I think I understand your point crackspackle, but it's not "theft", just "sharing".
In the future, I expect, every artist will know that the moment his work is released it will be public domain. There has to be another way to fund the arts besides the insentive of money. Not that artists don't need to be compensated but the current system of multi millionaire superstars is a needless waste of society's resources. There are other things we should be spending are time, energy, and money on (like healthcare).
I say, Congress shall make no law abridging the right to share and distribute any digial media.
If I had $40 million to spare I'd ask Senator Fritz Hollins to introduce a bill....
... we're innovators, using new technology to break up the old
"closed" system of information control. If people can get religious degrees on scholarships
then surely there must be some philanthropy available for the Fellinies and the Woody Allens
of this world. Our current profit motives for funding the arts cause an unnecessary waste of society's resources.
You've thrown your television out the window, now throw Hollywood out with it.
"These are MASS MEDIA, with near zero marginal cost."
Well said.
No doubt artists will be famous but not necessarily "rich" and famous, unless they perform live and milk the door.
And given that computers now do what recording studios used to, and desktops being so powerful these days, their may well be a lot of poor superstars in the future. This could well stiffle rampant elitism (a scourge on a civilized society).
This is just a general model. Don't try this at home, folks. I assume slash dotters are tech savvy, but that doesn't mean we all know the above test could be very dangerous. As ka9dgx points out, you'd max out at a couple of thousand joules a second (assuming ~115V) and that could be dangerous.
Although...speaking of joules... if water has a high specific heat capacity AND is a good conducter, you could add a liquid heat sysnc by putting a tub of water in series with the circuit, thus dissipating the heat more safely. This is just a theory.
I doubt you'd even go to court. If you share your bandwidth, you are in fact an ISP. And if ISPs were liable they would have been sued long ago. I may be wrong.
Also, there seems to be a growing movement in many cities to provide free wireless access with complete anonymity. This will no doubt be a problem for the music industry as illegal file sharing will become rampant on these networks and, unlike Napster, it's doubtful the courts will close them down as their primary purpose is non infringing.
It's basic human nature to share information. Some even claim it's an innate human right. Artists are under no obligation to perform or record anything. If they don't want their work to be distributed freely on the Internet, they shouldn't record it.
It's not right for them to shut down Napster just because they couldn't get paid. They are indeed Luddites. And the DMCA is like prohibition, people will share digital media just like they drank beer in the 1920s.
Question for slash dotters: If you had 1.6M to spend on a lab, what would you buy?
Oscilloscope, vacuum chamber, some high quality microscopes (optical. electron), breadboard (and an entire Radio Shack to go with), a decent laser, spectrometer, a good chemsirty set, an atomic clock, some high grade uranium (for experimental purposes only, of course), a G5 cluster? Oh and how about a cyclotron?
The US Constitution was written in plain English by business men and farmers.
Use tax? It shouldn't make a difference what you call it.
What is it about Article I, section 9: "No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state" That the Supreme Court doesn't understand?
Kinda like civil forfeiture where some small town rouge cop can make up a story that he found a marijuana roach in your vehicle and seize your $300,000 Bentley. Yet the Fifth Amendment clearly states no person shall be deprived of property "without due process of law".
It's not enough to just read the Constitution anymore. Now you have to perform mental gymnastics to interpret it.
I'd be interested in "use tax" case history if anyone has any refs.
But money must have an influence somewhere along the line. Otherwise, why would corporations make financial contributions in the first place.
Take, for example, the DMCA. In the two year period after the DMCA was introduced to Congress, the entertainment industry's campaign contributions doubled to 18 million dolloars. Why? To get the the DMCA passed.
If you've ever listened to the LBJ Tapes on C-SPAN, you'll know that Washington is a closely knit community, a few phone calls by the right people can do wonders. This is not a conspiracy, just a few politicians expressing an opinion on something and saying "I don't think such a such would be a good idea because....." and reasoning it out and then setting the tone for policy.
A large part of government funding comes from corporate taxes. For the government not to be influenced by the weight and power of these companies is difficult for some of us to believe.
I'm a systems administrator. But only work on *nix systems. I support several hundred Windows users, files servers, email, etc.. I use a simple procmail script to quarantine all Windows executables in email messages (.exe,.com,.bat, etc.). So the latest round of viruses hasn't affected me.
Couldn't Microsoft at least install a pop-up that read something like "warning, it may not be safe to run this program, proceed at your own risk..."?
