As long as artists KNOW about this, they'll realize that the RIAA is not good for them. Hopefully this will help them go independent and get rid of the RIAA altogether.
is it SPAM? Phishing? DDOS attacks? Or is it child porn, terrorism and that kind of things?
If it's the first, then it's not a new internet we need, but rather to fix what is allowing these attacks to take place.
If it's the second, then my friend, there's no solution. Crime was committed before the internet. Changing the internet won't solve crime. Child porn happens because children are kidnapped and abused. And that happens OUTSIDE the internet. Perhaps we need to spend less money on Iraq and more money on programs to prevent child abuse and all that.
If you want children not to be approached by stranger adults, then make some kind of "child ID" using a centralized certification authority or something. Or how about EDUCATING YOUR KIDS?
Now that you mention it, she asked me to fork, but her mother was monitoring all processes - I was rebooted, her daughter had her privileges revoked, and ~/ was made readonly.
In Linux, most things never reach the x.0 stage, no matter how mature they are.
This reminds me of a geek girlfriend I had... she told me she was 29.9.9.12.1 years old. But when I met her in real life, i was suprised she had a daughter... 17.1.25 years old!
I think you speak for everyone who hasn't discovered bittorrent.
Streaming is much better than bittorrent for the following reasons:
You don't have to wait for a seeder to appear before you can download (especially if it's a rare media file where there are usually no seeders in BT trackers)
Download rates are usually higher for streaming media than for bittorrent (and I'm *NOT* behind Comcast)
You can only wait one or two minutes before you can enjoy your show, as opposed to waiting 30-240 minutes with bittorrent
Some sites provide what I call a "try before you download" approach, you can fastforward and start to view from minute 08:25 if you want to, so you can see if the anime you want to view is really worth it or just sucks (i.e. boring).
So, no, GP doesn't speak for anyone who hasn't discovered bittorrent. I think he speaks for anyone who has discovered the advantages of streaming media over BT.
And yes, I'm aware of the current research of streaming media OVER bittorrent, but haven't found a viable implementation yet.
All Things Pakistan points out that this may have a political rather than a "cultural" reason - given that a number of videos of election rigging were posted.
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Then they launched Netscape Communicator. Man, was it slow.
IMO, what really killed Netscape was the nested tables. Without good CSS support, what was the only way to display nice webpages?
Perhaps it was simply shortsight. They didn't have a good code for rendering pages, and it kept bloating, and bloating, and bloating.
IE did one thing right: The display of massively nested tables. I liked IE4. It was slim, nice, and fast. If we follow the story more closely, we'll see that Internet Explorer and Netscape fell in the same trap: Bloat and lack of good development. The only difference is that IE was the default, so it didn't quite die. It was alive, but it kept rotting (getting infected) anyways.
OTR, despite its name, does nothing to prevent either you or your fellow conversant from keeping a record of the transcript.
I watched the OTR presentation video (about 1 hour long). The point of OTR is that with its deniable authentication, it allows ANY of the listeners to fake a conversation (a shared encryption key is sent after each message, meaning anyone that reads it could fake it afterwards).
In other words, it proves nothing. Anyone could have faked it.
PGP on the other hand, uses certificates, which means that you can't deny what you wrote. This is the very reason why certificates are good for online contracts.
Perhaps you should pay attention to Off-the-record messaging. Other encryption methods either fail to provide authentication, or plausible deniability.
Can we now have a bunch of idiots upload time lapse videos of clouds with synthesized voice overlays declaring the end of the RIAA? Please? Can we?
They can even wear Guy Fawkes masks if they want!
I'm no moron, my mate, but I'll merrily meet your invitation. Let my moniker be my mask.
*clears throat*
"The anti-MAFIAA Manifesto" (v3.06)
Market Momentum. A marginal improvement in a massive move of milliards of monetary units. Mobs maintaining their millionaire manors with a martial ministry, marauding and muzzling the melomaniacs who made the mistake of mounting multi-user music-sharing programs onto their microprocessors, mostly for an ear-mashing, mundane and monotonous munch of music, with a miserable "remastered" dynamic range.
The Machiavellian Music Industry, the Movie Masterminds and their malevolent minions, muscled by the majority of the media, masquerade their managers as martyrs to maintain a megalithic marketing model, misleading the masses into malls like mules, macerating -no, milking- their income and molding them: With mesmerizing melodies, moronic mottos, mountains of merchandise and meticulously mannered nominations, those monsters mutilate the masses' minds, melding them into not more than mere mammals, with a microscopic mental magnitude, matching the mud and the moss.
