I just can't buy into the whole, "We're here, this is all there is" mentality that is present here. This isn't it, the end all and be all of humanity. Time is marching forward, always.
John F Kennedy said "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." In our times, I think that people in general have become too caught up in the present.
Personaly, I think that eventualy the demands of interconnectivity between diverse networks will force it to happen. I think what we are about to see in the next ten years is a fracturing of the software world, but the data fromats are going to become increasingly homogenized to the make up for the difference in software preference.
I don't really think an open document standard would be that bad for Microsoft. They survived the days when everyone used plain ascii text files. They are surviving OpenOffice and all other opensource programs that have reverse engineered their formats.
I'm sorry, but I think your analogy is unsound. A true white hat hacker doesn't drink the beer, try on the underpants, eat the pizza. More like someone you would drive by with your trunk door open, and they tell you that it's open so that all your stuff, which might be your private underclothes, doesn't end up in the middle of the road for everyone to see.
People often make the assumption that morality dictates law. This is simply not true. In other words, if someone breaks into your system and tells you about it and helps you fix the holes instead of using your system for their own personal gain, then he's done you a favor by doing your job for you and saving your employers money if someone ever did exploit you maliciously.
It's a little more than the cost of production materials. They still have to pay the musicians, technicians, pay for advertising, airplay, etc. The guys at the top are still going to be laughing all the way to the bank. The only people this will really hurt are the musicians, if at all.
Yeah, I've done that bit. Another trick for free music is to buy vinyl or cds at flea markets/yard sales, then sell them to a vendor at another flea market. Actual made profit a few times with this method.
You might be right. It's at US $9,700.00 right now, around 5:00 PM EST. For some reason, that number is just scaring me. Who bids US $9,700.00 for.99 cent song?
My bet is that it gets to $20,000 by the time it gets shut down. This'll probably get a little blip on TechTV or something, to show you how much the public cars about this.
You can't get around copy protection. Easiest way around copy protected cds? Hook up the audio out from a cd player that it plays on, record from computer. Get some software that interfaces with CDDB or something to get the track times, it can automaticly slice the recording into track length mp3s.
If they'd use my idea for catching filesharers, this wouldn't make you immune to the RIAA. Simple concept, make a bot that sits on fasttrack and responds to search requests for RIAA artists. Just log the IPs, and start talking to the isps. However, it'd be much easier for the kids to get their mp3s from newsgroups/irc/ftps. This is just people's lazyness coming back to bite them.
Comets are formed when solar nebulae condense. On a cosmic time scale, this is happening all the time. The effects of gravity will work its magic on their orbits, a few of them might find their way into our neighborhood.
A good source for information about this is at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comets
I don't know why, but this paragraph jumped out at me while reading it:
Once inside we make a beeline for a machine called a chemical vapor deposition reactor. It looks like a big steel cylinder on its side, encased in glass. "I have a special relationship with this machine," he says, and touches the glass with a gloved hand.
Interestingly enough, I was talking to my wife last night about something similar. We were talking about how the end result of science is data that can be independantly verified, which is then interpreted by humans. So, to play a little mind game with her, I asked her how she knew the earth was a sphere. Told her that there are still people on the planet today that believe the earth is flat, like the Flat Earth Society. How does she know that the Earth is not hollow, and there aren't people running around on the inside laughing at us for getting rained on all the time?
In my eyes, the original Myst was nothing more than a graphic novel, with a FEW choices thrown in. However, that game sold a lot of copies, although you could argue that it was due to the novelty at the time.
In my eyes, comics are dead. People want interaction now, that's what they are willing to pay for. The comic writters should start writting plots/charachters for games, and mabey they would see a little profit out of it, and the gamers might get better games out of it.
Yeah, but you have a government who is willing to spen the taxpayers money on this sort of thing. By and large, most taxpayers do not care about their privacy being taken away from them under the guise of security. Even if they did, you would think that more than the less than half of the population that votes would actualy vote to stop it.
As for it not being there yet, a lot of people said it was a far fetched idea for the US to send people to the moon, and in fact, a few people still believe that it didn't happen and it couldn't have. I'm willing to accept that it did happen, because the US Government wanted to show up the Russians and beat them to it. They were willing to spend the money, the technology emerges. Same thing here. If the government wants the tech, all they have to do is throw money at it, and wait. It'll eventualy be here before you know it.
