So you want to marginally increase the quality of the recording, and use that as an excuse to tack a bunch of restrictions on to what I can do with the product I bought, on my own equipment, in my own home. Great. Where do I sign up.
DRM adds cost, while removing consumer-perceived value.
How about this: use the law to deal with legal problems, and quit trying to pollute the electronics and computing industries with this DRM 'solution'. The problem of data that can be copied infinitely is something that the law and economics are just going to have to deal with eventually - and, for god's sake - in a better manner than just crippling/regulating all of the devices.
The 'way out' for the music industry is to stop lobbying and give the public what they want. Which includes the ability to duplicate their recordings in an open format. Always has, always will.
Your DNS name will be banned When the lobbyists have you outmanned Flat namespace their goal To assert brand control I fear you've read too much Ayn Rand
I mean, c'mon, a null sa password?! If someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you? Common sense yo! Jeeze..
If someone sold you a bridge to walk across blindfolded, then left a plank out and didn't bother to tell you, would it still be common sense?
A lot of these exploited machines are clients, not servers, running a scaled down version of SQL Server embedded in another product. According to another poster, Access XP uses SQL Server as the database backend, sets the 'sa' password to blank, and doesn't even notify the user that their machine is serving TDS completely unprotected.
I agree that it sounds like complete incompetence, but I'm not sure it's entirely the users' fault in some of the cases.
If your publically-accessible database server gets owned, well... <chris rock> I can't say you deserved it, but... I understand. </chris rock>
But then I remembered that if this were another JonKatz e-mail "rescue", the submission would have been five times as long, communicate half the information, and have no links or grounding in reality.
And I would have been found by police, slumped over at my keyboard, bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, dead from a second and final brain hemmorage at the hands of Jon Katz.
Thank you, timothy. In your own special way, you've instilled a little journalistic integrity in all of us. Or maybe I'm thinking of sanity.
the Chinese government plans to put a human on the moon by 2010
Ignignokt: Here it comes! Err: Here it comes! Ignignokt: You will be destroyed! Err: You're going down! Ignignokt: The explosion will be of extrordinary magnitude! Ignignokt: Just hang on. Err: It takes a while!
What hardware is it incapable of using? DeCSS is a software descrambler, used by software decoders to play DVDs. Hardware decoders, in all likelyhood, have CSS implemented in hardware. There's no technical reason for any OS to be unable to play DVDs on suitable hardware; don't make it sound that way.
Anyway, you're forced to pay the "Windows Tax" in the vast majority of computer purchases for the same reason you can't legally play DVDs on a free OS - a single company/cartel has colluded with its peers, using closed technology and contractual agreements to ultimately fix prices and enhance their bottom line.
I just don't get the sheer obstinancy of people who happily take it up the ass from media companies, and even advocate that others do the same. I don't watch DVDs, I don't own any DVD players or drives, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to buy new (less powerful, more expensive) computers and operating systems to get around a purely political limitation.
By not giving the MPAA and its licensees my money, it's killing them. It sure isn't hurting me.
As of version 3.x GCC is missing the capability to compile Linux kernel.
Where do you see anything about C++ in there? If you want to get pedantic, (and it appears you do), it's a 'compiler collection'. That includes C, which is what most people are referring to when they say 'gcc'. For your future reference, I'll say 'g++' so morons like you don't get confused.
You're an idiot. The Linux kernel is written in C with GNU extensions. Not C++.
Whose the idiot now? Perhaps the AC who didn't read the posts and decided to mouth off anyway? Who do you think you're impressing?
the rural parts of america were producing a LOT of food, still many immigrants were starving.
Yeah, actually I have. I primarily recall a paper (don't have the source handy) about farmers/distributors throwing food in the river to decrease supply, while the starving were pushed back from the river's edge by police. Lots of food available, people starved. Seems to support my point, and I think we agree. Semantics and language seem to have gotten in the way.
The year in which we eliminate restrictions on supply in a given industry (e.g. can endlessly reproduce food), will be the year in which someone steps in, attempts to re-control the supply chain, and creates an artificial poverty.
What's "wealth" if everyone has it, right? (rolls eyes)
For some reason the Simpson's Comic Book Guy always seems to show up here. It's a movie about a man who has turned into a spider. Jumps between buildings, shoots webs, scales walls, supports the DMCA. Why do we care about its "bugs" (snicker) again?
"Alec, Alec, regarding that so called "silent" propulsion system in "The Hunt For Red October", I printed out a list of technical errors which I think you'd enjoy discussing."
"Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron?" "No, it's Homer." "Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where computers threaten our personal liberties, I will know that you stole my idea."
