Sure... People who's skin is slightly darker than other peoples skin are now allowed on buses. People who enjoy the company of people of the same gender are now allowed to marry. Eccentric women who refer to herbs as "eye of newt" no longer burned at the stake. Grafitti is often seen as a legitimate artform and is often commissioned by governments to decorate buses, trains and underpasses.
Alot of these type of things were disallowed because of societal pressures (mob rule), not because of any laws - Called Witch Hunts.
This new TIA shit the US/British Govt goes on with also bow not to laws, but to "mob rule". Pre-emptive action by definition can't deal with issues of criminality.
I mean... in the UK its illegal to celebrate terrorism. This enforced by any kind of AI (or any kind of mindless police pawns) means standing in public and yelling "Greenpeace is great" can get you arrested.
The Govt can shift the goalposts and redefine "terrorism" faster than you can say "she turned me into a newt"
I agree too that there should definitely be sunset clauses for laws passed to deal with transient problems (terrorism, tuberculosis etc)
Modern times have led us into an age which reflects a lot of our worst fictional nightmares and we are allowing it to happen because we are accepting it because there is a "cmon, that was just a book/movie/joke. it won't *really* be like that" type of attitude.
The fact is that this sort of "total information awareness" nonsense is absolute power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Again, not a cute "quote" written for posterity, but a cold hard fact.
I believe that crime is a necessary catalyst for change, and that many things that were illegal in the past are now no longer illegal because society has recognised that these "crimes" were overblown, and that the thinking of the time would have labelled every person a criminal. Today the vast majority of people are labelled criminals by one group or another.
The point of all this is that a "Total Information Awareness" or a "Pre-emptive criminalisation" or even an instant criminalisation in the case of security cameras etc. lead us to a situation where our society is made up of criminals, 100% policing is necessary, and zero social change can ever occur.
Apple has always been going to be toppled from the evolutionary peak by rejecting diversity. This isn't a Troll, but PCs are simply far more capable of dealing with environmental changes by embracing diversity.
PCs are a flawed beast. Capable of changing with the tides but constantly challenged by their lack of uniformity. Very human in that respect. Apple are sleak perfect pieces of machinery... much like the cockroach (who's developer went broke and left millions of angry wasps with obsolete hardware)
I use photoshop professionally daily and the word "compile" scares the shit out of me. There is no way I could afford to take the risk and jump into linux while the elitism exists. That said, I would *love* to be able to get into my software apps and edit them if I chose to, but this should never be the first option. I want usability first and configurability second. (think maya, very usable, but should I want the hacker element I can get in there and write command line style... photoshop and final cut pro continue to patronise me with their closed source & limited options)
bring the application developers to linux (adobe, macromedia etc), and back *one release* of linux for each industry. Make it pretty, make it *extremely* easy to use/install and make sure I am not having to make compromises/risks in time, quality or expense and I will convert in a second!
Is there any reason that the search engines can't take these redirects into account? The spider visits a site, searches for redirects and indexes the amount of data a human eye could read in the time the redirect takes?
I really think adding "human discretion" into the impartial world of search engines is a wrong and potentially very dangerous move.
Who said I wanted to buy a "Stills camera" or a "video camera"
I want to buy a light capturing device.
"it is goddamn consumers like you" who would gladly exchange their eyes for a collection of different devices from the same manufacturers to do slightly different things.
"do you want it to be able to talk to your freinds, scan color documents and print, e-mail to friends, press to talk, play DVDs, encode video, send faxes, playback recorded TV programs, scan for viruses, update your windows software" - its called a computer. - One single device from whatever manufacturers you choose - the antithesis of consumerism.
They don't need to "manufacture" any new features to implement what I am talking about - they just need to *unlock* it. Just like they don't need to "manufacture" features to let you play mp3s on your mobile, or VNC to your desktop from your palm pilot, or make skype calls on it, they just need to stop locking us out and treating use like cashcows.
However many megapixels, but I can still only capture 640x480 video. theres no reason this couldn't be full PAL/NTSC or even HD - add a weight to it and you have a extremely good quality video camera for very cheap.
