The recording industry is, and will likely always be, wholly hypocritical in its desire to "protect the artists."
If they were actually protective of the artists, they would make sure that those who actually create the music are protected not only from technology, but also from te nefarious management personnel whose sole task it is to make as much money from someone else's work as humanly pssible.
To the best of my knowledge, artists are not members of the industry associations. That belongs to the labels. Their job is to protect their cash flow, and secondarily the artists.
Take a bunch of 20 year old kids who know nothing about contract law and I'll show you a group about to get screwed by a label.
Artists get screwed by those who make a profit from their own inability to create something of lasting value.
What role does the industry play in getting rights back to the actual artists? Take a look at who wrote Buddy Holly's songs. That'll answer the question.
For a little fun, see exactly where a little Diebold campaign money goes:
from the public record...
Crowther, John Michael Mr.
8/27/2003 $2,000.00
Canton, OH 44708
Diebold Inc. -[Contribution]
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC
D' Amico, Thomas R. Mr.
9/3/2003 $2,000.00
Canton, OH 44718
Diebold Inc. -[Contribution]
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC
and that/.'ers, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Never mind that the Carter Center, which supervises elections around the world, considers our systems fubar.
And yet I do love America still. Curious indeed.
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As to spam getting sent on to another, I've yet top see any evidence of that occuring...theoretically it could, but I see more spam with pure nonsense addresses than any other kind....
And as to a challenge asking for a resonse and then getting challenged, of both user have got C/R, the spam wold go into a cycling death spiral, and be stopped after neither user responded. A solid C/R marks the address as undesirable and kills it upon attempted entry.
So long as we dont have legalistic controls, there will always be a way to beat the system, but C/R has worked with astonishing ease in my case.
And, as I don't want governemtn control over the net, end user filtering seems the most positive response.
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Experience with challenge response systems indicates that nothing ever ends up in the inbox without having been verified by either the system or me (I do confess to looking into my pending box and finding spam there, where it is supposed to be.
If anyhting does miraculously get through, it can be stopped just as easily.
Phishing too gets eliminated- without the response they get nothing.
Ultimately dealing with spam is akin to putting a decent security system on the house. Intruders can be kept at bay by solid security practice.
You know, I cannot count the number of times in a year a need to find a teleprompter fast. And now, lo and behold- I can make one myself!
Holy cats! My webcam sermonettes will never be the same.
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As much as the stuff can drive me crazy, after nearly 15 years of expereince with e-mail, H've discovered that it isn't hard to stop the spam once you put your mind to it.
The Mailblocks challenge/response system has virtually stopped spam dead in its tracks. A $10 a year fee is almost to little for what gets blocked.
Add in a gmail account, and mail is clean as a whistle.
However, there are a few girls on mailblocks that do want to show me their picture....
The greatest impediment to migration remains the level of IT knowledge in the prospective user base. My superiors make their decisions based on information (and mis-information) given to them by Microsoft based vendors.
There exists a compelling need to build the Lnux market (and awareness) within the educational community at all levels- if the book can tell not just an IT person, but also a non-IT person why Linux is truly a compelling choice, migration will make more and more sense. Students working on a Linux desktop will become the corporate users.
So, any treatment of the subject would be enhanced by an awareness that the younger users will become the older users.
I've got a cadre of students who have moved from Windows onto OpenBSD for educational purposes, and they are rapidly becoming advocates of open source and alternative desktop choices.
Don't forget that education is an enterprise as well, often deploying thousands of desktops.
Why is it that the quietest voices in all of this are always they artists themselves? The RIAC and RIAA don't speak for me, and despite having had my copyrights infringed many a time, I've never seen dime one in retribution.
The RIAA for example doesn't give the fine money to those harmed (the artists) but rather to the organisation.
The nature of cell phones these days is that they are basically free- unless Apple markets a product that will be free bundled with service, they won't be able to make a dent in the market. Apple's greatest successes have come when they have truly energized the market or created something "different." There are far too many playrs already in the cell phone market for Apple to gain substantial market share by grabbing at an elusive golden ring.
The iPod was (and is) still a revolutionary product that will eventually come back to the field. I can't see Apple defining the playing field in cell phones.
I've long since come to believe that regardless of the sound science that has shown the entire concept of catching an incoming missle largely impossible (anyone concerned with MIRV's?).
What blows my mind (and should blow yours as well) is that we were a mere two months away from deploying a system that is, clearly defective in nature.
Unless I've missed something, there aren't too many countries out there even capable of throwing an ICBM at us. Those babies are a little bit tough to hide....particulalry during any testing.
We have a probability of a missle shield becasue this has been an agenda item for the Republican party for a good long time. For those of you who haven't taken an econ class lately, this is guns or butter at its finest.
Let's just not piss anyone off without thinking it through first. And, hope that noone's going to throw an ICBM at us.
Because gee, they've been doing that a lot since WWII......
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The recording industry is, and will likely always be, wholly hypocritical in its desire to "protect the artists."
If they were actually protective of the artists, they would make sure that those who actually create the music are protected not only from technology, but also from te nefarious management personnel whose sole task it is to make as much money from someone else's work as humanly pssible.
