They didn't even mention who was doing the bootlegging and that kind of thing. All they did was make ambiguous statements about Yahoo supporting piracy. Come on people if you want even a chance to get our support then you gotta give us real information. Is yahoo supporting college kids selling cd collections of roms or is this fulltime big piracy like you see in asia?
Isn't it more disrespectful to open up about the bugs when a patch isn't almost done. What good can a bunch of average joes and script kiddies knowing about the bug do? Only the developers can fix it, so why shouldn't they be the only ones to know about it until they're a few days or so from fixing it? All releasing the information about bugs does is give competitors, no matter who they are, an opportunity to play on the ignorance of joe blow user. Think Microsoft FUD is bad now? Just wait until they get the chance to rip Mozilla to shreds because only Mozilla's developers publically admit to all the bugs. That's the problem with admitting that they exist before a patch is almost finished, it gives companies like Microsoft an easy way to spread FUD and gain converts quickly.
Tomorrow BeOS R5 comes out and it is going to be a very good one. I gave up on Linux because I got sick of always referring to Howto's to do something as simple as setup a PPP connection. I like Linux and wish ya'll the best of luck but Linux is nowhere near as fun to play around with and use, at least for me, as BeOS. Linux makes a great server, BeOS a great desktop/workstation.
MacOS X is going to be a very good OS and it will be able to draw a lot more people to MacOS. It will take 2-3 years for Linux to be easy enough for any average joes to start using it. Of course then again within 2-3 years internet appliances could quite possibly nix the need for computers in many households.
Does this mean that Apple is considering jumping ship for x86? They certainly would have a good reason since Motorola has been way to slow to release 550-700mhz PPCs. You can't explain to clueless newbies that a 500mhz PPC is a lot faster than a 500mhz Athlon or P3 so maybe Apple is contemplating this kind of move. BTW didn't Stallman say that the Darwin license doesn't qualify as a free software license?
The aussies gave up their guns and look at them, their non-gun crimes shot up after they took all the guns. Guns aren't the answer, but neither is gun control since a criminal won't bother adhering to it. You lost credability there. As for the part about the US spending more money on cops, your point? We have what? 250-260 million more people than your nation does. Sorry that's offtopic but technically so was 1/2 of his post.
First off the continental US is at least as large if not larger than Europe (not counting Russia). Not to mention the fact that the US population is much more dispersed than the European population and that would limit DSL right off. With so many people living away from the telecom's central office it is no wonder why DSL won't take off in most of the US. However don't discount cable by any means because cable companies are working hard to upgrade their infrastructures. I live in a fairly rural area of Virginia and we are supposed to be getting cable internet access 6 monthes to a year from now because we live in a neighborhood near a medium-sized ski resort. The biggest issue the US will have to face is rural and small town (50,000) users' innability to get affordable broadband access.
This could seriously put American soldiers at risk and with a President like Clinton that doesn't care about the military, it will take a republican or reform party president to fix this. Clinton would only fix it if it was reported that you could shoot off icbm's like bottle rockets. For those between 18 and 25 reading/. don't say "well I'm not goin in the military, this doesn't affect me" because it does. With Tawain and China moving closer to war every day, so do we. We are bound by treaty to enter any war between Tawain and China on Tawain's side. Also think of it like this, suppose a cracker knocks out the guidance systems on a F15 squadron and they crash into a neighborhood or business district and kill a bunch of people. We don't need more laws as the crackers will just laugh at those.
Linux might as well give up in the embedded market because BeIA is much farther ahead technologically. Linux should stay in the server/workstation market where it belongs. BTW BeOS now runs on crusoe so it is only a matter of time before BeIA internet appliances start appearing in big numbers
Your post shows how either a)you're a moron or b) you're really devoid of any compassion. If he broke the law then so what if he's already served his time? He deserves to be treated like a human being again. Once they've done the time then forgive the crime.
How about use genetics to create more intelligent humans? I seriously doubt though that these scenarios will come true though because I have enough hope in our race that we will become more ethical the more advanced we get.
