Of course, probably 75% of Napster users couldn't vote anyway (either non-US citizens or teenagers).
This is all a big phase. Everyone goes through their "I'm a l33t w4r3z p1r4t3 d00d now" phase.
So just use Gnutella and let Napster die people! Centralized services are destined for the junkyard. They provide someone to sue and someone to shutdown. We need a massive de-centralized peer-to-peer system to distribute both copyrighted materials and non-copyrighted materials in the interests of free speech. F*** the RIAA and MPAA.
The flaw in Goldin's logic is that you can never attain all 3 of the "better, faster, cheaper" catch words. Especially not when human life is concerned. Sure, you can develop cheap reliable space transport, but it would take decades to perfect it (i.e. the Space Shuttle is 60's technology built in the late 70's and still operating relatively cheaply today and it's definitely proved reliable. Only 1% failure rate.) Now, to get faster and cheaper you're going to sacrifice "better". I.e. we need to expect 66% of our Mars probes will fail but hey.. they only cost a fraction of what they would have if we would have done it "right" and only launched one. So the effect is we spend a little less than what we would've spent on one, have 2 out of 3 failures, and at least get one there. That proved to be a huge success, though the 2 failures look like huge black eyes for NASA. But hey, it's better, faster, cheaper remember? You have to break a few eggs. Personally, if I'm ever elected President by the Supreme Court I would slash the military by $100 billion and funnel it directly into NASA. I want to see more microgravity, aeronautics, and biotechnology research. I want to see a plethora of ground-to-space single stage vehicles emerging for high speed supersonic space based intercontinental civil transport. I think it's time we stopped spending so much damned money (to the tune of what.. a quarter of our budget?) building weapons of destruction and concentrate more on science and the arts. We're only 1 step out of the stone age here folks.
Nuclear weapons are just so crude and brutish. What we need is a nice widespread biological weapon that you can throw up into the air and let the currents waft it over your enemy. You'll probably need to vaccinate your own population if you're interested in that sort of thing or if you're just a lunatic military madman you might just not do that. Or better yet, I guess we have nano-warriors being developed. Woohoo. Nothing like little tiny ants invading a country and destroying the military industrial complex. If you've got said lunatic military madmen in charge you could also unleash them upon biological lifeforms as well. Hell, you could carry your evil biological weapons inside the nanites and release the toxins when they invade the bloodstream.
Am I afraid of nuclear war? No. No one is quite insane enough to start one. We've been on the brink of a nuclear disaster dozens of times in the last 50 years and no one has had the balls to go through with it. Am I afraid of nanites? Definitely. An entire population of these things could lie dormant for years in the bodies of your population until the time is right for the war to be executed. In seconds you could kill every man, woman, and child on an entire continent without harming one building, destroying one plant, or polluting the air with any toxins. It'd be pretty neat. I mean hell.. if I can think this sick fucking shit up, think of what the people in the Pentagon are thinking up! I don't WANT to see other people killed but that's their entire purpose in life. Their job is to kill people and break things and to be the best at it in the entire world. That's some scary stuff and a sad testiment to our society. Until humans can learn to get along we're just going to find better ways of killing ourselves. How pathetic we will seem to our ancestors 1000 years from now. We're still in the dark ages for all the scientific and cultural advances we've made in the last 1000 years.
Are you crazy? Sharks eat children and pray on helpless holiday boaters. I was watching this documentary a few years ago where this guy had to throw a scuba tank of air into the mouth of this huge Great White shark that was destroying their fishing boat and then shoot it with a rifle causing it to explode. It was very exciting but it makes it clear that sharks cannot be trusted and must be hunted to extinction.
Huh? USB? What's that? It's a Sun Ultra. You plug it into the network and you run compilers on it and shit. Maybe browse the web with Netscape or setup pine and a mail server on it. It's not like it's going to replace your PIII-1GHz box with 512 MB of ram and a $500 GeForce card.:-)
No, it doesn't seem odd. We wanted to add 512 megs of ram to our Ultra-60 and our quote was over $3500. 1 GB of ram is about $7000. *sigh*. Someone as Sun is smoking crack. Another UltraSparc-II 450 MHz processor is $5000. I mean for christ sakes. I can buy a new system with a 450 MHz Ultrasparc-II and 1 GB of ram for around $14k.
