Re:Good for the RIAA. This is capitalism at work.
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RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Don't like it? Don't buy.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, economic theory takes into account theft. If they refuse to sell at a reasonable price, it is my duty to steal from them if I desire their product and there is no other source.
I'm just doing my part, as part of the Invisible Hand.
Capitalism doesn't have a respect for the law. Respectible economists have postulated that it's possible to calculate how overpriced something is by how much it is stolen.
The record labels want to maximize their profits? Tough shit, I want to maximize my utility.
Please, appeal to my sense of morality with a straight face. Corporations are amoral entities -- but I should be consumed with guilt for approaching them with as mercenary an outlook as they approach everything else.
I don't know about you, but most of my conversation on this topic revolve around "taking care of" the elderly in an entirely different sense. I'm still looking for a final solution, though.
A human being can see the car running the red light at an intersection. The radar-based system wouldn't even know about the other car until right before it sideswiped you (if they even bothered to mount a lateral detector).
A human being knows whether its safer to swerve into the lefthand lane or off the road.
A human being can hear someone else honking his horn.
A human being can see a "Deaf Child" sign.
A human being can tell whether the road is wet.
There are many things electronic systems can do well, and some that they can do better than humans. The safety advantages of automated driving may outweigh the disadvantages, but that doesn't mean the disadvantages don't exist.
What I meant was that once people are able to totally control their own perceptions, what's to stop them from switching off from society and living in a dream world, either idyllic or intense and harrowing beyond all possibility? It is our perceptions that ground us in a shared reality. That might be a good thing for individuals, but it would destroy civilization.
Don't worry. Stock analysts never give sell recommendations anyway. (The closest they'll ever come is "hold." If a stock analyst is saying to hold a stock, that means you should've sold your shares last month.)
...that system Ender used to talk to Jane? That would be sooo cool. (Now, all I need is an omniscient AI with root access on every machine connected to the Internet...)
The risk is damn near zero anyway. Worrying disproportionately about incredibly unlikely events is a stupid human trait. Plus, whenever you upload, you have the knowledge that (1) you are spreading whatever film, music, or game (which increases the total audience for something that you like, which is valuable to you if you're invested in its subculture), and (2) you're "sticking it to the man." Today, you can be a rebel from the comfort of your own home.
Nice attempt at a troll, but by using BitTorrent at all, you are uploading. (Either that, or you want us to believe that you use a hacked client that will download at a screaming rate of 0.1k per second, max.)
P.S.
You take a greater risk of death every time you step in a car than you run a risk of being sued when you upload a file in Kazaa.
Maybe in 25 years we'll get Harry Potter miniseries done by some sort of children's network, and the plots and characters won't feel like they're being crammed inside of three hours to cash in at the box office.
In 25 years, no one below the age of 30 will know what Harry Potter is. (Kid living with mean family discovers he has magic powers, secret history. It's been done better before, and it will be done better again. Don't get me wrong -- I liked [most of] the books -- but don't confuse them for something they aren't.)
Re:somebody explain the amiga curse?
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Amiga Sells AmigaOS
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· Score: 2, Funny
Atari returned now in big style
Another company buying the Atari name hardly counts as Atari "returning." (If you believe that, then I can arrange for you to meet with Martin Luther King, Jr. Only $500, plus whatever it costs to get my name changed.)
American Latin teaching is very suceptive to fads, the majority of which turn out to be very effective and often negatively impact the education students involved.
You ever read Ayn Rand's Anthem? If not you should, it's a really good book.
I'll have to take your word for it. I've spent enough time reading Ayn Rand's ravings -- time I'll never recover. Her political writing vacillates between the blindingly obvious and the blindingly stupid, and I doubt her fiction is any more meritorious.
Of course, defeating the measure described in the article would be trivial: simply don't use a client that uses their filtering technology. (No really, no need to thank me.)
But on the issue of technological countermeasures, let's consider the most extreme scenario: the government compels every ISP to install software that scans traffic for certain patterns of data in an attempt to detect copyright infringement. Even then, this could be defeated by p2p clients that encrypted the the data for transmission (as Mute does -- and since Mute's encryption is on-the-fly, it'd be impossible for the government to simply add the encrypted versions to the blacklist, like it would be for Freenet). If even such a ludicrously over-the-top Big Brother solution would fail, there's no way of killing p2p short of taking away every personal computer in the country.
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Don't like it? Don't buy.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, economic theory takes into account theft. If they refuse to sell at a reasonable price, it is my duty to steal from them if I desire their product and there is no other source.
I'm just doing my part, as part of the Invisible Hand.
