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Just stay away from iTunes or Quicktime, unless your diabolical scheme doesn't involve nuclear or chemical weapons. The kitten thing should be fine.

Well it has also been Digged as well

http://www.digg.com/programming/Riding_Rails_Rails_2_0_It_s_done

The problem with DRM isn't that it keeps people from copying books, software, music, videos, etc. illegally.

The problem with DRM is that it keeps you from doing legitimate things with your legitimately-purchased content.

As it says in TFA, when I go out and buy a book, I can read it on any time schedule I want. I can then loan it a friend to read. Or I can give it to my next door neighbor. I can scan the pages in and produce some greppable text from it. (After all, you can't grep dead trees.) I can auction it off on eBay.

The problem with DRM'd e-books is that I can't do any of the above.

So how do we eliminate DRM and have authors still get compensated?

There are several solutions out there already. You can put the book on a website for download and have people pay what they think is fair, as Radiohead as done with their latest album. We'll see how this works. It probably won't.

Then there's the 'try before you buy model'. In the case of books, You can issue your work under a Creative Commons license and hope that people will pay for a dead tree version if they like it. This is something that Corey Doctorow, Eric Raymond(*) and others have done.

There's the 'let people have it for free and make money off of something else" model. For music, there's the 'we only make money from concerts model' practiced by groups like The Grateful Dead for years, officially or unofficially. For software, examples include Red Hat and Canonical and Zope, which sell support and pretty packaging and consulting services. Doesn't work well for books, it seems. For books, I suppose you could offer the book for free, but sell merchandising such as T-Shirts or coffee mugs or the like, but somehow that seems less then perfect.

I dunno. I don't think it's "DRM or content creators don't get paid". I think there are other ways, but nobody wants to change their business model because the 'selling a box of content' model seems to have worked so well for so long.

(*) esr uses the GNU Free Documentation License, actually.

BS.
So you're telling that just because tortures are not detailed in this SOP (though tortures do happend there, do not fool yourself), everything is fine. That it doesn't matter that there's a lot of innocent people. That a lot of people is there based just in "being at the wrong place at the wrong moment". Or that those guilty are held without charges.

Just have a look at a google
http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=released+guantanamo+innocent&btnG=Buscar&meta=
http://digg.com/world_news/Seventeen_Innocent_Guantanamo_Detainees_Released
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6515701.stm

For God's sake, the US is running a concentration camp and half the US population agrees or just doesn't care! There's something really really bad going on in that society.

And then your only argument is that "we're treating them better than they would treat us", and using bold... You should be ashamed of yourself.

So if some nation soldiers just went into your country, kidnapped you, kept you in prison for years without charges, and tortured you, it would be OK cos you're not a citizen of said nation nor you're an uniformed soldier of your country. Yeah, right.

When the "good guys" have such takes on ethics, one wonders what's the different between both sides in the so called "war on terror" :'(

"Many of the author's points dont make any sense in comparison to MS and Vista. SP1 isn't due out (as of now) till Q1 2008... OSX's update is already out... don't see the similarity. "

Um, you do realize that Microsoft has been releasing Vista fixes for months now via Windows Update, right? Fixes don't have to come as SPs or .0.1 updates.

But you're right, I don't see the similarity either. Vista has to work probably 3 orders of magnitude more configurations than OSX does, yet Leopard is still very buggy, even with 10.5.1, BTW.
And make no mistake: The author's complaints are not an isolated case.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/update-leopard-problems-apple,review-1028.html
http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/11/14/ive-been-attacked-by-a-leopard/
http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/16/caught-in-apple-restart-hell/
http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/17/the-brand-promise-of-apple/
http://www.digg.com/apple/MacBook_MacBook_Pro_owners_suffer_keyboard_freezing_with_Leopard

And check out the Apple discussion forums (though Apple has seen fit to lock many of the threads that complain about Leopard's problems, so check out MacinTouch and AppleInsider.com forums too).