Let me edit the camera OS and I'll implement it myself, including time lapse or variable frame rate. I'll connect it to my laptop so i don't run out of space.
They keep wanting to milk us for every new "HD" format video camera.
The other thing they can implement is HDR photography. I know RAW is good, but if they can master true HDR that would be awesome.
...is the *biggest* problem with speech recognision. I used it extensively for a good period of time, but it's not reliable. Someone walks into the room/some music plays. etc. Speech recognision would greatly benefit from either the computer getting an audio & visual input to determine the source, or better yet, adopting the military throat microphones that only pick up vibrations directly from the skin (even whispers)
You're absolutely right, but if we're not careful, itunes will take up the power once held by the RIAA. Open infrastructure has be be set up *now* while the market its still uncertain. Any company that innovates here will have the same stranglehold on the market that the RIAA has had for years (and we don't want that)
That download link is fixed up & putting an archive file up as we speak. As for project files, its not really feasable as we use a collection of different gear and instruments, and generally perform a large amount of it live. Thanks for your suggestions though!
Yeah I agree completely. The RIAA or any other such organisation no longer offer us *anything*. They used to have control because they had the equipment, the studios, the distribution and the promotional powers, but their time has come to an end. My group Children in the Game are giving their album away free for whomever wants it, in an attempt to help topple the RIAA's power.
Once music stops being hugely profitable, people assume music will stop being made. This is complete RIAA propaganda. They suck the life and soul out of musicians, milk them until they are dry and then move on. IMHO buying albums through these huge companies is feeding these parasites to the detriment of anyone who cares about music.
We're battling formats? We're debating HD vs BluRay while these swines continue to fuck us? fuck them! Release your films/music in an open format and i'll record it onto any fucking disc or other storage medium I want!
Another model will be created that links consumers to the artists directly. An open infrastructure that doesn't require middlemen (i'm glaring at you itunes) will be created, but until then, I, and others like me will continue to create music without the promise of riches and bitches and whatever else music has been raped and disfigured into being about.
I think the real distinction is that thought is diffused amongst many people very quickly due to rapid communication methods like the internet.
A slashdot comments page alone can diffuse a potential research topic into a "well I could write about it but its kinda a conclusion that could be reached by anyone if they followed the logical conclusion".
A lot of very revolutionary ideas today are not "owned" by any one person, but shared, thus enter our palette of knowledge unattached to any charismatic figurehead.
Data retained falls into the wrong hands. Lets all sit around silently twiddling our thumbs until that data stops being your financial and residency data and starts being your movement data
Perhaps he should have said "I've always found slashdot and anyone with an IQ over 120 to be usually dismissive of the tired 'left/right' polarisation"
It is a circle. People push themselves "left" or "right" to get away from the "fascists" and end up becoming them. Rightwingers express desires like freedom from tyrrany and left wingers will hang you for disliking terrorists. Maybe one day people will abandon this foolish left/right illusion, grow up and start to actually make decisions on the many and varied factors that contribute to a diverse and colourful world.
I'm a graphic designer and I was thinking I might start using the GIMP just so I could tell clients I had to run stuff past the GIMP. They'd get a kick out of it the same way they love to hear shit has been put through flint/flame/inferno or how they used to ooh and ah when you used to have to "take it into the paint box"
But with regards to the splash screen:
1) 0,1,2,3,5 - FFS can they count? who expects anyone of average or above intelligence to use this software - i'm not loading this up infront of anyone - they'll think GIMP is a warez release group
2) The GIMP doesn't even seem to have a logo other than that dog. Get your shit together. 10 fucking years and no logo or style guide?
3) The GIMP years and dog are for some reason printed in some ink which doesn't age the same as the rest of the ink, leaving it crisp, black and not blurred the same amount as the rest of the text.
4) The version number is of the same importance as the text "The Gimp"... que?
I apologise if this was designed by some kid, and this might come across as harsh to the genius software designers who made the software, but if "the GIMP" wants to be taken seriously in the graphic design industry they have to do better than to stamp their product with this.
Nice cliche. What if the criminal stole it, drove to his buddy Mohammad Achmed Kablooey's house and then back to your house to avoid detection.
