Correct - here's a great page on just what to do in the event you are stopped.
In summary:
1) Keep Your Private Items Out of View 2) Be Courteous & Non-Confrontational 3) Just Say "No" to Warrantless Searches 4) Determine if You Can Leave 5) Do Not Answer Questions without Your Attorney Present 6) Do Not Physically Resist
Some of this really goes to "No good deed goes unpunished". Even if you have nothing to hide and did nothing wrong doesn't mean you should roll over and expose your belly.
Sure - in theory all that's possible. However, when the world's largest retailer (Wal-Mart) will be disabling them at checkout you can bet others will follow. The market will take care of itself. Look - people thought barcodes were going to do the same thing and now you wouldn't do without 'em (everything from UPS to all the food in your kitchen).
Personally I would like to have it in some items. Books and DVD's could be quickly added to my delicious library (currently I scan the barcode), I could manage the inventory in my kitchen much better (which would integrate well with recipe software) and it would be great if I could just put my wine on the racks in my cellar and not have to track it manually.
Take off your tinfoil hat and put on your thinking cap. Let's figure out how to take advantage of a great technology and figure out how to make it safe.
I've long been of the conviction that piracy is not nearly as large of a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be.
I assume that when you wrote this you were thinking "kids downloading songs" == piracy. I agree that it isn't a huge problem and furthermore believe that it could be proven to increase sales due to the additional exposure to new music, the desire for clean copies and so forth.
However, organized crime (particularly in Asia, former Soviet Union and now offshore on boats in international waters [read: no law], there is a very large problem. Anything that exists on disc (music, games, software, movies) is subject to theft and distribution. Traditional Organized Crime via physical goods is still more profitable than electronic business.
I believe the RIAA could make a great deal of headway in its piracy campaign if they would focus attention on the real problem. They would "pick up" the little guys they claim to be the problem and would sway public opinion (who dispise organized crime other than the Soprano's).
I'm hardly advocating for the RIAA here or suggesting that increasing levels of encryption is the way to go (this will never will work with any media that can be heard or seen imho) but don't ignore the fact that you can find any movie (including ones that have never been released to DVD) on the street in NYC. That guy with the blanket full of discs isn't a small businessman - he's working for organized crime.
What's with the trolling final sentence? Give me hotel card articles anytime. Anyhow, if you look at the data from the same site (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml) it shows that the number of major strikes is actually much lower in recent decades than in the past.
BTW, the link in the OP doesn't work (remove the trainling slash).
Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 19 (Imitation) - [snipped down to a list of words I felt were most applicable]
copying, duplication, reproduction, xerox, facsimile, simulation, impersonation, personation, semblance, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, imitator, echo, parrot, mime, imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, match, mimic, simulate, impersonate, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate, mimic.
Finally, in the words of Wordsworth, "like - but oh! how different! "
All phone companies offer a way to turn on and off this (and all other) features. With my local telco we dial *82 then the number to allow the caller id information through. I still don't see a legitimate use for this service. Cool hack, maybe. Useful, not from what I've seen.
Why people don't use disposable accounts is beyond me. Once you start using Spamgourmet you'll never go back. I've been active with them over two years and here's my current stats:
Your message stats: 339 forwarded, 43,796 eaten. You have 155 disposable address(es).
yeah, that's right, thanks to disposable addresses I *haven't* read 43,457 spam emails! When I do need (want) to use my real address, I use SpamSieve (with Entourage X) - very good baysean filter (not sure if it Mac only or not).
I can't find any links right now, but I recently read that only 1-2% of their sales are from the "healthy food" product line. I suppose you could view this as a way for McDonalds to promote their healthy stuff, but since Sony is the one paying for the advertising here, I'm sure they want to get their message on the product that falls into the 98% category.
C'mon now, things are never so black and white (though I like to think they are too). If you extend your argument, murder is covered in the ten commandments (religious beliefs) though I don't think you'll find much support from US citizens to repeal local, state or federal laws regarding the crime and punishment of murder.