Apple's "Vista is crap" ad campaign and using BSOD icons for Windows network shares in Leopard makes this all the more embarrassing for Apple. And comedian Baratunde Thurston has publicly called out Apple on its unjustified smugness (even before Leopard was released).
Baratunde Thurston: I Hate the Smugness of Apple

Solved LONG ago.

http://digg.com/videos/educational/Those_huge_rocks_moving_in_the_desert_Mystery_revealed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hoiHvOeGc

The wind blows the lake around, then at night it freezes and ice drags the rocks.

If that was meant as a joke, then reality is already one step ahead of you.

MS Explorer is sinking after hitting an iceberg - pictures
Explorer lists heavily after hitting submerged ice off of Antarctica and began taking on water - pictures
Apparently it went down, and 150 people had to be evacuated. Not sure what the weird boat pics are about... digg

Disclaimer for those with mod points: This post is NOT intended as a flame or flamebait.

If you want good karma, stop worrying about karma. And never use the word "troll" or "flamebait" because your post will be modded "troll" or "flamebait" (I think I just got modded... never mind). Try for insightful and you'll get "funny" (no mod points). Try for "funny" and likely as not you will be modded "interesting".

More on topic, yes, there a lot more Top Cat's than there are McDonalds Corporations, but there are enough Giant corporations that CAN afford this tech. Those that can't afford it don't matter; at least, in the context of this conversation.

Should they stop selling Ferrarris just because I can't afford one?

-mcgrew

Since currency is produced by the government, they can take as much as they'd like from you. If you don't like it, start bartering with everyone.

We would if they'd let us.

Anybody else find it ironic that only 36 people dugg this article?

Slashdot is slow. I read this on Digg eleven days ago. Roy Schestowitz, the anti-Microsoft FUDmaster-in-Chief on Digg claimed that "the funding for a project run by the OpenDocument Foundation ended some time ago after very aggressive lobbying and bullying in Massachusetts. Microsoft had people thrown out of their job for 'daring' to stick to ODF. ... After the funding ended, the OpenDocument Foundation was glued to a corner, so the wise step to take was to turn somewhere else."

You can read more of Schestowitz' rants at Boycott Novell

People mindlessly voting up pointless articles based on ridiculous combinations of technology, America bashing, and sensationalist headlines. I could have sworn I've seen that somewhere before.

http://digg.com/security/Data_Center_Robbed_for_the_Fourth_Time_in_Two_Years

This has been on the front page of digg at least four times before.

*snerk* Yep, Leopard pretty much kills Vista! http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_Kills_Vista

Yay! Now Leopard officially kills Vista! http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_Kills_Vista

Eh . . . they don't bother. Leopard kills Vista. Heck, Leopard pretty much eats Vista! http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_Kills_Vista

For Mac . . . or for the adventurous, Linux! Face it, Leopard officially kills Vista. http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_Kills_Vista

More proof that Mac OS eats Windows. And now, more than ever, because today, Leopard kills Vista! http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_Kills_Vista

So the same feature that first appeared on Windows Server in 2003 and then on Vista is considered a security risk, especially because it is too 'easy' to use. [...] And now the same freaking feature in OS X is considered a 'security feature', and they claim it is even 'easier' to use than Vista's version?

So the same feature that first appeared on Windows Server in 2003 and then on Vista is considered a security risk, especially because it is too 'easy' to use. [...] And now the same freaking feature in OS X is considered a 'security feature', and they claim it is even 'easier' to use than Vista's version?

As one of the co-founders of DevHouse, we are definitely trying to honor and encourage the spirit of Homebrew. In fact, Lee Felsenstein, who ran most of the Homebrew meetings, is now a regular attender (along with his lovely partner) and helps us shape the meetings to be maximally functional and useful. In a business cover article in the San Jose Mercury News, DevHouse was described as "resurrecting the spirit of the Homebrew Computer Club" (digg). We were flattered.

The summary is quite misleading.

1) Web Core Fonts were free to download, these are not. Windows XP/2000 users can install them by installing PowerPoint Viewer, which is beer (as in free).
2) Web Core Fonts were Microsoft's plan to provide interoperability. The new fonts were designed to work better with IE's (and Vista's) new rendering engine.
3) This isn't news, I read about it at least six months ago. I've been using the fonts on XP for at least four months.

Indeed, a quick search on Digg reveals that the news is very, very old.

