"1. It is not possible to 'accendently' log and record open WiFi points. It take a certain degree of skill, preporation, premeditation, planning."
I dont think anyone is claiming that. In fact, the system was being used expressly to find open, unencrypted wireless access points, such as a coffee bar that offers free internet, for example. This data could be an important addition to many of the free services google offers.
the 'accedent'(sp) was the logging of fragments of the data being transferred. This was data being transferred on totally open wireless points, the electronic equivalent of putting up a billboard or shouting out a window.
So it is indeed possible that, while driving down the street at a normal speed, the street car might have logged a fragment of your data as it cycled through the 13 wireless channels every second.
In other words, they might have caught a single letter of your billboard on the public street. Don't you think that an evil premeditated plan would be a little more effectively 'planed'?
"3. Officials, are not bound by the same privacy laws as 'normal' groups or individuals. So ofcourse the officials would be able to view the file and make a determination as to their content."
this is a very scary viewpoint.
a government can do anything simply because they want to?
ross, or whoever, your post seems to be a random pile of catch phrases and unassociated words. I think your post is a blatant attempt to create links back to your altogether scary seeming whispernet-published book.
we are not here to learn how you have elucidated a cure for world ills by curing homosexuality or whatever.
Now, on to the matter at hand.
Ideas into execution and the power of the first follower.
I think the video is a marvelous demonstration of human-herding and acts as a window into the way our minds work.
The concept of creating ideas with the hope that Someone, maybe not you, can follow them through is wonderful. not for personal gain, not even for fame and accord, just, as the quote goes "I invented something, and it came true because I said it out loud."
thanks for sharing this with us, Mike, and, heck, thanks Amex. You are still an evil corporation draining money away from the small business i work for, but at least Someone in charge of ads or public relations was clever enough to give mike some money, so bravo.
pure overall population density is mostly meaningless when it comes to looking at deployment of products like this.
Texas is a big state. I know, i lived there.
And there are a lot of people in Texas, but the 90+% majority of them live in a few metroplex clusters. DFW, San Antonio, Austin, Coastal, so on.
It is very easy to get service to those people in the cities, and it becomes scary hard to get service to the minority living out in the rural areas.
when Verizon, for example, could build 1 mile of fiber to connect to a thousand people in dallas compared to building 80 miles to connect to 20 people in Dustbowl City, you can se where the focus will lay.
While your crusade is as fruitful as Don Quixote tilting at windmills, you are certainly not afraid to argue your point. For that, you have my appreciation.
A few points, some more relevant then others.
~your website. It needs work. pages hosted on what seem to be home user web accounts, seemingly pointless scripting and an experience that seems clinky overall (sorry). This means it is harder to try and read up on your product and do business with you.
~"fighting pirates"
You need to become more familiar with.. oh.. lets call them "internet numbers". 1000 downloads is almost the same as zero. When someone infringes on your material, you cant consider it a lost on the same scale of a book stolen out of a store.
A copied E-book does not make $3, $7 or any other number disappear from your bank account.
~"I can see whole series being pirated"
Lets take a long series as an example. Dresden files. I own every single dresden files book currently available. In hardback and soft, and even a few copies of some of them, as they have suffered from damages.
I also have full txt and full reader versions of every single one of these books. If i obtained these files from an illicit evil piracy source, does it cause my.. hmm.. i dont like to think how much i might have spent, but does it magically return to my pocket?
My point being, your views of the market (and the infringing places are just as much part of the market as your sales) are skewed and you are missing the larger picture.
I think this is more about control over how publicity functions. American Idol does not want to promote someone into a success. Operating much like, well, every recording giant ever, they would much rather promote you Through themselves.
Dont encourage people to download the music you have had posted, free, on your own personal webspace. Instead guide everyone to Us, we will gladly sell them those tracks*
*you will not receive any royalties or payment.
It is just a fairly hamhanded and early attempt to make sure all success shortcircuited back into the IDOLSHOW
"In 1998, Riley convinced a small organization to name him "inventor of the week" by the submission of false information. The organization was using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website to host its site, but is in no way a part of MIT. Mr. Riley then purchased listings in fourteen "Who's Who" books and now claims that he is the "recipient (sic) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Invention Dimension Inventor of Week Award"."