Look - grown people can't just do whatever the heck they want. In a vacuum, sure, let people go wild. But when I'm out with my wife and kids on a federal highway, I'll be darned if I'm going to put up with some crackhead driving 100 mph down the road swerving in and out of traffic. As a society we do collectively decide what is regulated.
I agree with your sentiment and agree that adults should be able to decide to gamble. I'm a very big believer in "Congress shall make no law governing blah blah blah". I just think your argument preaches to the believers and doesn't do a thing to attract the people who have moved away from self-responsibility. These people need to be shown that while some governing is good, too much becomes a bad thing. Oh, and as for your argument that " I wasn't aware that I needed people in Washington telling me what is and is not good for me" - that might very well be true *for you*. Sadly, there are a lot of people out there that can't say the same.
First off, it's already been mentioned but I'll say it again - the technology has been in use for a while. I can remember the first time I took advantage of this and watched a whole half hour segment on the Chrysler Crossfire.
The point I really wanted to make though is that a service like Tivo has the ability to change how commercials are delivered and viewed. I'll admin I enjoy watching *some* commercials. If I can watch targeted ads about things I'm interested in (technology, home improvement, food/wine) or could look actually pick commercials in a season-pass sort of way to find truly unique ones (like the Rube-Golberg inspired 'Cog' commercial from Honda) I'd surf commercials out of curiosity. I think the advertising industry could start making stars out of ad directors/designers/producers much like people follow certain individuals who create the shows we watch. Maybe it seems a bit far out, but Tivo has the technology to deliver the next generation of advertising.
--"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Benjamin Franklin
Anyone have ANY reason to believe that the, gosh, well, ARTISTS that recorded these fine tunes will see ANY of the money that's changed hands in these fourteen million transactions??
I'm guessing...not likely.
Or, well, perhaps a handful of huge pop artists will get a small pittance in exchange for singing the praises of "getting compensated fairly" for their work.
I can't wait for the first major-label artist/band to publically ask when their iTunes check will be in the mail...
I too have gotten the "failed" message trying to sign up or sign in to Trepia.
A little sleuthing tells us that Trepia wants to use local port 1110 and connect to 207.44.192.59, port 8206. Now, I can ping trepia.com which also comes out to 207.44.192.59. I don't have time to actually sniff the network packets, so I'll take the word of the other posters that it's clear text, but I'm willing to bet that their authentication/registration server is hosed. Just a guess.
Methinks in their excitement to get this software out to the masses, they didn't stop to put in a little more error-reporting logic on either end. Poo.
So all of the masses that whine and piss and moan and cry about how evil the MPAA and the big movie studios are, and how they are KILLING us all and destroying our freedoms, are the SAME group of people that fall all over themselves to fellate the latest Matrix flick and proudly explain how they dutifully followed all the other sheeple they are so more holier than to fork over their money to the MPAA. Pathetic.
You whiny liberal socialist Slashdotters deserve every corporate ass-raping you get.
NOT ONE POST RECOMMENDING NOT SUPPORTING THIS FILM AND THE MPAA.
I find it intriguing, that moments after this story was posted, the html "wizard" that allows consumers to build their own Nikes was suddenly changed ever so slightly, and I mean ever so slightly - suddenly the textbox to enter your "id" was limited in size to 8 charachters. Just one shy of the 9 chars in the word "sweatshop".
And to prove this was deliberate I checked the cache of my second pc which coincidentally had visited just this site a few days ago. The text limit was 12 chars on what was otherwise identical HTML.
Fascinating.
Unfortunately, I can still think of plenty of regrettable things (to Nike) that fit in 8 chars or less (per shoe).
I recommend we all place an order right this moment for a pair of shoes with "goatse" in the left shoe and ".cx" in the right one.
