Most streams have very simple instructions to submit music and are eager to play it provided it fits with the overall theme of the stream. However, ensuring that none of the music in your playlist has fallen under the control of the RIAA means constantly auditing it which is a major pain in the ass.
Every station operator has to deal with the RIAA or face the sisyphean task of keeping their collection "clean." Your original post (one that has been repeated ad nauseum here on/.) was advocating the later and I said that it isn't feasible from the webcaster's standpoint.
My advice to you is to stop waiting for an "all-indie" station, find a stream that plays music similar to yours, and submit your music. I'm sure the operator would be happy to play it.
Your favorite internet radio station might not need $20,000 / year to operate, but its also a lot smaller than SomaFM. When you serve more users, costs go up.
I know Rusty and can vouch for the fact that he doesn't make money off SomaFM. How do I know that? I'm a co-worker of his at his daytime job. I don't know what else to say, but that you're an ignorant fool for making these kind of allegations against someone who has devoted a lot of time, energy and his own money into providing a free service for people, most of whom are far more appreciative than you are.
The RIAA buys small labels for this very reason. You'd have to check your playlist constantly to make sure that the RIAA doesn't own the rights to any song that you play. To say that this taks is onerous is an understatement. Basically, the RIAA uses its money to force everyone to deal with them.
So while everyone here likes to troll/. by posting the overly idealistic "just don't deal with the RIAA" (with no mention that 100 other people have posted the same idea to 50 other internet radio articles), it's just not a realistic idea. But you got your 5, so I guess you can be happy and everyone who modded this post can happily mod it up to 5 the next time someone posts it.
Here's a news flash for you...People like Rusty are also hobbiests. He makes nothing from SomaFM (donations of money and bandwidth never cover his costs.)
If you can't affort $500, you're small enough to not attract the RIAA's attention. Meanwhile, you're trying to de-rail a bill that would allow stations like SomaFM to provide thousands with a quality source of interesting music. It's because of people like Rusty who have put a lot of work into these negotiations that there is a deal that makes small-time webcasting even remotely feasible for you. Show some friggin' respect.
And how is your situation improved by this bill not passing? You're left with only the CARP rates which go into effect this month that would end up costing you way more than $500.
Yeah, it sucks having to pay the RIAA $500, but a) you're not going to get a better deal and b) you're ruining independant internet radio for the rest of us (and by us, I mean listeners). So cut your whining and let the bill pass.
I'm arguing the definition of publicly available (a term you used.) If something is not made available to the entirety of the public, how can it be considered publicly available?
If there's any argument to be made under the ADA, it's that computer makers like Dell and Gateway (and by extension, Microsoft) are not offering an equal product to the blind.
But as long as a service requires that you meet some qualification, it isn't public...and it's not right to value one qualification (being blind) over another one (not being able to afford a computer.)
These services are available to anyone who has enough money to purchase a computer. That's a huge difference. This means that there is a whole section of the population who does not have access to the services. These people are limited to calling Southwest's toll-free customer service line. That service, which *is* available to everyone, is fully accessible to the blind.
Not to be cold about it, but what makes you think that a blind person is more entitled to some web service than some person on welfare who has no possibility of even owning a computer?
Exactly...when I no longer have to worry about being liable for some eigth grader figuring out how to use code I write to pirate the latest Britbot album, I will be happy to maintain a blissful ignorance towards the world of politics.
But when techno-ignorant politicians threaten my chosen form of creative expression, I have to take an interest.
I basically want two things out of my elected officials:
One, don't mandate any hardware standard that prevents me from being creative. Basically, don't turn my multi-purpose computer into a DVD-player. Stop passing TCPA-like measures and limit the scope of a EULA and I'll be happy.
Two, don't make me a criminal for being creative. If others choose to do something immoral/illegal with my creations, that's their business and it should be taken up with them. Stop passing DMCA-like measures, and I'll be happy.
Isn't this notion of "interdiction" essentially a DoS attack?
It doesn't sound like a DoS at the IP level like your typical script kiddie would use. It sounds more like they would attempt to fill all the available download slots. Since most P2P programs allow you to limit the amount of concurrant uploads and downloads, if the RIAA filled all of them, any request from a legitimate user would get queued almost indefinitely.
If the law was passed, this section would probably result in gnutella clients adding a "ignore user" option.
What I'd like to see is integration with the talkabout walkie-talkies that everyone now uses at ski resorts. Just put a small mic in the collar of the jacket and add a control on the arm. The sound can be piped into the headphones you're already wearing.
Hell, you could even integrate in a cell phone...not like you'd get much reception on the slopes tho...
IIRC, the current laws applying to car manufacturers require that their entire line of automobiles get a certain level of average fuel efficiency. An all electric car doesn't help the manufacturer in this respect. But adding a hybrid line can allow a manufacturer to also sell those mamoth SUVs that measure fuel efficiency in gpm (instead of mpg).
