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It was supposed to look good because the video never went through an analog stage. I've been wondering if DVD on a laptop has the same advantage? Does the video go through an analog stage before getting to the LCD display?

What about an LCD display on a desktop monitor with digital input? Anyone watched a DVD on one of those?

What about these dedicated handheld and larger, DVD players? All digital?

Does anyone make a Plasma, rather than LCD display for computers? I've seen the 'used to be $10,000 now around $3,000' consumer video versions, but never in a desktop monitor. One of the things I don't like about LCD dispays is the speed at which pixels can be turned on and off. Plasmas seem to do that much faster, and consequently have snappier, cleaner, video during scenes with lots of motion.

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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.

Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....

I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.

Couple of video clips here and here.

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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.

Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....

I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.

Couple of video clips here and here.

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PBS Documentary on the 30 year War on Drugs tonight! 2 part special, tonight and tomorrow night.

Seems like this affects as many geek's lives as, say, LEGO robots, or Start Wars trailers....

I wonder if they'll mention that one of the candidates for president wants to end it.

Couple of video clips here and here.nd it.

I never saw a phrack past issue 47, and that was five or six years ago.. I did see mention of them the other day, and some quote from issue 49, which means they must have gotten over whatever problems plagued them after 47. I never knew they had a website.. We used to get it off BBSs.. hehe..
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Well, that's not the way they're doing it. You type in a form and it finds the e-mail addresses for your local Reps and Senators for your state, and that's who it e-mails. It doesn't even tell you the addresses, although you could find them for yourself by searching the net.

You see, all the e-mail isn't going to the same place.

And, sure, someone could write a script to spam everyone in washington. So what. This campaign targets the congressment that represent each individual e-mailer. So my rep only gets e-mail from people in the dallas area, etc.

wish

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That's the same attitude voiced in a Simpson's episode -- where both G.Bush and B.Clinton are really squid-like aliens. When unmasked by Homer...the crowd is shocked...and someone yells, "We could vote for a 3rd party candidate!"

One of the aliens says "Go ahead...throw your vote away!"

I'm proud to have "thrown away" my vote in the last two presidential elections...the three presidential elections before those had me voting for people I simply didn't and couldn't agree with.

As for Nader, he gets some consideration from me...he has saved many lives and is honest in his convictions. Personally, I agree more with the libertarian point of view so they will more likely get my vote this time round.

Either way, if you don't vote in all elections -- especially in non-presidential years -- you are throwing your vote away.

Here is that candidate

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The Answer!

To Life... The Universe.. Everything!

wish

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gotta love that professional looking graphic illustrating the branches.
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You are correct in all your assertations.

There is a small market for minidisc, however, outside of the consumer-music mainstream. MD-DATA has made an inroad in the project studio market, with several products (Yamaha in particular) designed for multitrack recording on the MD-DATA.

Tapers have also shown interest in minidisc, mainly because of it's small size and inexpense compared to DAT. If you're doing stealth taping (because the band doesn't allow it) minidisc is a good medium for you.*

Now there's fierce competition in the home recording market, with Zip drive recording, hard disk recording, "budget" ADATs and DA-38s.. I think fostex even makes a machine with a SCSI port, so you can use Zip, Jazz, SCSI HD, or whatever you want. It will be interesting to see if minidisc survives in this market. (I hope it does, because I own a Yamaha MD8). :)

I agree that minidisc is probably a lost cause for retail music, but Sony has found some interesting ways to keep it alive. Their new MP3 player also plays ATRAC, and the software that comes with it rips to ATRAC, not MP3.

The main reason for my post was the disagreement with the statement "it will die in 5 years or less, I predict"

I think it was the "I predict" that really got to me. :)

later- wish

* I do not endorse the taping of bands who do not permit it. I believe that bands would gain from permitting it, but if they don't I respect that.
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He changed the way he spelled his name half a dozen times. I'm using the spelling from Bleach.

I used that spelling intentionally, to troll for people like you who think they know everything.

wishus
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1. The CD-R is not re-recordable. MD is.
2. You can't fit a CD-R in your pocket to tape shows. Ever seen a pocket-sized CD-R with a mic and a portable power supply? me niether. If you're going to bring a deck, you might as well bring DAT.

You predict? Well, that's nice. Do you have any evidence, or are you just a seer?

wish
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no, not really..

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i'm assuming that's pronounced "eye-bib-lee-o" and not "ib-ib-lee-o" or "ibby-blee-o" or "i-buy-bly-o" or somethign else.. the word just looks mangled..

wish
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the most useful thing to do with this technology would be speech-to-text. but then again, if the technology is that good, why don't i have it on my desktop?

now text-to-speech synthesis would be alot of fun.
"I am a Palm IIIxe computer." .. "You have a meeting in 5 minutes, Dave." "What are you doing, Dave?" Funny that my name really is Dave...

wishus
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i wanna go to mir. i somehow doubt that training for space missions is going to make for great prime-time entertainment, though.

wishus
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What's next, legislativly mandated DIVX style pay per listen of music?