Huh? You can download Solaris's ISO images for both Intel and Sparc at the link off the website. Of course it's not "Free" as in speech but it's certainly free beer.
Bah, chess is SOOO boring and is complicated with too many obscure rules. Now, Battle Chess.. that was fun. We need online realtime Battle Chess and then maybe it'd be interesting. Too many pussy chess players will sit there for minutes just thinking of their next move. There should be a 5 second time limit on each move and new rules that increase the fun. Maybe let the big castle thingies crush anything on the board if it can get to it in any direction or let the queen cast a spell on a pawn and turn it into a knight for 3 rounds. That'd rule.
I love games like Civilization and Sim City. They usually have the best cheats and people don't bitch at you when you use them like they do with real-time online networked games. I mean hell, who wants to sit around for half of forever to build up money in Sim City when you can just give yourself 2 billion, build a huge cool city and then kick its ass destroying it with tornadoes and seamonsters.:-)
Fair market value? You're joking right? CDs have NEVER come down in price from when they were first introduced even though that was a big sticking point. They were more expensive than tapes and they're STILL more expensive than tapes even though they cost a fraction of what it cost to make a tape. The recording industry is fucking us up the ass if you think that is fair market value. Fair market value for a 5 cent pressed CD would be maybe $1.. $2 if at least half went to the artist.
You know, PBS was running an interesting program last night about how the media is directly to blame for influencing the cultural of American teenagers. It was quite interesting and showed in detail and behind the scenes how these huge media monopolies directly target shit to teens that they think will be "cool" based on their market research. In the end, most of the time, what turns out to be "cool" for the mainstream is what these mega media monopolies are pawning off. They're feeding off their own shit like some sewer dwelling parasite. After seeing the amazing job PBS putting this all together and seeing what a disgusting atmosphere American corporate media giants have brought upon us I'm inclined to say "no more."
No more of your shit. No more force feeding us the music you think we want to hear. No more of you marketing violent movies to 11 year olds. No more selling a sexual image to pre-teen girls as the model to follow. No more bullshit. I think it's time for the world to stand up and say "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore." MPAA? Fuck you. RIAA? FUCK YOU TOO. Take your cookie-cutter bubblegum rockers and your homoerotic punk metal clown possies and shove them up your ass. Take your idiotic teenie-bopper horror slasher flicks and put them where the sun don't shine. It is time for us to wake up from this crazy capitalist induced nightmare that has resulted in us only having 5 huge mega-corporations being responsible for the sales, marketing, and creation of over 90% of the music, movies, and media in the world! What kind of sick society have we become where we allow this to happen? We exist to feed the fat overbearing media gods. Our only purpose in life is to make them profit so they can turn around and force more garbage down our throats.
So I guess this wasn't just me. When playing Doom or Quake I had to turn the gamma correction all the way up and my contrast and brightness up or I couldn't see shit. Of course, the side effect of turning your brightness up is everything just gets even more washed out. Ugh. I wish game designers would really lighten up the levels a bit. A horrible devil-beast will look no more menacing in the light than if I couldn't see it at all in the pitch black. It's just a damned game.
Like what? Gnutella? I'm genuinely curious how they intend to take that down. The worst they could do is infest it with garbage and broken mp3's and make people give up in disgust. A valid way to kill it BTW.;-)
I thought that's why you pay $40-$50 a month for cable TV or DSS. 24/7 streaming video and audio all in CD quality sound coming to a huge big screen monitor. I find it amusing that people sit at their 15" monitors and stare at a postage sized music video streaming over a 56K modem when they can see the same damn thing on MTV. hehe.