Myth? Misstatement? Madness? MATERIALISM!
Meanwhile, in their magnificent mansions, the mink-mantled magnates morbidly mock the minorities' misfortune, while moistening their mouths in martinis under the moonlight, and masticating their meat and marshmallows like no tomorrow.
Those mischievous moguls magnify their monumental monopolies by multiplying their machinery: Digital Rights Management, DMCA, "Trusted" Computing (Mr. Stallman was not mistaken). Maltreating musicians, misusing copyright to the max, mirroring the Matrix by mining the government to monitor communications, marching like the militia to school meetings in the mornings with menacing memos, mirthfully mismatching mortified mothers for maleficent mobsters, mandating most into misspending more and more (or be imprisoned). Their main motivation is no mystery: Money.
Money! A metastatic misery, a muddling myopia, a momentary make-believe, a magnetizing mirage! A manipulating mephisto, which metamorphoses the meek into mercenaries and murderers, making them moan like Midas in a maniacal manner: "mine, mine, mine!!" Is modesty no more?
MONEY! MAY OUR MAKER MALEDICT THEE!
(Meditate my musing for a moment)
This melee, to maximize their market share. Most of mankind's malignancy is merged into a man-made monster of mastodonic measures. A mammoth called MAFIAA. Months pass, and the multitudes mourn the ever-minimizing mobility of their mediocre minds, amidst marred music, meaningless media transmissions, and miniaturizing freedom. This multinational massacre must be terminated, but most men make meager or no moves, at most mimetizing their communications with muTorrent, masked by the mist of encryption. Is this illegal? Maybe. Morally wrong? Maybe, maybe not (memorize this term: Civil Disobedience).
IT IS MANDATORY THAT WE DO MUCH MORE, OR THIS MACABRE MELTDOWN WILL MOVE ON!!
Militate and manifest yourselves in the metropolis! This is a major command! Miraculous modifications start as a minimal idea in a man or a woman's mind. Maintain your might! Manly move forward, and donate money to your magnanimous comrades, the EFF and FSF, for their mission is not minor! But if you malinger...
Memorize my message, merciless mice! You might enjoy your freedoms for a minuscule moment - you shall miss them in melancholy for millennia, after they mutate into a marooned, mummified memory in a mausoleum named morgue. Misunderstand me not: this moderate memento, merriment to many, may be a premonitory ultimatum.
A MAYDAY!
Merry to meet you, I'm merely a man behind a mask with a mystifying moniker. I am M.
But rogues will sill set up on com/net/org and those are the sites that throw up popups, send your credit card info to Bank of Lithuania, etc.
Currently Google has a somewhat hidden option about "reporting spam" search results. Perhaps it could be used to "report rogue porn" outside.xxx domains.
Google has become so powerful that some companies even sue them whenever their urls suddenly don't appear on a search. I'm sure that with a couple hundred thousand dollars they could as well implement quick filtering of rogue porn based on user reports.
Just by reading the summary, I'm reminded of what someone (was it the FCC?) compared Comcast bittorrent throttling and to horse races. It's all about competition and monopolistic practices.
I think this porn king, whoever he is and I don't care, isn't worried so much about free peeks on *his* servers but rather about "social networking" style sites and other collections that "take away" profits from him.
So what this is really about is old-model media distribution versus new business models. This guy gets rich by selling content, and obviously he's "suffering" from the thousands of amateur sites available on the web. Welcome to the 21st century.
Going back to the "think of the children" thread, the.xxx suffix was a nice solution IMHO.
It's an interesting idea, but still causes some of the big collateral problems that worms cause. Welchia brought university and corporate networks to their knees because of high traffic just as well as Blaster did
You could program the worm to spread based on a random calculation, and assign it a threshold so the traffic isn't excessive. This would give the worm a very low probability to survive.
However, a better approach IMO would be to get rid of all the Genuine Advantage and activation crack, and allow boxes using old and famous activation keys (such as the "devil's own") to get updated with Windows Update.
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IE doesn't support the :last-child pseudo-class, but that doesn't appear in Acid2.
I suppose this is why they already designed Acid3. Hint: Firefox 2 scores 50/100.
Aparently his version of TCO doesn't include buying completely new machines in order to run Vista.
No one does bloatware like Microsoft!
As long as artists KNOW about this, they'll realize that the RIAA is not good for them.
