Yes, the internet is here. Of course anyone can produce stuff for "free" and give it away. In this case, your music is being subsidized by your "regular job". However, you're supposed to be finding ways for musicians to support themselves *by* their music. That's what a big record company is "supposed" to be about. (Re: Janis Ian, they're not, but that's another story.)
I can think of two cousin models: Self Printed books, and Shareware. Honestly, because such things do tend to be second tier producers, they have second tier quality much of the time. (The exceptions have to fight the statistical average.) I'll propose that anyone's self produced anything can sell 25-100 copies. But going over that 100 copy mark could be difficult. There may be exceptions, but then wouldn't the artist be too exhausted selling, to create? So then they think of hiring a sales agent... and WHAM, that's when it suddenly gets expensive, requiring greater sales to break even, and so on.
*Thank You* for getting to this aspect of the problem.
Now all the first line IT support guys get to field hundreds of "What is this??" calls. Because the end users won't know what exactly they downloaded, and will be horrified when "nothing is available" anymore.
The balance of the arguments is so out of kilter I can barely treat it as an argument of merit. Currently, the net is a (mostly) impersonal collection of linked devices. ISP providers take their chances and either succeed, or fizzle.
I am paying Verizon for the cabeling that allows data to flow. That is their revenue source, fair and square. There is no way Verizon should ever get *content control* over what flows ON their net cable. Yes, they have somehow achieved this lock on the cell phone side, to the pain of the article author.
The second any of these big carriers gets content supervision rights that somehow pass a court appeal, then they gain a completely corruptible level of power. Why? Because the NEXT thing that happens is they start making deals. "I'll block Atheist traffic for a cut of your action, Mr. Robertson."
The Slashdot review word for this post is Dissolve... which the net will do. End Of Line.
My company has whipped through an astounding number of office people recently. I am apparently surviving precisely because I am closer to the Jack than the master. I spend large chunks of my day trying to maneuver into "what my boss wants, not what he asks for".
In prior companies, I saw abuse occuring because management would try to bully people into working through lunch, etc, as an excuse not to hire.
"The problem is, I think, rather that we have spent 20 years telling users they don't have to understand computing to use computers, and placed colorful metaphors between the users and the screens. We succeeded, and now the malware is exploiting the places where the metaphors break down. And those metaphors are everywhere: the C array which we treat as an input buffer; the bits on a line we treat as a well-behaved full-duplex connection between two programs; the little icons that tell people 'click me and you'll see I'm a ZIP file which opens neatly in WinZip'..."
And this was the drastic step it took to *finally* grind computers from "something for nerds" to "Oh, well, I guess I have to use one of those myself".
I'm sure the Cadre of users in force in 1990 proportionally knew much more, and despite the low level of malware, would have fared much better.
We achieved our sales objective of giving the otherwise-nonusers a computer, so by the logic of the sales mentality, "later is now", the time to use some of 2003's sales money to work on anti-malware.
In a splendid world, I'd like to see some of that money making Linux ready for a NewDecade Rollout for these same users by 2010, but unfortunately, that sales money is stuck cross-platform with Micro$oft. Oops.
I agree. How many more "BullyWare" items will they build in?
I will probably buy an entire spare "Twilight" build of a Kentsfield and XP, as the last Windows machine I want to grind into dust. I'm sure UAC (even with reports of improvement) will be a disaster, and I'm absolutely terified of the "1000 programs will break because programs can't write where they want to anymore". See the key comment : "There's really nothing here to WANT".
I tend to visit/. "fresh", before logging in. When you hit reply, the page generated contains an Anti-Script word to verify it is a real person. If you log in first, you don't see them.
As a general rule, I tell my browser not to save passwords.
Did anyone else connect this with the story of the Chinese kids looking for Bad Stuff? So, is the UK going to "lease" that service to enforce their ASBO? And see the US's use of "Sweeping Powers".
Wikipedia says it's not, in the US. That on the download side the user is violating the new laws. Whether it's enforceable, is something else.
Y'all are right, the site appears to be in the black doing "something" right. (It's not clear what they actually pay out, or whether that's site-BS.)
Songs won't be 99 cents forever, like computer technology, someone has to burst their bubble, and once burst, it won't go back. I earmarked 25 cents as my magic figure to let the cash begin flowing.