Napster is about 50% functional. i.e. you can download and search fine but no one can download off you. Well, unless you setup a SOCKS proxy. I use it all the time and it works fine behind an OpenBSD box. Most of the Gnutella clones out there let you set what your visible IP address is when you broadcast and you can just redirect the ports needed to your inside box to let people download from you. ICQ should probably work as well since I believe you're just connecting to a central server with an established connection. Just do a stateful rule (I guess with ipchains you'd have to let all the established traffic come back which is kind of primitive. The 2.4 kernels with netfilter should be much better and let you keep state). As for Netmeeting. Well, the short answer is don't use it. We don't allow it at work and I wouldn't use it at home if I could. H.323 is a horribly written protocol and as more people move to NAT'ing gateways I hope it dies off and gets replaced with something a little more easy to firewall. Even with a valid routable IP you basically have to just allow all ephemeral UDP and TCP ports in and out to your Netmeeting machine. BAD BAD BAD. Ugh.
Well, I could see if they asked the site first but just mirroring copyrighted content would get them in a boatload of trouble very quickly. Besides, maybe the sites LIKE to get slashdotted. Especially those with banner ads. That's the whole point of putting up a web site with ads isn't it?
I don't know why this hasn't caught on. It'd be really neat if someone could get some law passed that made it mandatory for all kids under the age of 18 to have radio tags under their skin for tracking purposes. You could also use them like a smart card and store credits and stuff in them for school lunches. Then if your kid wanders off or gets kidnapped, break out the tracker and just go find him. I suppose people would freak out about "privacy" and "mark of Satan" and stuff like that but I think it'd be a swell invention that would help out law enforcement all around. Problem is finding a battery that'd last 18 years I guess.
You make a very good point. Schools especially should be using a default deny policy and only open up sites that kids need to reach to do their research. Maybe subscribe to some kind of service that acts as a front page for k-12 research that keeps them from getting at the Internet-at-large. The last thing I want my local tax dollars going to is providing Internet access so a bunch of high schoolers can jerk off in the library. Go home and do that on your DSL.
Hey, if a user is committing a crime, they deserve to be spanked by the authorities. I have no problems with giving as much information as necessary to make sure they can find them and prosecute them.
Small cost of buying them? The US Government *never* buys anything for a "small cost". I would expect each DVD player to have been purchased for at least $12,000 dollars. While YOU may see them as identical to the $200 model you see at Circuit City, they are actually structurally reinforced and radiation proofed for special hazardous ops on the ISS.
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Of course, probably 75% of Napster users couldn't vote anyway (either non-US citizens or teenagers).
This is all a big phase. Everyone goes through their "I'm a l33t w4r3z p1r4t3 d00d now" phase.
So just use Gnutella and let Napster die people! Centralized services are destined for the junkyard. They provide someone to sue and someone to shutdown. We need a massive de-centralized peer-to-peer system to distribute both copyrighted materials and non-copyrighted materials in the interests of free speech. F*** the RIAA and MPAA.
The flaw in Goldin's logic is that you can never attain all 3 of the "better, faster, cheaper" catch words. Especially not when human life is concerned. Sure, you can develop cheap reliable space transport, but it would take decades to perfect it (i.e. the Space Shuttle is 60's technology built in the late 70's and still operating relatively cheaply today and it's definitely proved reliable. Only 1% failure rate.) Now, to get faster and cheaper you're going to sacrifice "better". I.e. we need to expect 66% of our Mars probes will fail but hey.. they only cost a fraction of what they would have if we would have done it "right" and only launched one. So the effect is we spend a little less than what we would've spent on one, have 2 out of 3 failures, and at least get one there. That proved to be a huge success, though the 2 failures look like huge black eyes for NASA. But hey, it's better, faster, cheaper remember? You have to break a few eggs. Personally, if I'm ever elected President by the Supreme Court I would slash the military by $100 billion and funnel it directly into NASA. I want to see more microgravity, aeronautics, and biotechnology research. I want to see a plethora of ground-to-space single stage vehicles emerging for high speed supersonic space based intercontinental civil transport. I think it's time we stopped spending so much damned money (to the tune of what.. a quarter of our budget?) building weapons of destruction and concentrate more on science and the arts. We're only 1 step out of the stone age here folks.