I was really hoping ventura would have made a run. Failing that, Browne seems the candidate least likely to continue eroding my personal freedoms.

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The war on drugs may be over soon.

On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate

What's next, legislativly mandated DIVX style pay per listen of music?

I was really hoping ventura would have made a run. Failing that, Browne seems the candidate least likely to continue eroding my personal freedoms.

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If you are doing design in-house, that may be alright. But if you have been hired to design for someone else, your real audience is that person that hired you. If she thinks it looks like crap, then it does, regardless of what the world will think.

If you make your living off contract design, your audience is completely different.

wishus

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In Texas, we have a magnetic strip too. I had mine swiped once when buying a hunting/fishing license. (I assume to keep people from buying more than one license).

When I first got the magnetic-strip ID, I put it in an ATM machine to see what would happen. It spit it out, and printed a recipt with my social security number on it. Scarey.

wishus
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What exactly is the rationale for most wars?

I don't think physical defense will ever be obselete. There will always be people who want what you've got - and there are some things that can't be digitally reproduced. Food, for example. If me and some friends want your food, we will come take it. Then we will put up our own defenses to thwart you when you come to take it back. Then you will devise defenses of your own, so next time someone tries to take your stuff, you will thwart them. Then they will develop defenses...

Until there is digital reproduction of food, water, medicine, shelter.. there will always be potential for war.

wishus

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Hey everyone- here's a mad lib to generate Jon Katz articles!

In the paper-and-pencil game [role-playing game], we are presented with a society in which the [big bad power] is doing evil to the [player-character class]. The [big bad power] wants everyone to obey it, but the [player-character class] feels threatened by it, and has retreated into the darker hiding spots of the world.

This strongly parallels our own world, where the geek culture is treated like the [player-character class] by the corporations and government, who very much resemble the [big bad power]. With [some ability not available to the big bad power] the [player-character class] fights and on-going battle with the [big bad power] - just like the geeks use thier intelligence to eek out an existance in this post-columbine society. To them, hanging out in chat-rooms is like using [some ability not available to the big bad power].

The authors of [role playing game] had great insight to predict a time where the minority would feel threatened by the majority.

wishus
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This is yet another example why welfare... whether personal(social), corporate, or foreign, is bad.

And as someone pointed out above, does anyone, including the German policy makers, actually believe any royalties are going to make it to the majority of artists.... maybe some of the artists that are the corporate bitches, but not any musicians that like their independence and dignity.

Imagine asking a question about this to ol' George W.... most likely you would not get an answer. However, we could always depend on our ol' buddy ALGORE! He would give you every POSSIBLE answer. The more contradictory the better, even saying he will "fight" for things in ways that are mutually exclusive.

of course, the sad part is the sheer number of stupid gullible fools that will believe him. By the way, to any algore supportersj, I just happen to have some spare titles to the Golden Gate bridge, good forest land on Mars, and the Lincoln Bedroom... all for real cheap :)

I bet if algore promised a group of trekkies that he not only would build a fleet of starships, but he had already put the finished touches on a FTL propulsion system, the nation would believe it.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

Be guided buy your heart, but THINK with your BRAIN!

Vote Harry Browne for President

different, but closely related. knowledge comes from reason and/or experience, depending on your epistomological orientation. information can serve as a basis for both. you can view information as a catalyst for knowledge. the common man, in possession of nuclear secrets, can choose to turn that information into knowledge. without that information, however, if he desires that knowledge he must invent or discover it himself.

wish
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But if you cripple the military's ability to organize, you have rendered it ineffective.

That's what the information revolution is about - putting information in the hands of the common man. Information that he could have never had before. Knowledge about How Things Work. This knowledge could spread as fast as MP3s on napster - except it could be nuclear weapons secrets, or other "dangerous" information.

The way to wage war against the US (or any other major power) is not with tanks and bombs. First you must destroy the government's ability to communicate - to share information. Then roll in with your tanks and bombs for cleanup. A disorganized military is easy to eliminate.

In any small conflict, brute force will win. (As with your gang member in LA). But in a large-scale conflict, crippling the information (communication) systems of your opponent is the way to victory.

wish
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What if 'letting loose' meant you got to take home 100% of what you "make" each week, and coincidentally ended corporate welfare and influence at the same time?

The libertarians are about one thing, and one thing only, more - not less - freedom from government intervention in our lives.

How many of you guys got kicked off Napster, courtesy of our government's courts? Harry Browne felt THAT decision should have been left to the marketplace!