Would you love that?
Would you then love to be held without a trial on suspicion of terror links?
How about if you speed off to rush your pregnant wife to the hospital and they track you down and because you were wearing a jacket which is too big for the season and look like a nervous geek they shoot you on that suspicion. I'll bet you'd love that. It's happened before and it will happen again.
News reporters making mention of the fact that Hitler was a megolomaniac have nothing to hide, but what about in Nazi Germany? They were rational, intelligent people. Why did they have to hide? I'm afraid that cliche doesn't wash, and from most of the war mongering witch burners around, I have plenty to hide. (for example: my rationality, tolerance, compassion, demand for privacy and anything else that will have me labelled as a terrorist sympathiser)
No no, You'll find this is tremendous in keeping the crime rate down in *all* areas. Think of it... a crime free utopia. A place where any white man, woman or child can walk proudly and fearlessly regardless of the colour of their suit, the shade of their hair or the corporation they work for. It worked for Germany.
Just remember: Terrorists are a worse threat to our civilisation than jews and witches!
I've said it before and i'll say it again. As a musician, music will *not* stop being created once it is no longer profitable. The music *business* will die, but music itself will not. The RIAA once had something to offer (studios - manufacture - stockists) but musicians have outgrown them. Bring on piracy and the eventual demise of the horde of middlemen its absense is feeding.
If you like an artists music, send em a couple of bucks.
When Fahrenheit 911 came out Michael Moore told me to download it off the net, but the copy was Alex someoneorother who is a michael moore rip off guy. He finds non issues and harasses bottom level employees and yells at old men (apparently all of the US national parks are owned by nasa or nazis or or smurfs or something)
Anyway, this had about 900 times the number of seeders on limewire than the real fahrenheit 911, and subsequently appeard to be more "legit" so more people downloaded it thus feeding the illusion of legitimacy. (and making it harder to get the legit copy because all your potential seeders are leeching the wrong file)
It was no more than a simple clumsy loophole the company was trying to exploit - where files are identified by file name only. Nowadays humans rating a files legitimacy or quality (never seen a dodgy file on e-mule for example)
Google have put a couple of 'neat' things in their search engine, but the web is seeming smaller and smaller because of their pagerank system.
I believe a search like "stumbleto's" search is along the right path. Its not there yet, but based on a database of your liked and disliked pages it could essentially understand a "context". eg if you search for "Birds" you're going to get all of the pages relating to real birds ranked far higher than pages relating to "hot birds". You're also going to get sites that agree with your disposition toward the subject (eg. bird-hate sites would rank a lot lower because there are more links between separate bird-like sites and fewer linking this cluster to a cluster of bird-hate sites)
Furthermore I think searches (image searches specifically) should be tagged and have their ranks change dynamically as visitors visit the sites. So an image or a website that is clicked on under the search terms "native bird" will be tagged as such and relationally linked to other pages creating a community context and therefore ranking more relevant items higher. Users should have a limited ability to moderate searches by selectively nuking items which are irrelevant to the search terms which in turn would change the tags associated with it
Anyway, I think context based personalised searching is where the future of searching is at and stumbleto has the headstart on this.
Maybe I'm overreacting here, but I'm tired of having to judge my own actions at the whim of the **AA. (gives big royal middle finger salute)
I've completely and utterly stopped caring about piracy and will simply send a few bucks directly to artists I enjoy (could someone set up the open, non-profit infrastructure to do so easily), and hope they don't mind if I help popularise them by playing covers of their songs down the beach with my friends.
As a musician, I am completely comfortable with the idea of not making money off my music, and I can tell anyone who cares to listen that the death of the profitability of music will *not* be the death of music (probably cause some form of renaissance in music once people aren't sceptical as to musicians motives and sincerity)
Middlemen must go back to their jobs selling cars (yes we don't really need them for that anymore either, but atleast it will keep them busy and off the streets)
Slashdot Mirror
Sure...
People who's skin is slightly darker than other peoples skin are now allowed on buses.
People who enjoy the company of people of the same gender are now allowed to marry.
Eccentric women who refer to herbs as "eye of newt" no longer burned at the stake.