Cost of manned mission to Mars as estimated by NASA: $ 20 billion.
Estimated cost of national missile defense system: $ 60 billion.
President Bush accidently shooting down the Shuttle while playing aboard a US Nuclear Submarine: Priceless.
Am I afraid of nuclear war? No. No one is quite insane enough to start one. We've been on the brink of a nuclear disaster dozens of times in the last 50 years and no one has had the balls to go through with it. Am I afraid of nanites? Definitely. An entire population of these things could lie dormant for years in the bodies of your population until the time is right for the war to be executed. In seconds you could kill every man, woman, and child on an entire continent without harming one building, destroying one plant, or polluting the air with any toxins. It'd be pretty neat. I mean hell.. if I can think this sick fucking shit up, think of what the people in the Pentagon are thinking up! I don't WANT to see other people killed but that's their entire purpose in life. Their job is to kill people and break things and to be the best at it in the entire world. That's some scary stuff and a sad testiment to our society. Until humans can learn to get along we're just going to find better ways of killing ourselves. How pathetic we will seem to our ancestors 1000 years from now. We're still in the dark ages for all the scientific and cultural advances we've made in the last 1000 years.
Are you crazy? Sharks eat children and pray on helpless holiday boaters. I was watching this documentary a few years ago where this guy had to throw a scuba tank of air into the mouth of this huge Great White shark that was destroying their fishing boat and then shoot it with a rifle causing it to explode. It was very exciting but it makes it clear that sharks cannot be trusted and must be hunted to extinction.
Huh? USB? What's that? It's a Sun Ultra. You plug it into the network and you run compilers on it and shit. Maybe browse the web with Netscape or setup pine and a mail server on it. It's not like it's going to replace your PIII-1GHz box with 512 MB of ram and a $500 GeForce card. :-)
No, it doesn't seem odd. We wanted to add 512 megs of ram to our Ultra-60 and our quote was over $3500. 1 GB of ram is about $7000. *sigh*. Someone as Sun is smoking crack. Another UltraSparc-II 450 MHz processor is $5000. I mean for christ sakes. I can buy a new system with a 450 MHz Ultrasparc-II and 1 GB of ram for around $14k.
Huh? You can download Solaris's ISO images for both Intel and Sparc at the link off the website. Of course it's not "Free" as in speech but it's certainly free beer.
Naw, I was combining a few genres there. Marilyn Manson and ICP might do a cover together someday I guess. ;-)
Bah, chess is SOOO boring and is complicated with too many obscure rules. Now, Battle Chess.. that was fun. We need online realtime Battle Chess and then maybe it'd be interesting. Too many pussy chess players will sit there for minutes just thinking of their next move. There should be a 5 second time limit on each move and new rules that increase the fun. Maybe let the big castle thingies crush anything on the board if it can get to it in any direction or let the queen cast a spell on a pawn and turn it into a knight for 3 rounds. That'd rule.
I love games like Civilization and Sim City. They usually have the best cheats and people don't bitch at you when you use them like they do with real-time online networked games. I mean hell, who wants to sit around for half of forever to build up money in Sim City when you can just give yourself 2 billion, build a huge cool city and then kick its ass destroying it with tornadoes and seamonsters. :-)
Fair market value? You're joking right? CDs have NEVER come down in price from when they were first introduced even though that was a big sticking point. They were more expensive than tapes and they're STILL more expensive than tapes even though they cost a fraction of what it cost to make a tape. The recording industry is fucking us up the ass if you think that is fair market value. Fair market value for a 5 cent pressed CD would be maybe $1.. $2 if at least half went to the artist.