I've always wondered this, so I'm just going to ask. Why is that box there? Does it really serve a purpose to repeat links directly to the right of the story? Perhaps this is just a Tacoism that was never taken out back and shot?
If the box has to stay there, could we use the anchor tag's title attribute for the text instead of the contents of the link? At least that way, decently marked-up articles can put the box to good use.
Just curious, not trolling. I'm waaay over the cap, so <moonites>moderating... is useless</moonites>.
I think he means the old old themes.org. It recently went through a very lengthly redesign in which all of the previously autonomous sites were brought into one giant database-driven site.
I liked a few of its layout elements and iconic decorations, but the site had several structural defects that made it next to impossible to find anything in a reasonable amount of time.
Umm. Nailing everyone you treat with a lethal dose of radiation and failing to shoot down a missle are two very different things.
I don't know how you could actually compare the two. I guess you could say the cancer patients were pending death as well, but that seems to discount the immediacy of a falling missle.
I meant without limiting factors such as land, labor, and weather. Which is basically what we have here. Technology removes limitations on which an industry was based, and legal action tries to put them back.
There was a whole other thread somewhere that beat the 'object generator' analogy to death. I don't think any suggested the shotgun + basement approach, though. I have to claim credit for that one.:)
An industry spawns 'entertainment' They broadcast it then preach containment Social contract's not owed When our rights they erode They won't stop 'till they have our arraignment
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These idiots keep trying to replace the wheel with a more and more complex regular polygon.
:)
To the quote file! That one cracked me up.
So you want to marginally increase the quality of the recording, and use that as an excuse to tack a bunch of restrictions on to what I can do with the product I bought, on my own equipment, in my own home. Great. Where do I sign up.
DRM adds cost, while removing consumer-perceived value.
How about this: use the law to deal with legal problems, and quit trying to pollute the electronics and computing industries with this DRM 'solution'. The problem of data that can be copied infinitely is something that the law and economics are just going to have to deal with eventually - and, for god's sake - in a better manner than just crippling/regulating all of the devices.
The 'way out' for the music industry is to stop lobbying and give the public what they want. Which includes the ability to duplicate their recordings in an open format. Always has, always will.
Your DNS name will be banned
When the lobbyists have you outmanned
Flat namespace their goal
To assert brand control
I fear you've read too much Ayn Rand
Yep, I believe so. It's marked as 5/24/2002.
There's an audio version (in RealMedia) at http://www.npr.org/me3.smil.
Haven't found the quote yet, and I'm about halfway through.
Transcripts (via e-mail) are $18.00. Seems a bit much.
I'm not questioning its authenticity, but do you have a reference/source/citation/whatever for that majority whip quote?
:)
I need it. It's just too good of a quote not to have up on the wall.
"I wonder what type of copy protection will come next?" one posting on alt.music.prince read. "Maybe they'll ban markers."
Maybe they'll just ban Prince. I think that would be one use of the DMCA that we could all approve of.
Ok, ok. Kidding. I know: DMCA evil. You guys are right. Now move along.
I mean, c'mon, a null sa password?! If someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you? Common sense yo! Jeeze..
If someone sold you a bridge to walk across blindfolded, then left a plank out and didn't bother to tell you, would it still be common sense?
A lot of these exploited machines are clients, not servers, running a scaled down version of SQL Server embedded in another product. According to another poster, Access XP uses SQL Server as the database backend, sets the 'sa' password to blank, and doesn't even notify the user that their machine is serving TDS completely unprotected.
I agree that it sounds like complete incompetence, but I'm not sure it's entirely the users' fault in some of the cases.
If your publically-accessible database server gets owned, well... <chris rock> I can't say you deserved it, but... I understand. </chris rock>
Use tape. I bought a used SCSI 8GB DAT drive, plus 50 blank tapes, all for roughly $120. Add an old SCSI card for $30 if you don't already have one.
That's about the price of a halfway decent CD burner. The tapes aren't much more than $3 a piece and write at the same speed (800-1000kb/sec).
For a moment there I was having Jon Katz flashbacks.
But then I remembered that if this were another JonKatz e-mail "rescue", the submission would have been five times as long, communicate half the information, and have no links or grounding in reality.
And I would have been found by police, slumped over at my keyboard, bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, dead from a second and final brain hemmorage at the hands of Jon Katz.
Thank you, timothy. In your own special way, you've instilled a little journalistic integrity in all of us. Or maybe I'm thinking of sanity.
the Chinese government plans to put a human on the moon by 2010
Ignignokt: Here it comes!
Err: Here it comes!
Ignignokt: You will be destroyed!
Err: You're going down!
