I suppose you're right. I was going into rant mode. The one line at the end of my original post saying the universities can do what the want with their own network wasn't emphasised by me enough. I was ranting about my belief that the use/distribution/development of things like this is ok IMHO. It wasn't censorship because the Uni can rightly insist their network is only used for academic purposes but that not the same as Network Solutions or the Government or something banning it entirely.
I wish there was a way to edit ones own comments on/. BTW, I did read the full article first:-)
You sir, are truly a fucking moron. Who the fuck uses napster for legal mp3s? YEA REALLY THAT HAPPENS. God damn fucking moron.
I bet CD-burners are used for illegal copying about 90% of the time. What about the legal/illegal use ratio of guns?
Anyway, I'm sure there are more legal mp3's than you think been transferred by napsters. A fair few in my own collection are legal (got from mp3.com's trance section) and if i were using Napster (which i can't due to a damned firewall) i wouldn't be surprised if much of the mp3's up/down-loaded were legal.
All i do know is that if you own the CD/DVD/whatever yourself you can convert it to any format you want (mp3,mpg etc.) and watch away to your hearts content (even if a EULA forbids it i think, but IANAL) This is at the heart of that DeCSS thing. They're just watching their DVD on a Linux box and they can take any step (incl. reverse engineering) in order to avail of their right to watch the DVD which they bought with hard-earned cash - but that's another story!
Universities should be the last place this kind of thing happens. University has traditionally been a place of free-thinking etc. etc. Also, as mentioned in the article, the RIAA is peddling the usual rubbish "that Napster helps foster a black market for illegal copies of digital music". The whole point of any communications protocol is that date can be copied for free (unlike a concrete thing like food) and very easily. So they be trying to ban all communication (including normal speech!) because you can copy music/films etc. with them. The should be sueing anyone making webservers if they find one copy of an illegal mp3 on it. Companies making Ethernet cards should be sued if they don't have mp3-blocking features built-in etc. etc. Basically,t he same as VCR's and the like, Napster can be used legally so RIAA should get off their back and universities should stop censoring (although i suppose the uni does have a point about bandwidth been wasted when others are doing genuine research etc.
First of All, I apologise if this point has already been made (which it probably has!). I tried to post this last night but/. wouldn't work (had it/.ed itself - i was attempting to post during the announcement itself)
I'm just curious about the performance specs. 400 MHz for one of the variants released today and 700 for the other says nothing. They could advertize 20,000Mhz for all I care. I mean, comparing Athlon and Pentium on MHz is stupid enough and this Crusoe is a completely new (and off-the-nut!) architecture. Even if the 400MHz refers to the virtual x86 performance and not the "native" Crusoe clock-speed I want to see real benchmarks now (Quake fps, Excel calculations etc.) I was quite pissed-off when the first few suits on kept emphasising that they were "going for the megahertz" - they deliberately didn't clarify but I suppose they just want a big IPO so extreme hype and FUD is needed;-)
5pm GMT so I assume that's 6pm European (ie. Dutch time). Come to think of it a really cool feature for Slashdot would be if it would automagically change the time displayed depending on your timezone specified in the prefs. Not just for time of posting for posts but EVERYTHING. Maybe I'll have a bash at that myself if/when the source for/. is released:-)
Good Idea. But what we need now is a device that can replicate the smell at a remote location. A WebNose wouldn't be much good if it just broadcast a few lines of text describing the smell. I want to be able to smell the smell.
I want one that will sniff b**lsh*t. I would just point it at a press release by M$/AOL/whoever and it would tell me how much rubbish was in it:-) so i could decide whether to get a grain of salt
I know it could, but i was just pointing out that he seemed to think X based progs always had to run locally. I should have made my point clearer. You had a point about Netscape not always been installed.
The other special use for Lynx is in those situations where you've got shell access to a remote machine, and you need a file available via a web server somewhere on the Internet. Rather than downloading it to your local machine only to upload it again to the remote machine, simply use Lynx to download the file directly to the remote machine in one easy step.