I'd heard the fun stories of Win95, so I was glad when a machine gifted to me in 1998 happened to have then-new Win98. The poor little PII 133mhz machine had to give out eventually, if the inability to play Mp3's & chess program Crafty at the same time didn't get me first.
When it came time to get a new CheapBeast, I learned that my former Satellite ISP didn't support Win98... so software *is* beginning to require migration out of Win98. Unlike legacy cars, there was really no extra fun to be had to return to Win98.
Win95/98/Me/2000 whipped along. So I can see some phaseouts. XP, by next year, will have been around as long as *all of them combined*. MS has to service what people have, and they really can't possibly expect to bully people into Vista.
Plus, current Beta reports of Vista are that it is currently far LESS stable than XP right now. And even if it does eventually become "stable", there are serious concerns that "nest-to-newest" software in real usage in businesses, will crash on Vista, or at best hopelessly overload IT staff with user questions.
I'm less a game player, but this is in fact why I prefer either modern fantasy or science fiction. Unless there's a fantastic new twist, I am indeed completely tired of "14th Century Europe".
I recently purchased about four sets of the major founding works, "because they created the genre", but I refuse to read any clone works of these.
--TaoPhoenix
As a mid-line computer user, about every four years I surveyed the "Trinity" of OS's.
1994: Mac: - In use Microsoft: Dos (Respect it, but 'too old to learn a dinosaur'.
Windows 3.1: "You've GOT to be kidding me" Linux: "Did that even exist then?"
1998: Microsoft: - In Use. "My friend gave me a FREE Win98 Box." Mac: - "Sorry, but companies are using Windows" Linux: - "Did I know about that then?"
2002: Microsoft: - Windows 2000 in use. "XP has an ugly new patch coming up." Mac: - "OS 10 looks stable, but everything is in funny places." Linux: - "Keeping my eyes on it, waiting for MS to screw up"
2006: Microsoft: - "Win XP is the standard, and now they're cheap too. $600 Comps!" Mac: - "Did they hire Dr. Dolittle? And stuff is still in funny places". Linux: - "Since Vista will be unusable, time to buy a practice Linux Box."
So I'll probably buy a couple more cheap XP boxes just to have floating around, in anticipation of the day when OEMs will begin flooding the world with PreBuilt Vista beasts. On a Parallel track, I think reports are that Linux is finally addressing the glitches at the user experience level, so it's time to practice.
We're running what I believe is an embedded form of Win2003 Server, with an Admin session feeding out to client sessions. There's some real power hitters on this thread, and I'm more of a nuisance-fixer, not a server admin.
But the construction software company Sage, maker of Timberline, has confirmed that the differences in the design of the hardware virtualization interferes with the Timberline software. My manager is less than thrilled, and is seriously considering changing server designs.
So, our one-case sample has shown some real frustrations.
I like my blend of "Olde School" Books, along with the net.
I'm not a Now-Freak, so I am just as happy watching an entire season on DVD the following year because that, too, has no commercials. Books used to have ads, but someone stamped them out 40 years ago.
I transitioned out of AOL into the usual mix of webmails, etc. When I uninstalled AOL, it nuked my Satellite ISP which took me 6 months to fix. So they can't even write a decent uninstaller.
Let me chime in with a variant on the theme. Verizon put me through 13 weeks of frustration through a display of Corporate Arrogance.
The setup: My Apt unit is a stand alone building, wired underground to the switch box attached to the building behind me.
Round 1: Customer (Me) calls up: "I'd like a Dry Loop DSL Line. " Rep: (I talked to four departments over and over, so department is irrelevant) "Thank you for calling Verizon.... Your scheduled physical install is 3 weeks from today."
3 weeks later: On Site Tech was unable to locate the wire (though not really his fault.) The landlord visited, and labeled it better. But - the tech was *not* able to visit the next day. Time to wait 3 more weeks.
19 days later, a mysterious email arrives. "We are sorry you have chosen not to visit Verizon." I called up. Rep: "We couldn't figure out the address, so our system deleted the account". Me: "Well, let's re-order." Rep: "Okay. Your new install date is (wait for it...) 3 weeks from now." Me: "Put a note in large letters on the customer account: 'Call Client when Tech is dispatched.' " (Presumably they did. Onsite tech ignores it.)
