What kind of sites are you guys browsing? I have never run an adblocker in my life, I use Firefox, I really have little to no complaints.
Just like SPAM, illicit drugs, and NYSNC, I blame stupid consumers for their creation.
Someone is trying to buy V1agra, snort something, and listen to pop music.
If obnoxious advertisements did not work we would not see them.
I definitely stand by my first sentience, but honestly the second portion started out as joke.
However I got to thinking about it a bit more and the idea actually sounded viable and exciting.
I am not sure I am the person to make it happen, but I am open to exploring it and thank you for the encouragement.
The website drugstarter.com sounds more like a place to get instructions on doing illicit drugs, hence my attempt at humor.
Perhaps pharmstarter.com or pharmfunder.com would better convey the direction of the site.
Addressing your suggestions:
I love the concept of Bitcoins, still do not quite understand how they work technically, often think they are treated as a joke on Slashdot.
Forgive me for asking if you are serious about using Bitcoin. If so why Bitcoin over other forms of payment such as Kickstarter using Amazon Payments?
Based on my proposed model there would not really be a business model for profit.
Once the drug was completed it would be released into public domain for anyone to produce, no licensing, no avenue for profit other than mass production.
Therefore the primary incentive to invest is altruism.
The primary goal is to produce drugs as cheaply as possibly, unencumbered by licensing that artificially inflates the cost of the drugs sometimes out of the price range of the people that need them the most.
People turn over money to cancer research all the time, so I figure they could throw some at producing the drugs cheaper.
Unfortunately, if drugstarter.com went with the for profit model, it seems it would be no better than big PharmCo's.
Haha, if you had said that to me a few months ago I would have thought you were joking.
But I wanted to to trade some things between two steam accounts and it was annoying that I needed two computers.
I ended up using VNC to remote control the second game on the second computer all from one computer.
Of course VNC would not be much of an option for playing the actual game though do to the delay.
I wonder what games are being played that require so little focus that you can play two at once?
And even if you could split your visual attention across to screens the physical inputs would still be restricted to one game at a time
Well perhaps a turn based game where you take a turn and wait, and while waiting you play the second game.
I guess the solution would be to group games you play at the same time in one Steam account. If you could launch two accounts on one computer then you would not be sharing the game with someone else at that time anyway. Of course if you had three games your rotate between, you want to play two of them at the same time but allow someone else to play the third game on another computer, then you would have an issue.
I say the solution is still to have separate accounts for each game and multiple computers matching the number of games you want to play simultaneously. If a gamer wants to play three games at once, then rig up three computers, they are cheap enough and that gamer is obviously dedicated enough to their gaming to afford such luxury.
I just start a new Steam account for each game I buy, while of course restricted as always to only one license per game, all my games can be played at the same time on different computers.
Two downsides I have found are having to log out and back in to bring up a different game and maintaining multiple friend lists. Neither problem is a huge issue to me but could be more annoying to others.
Which drone crashed in Iran? My understanding is that it made a perfect landing and was completely intact for the Iranians to parade around on television. Sure it did not land where it was supposed to, but there was no crashing last I heard. Would a human pilot have done any better with his sensors and position data jammed? I guess no human pilot has ever made an emergency landing in enemy territory before.
If the planes flown in 9/11 had been fully automated then the terrorists could not have commandeered them the same way. Now every system will be ripe for abuse in some way, is it easier to hack a remote controlled plane or knock down the cockpit door and take out a pilot?
All I know is that computers are getting much better at flying planes than humans. Look at the 2009 Air France crash, the pilots ignored the warnings by the computer and did just the opposite of what they warnings told them and crashed the plane. There are plenty of examples of pilots ignoring the computer warnings and crashing. I am sure there are plenty of examples of the computer being wrong and the human pilot correcting that as well, but once the safety statistics and economics swing in favor of automation that is where we will be moving. There will always be risks, we will just be reducing them.
You call it a "magnet link", but it does not "link" to anything correct? It just contains information, has and size, about some file that is out there somewhere.
On a side note I am curious how you get a hold of the torrent without a link and only a magnet file?
But back to my question that I do not have an answer for but you have helped me clarify even further thank you:
Are sites containing strictly Magnet URIs, which I assume provide no resources for locating the tracker nor piers that would provide file, illegal or legal in the US?
