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When I was in China a couple months ago I found it very easy to see sites like CNN.com by using anonymous proxies. Some of them even used secure SSL encryption and the Chinese firewall didn't detect anything. The sites came up fine.

I have my doubts about enforcing something like censorship on the net.
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ESPN sent us "The Letter" a couple months ago because they copyrighted 'SportsTicker' we own MySportsTicker.com and they are threatening a lawsuit.
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This is to both of you. I have Boston Acoustics 6000's on my computer...

http://www.bostonacoustics.com/home/dt6000.html

I'm also using the Gateway 36" monitor and have a 22GIG hard drive. My computer is my entertainment system. It has an ATI all in wonder pro card so I can watch TV with it and an FM tuner built in -- of course I can watch DVD's on it as well. I have more than 100 CD's and they are quickly becoming MP3's. It also runs Linux. What more could I ask for?
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Though he makes some good points, I can't relate. I have a ton of CD's and I'm working on converting all of them to MP3's. I enjoy organizing my music into categories and playing music based on the category I'm interested in. I enjoy not switching CD's or only listening to part of a CD or a single song. I like the background music to my daily work and listening to 120 mp3's before switching to something else.

I disagree with his philosophical views as well, feeling that the increase in competition will actually cause new forms of music to rise to the top. I especially like the idea that this is a world wide medium and that influences from different cultures than the US and Europe will play larger roles in what becomes popular.

But he does have a strong point of view when you look at your collection and start to drool... and then again -- so what.
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My XWindows environment uses multiple desktops, allows me to zoom in and pan accross a desktop and place icons on the desktop. I wonder if they would entertain the idea of having multiple horizons and each horizon simulates one of my desktops. You could then choose a new horizon in the same manner as I chose a new desktop.

Ideas?
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I agree with the judge here. What would stop your competition from anonymously slandering your company rather than leak internal secrets? They could pose as an employee with inside knowledge. I suppose that anonymous messages should be ranked as is done on slashdot and should be viewed as little more than rumor.
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Sagan tells it like is in that book. I think /. should do a review of the demon-haunted world instead. He is open to the possiblities but not so open his brain spills out. People are searching for something with the downfall of organized religion and the world around us has all the beauty and curiousity we need if we would just open our eyes.
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We'll see how things "play" out but I expect a revoloution coming on in the music industry.
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but look at who he has as part of his board of directors now...

John Doerr - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Moritz - Sequoia Capital
Ram Shriram - Amazon VP of business development

and
Andy Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems invested privately.

With names and companies backing them like this they can go after some strong talent and put together something huge before going public.

then again... who knows...

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I agree with you there... the prices for these books are outrageous! It makes me wonder though who gets all the money from these ventures as most of the books this program finds on the web average about 40% off of list price. I suppose though that O'Reilly does set the list price but if these companies can still make a profit selling it for 40% of that something is definitely wrong.

Nevertheless, O'Reilly does have a corner on the market as the leading distributor of technical books so I suppose they can abuse their monopoly like everyone else. Luckily we can exploit the competition between vendors using automated programs on the web and overcome the waste.
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Nevertheless...

The book lists for a whopping $24.95 and if you get it from Amazon you only pay $19.96. Through the help of other /. readers I have a program on the web that found it for only $12.95 (48% OFF) from powells. If your interested the source code is available in a developers edition and you can find lowest price here:

Unix in a Nutshell

The program speciallizes in O'Reillys but you can find any book. Each night I build a list of every O'Reilly and with one click you can find the cheapest price.
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I don't believe that sig means what you think it means.

instead of:
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-: ,hacker Perl another Just)'

try:
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-: ,rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ ) ';
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People donate stuff all the time to these causes. I know friends of mine who have given up video and sound cards to have someone develop linux drivers for them. I wonder if at some point they will be seen as tax write-offs and these donations can increase a thousand-fold.

Eventually programmers could be paid for their donations though others donations.
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What about the idea of evolution whereby the strong survive? Slashdot has overcome the odds in that strong content has allowed it to evolve into something more than most news sites. A site like "my personal list of my favorite CD's" - though it may exist - it won't thrive in this universe.

I think that gravity in this respect won't make it collaspe but gather into larger and more powerful systems that help the web to grow. It's effect will help sort through the trash instead.
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This would be great!

I just signed up with http://www.netbank.com/ and it would be wonderful to not have to mail my signature each time something needs to be initiated.
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I agree -- I don't know how accurate these results are. I'm in a small town of 30,000 people and we have cable modems for $30 a month through the utilities company. There's fibre optics running throughout our little town.
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I would really like to see this stick but the article finishes with an appeal. This means that, though its a start it really isn't much to go on.

It seems flimsy though to say that programming is simply a language and therefore violates his right to free speech. It just doesn't seem like much to go on when the government believes that it is a national security issue. I'm still doubtful this means much.
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shit.com is registered -- go figure...

STEVE
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$504/24 = $21 which means you'll pay more if you buy them in bulk..

Which means that if you buy them in bulk they are twice as sure of your IQ.

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hmm...
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Barnes-n-Noble is selling it for $504.00
Amazon is selling it for $504.00
Shopping.com is selling it at: $489.60
BuyBooks.com is comes in at the least at: $432.00

I can't believe it!
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