I called to check in about 4 days later: Rep: "They did a line test, and your service appears to be working, so they didn't send a tech." Me: "I *ASKED* for an onsite tech. He needs to wire my standalone building." Rep: "Wait 3 weeks."
Then they spelled both my first AND last name wrong. Twice. Differently. Both install CD's they sent were defective.
I only survived because I have moderate computer skills of my own.
"Only" 4 and 6% eh? Heck, the ENTIRE collective of one of my Soccer Camp cabins engaged in all kinds of mischief, which works, because they know full well the counselors only "care" erratically.
Those medications were approved because *something* was better than staring the Placebo Effect in the face.
I have my doubts about that particular class of medications. Like all technology, they started out pretty ugly, for desperate situations. There are some alternative compounds beginning to appear.
Those medications are *exceedingly* subtle medications, and in my opinion, there are *thundering* problems with objectivity in every single instance of a person taking one. (The people close to him definitively treat him differently *because* he is taking a medication, leading to a slowly building warped environment.)
Given Micro$atan's creative re-writing of definitions, I have to post this as only a guess. As I understood their terms, "Beta" is the big "hack together and let it ALL break at once, and spend months later sifting through zillions of error reports". AKA, it means Wood&Duct-Tape experimentation with stuff.
A Release Candidate says they're starting to get serious with their final feature set, and is supposed to be far improved. Depending upon the application's distribution pattern, you may need to have some qualification to get intermediate releases. Paul Thurrott specifically slammed M$ for not waiting 7 weeks to release what he says, for 7 weeks of work, a tremendously better "Should-Have-Been-Beta" build. Get this - it's "from a different development tree - not part of the Beta line, but part of the Release Candidate line" - Read "quit goofing around and start getting serious".
I must respectfully disagree. I feel Damien posted a classic example of a well meaning post, which offers tremendous room for the abuses mentioned elsewhere. Let's look.
1. "Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. If somebody weren't looking for MP3 files, he would not stumple upon any either." --- Any time I do web research, ads for edgy materials abound on pages, presumably originating from sponsors who pay the page creator. After all, we are moving towards the ad-supported web model.
2. "I don't see how creating a database to help combat child porn limits your freedom, or that of your children." --- Change the emphasis; Database the noun, is an object that sits somewhere, and looks innocent. (Is it?) Instead, it's Create the verb, that leaves room for abuse. --- And is the database innocent? To imagine that *no-one* wants a crack at the Dark Side's Holy Grail is an innocence that died in the 20th century.
3. "Are you trying to imply that doing your best to make sure the laws are enforced is a bad thing ? No matter how unpopular a law is, it's still law as long as it is on the books." --- It isn't a law, until the Administration PR campaign swindles enough congress-people into making it a law. And some of the laws themselves are created for less than noble ends. That's why the Judicial System exists - to prevent unholy collaborations between the Executive and Legislative Branches.... Except the Administration is trying to stack the Judiciary Deck.
I'm far from being an expert, but as I understood matters, you are closer to the track of IE "having no standards". IE suffers in large part due to being "CobbleWare", which desperately tries not to further pulverize the already broken decisions of the Win9x days.
Current standards are based upon a crisp programming model which tries to be sharp and efficient. However, if those WebMasters cobbled their own sites to play to IE, we get the "theory vs public opinion" debate that seems typical between low 2nd tier users and anyone making any effort to learn about the computing experience.
I was pretty sad to see these too. Hooray for More Rectangles to Fall Out Of Pockets. Let me at a Cell Watch. I'm already collecting other ones.
I read a post dated a couple years ago that it's possible/exists in Asia because of better network technology, but "not yet possible in Western countries because we haven't yet figured out how to shrink it".
Anyone else notice that you get one phone, which you have to take everywhere, and if you lose it, you're torched? Put it on a watch, where you'll have to crash into a building to get rid of it.
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Yes, the internet is here. Of course anyone can produce stuff for "free" and give it away. In this case, your music is being subsidized by your "regular job". However, you're supposed to be finding ways for musicians to support themselves *by* their music. That's what a big record company is "supposed" to be about. (Re: Janis Ian, they're not, but that's another story.)
I can think of two cousin models: Self Printed books, and Shareware. Honestly, because such things do tend to be second tier producers, they have second tier quality much of the time. (The exceptions have to fight the statistical average.)
