I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about politics, laws, etc, lately. Not my usual fare, but it’s been good in that there’s a whole lot of websites with interesting things to read about it that I don’t normally explore.
My brother pointed me to the Michale Moore, Bill Oreily transcript, and I was half-way through it when I stumbled over the verbal impediment of ‘uh huh’. I hate that phrase. I could never figure out if it was affirmative or negative. And apparently I’m not alone with blogable musings about the phrase.
Speaking of law and politics, I’m not considering it too seriously yet (I don’t think?), but Dan’s comment about law school has been on my mind a lot lately. Every now and then I think that maybe the only thing holding me back is my natural personality type of wanting things to remain the same. While moving to a new city sounds fun and exciting for some reason; going back to school for three more years and starting a new profession does not.
I write the negative form as “unh unh.”
Left by David on July 30th, 2004
Positive=yuh huh!
Negative=nuh uh!
Left by Daniel on July 30th, 2004
I saw that interview. One of the more retarded debates I’ve ever seen in my life. Neither party seemed at all interested in listening to the other. Both just stated their positions and then tried to trick the other person into saying something stupid.
Left by Matt on August 1st, 2004
Matt, your description makes me feel like I’ve seen the interview too.
I guess I’ve just witnessed too many debates that fit that description.
Left by David on August 2nd, 2004
Eventually it’s gonna be this: People have fixed-length random data files on one filesharing network, say 1 MB each. Those people will also be able to introduce new random data files. The files will be identified by hash strings calculated from the files themselves. So files would have names like 987a987d80987c8737e. This network would be legal because it’s a meaningless sharing of junk files that don’t contain any information. Then another separate communication medium would exist that allows people to collaborate on sharing information about what random sets of meaningless data provide useful data when XOR’d together. So you’d download six different meaningless files, XOR them together, and you’d get a meaningful file, padded to a multiple of 5 megs through something like .TAR files. Each network would be legal by itself, so long as they weren’t created by the same people. And no single junk file could be proven illegal since there is always another ‘random’ data file that can XOR with it to produce something legal.
Left by rehmeyer on August 2nd, 2004
Rehmeyer: Without expressing an opinion on the legality of your system, it seems to me that Itunes, etc are more likely to be the way “it’s gonna be.” At some point the hassle of “collaborating on sharing information about what random sets of meaningless data provide useful data when XOR’d together”, then downloading and XORing six different files, is outweighed by the realization, “Wait, can’t I get this for $0.99 in less than a minute?”
Sure, some degree of underground file sharing will probably survive just as people today copy audiotapes and CD’s. But the transaction costs in time and effort will probably prevent this from being the primary form of digital exchange.
Left by Daniel on August 2nd, 2004
Rehmeyer: Exactly what I’ve been thinking.
http://www.calebcase.com/main/node/270
http://ln.calebcase.com/
For a p2p network the hash strings are a good way to go. But if you like the stability of http, then the ln database or something similar is probably better and easier to address. Something like saying calebcase.com[12] + someoneelse.com[123] = some file (meaning grab the 12 number from one site and combine it with the 123 number from another). Which is something you could easily write on a peice of paper even. In cases where the files are not base 2 a single digit rotate will suffice instead of actually adding the numbers together (eg 123 + 392 => 415; which I only mention because my preferred format for the ln database is base 10). As I understand the law, as long as you are not promoting breaking any laws, such as encouraging the use of the numbers on your site as a method of circumventing copyright law, then you are ok. The person who combines the files or tells someone how to combine the files in such a way as to produce something that has copyright protection is most likely breaking the law. The ln database to me is also a nice way to protest the current copyright idiocy by pointing out that digital files are simply large integers.
Anywho, its nice to hear others talking about this ;o]
Left by Caleb on September 17th, 2005
How many Daniel Rehmeyer’s are out there? I see several entries on this web site by Dan Rehmeyer, and yet I had never been here prior to yesterday. I googled my name, and found this, and rehmeyer.com’s site
Would be interested to know how many other dan rehmeyer’s could possibly be in this world, condidering this is not the most common name.
thank you
Daniel
Left by daniel rehmeyer on April 14th, 2006
There’s no daniel rehmeyer here. There’s an Eric Rehmeyer (rehmeyer.com) and Daniel of a different last name. Old google searches for daniel rehmeyer found both, and then the google search results went into the sidebar which is why you see the name on this page.
Left by Jordan on April 20th, 2006