If I sell the site as an anti-piracy means, provide a little file scanner that allows users to make sure their devices are "free" of pirated files, does that make it legit?
Take it one step further can I link the users back to Amazon as a way to replace their illegal files with legit ones and grab a commission?
But a torrent site will point me to a tracker which can point me to piers who are seeding the file.
I believe torrent index sites in the US have all been shut down and pushed out.
What I am proposing is a bit less than the torrent, only the file has and files size portion, but no information on how to obtain the file.
If the site is simply compiling a list of pirated files in the wild, then is it doing wrong?
Arguably the list could be sold in a way for consumers to verify that a file is of pirate origins and they should avoid it, assuming the consumer wants to make sure they are obtaining legal wares.
While of course it could be used for identifying the existence of a pirated file and searching it out.
How about an index of file hashes and file sizes somewhere that you can verify the todays.hot.movie.avi file against? Or would that be illegal to host in the US?
ARM Holdings does seem like one of the good guys from what little I know, especially compared how Intel seems to horde the x86 architecture rights and keep others out. With your knowledge and experience, do you think ARM Holdings could survive in a world with no patent or other IP laws? I would still imagine companies could enter into contract license agreements, like ARM could say to TI: we will give you the latest ARM design for some upfront money and a cut for each piece of silicon you produce. Now TI could find a way to get the ARM designs, perhaps Samsung would leak them, or they could reverse engineer a Tegra chip; but most likely they would be behind already and the competitors who pay for them would protect the design documents from ARM from leaking. But the damage to ARM could come from a competitor advancing the ARM architecture, using what would be protected by patents today, and selling it. Or could ARM be open source and survive, would there be an advantage to them in anyway?
There's something that seems unsavory and wasteful about a business environment in which a company's stock value "fluctuates sharply on its successes and failures in patent litigation and licensing."
If ARM holdings licensing came into question it would probably destroy the company's stock. I am loving the way the ARM architecture is handled, a lot more competition than x86, and it seems to be advancing quickly now that it has becoming popular.
I was trying to imagine today if ARM holdings could survive in a world without IP laws. I think yes it could. It seems that getting a hold of ARM holdings processor plans, from something like bittorrent, would not be super useful even to Texas Instruments, Samsung, or Nvidia engineers. ARM works with them to implement the design, so the payment agreement would probably just be altered slightly and ARM would have to protect its disclosure of ARM architecture details a little more closely. Perhaps ARM would morph more into a standards body and not be as profitable though? I am curious what someone with more info on the topic can share please!
In the makerbot store there are ABS, PLA, and water soluble PVA filament spools.
I assume ABS is the plastic we are used to seeing everywhere that is fairly durable and water proof and that the water soluble PVA is the corn product he talked about in the video.
Why do you think all cars have the same basic layout and conform to the laws of the land?
With cars we have compact, suvs, pick-ups, 18 wheelers...They all conform to certain standards and perform the same basic function: transporting something from one place to another along the same road.
Android handsets represent a diverse array of cars, we have cheap compact Android handsets, we have sporty do it all handsets, we have handsets with physical keyboards fit for a certain utility, and we have the Samsung Note two-handset. But they all conform to certain standards, Android APIs and gsm/cdma/wifi/bluetooth...
Now app developers are like tire, radio, seat cover, rear-view dice makers for cars. With the iPhone like car you know that every seat in the car is the same, the rear-view mirror is always the same, the radio slot is the same, and the tire nuts are in the same place for the three models out there. The three models are extremely popular with about 30% market share, but they are limited in how much you can customize them and still sell them on the special super ad promoted iPhone car market vs the underground jailbroken one. It is understandably easier for developers to hit that 30% of the market than the Android market.
Now with the Android cars, a pair of dice may fit on the rear-view mirror, but they may not always look the best in certain models. There may be a standard radio slot, but not every Android car adopts that standard requiring a little extra work to get that radio installed, and some Android cars allow for giant monster wheels.