I just got the best idea for giving credit to a coder where credit is not traditionally given. Create a 2x2 pixel magic dot, hide it somewhere incredibly obscure in the application, and allow the user to use this dot in conjunction with 2 other items to enter a secret "room" or area in the program that credits said coder.
I have this sinking feeling it would be considered cool for years to come....
NO. Artists will NOT get "their money" under this system, to be sure.
Collecting a monthly fee from users hardly counts as actually being able to quantify how many people downloaded a Britney Spears track versus how many people downloaded a Linda Perry track. You wanna guess how much of this "membership" will make it to ANY artist? I'd be SHOCKED if the amount was more than five percent. Consider the observation Courtney Love made awhile back when she talked about how the labels want to pay artists the "club spin rate" for mp3 downloads? For those not in the business, that's a politely way of saying, "shit". And, again, we're talking about that five percent being "shared" amoung the artists whose lives were signed away to the big evil majors participating. And for an artist who gets some "share" of this five percent, let's then take out about eighty percent off the top for lawyer/management/reco-scum costs.
Uh-huh. Artists will get paid under this system. Right. Yeah. Whatever.
Napster totally bent over and took it up the ass here.
as strategic as this may sound, porting the MSOffice in its CURRENT form as you and I know it to Linux is totally contradictory to their plan to try and take over the world with.net, effectively being the one mammoth server for ALL productivity/office apps making each and every one of us nothing more than a SUBSCRIBER to Word or Powerpoint sucking down the precious functionality from.net like a glorified dumb terminal, constantly paying MS for the privledge of using their precious Office.
Porting an installable, standalone MSOffice to Linux doesn't help them get there so I would suggest you're crazy if you think this will ever see the light of day.
Now, they may VERY well be porting some sort of ".net client" stuff to Linux. I'd expect that.
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Shouldn't that be not TOO long and not TOO short?? - Didn't see anyone mention this, hope it isn't redundant.
Correct - here's a great page on just what to do in the event you are stopped.
In summary:
1) Keep Your Private Items Out of View
2) Be Courteous & Non-Confrontational
3) Just Say "No" to Warrantless Searches
4) Determine if You Can Leave
5) Do Not Answer Questions without Your Attorney Present
6) Do Not Physically Resist
Some of this really goes to "No good deed goes unpunished". Even if you have nothing to hide and did nothing wrong doesn't mean you should roll over and expose your belly.
Sure - in theory all that's possible. However, when the world's largest retailer (Wal-Mart) will be disabling them at checkout you can bet others will follow. The market will take care of itself. Look - people thought barcodes were going to do the same thing and now you wouldn't do without 'em (everything from UPS to all the food in your kitchen).
Personally I would like to have it in some items. Books and DVD's could be quickly added to my delicious library (currently I scan the barcode), I could manage the inventory in my kitchen much better (which would integrate well with recipe software) and it would be great if I could just put my wine on the racks in my cellar and not have to track it manually.
Take off your tinfoil hat and put on your thinking cap. Let's figure out how to take advantage of a great technology and figure out how to make it safe.
would sound like this: "Buggy-whip makers concerned that new automobile may hurt industry revenues".
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
However, organized crime (particularly in Asia, former Soviet Union and now offshore on boats in international waters [read: no law], there is a very large problem. Anything that exists on disc (music, games, software, movies) is subject to theft and distribution. Traditional Organized Crime via physical goods is still more profitable than electronic business.
I believe the RIAA could make a great deal of headway in its piracy campaign if they would focus attention on the real problem. They would "pick up" the little guys they claim to be the problem and would sway public opinion (who dispise organized crime other than the Soprano's).
I'm hardly advocating for the RIAA here or suggesting that increasing levels of encryption is the way to go (this will never will work with any media that can be heard or seen imho) but don't ignore the fact that you can find any movie (including ones that have never been released to DVD) on the street in NYC. That guy with the blanket full of discs isn't a small businessman - he's working for organized crime.
