Internet censorship is growing. Traceable IP numbers have become the ultimate censorship tool. Servers and clients need some universal way around it. Tor, i2p, torrents and similar things aren't cutting it because they can't scale, they depend on traceable, censorable IP.
In my book, the difference between good art and bad art is the message, the idea communicated. The main thing isn't really the beauty of the sounds or the colors or the shapes, although it's important too. The most important thing in art is whether there is some new idea communicated, some new inspiration, something to be said, informed, accused, called out, whatever. Pretty colors with no idea inside is just a pretty bottle with no wine inside.
Now where are the websites with art of people who have something to say? To me, graffiti says something. Underground music, unpublished, says something. Wikileaks says something. Wikipedia says something. If I have something I want to say or do, I think it's true, and I don't give a damn whether someone wants to hear or pay or wants me dead, I have a soapbox and a mouth, or whatever tools, and I'm speaking.
They used to ban Slashdot referrals because of the heavy traffic. Guess a Slashdoting ain't what it used to be.
That's insane, that too-much-popularity would become undesirable. We desperately need some different new kind of HTTP server that's decentralized, combined with P2P. Maybe IPV6 will allow adding a plugin serving from browser cache while you're on the site or something. I've looked for projects like these and found several, but none ever caught on.
I love open source and firefox, I feel sad when I hear there are problems, but writing tight code is indeed challenging for anyone. The plugin compatibility in particular seem to present a challenge. Still using it and recommending it though. Chrome may be open source too, but big-corporation-sponsored open source frequently becomes something else later on in life. I think open source needs to start pushing a pledges model of funding, the totally-free or ad-sponsored models don't fit for all cases.
I've never bought anything on iTunes or any of the other online music stores
I actually think they just have to give up on selling copies of music after it's released. In fact I'm surprised books haven't gone the same path yet, perhaps they will now with the pads. Though it is much harder to scan a whole paper book and convert to a file, than rip a CD. Putting a whole CD onto torrents is just way too easy.
There are options, like making the CD into more of a booklet, with lots of additional text, photos, perhaps video, software, etc. Selling shows. Advertising. Subscriptions. Updates. Services. Pledges. I personally favor pledges. Ask people what they want, let them choose their favorite art and artists, give feedback, participate, put their money in escrow, produce the stuff. Be it music, clothes, cars, or software, this model of producing things then pushing it down peoples throat with advertising just sucks.
I too am way behind on these little hand computers. Just got an iphone and a blackberry, next I'm getting some android thing. Don't care which the OS won't bee too different from one to the other. I'm starting to get one cheap used gadget of every mobile OS to mess with them all, along with a couple of prepaid chips.
"If the feds need something to do they could start by implementing IPv6 and getting everyone an IP address."
+1 (x 2^128)
That would be an idea, give everyone a registered IPv6 number. Then they could require people to use that IPv6 on something with a certain software, require all cellphone vendors to equip phones with a certain "Authencated ID security" feature, and they'd be done. In a couple of years, when everyone already got a new phone, they just block the old models state by state. Presto, electronic national ID registry. In fact they could just use the cellphone companies to create the whole system for them for free. Your cellphone company will image your fingerprints now, this way please. If you don't want a cellphone, you can go get some other "state" ID gadget.
...Obama takes a big stick and jams it in the eye of his Progressive supporters.
When will they learn?
You mean the Progressives, or Obama? Obama was never called Martin Luther, he just looks like it and sounds like it. Does it darn good though. The progressives will go to their grave thinking they have a party to vote for, and that it's the Democrats. Sometimes I actually root for the Tea Party wack gang. They're fake and funded my billionaires, but hell, they're the only ones I've seen starting to break a dent into the patterned thinking of the redeblicrats duopoly to-and-fro, swing back-and-forth non-democracy eternal repetitive show.