How about DeCSS; shouldn't THAT be a marketplace issue as well? Let's see, I can pay $99.95 for a Windows program to play 'The Matrix', or I can use this DeCSS derivative free player to do the same thing. Which one do I use? That's a marketplace decision! Duhh, which one do I go with?

Harry Browne is the Libertarian party's candidate for President this year; If you're interested in IP issues or the dilution of our First and Second Amendment rights, you OWE it to yourself to at least check him out.

If you choose the easy way out, if you vote for the "lesser of two evils" because you'll be throwing your vote away otherwise, well, you've only got yourself to blame when Slashdot gets shut down a year and a half from now for "illegal linking."

Can't happen? Already has; find a link to DeCSS on 2600.

Face it folks, this Open Source crowd is nothing but a bunch of pirates and thieves, and this Slashdot site is always linking and posting all this "subversive" material.

You've got nothing to lose! Visit Harry Browne's site and decide for yourself.

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Has George Lucas been smoking crack lately?

Evidence:
* Jar-Jar Binks
* Samuel Jackson
* Episode 1 in general

and now
* Fake R2D2

hrmm...

wish

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Seriously, I've just read not one, but THREE stories on Slashdot that indicate to me that the US Government is DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL.

Is there a full moon out tonight?

I, for one, am fed up with lawyers, corporations and unelected beaurocrats running the government that supposedly belongs to the people. I'm tired of seeing court rulings and laws slanting towards the MONEY, and away from the people. I'm tired of the Republicans, and I'm especially tired of the Democrats. There's not a bit of difference between them anymore. Both parties feel they know better how to run my life, and take 35% of my weekly paycheck to do so.

From what I've been reading lately, things aren't much better in Canada, Great Britain or Australia. And forget about Singapore!

It's time for a GLOBAL tea party... a tea party that will make the WTO protests look like a stroll in the park.

For those of you in the US, I urge you to not walk, but RUN to the Libertarian Party's site and Harry Browne's site. Please DON'T opt for the lesser of two evils in this election; we're at a crossroads here, and whoever is elected next will have a lot of influence on which of the roads we travel down.

If you don't believe in either of the two major candidates, send them a message this November. Vote for a third party candidate. Even if your candidate doesn't win, you're sending the winner a message that you're not happy with the status quo!

Folks, the articles I've read here tonight tell me that this is WAY beyond Open Source vs. Microsoft or KDE vs. Gnome. This is about rights (for those of us in the US) being trampled on that our founding fathers saw were basic for human beings. Don't let the corporations strip us of these basic rights!!

Dave Walker

what really matters is freedom of the internet - i don't care so much what happens to napster, but i care alot about laws and regulation of the internet. we need to stand together on this one. we can solve the music issue later. right now we need to keep free speech on the internet. kindof like what this guy was saying.

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The war on drugs may be over soon.

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This is a similar weakness to and early netscape implementation of SSL that accidentally randomized a very small portion of the intended keyspace, making it trivial to brute force.

The answer is probably in a random geneating dongle. I've seen several for around $100, targeted mostly at research lab types who need very random streams to make their research meaningful. It would be nice if someone wrote a driver for good old 2.62 classic that could take bits from one of these things.

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The war on drugs may be over soon.

On my first day in office I will pardon everyone who has been convicted of a non-violent federal drug offense - Harry Browne - Libertarian presidential candidate

Now how long has X been around? How long have window managers been there? How long have window managers had icons? Anyone remember fvwm95?

Friedman says "There's nothing new about any of this technology," - and he's right.

wish
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If you for either of the two major party's candidates, you're asking for more government intervention in your life, not less. Check out Harry Browne, he's ahead of Pat Buchanan in some of the polls, (and that's with a surprising lack of attention from the media!)
Harry Browne 2000

The Power of the media lies not in how it tells its stories, but in which stories it chooses not to tell.

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While I personally prefer Gnome to KDE, (KDE smacks too much of Windows to me), I have both installed and don't use either on a regular basis. They both try too hard to "protect me against myself" by popping up annoying, modal, "confirmation" windows. If I said to quit, just do it, damn it! I KNOW I haven't saved my changes!

KDE's rather largish ace-in-the-hole, however, is the forthcoming release of Kylix, which IIRC, will be based on QT.

I'll be perfectly content to use WindowMaker as long as the WM guys keep working on it.

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Um, actually, he said "... when I was in congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet."

He can't "call bullshit," because he was the first to bullshit. His lies are well documented.

It's fortunate that he is going to lose this election. I just wish that he would lose to a third party candidate, like Harry Browne.

The Reform Party convention isn't till next week, so we don't know if their candidate will be notorious thug Pat Buchanan or Natural Law Party candidate John Hagelin, who's trying to get both nominations.

(I don't endorse Browne, btw, but I'd infinitely prefer him over a republicrat.)