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_RIAA_Attacks_Usenet Nooooooooooooo!

I was going to mod in the thread, but had to post a response to this.

This is video of Georgia cops tasering a man to death.

The guy was having a problem with his epilepsy medication, so his wife called the cops for help. They proceeded to medicate him - first with billy clubs, then with tasers - repeatedly.

Because the wife also called the FBI afterwards, the local DA got pissy and softballed the case before the grand jury, which didn't even bother to watch this video before finding the police blameless.

The man's last words?

"Don't kill me."

Here's the link to the video

The link to the (minimal) media coverage

And the link to the discussion over at Digg

When you're the guy in this video, then you can whine about people "screeching about tasers being overused."



P.S. When one's POV is that everyone is a person "who would kill or maime them in the blink of an eye," then naturally one "wouldn't hesitate to tase someone who i thought was going to turn violent on me."

But that's not seeing the truth of each situation, that's being caught in one's own psychosis and fear.

(Since consciousness is self-similar, of course we'll see this same behavior at the level of the person (in this case the poster, it seems, and the police) as well as the level of the nation (for example, our war in Iraq) ).

We don't get to hurt or kill other people just because we're afraid.

And the solution isn't to keep hurting or killing people until we're not afraid. Since the fear is an internal condition, and one that blinds us to the external reality, no amount of external violence and killing will ever stop it.

The solution is to stop, admit that we're afraid, breathe, and then notice we're still OK. And that takes a lot more balls than just beating or shooting or tasering or bombing everything that scares us.

Found this - Just a satirical article however. Not aware that they've actually gone ahead with this, unless it gave them ideas.

Better hurry, I think there's a brand new Halo 3 screenshot on the front page!

Throwaway Online Credit Cards

Store it as insecure as you want; I don't give a shit.

"I promise I'll RTFA ..."

when it comes to PC security, the problem between the keyboard and the chair is even worse.

And the problems are magnified even more depending on what kind of chair you're using.

James Burgett was featured on the front page of Digg.com, where he got 2906 diggs for his blog entry about his dispute with the government (spam warning: I dugg that story). James has subsequently told me that he and the government are working things out. He is not entirely satisfied with the government's approach, but at least he will be able to continue operating his excellent Ubuntu box giveaway program. So it seems as if the attention from the popular media (Digg in that case) has taught the government that James was doing something that was sufficiently meaningful to the community that the regulators should really try to work with him. His fans in the community will continue to watch his operation to make sure that if the government does exercise poor discretion in its oversight of his operation, at least we can give them an earful.

Full disclosure: I do not work with / for James or CNN. I do volunteer for a public middle school in San Francisco, California that benefited from a donation of 30 Ubuntu fat clients for our Linux chubby terminal lab.

James Burgett was featured on the front page of Digg.com, where he got 2906 diggs for his blog entry about his dispute with the government (spam warning: I dugg that story). James has subsequently told me that he and the government are working things out. He is not entirely satisfied with the government's approach, but at least he will be able to continue operating his excellent Ubuntu box giveaway program. So it seems as if the attention from the popular media (Digg in that case) has taught the government that James was doing something that was sufficiently meaningful to the community that they should really try to work with him.

Full disclosure: I do not work with / for James or CNN. I do volunteer for a public middle school in San Francisco, California that benefited from a donation of 30 Ubuntu fat clients for our Linux chubby terminal lab.

This may be true for DVD and other standard-definition video formats. But high-definition formats such as HD DVD and especially Blu-ray Disc generally have tighter compliance and robustness [wikipedia.org] requirements. I don't see how a Free kernel on commodity hardware can conform to these.

While the kernel is open source drivers and software don't have to be. For instance Nero Linux, which supports both Blu-ray and HD DVDs, isn't. Other software capable:

• High-def DVD SoC supports HD-DVD, BlueRay, Linux
• Playing HD DVD On Linux. It seems everything's in place to play your HD DVD discs in Linux. The kernel supports the UDF filesystem, the recently released BackupHDDVD C++ for Linux can decrypt the content, and the latest VLC and Mplayer can play it.