Why have a garage door opener, a remote TV controller, and
a handheld computer. The computer can do all the others can and more.
Why not not add a phone, multimedia player, wireless Internet, camera,
GPS,.....
A couple of years ago I installed Linux on an Ipaq.
screen shots.
It had 2 PCMCIA slots, one held a 5G HD, the other a wireless network card.
It also had a fold-able keyboard. I really wanted to turn it into a phone,
but though there's an adapter, there's no Linux drivers. And the phone companies don't like to give you their specs.
I usually live on the command line so MGz and RAM are not important to me.
The only problem I had was the screen size. If only it had a "roll-out" screen!
My only criticism is that many of these devices seem designed more for fashion than functionality.
Now the lawyers will be debating the definition of spyware all the way to the Supreme Court over the next 10 years, tied in tangles of litigious obfuscation, destined to hedious ruin.
If you have too many laws for the Internet, you'll stiffle its development and waste a needless amount of society's resources.
People will be more apprehensive about developing new ideas for fear of lawsuits and others will spend enormous amounts on litigation.
And even if that's not true.
How could you write such a law. Spyware? What's that? If Microsoft polls your computer for update requirements, would that not constitute a violation of such a law? If so Microsoft will amend its license agreement to compel a user to allow such Spyware. People who write programs will draft similar licenses, then they'll be lawyers, and endless amounts of everybody's time and energy.
I would much prefer a technical solution at the user end, it's cheaper and more elegant.
One of the articles calls it a "Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight"
P = power = WORK/TIME, (as in joules/second).
So how can gravity produce power?
If the plane does WORK = (force) x (direction)
and I apply
(very small force) x (-opposite direction)
I will eventullay stop the plane.
Ergo, gravity cannot power the plane.
Also note: "(patented, new design of Robert D Hunt) wind turbine". A.K.A a propeller. Are they patenting the basic laws of thermodynamics?
Did you know you can patent elements of the periodic table? The Constitution gives congress the power to grant exclusive rights to authors and inventors to their "writings and discoveries".
The FCC has taken a big chunk of the EM spectrum from us and a company has a patent on solving some physics equations.
Too many lawyers and not enough physicists.
-- How much does your electric provider charge you for bringing 1 liter of water to a boil?
I'm sure you're right. But MySQL does have some pretty good high availability projects going on right now. I was thinking more of distributed databases (not centralized).
It would be nice if, when I made DNS changes with my registrar, that 1) they were instantaneous and 2) I could have "myhostname" (without.com,.net, etc.).
I guess, as you say, the volume of queries would be a problem for any other system.
Perhaps ICANN should revoke all the registrar agreements, scrap DNS, and just assign IP addresses to users who are then free to map them to whatever they want in a public database.
Why do we need a Domain System hierarchy?
How about we have just names (and types) for records and then IP addresses that map to them. New names can be any currently non existing name (e.g. "mydomain.bill", or just "mydomain", no dots required). Each name is registered to a user account and the account holder can assign any IP address to that name.
LDAP or a single MySQL database distributed throughout the Internet could handle the data and updates instantaneously and much more efficiently than the old BIND system we're currently using.
Doesn't sendmail already have a similar feature turned on by default? You have to explicitly enable "accept_unresolvable_domains" in your sendmail.mc file or mail from servers with no reverse lookups will be rejected.
According to
bash# for x in $(antiword callerid_email.doc); do echo $x; done|wc -l
this is a thirteen thousand word document.
Can someone explain in a sentence or two what's different about what MS is proposing and what sendmial already offers?
Slashdot Mirror
Check out:
man growisofs
or go to.
If you're new to the command line try this tutorial
Good luck.
I think I understand your point crackspackle, but it's not "theft", just "sharing".
In the future, I expect, every artist will know that the moment his work is released it will be public domain. There has to be another way to fund the arts besides the insentive of money. Not that artists don't need to be compensated but the current system of multi millionaire superstars is a needless waste of society's resources. There are other things we should be spending are time, energy, and money on (like healthcare).
I say, Congress shall make no law abridging the right to share and distribute any digial media.
If I had $40 million to spare I'd ask Senator Fritz Hollins to introduce a bill....
... we're innovators, using new technology to break up the old "closed" system of information control. If people can get religious degrees on scholarships then surely there must be some philanthropy available for the Fellinies and the Woody Allens of this world. Our current profit motives for funding the arts cause an unnecessary waste of society's resources.
