Just as my bet is on the handful of guys inside the G20 meeting and not on the thousands of idiots getting beat down outside, my bet is on the handful of guys getting laws passed and not the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law.
You're right in not betting on a mob.
When they become millions, however, you sit down and listen or risk getting lynched. Doubly so if you live in a democracy.
So what about tourists taking photos on vacation? Do they have the right to take photos of interesting buildings?
Would it be acceptable to record live footage of your front door 24/7? And then publish it as a browsable online database of anyone entering and exiting?
Further into the future: Combine with facial recognition. Combine with holiday swimwear pictures. Combine with mobile phones snapping pictures of everything, everywhere. All public information, sorted on address.
"Public" information becomes very private when it is cross-linked with other public information and easily accessible for anyone.
There is a conflict brewing, not sure what the resolution will be. Technology tends to trump any attempt to suppress it.
(Sorry, can't recite it properly. But you get the drift.)
I can't quote him exactly either but it went something like...
I hereby revoke your geek cards. Now google this 100 times: "Chris Rock quote You're supposed to take care of your kids"
You know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some shit they supposed to do. A nigga will brag about some shit a normal man just does. A nigga will say some shit like, "I take care of my kids." You're supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? "I ain't never been to jail!" What do you want, a cookie?! You're not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having motherfucker!
That's not a terrible idea. There have been a number of times that I've sent an email with the body of text saying "here's the report you asked for" and forgot to attach it. which made me feel like an idiot.
You can avoid that from happening ever again. And it's very simple:
Before you write any sentence mentioning an attachment, attach the file first.
Same goes for important mail. When writing a job application, finish the email first, then add the recipient address last.
> I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11.
Translation: I did some work back in the 80's, and I still want collect paychecks from it.
Exactly. It should have included a car, somewhere.
Indeed!
This is like saying, this car has a low rate of engine failure but when it does fail it will fry your garage, destroy all your power tools, set fire to your house and kill all your children, while that car, will just make a thumping noise as you put it in reverse and while the failure rate is twice as bad, it costs a third of the price of the other car.
One thing you should keep in mind is that although we our government is democratic in America, our workplace is not. And frankly it's at work that we spend the majority of our hours, the majority of our days. You might even say that our workplaces are ruled by a king, or at least a junta, whose powers are very much in the medieval mold.
I think you should read up on Feudalism and Serfdom. They called it the Dark Ages for a reason.
Workplaces tend to be capitalistic. You are bound by contract and both parties can terminate the contract if they find better offers.
Do I have a problem with other people using p2p? Not at all. But, if you want to use a shared resource and expect to hog the entire bandwidth available, I have no sympathy. Either 1) get used to lower bandwidth, or 2) pay the extra to get dedicated bandwidth.
Why should the ISP market a shared resource as "unlimited use"?
The solution is extremely simple: Instead of hard "maximum" caps on usage, IPSs should reduce transfer rate at certain download limits. The specific limits should be in the contract and depend on the level of service.
Since then, some investors have balked at investing in digital music, preferring instead to put their money in other industries, where the competition are not a bunch of litigation-crazy freaks.
The dying companies attempting to kill the new companies before they arise. Anyone surprised services like Spotify is based in Sweden?
Space colonization won't help the people on earth. We're not lifting 6 billion people up the gravity well a few thousand would be plenty to populate any new colony.
Earth's population is destined for collapse and it won't be nice. Just hope it's not too soon.
If TPB lose, then things will get even worse as file sharing is forced further into the darknet and whole cultures start to grow up effectively rejecting completely any moral regard for copyright in any form.
I wish more people could get this key point.
2GB microSD cards are now at $6 and dropping fast. The cheapest cards will (Due to SDHC) stay at this size for a while, becoming ridiculously cheap.
There is no way "copyright" as a concept can survive without strong moral support in the population. Violating copyright will be easier than jaywalking.
Or to put it another way: Any sacrifice of liberty comes with an automatic sacrifice of security.
The idea that you can be more secure by giving up liberty is crazy. If you disagree, rewind 20 years and have a look at the cold-war surveillance societies. Stasi would be a nice place to start.
