That's quite apt. And I imagine you will be modded down due to the OS in question here.
When a Windows OS exploit is discovered there are thousands of zealots who scream "USE LINUX, STUPID" and "I use a Mac, there are not exploits for my OS" but whenever either of those OSes is found to have a flaw, those zealots are awfully quiet.
The best thing for me reading the comments so far has been the Mac users who point out that settings can be changed to allow or deny this action. They treat that like it's a magic feature only Mac has, when the truth of the matter is shit like that can be turned off in Windows also.
All of the common OSes can be locked down tight, IF THE USER CHOOSES TO. Every OS ships with the potential to be exploited, and even if it comes out the box secure, the user can always undo that.
I guess the difference when it's a Mac OS, it's a big deal because someone actually bothered to write something malicious for a small segment of the computer population.
This is actually a good thing though. It's lets all of you Mac users know that the security you've been takeing for granted is only as good as long as their is no attention to you.
The historical process is irrelevant to "built" in this sense. More like (from the dictionary) The physical makeup of a person or thing; physique: an athletic build.
Only in this case rather than physique, we are talking more about the insides of us, the layout of organs,, the digestive process, the way our teeth and jaws are shaped, etc.
To go back to the historical process, yes, evolved would have covered that but that was not what I intended to convey, so I used built;)
Another thing learned in basic biology is that an animal, when faced with starvation, will eat what it can, when it can. If the supply of smaller meaty dinos was dwindling or the range of the Falcarius expanded into an area were there were more plants than animals, and the plants could be eaten- then why not?
This isn't a new or even novel behaviour- cats and dogs are generally considered carnivores thought both will eat plants to get nutrients and fiber when they need them.
People are the same way- we evolved eating meat most of the year and plants when meat was scarce. We (and many other animals) CAN eat both because we're built that way.
1, I believe that if asked to identify myself, I damn well had better be able to, especially if for some reason I am suspected as someone else. I want to be able to prove I am who I say (verbally) I am. I should have the right to and feel safe that regardless of what state I am in, if asked to provide ID, my identification will be verified and if questioned, it will be able to stand up to scrutiny.
2, I believe that if anyone else is asked to identify themselves, they should be able to for the same and indeed for the inverse reasons, for example when authorities suspect the person of being who they are and the person says they are not.
3, I have worked for the government at the county, state and national levels. I have worked for the DOD and DLA. I have been in the Amry. I have been arrested (though as a juvenile). I was born to a military father at a military hospital. In every one of these cases I have generated a record at some level of government. I have nothing to hide.
4, I do not fear my government. Yes, I think I've been unfairly ticketed a few times, no I don't agree with a lot of what our administration does, but I am not subversive to the system.
5, I live an honest life. I don't buy/sell/consume illegal drugs, I pay my taxes, I do not (try) to violate the basic human rights of people nor their rights as extended to them by our constitution and other laws. Unlike a lot of people, I feel that if I do something wrong, on purpose, I should pay the consequence and I do not engage in activities I can not afford the consequences of.
6, I feel that, regardless of the sad reality of it, the people around me in society should also live according to the laws of this country. I feel that since they have the option of either engaging in actions to lobby for change or leave the country, there isn't an excuse to not abide by the law.
As for the anonimity, no way in hell I would ever want to be found in the wrong place at the wrong time and be unable to identify myself. Fuck that.
If that didn't help answer your question, please let me know.
I really, 100%, no trolling, no flamebaiting, but actually REALLY want to know: Why do you care. Why does anyone care, for that matter? You're already required to carry ID or a driver's license, this bill doesn't change that fact.
Unless you are illegally in this country (and if you are, hint: you're here ILLEGALLY) this doesn't matter to you.
Yes, the way they attached it to a bill that of course will pass is stupid and wrong (and frankly, they did it because it couldn't stand on it's own merits) but it happens. All the time. And not just for stupid things like this, Tsunami relief was also attached to that same bill. Why? Because somebody lobbied for it.
I am not saying this is right or wrong, I am honestly asking you all why, why do you care?
Do you think the government will find sonething out about you they don't already know? Are you afraid you'll be watched somehow in a way you already aren't being watched? Are you afraid it violates your rights? Which ones?