Perhaps patent reform isnt the fraud you are looking for. So what are You being paid to distort the truth? Or is this (gasp) your secret identity, Ronny?
"It is an effective way of getting people who are worthwhile to join our efforts to protect America's patent system from the dullards :)"
18. Ronald J. Riley's Fraudulent Business Plan:
The tax exempt organizations create an appearance of legitimacy, particularly coupled with the hijacking of the lobbying group's name. Riley is constantly soliciting funds, yet reports on a charitable fundraising site that his operating costs average approximately $85.00 per month. Plaintiff believes that these businesses are false fronts raising tax-free contributions that are then funneled into Riley's personal possession and used to pay personal living expenses and operating expenses of his private business enterprises. In addition, Riley's consulting business and other financial enterprises are the sole beneficiary of the "tax-exempt" enterprises, and all of the businesses and corporations formed by Riley are for his sole and exclusive personal benefit. Indeed, his "tax exempt" website carries extensive advertising for Mr. Riley's private, non-exempt business enterprises and operates as commercial, for profit companies.
it seems, sadly, that this is the first recourse of the IP Maximalists. "anyone who disagrees with me must be a mentally defective shill.. and a pirate, who pillages poor defenseless inventors(probably while drinking Counterfeit Rum!). We need stronger laws to protect us from these monsters before they destroy truth, justice and apple pie."
I only speak for myself.
President and CEO of Tek'a Co
Alliance for Tek'a Preservation
Caretaker of Tek'as Cat on behalf of the cat.
Yes, because obviously trying to actually innovate is a poor second place to simply patenting things.
J&J (and unfortunately anyone else who can afford to do it) can simply patent broad swathes of all possible inventions without having to do any messy work.
"Yes, this patent covers any stent-like devices. not any particular design, just all of them, so pay us forever. Designs? no, we dont have any schematics of an Actual product, that part isnt really important, is it?"
Is google ripping people's cds and putting them online?
no?
So not only does that statement have nothing to do with granting search engines some limited exemptions to allow them to to keep functioning, I think you Knew that your statement was baseless and not at all genuine.
"Gee, they are being so kind to accept less money. And all they want is immunity from legal precedents that weaken their thuggish behavior! I sure am lucky!"
ever since that day over techdirt..
over techdirt? no, i dont think TAM will ever get over techdirt..
More to the point.. the point you are deliberately ignoring. The "Very different skills" being talked about seem to be fighting lawyers and combating corporate bureaucracy.
This isn't about "gee, that artist should realize that the business models are changing" but about the fact that the artist(s) involved Do understand the changes, but are being held back by the inertia in the prehistoric behemoths of the content industry.
Whats next TAM? switching to snarky comments about how all the artists are dumb?
Its a horrible future where the copyright maximalist dream (copyright forever and ever) is near at hand, and is finally shown to be a nightmare.
the "some" artists that are disadvantaged are the ones who cannot profit from their works in a reasonable time period and refuse to cope with the markets.
The Vast Majority who are protected are the Other artists of today and the infinite future, protecting their freedom to innovate, rebuild and even reinvent without some ancient monopoly power looming in the shadows to spank them and call them thieves.
On the post: Google WiFi Data Caught In Legal Limbo
Re: My deleted post said
I dont think anyone is claiming that. In fact, the system was being used expressly to find open, unencrypted wireless access points, such as a coffee bar that offers free internet, for example. This data could be an important addition to many of the free services google offers.
the 'accedent'(sp) was the logging of fragments of the data being transferred. This was data being transferred on totally open wireless points, the electronic equivalent of putting up a billboard or shouting out a window.
So it is indeed possible that, while driving down the street at a normal speed, the street car might have logged a fragment of your data as it cycled through the 13 wireless channels every second.
In other words, they might have caught a single letter of your billboard on the public street. Don't you think that an evil premeditated plan would be a little more effectively 'planed'?
"3. Officials, are not bound by the same privacy laws as 'normal' groups or individuals. So ofcourse the officials would be able to view the file and make a determination as to their content."
this is a very scary viewpoint.
a government can do anything simply because they want to?