I'd get one of these the second it became usable for textbooks/research papers. You need 3 things for that to happen:
1) Native PDF support (which I don't believe this has). 2) Color. 3) A pen for the ability to annotate.
That would be a killer device. This...is not.
A killer device is when you provide something paper books just cannot do. Annotation is good, but why not beat paper?
- List all annotations into an index and tag them with keywords to find specific annotations later.
- Collaborative annotation My friends often read the same books. But keeping track of each interesting paragraph I want to discuss with them is a pain. If I could browse my friends annotations at leisure and make comments to them.
(Basically limitless. Study groups, reading groups, book blogs with annotation feeds.)
- Inline dictionary. English is not my native language. I want to flick a button to enable "dictionary-mode". Tap a word with the finger, get automated lookup in the dictionary of your choice.
Those two would be killers. Impossible to do on paper.
Again, human overpopulation is the 800-pound Samsonite gorilla in the room. Until we deal with that, none of the rest is anything but posturing.
You speak of the problem, but don't mention any solutions. Here they are: A) War B) Famine C) Pestilence D) Reduced birthrate
Which one did you have in mind?
Unfortunately, negative growth requires people to forgo children. They will then be removed from the gene pool, so I doubt the viability of D) unless we introduce a global totalitarian government.
(Interestingly, the options are indeed the 4 horsemen of apocalypse. Death is the nice fella.)
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb."
A well-armed lamb is just as frightening and dangerous as a wolf.
I suppose if we're all lambs, then it doesn't matter. But if just one wolf exists, then no, owning a weapon does not automatically make someone a "narrow minded, violent brute".
If just one exists? Your previous sentence is based on the wolves outnumbering the sheep. Make up your mind.
I know of people who have exchanged external Hard Drives. Think 500 GB external hard drives full of movies and songs.
Price of flash memory is plummeting. 2GB MicroSDs are the size of a fingernail, hitting $4. They will only get cheaper, and way so. We're getting to the point where you can store the musical career of artists on a piece of hardware so cheap it's considered "disposable" by elementary school kids.
Pencil cases full of flash memory. Unstoppable, unless you ransack every kid for plastic cards the size of fingernails. So cheap kids won't even care if they are taken.
The RIAA should change their business models ASAP. The untracable sneakernet is ramping up bandwith, fast. For better or for worse.
Perhaps because not all of us think copyright infringement is ethical. I don't Pirate games (or anything else for that matter) for this reason.
So... if you paid good money for a game and DRM cut off your access to said game, YOU would be the unethical one for having a pirated version available to play?
There are many cases where piracy is way more ethical than DRM.
Except that if the lie detector says the scientists are telling the truth, the company can either: 1. Publicly admit that the scientists are telling the truth. 2. Publicly claim that the scientists are lying and, thus, also publicly admit that their own lie detectors are faulty.
Why do that when they can detect a lie and: 3. Publicly claim that the scientists are lying, sue for profit, and demonstrate that their machines are perfect!
So yes, I'd be one of those pirates but I'm not totally opposed to copyright.
The problem is rooted in corporations bribing lawmakers and extending copyright to life + 90 years.
A computer game these days is forgotten in 5 years. Movies either flop or earn back the investment during the first year, if not week.
The copyright length should have been reduced, not extended. The 90+ years is purely a cash machine and does not provide additional value to society, which is the basis why we created the concept of copyright to support.
There is a huge gulf between the current legalization and common sense. If the law had been fair, people would respect it.
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Just as my bet is on the handful of guys inside the G20 meeting and not on the thousands of idiots getting beat down outside, my bet is on the handful of guys getting laws passed and not the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law.
You're right in not betting on a mob.
When they become millions, however, you sit down and listen or risk getting lynched. Doubly so if you live in a democracy.
So what about tourists taking photos on vacation? Do they have the right to take photos of interesting buildings?
Would it be acceptable to record live footage of your front door 24/7? And then publish it as a browsable online database of anyone entering and exiting?
Further into the future: Combine with facial recognition. Combine with holiday swimwear pictures. Combine with mobile phones snapping pictures of everything, everywhere. All public information, sorted on address.
"Public" information becomes very private when it is cross-linked with other public information and easily accessible for anyone.