It would be a positive step forward if the federal government banned region coded dvds in the US. It could be legitimately done by classifying it as a restraint of trade, and restraints of trade are big time antitrust violations.
There are about 12-15 linux users at my high school out of a total body of I believe 1000. That's pretty good considering that there were only around half that last school year. I am looking forward to burning a few cds and spreadin them around so that everyone there can get kernel 2.4 asap. 2.4 looks to be a really big step forward because I know at least another guy who wants to try Linux on his laptop, but it is afraid that PCMCIA and stuff like that might not work.
The more the merrier. I think that when Linux gets a base of 40-50 million in the US it will probably be as commercially successful as Windows 9X. At that time most newbies will buy full copies so they can get the tech support and that will be good for the vendors and the FSF/Debian group. Delphi is a pretty cool language from what I hear and it could add another incentive to take the Linux plunge. Of course if we don't get an official port it might be necessary to haggle GNU into trying to get a team together to make one anyway:)
There is no way that this decrypter can be banned by current federal law because it isn't for reverse engineering and the like. It is only to see a list of blocked sites. Symantec really doesn't have a case here and if peacefire plays its cards correctly it could set a major precedent here.
I think that Intel should give away Linux and FreeBSD systems rather than Windows systems, but that is my personal predjudice. BeOS would be another good option and it would help BeOS get some much needed extra attention.
How about fund a free hosting service for open source projects regardless of their platform? The biggest danger I see is that no one really gives much credit and attention to the rather large BeOS open source community and the growing Mac and Windows open source development communities. Isn't open source, open source regardless of platform? The best way to give back to the open source community as a whole is to recognize and help those who are trying to bring open source philosophies to the closed source OS's.
After seeing why he did it I think he probably deserves a patent. I do think that such patents should be limited to 3-4 years instead of the normal 7 years but if they really were the first site to do this then let them have it. Anyone notice that he's letting sites like fatbrain.com get away with this kind of thing? He isn't targetting purely online competitors. He's targetting the old boy network that wants him and the rest of the online book stores out of business. B&N is one such company. Jeff probably knows that there is room for more than 1 online book seller if the online book sellers are strictly web based. B&N would love to kill off all purely internet-based book sellers. So as long as he restricts his suits to the old boy network sellers like B&N.com I say.... the more the merrier since they haven't done a bloody thing to innovate, period.
The only thing that needs to be eliminated in totality is faith in the government and large corporations. Go ahead, let's end our love for our nation but let us destroy every government and large corporation in the process.
GNOME and KDE should redefine themselves. GNOME should be targetted for say.... sysadmins and such whereas KDE should be the desktop for the masses. Instead of having it be either or, why don't both teams work together to make sure that those 2 critical user types' needs are full met?
Why don't they start doing cool things like putting mpeg copies of the music videos on a separate cd or mail you a cd with the music videos for only the cost of shipping and handling when you buy the album? They need to make the album more than just music, it needs extra content like music videos on it. Eventually the 1.4 billion they announced they lost will look like chicken scratch because no one will buy the albums since they are so bloody expensive. Most of my ska, punk, swing, emo and metal records cost me only around $10-$14.... usually in the $12-$13 range for the more popular ones. However I shudder when I see the prices that people pay for popular rap and rock albums, around $16-$20. I am of the opinion that if they started USING the internet for distribution they could lower the price without lowering their profits. On a side note who does the RIAA think it is kidding by saying that it protects the rights of artists? It only protects the interests of the big labels it represents and their artists. I would be so surprised if they cracked down on a site giving away records from an independent label like epitaph, lookout or moon ska.
This one won't hold up because they were CLEARLY not the creator of the affiliate program concept. Their first one might but this one simply cannot unless the judge (assuming they go to court with this) has a brain with the capacity of a labotomized lab rat stoned on heroin.
I seriously hope that they are hit by DDOS attacks every week until they stop this. Even better I would like to see a trojan horse wipe out all of the data for their website and force them to start over again.
