My my my...what a difference some adverse publicity and widespread public disgust can make when you're advancing a totally outrageous argument. They were wise to back-pedal. If they're not careful, they're ridiculousness might wake the general public up. And even worse, the public might demand that some common sense an fairness finally be brought to bear on the whole issue.
Can any explain to mehow a career in VR research, the ability to compose music, a penchant for collecting unusual musical instruments makes somebody eminently qualified to speak on business, political and economic issues? And more to the point, how that somehow adds credibility to the naive grad student level arguments he puts forth?
I guess it just goes to show how much a really weird haircut plus an entourage can do for your credibility with what passes for the 'news' media these days.
And your point is what? That Mike's editorial style offends your personal sensibilities? FWIW, it's his article. And his words. If he continues to offend you after your repeated suggestions of how he should change his style to most appeal to your preferences, perhaps you might take the hint?.
The only thing a move like that would accomplish is to start a full scale war of attrition on the Internet. I hope they table this for the utterly stupid idea it is before killer bots, drive-by malware and DDoS exchanges become the norm.
Cowboy style "justice" may appeal to our baser instincts. But anybody can assemble a posse. And the people who are asking for a blanket authorization of vigilante responses might want to consider that any number can play that game if you abandon good laws and decent behavior.
And when it comes to that sort of technology and creativity, I think the 'court advantage' is squarely with the "rest of the world" rather than corporate security and IT departments
A truly scientific diagnostic tree based on hard and current 'best of breed' verifiable data? Where's the fun in that?
One of our favorite games back in college was sitting around with a bunch of inebriated friends while a graduate psych major "referee" went through the DSM (III at the time) trying to see which of us could "scientifically" claim to be the 'provably' craziest among us.
How can they just walk away from such a terrific form of entertainment?
Well... I guess you have to do something to justify all that money for equipment, training and nifty ninja uniforms the DHS is doling out to police forces everywhere. Mix that with a healthy dose of testosterone, and that genuine desire "to make a difference" that motivates many of those who elect to join our police forces, and you have a sun just waiting to go nova.
That's the problem with things like this. They're put in place as a preventative measure. But all too often they take on a life of their own and begin to manufacture situations to justify their continued existence as well as argue for an expansion of scope.
Jerry needs to take a basic course in economics some day.
I've been a working musician, and the one thing I learned early on is to forget about preaching "art" to the masses. By all means do art. But when it comes to music, there's the art and there's the business aspect. And the two don't always march in step.
You can do art any way you want for as long as you want. However, just because you are producing something that is 'artistically valid' does not also mean it is automatically viable as a commercial product.
When you want to sell something, it has little to do with you want and everything to do with what the potential customer wants.
I haven't found too many people willing to part with cash in exchange for just allowing you to do your own thing the way you want to do it.
Also to the point of value - it's really all from the perspective of the guy with the nickle. You can argue about the effort and money you put into something till you're blue in the face. (And what difference should that make anyway?) But if your prospective buyer disagrees with what you're asking for your 'product' you're SOL. To him, it's only worth what he says it is. Sure you can try to 'educate' him to see it your way. But if he doesn't, you have two basic choices: change it so he does - or go do something else more rewarding with your time.
The era of the powerful record labels and rock gods are over. Music is largely a commodity. And it's once again becoming more and more the domain of the amateur musician. As musical performance has been for most of human history.
Agree on both points. But it would only take the stroke of a pen to pass a law requiring a lockdown and/or positive mechanism be incorporated into a device. It could even be engineered into the CPU itself. So unless you can control chip fabrication, things like the Raspberry Pi are no permanent silver bullet.
Intel previously tried (at the urging of some big software developers) to put a positive ID mechanism into their CPUs until public and governmental pressure made them provide the capability for the PC owners to disable it. Unfortunately, in today's political climate I don't think we can expect government to take the public's side anywhere near as much as it used to.
As far as servers go (I work with them for a living) it's true they run open software. And SecureBoot is not a requirement. But Redhat and Ubuntu have already caved in on SecureBoot by playing Microsoft's game and obtaining the requisite certificate from Microsoft. So it's already begun to creep into the Linux world.
Note too that SecureBoot isn't an actual requirement to run any flavor of Windows. There are enough non-UEFI equipped PCs out there that Microsoft isn't about to forego that market by requiring SecureBoot. And you can disable UEFI (at least so far on most systems) and get Win 8 to run. But it introduces some hassles and extra steps when you do. And that inconvenience is enough to get the average user to not fight it.
All the more reason to get rid of general purpose unrestricted PCs and shuffle the enduser into a centrally administrated cloud-based operating system -or- onto a locked-down data appliance, right?
I wonder how long we'll still be able to buy a completely 'open' hardware platform to run our 'open' software on.
