What I've thought would be interesting to do is to, especially for artists that shack up with RIAA is this:
1. Find out their mailing address. 2. (Anonymously) send them a dollar (or another value based on the price of the CD/whatever) for every song of theirs that I've pirated (obviously, I've never pirated, so I couldn't use this idea). 3. Tell them that they can split the money with the RIAA/label/whomever any way they wanted, and that I considered all the music of theirs that I have paid for. Tell the RIAA/label/whomever what I've done. 4. Sit back and enjoy. . . . 5. ??? 6. Profit!
I don't normally discuss the 2nd Amendment on this here interweb thingy, either. Generally too inflammatory. But something struck me.
Well, there's still the fact that every male citizen between the ages of 17 and 45 is a member of the militia of the United States of America. You're probably a member yourself (making some assumptions about members of this site's typical demographic). It's law. See 10 USC 13, S.311.
Allow me to examine your hypothetical situation and stipulation. Males over 45, and females of any age would then be, approximately, screwed. So while that would circumvent the argument that the intent was for only state and local militia to have unfettered access to guns for 17 to 45 year old males, it doesn't present a clear-cut answer to the dispute about universal access to guns.
If it becomes trivial to pirate the OS, and a significant number of people do that instead of buying a mac
While I suspect that piracy will occur, I'm not sure it would significantly impact their sales figures. As is, most people who purchase Macs are subjects of the Apple Effect (characterized by unwavering and (potentially unjustified?) fanaticism for all things Apple). Opening up OSX to the x86 architecture will no doubt sell OSX to some of those who don't want to be tied to proprietary hardware, but most piracy, I believe, will occur in situations where the user wouldn't've bought a Mac/OSX in any case. So while it may affect their bottom line, I don't see it being as big an issue as it is for MS.
Read an L. Ron Hubbard (anything from the Mission Earth series) or anything by Danielle Steele. That should take some of the sting out of the sacrilege.
touché.
though i don't know that those could legitimately be considered 'books,' per se.
OMG, you're right! The law that bans TV capture cards to "plug the analog hole" should also outlaw paper books. Only by forcing all content to be protected by DRM can we protect the artists!
and eyes! they could be used to encode the information in memories for later reproduction by hand or transmission via description!
just out of curiousity, have you never met a geek with too much time on their hands?;)
many ebooks you can find these days on P2P and so forth were never released as ebooks. cut, scan, OCR, assemble, distribute.
i mean, i don't have that kind of free time, and i see it as sacrilege to harm a book (though i suppose it could be done, albeit with more difficulty without cutting the book up), but i won't say whether i have personal electronic copies of books i own, y'know?
Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?! . . . . . . . . . I don't want my search results seen by the government (even though they won't reveal anything but a strange fascination with various song lyrics, samba olek, scrubs, and some sort of land cow)! Especially for things like infringing on the First Amendment or making it harder for poor little Jimmy to see MILFs and other NakedLadies(TM)!
Yes, pennies are now 97.5% zinc, with a 2.5% copper coating. However...
At 2.5g per penny, with a 2.5% copper composition, with the minting of 7,700,050,500 pennies in 2005, you've got around 480 metric tons of copper tied up in the creation of pennies alone in the past year. Figures for 2003 and 2004 are around 430 metric tons. Coin minting, in general, tends to increase, so if/when we exceed 8 billion pennies, we'll top 500 metric tons.
Moreover, as referenced in the subject here, it's interesting to note that the Nickel is 75% copper, the dime, quarter, and half-dollar are nearly 92% copper, and the dollar coin is 88.5% copper.
Now, 500 metric tons of copper a year for pennies isn't a lot in the face of 1.6 billion, but I'm not sure I'd call it a trivial amount, either.
