"Whenever I'm caught between two evils I always take the one I've never tried before."
Well, i'm feeling fairly accomplished today. I managed to slice open my finger, which isnt that bad since i've done it to the same finger before and my nerves just aren't as responsive anymore, send my dad into the hospital, ship off my pregnant sister-in-law back to Korea, have done absolutely none of my homework, and have *drumroll* updated my site. No, not this one. This is a blog. I mean the old geocities one.
^_^
The site is pretty much complete. I think i've worked out most of the kinks, and everything's up except for the linx page. It's Dead, so don't even bother clicking it.
Meanwhile, i'm steeling myself to do my physics lab report, book report, read the book the report is on, finish my resumes for the mock job fair, and... i think i have some calculus too? oh, and my psychology report. On ESP. Rar.
Brother dear is miserable and the sis-in-law is en route to the motherland. No, they didn't fight. It's just that she's getting a *lot* of cravings... you know, the food kind. Korean food. Korean food that she can't get here.
Daddy checked into the VA medical center the other day, an alleged medical center, that is. Their facilities are so out-of-date that i would not be surprised if they didn't have any indoor plumbing.
All together, i have a tonnage of homework, a sick mother, moping brother, hospitalized dad, and a chopped up finger with only one website to counter it all. How's that phrase go... oh yeah. Life's just peachy.
^_^
On another note, and to follow mouse's lead, congress is still being utterly infantile. I mean, honestly. P2P file sharing is probably the best thing that could happen for a lot of musicians' advertising department. A *lot* of music freaks, myself included, happen to be very miserly. We're just very unwilling to spend money unless we know we're going to love the product. The majority of music fans are also not hopelessly stupid, or so I hope. We realize that when we've downloaded music that we like, the best way to keep that musician in business is to purchase their products.
Solution? We download music, decide what's worth buying, and then we buy it. Our favorite musicians get money, the advertising and PR departments have less work to do, and we have a shiny unscratched new CD that's filled to the proverbial brim with *good* songs. Everybody's happy.
Everybody, that is, except congress. Because they have nothing better to do than to listen to a bunch of money-hungry recording business whine about their loss of profits. An entire SEVEN percent. Boo hoo. And what is congress willing to do to appease these politically donating businesses. Why, let them into our computers of course.
That's right. One of the bills that congress is currently contemplating would give the RIAA and the record companies it represents the right to �hack� into our personal, private computers and corrupt and even delete mp3�s and other music files. This bill would also give them the right to sabotage the file sharing services themselves so that we download corrupt files.
Not pretty, is it?
And the section on internet warfare is even better.
Internet Warfare
The bill would allow copyright holders to block, disable or impair a P2P node suspected of
distributing their copyrighted material without express permission.
It states that a copyright holder may not delete files from users' hard drives, but it limits the rights of users to sue should files be inadvertently deleted.
The bill does not specifically detail which tactics would be legal. P2P industry observers note that possibilities may include denial-of-service ( news - web sites) attacks caused by a flood of falsely named files; worms and viruses; or hijacking of domain names.
Simply put, we will not be given any rights to fight back against RIAA and the record companies. They might infect our computers with worms and viruses. And if files are inadverdently deleted, well, we can't sue them. Rather, our right to sue will be limited.
Is this a direct encroachment on our liberties as American citizens.
Hell yeah, it is. Rar.
Well, i'm feeling fairly accomplished today. I managed to slice open my finger, which isnt that bad since i've done it to the same finger before and my nerves just aren't as responsive anymore, send my dad into the hospital, ship off my pregnant sister-in-law back to Korea, have done absolutely none of my homework, and have *drumroll* updated my site. No, not this one. This is a blog. I mean the old geocities one.
^_^
The site is pretty much complete. I think i've worked out most of the kinks, and everything's up except for the linx page. It's Dead, so don't even bother clicking it.
Meanwhile, i'm steeling myself to do my physics lab report, book report, read the book the report is on, finish my resumes for the mock job fair, and... i think i have some calculus too? oh, and my psychology report. On ESP. Rar.
Brother dear is miserable and the sis-in-law is en route to the motherland. No, they didn't fight. It's just that she's getting a *lot* of cravings... you know, the food kind. Korean food. Korean food that she can't get here.
Daddy checked into the VA medical center the other day, an alleged medical center, that is. Their facilities are so out-of-date that i would not be surprised if they didn't have any indoor plumbing.
All together, i have a tonnage of homework, a sick mother, moping brother, hospitalized dad, and a chopped up finger with only one website to counter it all. How's that phrase go... oh yeah. Life's just peachy.
^_^
On another note, and to follow mouse's lead, congress is still being utterly infantile. I mean, honestly. P2P file sharing is probably the best thing that could happen for a lot of musicians' advertising department. A *lot* of music freaks, myself included, happen to be very miserly. We're just very unwilling to spend money unless we know we're going to love the product. The majority of music fans are also not hopelessly stupid, or so I hope. We realize that when we've downloaded music that we like, the best way to keep that musician in business is to purchase their products.
Solution? We download music, decide what's worth buying, and then we buy it. Our favorite musicians get money, the advertising and PR departments have less work to do, and we have a shiny unscratched new CD that's filled to the proverbial brim with *good* songs. Everybody's happy.
Everybody, that is, except congress. Because they have nothing better to do than to listen to a bunch of money-hungry recording business whine about their loss of profits. An entire SEVEN percent. Boo hoo. And what is congress willing to do to appease these politically donating businesses. Why, let them into our computers of course.
That's right. One of the bills that congress is currently contemplating would give the RIAA and the record companies it represents the right to �hack� into our personal, private computers and corrupt and even delete mp3�s and other music files. This bill would also give them the right to sabotage the file sharing services themselves so that we download corrupt files.
Not pretty, is it?
And the section on internet warfare is even better.
Internet Warfare
The bill would allow copyright holders to block, disable or impair a P2P node suspected of
distributing their copyrighted material without express permission.
It states that a copyright holder may not delete files from users' hard drives, but it limits the rights of users to sue should files be inadvertently deleted.
The bill does not specifically detail which tactics would be legal. P2P industry observers note that possibilities may include denial-of-service ( news - web sites) attacks caused by a flood of falsely named files; worms and viruses; or hijacking of domain names.
Simply put, we will not be given any rights to fight back against RIAA and the record companies. They might infect our computers with worms and viruses. And if files are inadverdently deleted, well, we can't sue them. Rather, our right to sue will be limited.
Is this a direct encroachment on our liberties as American citizens.
Hell yeah, it is. Rar.
posted by Deborah at 2:04:00 PM