Interesting Things To Check Out Someday pile. Queue position # 53,972. May be promoted if I get a database job. May be reached if i discover immortality or significant extention to lifetime, software development continues in afterlife, or I win the Super Extra Free Time Extension Lottery. #toomuchinformation #database #object-oriented #apache
Remove all Windows users who haven't paid for anything, and how many are left? 100% of Windows users are not within US borders, but mostly in the rest of the world, where the word piracy doesn't mean much, it just means free. Microsoft created Starter Edition just because of this issue. Many, many users buying cheaper computers without the Windows costs, factory preinstalled with Linux, just because of costs. Most of those were formatting the PC with XP when they got it, but some kept Linux on, plus all users got a Linux CD and some Linux experience. And that alone was a concern for Microsoft.
Linux and other open source OS's appear to be needing a coordinated mass-users-attraction strategy, or group of strategies. I think too many a lot of us tend to be too idealistic of "what users should", and design things for that. Some observation and study of "what users do", frequently are very surprising and simple things, leading to only very slight adjustments of how something is presented or works, leading _huge_ numbers of people to change their behaviour. Companies make tiny adjustments in the color or consistency of soap based on customer feedback, for example, and gain or lose market margins.
I believe this is one of the best formulas I have seen for paying developers for their time. The developers can charge for the product, then eventually when they believe sales have paid for their time already, open source the thing. Users with some money or urgency can encourage open source, just buying the products while it's new. Other users can get it when it becomes open, after X amount in sales is achieved. It's kind of similar to listener funded radio.
People tend to forget that legally-obtained data is not the only data there is. If data exists somewhere, and worth money, someone is willing to pay for it, someone may be willing to collect it and sell it. We have a black data market, not to mention the corporate grey market. It's not just because it's illegal to access that nobody does. I believe a fair amount of data on us is simply available for sale from various private agencies, starting by marketing firms but extending to various other kinds, without even searching any object of yours at all. There's simply no telling how many people are secretly gathering data and selling it. I have seen an article on a detective that simply called up the cellphones of contacts in various companies and asked them for info, all routine at a prearranged price. Last numbers called? Last credit card purchase locations? Current cellphone location? No problem. That'll be $450, billed to your account. The police doesn't have that data, or that money, or that option, but other people do. Generally, the jealous wife or husband.
I run a business and pay salaries and costs and buy things and sell things. I know how it works. That doesn't mean I think businesses are out there to produce good service, good product or good social policy or laws. You think the primary concern of businesses and corporations are people's needs, and not profit? And that the need for increasing profits, for satisfying investors, loans, paying bills, is not a business direct, constant pressure to cut costs, increase prices, and market illusion instead of truth? The primary purpose of any company is to find things as cheap as possible, add as little as possible, and sell it for as much as possible, as many as possible. So we have a society where everything is expensive, because that's the idea. Every business says "clients first", of course. But only while the client brings money, then only until there is another with more money. Go to any country where there is basically no law, and see what kind of society business builds all by itself. Do many businesses build useful things and service? Yes. Is that the primary concern? No. It's income, expense, profit level. Want a good business? High client demand? An excellent business investment? High income entertainment services. Quality products. Excellent service. Home delivery. Drugs, alcohol and prostitution, for example, can be all those. Some legal liability must be calculated, that's all. Business isn't social nirvana. The "Greed is good" party ended a while ago, even if nobody's left yet. We're just waiting for the Wall St fat lady to sing, so we can move on to some other society, even if nobody quite knows what it will look like.
In fact generating electric power is so easy, the tendency seems that more people will be doing it, there's just too many sources. Even if not generating 100% of your power yet, energy independence is continually growing.
http://www.google.com/search?q=neighborhood+power
That's all we want, documents. Too many people lying. We want evidence, of which there is lots, all hidden. That's what everyone wants, and what Wikileaks gives.
True or false, Wired has no credibility in my book since a long time ago. Some time in the early 90s, shortly after launching and becoming wildly successful, they made a clear decision - to go the route of all-out business sellouts, and away from people's needs and interests. They stopped the stories with the tone of "technology is human evolution, revolution with peace is invented", and kept only the stories to the tone of "technology is product and profit". I cancelled my subscription, since edition #2, shortly afterwards, and never cared for it much again.