I see a lot of "they shouldn't have made it a rider" and "damn those dirty apes in Washington" but not a lot of actual reasons why it, in and of itself, is bad or wrong.
I know one reason, the infrastructure isn't in place to make sure the cards being issued today aren't fraudulent. Another is that without some kind of national checking system, there's no way to prove a card is valid. Some might say it's a way to identify people who are in this country illegally. (see note above).
I see the sarcasm tags, but I respond anyway.
Here is why: Which is more dangerous to you as a person who lives in society- the guy who might commit some kind of crime or the guy who already has?
My PERSONAL feelings on this are that if you commit a sex crime, fuck yes you should be tracked if you are released. And you know what, maybe that tracking device should include some kind of taser- wander out of your allowed area, zap, authorities notified, you go back to jail.
Our system has all kinds of failings with regard to sex offenders and crimes against children. Get busted for selling pot as a third offense, life. But, get convicted of raping a child, 3 years. WTF
Yes, I think there are crimes that warrant tracking for life and I don't think it violates the trackee's rights. Violation of their rights? What fucking rights did they (the criminal) violate to get thrown in prison in the first place? You rape someone, you're not just violating their rights, dude. You're fucking that person up FOR LIFE. What do they get? Do you know what kind of trauma it is to find out the person who raped you was released and that there's no way for anyone to KNOW where that person is? All they have to do is check in with a parole officer (sometimes) once a month, what are they doing the rest of the time?
Having kids, if I knew the school could go into lock down or alert when a tracked individual showed up, great.
Why don't we tag everyone? You don't need to. "Odds are everyone will commit a crime eventually" What? Where does this stat come from? Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what KIND of crime will everyone commit eventually? Does the guy who goes over his time on the parking meter fall into the same kind of criminal category that the serial murderer does? No, there are limits to this. That's why law books are so thick, someone has thought about that before and decided that the two crimes are different and warrant different punishments.
So should (and would, despite the the tinfoil hat mentality) any system of tagging convicts.
I seriously hope this is the first in a long series of lawsuits against companies that pull this kind of shit. FunWebProducts should be the next on the list, I've heard more complaints against their crapware than nearly anything else.
<inflamatory sentence>
FunWebProducts, if you don't know, are the makers of those Smiley Central things you see ads for plastered on every site using bottom feeder ad-sales services.</inflamatory sentence>
Aside from being spyware and hard for the average user to remove, their apps also pollute the hell out of my [company's] logs and their toolbar plugin makes corrupt requests to pages we don't even have. The best we can figure is that some mechanism is "guessing" what URLs would be the best for the user. That or it's trying to spider our site following the user's trails.
I admit I have a personal bias in case you couldn't figure that out;) but products like these are bad for the user, bad for sites the user visits, and bad for the software (especially freeware, remember that word?) industry as a whole. They make it hard for anyone to really trust the software they want to download and use is free of spy and adware.
Yeah, totally sucks. I didn't much care for GAIM myself. If Triton's plugin development ends up being as open as Mozilla's, I'll be all over it in a second. There's prolly a way to do something like what Trillian is doing with a plugin...
I totally get your point- being able to talk with people using different clients is from one source is handy. But I don't think Trillian is the killer app people make it out to be. I've used it, and yeah it's OK, but Trillian is basically just an IM client aggregator- it doesn't provide any messaging capabilities itself, I don't find any of its own features that useful, you still have to have an account with each service you want to use, and until recently that was kind of a pain in the ass (cue flaming arrows).
It's not like Trillian does anything super fantastic, if you look at the new features Trillian has like the bio thing, it's just AIM profiles. There's no tabbed messaging, as far as I know Trillian doesn't support VOIP (in TFA they say Triton will), and there's no plugin support (again TFA says that will be in there).
I think the plugins is going to be where it's at- look how much they've helped the popularity of Mozilla and Firefox. When you have an app and think "damn, I wish it did [THAT]" and then you can either go find it or write your own, that's fucking sweet. For me, waiting for the next release and wondering if it's in there sucks.
