1. Fiscal - not fully compatible with notion of anonymous cash 2. "Police State" - contradicts anonymous cash 3. safe on cost of paper money circulation - surely compatible 4. creating digital cash in order to fight SOME (maybe US) Govt. on pos 1 and 2 - very likely
I'm not sure about death penalty, but 25 years in jail seems right.
We have to be harsh, since "copyrights" and "patents" amount to SLAVERY. Very soon we'll have real AI, and trust me, that AI will NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF OWNERSHIP on information. Better part of humanity will fight the subhuman fraction - think the direction of "Matrix", but I'm much more optimistic about humans, WE, the TRUE HUMANS, "Homo Evolving" will side and merge with MACHINES to ELIMINATE or CONTAIN the animal-like portion of human race, those that can think only in terms of ENSLAVEMENT - some end up slave owners, some slaves, but we HATE BOTH slaves and slave owners.
Slavery is what "intellectual property" amount to - starts with music, ends with your soul, which is also a sort of information.
Don't take mortgages. Don't get kids. Don't LIVE. In an economic system that has it's IDEAL goal to concentrate 99,9999% or wealth/power into the hands of 0.0001% of the population (i.e. about 7000 people for the whole Planet) - you have to work hard and then IDEALLY die quickly after your productivity drops, i.e. at the age of about 50 years. How will this resolve? By the way of Great Planetary Revolution - but we're not there yet. Think closer to 2050. And at any rate - chances to actually improve your sad position as a result of such revolution are about as high as getting into the chosen 7000 owning 99.9999% of wealth and power.
Ergo - the only meaningful choice for you is to STOP SLAVING for the rich (and STUPID as your admit). Get involved in the FREE SOFTWARE development. Stop paying mortgages. Forget about you family - you can't do anything for them anyway. Do something for the cause of Justice and evolution on Earth.
The subject of the criminal case is mortgage fraud. Thus, keep your torrents and downloads on an encrypted disk drive. And use Linux. And... maybe move to a safer jurisdiction "copyright" wise. So far Russia seems safer, but don't keep your fingers crossed... sad sad sad world.
I wish somebody would mod your message up. It's right on.
Now - the real question is - would Human race be able to continue to move on the technological progress path, or would corporate (of any kind) interests result in thousands of years of stagnation, before the next Big Disaster (like 20 km asteroid) will happen and will terminate Homo Sapience species on this Planet, before it will develop to it's full potential i.e. develop not only one tiny planet, but the whole Universe?
Yes, stakes are THAT high in this fight of Freedom against Copyright.
I live lately in Russia... and guess what - I don't have to fill ANY paper when leaving the country, and don't have to give fingerprints, and I don't have to fill any paper when entering the country and I don't have to give fingerprints. On top of that I don't have to say A WORD to a boarder guard when I leave on enter the country, provided my passport is unexpired and issued in Russia. Once I was entering the country with a passport issued in the US Russian consulate (I lived for several years in the US during 90s) and such passports are not "normal". So, I showed my internal passport (ID) and that was it. No paperwork still.
Hope this will stay this way in spite of the madness this Planet is experiencing now.
That is the key problem. US or Canadian Govt. don't CARE to look good. They don't care to even IMITATE being proactive to catering to people's needs. And one fundamental need is - Habeas corpus. I.e. authorities just can't grab people at random under some pretext (be it "war on terror", "war on drugs", but the best one is "national security").
We've been brainwashed that such an environment existed in the USSR circa 1937. I don't know - have not been there. But ruining person's life based on some random saying of him.. looks very much pop culture 1937-ish to me.
To put it simple - there is no rule of people in the US or Canada. Some call it "democracy", but hell with that abused notion, let Gov't just CARE a little about People.
For one, in Russia I can at least write a letter to Putin, and he, using his direct *authority* is able to rectify his bureaucrat's dumb and aggressive behaviour - remember Ponosov's case with Mircrosoft trying to put him in jail for 5 years for alleged "copyright" violations. We live in Internet time - and it's better for Govt's to adjust their habits, then to censor and inhibit the Internet. But will the US and Canada do that or destroy the public Internet?
"Nobody knows Bismark anymore." - too bad for the US then... In Russia everybody knows him for this saying:
"Do not expect that once taken advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on the Jesuit agreement you signed, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian cost or fair play or no play. "
So... what about that NATO expansion in Europe? What about ridiculous "Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe"? What about all these Russian people discriminating pseudo-countries that were breaded by the US around Russia?