On the post: Joe Konrath Explains Why Authors Shouldn't Fear File Sharing
Re: Deal with it
There are more books today then ever before. More films, more media of all types.
There is also (probably) more (possibly) infringing use and noncommercial sharing then ever before.
On the post: Ideas Into Execution: Giving Away An Idea To Make It Happen
Re: Amexredacted
community.” -R.J.Riley
“If I am in the mood for a bit of fun I stick the phone between my legs and pass gas.” -R.J.Riley
Speaking only on my own behalf.
On the post: Ideas Into Execution: Giving Away An Idea To Make It Happen
Re: Creativity from poverty & ...
we are not here to learn how you have elucidated a cure for world ills by curing homosexuality or whatever.
Now, on to the matter at hand.
Ideas into execution and the power of the first follower.
I think the video is a marvelous demonstration of human-herding and acts as a window into the way our minds work.
The concept of creating ideas with the hope that Someone, maybe not you, can follow them through is wonderful. not for personal gain, not even for fame and accord, just, as the quote goes "I invented something, and it came true because I said it out loud."
thanks for sharing this with us, Mike, and, heck, thanks Amex. You are still an evil corporation draining money away from the small business i work for, but at least Someone in charge of ads or public relations was clever enough to give mike some money, so bravo.
On the post: Driving While Yakking Laws Looking More And More Like 'Help The Gov't Make Money' Laws
Re: Less chances of accidents...
"It's been a proven fact that using cellphones and car phones are does cause accidents, with a lot of fatal statistics,"
Citation.
Needed.
and more important, lets see some "proven fact" that these laws do anything to change them.
On the post: Is Verizon No Longer Betting On The Future?
Re: Re: I'm OK
Texas is a big state. I know, i lived there.
And there are a lot of people in Texas, but the 90+% majority of them live in a few metroplex clusters. DFW, San Antonio, Austin, Coastal, so on.
It is very easy to get service to those people in the cities, and it becomes scary hard to get service to the minority living out in the rural areas.
when Verizon, for example, could build 1 mile of fiber to connect to a thousand people in dallas compared to building 80 miles to connect to 20 people in Dustbowl City, you can se where the focus will lay.
On the post: Publisher Experiments With 'Free' And Sees Book Sales Increase 20x
A few points, some more relevant then others.
~your website. It needs work. pages hosted on what seem to be home user web accounts, seemingly pointless scripting and an experience that seems clinky overall (sorry). This means it is harder to try and read up on your product and do business with you.
~"fighting pirates"
You need to become more familiar with.. oh.. lets call them "internet numbers". 1000 downloads is almost the same as zero. When someone infringes on your material, you cant consider it a lost on the same scale of a book stolen out of a store.
A copied E-book does not make $3, $7 or any other number disappear from your bank account.
~"I can see whole series being pirated"
Lets take a long series as an example. Dresden files. I own every single dresden files book currently available. In hardback and soft, and even a few copies of some of them, as they have suffered from damages.
I also have full txt and full reader versions of every single one of these books. If i obtained these files from an illicit evil piracy source, does it cause my.. hmm.. i dont like to think how much i might have spent, but does it magically return to my pocket?
My point being, your views of the market (and the infringing places are just as much part of the market as your sales) are skewed and you are missing the larger picture.
On the post: American Idol Contestants Have To Give Up Their Social Media Presence?
Dont encourage people to download the music you have had posted, free, on your own personal webspace. Instead guide everyone to Us, we will gladly sell them those tracks*
*you will not receive any royalties or payment.
It is just a fairly hamhanded and early attempt to make sure all success shortcircuited back into the IDOLSHOW
On the post: The Economist Notices That The Patent System Is Hindering Innovation And Needs To Be Fixed
Re: fraud
Perhaps patent reform isnt the fraud you are looking for. So what are You being paid to distort the truth? Or is this (gasp) your secret identity, Ronny?
On the post: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: Re: Re: Re: Open Initiatives and Jobs.