Another of the points in the post I replied to was that someone could hack into the system and screw somebody else.
If I follow your logic, this would be ok for me to do to you as long as I didn't get caught, correct?
The absence of enforcement when a crime (any crime, traffic or otherwise) happens is not a "check" in the system, but it's not a failure either. The failure is with the person who committed the act.
Clearly, any system that doesn't allow for common sense variants is stupid (I think I said something like that originally). The ticket bounty hunters you mention should not exist. I don't agree with "tickets as revenue" which that appears to be.
But I do think that if you, or anyone (myself included) is going to speed or anything else against the law, we should be prepared to pay the consequence of that.
On the RIAA thing, no, I don't think their lawsuits are fair. I think it's stupid that they believe it's the music stealing people who are responsible for any perceived drop in their revenue. I think it's probably the lack of quality entertainers.
and I don't want my car disclosing my personal information
What is personal here? What is it you do in your car on your commute that the hundreds or thousands of people on the road with you can see that you don't want "big brother" to see?
If you DID receive a ticket in your mailbox, just a hypothetical question here, not flaming, but if you did get a ticket for speeding every time you did it- how much longer would you continue to speed?
Surely the system would have to allow for variants in speed, you can exceed the limit by what, 10 miles an hour, when you pass someone? So here it would be dumb to be ticketed for an instance like that.
BUT, if you're doing 150 on the highway, do you seriously think that as long as you don't get caught by a cop, that you shouldn't face the consequence for knowingly breaking the law?
An M915 is a tractor trailer, think an International or Freightliner you see on the highway but painted OD green.
While I was in a class at AIT an instructor told me to find a truck with a working battery.
He failed to say where from.
The one I found was on the other side of the school and, as it turns out, was one that another class was going to use that day. When they got to their bay, the truck was gone and so all the instructors were called to find it.
My instructor knew where it was because he had gotten tired of waiting and found a 2000lb Skytrak on his own. Which he then proceeded to use in raising the back end of "my" truck up off the ground in case I "decided to run" with it.
This happened on a Friday. Over the weekend, my drill sergeant's IROC was stolen. Guess who she grilled about it on Monday. In formation. In front of the whole company.
Well, I guess it could always be hoped that if the music can move from one place to the next and you only have to pay for it once (and at a reasonable price), that maybe a hack wouldn't be needed.
WeedShare is my current favorite way to find new music.
I think it's actually a brilliant way to distribute and promote music. You get three free plays of each track you download. If you decide to purchase it, you can put it on three PCs, burn it, put it on a portable device and even share it with someone else as long as it remains in the original file format.
I just looked at their site and now it looks like they will give you $5 to buy music with for creating a free account. As far as I know, they've never had a sub fee. You just buy the tracks.
Pricing is totally up to the artist. I've seen tracks as low as a qaurter, but most are right around a buck.
Now for the "different" part. The artist always gets 50% of the track price. 15% goes to Weed and the balance is split up among the people who distributed the file. This is fucking brilliant, you can actually make some money by sharing someone else's music.
How is it different from bringing any other type of voice recorder, digital or analog, into a lecture and recording it and then sharing THAT recording? Does the fact that it's digital make a difference? That it's being done on an iPod? Is it ease If Duke students were given tape recorders or any other brand of MP3 player with voice recording, would it STILL be an issue/article?
After 10 years you would think the quality of ads would improve as well.
Take for example those debt consolidation and mortgage/refinance ads you see all over. Oh, not sure which ones? You know- the ones that feature a dancing cobra or a giant corn on the cob or a long fat pig, all with the abbreviations for the 50 states on them. Yeah! That's what those ads are for! Nothing says "trustworthy, serious company, capable of handling your financial information" like a pig or cobra! A cobra! Jebus, who the hell makes up this company's demographic?
At least X-10 had ads relevant to the product, they didn't even pretend- remember the panning cameras that had the ad that panned up and down the chick in the pool?
Then you've got what the ad-sales people at my company call "bottom feeders." These are the Gators, Fun Web Products (you know them, Smiley Central, among others) and ad space resellers. God how I loathe this tier of advertising.