Grafitti is often seen as a legitimate artform and is often commissioned by governments to decorate buses, trains and underpasses.
Alot of these type of things were disallowed because of societal pressures (mob rule), not because of any laws - Called Witch Hunts.
This new TIA shit the US/British Govt goes on with also bow not to laws, but to "mob rule".
Pre-emptive action by definition can't deal with issues of criminality.
I mean... in the UK its illegal to celebrate terrorism. This enforced by any kind of AI (or any kind of mindless police pawns) means standing in public and yelling "Greenpeace is great" can get you arrested.
The Govt can shift the goalposts and redefine "terrorism" faster than you can say "she turned me into a newt"
I agree too that there should definitely be sunset clauses for laws passed to deal with transient problems (terrorism, tuberculosis etc)
...from the seriousness of this.
Modern times have led us into an age which reflects a lot of our worst fictional nightmares and we are allowing it to happen because we are accepting it because there is a "cmon, that was just a book/movie/joke. it won't *really* be like that" type of attitude.
The fact is that this sort of "total information awareness" nonsense is absolute power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Again, not a cute "quote" written for posterity, but a cold hard fact.
I believe that crime is a necessary catalyst for change, and that many things that were illegal in the past are now no longer illegal because society has recognised that these "crimes" were overblown, and that the thinking of the time would have labelled every person a criminal. Today the vast majority of people are labelled criminals by one group or another.
The point of all this is that a "Total Information Awareness" or a "Pre-emptive criminalisation" or even an instant criminalisation in the case of security cameras etc. lead us to a situation where our society is made up of criminals, 100% policing is necessary, and zero social change can ever occur.
Apple has always been going to be toppled from the evolutionary peak by rejecting diversity. This isn't a Troll, but PCs are simply far more capable of dealing with environmental changes by embracing diversity.
PCs are a flawed beast. Capable of changing with the tides but constantly challenged by their lack of uniformity. Very human in that respect.
Apple are sleak perfect pieces of machinery... much like the cockroach (who's developer went broke and left millions of angry wasps with obsolete hardware)
Can someone come up with an OS type project for this so people can do a share and share alike type thing for their wi-fi?
Is there already such a thing?
I use photoshop professionally daily and the word "compile" scares the shit out of me. There is no way I could afford to take the risk and jump into linux while the elitism exists. That said, I would *love* to be able to get into my software apps and edit them if I chose to, but this should never be the first option. I want usability first and configurability second. (think maya, very usable, but should I want the hacker element I can get in there and write command line style... photoshop and final cut pro continue to patronise me with their closed source & limited options)
bring the application developers to linux (adobe, macromedia etc), and back *one release* of linux for each industry. Make it pretty, make it *extremely* easy to use/install and make sure I am not having to make compromises/risks in time, quality or expense and I will convert in a second!
Is there any reason that the search engines can't take these redirects into account? The spider visits a site, searches for redirects and indexes the amount of data a human eye could read in the time the redirect takes?
I really think adding "human discretion" into the impartial world of search engines is a wrong and potentially very dangerous move.
Who said I wanted to buy a "Stills camera" or a "video camera"
I want to buy a light capturing device.
"it is goddamn consumers like you" who would gladly exchange their eyes for a collection of different devices from the same manufacturers to do slightly different things.
"do you want it to be able to talk to your freinds, scan color documents and print, e-mail to friends, press to talk, play DVDs, encode video, send faxes, playback recorded TV programs, scan for viruses, update your windows software" - its called a computer. - One single device from whatever manufacturers you choose - the antithesis of consumerism.
They don't need to "manufacture" any new features to implement what I am talking about - they just need to *unlock* it. Just like they don't need to "manufacture" features to let you play mp3s on your mobile, or VNC to your desktop from your palm pilot, or make skype calls on it, they just need to stop locking us out and treating use like cashcows.
I have a suggestion: VIDEO.
However many megapixels, but I can still only capture 640x480 video. theres no reason this couldn't be full PAL/NTSC or even HD - add a weight to it and you have a extremely good quality video camera for very cheap.