Some time ago, violent movies were supposed to be what caused violence. Now they generally blame videogames. Whatever, if that was true, smart movies should make smart people too. But to be honest, I think movies are just education. Like any educational tool, it teaches anything. It can teach good, bad, right, and wrong. If people decide to do good, bad, right, and wrong, smart or dumb, it mosly takes a lot more study, education, effort, time, and encouragement, from parents, teachers, friends, family, neighbors, government, and private groups. So do movies contribute to make smart or dumb people? Yes, about a 0,01% contribution towards that end. A lot more is needed.
Maybe the question should be, with 12 years of open source branding, and with well-marketed products like Ubuntu, why have we not advanced further?
Yes, I think that's the question, and it needs attention. Open source is great - so why isn't it advancing faster? Netbooks were a great opportunity, as well as low-cost boxes with Linux preinstalled to reduce costs, to reach Joe User.
1) I remember lots of people asking me to isntall XP on their preinstalled Linux box. (It broke my heart - but it was my job.) These people knew they wanted windows - and they didn't even know what an OS was! Why? I asked them. "I tried to install X program, and I couldn't, so I called Joey, then Peter then Nacho who know computers, and they all told me I need this Windows thing so I'm tired and getting it." Lesson learned. People are set in their ways. They are used to their old software, their old ways, plus their training knowledge of their software. Heck - I myself know some Word and Excel, but not OpenOffice. Windows runs these programs, installs this way, has these interfaces, Linux works quite different, or just can't run the stuff. Often these programs were simple, but they wanted *that* program, not a equivalent one. Msn messenger, Office, MS Paint, some game. Lesson learned.
2) I wanted to run Aircrack. It only really ran on Linux. I didn't have a Linux box, or any Linux people around. I kept looking for a way to run on Windows. Finally, I found BackTrack. Heck, I finally downloaded and ran Linux at work and at home. I was using it every day. Why? Because there was software I needed which only ran on Linux. I had to run Linux, period. I used a lot of open source software, but always on Windows. Why? Because I could. There was a Windows version. I didn't have to switch to another OS, partition, reboot, figure it out, etc. I already knew windows, it was running already, there is a Windows version, I'll use it and be done with it. Lesson learned. People use the software to solve their problems fast, and if switching to another OS takes longer than using a version for their OS, they most likely won't switch. So switching to your open-source OS, installing it, has to be fast. Very fast. I think Ubuntu Wubi was the best thing ever. Heck I think Wubi should install any Linux distro you want.
3) People come to me, or walk around, looking for a CD to install Windows, Office, Autocad, whatever. There are people selling these pirate software cd's everwhere. People are going nuts installing USD$10,000 worth of software on their computer, and spending about $10 in blank cd's. Talk about paying for it, and suddenly they start looking for "free" alternatives, and soon learn about the ideas of open source. So, "free" pirate-ware is actually promoting commercial software, and beating and competing with free, open source, software.
4) Look for software to solve a problem, and you'll find lots of Windows versions, both free and payware. Very few Linux solutions. Developers are creating free Windows software, and giving it away! Why? Well, they most likely use Windows. Their friends and clients too. They want to solve problems for themselves, their friends, clients, and everyone. Whether it's for sale, or free, they are making software for the OS they and most people run. So there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. But they don't usually consider making it open-source, even if they don't even plan to sell it. So there's a cultural problem too. Compilers could to made that offer to automatically post the code online. But none of them do. Online culture is still growing.
5) Booting an OS usually requires a CD, or a hard drive. Where to get a CD? With someone who already has one, who will give you what he already has. You can't get a os-free computer to boot from a website and install an OS, which would encourage them to run whatever software they find online. The boot sector is taken up be an OS, that monopolizes it. Once that boot sector is the
You mean the space station guys nuke their food in microwaves, just like I do? How depressing. All that technology and they can't even let the guys grill some chicken.
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Internet censorship is growing. Traceable IP numbers have become the ultimate censorship tool. Servers and clients need some universal way around it. Tor, i2p, torrents and similar things aren't cutting it because they can't scale, they depend on traceable, censorable IP.