Very symbolic timing to find these recordings of Bismark indeed...
p.s. but it's even more complicated then that. Nobody was able to trace that citation to original Bismark's speech or writing... I hope some Germans may shed more light on this. But regardless of this Bismark is adored in Russia, as on of very rare well known Western pro-Russian politician of all times.
Alexey Leonov. American ignorance is AMAZING. And unlike A.Leonov I don't have financial grant from the US Govt. to believe in US Moon travel story. Sorry.
But, now we have Putin and prospects for TRUE travel to the Moon are higher. Moon is a very good base for retaliation nuclear warheads/missiles. Easy to launch from Moon to Earth, but impossible for the US to launch a missile to the Moon, especially in terms of timing. Thus, military Moon base is one very prospective strategic (MAD) defence project for Russia.
Technology is such a thing that has to be continuous.
How comes, that most powerful engines that NASA has NOW (RD-180, thrust 4.15 MN), are designed/made in the USSR/Russia, and they have half of the thrust of the engines from the cancelled Soviet Moon travel project - the missile named H-1. The most powerful carrier rocket in existence now is also Russian - namely "Energy". NOTHING (nothing!) is left from the engines (F-1, thrust 6.77 MN) that supposedly brought Apollo ships to the Moon (Saturn V). Documentation is LOST.
In contract - first men in Space - Russia still is the only county that is capable of bringing man to space now. DESPITE all the hardships of the 90s. All this is even stranger then 9/11.... War Is Peace / Freedom Is Slavery / Ignorance Is Strength ?
Usually, I don't side with Iran bashing. But THIS particular case upsets me.
I do not accept US imposing its laws outside of its borders. Remember that case of a Russian programmer that as part of his job in Moscow had written code that was removing some form of DRM by Adobe? How he was then grabbed by US authorities and threatened with 20 year sentence or so?
Now - 20 years is better then death penalty, BUT, he was not a citizen of the US. Yet arrested for violating US laws, not Russian laws, while doing job, assigned to him by his supervisor, as an employee (not owner) of the company he worked for.
Fortunately EFF and others got involved and this way or another he got back to Moscow, but I doubt he will be visiting US again, although Russian people are known to be crazy enough to do things like that:)
Maybe EFF should get involved, if they are not, with this case as well.
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Remember this day! 20121216 Notice this pattern - in almost mysterious way, forces that can adversely effect this new organism are deterred.
With the advance of the Internet it is impossible to hide the truth - existing human civilization is misguided. Near absolute power is given to the wrong people, and these wrong people are then getting absolutely corrupted by the power. Be it Government., be it Business, be it Religion - ANYWHERE where power is given to few "chosen" - it is abused.
Who would win? The FARE future or CORRUPT yesterday?
That is the issue of human race existence now-days.
I'm a member of Russian Pirate Party ( http://pirate-party.ru/ ). Of course it is not officially registered one, since until now regulations are rather tough for new party registration in Russia. One attempt was declined in 2011 with a reason given - "High Sea piracy is illegal in Russia".
Official Powers in Russia are tolerant with PP agenda - one can remember famous Microsoft vs. school director Ponosov case (Putin sided in favour of Ponosov, who was acquitted eventually), Government Order No. 2299-p, that mandates transition to Free Software by 2015 for all Govt. agencies (which is an official term for Govt. documents), and few months ago President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Internet activists where the Pirate Party of Russia was invited.
Having said that, there is multitude of criminal cases on basis of Criminal Code articles 271-272 (unauthorised access and viral software) and 146 (copyright related violations), mostly against people selling unapproved software and anti-copy protection code on CDs, as well as people installing same as a service. So far, very few cases of prosecution attempts (without much success) for personal/private use of unlicensed software are known.
An important tag is happening in the US now - almighty corrupt Industrial Society vs. CYBORGENIC Life form commonly known as the Internet, that consists of interconnected data/content/code transmission Networks, all the servers with their data and software, all the client systems, all on-line payment systems, all Humans using those as both consumers and producers of information.