You may want a car that will just get the job done, do just about everything well, and you do not have to worry much about it, so you grab an iPhone car. Yeah maybe you can get some lumber home from the hardware store in the iPhone car which is sedan like, but an Android pick-up truck is much more suited for the task with someone who is hauling lumber everyday. Or perhaps you are tired of paying extra to be able to tow something behind your iPhone car, so you jailbreak it, or you get an Android car that natively allows you to tether things behind it.
The real problem are the toll booth operators of the cell phone world. It would be like if you could only use your iPhone car on the roads owned by the toll booth operator who sold it to you. Now the four major operators have roads just about everywhere, but some roads are worse than other, fewer lanes, pot holes, and some times there is only one good toll booth operator in the area you primarily drive and you are stuck with them.
Unfortunately despite its commanding dominance and market sway, Apple has yet to really free us from the tollbooth operators, but has loosened them a bit. Google seemed to be flirting with upsetting them, but has since backed off. Of course it is really in neither of their best interests perhaps to break up those cartels.
What we really need is freedom like with PC cars in the phone market. The OS would be like the engine. Some Android phones allow us to swap out the engine, and some manufacturers even provide engine upgrades. But other manufacturers, lock the engine in the car and do not allow us to load custom engines inside. This forces us to ditch old cars for new ones with the latest engine.
Do I get a carbon fiber bike with disc wheels and one of those helmets that makes you look like a smurf?
I have completed three Ironman races, they have a good bike ride in them.
Unfortunately I only averaged about 16-18 mph, not quite 24 mph, but I was saving something for the marathon afterwards.
But dope me up and maybe I could ride Alpe D' Huez in the pack!
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Randomize the keypad layout, that would solve the finger smudge pattern issue.
What kind of sites are you guys browsing? I have never run an adblocker in my life, I use Firefox, I really have little to no complaints.
Just like SPAM, illicit drugs, and NYSNC, I blame stupid consumers for their creation.
Someone is trying to buy V1agra, snort something, and listen to pop music.
If obnoxious advertisements did not work we would not see them.
I definitely stand by my first sentience, but honestly the second portion started out as joke.
However I got to thinking about it a bit more and the idea actually sounded viable and exciting.
I am not sure I am the person to make it happen, but I am open to exploring it and thank you for the encouragement.
The website drugstarter.com sounds more like a place to get instructions on doing illicit drugs, hence my attempt at humor.
Perhaps pharmstarter.com or pharmfunder.com would better convey the direction of the site.
Addressing your suggestions:
I love the concept of Bitcoins, still do not quite understand how they work technically, often think they are treated as a joke on Slashdot.
Forgive me for asking if you are serious about using Bitcoin. If so why Bitcoin over other forms of payment such as Kickstarter using Amazon Payments?
Based on my proposed model there would not really be a business model for profit.
Once the drug was completed it would be released into public domain for anyone to produce, no licensing, no avenue for profit other than mass production.
Therefore the primary incentive to invest is altruism.
The primary goal is to produce drugs as cheaply as possibly, unencumbered by licensing that artificially inflates the cost of the drugs sometimes out of the price range of the people that need them the most.
People turn over money to cancer research all the time, so I figure they could throw some at producing the drugs cheaper.
Unfortunately, if drugstarter.com went with the for profit model, it seems it would be no better than big PharmCo's.
Drug research, like all IP, should be funded up front and released with an open license.
I have started a web page just for such funding: drugstarter.com.
The site is kind of like kickstarter, but it is for funding a lab to develop drugs to fight diseases.
The lab raises the funds up front, then releases the drug to the public domain upon completion.
No big PharmCo or government involvement to mess things up.
There is always a choice, but sometimes they are both bad.
Haha, if you had said that to me a few months ago I would have thought you were joking.
But I wanted to to trade some things between two steam accounts and it was annoying that I needed two computers.
I ended up using VNC to remote control the second game on the second computer all from one computer.
Of course VNC would not be much of an option for playing the actual game though do to the delay.
I wonder what games are being played that require so little focus that you can play two at once?
And even if you could split your visual attention across to screens the physical inputs would still be restricted to one game at a time
Well perhaps a turn based game where you take a turn and wait, and while waiting you play the second game.
I guess the solution would be to group games you play at the same time in one Steam account. If you could launch two accounts on one computer then you would not be sharing the game with someone else at that time anyway. Of course if you had three games your rotate between, you want to play two of them at the same time but allow someone else to play the third game on another computer, then you would have an issue.