What I don't understand though, is how people (read: the ad geniuses) at these companies can seriously think that their cheesy ass ads will ACTUALLY draw customers.
I agree! That direction being following in the footsteps of others.
If anyone remembers Acid prior to Sony's acquisition of SoundForge, they had guest artists all the time who would provide tracks for public remix and then the bands would choose the best one. Not just no-name or rarely heard of groups (NOT saying Nine Inch Nails is either of those) but actual artists. I remember remixing Gravity Kills, Garbage and The Beastie Boys.
The thing that gets me about this article though, is that it says "...this is the first time such a project has been as open to the common user." but this is false on two points.
1 - As I just mentioned (and is discussed in a number of other posts) this isn't the first time this has been available.
2 - Since when (and I'm not trolling here) are Mac users "common users?" Forgive me if I am wrong, but Windows has the dominant market share. I would think Windows users would be common users.
All is not lost though, from what I understand, GarageBand is a loop-based system. So apps like Acid should be able to play with these files.
Think about it for a second. All over the world there a thousands of holes that already lead to the molten material, and yes- they are volcanoes.
BUT, how many of those are constantly spewing molten rock? Relatively few. And some of those are so consistent in their eruptions people live on them. Hawaii for one, Iceland another.
When a volcano like Tambora (largest recent) or even Fish Canyon or Yellowstone (28 million and 1.3 million YA, respectively) went off, the earth wasn't "rearranged." Sticking a nuke in a relatively tiny hole wouldn't even really have a major impact on the local area. It certainly wouldn't cause the kind of damage you're talking about. How many times have nukes been tested underground, or even above? The damage to the earth was minimal. It was all the things around the blast that suffered damage.
Worst case scenereo and the USA is relocated to the moon.
Unlikely, Fish Canyon only ejected about 5000 cubic kilometers and it was in the USA which is, obviously, still here.
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That's quite apt. And I imagine you will be modded down due to the OS in question here.
When a Windows OS exploit is discovered there are thousands of zealots who scream "USE LINUX, STUPID" and "I use a Mac, there are not exploits for my OS" but whenever either of those OSes is found to have a flaw, those zealots are awfully quiet.
The best thing for me reading the comments so far has been the Mac users who point out that settings can be changed to allow or deny this action. They treat that like it's a magic feature only Mac has, when the truth of the matter is shit like that can be turned off in Windows also.
All of the common OSes can be locked down tight, IF THE USER CHOOSES TO. Every OS ships with the potential to be exploited, and even if it comes out the box secure, the user can always undo that.
I guess the difference when it's a Mac OS, it's a big deal because someone actually bothered to write something malicious for a small segment of the computer population.
This is actually a good thing though. It's lets all of you Mac users know that the security you've been takeing for granted is only as good as long as their is no attention to you.
Looks like this is changing.
Are you SURE this isn't a technology developed jointly by the press and the White House?
Funny you should bring that up, here are a couple of articles that are very interesting on the subject...
Univ of Arkansas
National Geographic
The historical process is irrelevant to "built" in this sense. More like (from the dictionary) The physical makeup of a person or thing; physique: an athletic build.
Only in this case rather than physique, we are talking more about the insides of us, the layout of organs,, the digestive process, the way our teeth and jaws are shaped, etc.
To go back to the historical process, yes, evolved would have covered that but that was not what I intended to convey, so I used built
Another thing learned in basic biology is that an animal, when faced with starvation, will eat what it can, when it can. If the supply of smaller meaty dinos was dwindling or the range of the Falcarius expanded into an area were there were more plants than animals, and the plants could be eaten- then why not?
This isn't a new or even novel behaviour- cats and dogs are generally considered carnivores thought both will eat plants to get nutrients and fiber when they need them.
People are the same way- we evolved eating meat most of the year and plants when meat was scarce. We (and many other animals) CAN eat both because we're built that way.
Maybe the question is "Why don't you care?"
1, I believe that if asked to identify myself, I damn well had better be able to, especially if for some reason I am suspected as someone else. I want to be able to prove I am who I say (verbally) I am. I should have the right to and feel safe that regardless of what state I am in, if asked to provide ID, my identification will be verified and if questioned, it will be able to stand up to scrutiny.
