop a proxy for file sharing applications. The box has to be clean, no illegal content.
2. Allow anybody to create a numbered account. No authentication of "genuine" users or not, no logging or confirmation of email addresses.
3. Money (along with a reference number) is placed into a bank account(s) of people that operate these proxies. Just an over the counter payment, with a reference number which matches your account. This pays for the consumed bandwidth, nothing more.
People may log on to this anonymizing application using their ID and password to download whatever they want. if they forget their password, tough shit - that's the price you pay for anonymity.
There's no trail for the money, the server may download illegal or copyrighted content on behalf of members, but never persists the data.
The risk is a takedown order on these proxies, but provided they were made multipurpose (ie were not solely for the use of downloading copyright content) then I presume they would be safe.
All any inquisitive person would find is that proxy located at *IP* accessed this system and downloaded *xyz*. No easy way to track down the person requesting the download.
From the article, all this seems to do is some basic housekeeping to ensure that your search history is not stored, and interact with a database of IP addresses known to be used by the RIAA
This doesn't seem to be anything revolutionary, or, interesting.
If the services went through some kind of anonymizer, that would be cuter. Of course, the bandwidth demands would be huge.
What may be an alternative is to produce a collaborative download system. I request a download, which is proxied by another random user (provided I return the favor). Even if you had RIAA sniffers, all that could be proven is that MY IP address downloaded something, but not the ultimate destination of the data.
Of course, if I have illegal music on my PC, then I am still screwed. But I leave solving that problem to the reader:)
I'm not too bothered if someone is tracking where I go and where my car goes within a city.
Ok, please post a log of absolutely *everywhere* you or your car goes for the next month. Include pictures.
While there may be no right to privacy, the thought of a government tracking every citizen is a bit too scary for me.
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I agree - We chatted about something similar in our office the other day.
If the spelling and grammar of the email were to be checked and weighted as part of the filtering process you'd get around a lot of the deliberate misspelling of words.
To elaborate further on my quick post, it also depends what sort of results you want to achieve at the end of the day. Financial? Kudos? Fun?
Assuming you want to achieve some financial result, and you know your idea will work, then I have found it reasonably straightforward to convince others of the quality of the idea or concept.
Once you have convinced others, you then can potentially have the resources of those who believe in the idea to assist you. These resources can be physical, or labor, or financial or all of the above.
I'm currently running a small company with 3 partners. While we consult for clients during the day, in the evenings we jointly develop our other ideas.
As we all have different, but complementary, skills we have found this approach to work rather well. It could work for you too.
You do it. I've seen ideas come and go, some of "mine" made millions too. I swore if I ever had a good idea again, I'd go for it. What's stopping you executing on your idea? Skills? Money? Something else? Mike
Ok, so you, me and 10,000 other geeks will buy non-trusted computing motherboards. Meanwhile, Joe Sixpack and all his buddies ignorantly purchase millions of the "trusted" and "safe" offering.
Of course, you can always try charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest. Just think of all the money you'll save not having to implement DRM'.
But they already charge a reasonable price! Just ask them. If they charged $10, some people would consider that reasonable. $5 would be other people's benchmark.
Unfortunately, at the bottom end of the scale you'll have the "music is intangible, therefore it's not stealing so I will take it anyway" brigade, ruining it for everyone.
If music were only a dollar, then the "hey, it's only a buck" mindset would kick in and people would still 'steal' music.
Exactly. I wish I had mod points :(
Get an advertisement on Toms hardware?
Basically what you are saying is this:
I am determined to steal. I know this is wrong, but will this technology provide me with an excuse that will confuse a judge.
The web-enabled features of .NET /VS make it killer for me. I've previously developed CGI/DLL's with SOAP API's using Delphi, which is my personal language of choice. However, for anything involving a web server, I'm seriously loving c# and .NET.
.NET, at least I have the possibility to port to Linux in future using MONO.
1) Writing SOAP applications. It is pretty much as simple as declaring a c# method as a web-method, and hey-presto, it's SOAP-able.
2) Step through debugging web applications (including web services).
3) Performance - nice fast execution, nice fast development.
4) If I develop now using
Stocks in all major Antivirus vendors were down on the news.
CEO's of major Antivirus vendors were unanimous in advising their shareholders that "there's nothing to worry about - there are plenty of other Microsoft products out there..."
If I were sneaky, I'd log the IP of every comment made. Then go check out everyone who leaves an RIAA sucks to see if they were "sharing illegal content".
That would be a nice way to prioritise the millions of lawsuits.
Apparently, there is a company in Nigeria that can help. They just need $1000 to cover the expenses of relating the patents.
nelamason@mailsurf.com contacted me with respect to large amounts of money I could earn for pretending to be a dead relative.
The Late Engineer MARK JOHNSON, Lebanese national and an oil merchant/contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the UNION BANK PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expect it to be claimed by MARK JOHNSON'S next of kin or alternatively be donated to a Charity Organisation here. Efforts have been made by the UNION BANK, to get in touch with any of the JOHNSON'S family but to no avail. It is because of the perceived impossibility of not being able to locate ENGR MARK JOHNSON'S next of kin that the management under the influence of our Chairman Board of Directors, Major General Kalu Ike Kalu who has agreed that since the incident occurred in 1998 and has left the fund dormant and devalued we should transfer the fund overseas and utilize it either on stock exchange market or personal business interest.