I say the solution is still to have separate accounts for each game and multiple computers matching the number of games you want to play simultaneously. If a gamer wants to play three games at once, then rig up three computers, they are cheap enough and that gamer is obviously dedicated enough to their gaming to afford such luxury.
I just start a new Steam account for each game I buy, while of course restricted as always to only one license per game, all my games can be played at the same time on different computers.
Two downsides I have found are having to log out and back in to bring up a different game and maintaining multiple friend lists. Neither problem is a huge issue to me but could be more annoying to others.
It is you Sheldon!
Are you originally from Texas and do you have a roommate named Leonard?
Which drone crashed in Iran? My understanding is that it made a perfect landing and was completely intact for the Iranians to parade around on television. Sure it did not land where it was supposed to, but there was no crashing last I heard. Would a human pilot have done any better with his sensors and position data jammed? I guess no human pilot has ever made an emergency landing in enemy territory before.
If the planes flown in 9/11 had been fully automated then the terrorists could not have commandeered them the same way. Now every system will be ripe for abuse in some way, is it easier to hack a remote controlled plane or knock down the cockpit door and take out a pilot?
All I know is that computers are getting much better at flying planes than humans. Look at the 2009 Air France crash, the pilots ignored the warnings by the computer and did just the opposite of what they warnings told them and crashed the plane. There are plenty of examples of pilots ignoring the computer warnings and crashing. I am sure there are plenty of examples of the computer being wrong and the human pilot correcting that as well, but once the safety statistics and economics swing in favor of automation that is where we will be moving. There will always be risks, we will just be reducing them.
You call it a "magnet link", but it does not "link" to anything correct? It just contains information, has and size, about some file that is out there somewhere.
On a side note I am curious how you get a hold of the torrent without a link and only a magnet file?
But back to my question that I do not have an answer for but you have helped me clarify even further thank you:
Are sites containing strictly Magnet URIs, which I assume provide no resources for locating the tracker nor piers that would provide file, illegal or legal in the US?
If I sell the site as an anti-piracy means, provide a little file scanner that allows users to make sure their devices are "free" of pirated files, does that make it legit?
Take it one step further can I link the users back to Amazon as a way to replace their illegal files with legit ones and grab a commission?
But a torrent site will point me to a tracker which can point me to piers who are seeding the file.
I believe torrent index sites in the US have all been shut down and pushed out.
What I am proposing is a bit less than the torrent, only the file has and files size portion, but no information on how to obtain the file.
If the site is simply compiling a list of pirated files in the wild, then is it doing wrong?
Arguably the list could be sold in a way for consumers to verify that a file is of pirate origins and they should avoid it, assuming the consumer wants to make sure they are obtaining legal wares.
While of course it could be used for identifying the existence of a pirated file and searching it out.
How about an index of file hashes and file sizes somewhere that you can verify the todays.hot.movie.avi file against? Or would that be illegal to host in the US?
I am not convinced. I demand you prove it is impossible to prove something is negative. Sorry I can only offer you $10 if you succeed.
See Google Maps lures in unsuspecting users, whose eye balls are then sold to advertisers. Now these eye balls are not sold for free by any means.
I guess I am a terrorist, where do I turn myself in?
ARM Holdings does seem like one of the good guys from what little I know, especially compared how Intel seems to horde the x86 architecture rights and keep others out. With your knowledge and experience, do you think ARM Holdings could survive in a world with no patent or other IP laws? I would still imagine companies could enter into contract license agreements, like ARM could say to TI: we will give you the latest ARM design for some upfront money and a cut for each piece of silicon you produce. Now TI could find a way to get the ARM designs, perhaps Samsung would leak them, or they could reverse engineer a Tegra chip; but most likely they would be behind already and the competitors who pay for them would protect the design documents from ARM from leaking. But the damage to ARM could come from a competitor advancing the ARM architecture, using what would be protected by patents today, and selling it. Or could ARM be open source and survive, would there be an advantage to them in anyway?
While the registry trick was a nice find, why not just use Internet Explorer to set the wallpaper to something else?