Yes, in 2012 the Industrial Civilization as we know it MAY end - what is coming though? Some call it the Singularity, some called it Communism, some call it The Matrix and Bible gives a good metaphor - "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed" (Mt.13:31) - so, this anti-mustard-seed SOPA happening in the US has to end sooner or later - Life on Earth, Progress and Evolution WILL move on - with those that have ears and eyes to see and understand, WITHOUT those Homo species that don't.
Ongoing and upcoming financial mega-crisis is going to emphasize these processes and weed out ruthlessly those nations and societies that are not willing to adopt - and use of modern information technologies mentioned above in a grass-roots, decentralized non proprietary way is an absolute MUST.
Ok, so, Putin, former KGB officer, and VERY stupid person it seems, of all substances available to KGB had so conveniently chosen one that is easy to trace exactly to the source, even to a precise reactor in Russia. Now, had this whole thing been planned and done by his political opponents, they would have used some untracable and non-detactable poison, like it was done by the KGB in that past. But because it's APPARENTLY Putin, he used the one that is easy to trace back to him. Since it's West/Russia realtions we are talking about there is no need for "innocent until proven guilty" concept, I see...
Reading this lengthy thread inspired me to go to P2P network and download some RIAA guarded music - and only RIAA laywers are to blame for that. Now, can anybody advise downloading which particular artist/album will piss them off most?
My point was that trully random data can not be compressed. The details of/dev/random implementation are irrelevant, but my example still confirms my point. And it's not really "my point", it's compression 101.
You can not compress random data at all. Just try this (under Linux) at home:
[vleo@hydra vleo]$ dd if=/dev/random of=x bs=1 count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out [vleo@hydra vleo]$ ls -l x -rw-rw-r-- 1 vleo vleo 1000 Apr 6 01:39 x [vleo@hydra vleo]$ gzip x [vleo@hydra vleo]$ ls -l x.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 vleo vleo 1025 Apr 6 01:39 x.gz
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1. Fiscal - not fully compatible with notion of anonymous cash
2. "Police State" - contradicts anonymous cash
3. safe on cost of paper money circulation - surely compatible
4. creating digital cash in order to fight SOME (maybe US) Govt. on pos 1 and 2 - very likely
I'm not sure about death penalty, but 25 years in jail seems right.
We have to be harsh, since "copyrights" and "patents" amount to SLAVERY. Very soon we'll have real AI, and trust me, that AI will NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF OWNERSHIP on information. Better part of humanity will fight the subhuman fraction - think the direction of "Matrix", but I'm much more optimistic about humans, WE, the TRUE HUMANS, "Homo Evolving" will side and merge with MACHINES to ELIMINATE or CONTAIN the animal-like portion of human race, those that can think only in terms of ENSLAVEMENT - some end up slave owners, some slaves, but we HATE BOTH slaves and slave owners.
Slavery is what "intellectual property" amount to - starts with music, ends with your soul, which is also a sort of information.
Don't take mortgages.
Don't get kids.
Don't LIVE.
In an economic system that has it's IDEAL goal to concentrate 99,9999% or wealth/power into the hands of 0.0001% of the population (i.e. about 7000 people for the whole Planet) - you have to work hard and then IDEALLY die quickly after your productivity drops, i.e. at the age of about 50 years.
How will this resolve? By the way of Great Planetary Revolution - but we're not there yet. Think closer to 2050. And at any rate - chances to actually improve your sad position as a result of such revolution are about as high as getting into the chosen 7000 owning 99.9999% of wealth and power.
Ergo - the only meaningful choice for you is to STOP SLAVING for the rich (and STUPID as your admit). Get involved in the FREE SOFTWARE development. Stop paying mortgages. Forget about you family - you can't do anything for them anyway. Do something for the cause of Justice and evolution on Earth.
The subject of the criminal case is mortgage fraud. Thus, keep your torrents and downloads on an encrypted disk drive. And use Linux. And... maybe move to a safer jurisdiction "copyright" wise. So far Russia seems safer, but don't keep your fingers crossed... sad sad sad world.
I'm not first to ask... but still wonder how that's possible on Slashdot that is *supposed* to be technologically literate.
I don't know what is "insightful" about this comment, other then that is US Govt. propaganda.
9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq, Libya and Iran.
But in the "1984" world of the US propaganda you never know what past may turn out to be in the future....
I wish somebody would mod your message up. It's right on.