2, I believe that if anyone else is asked to identify themselves, they should be able to for the same and indeed for the inverse reasons, for example when authorities suspect the person of being who they are and the person says they are not.
3, I have worked for the government at the county, state and national levels. I have worked for the DOD and DLA. I have been in the Amry. I have been arrested (though as a juvenile). I was born to a military father at a military hospital. In every one of these cases I have generated a record at some level of government. I have nothing to hide.
4, I do not fear my government. Yes, I think I've been unfairly ticketed a few times, no I don't agree with a lot of what our administration does, but I am not subversive to the system.
5, I live an honest life. I don't buy/sell/consume illegal drugs, I pay my taxes, I do not (try) to violate the basic human rights of people nor their rights as extended to them by our constitution and other laws. Unlike a lot of people, I feel that if I do something wrong, on purpose, I should pay the consequence and I do not engage in activities I can not afford the consequences of.
6, I feel that, regardless of the sad reality of it, the people around me in society should also live according to the laws of this country. I feel that since they have the option of either engaging in actions to lobby for change or leave the country, there isn't an excuse to not abide by the law.
As for the anonimity, no way in hell I would ever want to be found in the wrong place at the wrong time and be unable to identify myself. Fuck that.
If that didn't help answer your question, please let me know.
I really, 100%, no trolling, no flamebaiting, but actually REALLY want to know: Why do you care. Why does anyone care, for that matter? You're already required to carry ID or a driver's license, this bill doesn't change that fact.
Unless you are illegally in this country (and if you are, hint: you're here ILLEGALLY) this doesn't matter to you.
Yes, the way they attached it to a bill that of course will pass is stupid and wrong (and frankly, they did it because it couldn't stand on it's own merits) but it happens. All the time. And not just for stupid things like this, Tsunami relief was also attached to that same bill. Why? Because somebody lobbied for it.
I am not saying this is right or wrong, I am honestly asking you all why, why do you care?
Do you think the government will find sonething out about you they don't already know? Are you afraid you'll be watched somehow in a way you already aren't being watched? Are you afraid it violates your rights? Which ones?
I see a lot of "they shouldn't have made it a rider" and "damn those dirty apes in Washington" but not a lot of actual reasons why it, in and of itself, is bad or wrong.
I know one reason, the infrastructure isn't in place to make sure the cards being issued today aren't fraudulent. Another is that without some kind of national checking system, there's no way to prove a card is valid. Some might say it's a way to identify people who are in this country illegally. (see note above).
So, why do you care?
a share and recommendation system to me.
But then, it's ambiguous (intentionally I'm sure) and could apply to just about anything, including web logs.
Step 1: Find water on Mars
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
I see the sarcasm tags, but I respond anyway. Here is why: Which is more dangerous to you as a person who lives in society- the guy who might commit some kind of crime or the guy who already has?
My PERSONAL feelings on this are that if you commit a sex crime, fuck yes you should be tracked if you are released. And you know what, maybe that tracking device should include some kind of taser- wander out of your allowed area, zap, authorities notified, you go back to jail.
Our system has all kinds of failings with regard to sex offenders and crimes against children. Get busted for selling pot as a third offense, life. But, get convicted of raping a child, 3 years. WTF
Yes, I think there are crimes that warrant tracking for life and I don't think it violates the trackee's rights. Violation of their rights? What fucking rights did they (the criminal) violate to get thrown in prison in the first place? You rape someone, you're not just violating their rights, dude. You're fucking that person up FOR LIFE. What do they get? Do you know what kind of trauma it is to find out the person who raped you was released and that there's no way for anyone to KNOW where that person is? All they have to do is check in with a parole officer (sometimes) once a month, what are they doing the rest of the time?
Having kids, if I knew the school could go into lock down or alert when a tracked individual showed up, great.
Why don't we tag everyone? You don't need to. "Odds are everyone will commit a crime eventually" What? Where does this stat come from? Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what KIND of crime will everyone commit eventually? Does the guy who goes over his time on the parking meter fall into the same kind of criminal category that the serial murderer does? No, there are limits to this. That's why law books are so thick, someone has thought about that before and decided that the two crimes are different and warrant different punishments.