To the best of my knowledge, artists are not members of the industry associations. That belongs to the labels. Their job is to protect their cash flow, and secondarily the artists.
Take a bunch of 20 year old kids who know nothing about contract law and I'll show you a group about to get screwed by a label.
Artists get screwed by those who make a profit from their own inability to create something of lasting value.
What role does the industry play in getting rights back to the actual artists? Take a look at who wrote Buddy Holly's songs. That'll answer the question.
For a little fun, see exactly where a little Diebold campaign money goes:
/.'ers, is just the tip of the iceberg.
from the public record...
Crowther, John Michael Mr.
8/27/2003 $2,000.00
Canton, OH 44708
Diebold Inc. -[Contribution]
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC
D' Amico, Thomas R. Mr.
9/3/2003 $2,000.00
Canton, OH 44718
Diebold Inc. -[Contribution]
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC
and that
Never mind that the Carter Center, which supervises elections around the world, considers our systems fubar.
And yet I do love America still. Curious indeed.
As to spam getting sent on to another, I've yet top see any evidence of that occuring...theoretically it could, but I see more spam with pure nonsense addresses than any other kind....
And as to a challenge asking for a resonse and then getting challenged, of both user have got C/R, the spam wold go into a cycling death spiral, and be stopped after neither user responded. A solid C/R marks the address as undesirable and kills it upon attempted entry.
So long as we dont have legalistic controls, there will always be a way to beat the system, but C/R has worked with astonishing ease in my case.
And, as I don't want governemtn control over the net, end user filtering seems the most positive response.
Experience with challenge response systems indicates that nothing ever ends up in the inbox without having been verified by either the system or me (I do confess to looking into my pending box and finding spam there, where it is supposed to be.
If anyhting does miraculously get through, it can be stopped just as easily.
Phishing too gets eliminated- without the response they get nothing.
Ultimately dealing with spam is akin to putting a decent security system on the house. Intruders can be kept at bay by solid security practice.
AS to xyz c/r, I confess to ignorance-
You know, I cannot count the number of times in a year a need to find a teleprompter fast. And now, lo and behold- I can make one myself!
Holy cats! My webcam sermonettes will never be the same.
As much as the stuff can drive me crazy, after nearly 15 years of expereince with e-mail, H've discovered that it isn't hard to stop the spam once you put your mind to it.
The Mailblocks challenge/response system has virtually stopped spam dead in its tracks. A $10 a year fee is almost to little for what gets blocked.
Add in a gmail account, and mail is clean as a whistle.
However, there are a few girls on mailblocks that do want to show me their picture....
Bill: Hey Steve!
Steve: Yeah Bill?
Bill: I've got a brilliant idea!
Steve: Again Bill?
Bill: Yeah- let's create software that automatically screws up, then make people pay us to make sure it doesn't crash...
Steve: Uh, didn't they already do that with the Ford Pinto?
Bill: Yeah, and who ever said the American public is smart enough not to get fooled over and over and over again....
(Suddenly, Uma Thurman flies in with a samurai sword...fade to black.)
The greatest impediment to migration remains the level of IT knowledge in the prospective user base. My superiors make their decisions based on information (and mis-information) given to them by Microsoft based vendors.
There exists a compelling need to build the Lnux market (and awareness) within the educational community at all levels- if the book can tell not just an IT person, but also a non-IT person why Linux is truly a compelling choice, migration will make more and more sense. Students working on a Linux desktop will become the corporate users.
So, any treatment of the subject would be enhanced by an awareness that the younger users will become the older users.
I've got a cadre of students who have moved from Windows onto OpenBSD for educational purposes, and they are rapidly becoming advocates of open source and alternative desktop choices.
Don't forget that education is an enterprise as well, often deploying thousands of desktops.
Okay. That's it. I'm selling all of my gold and moving to Cabo St. Lucas. Might as well enjoy the next hundred years while I've still got 'em.
Why is it that the quietest voices in all of this are always they artists themselves? The RIAC and RIAA don't speak for me, and despite having had my copyrights infringed many a time, I've never seen dime one in retribution. The RIAA for example doesn't give the fine money to those harmed (the artists) but rather to the organisation.
The nature of cell phones these days is that they are basically free- unless Apple markets a product that will be free bundled with service, they won't be able to make a dent in the market. Apple's greatest successes have come when they have truly energized the market or created something "different." There are far too many playrs already in the cell phone market for Apple to gain substantial market share by grabbing at an elusive golden ring.
The iPod was (and is) still a revolutionary product that will eventually come back to the field. I can't see Apple defining the playing field in cell phones.
I've long since come to believe that regardless of the sound science that has shown the entire concept of catching an incoming missle largely impossible (anyone concerned with MIRV's?). What blows my mind (and should blow yours as well) is that we were a mere two months away from deploying a system that is, clearly defective in nature. Unless I've missed something, there aren't too many countries out there even capable of throwing an ICBM at us. Those babies are a little bit tough to hide....particulalry during any testing. We have a probability of a missle shield becasue this has been an agenda item for the Republican party for a good long time. For those of you who haven't taken an econ class lately, this is guns or butter at its finest. Let's just not piss anyone off without thinking it through first. And, hope that noone's going to throw an ICBM at us. Because gee, they've been doing that a lot since WWII......