You don't need lynx for this. The author seems to forget you can run netscape/opera (whatever X broswer you want) on the remote machine but have it display on the local one. That's the whole point of X! He would have to set some environment variable or something but it would definitely work
When he hits File/Save he would see the remote filesystem he is trying to save to.
Would you be happy if every TV you bought had a license saying "we are not liable it this blows up and kills you and all your family". What i mean is programs should due what the say on the box and it should be possible to sue software houses for negligence if their product does damage (just like anything else you buy)
I mean, if we really wanted to, we could just hook video and audio out into a VCR or something and record it, or record it to disk without any encryption. It's just dumb.
As long as it gets sent to a normal telly/monitor and normal speakers you can NEVER even make it difficult to copy. You just put the RF signal into a VCR/soundcard/video card or whatever.
I was thinking about having the speaker and player in one sealed box with no headphone socket etc. That would decrease the quality of the copy anyway.
Basically, If you eyes can see it and you're ears can hear it, the copying will be done - and is legal! As long as you own a copy of the film in some format you are allowed (last time I checked) to copy it to others formats for your own use.
Women all have different protocols, maybe that's why we (computer geeks) don't get anywhere with them (non-lateral thinking needed). So, I propose we use Microsoft proprietary protocols:-) They change every month, never work the way you expect etc. If we can handle them and transfer the skills learned to interfacing with women then we're flying.
I know you've had at least 3 replies agreeing with you but i just had to say so as well. In my first year of uni i stayed the same geeky type person i was in school and ended up becoming v.good friends:-( with all the women I wanted to......(use your imaginatio) Anyway, at the start of second year I made a concious effort to cut down how much I thought/talked about computers and subconciously I changed my social behaviour and started getting... successful so to speak. I just stopped because others were bored - if I had a known it would do so much good I would have done the a LOT earlier.
There's a place for geekiness and it's not in the pub/club
Whether they're the same company or not isn't the point, they will be banned from communicating with each other no matter what Bill orders from on high. It's called a Chinese Wall (read about half way down this page to see what I mean) Basically, this means everyone gets to see the same API ('cos IE and OS teams aren't allowed to communicate), no optimizations for each other etc.
NO, NO. They don't mean split the internet apps from the others. They're thinking about separating the Microsoft owned content stuff (MSN, Hotmail, WebTV etc). The applications part will still have IE (and I see no problem with that)
Nothing, as far as i know, but *nixes, including Linux will have a problem in 2038 because of the way the kernel stores the date (number of seconds since 1970). time_t is a signed 32 bit integer (-2billion -> +2billion) so if everything isn't recompiled with a new definition of the time_t type then the date will skip from 2038 to 1940!
Work out what exactly whats 2^32 seconds before and after 1970 if you want to exact time of this
I often think the same myself but then there would be a single point of failure, so to speak. If this granted amazons damn silly patent, it would be an all or nothing situation worldwide. I doubt we could get much consensus on the rules/definition this Authority would use.
If you want to port applications port the OS firts(sic) The Java port of CorelOffice was too slow and no-one seemed interested anyway. Porting the lot to linux (or any *nix) would have taken too long
So they just pumped some cash/development into WINE so their apps are the same executable (AFAIK) on Win32 and Linux
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I consider myself a geek but I have never seen a Pocket Protector, let alone buy one. Slashdot should do a poll too find out if anyone actually does were them (whatever the hell the are!) and try to check out other things attributed to geeks (no social skills/no girlfriends etc.). For me, at least, and the only other true geek I know, this is rubbish
if you're trying to sell something the last thing you want to do is piss off the very people you're trying to sell to Basically because it costs absolutely nothing. If you send a million spams and only get 10 orders you've probably made a profit. The only way I can think of it to have some kind of e-stamps but that would be controversial (I myself wouldn't even be for it even though I'm suggesting it here!)
Some of the confusion may arise because if you want your program to become part of the GNU project (as distinct from part of the larger category of "software distrubuted under the GNU GPL") you have to assign your copyright to the Free Software Foundation (give the software to them, in other words). By doing that you relinquish your rights as author and can no longer release closed-source versions.