In my book, the difference between good art and bad art is the message, the idea communicated. The main thing isn't really the beauty of the sounds or the colors or the shapes, although it's important too. The most important thing in art is whether there is some new idea communicated, some new inspiration, something to be said, informed, accused, called out, whatever. Pretty colors with no idea inside is just a pretty bottle with no wine inside.
Now where are the websites with art of people who have something to say? To me, graffiti says something. Underground music, unpublished, says something. Wikileaks says something. Wikipedia says something. If I have something I want to say or do, I think it's true, and I don't give a damn whether someone wants to hear or pay or wants me dead, I have a soapbox and a mouth, or whatever tools, and I'm speaking.
Because in the Olde World they could have their slathering hordes drooling in anticipation and rage.
Now that we are DoItYourself, if they want to play all "high tower" that's why people began to tell them to push off.
I just want the giant music labels to get completely replaced by some combination of thousands of indie efforts.
They used to ban Slashdot referrals because of the heavy traffic. Guess a Slashdoting ain't what it used to be.
That's insane, that too-much-popularity would become undesirable. We desperately need some different new kind of HTTP server that's decentralized, combined with P2P. Maybe IPV6 will allow adding a plugin serving from browser cache while you're on the site or something. I've looked for projects like these and found several, but none ever caught on.
I love open source and firefox, I feel sad when I hear there are problems, but writing tight code is indeed challenging for anyone. The plugin compatibility in particular seem to present a challenge. Still using it and recommending it though. Chrome may be open source too, but big-corporation-sponsored open source frequently becomes something else later on in life. I think open source needs to start pushing a pledges model of funding, the totally-free or ad-sponsored models don't fit for all cases.
I've never bought anything on iTunes or any of the other online music stores
I actually think they just have to give up on selling copies of music after it's released. In fact I'm surprised books haven't gone the same path yet, perhaps they will now with the pads. Though it is much harder to scan a whole paper book and convert to a file, than rip a CD. Putting a whole CD onto torrents is just way too easy.
There are options, like making the CD into more of a booklet, with lots of additional text, photos, perhaps video, software, etc. Selling shows. Advertising. Subscriptions. Updates. Services. Pledges. I personally favor pledges. Ask people what they want, let them choose their favorite art and artists, give feedback, participate, put their money in escrow, produce the stuff. Be it music, clothes, cars, or software, this model of producing things then pushing it down peoples throat with advertising just sucks.
Maybe they should use the pledge system. Make a demo or something, get pledges, make the full CD. Open source could do the same.
that forbids Square Enix from continuing to use the word 'Final'?
Somehow it sounds like
"don't say you're mortal, you don't know if it's your final lifetime."
I believe that debate has been going on for a while...
I'll try it out when it runs on Linux.
...andss I hATEsss thIsss peoplesss whoss doesss surrveyssss...
hrrrjmmmmmm...
I too am way behind on these little hand computers. Just got an iphone and a blackberry, next I'm getting some android thing. Don't care which the OS won't bee too different from one to the other. I'm starting to get one cheap used gadget of every mobile OS to mess with them all, along with a couple of prepaid chips.
"If the feds need something to do they could start by implementing IPv6 and getting everyone an IP address."
+1 (x 2^128)
That would be an idea, give everyone a registered IPv6 number. Then they could require people to use that IPv6 on something with a certain software, require all cellphone vendors to equip phones with a certain "Authencated ID security" feature, and they'd be done. In a couple of years, when everyone already got a new phone, they just block the old models state by state. Presto, electronic national ID registry. In fact they could just use the cellphone companies to create the whole system for them for free. Your cellphone company will image your fingerprints now, this way please. If you don't want a cellphone, you can go get some other "state" ID gadget.
...Obama takes a big stick and jams it in the eye of his Progressive supporters.
When will they learn?
You mean the Progressives, or Obama? Obama was never called Martin Luther, he just looks like it and sounds like it. Does it darn good though. The progressives will go to their grave thinking they have a party to vote for, and that it's the Democrats. Sometimes I actually root for the Tea Party wack gang. They're fake and funded my billionaires, but hell, they're the only ones I've seen starting to break a dent into the patterned thinking of the redeblicrats duopoly to-and-fro, swing back-and-forth non-democracy eternal repetitive show.