That's why I have a sneaking suspicion why they always make hybrid cars look butt-ugly. They don't actually want to sell many of these, they just want to be able to sell their cash cow SUVs.
Dude...you almost had it. If you had included a link to a webserver running on your network in your post, half a million/. drones would have clicked it.
Then all you have to do is monitor the traffic between your gateway and your webserver. Presto! Instant T1 validation.
I remember a program back in the.bomb days that involved offering companies some tax credits in exchange for having employees teach classes at the local high school. The story, in general, focused on an IBM employee who taught a programming class one day a week. For him, it was a perk for someone who'd been a dedicated employee for many years...a chance to do something different. For IBM, it was a tax break. For the students, it meant learning programming from someone with 25+ years of industry experience.
Maybe the key is having teachers who do something in addition to teaching. I know I would love it if I had the chance to teach a class 1 day a week and work a normal job the other 4 (alas...sometimes 5 and 6).
The way this works is, you mandate formats, not applications.
Not quite...the format is not mandated, just the openness of the format. So, for example, if Microsoft were to produce full documentation (available free of charge) for the.doc file format, the state would be free to purchase copies of Microsoft Word for whatever price Microsoft agrees to. They would also be just as free to use OpenOffice which uses a completely different, yet still fully documented file format.
This is an update. If they don't feel they need to update the original EULA that you originally agreed to when installing the software for the first time, then you won't see a EULA.
However, you are still bound to the terms of the original EULA that you agreed to when you first installed the software (provided EULAs prove legally enforceable when legally challenged.)
Hmmm...blocking all AOL traffic...are you insane??? A small ISP that blocks all AOL traffic won't stay in business for long...if only because people need to send and recieve emails to/from @aol.com accounts. And that's not even considering the fact that %9x percent of the world's IM users use either AIM or ICQ.
The irony here is that your very post is being stored in a MySQL database on a site that is pretty famous for its high-availability/reliability./. has about a half million user accounts and is known for overwhelming other sites by simply linking to them. It seems to be working pretty well on this site.
You might have had a point if you'd mentioned that Oracle was more flexible than MySQL. MySQL doesn't have all the features that Oracle has. But if MySQL has the features that are needed for a given project/implementation, then it is a valid option.
I suppose anything that makes the end film better is a Good Thing.
Somehow I suspect that making cuts for time will only make the film better from the studio's point of view, not a fan's. From the studio's point of view, they want to make the movie as short as possible so that they can schedule more showings. I doubt your average trekkie would complain if the movie was 5 hours long (so long as it was a even numbered one...the odd ones should probably be shortened;)
The courts rightly recognized that employees should not be able to withhold potentially valuable ideas from their employer
Why rightly? An employee should have every right to withold any information in their head from their employer. It is the employer's responsibility to ensure that all important information is fully documented. They can claim ownership over any document the employee produces while in their employ. If the employee refuses to document an idea, then they can and should be fired. But it should be an employee's choice whether to divulge their idea or face being fired.
It would be similar to claiming patent infringement on an idea you had but never submitted a patent for. In both situations the question is when does an idea become ownable. In the case of a patent, it is clear that it becomes ownable the minute a full explanation is submitted to the USPTO. I see no difference why this case should be any different.
Yes but would the weapons designers have developed such cool technology if they could have purchased a PS2 for $199?
The fact that the technology necessary for a trip to the moon already exists and is at least partly available as commodity hardware greatly reduces the chance that anything revolutionary will result from it.
If you're competing against another country, you don't share your results with anyone outside your own country. If you're competing against yourself (as a human), you freely distribute any advance you make with the hope that someone else will be able to improve upon your work.
I hear that a lot from meat eaters who can't understand how vegetarians can be happy without eating meat. They simply don't believe that you can derive the same enjoyment from a vegetarian diet as you can from eating meat. But I don't believe this is the case.
Before I gave up meat, I used to love some meats...Pepperoni in particular. The mere thought of a pizza smothered in thin red meat circles would trigger my brain to release some sort of chemical that made me quite happy. Then came college when I gave up meat (hey...it was UC Santa Cruz, so it was trendy.) Now, I don't even like the smell of pepperoni and actually eating it will make me sick. But the interesting thing is, I still get that chemical happiness from just thinking about food that I like...it's just different foods now. Whereas before it was Pepperoni or a double cheeseburger, now it is a stir-fry with tofu or a spicy bean burger (<homer>mmm...spicy bean burger</homer>.)
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Most streams have very simple instructions to submit music and are eager to play it provided it fits with the overall theme of the stream. However, ensuring that none of the music in your playlist has fallen under the control of the RIAA means constantly auditing it which is a major pain in the ass.
/.) was advocating the later and I said that it isn't feasible from the webcaster's standpoint.