A bricked iPhone can be returned for a full switch... Correct me if I am wrong, but its not like they can tell the phone has been "unlocked", as I have not opened this phone in any way, and as such have not voided any warrenty on the hardware.

If you check the comments here, you see one particular comment of interest:

Check you IMEI number on the back against the one on the activation svreen (behind the "i"). If you see 004999010640000 on screen you are screwed (for now).

You see, they can tell,

This is the problem. THe free sim unlock changed everyone's IMEI to 004999010640000 - so they are now checking the IMEI to when it was first activated to the SIM to ensure a match, and if you look on the back of your box, you'll notice your original IMEI #.

That's rich coming from Superkendall who is either an Apple shill, or just a delusional nut job. He is the stereotypical Apple Zealot. One thing I'm finding particularly amusing are his posts on Digg.com about how it's 'rediculous' (sic) to think that Apple is going to brick any phone, then after they do, in typical zealot fashion he attempts to redefine the word 'brick'. But you can still turn it on and off again! - LOL

That's rich coming from Superkendall who is either an Apple shill, or just a delusional nut job. He is the stereotypical Apple Zealot. One thing I'm finding particularly amusing are his posts on Digg.com about how it's 'rediculous' (sic) to think that Apple is going to brick any phone, then after they do, in typical zealot fashion he attempts to redefine the word 'brick'. But you can still turn it on and off again! - LOL

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Unreal_3_Engine_on_PS3_Confirmed

And:

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/188/Sony-Super-Engineers-Optimizing-Unreal-3

Looks to me like there were some significant efforts to optimize the engine for the PS3... Heck, it's even been licensed by Sony.

7of7? Is that you?

http://digg.com/microsoft/Critical_Excel_2007_bug_cripples_users

It would have rocked on the Mac, instead of the numbers they have today, it would have likely sold like 4 copies. Of course you realize that when it was planned for the mac it was to be a RTS instead of a FPS. So maybe that dream will still come true with halowars. http://digg.com/gaming_news/Halo_Wars_Trailer

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/The_Word_Asstunnel_Gets_Viral

"But, tasers are still somewhat dangerous and even lethal in some cases."

The most obvious example being when you shoot someone with a real gun and claim you thought it was a taser...

If you ever want to 'resist' then I highly suggest you just go limp, don't fight back. A limp body is still damned hard to move and makes it much easier for your lawyer to defend you in court than if you run, swing, bite, yell.

this is also considered resisting arrest and in situations officers will repeatedly tazer a limp person to torture them or pay them back for making them work. This happens a lot with protesters who make 2 or more cops carry them off, One who chained himself to a fence was tazered enough times that the cop had to get a second tazer as he emptied his. The man refused to unlock himself, the cop was too pig headed to get a set of bolt cutters and drag him off and was intent in teaching the protester a lesson.

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/55217
http://digg.com/world_news/Police_attack_PEACEFUL_Anti_War_Protestors_with_tasers_dogs_pepper_spray
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U9hL9Hy00pI
the internet is FULL of corrupt cops doing this to peaceful people because they are lazy.

Cops should be required to write a 12 page report for every time they pull the trigger on a tazer. If an offier tazers a person more than 3 times without good cause needs to be fired and blackballed from ever being in law enforcement ever again and possibly serve jail time, preferrably in with open prison population and let the prisoners know he is a cop.

as a cop you are public protectors, you are to PROTECT AND SERVE even the guy you are arresting based on your interpretation of the law. If any force is exerted you need to be punished HARD if it was inappropriate.

You're right. This is the same thinking that brought us OpenRCS...

So, close to 5 megabytes per second. I.E. you'd need to have a 40 megabit internet connection running at it's full capacity and with a good ping time to be able to even stay current with the battle.

Microsoft of all people was developing a technology called DonnyBrook which would theoretically allow a thousand player Counter Strike match. It basically creates something called guidable AI which only 4 players actually sends information to each other player and the "AI" assumes or takes control of everyone else out of your focus and only updates ever now and then from them.

Otherwise here is the direct link with the MS interviewee about said technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrMzxOmQtJg

But I think this of course my be a Vista only or Xbox360 only technology but they said they plan on licensing it and have a working tech demo with Quake 3.