Okay, granted, this won't work for all the openNap clients out there, but maybe Napster should introduce a "feature" to their windows client that automatically concatenates your newest download to an ad for a "napster-friendly" artist.
Next time Joe College student d/ls Enter Sandman, he gets an ad for "Bobs Techo Garage Band." Maybe then Napster can argue it actually promotes independant artists.
Heck, maybe then the big record companies would buy into Napster so labels could advertise on competing material.... That'd be a fun monkey-wrench.
What about a Java framework? I attended a colloquium earlier in the year outlining a method for distributed computing over the 'Net with a Java client/server (perhaps RMI) setup.
With this setup, you could just hide the applet as a 1x1 in a frame of a website, and hijack a bunch of cycles.
As opposed to being limited to *intentionally* sending the virus, you could be liable for your negligence in that you didn't take the expected precautions (like not running attachments).
2) The law is intended to make *introducing* a virus unlawful.
Can't viruses be introduced *by accident*... I seem to remember some Nova show or something about one of the first virii being a christmas-card that got out of control...
> Since of course it is the govt and military that > insist on US made software and rightfully so.
Rightfully so? If ever there was a reason to thing Americans were arrogant... I would think you'd want your govt/military to use the best software available, regardless of where it comes from.
We're moving closer to the "Global Village" metaphor. Keeping jobs at home will require staying competitive - not over-legislating.
They require oxygen to die? Or do you mean 'respire':-) IANABOAA (I am not a biologist or an astronomer), but would earth-native plants have any difficulty adjusting to different daylight settings?
I seem to remember something from first year bio about a red-flash type of thing where flowers wouldn't blossom etc. if the light of the day weren't a certain length (to accomodate for seasonal changes)..
Though 'push' has gotten a pretty bad rap (mainly for poor execution IMHO), I think you're on to something here.
Instead of a Gnutella based search engine, it's a Napster-based search engine (mind you, the offerings stay live even when the client isn't connected).
o Gnutella gets attention for being a haven for pirates. o Nullsoft creates a search engine based on the technology to legitimize it. o InfraSearch gets media attention, much fanfare etc.
. Harvest creates a distributed search engine. . Had you heard of it before now?
It's the same old story, to be heard you have to be contraversial, or rich.
Gotta love the 'net - created for war, popularized by porn and piracy.
Since people can define their own content, would this mean that people running the server-end could still be distributing their MP3's, pr0n etc, but through a web interface? It's not just limited to html-page searching.
This makes pira^H^H^H^H trading files even easier - people no longer need to install a client, there's a nice web-search interface, with direct dload URLs. Web searching for files with no broken links. Nice.
> Without "legitimate" applications for > technology, they will be viewed as simply tools > for pirating or other illegal use.
Puh-leeze. The reason these technologies are viewed as aids to pirates is that they *are* aids to pirates. Not that Lars is the expert, but I tend to believe him when he says of all the Napster traffic they monitored, only a negligible portion was legitimate. Likewise, gnutella turns around and says, we have a tool that does just what Napster does, but can avoid messy lawsuits through decentralization!
When someone finds a security hole in closed software (Outlook) - everyone jumps at the chance to say Obscurtiy != Security, and the people as M$ are all a bunch of idiots for making those mistakes.
When a security hole is found in an Open Source project, it's simply a "brain fart" and it doesn't "necessarily" mean anything. The double standard is ridiculous.
It's cases like this where I'm happy that at least with close-source you have someone to blame, rather than open-source where everyone can pass the buck with the phrase "Well, if you're so concerned, why don't you do it."
I think Jamie Zawinski was on to something when he said:" You can't take a [...] project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of 'open source,' and have everything magically work out."
I was always under the impression that the big advantage light would have over electricity would be in the size of the circuits.
With current chip technology, people have estimated all sorts of physical limits to how small we can make chips because of interference and such. Two wires (or etched copper or whatever) have to be physically seperated - but you can have two beams of light cross at a point and it wouldn't affect either "wire." In fact, it would seem that you could have two photon channels in completely oposity directions, but sharing the same space, and it would still be alright.
The advantage would come from being able to make insanely small chips, or chips the size we have now with a LOT more stuff on 'em.
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They could make the ads really small/treble-y or whatever, and VBR encode them.
Okay, granted, this won't work for all the openNap clients out there, but maybe Napster should introduce a "feature" to their windows client that automatically concatenates your newest download to an ad for a "napster-friendly" artist.
Next time Joe College student d/ls Enter Sandman, he gets an ad for "Bobs Techo Garage Band." Maybe then Napster can argue it actually promotes independant artists.
Heck, maybe then the big record companies would buy into Napster so labels could advertise on competing material.... That'd be a fun monkey-wrench.