Ralph Nader?

From his website: "[We need] universal health care from the cradle through the nursing home, with a single-payer system like Canada's." Yeah, Canada's doctors think it's great: check this out.

He wants bigger government, and will raise taxes even higher (I know he said this recently but I can't find a URL right now).

Also, he says: "[A]ccording to the World Health Organization, the United States was ranked 37th among nations in the world regarding the quality of health care a country provides its people. This is not only embarrassing but also unacceptable. Western European countries provided for their people thirty to fifty years ago. Why can't we do it now in a period of economic boom?", and follows that up with "I would have labor treaties that have teeth, consumer protection treaties, and food and environmental treaties." So we have this great economic boom, but we want to put all these new restrictions on the way businesses operate? I love people who think forced redistribution of wealth will solve all of our problems. Where do you think your jobs come from?

I give a shit jball, but voting for Ralph Nader is not the answer. Nader's policies may provide a short term benefit for some, at the long term cost of the future of our country. And to your last comment, that the government is not Big Brother: the FBI might disagree with you.

Libertarian party
Harry Browne for President

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Mike

Bush is owned by Microsoft. Gore is owned by the MPAA. Both are hostile to the Fourth Amendment (and other civil rights). The only candidate for president whose ideals are compatible with those of Free or Open Source software is Harry Browne, the Libertarian candidate. A vote for anyone else is a wasted vote.

John Dillinger was created by the government. Prohibition (a great mistake that apparently taught nothing) created a black market that made gangs and gang warfare profitable. We are once again in the same situation, with the so called "War on Drugs" creating a wasteland of gang activity.

Perhaps you are just a white supremacist, but I can't see what makes you believe Dr. King was a criminal.

Cool it and cut the paranoia. The United States Constitution set up a system of checks and balances to prevent abuses of power by any one branch of government. The FBI has proper authorization from Congress for these activities.

Yes, there does exist a system of checks against government abuse. However, they are being ignored and the apathy of people (such as our AC here) is what is allowing it to happen.

It doesn't have to be this way. We can fight now with our vote, and reclaim the freedom being stolen from us by fatcat bureaucrats. Vote for a President that will end the insane War on Drugs, allow you to live your life as a free American, and restrict the federal government to its Constitutional limits. Harry Browne is one.

Topher Got Freedom?

I'm with you there. I'll be voting Liberterian also, probably Harry Browne.

This is an excellent idea, but of course it would not work. The bull-headed idiots in office are not going to allow you to take away their control of your life that easily. The intended checks on government power have been ignored by the government (Ooooh, big surprise).

We have to elect new leaders that care about the Constitution and want you to have the liberty our forefathers' paid for in blood. We need to use the power we do have: VOTE. Vote for a candidate that believes in your ability to make your own choices and lead your own life, instead of insisting that you conform to his draconian regime.

We don't have to stand for this. I know I won't. I love my country, and I've sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. The presidents swear an oath, too. They just don't take it seriously. It is my moral and patriotic duty to cast my vote for a candidate who does take that oath seriously.

I will vote for Harry Browne in November, and make it clear that I am tired of a huge government wasting my money. Are you tired, too? Support Harry Browne for President.

Consult the Libertarian Party home page to find candidates for your local elections that believe in you and your freedom.

Topher
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Don't they all say that? :) I don't know I see 98% fluff too. Most of my presidential information has come from issues2000.org. They're more objective.

The only site I've found that is more content than fluff is Libertarian Harry Browne's website (shamless plug? ehh not really). Bush, McCain,Bradley,Gore...fluff,promise,fluff.

[what the Dominant Paradigm candidates are running deleted for brevity]

Harry Browne (http://www.harrybrowne2000.org/) - Apache on BSD

Steve Forbes (http://www.forbes2000.com/) - Netscape Enterprise on Solaris

Alan Keys (http://www.keyes2000.org) - Apache on Solaris

And just for the halibut, my favorite undeclared choice, Jesse Ventura, who, while he doesn't have a campaign website, does have a website on his current administration (http://www.jesseventura.com/), which runs (drumroll please) Apache+PHP on Linux! (My man is with it.)

Normally, I'm not a karma whore, but folks need to know about more than just the aforementioned heffalumps and woozles when they go to choose who will lead this nation into the 21st century (which starts in another 345 days!) For freedom, eh?

p.s. these are NOT THE ONLY GOOD CANDIDATES, go find your own, alreddie... and post back!

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Well, If I were able to vote next year I'd be voting for Harry Browne. He's the Libertarian Party canidate.

As for the best possible presidential canidate I can think of... ESR for president!

Harry Browne is running again for the Libertarian nomination. His web site is here. Given the results in 1996, I can't say that I am confident of his ability to carry a large portion of the vote, but he is an announced Libertarian candidate.