I'll propose that anyone's self produced anything can sell 25-100 copies. But going over that 100 copy mark could be difficult. There may be exceptions, but then wouldn't the artist be too exhausted selling, to create? So then they think of hiring a sales agent... and WHAM, that's when it suddenly gets expensive, requiring greater sales to break even, and so on.
I wish I had some answers.
TaoPhoenix
*Thank You* for getting to this aspect of the problem.
Now all the first line IT support guys get to field hundreds of "What is this??" calls. Because the end users won't know what exactly they downloaded, and will be horrified when "nothing is available" anymore.
The balance of the arguments is so out of kilter I can barely treat it as an argument of merit. Currently, the net is a (mostly) impersonal collection of linked devices. ISP providers take their chances and either succeed, or fizzle.
... which the net will do. End Of Line.
I am paying Verizon for the cabeling that allows data to flow. That is their revenue source, fair and square. There is no way Verizon should ever get *content control* over what flows ON their net cable. Yes, they have somehow achieved this lock on the cell phone side, to the pain of the article author.
The second any of these big carriers gets content supervision rights that somehow pass a court appeal, then they gain a completely corruptible level of power. Why? Because the NEXT thing that happens is they start making deals.
"I'll block Atheist traffic for a cut of your action, Mr. Robertson."
The Slashdot review word for this post is Dissolve
Does anyone know the exact cash flow route from that hacked MySpace ad that installed NastyWare on people's machines?
Is there any chance they are really down to make server/code improvements?
My company has whipped through an astounding number of office people recently.
I am apparently surviving precisely because I am closer to the Jack than the master.
I spend large chunks of my day trying to maneuver into "what my boss wants, not what he asks for".
In prior companies, I saw abuse occuring because management would try to bully people into working through lunch, etc, as an excuse not to hire.
"The problem is, I think, rather that we have spent 20 years telling users they don't have to understand computing to use computers, and placed colorful metaphors between the users and the screens. We succeeded, and now the malware is exploiting the places where the metaphors break down. And those metaphors are everywhere: the C array which we treat as an input buffer; the bits on a line we treat as a well-behaved full-duplex connection between two programs; the little icons that tell people 'click me and you'll see I'm a ZIP file which opens neatly in WinZip' ..."
And this was the drastic step it took to *finally* grind computers from "something for nerds" to "Oh, well, I guess I have to use one of those myself".
I'm sure the Cadre of users in force in 1990 proportionally knew much more, and despite the low level of malware, would have fared much better.
We achieved our sales objective of giving the otherwise-nonusers a computer, so by the logic of the sales mentality, "later is now", the time to use some of 2003's sales money to work on anti-malware.
In a splendid world, I'd like to see some of that money making Linux ready for a NewDecade Rollout for these same users by 2010, but unfortunately, that sales money is stuck cross-platform with Micro$oft. Oops.
--TaoPhoenix
I agree. How many more "BullyWare" items will they build in?
I will probably buy an entire spare "Twilight" build of a Kentsfield and XP, as the last Windows machine I want to grind into dust. I'm sure UAC (even with reports of improvement) will be a disaster, and I'm absolutely terified of the "1000 programs will break because programs can't write where they want to anymore". See the key comment : "There's really nothing here to WANT".
I tend to visit /. "fresh", before logging in. When you hit reply, the page generated contains an Anti-Script word to verify it is a real person. If you log in first, you don't see them.
As a general rule, I tell my browser not to save passwords.
"The connection with the server has been reset. Please start over".
/. Preview Word is "Manure".
And has anyone done the Time Value calculations on either your billable rate at work or the "opportunity cost of 5 lost hours" in your leisure time?
P.S. the
--TaoPhoenix
Did anyone else connect this with the story of the Chinese kids looking for Bad Stuff? So, is the UK going to "lease" that service to enforce their ASBO? And see the US's use of "Sweeping Powers".
Wikipedia says it's not, in the US. That on the download side the user is violating the new laws. Whether it's enforceable, is something else.
Y'all are right, the site appears to be in the black doing "something" right. (It's not clear what they actually pay out, or whether that's site-BS.)
Songs won't be 99 cents forever, like computer technology, someone has to burst their bubble, and once burst, it won't go back. I earmarked 25 cents as my magic figure to let the cash begin flowing.
