No, this song isn't making fun of the original, it's poking fun at the 2004 US elections and the candidates for both parties. The song is simply the means to an end and JibJab could have just as easily picked any number of songs about America for the tune.
Why did it have to be a song about America? So it could be parodied? Would the animation have had the same impact if it was Metallica's "Enter Sandman", a song which has nothing to do with America or could have possibly been made fun of with the resulting subject matter?
How can anyone say the song wasn't making fun of the original? By changing the lyrics and making about something else, it *is* a parody. It takes the original "this land is your land, this land is my land" and pokes fun at it... sure sounds like a parody to me.
Besides, wasn't the original just a song and not a flash animation/video? SO, let a blind guy listen to the song and then to the "parody" in question and ask him if it's making fun of the original... if that guy happens to be a judge, end of case.
If we're worried that our enemies can modify source code without us even noticing it (read: we're dumber than they are) I'm sure we have an even bigger problem to worry about than Open Source Software.
I was openminded about this, I tried that other news bot thing for a while. So I click on the link, and my Mozilla 1.7 under fluxbox in slackware linux kind a hangs... actually, the page took an extremely long time to load and not only did mozilla hang but my whole system did! Eventually it came up normally but it was as if it put the entire machine under a very heavy load... so much so that the keyboard and mouse would not move. After a minute or two it came back... anyone else experience this?
I went out and bought one of these routers and it rocks. I happen to get the Satori 4.0 (last public, stable release) before they went subscriber. It doesn't matter, you can still get the source for Satori from somewhere like http://linksysinfo.org...
Anyhow, I say screw em. I'm not paying $20 for a subscription, then $49 if I want the source to pre-releases. Also, if you read carefully, their "public" releases are just that, and their "prereleases" are what they covet... if you give out a prerelease, they kill your subscription.
So, as I said, screw em. I got all the original source and Satori source, and I'm making my own distribution. I upgraded from dropbear.40 to.43 last night. Going to test it today.
On one hand, you know "stealing" intellectual property is wrong, and definitely against the law. On the other hand, there's something fishy about making a product that is utlimately infinitely reproducable.
I mean, if I make a product, then I can make an ungodly number of reproductions of it, for very little resources, doesn't that drive it's value down to almost zero? What's happened in this country? We're practically patenting ideas. I think tomorrow I will patent the idea of water and taking a leak, then reap the benefits.
I remember when the Titanic movie came out... it went around IRC rooms on vivo at the time... and everyone had 56k. The movie was a few hundred megs and terrible quality (from what I heard). I was like, geez, people, it's $6! Why spend days downloading something when you can see it for $6?
I guess it has come to the point where people don't find it cost effective. They find more value in other ways to see the same thing, (albeit not nearly the same experience.) Maybe the movie industry needs to do something to make it worth their while not to bother. Sure some movies are good and some are bad... but damn, take a little of that $1 billion, or perhaps some you've spent on night vision goggles, and clean the bathrooms or mop the sticky floors of your disgusting theaters!
Concerning the second article, 802.11a seemed pretty clever to use for the uplink. A mesh within a mesh. But isn't 802.11a unencrypted? What's to stop me from pulling over along the side of the road with my trusty 802.11a nic and sniffing cleartext (uplink) traffic? That's a lot of pop3 passwords, my friends.
...it works better than SIP... I'm trying a local VOIP (over broadband) trial from a local ISP and it' s not working too well. I read up on SIP and found it could be my router's type of NAT munging the communication. Then again, it's a Cisco 186 ATA and I've heard Vonage dumped this piece of equipment for something else...
Just think of the implications... DRM + This Technology = solutions to politcal problems! The government is going to love this one! Abortion? No problem! Gay Marriage? No problem! Just deny rights for the body bus to perform certain operations...
Is it just me, or am I the only one who ever thought this was completely stupid? Some company came to where I work and had a big presentation on VOIP over wireless... I thought it was ridiculous.