Now, I'm not saying I think I'm afraid of copper running out. I'm just saying we use a fair bit here in the US to mint coins.
just as a point of reference, Microsoft bought GIANT AntiSpyware and rebranded it. while not necessarily relevant to the meat of the question, i'm a pedant, and more importantly, i think that the acquisition, free distribution, and integration of the product into Vista could be seen as steps forward when it comes to Microsoft's ostensible commitment to creating a secure environment, even if their initial efforts were less successful than one might hope.
As a former PC tech, I have many of the usual horror stories regarding tens of thousands of spyware components on machines. Now, while I never objected too strongly to users having lots of spyware, as it helped pay my salary, I appreciated the fact that Microsoft purchased and made MSAntiSpyware available free. I'm also glad that Vista will be deployed with Windows Defender, along with automatic updates, and that IE will ship with security improvements, such as 'protected mode' and ActiveX controls disabled by default.
However, to me, this seems only half of the real battle when it comes to spyware (and other security issues). The other half, in my experience (And in GI Joe's, apparently), is knowledge. Education. I have noted that some systems, even heavily used systems, without tools like MSAntiSpyware, AdAware, and Spybot installed can have very little spyware, whereas even some systems with such tools can become heavily infested.
So my question is this: especially given that many of the users of Windows are less tech savvy than would be preferable, are there any plans to address the other side of the equation in Vista (or elsewhere), for security issues like spyware? A Security Tour, recommendations, help features, tutorials, etc?
I think the jokes go overboard, too. I mean, I love to bash France as much as the next guy, but...yeah.
However, in point of fact, Napoleone Buonaparte was born on Corsica, right after it was turned over to France by the Republic of Genoa. I believe his family were minor nobles of Italian/Genoan origin. So while he was technically a French citizen (and even Emperor of France), and under his command, the French were a force to be reckoned with, one could make the argument that his victories weren't necessarily precisely French victories.
What I was told by my multi-patent-holding, brilliant, ubergeek, law-experienced CS professor back in college is that most companies specifically don't look for patents on what they're going to do, since then, the onus is on the company with the patent to bring litigation and prove that their patented technology is being used. If you do a patent search, and find one, then you have a legal obligation to avoid using the patent/obtain a license, etc.
Apparently, a patent isn't worth much if you can't afford to bring litigation against people who might be violating it. If a company thinks it can win in court or bankrupt you with legal expenses for less than licensing the technology will cost, that's probably what's going to happen.
...but will it run Linux? Will it have DRM support? In Soviet Russia... I, for one, will welcome our new phone overlords All Your Calls Are Belong To Us Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
It would be awfully silly of Apple to launch their own network. Infrastructure costs, even if they leased frequencies from other companies, would be rather ridiculous, especially if they wanted to compete with the major carriers. I suspect most Macaholics would be annoyed if they signed up with AppleWireless, and didn'thave pretty universal coverage. Even were they to have as limited coverage as T-Mobile, however, it'd be expensive.
And which technology would they use? GSM, which is supposed to be global, or CDMA, which is slightly superior, but not universal? And if it's a 'one phone' network, what kind of phone would it be? A flip phone, with all the structural problems inherent therein, but the increased popularity? A candybar phone, with the more solid construction, but exposure and tendancy towards lower sound quality?
More importantly, wireless markets have done a fair bit of leveling in the past few years, with most new contracts being switches between companies. So at this point, we're talking about trying to take customers away mostly from Verizon and AT&TCingular. A lot of people would be loathe to switch and lose the intra-network calling capabilities. And people can't switch all at once, since most people renew contracts and have different expiration dates.
Making their own phone? I could see that--though I suspect that Apple would do like it did with the iPod, and farm out a lot of the work. Their own network? I don't think so.
Well, the Turion64/Taylor Dual Core is slated to compete with the Yonah, from what I understand. And I'm not just talking the iMac market. I'm talking long-haul, market wide.