What's with the trolling final sentence? Give me hotel card articles anytime. Anyhow, if you look at the data from the same site (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml) it shows that the number of major strikes is actually much lower in recent decades than in the past.
BTW, the link in the OP doesn't work (remove the trainling slash).
Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 19 (Imitation) - [snipped down to a list of words I felt were most applicable]
copying, duplication, reproduction, xerox, facsimile, simulation, impersonation, personation, semblance, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, imitator, echo, parrot, mime, imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, match, mimic, simulate, impersonate, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate, mimic.
Finally, in the words of Wordsworth, "like - but oh! how different! "
Thanks to the Project Gutenberg thesaurus
All phone companies offer a way to turn on and off this (and all other) features. With my local telco we dial *82 then the number to allow the caller id information through. I still don't see a legitimate use for this service. Cool hack, maybe. Useful, not from what I've seen.
Why people don't use disposable accounts is beyond me. Once you start using Spamgourmet you'll never go back. I've been active with them over two years and here's my current stats:
Your message stats: 339 forwarded, 43,796 eaten. You have 155 disposable address(es).
yeah, that's right, thanks to disposable addresses I *haven't* read 43,457 spam emails! When I do need (want) to use my real address, I use SpamSieve (with Entourage X) - very good baysean filter (not sure if it Mac only or not).
I can't find any links right now, but I recently read that only 1-2% of their sales are from the "healthy food" product line. I suppose you could view this as a way for McDonalds to promote their healthy stuff, but since Sony is the one paying for the advertising here, I'm sure they want to get their message on the product that falls into the 98% category.
Try to understand the math involved to do this.
(Link goes to footage of Randy Johnson hitting a bird on a fastball).
This isn't math - this is Chaos Theory!
C'mon now, things are never so black and white (though I like to think they are too). If you extend your argument, murder is covered in the ten commandments (religious beliefs) though I don't think you'll find much support from US citizens to repeal local, state or federal laws regarding the crime and punishment of murder.
Look - grown people can't just do whatever the heck they want. In a vacuum, sure, let people go wild. But when I'm out with my wife and kids on a federal highway, I'll be darned if I'm going to put up with some crackhead driving 100 mph down the road swerving in and out of traffic. As a society we do collectively decide what is regulated.
I agree with your sentiment and agree that adults should be able to decide to gamble. I'm a very big believer in "Congress shall make no law governing blah blah blah". I just think your argument preaches to the believers and doesn't do a thing to attract the people who have moved away from self-responsibility. These people need to be shown that while some governing is good, too much becomes a bad thing. Oh, and as for your argument that " I wasn't aware that I needed people in Washington telling me what is and is not good for me" - that might very well be true *for you*. Sadly, there are a lot of people out there that can't say the same.
First off, it's already been mentioned but I'll say it again - the technology has been in use for a while. I can remember the first time I took advantage of this and watched a whole half hour segment on the Chrysler Crossfire.
The point I really wanted to make though is that a service like Tivo has the ability to change how commercials are delivered and viewed. I'll admin I enjoy watching *some* commercials. If I can watch targeted ads about things I'm interested in (technology, home improvement, food/wine) or could look actually pick commercials in a season-pass sort of way to find truly unique ones (like the Rube-Golberg inspired 'Cog' commercial from Honda) I'd surf commercials out of curiosity. I think the advertising industry could start making stars out of ad directors/designers/producers much like people follow certain individuals who create the shows we watch. Maybe it seems a bit far out, but Tivo has the technology to deliver the next generation of advertising.
--"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Benjamin Franklin
wow, this very post then, must be in error. Egads. Actually, my very existance must be in error!
But..but...
Why didn't Sega catch all this heat years ago over Michael Jackson's Moonwalker game?
Anyone have ANY reason to believe that the, gosh, well, ARTISTS that recorded these fine tunes will see ANY of the money that's changed hands in these fourteen million transactions??
I'm guessing...not likely.
Or, well, perhaps a handful of huge pop artists will get a small pittance in exchange for singing the praises of "getting compensated fairly" for their work.
