Stuff like this is going to make students eventually start looking to other companies like earthlink and at&t worldnet to provide internet access. What is the school gonna do then? Say you have to use our network waaaaa waaaaa no fair!
Congress has always been behind the times. They never protect consumers' technology rights (think DMCA) and they think that giving monopoly rights to big business will keep our economy growing. I personally think that the politicians are pretty much a lost cause. One more reason why there should be no government influence online. The government can regulate the internet as efficiently and wisely as a pack of wild baboons can run a city government.
I think Congress needs to outlaw this stuff altogether. It is one thing for an ecommerce stuff to track me on their site so that they can help me find cool stuff, but this is nothing close to something positive like that. Why do these people think that they have a right to get rich off of selling, using and abusing my personal information?!
I don't know about him, but I believe in technology for technology's sake. Thomas Jefferson believed that the more advanced and educated a society got the more equal and democratic it would become.
Corporations are making more and more progress every year towards becoming more powerful than the governments that were put in place to stop them and other no goodnicks from hurting the people. It is about time that the federal government and the state governments bring the movie and music industries (and possibly closed-source software industry too) to justice for their abuse of individuals' rights. It is time for the people to put the corporations in their place. Individual rights and personal liberty are more important than the success of corporations/governments. I certainly hope that DeCSS will now be used by as many people to pirate as many dvd movies as possible to show the movie industry what happens when they step on people's rights.
I say that this guy deserves more support than mitnick did. At least this guy did something 100% positive for everyone except the movie industry. It is about time too that we start making human rights issues about these so-called "civilized" western governments that send their native gestapo equivelents to break into people's houses without even most likely a search warrant. I am sure Hitler and all the socialist thugs from the former USSR and Red China would be very proud of the Norwegian government for doing something this wrong.
Excuse me, but I live in VA and have spent all my life thus far except for 1 year in the south. The majority of racism I have seen is black. For every one racist white I have seen in person I have seen 5 racist blacks. So even though you are probably joking about that American down home party it isn't any different from a racial or ethnic joke.
Re:Before y'all get your panties in a twist...
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One problem with the borrowing a cd defense story, if you have the cd, why do you need to even bother with mp3.com when you can rip the mp3z directly from the cd? The judge would look at this defense and just bust out laughing. The second one isn't too stable either since mp3.com is merely acting as a backup service as far as they are concerned.
Why isn't Microsoft in an uproar about this? This could cripple their MSN service plus hurt them even worse by tying them to AOL. If anything Microsoft should include a patch before Win2k goes out that actually keeps AOL software from being able to do this. Normally I don't support the empire, but they would be in the right by doing this because they would be protecting people's rights as well as protecting their business interests. This would be a first for them, and maybe they would like the taste of being on the right side. Just my $.02
Even if there are 100,000,000 people using the client, what good does that do if there aren't enough telescopes (all types)? (BTW I am not trying to be a troll here)
Why don't we get a petition here on/. to have the congress abolish the patent office? Seriously people, if we could create a legitimate one that allows only 1 signature per person and/or ip address... then get a few million signatures we might have something going here. If we show that we have the people behind us, the politicians must act accordingly or they will lose many votes next election.
Communism and socialism are totally incompatable with the internet because they strive to centralize control of the whole into the hands of a select few. It does not matter what rhetoric this statement gets from communists and socialists about how these aren't "real" socialist/communist nations, the fact is that socialism and communism are utter failures. Why do we support the continued oppression of the chinese people by the barbarians in beijinng? If anything we should be encouraging a democratic/capitalist counter-revolution to restore the chinese nationalist government based in taiwan to power. When will people learn that as long as a socialist/commmunist/fascist nation exists, the internet can never be 100% free?
"I suspect, very strongly, that Be will eventually go Open Source. They almost have to, now. They have no long-term future, if they don't" Linux's growth hasn't really increased all that much. Linux has only what, 10-15,000,000 users now? I personally like Linux a lot, but BeOS just works in ways that Linux cannot possibly match right now. A free BeOS will be more liberating for the public because it will allow the Linux/BSD folks to focus on winning on the server/networking front. BeOS is the only alternative OS right now that can whip NT as a workstation OS. Free is just as good as open source in many ways. Most people don't have the time to get to know Linux, that is why supporting BeOS R5/R6/R7 is so important. If Be can succeed under a plan like this, they will only get more liberal. That is the kind of company they are. Eventually they might release the source under a license that allows developers to get the code so they can code easier or something like that. Overall this is a really good thing for all alternative OS users.
is pretty good actually.... for newbies that is. I have no problem with setting up RedHat, Mandrake or COL. I haven't bothered with Debian but when 2.2 comes out I will probably give it a shot. Corel Linux is a good choice for newbies, at least for now. What would be nice is if Debian or Slackware would get easy enough for newbies to install and configure, without compromising its stability and reliability. What remains to be seen is what they will do when KDE 2.0 and KOffice 1.0 come out. I wonder if they will try to make it hard for their distro users to run KOffice.
