Fair answer, and a perfect lead in to my next theme - the Web desperately needs source materials released by the original authors. Despite your amusing license, if you are willing to do that, it will be an important step in the war against copyright tyranny.
Allow me to change about seven words from the draft bill floating around congress:
"Any unathorized viewing of any copyrighted item is a felony."
And since everything that exists has an instant copyright from the moment it was created, the first 1000 "country destroying IP-terrorists" made an example of will go way past chill - it will be cultural nuclear winter.
"Wheel Of Fortune 2.0! Is that screen of data in front of you the single authorized copy? No? You lose! Thanks for playing!"
Yes, it has gotten quite bad lately - almost precisely at the 2mil-uid mark here.
Slashdot tries to hold fast to the no-censor policy, so they're rather under fire.
The only system I can think of is some kind of turbo personal comment-blocker like adblock where the comment doesn't come back when you reload the page.
With the decline and fall of the outlets for actual paper books, comes exactly the dilemma you are in. I am actually not interested in how some previously established writer decides to feel all bold and self publish. I am more interesed in cases like yours - how do I as a user decide whether to download such books? Rather than my typical 4 paragraph posts, since people have told me I kept getting whooshed on this thread, I'll leave it as the rhetorical but honest question.
Honest question, which I feel is key to this area of copyleft etc -
Why is there no motivation for updating and revising it? Your original goal can't have been To Get Rich. What is your official opinion of people doing derivative works? I would advise you think in terms of the Creative Commons spread of licenses.
I have marked it for my notes, at the minimum to read, but also for alternative web experiments.
You might have been whooshed by a troll. Watch out for that spread between "critically acclaimed" and "commercially popular". He found a market for Scouts With Issues - and makes money at it. I'd call that a genius at literary branding.
Actually, you brought up a problem the *excerpt* doesn't even get into - the whole cores & threading tussle. (But this is from a whole book, so we can't speak to the whole contents!). It might mean that a 64 core computer might only use some 4 cores because every dev can't always work in the complexity of parceling out tasks to an undefined number of cores and have it optimize every time. In that sense we might lose ground against Moore's law early.
Maybe it would take a hardware plateau for the big software corps to finally knuckle down and do a ruthless rewrite for optimization on existing features, and get a software side quad increase in effects.
Is it remotely possible that what goes on in the Premier App Store of the country then becomes a microcosm of what the country "decides it is thinking"? I'm not good enough at the math to do this next bit, but as a fast & rough theory, we're starting to get a Walled Garden set of laws. See that new law floating around Congress about Felonies for unauthorized streaming etc... with that level of hyperbole, I'm absolutely sure there can be a Rated G rider in it or following it that Hate Speech leads to Discontent and Discontent breeds Terrorism and therefore Hate Speech is a threat to National Security.
So what they do with the app can be spun into talk debates on both outcomes. If they allow it, they "support the Right Wing agenda", if they ban it, it is "Apple over-controlling the software-consumer interface" and more.
All of these partial examples are building into deep social pressure that is going to overflow soon.
For all the cool tricks we can develop, all the authorities have to do is Ban X, which is the modified object, then just continue the fear campaign. We can't develop 50 new tricks per day.
Also, the range is a problem. I can think of any number of short-range Godel Encoding themes, but it does me no good if the audience is my neighbor. To get news out of Country Z, you need some kind of data that leaves Country Z that can't just be the subject of more regulations.
I'l leave it as an exercise which way the causal sequence runs, but I feel that such tv episodes are a profound mechanism for social processing. While geeks can do it within a few weeks after reading a couple of SF stories or novels, it seems to take a many years for society as a whole to get there. Arguably it took twenty years for society to really process sexuality issues.
Now if "we're taking on safety vs security", I'd start the clock at 9-11 and say we're half way there at the 10th anniversary this year. But maybe it will happen in another ten years.
The "heartland" of America gets its news... wait for it... from the plot stories of their TV shows. So when entire episodes are starting to feature the Homeland Security doings, Mr. & Ms Viewer are just about to say "wait, they're doing that?"
I remember an interesting moment when Netscape was all the rage at college, and I first was hearing of IE 3 etc, and figuring it was some sort of Microsoft me-too effort like their later consumer offerings. I had it mentally pegged like the Zune. Then a couple of years passed, and by IE5 suddenly all these "optimized for IE, if you use something else you're not worth bothering with" sites.
I personally didn't see magic between IE5 and IE6 as a consumer, but I did vaguely notice that once it hit IE6 it stalled out pretty badly. I only much later learned about concepts like Enterprise Lockin, but the short time period is amazing to me now - between about 1996-1999.
Plus any kind of pesudo-timeline like that makes no sense either. "In a mere two hundred years or so" the tech will appear to molecular-sanitize a failed nuke site.
Slashdot Mirror
Fair answer, and a perfect lead in to my next theme - the Web desperately needs source materials released by the original authors. Despite your amusing license, if you are willing to do that, it will be an important step in the war against copyright tyranny.
Been there, Agreed to that. You can check my web branding if you like.
So I shall honorably enter your text into my collection of source materials for web-justice projects.
Shang Tsung, is that you?
Good effort, but you're not evil enough.
Allow me to change about seven words from the draft bill floating around congress:
"Any unathorized viewing of any copyrighted item is a felony."