18. Ronald J. Riley's Fraudulent Business Plan:
The tax exempt organizations create an appearance of legitimacy, particularly coupled with the hijacking of the lobbying group's name. Riley is constantly soliciting funds, yet reports on a charitable fundraising site that his operating costs average approximately $85.00 per month. Plaintiff believes that these businesses are false fronts raising tax-free contributions that are then funneled into Riley's personal possession and used to pay personal living expenses and operating expenses of his private business enterprises. In addition, Riley's consulting business and other financial enterprises are the sole beneficiary of the "tax-exempt" enterprises, and all of the businesses and corporations formed by Riley are for his sole and exclusive personal benefit. Indeed, his "tax exempt" website carries extensive advertising for Mr. Riley's private, non-exempt business enterprises and operates as commercial, for profit companies.
http://www.dozier-internetlaw.org/
Yes, i am sure that "the worthwhile" are flocking to your cause in droves, Ronny
On the post: How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
Re: I am waiting for a rational explanation.
I only speak for myself.
President and CEO of Tek'a Co
Alliance for Tek'a Preservation
Caretaker of Tek'as Cat on behalf of the cat.
On the post: Pharma Patent Nuclear War In Action
Re: (innovation)
J&J (and unfortunately anyone else who can afford to do it) can simply patent broad swathes of all possible inventions without having to do any messy work.
"Yes, this patent covers any stent-like devices. not any particular design, just all of them, so pay us forever. Designs? no, we dont have any schematics of an Actual product, that part isnt really important, is it?"
On the post: Lady Gaga's Use Of Free Music
Re:
unfortunately none of those words (out of the four of them) have anything to do with the subject matter.
We have a simple, straightforward example of success in the new market. You don't have to like ms. Gaga to see that.
On the post: Lord Lucas Keeps Wanting To Chip Away At Digital Economy Bill: Exempt Search Engines
Re: Re: Re:
Is google ripping people's cds and putting them online?
no?
So not only does that statement have nothing to do with granting search engines some limited exemptions to allow them to to keep functioning, I think you Knew that your statement was baseless and not at all genuine.
Double fail, TAMmy
On the post: Daily Mirror Blocks NewsNow; Will It Start Paying Its Own Sources?
Re: Improve methods of the Web Site Ranking
Or
Translated from finnish by a chinese speaking monk with an english dictionary missing half the pages.
Remember kids, The Needle is to bring to the maximum flow volume.
On the post: Jammie Thomas Rejects Offer From RIAA To Settle For $25k Plus Request For Judge To Vacate Last Week's Decision
Re: Re: I like that gal.
"Gee, they are being so kind to accept less money. And all they want is immunity from legal precedents that weaken their thuggish behavior! I sure am lucky!"
On the post: Will Rupert Murdoch Pay Me For Making Money Off Links To Techdirt?
Re: LOAN OFFER FOR REAL PEOPLE
Is this a spambot post to advertise that anuge fellow or god?
Hey mike, how can we report spam?
On the post: Explaining The Copyright Bubble... And Why Big Corporations Want To Keep ACTA Secret
Re: Re: E=MC^2 (C)Albert Einstein 1905
On the post: Artist Thinking vs. Lawyer Thinking
Re: (TAM's drinking problems)
over techdirt? no, i dont think TAM will ever get over techdirt..
More to the point.. the point you are deliberately ignoring. The "Very different skills" being talked about seem to be fighting lawyers and combating corporate bureaucracy.
This isn't about "gee, that artist should realize that the business models are changing" but about the fact that the artist(s) involved Do understand the changes, but are being held back by the inertia in the prehistoric behemoths of the content industry.
Whats next TAM? switching to snarky comments about how all the artists are dumb?
On the post: Elementary My Dear Watson....It's Called The Public Domain... Or Is It?
Re: Re: Protect the artists...
Its a horrible future where the copyright maximalist dream (copyright forever and ever) is near at hand, and is finally shown to be a nightmare.
the "some" artists that are disadvantaged are the ones who cannot profit from their works in a reasonable time period and refuse to cope with the markets.
The Vast Majority who are protected are the Other artists of today and the infinite future, protecting their freedom to innovate, rebuild and even reinvent without some ancient monopoly power looming in the shadows to spank them and call them thieves.
bravo spider robinson too.
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