There is a conflict brewing, not sure what the resolution will be. Technology tends to trump any attempt to suppress it.
(Sorry, can't recite it properly. But you get the drift.)
I can't quote him exactly either but it went something like ...
I hereby revoke your geek cards.
Now google this 100 times:
"Chris Rock quote You're supposed to take care of your kids"
You know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some shit they supposed to do. A nigga will brag about some shit a normal man just does. A nigga will say some shit like, "I take care of my kids." You're supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? "I ain't never been to jail!" What do you want, a cookie?! You're not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having motherfucker!
That's not a terrible idea. There have been a number of times that I've sent an email with the body of text saying "here's the report you asked for" and forgot to attach it. which made me feel like an idiot.
You can avoid that from happening ever again. And it's very simple:
Before you write any sentence mentioning an attachment, attach the file first.
Same goes for important mail. When writing a job application, finish the email first, then add the recipient address last.
> I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11.
Translation: I did some work back in the 80's, and I still want collect paychecks from it.
'Never Gonna Give You Up'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll
He wants to collect paychecks for an Internet meme making fun of his music.
It is as if Matt Groening should sue Slashdot for usage of the "evil overlord" meme.
How long does it take your oven to pre-heat?
WAY too long. Why do you think microwave and toaster ovens are popular?
People care.
Just wait and see what happens to their control when they no longer want to provide something.
Just why should anyone be allowed control over something they don't want to provide?
Only a totalitarian government would benefit from controlling content and preventing people from watching what they want.
Exactly. It should have included a car, somewhere.
Indeed!
This is like saying, this car has a low rate of engine failure but when it does fail it will fry your garage, destroy all your power tools, set fire to your house and kill all your children, while that car, will just make a thumping noise as you put it in reverse and while the failure rate is twice as bad, it costs a third of the price of the other car.
One thing you should keep in mind is that although we our government is democratic in America, our workplace is not. And frankly it's at work that we spend the majority of our hours, the majority of our days. You might even say that our workplaces are ruled by a king, or at least a junta, whose powers are very much in the medieval mold.
I think you should read up on Feudalism and Serfdom. They called it the Dark Ages for a reason.
Workplaces tend to be capitalistic. You are bound by contract and both parties can terminate the contract if they find better offers.
Do I have a problem with other people using p2p? Not at all. But, if you want to use a shared resource and expect to hog the entire bandwidth available, I have no sympathy. Either 1) get used to lower bandwidth, or 2) pay the extra to get dedicated bandwidth.
Why should the ISP market a shared resource as "unlimited use"?
The solution is extremely simple:
Instead of hard "maximum" caps on usage, IPSs should reduce transfer rate at certain download limits. The specific limits should be in the contract and depend on the level of service.
Since then, some investors have balked at investing in digital music, preferring instead to put their money in other industries, where the competition are not a bunch of litigation-crazy freaks.
The dying companies attempting to kill the new companies before they arise. Anyone surprised services like Spotify is based in Sweden?
Would someone who knows how to do it propose a Slashdot poll for me? Something like this:
It would be neat to see this done every couple of years, see what the trend is.
Ok, I'll copy-paste it into
http://polls.slashdot.org/submit.pl
Anyone else, please do NOT post this poll. The editors have probably received a few hundred in addition to mine ;)
There were no space based solar panels in SimCity 2000. You must have mixed it up with something else.
http://download.cheatcodes.com/faqs/15152.html
Microwave
Cost: $30,000
Max. power output: 14,000 MW-h
Pollution: None
Max. Age: 75 yrs
Space colonization won't help the people on earth. We're not lifting 6 billion people up the gravity well a few thousand would be plenty to populate any new colony.
Earth's population is destined for collapse and it won't be nice. Just hope it's not too soon.
If TPB lose, then things will get even worse as file sharing is forced further into the darknet and whole cultures start to grow up effectively rejecting completely any moral regard for copyright in any form.
I wish more people could get this key point.
2GB microSD cards are now at $6 and dropping fast. The cheapest cards will (Due to SDHC) stay at this size for a while, becoming ridiculously cheap.
There is no way "copyright" as a concept can survive without strong moral support in the population. Violating copyright will be easier than jaywalking.
How many cars have internet service?