Do you understand the concept of "Better than buying a fucking CD?"
What about a Java framework? I attended a colloquium earlier in the year outlining a method for distributed computing over the 'Net with a Java client/server (perhaps RMI) setup.
With this setup, you could just hide the applet as a 1x1 in a frame of a website, and hijack a bunch of cycles.
Hmmm. perhaps I should patent that.
What would it take to get scanned into that one?
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Start
(Or Select Start if you were social)
I'm going to do something that helps people: buy a whole room of monkeys and have them re-enact the civil war!
(But that doesn't help anybody...)
All this talk about having multiple vendors support the platform, produce games, produce hardware, hardware integration with PC's etc...
This was Trip Hawkins (sp?) dream for the 3DO.. and we all know how that panned out. To many plans for one device.
PS2 is a console - It'll do better if they keep it that way.
1) What about criminal negligence?
As opposed to being limited to *intentionally* sending the virus, you could be liable for your negligence in that you didn't take the expected precautions (like not running attachments).
2) The law is intended to make *introducing* a virus unlawful.
Can't viruses be introduced *by accident*... I seem to remember some Nova show or something about one of the first virii being a christmas-card that got out of control...
To avoid a possible flamewar, I did not meant to imply that MS was the best alternative, even if it were to come from Canada or anywhere else.
(admittedly a little OT)
> Since of course it is the govt and military that
> insist on US made software and rightfully so.
Rightfully so? If ever there was a reason to thing Americans were arrogant... I would think you'd want your govt/military to use the best software available, regardless of where it comes from.
We're moving closer to the "Global Village" metaphor. Keeping jobs at home will require staying competitive - not over-legislating.
They require oxygen to die? Or do you mean 'respire' :-) IANABOAA (I am not a biologist or an astronomer), but would earth-native plants have any difficulty adjusting to different daylight settings?
I seem to remember something from first year bio about a red-flash type of thing where flowers wouldn't blossom etc. if the light of the day weren't a certain length (to accomodate for seasonal changes)..
Anyone know?
Though 'push' has gotten a pretty bad rap (mainly for poor execution IMHO), I think you're on to something here.
Instead of a Gnutella based search engine, it's a Napster-based search engine (mind you, the offerings stay live even when the client isn't connected).
o Gnutella gets attention for being a haven for pirates.
o Nullsoft creates a search engine based on the technology to legitimize it.
o InfraSearch gets media attention, much fanfare etc.
. Harvest creates a distributed search engine.
. Had you heard of it before now?
It's the same old story, to be heard you have to be contraversial, or rich.
Gotta love the 'net - created for war, popularized by porn and piracy.
Since people can define their own content, would this mean that people running the server-end could still be distributing their MP3's, pr0n etc, but through a web interface? It's not just limited to html-page searching.
This makes pira^H^H^H^H trading files even easier - people no longer need to install a client, there's a nice web-search interface, with direct dload URLs. Web searching for files with no broken links. Nice.
> Without "legitimate" applications for
> technology, they will be viewed as simply tools
> for pirating or other illegal use.
Puh-leeze. The reason these technologies are viewed as aids to pirates is that they *are* aids to pirates. Not that Lars is the expert, but I tend to believe him when he says of all the Napster traffic they monitored, only a negligible portion was legitimate. Likewise, gnutella turns around and says, we have a tool that does just what Napster does, but can avoid messy lawsuits through decentralization!
Is it any wonder people are skeptical?
When someone finds a security hole in closed software (Outlook) - everyone jumps at the chance to say Obscurtiy != Security, and the people as M$ are all a bunch of idiots for making those mistakes.
When a security hole is found in an Open Source project, it's simply a "brain fart" and it doesn't "necessarily" mean anything. The double standard is ridiculous.
It's cases like this where I'm happy that at least with close-source you have someone to blame, rather than open-source where everyone can pass the buck with the phrase "Well, if you're so concerned, why don't you do it."
I think Jamie Zawinski was on to something when he said:" You can't take a [...] project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of 'open source,' and have everything magically work out."
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I was always under the impression that the big advantage light would have over electricity would be in the size of the circuits.
With current chip technology, people have estimated all sorts of physical limits to how small we can make chips because of interference and such. Two wires (or etched copper or whatever) have to be physically seperated - but you can have two beams of light cross at a point and it wouldn't affect either "wire." In fact, it would seem that you could have two photon channels in completely oposity directions, but sharing the same space, and it would still be alright.
The advantage would come from being able to make insanely small chips, or chips the size we have now with a LOT more stuff on 'em.
--Me
I have a sig, and this statement is false.
I think virtual communities will survive the growth of homosexuality on the internet.
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