He can possibly put you in contact for a suitable fee. I'd recommend instead understanding humour as a method of expression. Far easier on the bank account.
The sneaky part of me says that an encrypted TCP/IP link on the internet could be a good way of providing international links. However, someone has to pay for this stuff.
I dunno, maybe there is some value in Freenet after all?
the other major piece missing is backbone. I doubt that Sydney --> Melbourne has a line-of sight connection (that could be fulfilled cheaply, by geeks, with this technology) - never mind Sydney to San-Francisco
While your aims may be noble, I doubt it would be possible.
I'm not 100% certain that there is a risk. More and more things are becoming commoditised and freely (beer and speech) available. While many sheep will follow the herd, there will always be people that don't want and don't accept restrictions.
Don't underestimate peer pressure. Remember at school when you had the Speccy and your mate had the Amiga? How much more could he do? Did you go out and buy one? My Linux box can do this? Can your Windows box?
Legislation notwithstanding (the major fear) there will always be a group of people that can get a free OS running on three toothpicks and a tube of toothpaste.
Hmmm. I can't help but agree with you there. I don't know whether it is an Anti-US sentiment (implied dislike) but perhaps a feeling that the US isn't quite so predictable as she used to be.
I'm a firm believer in the best tool for the job - open source or not, so I don't think open source software should be used for its own sake. However, I could imagine many governments (or companies) would like to have some perceived control of their own technical destiny.
Open source is a simple way to reduce reliance on third-parties, be they countries or corporations... assuming of course you have downloaded the source and not just the binaries before the sanctions kick in !
*grin* I wish I had some mod points so I could mod your post as funny.
Australian companies won't have to invest money into the development of innovative, high-tech business model and are protect from paying any patent fees by Australian law. Thus they gain a huge advantage by cutting their e-commerce cost by 20 percent.
I think the argument is because of the *obviousness* of this. Mail order companies have operated for years (hell, back in the 80's they were all the rage for consoles and games) and they calculated shipping dependant on destination - as does the post office, for want of another example of prior art.
Take also the airline industry. A massive, private network. Tickets priced in your local currency. This patent is laughable.
but I would have the option of having a CD shipped with the tracks burned on it in either Audio or mp3 format.
Print out the artwork and insert that too.
Just for the techno-cripples out there.
It would be interesting to see how the cost of such a CD stacked up against the price of a standard, retail CD in the stores.
Sadly, this is utter, utter shite.
While it is possible to forge headers, use open relays, trogan poor @Home users PCs, etc, etc then SPAM will not be defeated by legislation.
Tighten the protocols, then we have a fighting chance.
The random passing around was a joke, but a single layer of obfuscation(abstraction?? I have been drinking!) is all that is really needed.
Someone has to publish the (illegal) torrent file, even though the downloads swarm to it.
Ummmm.. dude... read the post. Who said anything about MP3?? I said illegal music.
Good comment. I'd say that if the proxy were general purpose (ie not tied to just downloading illegal content) then I would have as much chance about being prosecuted as an ISP that had a member downloading kiddie porn thru their proxy.
;)
While the final user must eventually download the data, it would be trivial for the RIAA or other interested parties to get the IP of the end user of a product such as Kazaa.
It would take twice the data (see my post on paying for this) but the idea is to provide a layer of obfucscation bewteen the snooper and the downloader.
One could imagine a scene similar to a movie where the proxies bounce off each other around the world to obtain the data... the RIAA has 45 seconds to trace the transmission
Bugger! I have been indoctrinated into the evil MS ways.
*commits ritual suicide*
Here's a project for a good developer to take up...
1. Develop a proxy for file sharing applications. The box has to be clean, no illegal content.
2. Allow anybody to create a numbered account. No authentication of "genuine" users or not, no logging or confirmation of email addresses.
3. Money (along with a reference number) is placed into a bank account(s) of people that operate these proxies. Just an over the counter payment, with a reference number which matches your account. This pays for the consumed bandwidth, nothing more.
People may log on to this anonymizing application using their ID and password to download whatever they want. if they forget their password, tough shit - that's the price you pay for anonymity.
There's no trail for the money, the server may download illegal or copyrighted content on behalf of members, but never persists the data.
The risk is a takedown order on these proxies, but provided they were made multipurpose (ie were not solely for the use of downloading copyright content) then I presume they would be safe.
All any inquisitive person would find is that proxy located at *IP* accessed this system and downloaded *xyz*. No easy way to track down the person requesting the download.
From the article, all this seems to do is some basic housekeeping to ensure that your search history is not stored, and interact with a database of IP addresses known to be used by the RIAA
:)
This doesn't seem to be anything revolutionary, or, interesting.
If the services went through some kind of anonymizer, that would be cuter. Of course, the bandwidth demands would be huge.
What may be an alternative is to produce a collaborative download system. I request a download, which is proxied by another random user (provided I return the favor). Even if you had RIAA sniffers, all that could be proven is that MY IP address downloaded something, but not the ultimate destination of the data.
Of course, if I have illegal music on my PC, then I am still screwed. But I leave solving that problem to the reader
I'm not too bothered if someone is tracking where I go and where my car goes within a city.
Ok, please post a log of absolutely *everywhere* you or your car goes for the next month. Include pictures.
While there may be no right to privacy, the thought of a government tracking every citizen is a bit too scary for me.