Let me edit the camera OS and I'll implement it myself, including time lapse or variable frame rate. I'll connect it to my laptop so i don't run out of space.
They keep wanting to milk us for every new "HD" format video camera.
The other thing they can implement is HDR photography. I know RAW is good, but if they can master true HDR that would be awesome.
I thought we already knew the future of google??
...is the *biggest* problem with speech recognision. I used it extensively for a good period of time, but it's not reliable. Someone walks into the room/some music plays. etc. Speech recognision would greatly benefit from either the computer getting an audio & visual input to determine the source, or better yet, adopting the military throat microphones that only pick up vibrations directly from the skin (even whispers)
You're absolutely right, but if we're not careful, itunes will take up the power once held by the RIAA. Open infrastructure has be be set up *now* while the market its still uncertain. Any company that innovates here will have the same stranglehold on the market that the RIAA has had for years (and we don't want that)
That download link is fixed up & putting an archive file up as we speak.
As for project files, its not really feasable as we use a collection of different gear and instruments, and generally perform a large amount of it live.
Thanks for your suggestions though!
Yeah I agree completely. The RIAA or any other such organisation no longer offer us *anything*. They used to have control because they had the equipment, the studios, the distribution and the promotional powers, but their time has come to an end. My group Children in the Game are giving their album away free for whomever wants it, in an attempt to help topple the RIAA's power.
Once music stops being hugely profitable, people assume music will stop being made. This is complete RIAA propaganda. They suck the life and soul out of musicians, milk them until they are dry and then move on. IMHO buying albums through these huge companies is feeding these parasites to the detriment of anyone who cares about music.
We're battling formats? We're debating HD vs BluRay while these swines continue to fuck us? fuck them! Release your films/music in an open format and i'll record it onto any fucking disc or other storage medium I want!
Another model will be created that links consumers to the artists directly. An open infrastructure that doesn't require middlemen (i'm glaring at you itunes) will be created, but until then, I, and others like me will continue to create music without the promise of riches and bitches and whatever else music has been raped and disfigured into being about.
Sure do
I think the real distinction is that thought is diffused amongst many people very quickly due to rapid communication methods like the internet.
A slashdot comments page alone can diffuse a potential research topic into a "well I could write about it but its kinda a conclusion that could be reached by anyone if they followed the logical conclusion".
A lot of very revolutionary ideas today are not "owned" by any one person, but shared, thus enter our palette of knowledge unattached to any charismatic figurehead.
Data retained falls into the wrong hands. Lets all sit around silently twiddling our thumbs until that data stops being your financial and residency data and starts being your movement data
Hooray for data retention
Perhaps he should have said "I've always found slashdot and anyone with an IQ over 120 to be usually dismissive of the tired 'left/right' polarisation"
It is a circle. People push themselves "left" or "right" to get away from the "fascists" and end up becoming them.
Rightwingers express desires like freedom from tyrrany and left wingers will hang you for disliking terrorists. Maybe one day people will abandon this foolish left/right illusion, grow up and start to actually make decisions on the many and varied factors that contribute to a diverse and colourful world.
I'm a graphic designer and I was thinking I might start using the GIMP just so I could tell clients I had to run stuff past the GIMP. They'd get a kick out of it the same way they love to hear shit has been put through flint/flame/inferno or how they used to ooh and ah when you used to have to "take it into the paint box"
But with regards to the splash screen:
1) 0,1,2,3,5 - FFS can they count? who expects anyone of average or above intelligence to use this software - i'm not loading this up infront of anyone - they'll think GIMP is a warez release group
2) The GIMP doesn't even seem to have a logo other than that dog. Get your shit together. 10 fucking years and no logo or style guide?
3) The GIMP years and dog are for some reason printed in some ink which doesn't age the same as the rest of the ink, leaving it crisp, black and not blurred the same amount as the rest of the text.
4) The version number is of the same importance as the text "The Gimp"... que?
I apologise if this was designed by some kid, and this might come across as harsh to the genius software designers who made the software, but if "the GIMP" wants to be taken seriously in the graphic design industry they have to do better than to stamp their product with this.
Nice cliche. What if the criminal stole it, drove to his buddy Mohammad Achmed Kablooey's house and then back to your house to avoid detection.