Let's see... you take your voice, turn it into packets to be reassembled a short distance away (espcially indoors). Ummm this has been around for millions of years... voices going "wirelessly" over the air... it's called "yelling".
I'm not an OSS developer, but I would think they would ignore this. What's next? McDonald's pays software companies enough money to include their trademark detection? So you can't scan/recreate/modify/distribute their likiness?
I know they're probably attempting to stop (appearently) rampant counterfitting... but where will it end? I once scanned a dollar and sent it to someone on IRC as a joke (they said, someone DCC me some money). There has to be a better way. Like I said, isn't this really just admitting defeat?
Of course, I too can twist words and take them out of context:
"...a point recently raised by the president of Symantec Corporation. He is reportedly "not the sharpest knife in the drawer..."
What would the President of Symantec think of Ken Brown's assessment of him?
"AdTI publishes its work for all audiences. It is written so that even if a group of elementary school children asked Tanenbaum the same questions AdTI did, they would see the very contradictions we reported."
Bravo, Ken... in Your World (c), Linus Torvalds couldn't possibly write a kernel in 6 months, yet elementary children discuss Intellectual Property law, Unix operating system history, and the differences between open source and commercial software development.
Another great "Slashdot posts ridiculous patent and everyone says `this sucks`" story.
Why doesn't someone get smart? And patent a whole ton of silly and goofy patents (like someone with enough money and time, obviously).
Then, post some website up somewhere, like ridiculouspatents.com And list them all? Including this MS "vague time shifted hardware click" one? Then post *that* on Slashdot. Personally I'm going for "method by which to insert genitalia into a running blender."
Slashdot Mirror
... an encore from this article?
Why did it have to be a song about America? So it could be parodied? Would the animation have had the same impact if it was Metallica's "Enter Sandman", a song which has nothing to do with America or could have possibly been made fun of with the resulting subject matter?
How can anyone say the song wasn't making fun of the original? By changing the lyrics and making about something else, it *is* a parody. It takes the original "this land is your land, this land is my land" and pokes fun at it ... sure sounds like a parody to me.
Besides, wasn't the original just a song and not a flash animation/video? SO, let a blind guy listen to the song and then to the "parody" in question and ask him if it's making fun of the original... if that guy happens to be a judge, end of case.
If we're worried that our enemies can modify source code without us even noticing it (read: we're dumber than they are) I'm sure we have an even bigger problem to worry about than Open Source Software.
I was openminded about this, I tried that other news bot thing for a while. So I click on the link, and my Mozilla 1.7 under fluxbox in slackware linux kind a hangs... actually, the page took an extremely long time to load and not only did mozilla hang but my whole system did! Eventually it came up normally but it was as if it put the entire machine under a very heavy load ... so much so that the keyboard and mouse would not move. After a minute or two it came back... anyone else experience this?
I went out and bought one of these routers and it rocks. I happen to get the Satori 4.0 (last public, stable release) before they went subscriber. It doesn't matter, you can still get the source for Satori from somewhere like http://linksysinfo.org ...
.40 to .43 last night. Going to test it today.
Anyhow, I say screw em. I'm not paying $20 for a subscription, then $49 if I want the source to pre-releases. Also, if you read carefully, their "public" releases are just that, and their "prereleases" are what they covet... if you give out a prerelease, they kill your subscription.
So, as I said, screw em. I got all the original source and Satori source, and I'm making my own distribution. I upgraded from dropbear
On one hand, you know "stealing" intellectual property is wrong, and definitely against the law. On the other hand, there's something fishy about making a product that is utlimately infinitely reproducable.
... it went around IRC rooms on vivo at the time ... and everyone had 56k. The movie was a few hundred megs and terrible quality (from what I heard). I was like, geez, people, it's $6! Why spend days downloading something when you can see it for $6?
I mean, if I make a product, then I can make an ungodly number of reproductions of it, for very little resources, doesn't that drive it's value down to almost zero? What's happened in this country? We're practically patenting ideas. I think tomorrow I will patent the idea of water and taking a leak, then reap the benefits.