Every station operator has to deal with the RIAA or face the sisyphean task of keeping their collection "clean." Your original post (one that has been repeated ad nauseum here on
My advice to you is to stop waiting for an "all-indie" station, find a stream that plays music similar to yours, and submit your music. I'm sure the operator would be happy to play it.
Your favorite internet radio station might not need $20,000 / year to operate, but its also a lot smaller than SomaFM. When you serve more users, costs go up.
I know Rusty and can vouch for the fact that he doesn't make money off SomaFM. How do I know that? I'm a co-worker of his at his daytime job. I don't know what else to say, but that you're an ignorant fool for making these kind of allegations against someone who has devoted a lot of time, energy and his own money into providing a free service for people, most of whom are far more appreciative than you are.
The RIAA buys small labels for this very reason. You'd have to check your playlist constantly to make sure that the RIAA doesn't own the rights to any song that you play. To say that this taks is onerous is an understatement. Basically, the RIAA uses its money to force everyone to deal with them.
/. by posting the overly idealistic "just don't deal with the RIAA" (with no mention that 100 other people have posted the same idea to 50 other internet radio articles), it's just not a realistic idea. But you got your 5, so I guess you can be happy and everyone who modded this post can happily mod it up to 5 the next time someone posts it.
So while everyone here likes to troll
Here's a news flash for you...People like Rusty are also hobbiests. He makes nothing from SomaFM (donations of money and bandwidth never cover his costs.)
If you can't affort $500, you're small enough to not attract the RIAA's attention. Meanwhile, you're trying to de-rail a bill that would allow stations like SomaFM to provide thousands with a quality source of interesting music. It's because of people like Rusty who have put a lot of work into these negotiations that there is a deal that makes small-time webcasting even remotely feasible for you. Show some friggin' respect.
And how is your situation improved by this bill not passing? You're left with only the CARP rates which go into effect this month that would end up costing you way more than $500.
Yeah, it sucks having to pay the RIAA $500, but a) you're not going to get a better deal and b) you're ruining independant internet radio for the rest of us (and by us, I mean listeners). So cut your whining and let the bill pass.
How are they two different things?
I'm arguing the definition of publicly available (a term you used.) If something is not made available to the entirety of the public, how can it be considered publicly available?
If there's any argument to be made under the ADA, it's that computer makers like Dell and Gateway (and by extension, Microsoft) are not offering an equal product to the blind.
But as long as a service requires that you meet some qualification, it isn't public...and it's not right to value one qualification (being blind) over another one (not being able to afford a computer.)
These services are available to anyone who has enough money to purchase a computer. That's a huge difference. This means that there is a whole section of the population who does not have access to the services. These people are limited to calling Southwest's toll-free customer service line. That service, which *is* available to everyone, is fully accessible to the blind.
Not to be cold about it, but what makes you think that a blind person is more entitled to some web service than some person on welfare who has no possibility of even owning a computer?
Exactly...when I no longer have to worry about being liable for some eigth grader figuring out how to use code I write to pirate the latest Britbot album, I will be happy to maintain a blissful ignorance towards the world of politics.
But when techno-ignorant politicians threaten my chosen form of creative expression, I have to take an interest.
I basically want two things out of my elected officials:
One, don't mandate any hardware standard that prevents me from being creative. Basically, don't turn my multi-purpose computer into a DVD-player. Stop passing TCPA-like measures and limit the scope of a EULA and I'll be happy.
Two, don't make me a criminal for being creative. If others choose to do something immoral/illegal with my creations, that's their business and it should be taken up with them. Stop passing DMCA-like measures, and I'll be happy.
Isn't this notion of "interdiction" essentially a DoS attack?
It doesn't sound like a DoS at the IP level like your typical script kiddie would use. It sounds more like they would attempt to fill all the available download slots. Since most P2P programs allow you to limit the amount of concurrant uploads and downloads, if the RIAA filled all of them, any request from a legitimate user would get queued almost indefinitely.
If the law was passed, this section would probably result in gnutella clients adding a "ignore user" option.
While we're talking about games...
FCEU is a great GPL'd NES emulator. For anyone who grew up playing those 8-bit NES games, this is a must.
What I'd like to see is integration with the talkabout walkie-talkies that everyone now uses at ski resorts. Just put a small mic in the collar of the jacket and add a control on the arm. The sound can be piped into the headphones you're already wearing.
Hell, you could even integrate in a cell phone...not like you'd get much reception on the slopes tho...
IIRC, the current laws applying to car manufacturers require that their entire line of automobiles get a certain level of average fuel efficiency. An all electric car doesn't help the manufacturer in this respect. But adding a hybrid line can allow a manufacturer to also sell those mamoth SUVs that measure fuel efficiency in gpm (instead of mpg).