There's something that seems unsavory and wasteful about a business environment in which a company's stock value "fluctuates sharply on its successes and failures in patent litigation and licensing."
If ARM holdings licensing came into question it would probably destroy the company's stock. I am loving the way the ARM architecture is handled, a lot more competition than x86, and it seems to be advancing quickly now that it has becoming popular.
I was trying to imagine today if ARM holdings could survive in a world without IP laws. I think yes it could. It seems that getting a hold of ARM holdings processor plans, from something like bittorrent, would not be super useful even to Texas Instruments, Samsung, or Nvidia engineers. ARM works with them to implement the design, so the payment agreement would probably just be altered slightly and ARM would have to protect its disclosure of ARM architecture details a little more closely. Perhaps ARM would morph more into a standards body and not be as profitable though? I am curious what someone with more info on the topic can share please!
I will work for a $1 as CEO of Yahoo!
I am looking for a resume builder.
DRM keeps coming back and failing as well...
In the makerbot store there are ABS, PLA, and water soluble PVA filament spools.
I assume ABS is the plastic we are used to seeing everywhere that is fairly durable and water proof and that the water soluble PVA is the corn product he talked about in the video.
Why do you think all cars have the same basic layout and conform to the laws of the land?
With cars we have compact, suvs, pick-ups, 18 wheelers...They all conform to certain standards and perform the same basic function: transporting something from one place to another along the same road.
Android handsets represent a diverse array of cars, we have cheap compact Android handsets, we have sporty do it all handsets, we have handsets with physical keyboards fit for a certain utility, and we have the Samsung Note two-handset. But they all conform to certain standards, Android APIs and gsm/cdma/wifi/bluetooth...
Now app developers are like tire, radio, seat cover, rear-view dice makers for cars. With the iPhone like car you know that every seat in the car is the same, the rear-view mirror is always the same, the radio slot is the same, and the tire nuts are in the same place for the three models out there. The three models are extremely popular with about 30% market share, but they are limited in how much you can customize them and still sell them on the special super ad promoted iPhone car market vs the underground jailbroken one. It is understandably easier for developers to hit that 30% of the market than the Android market.
Now with the Android cars, a pair of dice may fit on the rear-view mirror, but they may not always look the best in certain models. There may be a standard radio slot, but not every Android car adopts that standard requiring a little extra work to get that radio installed, and some Android cars allow for giant monster wheels.
You may want a car that will just get the job done, do just about everything well, and you do not have to worry much about it, so you grab an iPhone car. Yeah maybe you can get some lumber home from the hardware store in the iPhone car which is sedan like, but an Android pick-up truck is much more suited for the task with someone who is hauling lumber everyday. Or perhaps you are tired of paying extra to be able to tow something behind your iPhone car, so you jailbreak it, or you get an Android car that natively allows you to tether things behind it.
The real problem are the toll booth operators of the cell phone world. It would be like if you could only use your iPhone car on the roads owned by the toll booth operator who sold it to you. Now the four major operators have roads just about everywhere, but some roads are worse than other, fewer lanes, pot holes, and some times there is only one good toll booth operator in the area you primarily drive and you are stuck with them.
Unfortunately despite its commanding dominance and market sway, Apple has yet to really free us from the tollbooth operators, but has loosened them a bit. Google seemed to be flirting with upsetting them, but has since backed off. Of course it is really in neither of their best interests perhaps to break up those cartels.
What we really need is freedom like with PC cars in the phone market. The OS would be like the engine. Some Android phones allow us to swap out the engine, and some manufacturers even provide engine upgrades. But other manufacturers, lock the engine in the car and do not allow us to load custom engines inside. This forces us to ditch old cars for new ones with the latest engine.
Okay I may be pushing the analogy now...
Your examples only proves my point though.
Doping has come a long way thanks to those brave souls who are making it safer for 16 year olds.
The more we suppress doping, the longer it will take to get safe.
Do I get a carbon fiber bike with disc wheels and one of those helmets that makes you look like a smurf?
I have completed three Ironman races, they have a good bike ride in them.
Unfortunately I only averaged about 16-18 mph, not quite 24 mph, but I was saving something for the marathon afterwards.
But dope me up and maybe I could ride Alpe D' Huez in the pack!