And since everything that exists has an instant copyright from the moment it was created, the first 1000 "country destroying IP-terrorists" made an example of will go way past chill - it will be cultural nuclear winter.
"Wheel Of Fortune 2.0! Is that screen of data in front of you the single authorized copy? No? You lose! Thanks for playing!"
Sorry, I'd rather not be condemned to repeat 1950's Russia.
Yes, it has gotten quite bad lately - almost precisely at the 2mil-uid mark here.
Slashdot tries to hold fast to the no-censor policy, so they're rather under fire.
The only system I can think of is some kind of turbo personal comment-blocker like adblock where the comment doesn't come back when you reload the page.
With the decline and fall of the outlets for actual paper books, comes exactly the dilemma you are in. I am actually not interested in how some previously established writer decides to feel all bold and self publish. I am more interesed in cases like yours - how do I as a user decide whether to download such books? Rather than my typical 4 paragraph posts, since people have told me I kept getting whooshed on this thread, I'll leave it as the rhetorical but honest question.
There Is No Whoosh in copyright discussions anymore.
Honest question, which I feel is key to this area of copyleft etc -
Why is there no motivation for updating and revising it? Your original goal can't have been To Get Rich. What is your official opinion of people doing derivative works? I would advise you think in terms of the Creative Commons spread of licenses.
I have marked it for my notes, at the minimum to read, but also for alternative web experiments.
Hmm - this line of the license says that we can modify and then use the text without pre-securing permissions from you.
"You are allowed to use it, view it, modify it without permission of the author Eugene Blanchard."
You might have been whooshed by a troll. Watch out for that spread between "critically acclaimed" and "commercially popular". He found a market for Scouts With Issues - and makes money at it. I'd call that a genius at literary branding.
Does a Sound Byte have room for eight different kinds of Evil Bits?
(Parody)
Eat a child today! After all, he'll die of starvation out in Africa, so end his misery!
(/Parody)
Watch out for those new laws kicking around congress, because it might soon become illegal to stream from a non authorized source.
Actually, you brought up a problem the *excerpt* doesn't even get into - the whole cores & threading tussle. (But this is from a whole book, so we can't speak to the whole contents!). It might mean that a 64 core computer might only use some 4 cores because every dev can't always work in the complexity of parceling out tasks to an undefined number of cores and have it optimize every time. In that sense we might lose ground against Moore's law early.
Maybe it would take a hardware plateau for the big software corps to finally knuckle down and do a ruthless rewrite for optimization on existing features, and get a software side quad increase in effects.
Maybe they are the same thing in a Web 2.0 World.
We might have a real Ouroboros going on here.
Is it remotely possible that what goes on in the Premier App Store of the country then becomes a microcosm of what the country "decides it is thinking"? I'm not good enough at the math to do this next bit, but as a fast & rough theory, we're starting to get a Walled Garden set of laws. See that new law floating around Congress about Felonies for unauthorized streaming etc... with that level of hyperbole, I'm absolutely sure there can be a Rated G rider in it or following it that Hate Speech leads to Discontent and Discontent breeds Terrorism and therefore Hate Speech is a threat to National Security.
So what they do with the app can be spun into talk debates on both outcomes. If they allow it, they "support the Right Wing agenda", if they ban it, it is "Apple over-controlling the software-consumer interface" and more.
All of these partial examples are building into deep social pressure that is going to overflow soon.
There's a Systems problem here too.
For all the cool tricks we can develop, all the authorities have to do is Ban X, which is the modified object, then just continue the fear campaign. We can't develop 50 new tricks per day.
Also, the range is a problem. I can think of any number of short-range Godel Encoding themes, but it does me no good if the audience is my neighbor. To get news out of Country Z, you need some kind of data that leaves Country Z that can't just be the subject of more regulations.
Packet lost.
I'll go further.
I'l leave it as an exercise which way the causal sequence runs, but I feel that such tv episodes are a profound mechanism for social processing. While geeks can do it within a few weeks after reading a couple of SF stories or novels, it seems to take a many years for society as a whole to get there. Arguably it took twenty years for society to really process sexuality issues.
Now if "we're taking on safety vs security", I'd start the clock at 9-11 and say we're half way there at the 10th anniversary this year. But maybe it will happen in another ten years.
I think that's just about to change.
The "heartland" of America gets its news ... wait for it ... from the plot stories of their TV shows. So when entire episodes are starting to feature the Homeland Security doings, Mr. & Ms Viewer are just about to say "wait, they're doing that?"
Greed is never satisfied.
Research to determine the current status of the Creator:
1. Rent/License a project use of the LHC Time Machine effect to send a packet back in time to the time of the Creator. "Hi God!"
2. Wait for response.
I remember an interesting moment when Netscape was all the rage at college, and I first was hearing of IE 3 etc, and figuring it was some sort of Microsoft me-too effort like their later consumer offerings. I had it mentally pegged like the Zune. Then a couple of years passed, and by IE5 suddenly all these "optimized for IE, if you use something else you're not worth bothering with" sites.
I personally didn't see magic between IE5 and IE6 as a consumer, but I did vaguely notice that once it hit IE6 it stalled out pretty badly. I only much later learned about concepts like Enterprise Lockin, but the short time period is amazing to me now - between about 1996-1999.
Plus any kind of pesudo-timeline like that makes no sense either. "In a mere two hundred years or so" the tech will appear to molecular-sanitize a failed nuke site.