I'd heard the fun stories of Win95, so I was glad when a machine gifted to me in 1998 happened to have then-new Win98. The poor little PII 133mhz machine had to give out eventually, if the inability to play Mp3's & chess program Crafty at the same time didn't get me first. When it came time to get a new CheapBeast, I learned that my former Satellite ISP didn't support Win98 ... so software *is* beginning to require migration out of Win98. Unlike legacy cars, there was really no extra fun to be had to return to Win98.
Win95/98/Me/2000 whipped along. So I can see some phaseouts. XP, by next year, will have been around as long as *all of them combined*. MS has to service what people have, and they really can't possibly expect to bully people into Vista.
Plus, current Beta reports of Vista are that it is currently far LESS stable than XP right now. And even if it does eventually become "stable", there are serious concerns that "nest-to-newest" software in real usage in businesses, will crash on Vista, or at best hopelessly overload IT staff with user questions.
I'm less a game player, but this is in fact why I prefer either modern fantasy or science fiction. Unless there's a fantastic new twist, I am indeed completely tired of "14th Century Europe". I recently purchased about four sets of the major founding works, "because they created the genre", but I refuse to read any clone works of these. --TaoPhoenix
As a mid-line computer user, about every four years I surveyed the "Trinity" of OS's.
1994:
Mac: - In use
Microsoft: Dos (Respect it, but 'too old to learn a dinosaur'.
Windows 3.1: "You've GOT to be kidding me"
Linux: "Did that even exist then?"
1998:
Microsoft: - In Use. "My friend gave me a FREE Win98 Box."
Mac: - "Sorry, but companies are using Windows"
Linux: - "Did I know about that then?"
2002:
Microsoft: - Windows 2000 in use. "XP has an ugly new patch coming up."
Mac: - "OS 10 looks stable, but everything is in funny places."
Linux: - "Keeping my eyes on it, waiting for MS to screw up"
2006:
Microsoft: - "Win XP is the standard, and now they're cheap too. $600 Comps!"
Mac: - "Did they hire Dr. Dolittle? And stuff is still in funny places".
Linux: - "Since Vista will be unusable, time to buy a practice Linux Box."
So I'll probably buy a couple more cheap XP boxes just to have floating around, in anticipation of the day when OEMs will begin flooding the world with PreBuilt Vista beasts. On a Parallel track, I think reports are that Linux is finally addressing the glitches at the user experience level, so it's time to practice.
--TaoPhoenix
Yea, this is what I see as the legacy of the Bush Years.
"Look! We got a terrorist! Now the other 20 years of suppression are justified!"
---TaoPhoenix
We're running what I believe is an embedded form of Win2003 Server, with an Admin session feeding out to client sessions. There's some real power hitters on this thread, and I'm more of a nuisance-fixer, not a server admin.
But the construction software company Sage, maker of Timberline, has confirmed that the differences in the design of the hardware virtualization interferes with the Timberline software. My manager is less than thrilled, and is seriously considering changing server designs.
So, our one-case sample has shown some real frustrations.
--TaoPhoenix
I like my blend of "Olde School" Books, along with the net.
I'm not a Now-Freak, so I am just as happy watching an entire season on DVD the following year because that, too, has no commercials. Books used to have ads, but someone stamped them out 40 years ago.
--TaoPhoenix
I transitioned out of AOL into the usual mix of webmails, etc. When I uninstalled AOL, it nuked my Satellite ISP which took me 6 months to fix. So they can't even write a decent uninstaller.
Let me chime in with a variant on the theme. Verizon put me through 13 weeks of frustration through a display of Corporate Arrogance.
... Your scheduled physical install is 3 weeks from today."
The setup: My Apt unit is a stand alone building, wired underground to the switch box attached to the building behind me.
Round 1: Customer (Me) calls up: "I'd like a Dry Loop DSL Line. "
Rep: (I talked to four departments over and over, so department is irrelevant) "Thank you for calling Verizon.
3 weeks later: On Site Tech was unable to locate the wire (though not really his fault.) The landlord visited, and labeled it better. But - the tech was *not* able to visit the next day. Time to wait 3 more weeks.
19 days later, a mysterious email arrives. "We are sorry you have chosen not to visit Verizon." I called up.