That's why I have a sneaking suspicion why they always make hybrid cars look butt-ugly. They don't actually want to sell many of these, they just want to be able to sell their cash cow SUVs.
My favorite bumper sticker that I've seen recently (also apropos in today's society):
"Why don't closed minds ever come with closed mouths?"
Dude...you almost had it. If you had included a link to a webserver running on your network in your post, half a million /. drones would have clicked it.
Then all you have to do is monitor the traffic between your gateway and your webserver. Presto! Instant T1 validation.
I remember a program back in the .bomb days that involved offering companies some tax credits in exchange for having employees teach classes at the local high school. The story, in general, focused on an IBM employee who taught a programming class one day a week. For him, it was a perk for someone who'd been a dedicated employee for many years...a chance to do something different. For IBM, it was a tax break. For the students, it meant learning programming from someone with 25+ years of industry experience.
Maybe the key is having teachers who do something in addition to teaching. I know I would love it if I had the chance to teach a class 1 day a week and work a normal job the other 4 (alas...sometimes 5 and 6).
The way this works is, you mandate formats, not applications.
.doc file format, the state would be free to purchase copies of Microsoft Word for whatever price Microsoft agrees to. They would also be just as free to use OpenOffice which uses a completely different, yet still fully documented file format.
Not quite...the format is not mandated, just the openness of the format. So, for example, if Microsoft were to produce full documentation (available free of charge) for the
This is an update. If they don't feel they need to update the original EULA that you originally agreed to when installing the software for the first time, then you won't see a EULA.
However, you are still bound to the terms of the original EULA that you agreed to when you first installed the software (provided EULAs prove legally enforceable when legally challenged.)
As long as you're connecting The Two Towers, why not use a couple palantírs?
Hmmm...blocking all AOL traffic...are you insane??? A small ISP that blocks all AOL traffic won't stay in business for long...if only because people need to send and recieve emails to/from @aol.com accounts. And that's not even considering the fact that %9x percent of the world's IM users use either AIM or ICQ.
The irony here is that your very post is being stored in a MySQL database on a site that is pretty famous for its high-availability/reliability. /. has about a half million user accounts and is known for overwhelming other sites by simply linking to them. It seems to be working pretty well on this site.
You might have had a point if you'd mentioned that Oracle was more flexible than MySQL. MySQL doesn't have all the features that Oracle has. But if MySQL has the features that are needed for a given project/implementation, then it is a valid option.
I suppose anything that makes the end film better is a Good Thing.
;)
Somehow I suspect that making cuts for time will only make the film better from the studio's point of view, not a fan's. From the studio's point of view, they want to make the movie as short as possible so that they can schedule more showings. I doubt your average trekkie would complain if the movie was 5 hours long (so long as it was a even numbered one...the odd ones should probably be shortened
...but even the acronym PLMS...Would it be possible to come up with a more intimidating bit of tech-speak for a product's name?
Just drop the L...it becomes much more intimidating.
The courts rightly recognized that employees should not be able to withhold potentially valuable ideas from their employer
Why rightly? An employee should have every right to withold any information in their head from their employer. It is the employer's responsibility to ensure that all important information is fully documented. They can claim ownership over any document the employee produces while in their employ. If the employee refuses to document an idea, then they can and should be fired. But it should be an employee's choice whether to divulge their idea or face being fired.
It would be similar to claiming patent infringement on an idea you had but never submitted a patent for. In both situations the question is when does an idea become ownable. In the case of a patent, it is clear that it becomes ownable the minute a full explanation is submitted to the USPTO. I see no difference why this case should be any different.
Yes but would the weapons designers have developed such cool technology if they could have purchased a PS2 for $199?
The fact that the technology necessary for a trip to the moon already exists and is at least partly available as commodity hardware greatly reduces the chance that anything revolutionary will result from it.
If you're competing against another country, you don't share your results with anyone outside your own country. If you're competing against yourself (as a human), you freely distribute any advance you make with the hope that someone else will be able to improve upon your work.
Think Closed Source vs Open Source...
I hear that a lot from meat eaters who can't understand how vegetarians can be happy without eating meat. They simply don't believe that you can derive the same enjoyment from a vegetarian diet as you can from eating meat. But I don't believe this is the case.
Before I gave up meat, I used to love some meats...Pepperoni in particular. The mere thought of a pizza smothered in thin red meat circles would trigger my brain to release some sort of chemical that made me quite happy. Then came college when I gave up meat (hey...it was UC Santa Cruz, so it was trendy.) Now, I don't even like the smell of pepperoni and actually eating it will make me sick. But the interesting thing is, I still get that chemical happiness from just thinking about food that I like...it's just different foods now. Whereas before it was Pepperoni or a double cheeseburger, now it is a stir-fry with tofu or a spicy bean burger (<homer>mmm...spicy bean burger</homer>.)