It is time for some antitrust here
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I don't support hurting AOL or Time warner, but the major media companies should be broken up for the good of the free press. The media here is becoming little more than a propaganda tool for the left, which is the dominant ideology among reporters and people like Ted Turner.
This is about Linux development, not *nix development. GNOME and KDE were designed with Linux and *BSD users in mind. Though they will work on solaris, irix, etc.... they were meant to make Linux and other x86/ppc *nix's like Linux and *BSD easy to use. Solaris users probably wouldn't use GNOME/KDE anyway. You want Linux to win? Then stop complaining that one GUI is winning out, even though the majority of Linux users like it and want to code for it. Sorry but every Linux user I have personally met uses KDE or GNOME. Just my $.02
Hmmmmm doesn't make any sense to me. Linux, XFree86, KDE, Apache, MacOS X's core, etc are great projects. Let's take a look one of these days and see how much money sys admins saved by using OSS products rather than commercial ones. Don't get me wrong, commercial software has its place.
When will our society learn that women and minorities haven't been held back for over 20 years now? Women and minorities are typically too busy doing other things that pursuing computer/technology oriented jobs/hobbies. As far as I am concerned the less people like the feminists who equate made by a man with made only for men, the better off the internet will be. Frankly I don't believe in democracy anymore, I don't believe the majority has the right to push its will on the minority and vice versa
So what if Linux doesn't perform quite as well as NT? What Linux gives is stability and uptime, which are more important for e-commerce companies. It also allows anyone to make their own server, something NT will never allow.
Competition in telecom is absolutely over rated. All of my relatvies, teachers and friends who remembered ma ball talk about how great it was and how terrible our system is now! Screw competition if it means advancing forward technologically. Microsoft will die on its own, it is time to kill the antitrust laws so we can move on and re-estalish ourselves as global leaders. Either that our we should have an iq test for anyone running for office because I doubt most of our current crop of politicians would pass one.
BeOS was never intended to be a server OS. Why don't they be fair and see how well it works compared to the others as an internet appliance OS or a workstation OS.
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Stuff like this is going to make students eventually start looking to other companies like earthlink and at&t worldnet to provide internet access. What is the school gonna do then? Say you have to use our network waaaaa waaaaa no fair!
Congress has always been behind the times. They never protect consumers' technology rights (think DMCA) and they think that giving monopoly rights to big business will keep our economy growing. I personally think that the politicians are pretty much a lost cause. One more reason why there should be no government influence online. The government can regulate the internet as efficiently and wisely as a pack of wild baboons can run a city government.
I think Congress needs to outlaw this stuff altogether. It is one thing for an ecommerce stuff to track me on their site so that they can help me find cool stuff, but this is nothing close to something positive like that. Why do these people think that they have a right to get rich off of selling, using and abusing my personal information?!
I don't know about him, but I believe in technology for technology's sake. Thomas Jefferson believed that the more advanced and educated a society got the more equal and democratic it would become.
Corporations are making more and more progress every year towards becoming more powerful than the governments that were put in place to stop them and other no goodnicks from hurting the people. It is about time that the federal government and the state governments bring the movie and music industries (and possibly closed-source software industry too) to justice for their abuse of individuals' rights. It is time for the people to put the corporations in their place. Individual rights and personal liberty are more important than the success of corporations/governments. I certainly hope that DeCSS will now be used by as many people to pirate as many dvd movies as possible to show the movie industry what happens when they step on people's rights.
I say that this guy deserves more support than mitnick did. At least this guy did something 100% positive for everyone except the movie industry. It is about time too that we start making human rights issues about these so-called "civilized" western governments that send their native gestapo equivelents to break into people's houses without even most likely a search warrant. I am sure Hitler and all the socialist thugs from the former USSR and Red China would be very proud of the Norwegian government for doing something this wrong.
I think cmdrtaco should get this guy's ip and ban him from /. since all he does is post totally off topic stuff like this
you will be the first up against the wall when the capitalist/democratic revolution hits the states!
When is 2.4 due to be released? Is it true that 2.3 is still highly unstable?
Excuse me, but I live in VA and have spent all my life thus far except for 1 year in the south. The majority of racism I have seen is black. For every one racist white I have seen in person I have seen 5 racist blacks. So even though you are probably joking about that American down home party it isn't any different from a racial or ethnic joke.
One problem with the borrowing a cd defense story, if you have the cd, why do you need to even bother with mp3.com when you can rip the mp3z directly from the cd? The judge would look at this defense and just bust out laughing. The second one isn't too stable either since mp3.com is merely acting as a backup service as far as they are concerned.