Ignignokt: The explosion will be of extrordinary magnitude!
Ignignokt: Just hang on.
Err: It takes a while!
(With apologies to ATHF and Williams Street, Ltd)
What hardware is it incapable of using? DeCSS is a software descrambler, used by software decoders to play DVDs. Hardware decoders, in all likelyhood, have CSS implemented in hardware. There's no technical reason for any OS to be unable to play DVDs on suitable hardware; don't make it sound that way.
Anyway, you're forced to pay the "Windows Tax" in the vast majority of computer purchases for the same reason you can't legally play DVDs on a free OS - a single company/cartel has colluded with its peers, using closed technology and contractual agreements to ultimately fix prices and enhance their bottom line.
I just don't get the sheer obstinancy of people who happily take it up the ass from media companies, and even advocate that others do the same. I don't watch DVDs, I don't own any DVD players or drives, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to buy new (less powerful, more expensive) computers and operating systems to get around a purely political limitation.
By not giving the MPAA and its licensees my money, it's killing them. It sure isn't hurting me.
The parent post read:
As of version 3.x GCC is missing the capability to compile Linux kernel. Fuck that piece of shit.
I was replying to that post. Which obviously sank to the bottom rather quickly.
Okay, troll, let's look at the parent post:
As of version 3.x GCC is missing the capability to compile Linux kernel.
Where do you see anything about C++ in there? If you want to get pedantic, (and it appears you do), it's a 'compiler collection'. That includes C, which is what most people are referring to when they say 'gcc'. For your future reference, I'll say 'g++' so morons like you don't get confused.
You're an idiot. The Linux kernel is written in C with GNU extensions. Not C++.
Whose the idiot now? Perhaps the AC who didn't read the posts and decided to mouth off anyway? Who do you think you're impressing?
No it's not.
I'm running 2.4.18 compiled with GCC 3.0.4. How'd I do that?
the rural parts of america were producing a LOT of food, still many immigrants were starving.
Yeah, actually I have. I primarily recall a paper (don't have the source handy) about farmers/distributors throwing food in the river to decrease supply, while the starving were pushed back from the river's edge by police. Lots of food available, people starved. Seems to support my point, and I think we agree. Semantics and language seem to have gotten in the way.
The year in which we eliminate restrictions on supply in a given industry (e.g. can endlessly reproduce food), will be the year in which someone steps in, attempts to re-control the supply chain, and creates an artificial poverty.
What's "wealth" if everyone has it, right? (rolls eyes)
Hell, someone had to do it. If you guys have some spare chip fabrication equipment in your garage, can I borrow it?
That would be Matrix I SP1, not Matrix II RC2. Don't you know anything about movies? :)
For some reason the Simpson's Comic Book Guy always seems to show up here. It's a movie about a man who has turned into a spider. Jumps between buildings, shoots webs, scales walls, supports the DMCA. Why do we care about its "bugs" (snicker) again?
"Alec, Alec, regarding that so called "silent" propulsion system in "The Hunt For Red October", I printed out a list of technical errors which I think you'd enjoy discussing."
"Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron?"
"No, it's Homer."
"Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where computers threaten our personal liberties, I will know that you stole my idea."
To the Slashcode people:
I've always wondered this, so I'm just going to ask. Why is that box there? Does it really serve a purpose to repeat links directly to the right of the story? Perhaps this is just a Tacoism that was never taken out back and shot?
If the box has to stay there, could we use the anchor tag's title attribute for the text instead of the contents of the link? At least that way, decently marked-up articles can put the box to good use.
Just curious, not trolling. I'm waaay over the cap, so <moonites>moderating... is useless</moonites>.
I think he means the old old themes.org. It recently went through a very lengthly redesign in which all of the previously autonomous sites were brought into one giant database-driven site.
I liked a few of its layout elements and iconic decorations, but the site had several structural defects that made it next to impossible to find anything in a reasonable amount of time.
Nah, you just have to pronounce it like you're giving a southern baptist sermon.
Umm. Nailing everyone you treat with a lethal dose of radiation and failing to shoot down a missle are two very different things.
I don't know how you could actually compare the two. I guess you could say the cancer patients were pending death as well, but that seems to discount the immediacy of a falling missle.
I meant without limiting factors such as land, labor, and weather. Which is basically what we have here. Technology removes limitations on which an industry was based, and legal action tries to put them back.
:)
There was a whole other thread somewhere that beat the 'object generator' analogy to death. I don't think any suggested the shotgun + basement approach, though. I have to claim credit for that one.
An industry spawns 'entertainment'
They broadcast it then preach containment
Social contract's not owed
When our rights they erode
They won't stop 'till they have our arraignment