You've thrown your television out the window, now throw Hollywood out with it.
Senator Fritz Hollins told me about this, but told me to keep it secret. Clients for the Gnutella P2P network
He also said Linux users can go straight to Gnutella
"These are MASS MEDIA, with near zero marginal cost."
Well said.
No doubt artists will be famous but not necessarily "rich" and famous, unless they perform live and milk the door.
And given that computers now do what recording studios used to, and desktops being so powerful these days, their may well be a lot of poor superstars in the future. This could well stiffle rampant elitism (a scourge on a civilized society).
This is just a general model. Don't try this at home, folks. I assume slash dotters are tech savvy, but that doesn't mean we all know the above test could be very dangerous. As ka9dgx points out, you'd max out at a couple of thousand joules a second (assuming ~115V) and that could be dangerous.
...speaking of joules ... if water has a high specific heat capacity AND is a good conducter, you could add a liquid heat sysnc by putting a tub of water in series with the circuit, thus dissipating the heat more safely. This is just a theory.
Although
You need a heavy duty multimeter. You can get one with a rating of about 20 amps AC for under $50. like this for example.
Hook the multimeter up with a variable resistor (also rated for 20 Amps) in series with the circuit you want to measure.
(+)-->resistor-->multimeter-->(-)
Open up the resistor (slowly) until the circuit breaker or the fuse goes. Note the amps that this happened at. That's your max.
I doubt you'd even go to court. If you share your bandwidth, you are in fact an ISP. And if ISPs were liable they would have been sued long ago. I may be wrong.
Also, there seems to be a growing movement in many cities to provide free wireless access with complete anonymity. This will no doubt be a problem for the music industry as illegal file sharing will become rampant on these networks and, unlike Napster, it's doubtful the courts will close them down as their primary purpose is non infringing.
Why buy when you can hack for free ....
wireless
It's basic human nature to share information. Some even claim it's an innate human right. Artists are under no obligation to perform or record anything. If they don't want their work to be distributed freely on the Internet, they shouldn't record it.
It's not right for them to shut down Napster just because they couldn't get paid. They are indeed Luddites. And the DMCA is like prohibition, people will share digital media just like they drank beer in the 1920s.
--
Those funny plastic disks have to go.
Question for slash dotters: If you had 1.6M to spend on a lab, what would you buy?
Oscilloscope, vacuum chamber, some high quality microscopes (optical. electron), breadboard (and an entire Radio Shack to go with), a decent laser, spectrometer, a good chemsirty set, an atomic clock, some high grade uranium (for experimental purposes only, of course), a G5 cluster? Oh and how about a cyclotron?
What have I missed?
I agree. It sounds very lame.
The US Constitution was written in plain English by business men and farmers.
Use tax? It shouldn't make a difference what you call it.
What is it about Article I, section 9:
"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state"
That the Supreme Court doesn't understand?
Kinda like civil forfeiture where some small town rouge cop can make up a story that he found a marijuana roach in your vehicle and seize your $300,000 Bentley. Yet the Fifth Amendment clearly states no person shall be deprived of property "without due process of law".
It's not enough to just read the Constitution anymore. Now you have to perform mental gymnastics to interpret it.
I'd be interested in "use tax" case history if anyone has any refs.
Max
100% troll, mod me down like you always do.
But money must have an influence somewhere along the line. Otherwise, why would corporations make financial contributions in the first place.
....." and reasoning it out and then setting the tone for policy.
Take, for example, the DMCA. In the two year period after the DMCA was introduced to Congress, the entertainment industry's campaign contributions doubled to 18 million dolloars. Why? To get the the DMCA passed.
If you've ever listened to the LBJ Tapes on C-SPAN, you'll know that Washington is a closely knit community, a few phone calls by the right people can do wonders. This is not a conspiracy, just a few politicians expressing an opinion on something and saying "I don't think such a such would be a good idea because
A large part of government funding comes from corporate taxes. For the government not to be influenced by the weight and power of these companies is difficult for some of us to believe.
I think that's the point that's being made here.
Max
I'm a systems administrator. But only work on *nix systems. I support several hundred Windows users, files servers, email, etc.. I use a simple procmail script to quarantine all Windows executables in email messages (.exe, .com, .bat, etc.). So the latest round of viruses hasn't affected me.