I remember when the Titanic movie came out
I guess it has come to the point where people don't find it cost effective. They find more value in other ways to see the same thing, (albeit not nearly the same experience.) Maybe the movie industry needs to do something to make it worth their while not to bother. Sure some movies are good and some are bad... but damn, take a little of that $1 billion, or perhaps some you've spent on night vision goggles, and clean the bathrooms or mop the sticky floors of your disgusting theaters!
Concerning the second article, 802.11a seemed pretty clever to use for the uplink. A mesh within a mesh. But isn't 802.11a unencrypted? What's to stop me from pulling over along the side of the road with my trusty 802.11a nic and sniffing cleartext (uplink) traffic? That's a lot of pop3 passwords, my friends.
Sometimes they don't get entirely read, but for the most part they do:
- Wired
- Linux Journal
- Newsweek
- Entertainment Weekly
Usually the first two are read more thoroughly than the last two.
Well, SIP being a protocol which allows one endpoint to find another across the internet, I thought it had something in common with this rendezvous.
...it works better than SIP... I'm trying a local VOIP (over broadband) trial from a local ISP and it' s not working too well. I read up on SIP and found it could be my router's type of NAT munging the communication. Then again, it's a Cisco 186 ATA and I've heard Vonage dumped this piece of equipment for something else...
...but I still want a Nokia D311 from Cingular.
That blows.
Here in Central NY, the snow is very taxing.
... that if I get sued by the RIAA I can settle out of court and pay them with MP3s?
Just think of the implications... DRM + This Technology = solutions to politcal problems! The government is going to love this one! Abortion? No problem! Gay Marriage? No problem! Just deny rights for the body bus to perform certain operations...
...instead of a symbol, though, I'll change my name to a gesture.
You all can call me "middle finger".
I honestly can't remember the last time a police officer asked for my name...
First thing I wanna do, is call up MS support and ask if it works on linux.
...if I ever see him, I'll beat the crap outta him. Then apologize.
Is it just me, or am I the only one who ever thought this was completely stupid? Some company came to where I work and had a big presentation on VOIP over wireless... I thought it was ridiculous.
Let's see... you take your voice, turn it into packets to be reassembled a short distance away (espcially indoors). Ummm this has been around for millions of years... voices going "wirelessly" over the air... it's called "yelling".
I'm not an OSS developer, but I would think they would ignore this. What's next? McDonald's pays software companies enough money to include their trademark detection? So you can't scan/recreate/modify/distribute their likiness?
I know they're probably attempting to stop (appearently) rampant counterfitting... but where will it end? I once scanned a dollar and sent it to someone on IRC as a joke (they said, someone DCC me some money). There has to be a better way. Like I said, isn't this really just admitting defeat?
But I figured out a little while back that it comes from Sercomm. Hmmm...
glad I didn't go out and jump on the wireless G bandwagon just yet!
Of course, I too can twist words and take them out of context:
"...a point recently raised by the president of Symantec Corporation. He is reportedly "not the sharpest knife in the drawer..."
What would the President of Symantec think of Ken Brown's assessment of him?
"AdTI publishes its work for all audiences. It is written so that even if a group of elementary school children asked Tanenbaum the same questions AdTI did, they would see the very contradictions we reported."
Bravo, Ken... in Your World (c), Linus Torvalds couldn't possibly write a kernel in 6 months, yet elementary children discuss Intellectual Property law, Unix operating system history, and the differences between open source and commercial software development.
...I stopped licking my keyboard when I was 16.
Another great "Slashdot posts ridiculous patent and everyone says `this sucks`" story.
Why doesn't someone get smart? And patent a whole ton of silly and goofy patents (like someone with enough money and time, obviously).
Then, post some website up somewhere, like ridiculouspatents.com And list them all? Including this MS "vague time shifted hardware click" one? Then post *that* on Slashdot. Personally I'm going for "method by which to insert genitalia into a running blender."