Would you love that?
Would you then love to be held without a trial on suspicion of terror links?
How about if you speed off to rush your pregnant wife to the hospital and they track you down and because you were wearing a jacket which is too big for the season and look like a nervous geek they shoot you on that suspicion. I'll bet you'd love that. It's happened before and it will happen again.
News reporters making mention of the fact that Hitler was a megolomaniac have nothing to hide, but what about in Nazi Germany? They were rational, intelligent people. Why did they have to hide? I'm afraid that cliche doesn't wash, and from most of the war mongering witch burners around, I have plenty to hide. (for example: my rationality, tolerance, compassion, demand for privacy and anything else that will have me labelled as a terrorist sympathiser)
No no, You'll find this is tremendous in keeping the crime rate down in *all* areas. Think of it... a crime free utopia. A place where any white man, woman or child can walk proudly and fearlessly regardless of the colour of their suit, the shade of their hair or the corporation they work for. It worked for Germany.
Just remember: Terrorists are a worse threat to our civilisation than jews and witches!
Ah yes, hold on to your delusions of superiority naive human, for soon the coin will flip to decide who will serve and who will eat. - asimo
The whole piracy argument is overblown.
I've said it before and i'll say it again. As a musician, music will *not* stop being created once it is no longer profitable. The music *business* will die, but music itself will not.
The RIAA once had something to offer (studios - manufacture - stockists) but musicians have outgrown them.
Bring on piracy and the eventual demise of the horde of middlemen its absense is feeding.
If you like an artists music, send em a couple of bucks.
When Fahrenheit 911 came out Michael Moore told me to download it off the net, but the copy was Alex someoneorother who is a michael moore rip off guy. He finds non issues and harasses bottom level employees and yells at old men (apparently all of the US national parks are owned by nasa or nazis or or smurfs or something)
Anyway, this had about 900 times the number of seeders on limewire than the real fahrenheit 911, and subsequently appeard to be more "legit" so more people downloaded it thus feeding the illusion of legitimacy. (and making it harder to get the legit copy because all your potential seeders are leeching the wrong file)
It was no more than a simple clumsy loophole the company was trying to exploit - where files are identified by file name only. Nowadays humans rating a files legitimacy or quality (never seen a dodgy file on e-mule for example)
Its a nice story.
Google have put a couple of 'neat' things in their search engine, but the web is seeming smaller and smaller because of their pagerank system.
I believe a search like "stumbleto's" search is along the right path. Its not there yet, but based on a database of your liked and disliked pages it could essentially understand a "context". eg if you search for "Birds" you're going to get all of the pages relating to real birds ranked far higher than pages relating to "hot birds". You're also going to get sites that agree with your disposition toward the subject (eg. bird-hate sites would rank a lot lower because there are more links between separate bird-like sites and fewer linking this cluster to a cluster of bird-hate sites)
Furthermore I think searches (image searches specifically) should be tagged and have their ranks change dynamically as visitors visit the sites. So an image or a website that is clicked on under the search terms "native bird" will be tagged as such and relationally linked to other pages creating a community context and therefore ranking more relevant items higher.
Users should have a limited ability to moderate searches by selectively nuking items which are irrelevant to the search terms which in turn would change the tags associated with it
Anyway, I think context based personalised searching is where the future of searching is at and stumbleto has the headstart on this.
Maybe I'm overreacting here, but I'm tired of having to judge my own actions at the whim of the **AA. (gives big royal middle finger salute)
I've completely and utterly stopped caring about piracy and will simply send a few bucks directly to artists I enjoy (could someone set up the open, non-profit infrastructure to do so easily), and hope they don't mind if I help popularise them by playing covers of their songs down the beach with my friends.
As a musician, I am completely comfortable with the idea of not making money off my music, and I can tell anyone who cares to listen that the death of the profitability of music will *not* be the death of music (probably cause some form of renaissance in music once people aren't sceptical as to musicians motives and sincerity)
Middlemen must go back to their jobs selling cars (yes we don't really need them for that anymore either, but atleast it will keep them busy and off the streets)