UEFI wasn't a problem until Microsoft introduced SecureBoot and began twisting arms to force everybody to get onboard with it. And look how effectively the supposedly 'open' Android platform has been fragmented and locked down by the various telcos. All (allegedly) in the name of "network security" and "improved user experience."
Things like this are just the tip of the iceberg. If it continues, say good-bye to the PC as we know it.
Mr. Castle is an attorney, not a working musician.
His attitudes, theories, personal beliefs and comments are all those of an attorney - and not those of a working musician.
Why is it that attorneys, who live in their own legal virtual reality, feel they have anything to say that could be of any possible relevance to those of use who live in the real world?
I'd be very happy if Mr. Castle would just bugger off.
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Yeah right!
Can't let that happen now can they?
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We in the IP Commission prefer to call it 'friendly' persuasion.
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It's the "doo"
I guess it just goes to show how much a really weird haircut plus an entourage can do for your credibility with what passes for the 'news' media these days.
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Shall we play a game?
Cowboy style "justice" may appeal to our baser instincts. But anybody can assemble a posse. And the people who are asking for a blanket authorization of vigilante responses might want to consider that any number can play that game if you abandon good laws and decent behavior.
And when it comes to that sort of technology and creativity, I think the 'court advantage' is squarely with the "rest of the world" rather than corporate security and IT departments
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Where's the fun in that?
One of our favorite games back in college was sitting around with a bunch of inebriated friends while a graduate psych major "referee" went through the DSM (III at the time) trying to see which of us could "scientifically" claim to be the 'provably' craziest among us.
How can they just walk away from such a terrific form of entertainment?
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That's the problem with things like this. They're put in place as a preventative measure. But all too often they take on a life of their own and begin to manufacture situations to justify their continued existence as well as argue for an expansion of scope.
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I've been a working musician, and the one thing I learned early on is to forget about preaching "art" to the masses. By all means do art. But when it comes to music, there's the art and there's the business aspect. And the two don't always march in step.
You can do art any way you want for as long as you want. However, just because you are producing something that is 'artistically valid' does not also mean it is automatically viable as a commercial product.
When you want to sell something, it has little to do with you want and everything to do with what the potential customer wants.
I haven't found too many people willing to part with cash in exchange for just allowing you to do your own thing the way you want to do it.
Also to the point of value - it's really all from the perspective of the guy with the nickle. You can argue about the effort and money you put into something till you're blue in the face. (And what difference should that make anyway?) But if your prospective buyer disagrees with what you're asking for your 'product' you're SOL. To him, it's only worth what he says it is. Sure you can try to 'educate' him to see it your way. But if he doesn't, you have two basic choices: change it so he does - or go do something else more rewarding with your time.
The era of the powerful record labels and rock gods are over. Music is largely a commodity. And it's once again becoming more and more the domain of the amateur musician. As musical performance has been for most of human history.
Best get used to it.
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Re: Re: Next step: eliminate open hardware
Intel previously tried (at the urging of some big software developers) to put a positive ID mechanism into their CPUs until public and governmental pressure made them provide the capability for the PC owners to disable it. Unfortunately, in today's political climate I don't think we can expect government to take the public's side anywhere near as much as it used to.
As far as servers go (I work with them for a living) it's true they run open software. And SecureBoot is not a requirement. But Redhat and Ubuntu have already caved in on SecureBoot by playing Microsoft's game and obtaining the requisite certificate from Microsoft. So it's already begun to creep into the Linux world.
Note too that SecureBoot isn't an actual requirement to run any flavor of Windows. There are enough non-UEFI equipped PCs out there that Microsoft isn't about to forego that market by requiring SecureBoot. And you can disable UEFI (at least so far on most systems) and get Win 8 to run. But it introduces some hassles and extra steps when you do. And that inconvenience is enough to get the average user to not fight it.
None of this bodes well. Or so it seems to me.
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Next step: eliminate open hardware
I wonder how long we'll still be able to buy a completely 'open' hardware platform to run our 'open' software on.
UEFI wasn't a problem until Microsoft introduced SecureBoot and began twisting arms to force everybody to get onboard with it. And look how effectively the supposedly 'open' Android platform has been fragmented and locked down by the various telcos. All (allegedly) in the name of "network security" and "improved user experience."
Things like this are just the tip of the iceberg. If it continues, say good-bye to the PC as we know it.
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Hubris Unlimited
His attitudes, theories, personal beliefs and comments are all those of an attorney - and not those of a working musician.
Why is it that attorneys, who live in their own legal virtual reality, feel they have anything to say that could be of any possible relevance to those of use who live in the real world?
I'd be very happy if Mr. Castle would just bugger off.
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