So should (and would, despite the the tinfoil hat mentality) any system of tagging convicts.
untill it has a starbucks
I seriously hope this is the first in a long series of lawsuits against companies that pull this kind of shit. FunWebProducts should be the next on the list, I've heard more complaints against their crapware than nearly anything else.
<inflamatory sentence> FunWebProducts, if you don't know, are the makers of those Smiley Central things you see ads for plastered on every site using bottom feeder ad-sales services.</inflamatory sentence>
Aside from being spyware and hard for the average user to remove, their apps also pollute the hell out of my [company's] logs and their toolbar plugin makes corrupt requests to pages we don't even have. The best we can figure is that some mechanism is "guessing" what URLs would be the best for the user. That or it's trying to spider our site following the user's trails.
I admit I have a personal bias in case you couldn't figure that out
Run for president...
Yeah, totally sucks. I didn't much care for GAIM myself. If Triton's plugin development ends up being as open as Mozilla's, I'll be all over it in a second. There's prolly a way to do something like what Trillian is doing with a plugin...
I totally get your point- being able to talk with people using different clients is from one source is handy. But I don't think Trillian is the killer app people make it out to be. I've used it, and yeah it's OK, but Trillian is basically just an IM client aggregator- it doesn't provide any messaging capabilities itself, I don't find any of its own features that useful, you still have to have an account with each service you want to use, and until recently that was kind of a pain in the ass (cue flaming arrows).
It's not like Trillian does anything super fantastic, if you look at the new features Trillian has like the bio thing, it's just AIM profiles. There's no tabbed messaging, as far as I know Trillian doesn't support VOIP (in TFA they say Triton will), and there's no plugin support (again TFA says that will be in there).
I think the plugins is going to be where it's at- look how much they've helped the popularity of Mozilla and Firefox. When you have an app and think "damn, I wish it did [THAT]" and then you can either go find it or write your own, that's fucking sweet. For me, waiting for the next release and wondering if it's in there sucks.
Another of the points in the post I replied to was that someone could hack into the system and screw somebody else.
If I follow your logic, this would be ok for me to do to you as long as I didn't get caught, correct?
The absence of enforcement when a crime (any crime, traffic or otherwise) happens is not a "check" in the system, but it's not a failure either. The failure is with the person who committed the act.
Clearly, any system that doesn't allow for common sense variants is stupid (I think I said something like that originally). The ticket bounty hunters you mention should not exist. I don't agree with "tickets as revenue" which that appears to be.
But I do think that if you, or anyone (myself included) is going to speed or anything else against the law, we should be prepared to pay the consequence of that.
On the RIAA thing, no, I don't think their lawsuits are fair. I think it's stupid that they believe it's the music stealing people who are responsible for any perceived drop in their revenue. I think it's probably the lack of quality entertainers.
and I don't want my car disclosing my personal information
What is personal here? What is it you do in your car on your commute that the hundreds or thousands of people on the road with you can see that you don't want "big brother" to see?
If you DID receive a ticket in your mailbox, just a hypothetical question here, not flaming, but if you did get a ticket for speeding every time you did it- how much longer would you continue to speed?
Surely the system would have to allow for variants in speed, you can exceed the limit by what, 10 miles an hour, when you pass someone? So here it would be dumb to be ticketed for an instance like that.
BUT, if you're doing 150 on the highway, do you seriously think that as long as you don't get caught by a cop, that you shouldn't face the consequence for knowingly breaking the law?
Lego church from hell
Not quite my style, but damn- this is pretty cool. Not to mention friggin' huuuuge.
An M915 is a tractor trailer, think an International or Freightliner you see on the highway but painted OD green.
While I was in a class at AIT an instructor told me to find a truck with a working battery.
He failed to say where from.
The one I found was on the other side of the school and, as it turns out, was one that another class was going to use that day. When they got to their bay, the truck was gone and so all the instructors were called to find it.
My instructor knew where it was because he had gotten tired of waiting and found a 2000lb Skytrak on his own. Which he then proceeded to use in raising the back end of "my" truck up off the ground in case I "decided to run" with it.