I'm by no means a processor expert, especially of late. I'm guess I'm what you might call an AMD fanboy. 'Cause....ya know.....AMD is good. Mobile computing platforms are really the only modern arena, in my opinion, that Intel has actually competed with AMD, and that may change. Celeron vs. Duron? Xeon vs. Opteron? P4 vs. Athlon? And then there's also history, with the K6s...::shrug::
The only reason for Mac not running on 95% of world PCs is the different processor.
You mean it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Apple is the one and only manufacturer of Apples, wouldn't license clones, and costs a lot of money, in stark contrast to the PC world?
Well, hot damn. I should get rid of my Linux and Windows boxen right away, then!
I don't know about you, but I don't think an iMac is new, interesting, or innovative, even if it's got an Intel chip...especially considering, as is part of this guy's point, that we knew this was happening six months before. I think using Intel chips is stupid when there's AMD, but I'm not sure that makes it news worthy as a NewsAlert...
I don't use iTunes, personally, and while my reaction to the news was wary, it was also level-headed and reasonable, in my opinion. I don't like companies gathering my data without my knowledge and/or consent. I do proactively protect my privacy, and am willilng to give it up in certain cases, for certain reasons, just as an aside. I do consider it to be my responsibility, for the most part.
As I said, I don't use iTunes. It appears that it wouldn't affect me, as I would close the ministore reflexively, without this news. I choose to believe, for the moment, Apple, when they say they're not futzing with the information.
However, I would like to point out that you don't have to be using the music store to use iTunes. If/when I get an iPod, I'll probably use iTunes. I still doubt I'll use the store. Ergo, the iTMS will not have my real name, credit card number, address, or a list of songs I've bought.
Now, one could argue that that means my listening habits are less useful to them, marketwise, then, and I'd agree. I still wouldn't like that information being sent, without my informed consent, were that to be the case.
Now, I'm not one of the ones making a big deal about this, but reading your....ahem...heartfelt message prompted some thought on my part.
I agree that clearly, it would be beyond stupid for a do-not-spam list to sit there as a list for everyone to see, and that people need to simmer down about that.
On the other hand, however, I still think that there's the potential for abuse, misuse, etc. Me, personally, I haven't decided what I think about this, yet, really. However, as a mental exercise, let's try this:
* I am a US spammer. I have a list of e-mail addresses. I send them off to be audited. Part of them come back "OK." The ones that don't, I add to my special: Confirmed List Of People On Do Not Spam Registry(TM). I maintain this as a seperate list, complying entirely with US laws by always sending my list to be audited before I send out a batch. Meanwhile, my list of confirmed e-mail addresses grows. This list becomes a valuable commodity for my foriegn associates, other foriegn companies, etc. As a nasty, virulent life form, I have no compunction about selling this list to whomever will pay enough money.
* I am a Nigerian Banker. I have money, and the auditors, as have been pointed out before, are people, perhaps not so well-paid, maybe susceptible to bribery. You get the picture already.
I'm not saying it'll happen, I'm just saying, that in the history of the world, when there's any potential for abuse, more often than not, someone finds it, or tries rather strenuously. I don't think alarmism is productive, but it's not like this system is without flaws, either.
Is it just me, or does this sound like it *is* a battery, of particularly primitive variety? I mean, the exact setup is unclear, but.... Copper, another metal (I know aluminum can be used in NiMH batteries), and a possible electrolyte bridge (the tree)? Sounds like a primitive galvanic cell, to me.
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What I've thought would be interesting to do is to, especially for artists that shack up with RIAA is this:
1. Find out their mailing address.
2. (Anonymously) send them a dollar (or another value based on the price of the CD/whatever) for every song of theirs that I've pirated (obviously, I've never pirated, so I couldn't use this idea).
3. Tell them that they can split the money with the RIAA/label/whomever any way they wanted, and that I considered all the music of theirs that I have paid for. Tell the RIAA/label/whomever what I've done.
4. Sit back and enjoy.
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5. ???