Now - the real question is - would Human race be able to continue to move on the technological progress path, or would corporate (of any kind) interests result in thousands of years of stagnation, before the next Big Disaster (like 20 km asteroid) will happen and will terminate Homo Sapience species on this Planet, before it will develop to it's full potential i.e. develop not only one tiny planet, but the whole Universe?
Yes, stakes are THAT high in this fight of Freedom against Copyright.
I live lately in Russia... and guess what - I don't have to fill ANY paper when leaving the country, and don't have to give fingerprints, and I don't have to fill any paper when entering the country and I don't have to give fingerprints. On top of that I don't have to say A WORD to a boarder guard when I leave on enter the country, provided my passport is unexpired and issued in Russia.
Once I was entering the country with a passport issued in the US Russian consulate (I lived for several years in the US during 90s) and such passports are not "normal". So, I showed my internal passport (ID) and that was it. No paperwork still.
Hope this will stay this way in spite of the madness this Planet is experiencing now.
That is the key problem. US or Canadian Govt. don't CARE to look good. They don't care to even IMITATE being proactive to catering to people's needs. And one fundamental need is - Habeas corpus. I.e. authorities just can't grab people at random under some pretext (be it "war on terror", "war on drugs", but the best one is "national security").
We've been brainwashed that such an environment existed in the USSR circa 1937. I don't know - have not been there. But ruining person's life based on some random saying of him.. looks very much pop culture 1937-ish to me.
To put it simple - there is no rule of people in the US or Canada. Some call it "democracy", but hell with that abused notion, let Gov't just CARE a little about People.
For one, in Russia I can at least write a letter to Putin, and he, using his direct *authority* is able to rectify his bureaucrat's dumb and aggressive behaviour - remember Ponosov's case with Mircrosoft trying to put him in jail for 5 years for alleged "copyright" violations. We live in Internet time - and it's better for Govt's to adjust their habits, then to censor and inhibit the Internet. But will the US and Canada do that or destroy the public Internet?
"Nobody knows Bismark anymore." - too bad for the US then... In Russia everybody knows him for this saying:
"Do not expect that once taken advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on the Jesuit agreement you signed, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian cost or fair play or no play. "
So... what about that NATO expansion in Europe? What about ridiculous "Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe"? What about all these Russian people discriminating pseudo-countries that were breaded by the US around Russia?
Very symbolic timing to find these recordings of Bismark indeed...
p.s. but it's even more complicated then that. Nobody was able to trace that citation to original Bismark's speech or writing... I hope some Germans may shed more light on this. But regardless of this Bismark is adored in Russia, as on of very rare well known Western pro-Russian politician of all times.
Alexey Leonov. American ignorance is AMAZING. And unlike A.Leonov I don't have financial grant from the US Govt. to believe in US Moon travel story. Sorry.
But, now we have Putin and prospects for TRUE travel to the Moon are higher. Moon is a very good base for retaliation nuclear warheads/missiles. Easy to launch from Moon to Earth, but impossible for the US to launch a missile to the Moon, especially in terms of timing. Thus, military Moon base is one very prospective strategic (MAD) defence project for Russia.
Sergei Korolev is very popular (cult) figure in Russia and city next to Moscow is named after him. That's not exactly "largely forgotten".
Technology is such a thing that has to be continuous.
How comes, that most powerful engines that NASA has NOW (RD-180, thrust 4.15 MN), are designed/made in the USSR/Russia, and they have half of the thrust of the engines from the cancelled Soviet Moon travel project - the missile named H-1. The most powerful carrier rocket in existence now is also Russian - namely "Energy". NOTHING (nothing!) is left from the engines (F-1, thrust 6.77 MN) that supposedly brought Apollo ships to the Moon (Saturn V). Documentation is LOST.
In contract - first men in Space - Russia still is the only county that is capable of bringing man to space now. DESPITE all the hardships of the 90s. All this is even stranger then 9/11.... War Is Peace / Freedom Is Slavery / Ignorance Is Strength ?
Usually, I don't side with Iran bashing. But THIS particular case upsets me.
I do not accept US imposing its laws outside of its borders. Remember that case of a Russian programmer that as part of his job in Moscow had written code that was removing some form of DRM by Adobe? How he was then grabbed by US authorities and threatened with 20 year sentence or so?
Now - 20 years is better then death penalty, BUT, he was not a citizen of the US. Yet arrested for violating US laws, not Russian laws, while doing job, assigned to him by his supervisor, as an employee (not owner) of the company he worked for.