Capitalism doesn't have a respect for the law. Respectible economists have postulated that it's possible to calculate how overpriced something is by how much it is stolen.
The record labels want to maximize their profits? Tough shit, I want to maximize my utility.
Please, appeal to my sense of morality with a straight face. Corporations are amoral entities -- but I should be consumed with guilt for approaching them with as mercenary an outlook as they approach everything else.
I don't know about you, but most of my conversation on this topic revolve around "taking care of" the elderly in an entirely different sense. I'm still looking for a final solution, though.
That's true, but only within its scope.
A human being can see the car running the red light at an intersection. The radar-based system wouldn't even know about the other car until right before it sideswiped you (if they even bothered to mount a lateral detector).
A human being knows whether its safer to swerve into the lefthand lane or off the road.
A human being can hear someone else honking his horn.
A human being can see a "Deaf Child" sign.
A human being can tell whether the road is wet.
There are many things electronic systems can do well, and some that they can do better than humans. The safety advantages of automated driving may outweigh the disadvantages, but that doesn't mean the disadvantages don't exist.
No, there IS one correct methodology: the meta-methodology that allows you to select the best methodology for a given situation.
What I meant was that once people are able to totally control their own perceptions, what's to stop them from switching off from society and living in a dream world, either idyllic or intense and harrowing beyond all possibility? It is our perceptions that ground us in a shared reality. That might be a good thing for individuals, but it would destroy civilization.
Don't worry. Stock analysts never give sell recommendations anyway. (The closest they'll ever come is "hold." If a stock analyst is saying to hold a stock, that means you should've sold your shares last month.)
Funny, I was thinking just the opposite.
The rotary telephone is still used quite often.
Um, no it isn't?
What greater goal could there be other than to control the input and output coming from our consciousness?
That wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. Did you ever see the ending to Brazil?
...that system Ender used to talk to Jane? That would be sooo cool. (Now, all I need is an omniscient AI with root access on every machine connected to the Internet...)
The risk is damn near zero anyway. Worrying disproportionately about incredibly unlikely events is a stupid human trait. Plus, whenever you upload, you have the knowledge that (1) you are spreading whatever film, music, or game (which increases the total audience for something that you like, which is valuable to you if you're invested in its subculture), and (2) you're "sticking it to the man." Today, you can be a rebel from the comfort of your own home.
Nice attempt at a troll, but by using BitTorrent at all, you are uploading. (Either that, or you want us to believe that you use a hacked client that will download at a screaming rate of 0.1k per second, max.) P.S. You take a greater risk of death every time you step in a car than you run a risk of being sued when you upload a file in Kazaa.
Maybe in 25 years we'll get Harry Potter miniseries done by some sort of children's network, and the plots and characters won't feel like they're being crammed inside of three hours to cash in at the box office.
In 25 years, no one below the age of 30 will know what Harry Potter is. (Kid living with mean family discovers he has magic powers, secret history. It's been done better before, and it will be done better again. Don't get me wrong -- I liked [most of] the books -- but don't confuse them for something they aren't.)
Atari returned now in big style
Another company buying the Atari name hardly counts as Atari "returning." (If you believe that, then I can arrange for you to meet with Martin Luther King, Jr. Only $500, plus whatever it costs to get my name changed.)
Your sig should be: Cogito me cogitare, ergo cogito me esse. (At least I think. Wouldn't I feel silly if I turned out to be wrong?)
So are these fads good or bad?
Why were all the administrative computers PCs?
HOLY SHIT!
I'll have to take your word for it. I've spent enough time reading Ayn Rand's ravings -- time I'll never recover. Her political writing vacillates between the blindingly obvious and the blindingly stupid, and I doubt her fiction is any more meritorious.
Microsoft's giving up that quickly?
Your point being? People don't read blogs because they're hard to set up: they read them because they (presumably) find the writer interesting.
Now here's a man who sounds like he knows what he's doing!
I agree. This has "clumsy hoax" written all over it. Did you see the picture in the article?
The one-time pad.
Of course, defeating the measure described in the article would be trivial: simply don't use a client that uses their filtering technology. (No really, no need to thank me.)
But on the issue of technological countermeasures, let's consider the most extreme scenario: the government compels every ISP to install software that scans traffic for certain patterns of data in an attempt to detect copyright infringement. Even then, this could be defeated by p2p clients that encrypted the the data for transmission (as Mute does -- and since Mute's encryption is on-the-fly, it'd be impossible for the government to simply add the encrypted versions to the blacklist, like it would be for Freenet). If even such a ludicrously over-the-top Big Brother solution would fail, there's no way of killing p2p short of taking away every personal computer in the country.