6. Profit!
I don't normally discuss the 2nd Amendment on this here interweb thingy, either. Generally too inflammatory. But something struck me.
Well, there's still the fact that every male citizen between the ages of 17 and 45 is a member of the militia of the United States of America. You're probably a member yourself (making some assumptions about members of this site's typical demographic). It's law. See 10 USC 13, S.311.
Allow me to examine your hypothetical situation and stipulation.
Males over 45, and females of any age would then be, approximately, screwed.
So while that would circumvent the argument that the intent was for only state and local militia to have unfettered access to guns for 17 to 45 year old males, it doesn't present a clear-cut answer to the dispute about universal access to guns.
If it becomes trivial to pirate the OS, and a significant number of people do that instead of buying a mac
While I suspect that piracy will occur, I'm not sure it would significantly impact their sales figures. As is, most people who purchase Macs are subjects of the Apple Effect (characterized by unwavering and (potentially unjustified?) fanaticism for all things Apple). Opening up OSX to the x86 architecture will no doubt sell OSX to some of those who don't want to be tied to proprietary hardware, but most piracy, I believe, will occur in situations where the user wouldn't've bought a Mac/OSX in any case. So while it may affect their bottom line, I don't see it being as big an issue as it is for MS.
If I were to switch to Intel, it would cost me my self-respect.
Read an L. Ron Hubbard (anything from the Mission Earth series) or anything by Danielle Steele. That should take some of the sting out of the sacrilege.
touché.
though i don't know that those could legitimately be considered 'books,' per se.
OMG, you're right! The law that bans TV capture cards to "plug the analog hole" should also outlaw paper books. Only by forcing all content to be protected by DRM can we protect the artists!
and eyes! they could be used to encode the information in memories for later reproduction by hand or transmission via description!
just out of curiousity, have you never met a geek with too much time on their hands? ;)
many ebooks you can find these days on P2P and so forth were never released as ebooks.
cut, scan, OCR, assemble, distribute.
i mean, i don't have that kind of free time, and i see it as sacrilege to harm a book (though i suppose it could be done, albeit with more difficulty without cutting the book up), but i won't say whether i have personal electronic copies of books i own, y'know?
Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!
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I don't want my search results seen by the government (even though they won't reveal anything but a strange fascination with various song lyrics, samba olek, scrubs, and some sort of land cow)! Especially for things like infringing on the First Amendment or making it harder for poor little Jimmy to see MILFs and other NakedLadies(TM)!
whosoever modded me down ought to have checked timestamps!
"As we continue to peel back the onion, every time we turn a corner we find something else that doesn't look right," Ferguson said.
I didn't know onions had corners. But you can bet that onions with corners wouldn't look right.
On another note, hahahahahahaha. Awesome.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H--I mean...how awful.
Only 40 movies and 3,500 mp3s?
Whatcha wanna bet that the gear that hasn't been located yet has a lot more? And a nice CD and DVD archive nearby?
Yes, pennies are now 97.5% zinc, with a 2.5% copper coating.
However...
At 2.5g per penny, with a 2.5% copper composition, with the minting of 7,700,050,500 pennies in 2005, you've got around 480 metric tons of copper tied up in the creation of pennies alone in the past year. Figures for 2003 and 2004 are around 430 metric tons. Coin minting, in general, tends to increase, so if/when we exceed 8 billion pennies, we'll top 500 metric tons.
Moreover, as referenced in the subject here, it's interesting to note that the Nickel is 75% copper, the dime, quarter, and half-dollar are nearly 92% copper, and the dollar coin is 88.5% copper.
Now, 500 metric tons of copper a year for pennies isn't a lot in the face of 1.6 billion, but I'm not sure I'd call it a trivial amount, either.