Why isn't Microsoft in an uproar about this? This could cripple their MSN service plus hurt them even worse by tying them to AOL. If anything Microsoft should include a patch before Win2k goes out that actually keeps AOL software from being able to do this. Normally I don't support the empire, but they would be in the right by doing this because they would be protecting people's rights as well as protecting their business interests. This would be a first for them, and maybe they would like the taste of being on the right side. Just my $.02
Even if there are 100,000,000 people using the client, what good does that do if there aren't enough telescopes (all types)? (BTW I am not trying to be a troll here)
Wake up you little bastards and realize that you just shot your PR department in the foot for doing something this stupid
Why don't we get a petition here on /. to have the congress abolish the patent office? Seriously people, if we could create a legitimate one that allows only 1 signature per person and/or ip address... then get a few million signatures we might have something going here. If we show that we have the people behind us, the politicians must act accordingly or they will lose many votes next election.
Communism and socialism are totally incompatable with the internet because they strive to centralize control of the whole into the hands of a select few. It does not matter what rhetoric this statement gets from communists and socialists about how these aren't "real" socialist/communist nations, the fact is that socialism and communism are utter failures. Why do we support the continued oppression of the chinese people by the barbarians in beijinng? If anything we should be encouraging a democratic/capitalist counter-revolution to restore the chinese nationalist government based in taiwan to power. When will people learn that as long as a socialist/commmunist/fascist nation exists, the internet can never be 100% free?
"I suspect, very strongly, that Be will eventually go Open Source. They almost have to, now. They have no long-term future, if they don't" Linux's growth hasn't really increased all that much. Linux has only what, 10-15,000,000 users now? I personally like Linux a lot, but BeOS just works in ways that Linux cannot possibly match right now. A free BeOS will be more liberating for the public because it will allow the Linux/BSD folks to focus on winning on the server/networking front. BeOS is the only alternative OS right now that can whip NT as a workstation OS. Free is just as good as open source in many ways. Most people don't have the time to get to know Linux, that is why supporting BeOS R5/R6/R7 is so important. If Be can succeed under a plan like this, they will only get more liberal. That is the kind of company they are. Eventually they might release the source under a license that allows developers to get the code so they can code easier or something like that. Overall this is a really good thing for all alternative OS users.
is pretty good actually.... for newbies that is. I have no problem with setting up RedHat, Mandrake or COL. I haven't bothered with Debian but when 2.2 comes out I will probably give it a shot. Corel Linux is a good choice for newbies, at least for now. What would be nice is if Debian or Slackware would get easy enough for newbies to install and configure, without compromising its stability and reliability. What remains to be seen is what they will do when KDE 2.0 and KOffice 1.0 come out. I wonder if they will try to make it hard for their distro users to run KOffice.
I don't support hurting AOL or Time warner, but the major media companies should be broken up for the good of the free press. The media here is becoming little more than a propaganda tool for the left, which is the dominant ideology among reporters and people like Ted Turner.
This is about Linux development, not *nix development. GNOME and KDE were designed with Linux and *BSD users in mind. Though they will work on solaris, irix, etc.... they were meant to make Linux and other x86/ppc *nix's like Linux and *BSD easy to use. Solaris users probably wouldn't use GNOME/KDE anyway. You want Linux to win? Then stop complaining that one GUI is winning out, even though the majority of Linux users like it and want to code for it. Sorry but every Linux user I have personally met uses KDE or GNOME. Just my $.02
Hmmmmm doesn't make any sense to me. Linux, XFree86, KDE, Apache, MacOS X's core, etc are great projects. Let's take a look one of these days and see how much money sys admins saved by using OSS products rather than commercial ones. Don't get me wrong, commercial software has its place.
When will our society learn that women and minorities haven't been held back for over 20 years now? Women and minorities are typically too busy doing other things that pursuing computer/technology oriented jobs/hobbies. As far as I am concerned the less people like the feminists who equate made by a man with made only for men, the better off the internet will be. Frankly I don't believe in democracy anymore, I don't believe the majority has the right to push its will on the minority and vice versa
So what if Linux doesn't perform quite as well as NT? What Linux gives is stability and uptime, which are more important for e-commerce companies. It also allows anyone to make their own server, something NT will never allow.
Competition in telecom is absolutely over rated. All of my relatvies, teachers and friends who remembered ma ball talk about how great it was and how terrible our system is now! Screw competition if it means advancing forward technologically. Microsoft will die on its own, it is time to kill the antitrust laws so we can move on and re-estalish ourselves as global leaders. Either that our we should have an iq test for anyone running for office because I doubt most of our current crop of politicians would pass one.
BeOS was never intended to be a server OS. Why don't they be fair and see how well it works compared to the others as an internet appliance OS or a workstation OS.