Interesting Things To Check Out Someday pile. Queue position # 53,972. May be promoted if I get a database job. May be reached if i discover immortality or significant extention to lifetime, software development continues in afterlife, or I win the Super Extra Free Time Extension Lottery. #toomuchinformation #database #object-oriented #apache
Remove all Windows users who haven't paid for anything, and how many are left? 100% of Windows users are not within US borders, but mostly in the rest of the world, where the word piracy doesn't mean much, it just means free. Microsoft created Starter Edition just because of this issue. Many, many users buying cheaper computers without the Windows costs, factory preinstalled with Linux, just because of costs. Most of those were formatting the PC with XP when they got it, but some kept Linux on, plus all users got a Linux CD and some Linux experience. And that alone was a concern for Microsoft.
Linux and other open source OS's appear to be needing a coordinated mass-users-attraction strategy, or group of strategies. I think too many a lot of us tend to be too idealistic of "what users should", and design things for that. Some observation and study of "what users do", frequently are very surprising and simple things, leading to only very slight adjustments of how something is presented or works, leading _huge_ numbers of people to change their behaviour. Companies make tiny adjustments in the color or consistency of soap based on customer feedback, for example, and gain or lose market margins.
I believe this is one of the best formulas I have seen for paying developers for their time. The developers can charge for the product, then eventually when they believe sales have paid for their time already, open source the thing. Users with some money or urgency can encourage open source, just buying the products while it's new. Other users can get it when it becomes open, after X amount in sales is achieved. It's kind of similar to listener funded radio.
People tend to forget that legally-obtained data is not the only data there is. If data exists somewhere, and worth money, someone is willing to pay for it, someone may be willing to collect it and sell it. We have a black data market, not to mention the corporate grey market. It's not just because it's illegal to access that nobody does. I believe a fair amount of data on us is simply available for sale from various private agencies, starting by marketing firms but extending to various other kinds, without even searching any object of yours at all. There's simply no telling how many people are secretly gathering data and selling it. I have seen an article on a detective that simply called up the cellphones of contacts in various companies and asked them for info, all routine at a prearranged price. Last numbers called? Last credit card purchase locations? Current cellphone location? No problem. That'll be $450, billed to your account. The police doesn't have that data, or that money, or that option, but other people do. Generally, the jealous wife or husband.
I run a business and pay salaries and costs and buy things and sell things. I know how it works. That doesn't mean I think businesses are out there to produce good service, good product or good social policy or laws. You think the primary concern of businesses and corporations are people's needs, and not profit? And that the need for increasing profits, for satisfying investors, loans, paying bills, is not a business direct, constant pressure to cut costs, increase prices, and market illusion instead of truth? The primary purpose of any company is to find things as cheap as possible, add as little as possible, and sell it for as much as possible, as many as possible. So we have a society where everything is expensive, because that's the idea. Every business says "clients first", of course. But only while the client brings money, then only until there is another with more money. Go to any country where there is basically no law, and see what kind of society business builds all by itself. Do many businesses build useful things and service? Yes. Is that the primary concern? No. It's income, expense, profit level. Want a good business? High client demand? An excellent business investment? High income entertainment services. Quality products. Excellent service. Home delivery. Drugs, alcohol and prostitution, for example, can be all those. Some legal liability must be calculated, that's all. Business isn't social nirvana. The "Greed is good" party ended a while ago, even if nobody's left yet. We're just waiting for the Wall St fat lady to sing, so we can move on to some other society, even if nobody quite knows what it will look like.
In fact generating electric power is so easy, the tendency seems that more people will be doing it, there's just too many sources. Even if not generating 100% of your power yet, energy independence is continually growing.
http://www.google.com/search?q=neighborhood+power
That's all we want, documents. Too many people lying. We want evidence, of which there is lots, all hidden. That's what everyone wants, and what Wikileaks gives.
True or false, Wired has no credibility in my book since a long time ago. Some time in the early 90s, shortly after launching and becoming wildly successful, they made a clear decision - to go the route of all-out business sellouts, and away from people's needs and interests. They stopped the stories with the tone of "technology is human evolution, revolution with peace is invented", and kept only the stories to the tone of "technology is product and profit". I cancelled my subscription, since edition #2, shortly afterwards, and never cared for it much again.