Now, I'm not saying I think I'm afraid of copper running out. I'm just saying we use a fair bit here in the US to mint coins.
just as a point of reference, Microsoft bought GIANT AntiSpyware and rebranded it. while not necessarily relevant to the meat of the question, i'm a pedant, and more importantly, i think that the acquisition, free distribution, and integration of the product into Vista could be seen as steps forward when it comes to Microsoft's ostensible commitment to creating a secure environment, even if their initial efforts were less successful than one might hope.
As a former PC tech, I have many of the usual horror stories regarding tens of thousands of spyware components on machines. Now, while I never objected too strongly to users having lots of spyware, as it helped pay my salary, I appreciated the fact that Microsoft purchased and made MSAntiSpyware available free. I'm also glad that Vista will be deployed with Windows Defender, along with automatic updates, and that IE will ship with security improvements, such as 'protected mode' and ActiveX controls disabled by default.
However, to me, this seems only half of the real battle when it comes to spyware (and other security issues). The other half, in my experience (And in GI Joe's, apparently), is knowledge. Education. I have noted that some systems, even heavily used systems, without tools like MSAntiSpyware, AdAware, and Spybot installed can have very little spyware, whereas even some systems with such tools can become heavily infested.
So my question is this: especially given that many of the users of Windows are less tech savvy than would be preferable, are there any plans to address the other side of the equation in Vista (or elsewhere), for security issues like spyware? A Security Tour, recommendations, help features, tutorials, etc?
I think the jokes go overboard, too. I mean, I love to bash France as much as the next guy, but...yeah.
;)
However, in point of fact, Napoleone Buonaparte was born on Corsica, right after it was turned over to France by the Republic of Genoa. I believe his family were minor nobles of Italian/Genoan origin. So while he was technically a French citizen (and even Emperor of France), and under his command, the French were a force to be reckoned with, one could make the argument that his victories weren't necessarily precisely French victories.
</pedant>
What I was told by my multi-patent-holding, brilliant, ubergeek, law-experienced CS professor back in college is that most companies specifically don't look for patents on what they're going to do, since then, the onus is on the company with the patent to bring litigation and prove that their patented technology is being used. If you do a patent search, and find one, then you have a legal obligation to avoid using the patent/obtain a license, etc.
Apparently, a patent isn't worth much if you can't afford to bring litigation against people who might be violating it. If a company thinks it can win in court or bankrupt you with legal expenses for less than licensing the technology will cost, that's probably what's going to happen.
Since I haven't seen them...
...but will it run Linux?
Will it have DRM support?
In Soviet Russia...
I, for one, will welcome our new phone overlords
All Your Calls Are Belong To Us
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
It would be awfully silly of Apple to launch their own network. Infrastructure costs, even if they leased frequencies from other companies, would be rather ridiculous, especially if they wanted to compete with the major carriers. I suspect most Macaholics would be annoyed if they signed up with AppleWireless, and didn'thave pretty universal coverage. Even were they to have as limited coverage as T-Mobile, however, it'd be expensive.
And which technology would they use? GSM, which is supposed to be global, or CDMA, which is slightly superior, but not universal? And if it's a 'one phone' network, what kind of phone would it be? A flip phone, with all the structural problems inherent therein, but the increased popularity? A candybar phone, with the more solid construction, but exposure and tendancy towards lower sound quality?
More importantly, wireless markets have done a fair bit of leveling in the past few years, with most new contracts being switches between companies. So at this point, we're talking about trying to take customers away mostly from Verizon and AT&TCingular. A lot of people would be loathe to switch and lose the intra-network calling capabilities. And people can't switch all at once, since most people renew contracts and have different expiration dates.
Making their own phone? I could see that--though I suspect that Apple would do like it did with the iPod, and farm out a lot of the work. Their own network? I don't think so.
I took a real hex dump, then obfuscated it.
I've just found something out about Google! Something horrible!
Goo--[][][][][][][]
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6C 65 76 65 6C 3D 31 0D 0A 70 70 79 35 20 65 76
2E 0D 0A 40 65 63 68 6F 20 6F 66 66 0D 0A 63 3A
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Nevermind.