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They didn't even mention who was doing the bootlegging and that kind of thing. All they did was make ambiguous statements about Yahoo supporting piracy. Come on people if you want even a chance to get our support then you gotta give us real information. Is yahoo supporting college kids selling cd collections of roms or is this fulltime big piracy like you see in asia?
Isn't it more disrespectful to open up about the bugs when a patch isn't almost done. What good can a bunch of average joes and script kiddies knowing about the bug do? Only the developers can fix it, so why shouldn't they be the only ones to know about it until they're a few days or so from fixing it? All releasing the information about bugs does is give competitors, no matter who they are, an opportunity to play on the ignorance of joe blow user. Think Microsoft FUD is bad now? Just wait until they get the chance to rip Mozilla to shreds because only Mozilla's developers publically admit to all the bugs. That's the problem with admitting that they exist before a patch is almost finished, it gives companies like Microsoft an easy way to spread FUD and gain converts quickly.
Tomorrow BeOS R5 comes out and it is going to be a very good one. I gave up on Linux because I got sick of always referring to Howto's to do something as simple as setup a PPP connection. I like Linux and wish ya'll the best of luck but Linux is nowhere near as fun to play around with and use, at least for me, as BeOS. Linux makes a great server, BeOS a great desktop/workstation.
MacOS X is going to be a very good OS and it will be able to draw a lot more people to MacOS. It will take 2-3 years for Linux to be easy enough for any average joes to start using it. Of course then again within 2-3 years internet appliances could quite possibly nix the need for computers in many households.
Does this mean that Apple is considering jumping ship for x86? They certainly would have a good reason since Motorola has been way to slow to release 550-700mhz PPCs. You can't explain to clueless newbies that a 500mhz PPC is a lot faster than a 500mhz Athlon or P3 so maybe Apple is contemplating this kind of move. BTW didn't Stallman say that the Darwin license doesn't qualify as a free software license?
Holy shit, I live about 30-40 minutes away from waldo!
The aussies gave up their guns and look at them, their non-gun crimes shot up after they took all the guns. Guns aren't the answer, but neither is gun control since a criminal won't bother adhering to it. You lost credability there. As for the part about the US spending more money on cops, your point? We have what? 250-260 million more people than your nation does. Sorry that's offtopic but technically so was 1/2 of his post.
First off the continental US is at least as large if not larger than Europe (not counting Russia). Not to mention the fact that the US population is much more dispersed than the European population and that would limit DSL right off. With so many people living away from the telecom's central office it is no wonder why DSL won't take off in most of the US. However don't discount cable by any means because cable companies are working hard to upgrade their infrastructures. I live in a fairly rural area of Virginia and we are supposed to be getting cable internet access 6 monthes to a year from now because we live in a neighborhood near a medium-sized ski resort. The biggest issue the US will have to face is rural and small town (50,000) users' innability to get affordable broadband access.
This could seriously put American soldiers at risk and with a President like Clinton that doesn't care about the military, it will take a republican or reform party president to fix this. Clinton would only fix it if it was reported that you could shoot off icbm's like bottle rockets. For those between 18 and 25 reading /. don't say "well I'm not goin in the military, this doesn't affect me" because it does. With Tawain and China moving closer to war every day, so do we. We are bound by treaty to enter any war between Tawain and China on Tawain's side. Also think of it like this, suppose a cracker knocks out the guidance systems on a F15 squadron and they crash into a neighborhood or business district and kill a bunch of people. We don't need more laws as the crackers will just laugh at those.
Linux might as well give up in the embedded market because BeIA is much farther ahead technologically. Linux should stay in the server/workstation market where it belongs. BTW BeOS now runs on crusoe so it is only a matter of time before BeIA internet appliances start appearing in big numbers
Your post shows how either a)you're a moron or b) you're really devoid of any compassion. If he broke the law then so what if he's already served his time? He deserves to be treated like a human being again. Once they've done the time then forgive the crime.
How about use genetics to create more intelligent humans? I seriously doubt though that these scenarios will come true though because I have enough hope in our race that we will become more ethical the more advanced we get.