*shrug* Release the digital copies, I say. Somewhere, someone will find a way to beat the DRM schemes that the corporations cook up, someone is going to grab the PPV feed, and somewhere, someone will be sharing copies of all it for pirates grubby little hands.
Thousands of subscribers to the Australian cellular network, Telstra suffered crossed lines and access to the wrong voicemail servers following a major software failure on the network yesterday. The problems with the network started at 9am and were repaired at 5.15pm (local time) when the entire network was rebooted.
A spokesman, Michael Patterson, told the Sydney Morning Herald said Telstra still did not know what had caused the failure. "We're continuing to investigate," he said. There was no evidence to suggest the failure was related to the storm damage that caused havoc on its fixed-phone network on Sunday night, he said. "But we're not ruling it out."
The effects that this will cause have to be examined. Some of the comments on this seem to be a little bit too enthusastic.
Telstra is a company of questionable ethics, do you think they are looking at this from the OSS comunity's point of view? No, they are looking to exploit it. They are trying to cut costs, which in the long run is easiest to take care of by reducing how many people you need to maintain the network. If that's their goal, then what's going to happen here is that your software, if you have code that is going to be used their, is going to be exploited to create fewer IT jobs.
Sure, they are supposed to contribute source back in, but what's to stop them if they don't. AFAIK, nobody has ever been forced by law to contribute source back in. Then again, mabey they will.
Thinking about, I can see why they are going this way. For some reason, no one hear seems to be picking up on the thin-client idea. The more you centralize computing, the easier it is to handle. Instead of installing OpenOffice on all the desktops, just do it once on you server, and all the thin clients connect to it to get their software. Open Source lets them do this easily, since they don't have to pay for someone to design something for. All they have to do is use the free software, and pay people to get it down. The way I look at it the largest price tag here is the rollout of the project. After that, they can cut costs dramaticly, fire a good portion of their IT that isn't mission critical anymore, or outsource it easier since it's so centralize remote administration would be a breeze.
Yeah, I can see how they might be using this to their advantage, or mabey I'm just trying to see the negative.
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I just can't buy into the whole, "We're here, this is all there is" mentality that is present here. This isn't it, the end all and be all of humanity. Time is marching forward, always.
John F Kennedy said "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." In our times, I think that people in general have become too caught up in the present.
Personaly, I think that eventualy the demands of interconnectivity between diverse networks will force it to happen. I think what we are about to see in the next ten years is a fracturing of the software world, but the data fromats are going to become increasingly homogenized to the make up for the difference in software preference.
Just speculation, though.
I don't really think an open document standard would be that bad for Microsoft. They survived the days when everyone used plain ascii text files. They are surviving OpenOffice and all other opensource programs that have reverse engineered their formats.
I've got an old CP/M machine that I'd love to put a new monitor in and perhaps a mini motherboard in. Go for the retro feel...
Better than "crashes sometimes leave you with a pleseant aftertaste of death".
when the human is their to make sure the computer is being alert.
I'm sorry, but I think your analogy is unsound. A true white hat hacker doesn't drink the beer, try on the underpants, eat the pizza. More like someone you would drive by with your trunk door open, and they tell you that it's open so that all your stuff, which might be your private underclothes, doesn't end up in the middle of the road for everyone to see.
People often make the assumption that morality dictates law. This is simply not true. In other words, if someone breaks into your system and tells you about it and helps you fix the holes instead of using your system for their own personal gain, then he's done you a favor by doing your job for you and saving your employers money if someone ever did exploit you maliciously.
It's a little more than the cost of production materials. They still have to pay the musicians, technicians, pay for advertising, airplay, etc. The guys at the top are still going to be laughing all the way to the bank. The only people this will really hurt are the musicians, if at all.
Several news sites have written articles on this, after the slashdot post. One even cites slashdot as the source.
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Links:
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=13369&categ
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4439.cfm
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11358
Won't be long now before ebay pulls this auction. No money for EFF.
Yeah, I've done that bit. Another trick for free music is to buy vinyl or cds at flea markets/yard sales, then sell them to a vendor at another flea market. Actual made profit a few times with this method.