This happened on a Friday. Over the weekend, my drill sergeant's IROC was stolen. Guess who she grilled about it on Monday. In formation. In front of the whole company.
Well, I guess it could always be hoped that if the music can move from one place to the next and you only have to pay for it once (and at a reasonable price), that maybe a hack wouldn't be needed.
WeedShare is my current favorite way to find new music.
I think it's actually a brilliant way to distribute and promote music. You get three free plays of each track you download. If you decide to purchase it, you can put it on three PCs, burn it, put it on a portable device and even share it with someone else as long as it remains in the original file format.
I just looked at their site and now it looks like they will give you $5 to buy music with for creating a free account. As far as I know, they've never had a sub fee. You just buy the tracks.
Pricing is totally up to the artist. I've seen tracks as low as a qaurter, but most are right around a buck.
Now for the "different" part. The artist always gets 50% of the track price. 15% goes to Weed and the balance is split up among the people who distributed the file. This is fucking brilliant, you can actually make some money by sharing someone else's music.
Check it out here.
BTW- if you're an artist, they tell you how to get your music in their system. Sweet.
How is it different from bringing any other type of voice recorder, digital or analog, into a lecture and recording it and then sharing THAT recording? Does the fact that it's digital make a difference? That it's being done on an iPod? Is it ease
If Duke students were given tape recorders or any other brand of MP3 player with voice recording, would it STILL be an issue/article?
After 10 years you would think the quality of ads would improve as well.
Take for example those debt consolidation and mortgage/refinance ads you see all over. Oh, not sure which ones? You know- the ones that feature a dancing cobra or a giant corn on the cob or a long fat pig, all with the abbreviations for the 50 states on them. Yeah! That's what those ads are for! Nothing says "trustworthy, serious company, capable of handling your financial information" like a pig or cobra! A cobra! Jebus, who the hell makes up this company's demographic?
At least X-10 had ads relevant to the product, they didn't even pretend- remember the panning cameras that had the ad that panned up and down the chick in the pool?
Then you've got what the ad-sales people at my company call "bottom feeders." These are the Gators, Fun Web Products (you know them, Smiley Central, among others) and ad space resellers. God how I loathe this tier of advertising.
What I don't understand though, is how people (read: the ad geniuses) at these companies can seriously think that their cheesy ass ads will ACTUALLY draw customers.
I agree! That direction being following in the footsteps of others.
If anyone remembers Acid prior to Sony's acquisition of SoundForge, they had guest artists all the time who would provide tracks for public remix and then the bands would choose the best one. Not just no-name or rarely heard of groups (NOT saying Nine Inch Nails is either of those) but actual artists. I remember remixing Gravity Kills, Garbage and The Beastie Boys.
The thing that gets me about this article though, is that it says "...this is the first time such a project has been as open to the common user." but this is false on two points.
1 - As I just mentioned (and is discussed in a number of other posts) this isn't the first time this has been available.
2 - Since when (and I'm not trolling here) are Mac users "common users?" Forgive me if I am wrong, but Windows has the dominant market share. I would think Windows users would be common users.
All is not lost though, from what I understand, GarageBand is a loop-based system. So apps like Acid should be able to play with these files.
Aren't they asking for one huge volcano?
No. Well, maybe in the movies.
Think about it for a second. All over the world there a thousands of holes that already lead to the molten material, and yes- they are volcanoes.
BUT, how many of those are constantly spewing molten rock? Relatively few. And some of those are so consistent in their eruptions people live on them. Hawaii for one, Iceland another.
When a volcano like Tambora (largest recent) or even Fish Canyon or Yellowstone (28 million and 1.3 million YA, respectively) went off, the earth wasn't "rearranged." Sticking a nuke in a relatively tiny hole wouldn't even really have a major impact on the local area. It certainly wouldn't cause the kind of damage you're talking about. How many times have nukes been tested underground, or even above? The damage to the earth was minimal. It was all the things around the blast that suffered damage.
Worst case scenereo and the USA is relocated to the moon.
Unlikely, Fish Canyon only ejected about 5000 cubic kilometers and it was in the USA which is, obviously, still here.