Tomorrow: Every single one of them.
So tell us, how could internet competition kill satellite radio?
Cell phones with unlimited data plans are available, soon they'll be dirt cheap.
Liberty comes with risks, and they only way to negate the risks is to give up liberty. That's what these cameras are doing, in my opinion.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Or to put it another way:
Any sacrifice of liberty comes with an automatic sacrifice of security.
The idea that you can be more secure by giving up liberty is crazy. If you disagree, rewind 20 years and have a look at the cold-war surveillance societies. Stasi would be a nice place to start.
I'd get one of these the second it became usable for textbooks/research papers. You need 3 things for that to happen:
1) Native PDF support (which I don't believe this has).
2) Color.
3) A pen for the ability to annotate.
That would be a killer device. This...is not.
A killer device is when you provide something paper books just cannot do. Annotation is good, but why not beat paper?
- List all annotations into an index and tag them with keywords to find specific annotations later.
- Collaborative annotation
My friends often read the same books. But keeping track of each interesting paragraph I want to discuss with them is a pain. If I could browse my friends annotations at leisure and make comments to them.
(Basically limitless. Study groups, reading groups, book blogs with annotation feeds.)
- Inline dictionary.
English is not my native language. I want to flick a button to enable "dictionary-mode". Tap a word with the finger, get automated lookup in the dictionary of your choice.
Those two would be killers. Impossible to do on paper.
Again, human overpopulation is the 800-pound Samsonite gorilla in the room. Until we deal with that, none of the rest is anything but posturing.
You speak of the problem, but don't mention any solutions. Here they are:
A) War
B) Famine
C) Pestilence
D) Reduced birthrate
Which one did you have in mind?
Unfortunately, negative growth requires people to forgo children. They will then be removed from the gene pool, so I doubt the viability of D) unless we introduce a global totalitarian government.
(Interestingly, the options are indeed the 4 horsemen of apocalypse. Death is the nice fella.)
The only person I've ever known who almost got raped ended the attempted attack with three shots from her .38 special.
As the risk of being assaulted unless you have a gun increases, more people need guns.
Adding more guns is the easy fix.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb."
A well-armed lamb is just as frightening and dangerous as a wolf.
I suppose if we're all lambs, then it doesn't matter. But if just one wolf exists, then no, owning a weapon does not automatically make someone a "narrow minded, violent brute".
If just one exists?
Your previous sentence is based on the wolves outnumbering the sheep. Make up your mind.
I know of people who have exchanged external Hard Drives.
Think 500 GB external hard drives full of movies and songs.
Price of flash memory is plummeting. 2GB MicroSDs are the size of a fingernail, hitting $4. They will only get cheaper, and way so. We're getting to the point where you can store the musical career of artists on a piece of hardware so cheap it's considered "disposable" by elementary school kids.
Pencil cases full of flash memory. Unstoppable, unless you ransack every kid for plastic cards the size of fingernails. So cheap kids won't even care if they are taken.
The RIAA should change their business models ASAP. The untracable sneakernet is ramping up bandwith, fast. For better or for worse.
Perhaps because not all of us think copyright infringement is ethical. I don't Pirate games (or anything else for that matter) for this reason.
So... if you paid good money for a game and DRM cut off your access to said game, YOU would be the unethical one for having a pirated version available to play?
There are many cases where piracy is way more ethical than DRM.
Except that if the lie detector says the scientists are telling the truth, the company can either:
1. Publicly admit that the scientists are telling the truth.
2. Publicly claim that the scientists are lying and, thus, also publicly admit that their own lie detectors are faulty.
Why do that when they can detect a lie and:
3. Publicly claim that the scientists are lying, sue for profit, and demonstrate that their machines are perfect!
So yes, I'd be one of those pirates but I'm not totally opposed to copyright.
The problem is rooted in corporations bribing lawmakers and extending copyright to life + 90 years.
A computer game these days is forgotten in 5 years. Movies either flop or earn back the investment during the first year, if not week.
The copyright length should have been reduced, not extended. The 90+ years is purely a cash machine and does not provide additional value to society, which is the basis why we created the concept of copyright to support.
There is a huge gulf between the current legalization and common sense. If the law had been fair, people would respect it.