High end audio equipment has digital out, and you can get sound cards with digital end. *shrug*
You might be right. It's at US $9,700.00 right now, around 5:00 PM EST. For some reason, that number is just scaring me. Who bids US $9,700.00 for .99 cent song?
My bet is that it gets to $20,000 by the time it gets shut down. This'll probably get a little blip on TechTV or something, to show you how much the public cars about this.
You can't get around copy protection. Easiest way around copy protected cds? Hook up the audio out from a cd player that it plays on, record from computer. Get some software that interfaces with CDDB or something to get the track times, it can automaticly slice the recording into track length mp3s.
If they'd use my idea for catching filesharers, this wouldn't make you immune to the RIAA. Simple concept, make a bot that sits on fasttrack and responds to search requests for RIAA artists. Just log the IPs, and start talking to the isps. However, it'd be much easier for the kids to get their mp3s from newsgroups/irc/ftps. This is just people's lazyness coming back to bite them.
Gigantic uprising? I think not. College kids these days don't rebel, they just whine.
Comets are formed when solar nebulae condense. On a cosmic time scale, this is happening all the time. The effects of gravity will work its magic on their orbits, a few of them might find their way into our neighborhood. A good source for information about this is at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comets
Reading this made me think of the comet rendevous in 2061. I doubt that I'll live to see something like that actualy accomplished.
What we need is another space race, some incentive to get there. My guess is that the next space race will be for resources, metals, chemicals, etc.
Interestingly enough, I was talking to my wife last night about something similar. We were talking about how the end result of science is data that can be independantly verified, which is then interpreted by humans. So, to play a little mind game with her, I asked her how she knew the earth was a sphere. Told her that there are still people on the planet today that believe the earth is flat, like the Flat Earth Society. How does she know that the Earth is not hollow, and there aren't people running around on the inside laughing at us for getting rained on all the time?
In my eyes, the original Myst was nothing more than a graphic novel, with a FEW choices thrown in. However, that game sold a lot of copies, although you could argue that it was due to the novelty at the time.
In my eyes, comics are dead. People want interaction now, that's what they are willing to pay for. The comic writters should start writting plots/charachters for games, and mabey they would see a little profit out of it, and the gamers might get better games out of it.
Yeah, but you have a government who is willing to spen the taxpayers money on this sort of thing. By and large, most taxpayers do not care about their privacy being taken away from them under the guise of security. Even if they did, you would think that more than the less than half of the population that votes would actualy vote to stop it.
As for it not being there yet, a lot of people said it was a far fetched idea for the US to send people to the moon, and in fact, a few people still believe that it didn't happen and it couldn't have. I'm willing to accept that it did happen, because the US Government wanted to show up the Russians and beat them to it. They were willing to spend the money, the technology emerges. Same thing here. If the government wants the tech, all they have to do is throw money at it, and wait. It'll eventualy be here before you know it.
*shrug* Release the digital copies, I say. Somewhere, someone will find a way to beat the DRM schemes that the corporations cook up, someone is going to grab the PPV feed, and somewhere, someone will be sharing copies of all it for pirates grubby little hands.
The effects that this will cause have to be examined. Some of the comments on this seem to be a little bit too enthusastic.
Telstra is a company of questionable ethics, do you think they are looking at this from the OSS comunity's point of view? No, they are looking to exploit it. They are trying to cut costs, which in the long run is easiest to take care of by reducing how many people you need to maintain the network. If that's their goal, then what's going to happen here is that your software, if you have code that is going to be used their, is going to be exploited to create fewer IT jobs.
Sure, they are supposed to contribute source back in, but what's to stop them if they don't. AFAIK, nobody has ever been forced by law to contribute source back in. Then again, mabey they will.
Thinking about, I can see why they are going this way. For some reason, no one hear seems to be picking up on the thin-client idea. The more you centralize computing, the easier it is to handle. Instead of installing OpenOffice on all the desktops, just do it once on you server, and all the thin clients connect to it to get their software. Open Source lets them do this easily, since they don't have to pay for someone to design something for. All they have to do is use the free software, and pay people to get it down. The way I look at it the largest price tag here is the rollout of the project. After that, they can cut costs dramaticly, fire a good portion of their IT that isn't mission critical anymore, or outsource it easier since it's so centralize remote administration would be a breeze.
Yeah, I can see how they might be using this to their advantage, or mabey I'm just trying to see the negative.