Some time ago, violent movies were supposed to be what caused violence. Now they generally blame videogames. Whatever, if that was true, smart movies should make smart people too. But to be honest, I think movies are just education. Like any educational tool, it teaches anything. It can teach good, bad, right, and wrong. If people decide to do good, bad, right, and wrong, smart or dumb, it mosly takes a lot more study, education, effort, time, and encouragement, from parents, teachers, friends, family, neighbors, government, and private groups. So do movies contribute to make smart or dumb people? Yes, about a 0,01% contribution towards that end. A lot more is needed.
Maybe the question should be, with 12 years of open source branding, and with well-marketed products like Ubuntu, why have we not advanced further?
Yes, I think that's the question, and it needs attention. Open source is great - so why isn't it advancing faster? Netbooks were a great opportunity, as well as low-cost boxes with Linux preinstalled to reduce costs, to reach Joe User.
1) I remember lots of people asking me to isntall XP on their preinstalled Linux box. (It broke my heart - but it was my job.) These people knew they wanted windows - and they didn't even know what an OS was! Why? I asked them. "I tried to install X program, and I couldn't, so I called Joey, then Peter then Nacho who know computers, and they all told me I need this Windows thing so I'm tired and getting it."
Lesson learned. People are set in their ways. They are used to their old software, their old ways, plus their training knowledge of their software. Heck - I myself know some Word and Excel, but not OpenOffice. Windows runs these programs, installs this way, has these interfaces, Linux works quite different, or just can't run the stuff. Often these programs were simple, but they wanted *that* program, not a equivalent one. Msn messenger, Office, MS Paint, some game. Lesson learned.
2) I wanted to run Aircrack. It only really ran on Linux. I didn't have a Linux box, or any Linux people around. I kept looking for a way to run on Windows. Finally, I found BackTrack. Heck, I finally downloaded and ran Linux at work and at home. I was using it every day. Why? Because there was software I needed which only ran on Linux. I had to run Linux, period. I used a lot of open source software, but always on Windows. Why? Because I could. There was a Windows version. I didn't have to switch to another OS, partition, reboot, figure it out, etc. I already knew windows, it was running already, there is a Windows version, I'll use it and be done with it. Lesson learned. People use the software to solve their problems fast, and if switching to another OS takes longer than using a version for their OS, they most likely won't switch. So switching to your open-source OS, installing it, has to be fast. Very fast. I think Ubuntu Wubi was the best thing ever. Heck I think Wubi should install any Linux distro you want.
3) People come to me, or walk around, looking for a CD to install Windows, Office, Autocad, whatever. There are people selling these pirate software cd's everwhere. People are going nuts installing USD$10,000 worth of software on their computer, and spending about $10 in blank cd's. Talk about paying for it, and suddenly they start looking for "free" alternatives, and soon learn about the ideas of open source. So, "free" pirate-ware is actually promoting commercial software, and beating and competing with free, open source, software.
4) Look for software to solve a problem, and you'll find lots of Windows versions, both free and payware. Very few Linux solutions. Developers are creating free Windows software, and giving it away! Why? Well, they most likely use Windows. Their friends and clients too. They want to solve problems for themselves, their friends, clients, and everyone. Whether it's for sale, or free, they are making software for the OS they and most people run. So there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. But they don't usually consider making it open-source, even if they don't even plan to sell it. So there's a cultural problem too. Compilers could to made that offer to automatically post the code online. But none of them do. Online culture is still growing. 5) Booting an OS usually requires a CD, or a hard drive. Where to get a CD? With someone who already has one, who will give you what he already has. You can't get a os-free computer to boot from a website and install an OS, which would encourage them to run whatever software they find online. The boot sector is taken up be an OS, that monopolizes it. Once that boot sector is the
When in doubt, nuke it from orbit.
You mean the space station guys nuke their food in microwaves, just like I do? How depressing. All that technology and they can't even let the guys grill some chicken.