It would be a positive step forward if the federal government banned region coded dvds in the US. It could be legitimately done by classifying it as a restraint of trade, and restraints of trade are big time antitrust violations.
If the 3rd parties use this concept wisely then they stand a good chance of being able to punch holes in the republicratic dictatorship
There are about 12-15 linux users at my high school out of a total body of I believe 1000. That's pretty good considering that there were only around half that last school year. I am looking forward to burning a few cds and spreadin them around so that everyone there can get kernel 2.4 asap. 2.4 looks to be a really big step forward because I know at least another guy who wants to try Linux on his laptop, but it is afraid that PCMCIA and stuff like that might not work.
The more the merrier. I think that when Linux gets a base of 40-50 million in the US it will probably be as commercially successful as Windows 9X. At that time most newbies will buy full copies so they can get the tech support and that will be good for the vendors and the FSF/Debian group. Delphi is a pretty cool language from what I hear and it could add another incentive to take the Linux plunge. Of course if we don't get an official port it might be necessary to haggle GNU into trying to get a team together to make one anyway :)
There is no way that this decrypter can be banned by current federal law because it isn't for reverse engineering and the like. It is only to see a list of blocked sites. Symantec really doesn't have a case here and if peacefire plays its cards correctly it could set a major precedent here.
I think that Intel should give away Linux and FreeBSD systems rather than Windows systems, but that is my personal predjudice. BeOS would be another good option and it would help BeOS get some much needed extra attention.
How about fund a free hosting service for open source projects regardless of their platform? The biggest danger I see is that no one really gives much credit and attention to the rather large BeOS open source community and the growing Mac and Windows open source development communities. Isn't open source, open source regardless of platform? The best way to give back to the open source community as a whole is to recognize and help those who are trying to bring open source philosophies to the closed source OS's.
After seeing why he did it I think he probably deserves a patent. I do think that such patents should be limited to 3-4 years instead of the normal 7 years but if they really were the first site to do this then let them have it. Anyone notice that he's letting sites like fatbrain.com get away with this kind of thing? He isn't targetting purely online competitors. He's targetting the old boy network that wants him and the rest of the online book stores out of business. B&N is one such company. Jeff probably knows that there is room for more than 1 online book seller if the online book sellers are strictly web based. B&N would love to kill off all purely internet-based book sellers. So as long as he restricts his suits to the old boy network sellers like B&N.com I say.... the more the merrier since they haven't done a bloody thing to innovate, period.
The only thing that needs to be eliminated in totality is faith in the government and large corporations. Go ahead, let's end our love for our nation but let us destroy every government and large corporation in the process.
GNOME and KDE should redefine themselves. GNOME should be targetted for say.... sysadmins and such whereas KDE should be the desktop for the masses. Instead of having it be either or, why don't both teams work together to make sure that those 2 critical user types' needs are full met?
Why don't they start doing cool things like putting mpeg copies of the music videos on a separate cd or mail you a cd with the music videos for only the cost of shipping and handling when you buy the album? They need to make the album more than just music, it needs extra content like music videos on it. Eventually the 1.4 billion they announced they lost will look like chicken scratch because no one will buy the albums since they are so bloody expensive. Most of my ska, punk, swing, emo and metal records cost me only around $10-$14.... usually in the $12-$13 range for the more popular ones. However I shudder when I see the prices that people pay for popular rap and rock albums, around $16-$20. I am of the opinion that if they started USING the internet for distribution they could lower the price without lowering their profits. On a side note who does the RIAA think it is kidding by saying that it protects the rights of artists? It only protects the interests of the big labels it represents and their artists. I would be so surprised if they cracked down on a site giving away records from an independent label like epitaph, lookout or moon ska.
This one won't hold up because they were CLEARLY not the creator of the affiliate program concept. Their first one might but this one simply cannot unless the judge (assuming they go to court with this) has a brain with the capacity of a labotomized lab rat stoned on heroin.
I seriously hope that they are hit by DDOS attacks every week until they stop this. Even better I would like to see a trojan horse wipe out all of the data for their website and force them to start over again.