I can't wait for the first major-label artist/band to publically ask when their iTunes check will be in the mail...
I too have gotten the "failed" message trying to sign up or sign in to Trepia.
A little sleuthing tells us that Trepia wants to use local port 1110 and connect to 207.44.192.59, port 8206. Now, I can ping trepia.com which also comes out to 207.44.192.59. I don't have time to actually sniff the network packets, so I'll take the word of the other posters that it's clear text, but I'm willing to bet that their authentication/registration server is hosed. Just a guess.
Methinks in their excitement to get this software out to the masses, they didn't stop to put in a little more error-reporting logic on either end. Poo.
So all of the masses that whine and piss and moan and cry about how evil the MPAA and the big movie studios are, and how they are KILLING us all and destroying our freedoms, are the SAME group of people that fall all over themselves to fellate the latest Matrix flick and proudly explain how they dutifully followed all the other sheeple they are so more holier than to fork over their money to the MPAA. Pathetic.
You whiny liberal socialist Slashdotters deserve every corporate ass-raping you get.
NOT ONE POST RECOMMENDING NOT SUPPORTING THIS FILM AND THE MPAA.
Not one.
Hypocrites.
W00t!
Is StarOffice still a full suite only or can I download and use individual components?
Internet Radio!!!!
UltraRadio
I find it intriguing, that moments after this story was posted, the html "wizard" that allows consumers to build their own Nikes was suddenly changed ever so slightly, and I mean ever so slightly - suddenly the textbox to enter your "id" was limited in size to 8 charachters. Just one shy of the 9 chars in the word "sweatshop".
And to prove this was deliberate I checked the cache of my second pc which coincidentally had visited just this site a few days ago. The text limit was 12 chars on what was otherwise identical HTML.
Fascinating.
Unfortunately, I can still think of plenty of regrettable things (to Nike) that fit in 8 chars or less (per shoe).
I recommend we all place an order right this moment for a pair of shoes with "goatse" in the left shoe and ".cx" in the right one.
I just got the best idea for giving credit to a coder where credit is not traditionally given. Create a 2x2 pixel magic dot, hide it somewhere incredibly obscure in the application, and allow the user to use this dot in conjunction with 2 other items to enter a secret "room" or area in the program that credits said coder.
I have this sinking feeling it would be considered cool for years to come....
WANTED: Slashdot userid under 1000, will pay big bucks ;^)
Are you serious?
NO. Artists will NOT get "their money" under this system, to be sure.
Collecting a monthly fee from users hardly counts as actually being able to quantify how many people downloaded a Britney Spears track versus how many people downloaded a Linda Perry track. You wanna guess how much of this "membership" will make it to ANY artist? I'd be SHOCKED if the amount was more than five percent. Consider the observation Courtney Love made awhile back when she talked about how the labels want to pay artists the "club spin rate" for mp3 downloads? For those not in the business, that's a politely way of saying, "shit". And, again, we're talking about that five percent being "shared" amoung the artists whose lives were signed away to the big evil majors participating. And for an artist who gets some "share" of this five percent, let's then take out about eighty percent off the top for lawyer/management/reco-scum costs.
Uh-huh. Artists will get paid under this system. Right. Yeah. Whatever.
Napster totally bent over and took it up the ass here.
as strategic as this may sound, porting the MSOffice in its CURRENT form as you and I know it to Linux is totally contradictory to their plan to try and take over the world with .net, effectively being the one mammoth server for ALL productivity /office apps making each and every one of us nothing more than a SUBSCRIBER to Word or Powerpoint sucking down the precious functionality from .net like a glorified dumb terminal, constantly paying MS for the privledge of using their precious Office.
Porting an installable, standalone MSOffice to Linux doesn't help them get there so I would suggest you're crazy if you think this will ever see the light of day.
Now, they may VERY well be porting some sort of ".net client" stuff to Linux. I'd expect that.