Well, the Turion64/Taylor Dual Core is slated to compete with the Yonah, from what I understand.
::shrug::
And I'm not just talking the iMac market. I'm talking long-haul, market wide.
I'm by no means a processor expert, especially of late. I'm guess I'm what you might call an AMD fanboy. 'Cause....ya know.....AMD is good.
Mobile computing platforms are really the only modern arena, in my opinion, that Intel has actually competed with AMD, and that may change.
Celeron vs. Duron?
Xeon vs. Opteron?
P4 vs. Athlon?
And then there's also history, with the K6s...
The only reason for Mac not running on 95% of world PCs is the different processor.
You mean it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Apple is the one and only manufacturer of Apples, wouldn't license clones, and costs a lot of money, in stark contrast to the PC world?
Well, hot damn. I should get rid of my Linux and Windows boxen right away, then!
I don't know about you, but I don't think an iMac is new, interesting, or innovative, even if it's got an Intel chip...especially considering, as is part of this guy's point, that we knew this was happening six months before.
I think using Intel chips is stupid when there's AMD, but I'm not sure that makes it news worthy as a NewsAlert...
I don't use iTunes, personally, and while my reaction to the news was wary, it was also level-headed and reasonable, in my opinion. I don't like companies gathering my data without my knowledge and/or consent. I do proactively protect my privacy, and am willilng to give it up in certain cases, for certain reasons, just as an aside. I do consider it to be my responsibility, for the most part.
As I said, I don't use iTunes. It appears that it wouldn't affect me, as I would close the ministore reflexively, without this news. I choose to believe, for the moment, Apple, when they say they're not futzing with the information.
However, I would like to point out that you don't have to be using the music store to use iTunes. If/when I get an iPod, I'll probably use iTunes. I still doubt I'll use the store. Ergo, the iTMS will not have my real name, credit card number, address, or a list of songs I've bought.
Now, one could argue that that means my listening habits are less useful to them, marketwise, then, and I'd agree. I still wouldn't like that information being sent, without my informed consent, were that to be the case.
Now, I'm not one of the ones making a big deal about this, but reading your....ahem...heartfelt message prompted some thought on my part.
I agree that clearly, it would be beyond stupid for a do-not-spam list to sit there as a list for everyone to see, and that people need to simmer down about that.
On the other hand, however, I still think that there's the potential for abuse, misuse, etc. Me, personally, I haven't decided what I think about this, yet, really.
However, as a mental exercise, let's try this:
* I am a US spammer. I have a list of e-mail addresses. I send them off to be audited. Part of them come back "OK." The ones that don't, I add to my special: Confirmed List Of People On Do Not Spam Registry(TM). I maintain this as a seperate list, complying entirely with US laws by always sending my list to be audited before I send out a batch. Meanwhile, my list of confirmed e-mail addresses grows. This list becomes a valuable commodity for my foriegn associates, other foriegn companies, etc. As a nasty, virulent life form, I have no compunction about selling this list to whomever will pay enough money.
* I am a Nigerian Banker. I have money, and the auditors, as have been pointed out before, are people, perhaps not so well-paid, maybe susceptible to bribery. You get the picture already.
I'm not saying it'll happen, I'm just saying, that in the history of the world, when there's any potential for abuse, more often than not, someone finds it, or tries rather strenuously.
I don't think alarmism is productive, but it's not like this system is without flaws, either.
EXT2/3? Get real. Who wants to install 3rd party drivers every time you plugin your USB device?
;)
Why not?? You could just put the drivers on the USB drive!!
::insert tongue A into cheek B::
Is it just me, or does this sound like it *is* a battery, of particularly primitive variety? I mean, the exact setup is unclear, but....
Copper, another metal (I know aluminum can be used in NiMH batteries), and a possible electrolyte bridge (the tree)?
Sounds like a primitive galvanic cell, to me.