Couldn't Microsoft at least install a pop-up that read something like "warning, it may not be safe to run this program, proceed at your own risk..."?
I've never used Windows, probably never will. Viruses always amaze me.
Why, oh why, oh why, would ANYONE, EVER, run any unverifiable code on his computer?
Isn't the answer here really simple for Microsoft?
Before executing any code, ask the user if it's okay.
Max
Why have a garage door opener, a remote TV controller, and a handheld computer. The computer can do all the others can and more. Why not not add a phone, multimedia player, wireless Internet, camera, GPS,
A couple of years ago I installed Linux on an Ipaq. screen shots.
It had 2 PCMCIA slots, one held a 5G HD, the other a wireless network card. It also had a fold-able keyboard. I really wanted to turn it into a phone, but though there's an adapter, there's no Linux drivers. And the phone companies don't like to give you their specs.
I usually live on the command line so MGz and RAM are not important to me. The only problem I had was the screen size. If only it had a "roll-out" screen!
My only criticism is that many of these devices seem designed more for fashion than functionality.
Now the lawyers will be debating the definition of spyware all the way to the Supreme Court over the next 10 years, tied in tangles of litigious obfuscation, destined to hedious ruin.
What a stupid waste of society's resources.
Open the source -- problem solved.
If you have too many laws for the Internet, you'll stiffle its development and waste a needless amount of society's resources.
People will be more apprehensive about developing new ideas for fear of lawsuits and others will spend enormous amounts on litigation.
And even if that's not true.
How could you write such a law. Spyware? What's that? If Microsoft polls your computer for update requirements, would that not constitute a violation of such a law? If so Microsoft will amend its license agreement to compel a user to allow such Spyware. People who write programs will draft similar licenses, then they'll be lawyers, and endless amounts of everybody's time and energy.
I would much prefer a technical solution at the user end, it's cheaper and more elegant.
If you view the html source on their web page you'll see they used javascript.
Isn't javascript proprietary?
These are just normal transitional problems exaggerated out of proportion.
How much is Munich saving in licenses?
Latin me that, my trinity scholard.
Article is not geeky enough. What language are they using? Can we see the code?
Wonder how big of an antenna you'd need to hack the Rover?
One of the articles calls it a "Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight"
P = power = WORK/TIME, (as in joules/second).
So how can gravity produce power?
If the plane does WORK = (force) x (direction)
and I apply
(very small force) x (-opposite direction)
I will eventullay stop the plane.
Ergo, gravity cannot power the plane.
Also note: "(patented, new design of Robert D Hunt) wind turbine".
A.K.A a propeller.
Are they patenting the basic laws of thermodynamics?
Did you know you can patent elements of the periodic table? The Constitution gives congress the power to grant exclusive rights to authors and inventors to their "writings and discoveries".
The FCC has taken a big chunk of the EM spectrum from us and a company has a patent on solving some physics equations.
Too many lawyers and not enough physicists.
--
How much does your electric provider charge you for bringing 1 liter of water to a boil?
He was forcing parents to give their children proper instruction on typing and speling.
I'm sure you're right. But MySQL does have some pretty good high availability projects going on right now. I was thinking more of distributed databases (not centralized).
.com, .net, etc.).
It would be nice if, when I made DNS changes with my registrar, that 1) they were instantaneous and 2) I could have "myhostname" (without
I guess, as you say, the volume of queries would be a problem for any other system.
Perhaps ICANN should revoke all the registrar agreements, scrap DNS, and just assign IP addresses to users who are then free to map them to whatever they want in a public database.
Why do we need a Domain System hierarchy?
How about we have just names (and types) for records and then IP addresses that map to them. New names can be any currently non existing name (e.g. "mydomain.bill", or just "mydomain", no dots required). Each name is registered to a user account and the account holder can assign any IP address to that name.
LDAP or a single MySQL database distributed throughout the Internet could handle the data and updates instantaneously and much more efficiently than the old BIND system we're currently using.
Doesn't sendmail already have a similar feature turned on by default? You have to explicitly enable "accept_unresolvable_domains" in your sendmail.mc file or mail from servers with no reverse lookups will be rejected.
According to
bash# for x in $(antiword callerid_email.doc); do echo $x; done|wc -l
this is a thirteen thousand word document.
Can someone explain in a sentence or two what's different about what MS is proposing and what sendmial already offers?