Rep: "We couldn't figure out the address, so our system deleted the account". Me: "Well, let's re-order."
Rep: "Okay. Your new install date is (wait for it...) 3 weeks from now."
Me: "Put a note in large letters on the customer account: 'Call Client when Tech is dispatched.' "
(Presumably they did. Onsite tech ignores it.)
I called to check in about 4 days later:
Rep: "They did a line test, and your service appears to be working, so they didn't send a tech."
Me: "I *ASKED* for an onsite tech. He needs to wire my standalone building."
Rep: "Wait 3 weeks."
Then they spelled both my first AND last name wrong. Twice. Differently.
Both install CD's they sent were defective.
I only survived because I have moderate computer skills of my own.
Grumpily,
TaoPhoenix
"Only" 4 and 6% eh? Heck, the ENTIRE collective of one of my Soccer Camp cabins engaged in all kinds of mischief, which works, because they know full well the counselors only "care" erratically.
Those medications were approved because *something* was better than staring the Placebo Effect in the face.
I have my doubts about that particular class of medications. Like all technology, they started out pretty ugly, for desperate situations. There are some alternative compounds beginning to appear.
Those medications are *exceedingly* subtle medications, and in my opinion, there are *thundering* problems with objectivity in every single instance of a person taking one. (The people close to him definitively treat him differently *because* he is taking a medication, leading to a slowly building warped environment.)
--TaoPhoenix
Given Micro$atan's creative re-writing of definitions, I have to post this as only a guess. As I understood their terms, "Beta" is the big "hack together and let it ALL break at once, and spend months later sifting through zillions of error reports". AKA, it means Wood&Duct-Tape experimentation with stuff.
A Release Candidate says they're starting to get serious with their final feature set, and is supposed to be far improved. Depending upon the application's distribution pattern, you may need to have some qualification to get intermediate releases. Paul Thurrott specifically slammed M$ for not waiting 7 weeks to release what he says, for 7 weeks of work, a tremendously better "Should-Have-Been-Beta" build. Get this - it's "from a different development tree - not part of the Beta line, but part of the Release Candidate line" - Read "quit goofing around and start getting serious".
--TaoPhoenix
I must respectfully disagree. I feel Damien posted a classic example of a well meaning post, which offers tremendous room for the abuses mentioned elsewhere. Let's look.
... Except the Administration is trying to stack the Judiciary Deck.
1. "Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. If somebody weren't looking for MP3 files, he would not stumple upon any either."
--- Any time I do web research, ads for edgy materials abound on pages, presumably originating from sponsors who pay the page creator. After all, we are moving towards the ad-supported web model.
2. "I don't see how creating a database to help combat child porn limits your freedom, or that of your children."
--- Change the emphasis; Database the noun, is an object that sits somewhere, and looks innocent. (Is it?) Instead, it's Create the verb, that leaves room for abuse.
--- And is the database innocent? To imagine that *no-one* wants a crack at the Dark Side's Holy Grail is an innocence that died in the 20th century.
3. "Are you trying to imply that doing your best to make sure the laws are enforced is a bad thing ? No matter how unpopular a law is, it's still law as long as it is on the books."
--- It isn't a law, until the Administration PR campaign swindles enough congress-people into making it a law. And some of the laws themselves are created for less than noble ends. That's why the Judicial System exists - to prevent unholy collaborations between the Executive and Legislative Branches.
---TaoPhoenix
I'm far from being an expert, but as I understood matters, you are closer to the track of IE "having no standards". IE suffers in large part due to being "CobbleWare", which desperately tries not to further pulverize the already broken decisions of the Win9x days.
Current standards are based upon a crisp programming model which tries to be sharp and efficient. However, if those WebMasters cobbled their own sites to play to IE, we get the "theory vs public opinion" debate that seems typical between low 2nd tier users and anyone making any effort to learn about the computing experience.
--TaoPhoenix
I was pretty sad to see these too. Hooray for More Rectangles to Fall Out Of Pockets. Let me at a Cell Watch. I'm already collecting other ones.
I read a post dated a couple years ago that it's possible/exists in Asia because of better network technology, but "not yet possible in Western countries because we haven't yet figured out how to shrink it".
Anyone else notice that you get one phone, which you have to take everywhere, and if you lose it, you're torched? Put it on a watch, where you'll have to crash into a building to get rid of it.