Hopefully this will help them go independent and get rid of the RIAA altogether.
I have nightmare's about JavaScript being the one language to rule them all... please, let's have no such talk.
Your worst javascript nightmares won't ever compare with... lispscript! MUAHAHAHAHA!
is it SPAM? Phishing? DDOS attacks? Or is it child porn, terrorism and that kind of things?
If it's the first, then it's not a new internet we need, but rather to fix what is allowing these attacks to take place.
If it's the second, then my friend, there's no solution. Crime was committed before the internet. Changing the internet won't solve crime. Child porn happens because children are kidnapped and abused. And that happens OUTSIDE the internet. Perhaps we need to spend less money on Iraq and more money on programs to prevent child abuse and all that.
If you want children not to be approached by stranger adults, then make some kind of "child ID" using a centralized certification authority or something. Or how about EDUCATING YOUR KIDS?
was her daughter hot?
Now that you mention it, she asked me to fork, but her mother was monitoring all processes - I was rebooted, her daughter had her privileges revoked, and ~/ was made readonly.
Google "free tetris" and you'll get nearly a million hits.
:)
I don't know about the million hits, but I got to level 5, 48 lines and 10,429 points
In Linux, most things never reach the x.0 stage, no matter how mature they are.
This reminds me of a geek girlfriend I had... she told me she was 29.9.9.12.1 years old. But when I met her in real life, i was suprised she had a daughter... 17.1.25 years old!
Streaming is much better than bittorrent for the following reasons:
So, no, GP doesn't speak for anyone who hasn't discovered bittorrent. I think he speaks for anyone who has discovered the advantages of streaming media over BT.
And yes, I'm aware of the current research of streaming media OVER bittorrent, but haven't found a viable implementation yet.
All Things Pakistan points out that this may have a political rather than a "cultural" reason - given that a number of videos of election rigging were posted.
Then they launched Netscape Communicator. Man, was it slow.
IMO, what really killed Netscape was the nested tables. Without good CSS support, what was the only way to display nice webpages?
Perhaps it was simply shortsight. They didn't have a good code for rendering pages, and it kept bloating, and bloating, and bloating.
IE did one thing right: The display of massively nested tables. I liked IE4. It was slim, nice, and fast. If we follow the story more closely, we'll see that Internet Explorer and Netscape fell in the same trap: Bloat and lack of good development. The only difference is that IE was the default, so it didn't quite die. It was alive, but it kept rotting (getting infected) anyways.
OTR, despite its name, does nothing to prevent either you or your fellow conversant from keeping a record of the transcript.
I watched the OTR presentation video (about 1 hour long). The point of OTR is that with its deniable authentication, it allows ANY of the listeners to fake a conversation (a shared encryption key is sent after each message, meaning anyone that reads it could fake it afterwards).
In other words, it proves nothing. Anyone could have faked it.
PGP on the other hand, uses certificates, which means that you can't deny what you wrote. This is the very reason why certificates are good for online contracts.
Like bird poo, smashed butterflies, roadkill blood, garbage, mud, tree leaves, etc?
Will this ultimate wipeless windshield be able to clear it away?
Perhaps you should pay attention to Off-the-record messaging. Other encryption methods either fail to provide authentication, or plausible deniability.
Or maybe these 'genetic' diseases aren't really genetic at all but caused by an environmental factor.
Life itself was caused by an environmental factor. Go figure.
Here's a reminder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6HbZXI9Y0
I'm no moron, my mate, but I'll merrily meet your invitation. Let my moniker be my mask.
*clears throat*
"The anti-MAFIAA Manifesto" (v3.06)
Market Momentum. A marginal improvement in a massive move of milliards of monetary units. Mobs maintaining their millionaire manors with a martial ministry, marauding and muzzling the melomaniacs who made the mistake of mounting multi-user music-sharing programs onto their microprocessors, mostly for an ear-mashing, mundane and monotonous munch of music, with a miserable "remastered" dynamic range.
The Machiavellian Music Industry, the Movie Masterminds and their malevolent minions, muscled by the majority of the media, masquerade their managers as martyrs to maintain a megalithic marketing model, misleading the masses into malls like mules, macerating -no, milking- their income and molding them: With mesmerizing melodies, moronic mottos, mountains of merchandise and meticulously mannered nominations, those monsters mutilate the masses' minds, melding them into not more than mere mammals, with a microscopic mental magnitude, matching the mud and the moss.