No more of your shit. No more force feeding us the music you think we want to hear. No more of you marketing violent movies to 11 year olds. No more selling a sexual image to pre-teen girls as the model to follow. No more bullshit. I think it's time for the world to stand up and say "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore." MPAA? Fuck you. RIAA? FUCK YOU TOO. Take your cookie-cutter bubblegum rockers and your homoerotic punk metal clown possies and shove them up your ass. Take your idiotic teenie-bopper horror slasher flicks and put them where the sun don't shine. It is time for us to wake up from this crazy capitalist induced nightmare that has resulted in us only having 5 huge mega-corporations being responsible for the sales, marketing, and creation of over 90% of the music, movies, and media in the world! What kind of sick society have we become where we allow this to happen? We exist to feed the fat overbearing media gods. Our only purpose in life is to make them profit so they can turn around and force more garbage down our throats.
Solaris 8 is free for machines with less than 8 processors for any purpose.
So I guess this wasn't just me. When playing Doom or Quake I had to turn the gamma correction all the way up and my contrast and brightness up or I couldn't see shit. Of course, the side effect of turning your brightness up is everything just gets even more washed out. Ugh. I wish game designers would really lighten up the levels a bit. A horrible devil-beast will look no more menacing in the light than if I couldn't see it at all in the pitch black. It's just a damned game.
Like what? Gnutella? I'm genuinely curious how they intend to take that down. The worst they could do is infest it with garbage and broken mp3's and make people give up in disgust. A valid way to kill it BTW. ;-)
I thought that's why you pay $40-$50 a month for cable TV or DSS. 24/7 streaming video and audio all in CD quality sound coming to a huge big screen monitor. I find it amusing that people sit at their 15" monitors and stare at a postage sized music video streaming over a 56K modem when they can see the same damn thing on MTV. hehe.
Napster is about 50% functional. i.e. you can download and search fine but no one can download off you. Well, unless you setup a SOCKS proxy. I use it all the time and it works fine behind an OpenBSD box. Most of the Gnutella clones out there let you set what your visible IP address is when you broadcast and you can just redirect the ports needed to your inside box to let people download from you. ICQ should probably work as well since I believe you're just connecting to a central server with an established connection. Just do a stateful rule (I guess with ipchains you'd have to let all the established traffic come back which is kind of primitive. The 2.4 kernels with netfilter should be much better and let you keep state). As for Netmeeting. Well, the short answer is don't use it. We don't allow it at work and I wouldn't use it at home if I could. H.323 is a horribly written protocol and as more people move to NAT'ing gateways I hope it dies off and gets replaced with something a little more easy to firewall. Even with a valid routable IP you basically have to just allow all ephemeral UDP and TCP ports in and out to your Netmeeting machine. BAD BAD BAD. Ugh.
Well, I could see if they asked the site first but just mirroring copyrighted content would get them in a boatload of trouble very quickly. Besides, maybe the sites LIKE to get slashdotted. Especially those with banner ads. That's the whole point of putting up a web site with ads isn't it?
I don't know why this hasn't caught on. It'd be really neat if someone could get some law passed that made it mandatory for all kids under the age of 18 to have radio tags under their skin for tracking purposes. You could also use them like a smart card and store credits and stuff in them for school lunches. Then if your kid wanders off or gets kidnapped, break out the tracker and just go find him. I suppose people would freak out about "privacy" and "mark of Satan" and stuff like that but I think it'd be a swell invention that would help out law enforcement all around. Problem is finding a battery that'd last 18 years I guess.
London? The British are on the Internet? Oh shit, there goes the neighborhood. :-)
You make a very good point. Schools especially should be using a default deny policy and only open up sites that kids need to reach to do their research. Maybe subscribe to some kind of service that acts as a front page for k-12 research that keeps them from getting at the Internet-at-large. The last thing I want my local tax dollars going to is providing Internet access so a bunch of high schoolers can jerk off in the library. Go home and do that on your DSL.
Hey, if a user is committing a crime, they deserve to be spanked by the authorities. I have no problems with giving as much information as necessary to make sure they can find them and prosecute them.
Small cost of buying them? The US Government *never* buys anything for a "small cost". I would expect each DVD player to have been purchased for at least $12,000 dollars. While YOU may see them as identical to the $200 model you see at Circuit City, they are actually structurally reinforced and radiation proofed for special hazardous ops on the ISS.