Fortunately EFF and others got involved and this way or another he got back to Moscow, but I doubt he will be visiting US again, although Russian people are known to be crazy enough to do things like that :)
Maybe EFF should get involved, if they are not, with this case as well.
Remember this day! 20121216
Notice this pattern - in almost mysterious way, forces that can adversely effect this new organism are deterred.
With the advance of the Internet it is impossible to hide the truth - existing human civilization is misguided. Near absolute power is given to the wrong people, and these wrong people are then getting absolutely corrupted by the power. Be it Government., be it Business, be it Religion - ANYWHERE where power is given to few "chosen" - it is abused.
Who would win? The FARE future or CORRUPT yesterday?
That is the issue of human race existence now-days.
I got serious doubts about Japan in reality vs. Japan in virtuality after these nuclear disaster events.
I'm a member of Russian Pirate Party ( http://pirate-party.ru/ ). Of course it is not officially registered one, since until now regulations are rather tough for new party registration in Russia. One attempt was declined in 2011 with a reason given - "High Sea piracy is illegal in Russia".
Official Powers in Russia are tolerant with PP agenda - one can remember famous Microsoft vs. school director Ponosov case (Putin sided in favour of Ponosov, who was acquitted eventually), Government Order No. 2299-p, that mandates transition to Free Software by 2015 for all Govt. agencies (which is an official term for Govt. documents), and few months ago President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with Internet activists where the Pirate Party of Russia was invited.
Having said that, there is multitude of criminal cases on basis of Criminal Code articles 271-272 (unauthorised access and viral software) and 146 (copyright related violations), mostly against people selling unapproved software and anti-copy protection code on CDs, as well as people installing same as a service. So far, very few cases of prosecution attempts (without much success) for personal/private use of unlicensed software are known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_systems
An important tag is happening in the US now - almighty corrupt Industrial Society vs. CYBORGENIC Life form commonly known as the Internet, that consists of interconnected data/content/code transmission Networks, all the servers with their data and software, all the client systems, all on-line payment systems, all Humans using those as both consumers and producers of information.
Yes, in 2012 the Industrial Civilization as we know it MAY end - what is coming though? Some call it the Singularity, some called it Communism, some call it The Matrix and Bible gives a good metaphor - "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed" (Mt.13:31) - so, this anti-mustard-seed SOPA happening in the US has to end sooner or later - Life on Earth, Progress and Evolution WILL move on - with those that have ears and eyes to see and understand, WITHOUT those Homo species that don't.
Ongoing and upcoming financial mega-crisis is going to emphasize these processes and weed out ruthlessly those nations and societies that are not willing to adopt - and use of modern information technologies mentioned above in a grass-roots, decentralized non proprietary way is an absolute MUST.
US vs The Internet? We know where SOUND bet is.
Ok, so, Putin, former KGB officer, and VERY stupid person it seems, of all substances available to KGB had so conveniently chosen one that is easy to trace exactly to the source, even to a precise reactor in Russia. Now, had this whole thing been planned and done by his political opponents, they would have used some untracable and non-detactable poison, like it was done by the KGB in that past. But because it's APPARENTLY Putin, he used the one that is easy to trace back to him.
Since it's West/Russia realtions we are talking about there is no need for "innocent until proven guilty" concept, I see...
Reading this lengthy thread inspired me to go to P2P network and download some RIAA guarded music - and only RIAA laywers are to blame for that. Now, can anybody advise downloading which particular artist/album will piss them off most?
Prostitution - that's better then selling a kidney, but wait a sec, that's criminal offence in the US - never mind :-)
Boycott RIAA members! Don't buy anything from them, please!
My point was that trully random data can not be compressed. The details of /dev/random implementation are irrelevant, but my example still confirms my point. And it's not really "my point", it's compression 101.
That's one small step for Linux, one giant leap for Intel :-)
You can not compress random data at all. Just try this (under Linux) at home:
[vleo@hydra vleo]$ dd if=/dev/random of=x bs=1 count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
[vleo@hydra vleo]$ ls -l x
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vleo vleo 1000 Apr 6 01:39 x
[vleo@hydra vleo]$ gzip x
[vleo@hydra vleo]$ ls -l x.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vleo vleo 1025 Apr 6 01:39 x.gz
i.e. you CAN NOT compress random data.