Myth? Misstatement? Madness? MATERIALISM!
Meanwhile, in their magnificent mansions, the mink-mantled magnates morbidly mock the minorities' misfortune, while moistening their mouths in martinis under the moonlight, and masticating their meat and marshmallows like no tomorrow.
Those mischievous moguls magnify their monumental monopolies by multiplying their machinery: Digital Rights Management, DMCA, "Trusted" Computing (Mr. Stallman was not mistaken). Maltreating musicians, misusing copyright to the max, mirroring the Matrix by mining the government to monitor communications, marching like the militia to school meetings in the mornings with menacing memos, mirthfully mismatching mortified mothers for maleficent mobsters, mandating most into misspending more and more (or be imprisoned). Their main motivation is no mystery: Money.
Money! A metastatic misery, a muddling myopia, a momentary make-believe, a magnetizing mirage! A manipulating mephisto, which metamorphoses the meek into mercenaries and murderers, making them moan like Midas in a maniacal manner: "mine, mine, mine!!" Is modesty no more?
MONEY! MAY OUR MAKER MALEDICT THEE!
(Meditate my musing for a moment)
This melee, to maximize their market share. Most of mankind's malignancy is merged into a man-made monster of mastodonic measures. A mammoth called MAFIAA. Months pass, and the multitudes mourn the ever-minimizing mobility of their mediocre minds, amidst marred music, meaningless media transmissions, and miniaturizing freedom. This multinational massacre must be terminated, but most men make meager or no moves, at most mimetizing their communications with muTorrent, masked by the mist of encryption. Is this illegal? Maybe. Morally wrong? Maybe, maybe not (memorize this term: Civil Disobedience).
IT IS MANDATORY THAT WE DO MUCH MORE, OR THIS MACABRE MELTDOWN WILL MOVE ON!!
Militate and manifest yourselves in the metropolis! This is a major command! Miraculous modifications start as a minimal idea in a man or a woman's mind. Maintain your might! Manly move forward, and donate money to your magnanimous comrades, the EFF and FSF, for their mission is not minor! But if you malinger...
Memorize my message, merciless mice! You might enjoy your freedoms for a minuscule moment - you shall miss them in melancholy for millennia, after they mutate into a marooned, mummified memory in a mausoleum named morgue. Misunderstand me not: this moderate memento, merriment to many, may be a premonitory ultimatum.
A MAYDAY!
Merry to meet you, I'm merely a man behind a mask with a mystifying moniker. I am M.
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It'll be so good, it'll do ROT13 twice!
:D
Hah! That doesn't compare with DOUBLE-XOR encryption!
I hadn't seen these Council of Elders stories in a while...
keep up the good work, man.
Let's not forget the most unlikely place where we've found life: the human stomach.
Eew, man, I just finished eating!
Am I the only who has, for tears, 'known' that there is no life on Mars?
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
- Carl Sagan
But rogues will sill set up on com/net/org and those are the sites that throw up popups, send your credit card info to Bank of Lithuania, etc.
.xxx domains.
Currently Google has a somewhat hidden option about "reporting spam" search results. Perhaps it could be used to "report rogue porn" outside
Google has become so powerful that some companies even sue them whenever their urls suddenly don't appear on a search. I'm sure that with a couple hundred thousand dollars they could as well implement quick filtering of rogue porn based on user reports.
Just by reading the summary, I'm reminded of what someone (was it the FCC?) compared Comcast bittorrent throttling and to horse races. It's all about competition and monopolistic practices.
.xxx suffix was a nice solution IMHO.
I think this porn king, whoever he is and I don't care, isn't worried so much about free peeks on *his* servers but rather about "social networking" style sites and other collections that "take away" profits from him.
So what this is really about is old-model media distribution versus new business models. This guy gets rich by selling content, and obviously he's "suffering" from the thousands of amateur sites available on the web. Welcome to the 21st century.
Going back to the "think of the children" thread, the
It's an interesting idea, but still causes some of the big collateral problems that worms cause. Welchia brought university and corporate networks to their knees because of high traffic just as well as Blaster did
You could program the worm to spread based on a random calculation, and assign it a threshold so the traffic isn't excessive. This would give the worm a very low probability to survive.
However, a better approach IMO would be to get rid of all the Genuine Advantage and activation crack, and allow boxes using old and famous activation keys (such as the "devil's own") to get updated with Windows Update.
It would blow Hawking Radiation
Wow. That just blew my mind.