Doesn't this mean that the CEO of a certain big company could get RMS drunk and get him to sign the artistic license for ALL GNU project source and "steal" if for use it all in a commercial project! Is their a clause in the document which signs over copyright to the GNU project which says "I hand over copyright to the GNU project but only if my source is distributed under the GPL and no other licence"
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me!
Seeing as the watermark is encoded as 'background noise' maybe after scanning the user could run a blur or something on the picture. It would affect the quality of course, but it should mess up the picture enough to destroy the watermark
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I suppose you're right. I was going into rant mode. The one line at the end of my original post saying the universities can do what the want with their own network wasn't emphasised by me enough.
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I was ranting about my belief that the use/distribution/development of things like this is ok IMHO. It wasn't censorship because the Uni can rightly insist their network is only used for academic purposes but that not the same as Network Solutions or the Government or something banning it entirely.
I wish there was a way to edit ones own comments on
BTW, I did read the full article first
You sir, are truly a fucking moron. Who the fuck uses napster for legal mp3s? YEA REALLY THAT HAPPENS. God damn fucking moron.
I bet CD-burners are used for illegal copying about 90% of the time. What about the legal/illegal use ratio of guns?
Anyway, I'm sure there are more legal mp3's than you think been transferred by napsters. A fair few in my own collection are legal (got from mp3.com's trance section) and if i were using Napster (which i can't due to a damned firewall) i wouldn't be surprised if much of the mp3's up/down-loaded were legal.
All i do know is that if you own the CD/DVD/whatever yourself you can convert it to any format you want (mp3,mpg etc.) and watch away to your hearts content (even if a EULA forbids it i think, but IANAL)
This is at the heart of that DeCSS thing. They're just watching their DVD on a Linux box and they can take any step (incl. reverse engineering) in order to avail of their right to watch the DVD which they bought with hard-earned cash - but that's another story!
Universities should be the last place this kind of thing happens. University has traditionally been a place of free-thinking etc. etc.
Also, as mentioned in the article, the RIAA is peddling the usual rubbish "that Napster helps foster a black market for illegal copies of digital music".
The whole point of any communications protocol is that date can be copied for free (unlike a concrete thing like food) and very easily.
So they be trying to ban all communication (including normal speech!) because you can copy music/films etc. with them.
The should be sueing anyone making webservers if they find one copy of an illegal mp3 on it.
Companies making Ethernet cards should be sued if they don't have mp3-blocking features built-in etc. etc.
Basically,t he same as VCR's and the like, Napster can be used legally so RIAA should get off their back and universities should stop censoring (although i suppose the uni does have a point about bandwidth been wasted when others are doing genuine research etc.
First of All, I apologise if this point has already been made (which it probably has!). I tried to post this last night but /. wouldn't work (had it /.ed itself - i was attempting to post during the announcement itself)
;-)
I'm just curious about the performance specs. 400 MHz for one of the variants released today and 700 for the other says nothing. They could advertize 20,000Mhz for all I care.
I mean, comparing Athlon and Pentium on MHz is stupid enough and this Crusoe is a completely new (and off-the-nut!) architecture.
Even if the 400MHz refers to the virtual x86 performance and not the "native" Crusoe clock-speed I want to see real benchmarks now (Quake fps, Excel calculations etc.)
I was quite pissed-off when the first few suits on kept emphasising that they were "going for the megahertz" - they deliberately didn't clarify but I suppose they just want a big IPO so extreme hype and FUD is needed
5pm GMT so I assume that's 6pm European (ie. Dutch time). /. is released :-)
Come to think of it a really cool feature for Slashdot would be if it would automagically change the time displayed depending on your timezone specified in the prefs. Not just for time of posting for posts but EVERYTHING.
Maybe I'll have a bash at that myself if/when the source for
Good Idea. But what we need now is a device that can replicate the smell at a remote location. A WebNose wouldn't be much good if it just broadcast a few lines of text describing the smell. I want to be able to smell the smell.
I want one that will sniff b**lsh*t. I would just point it at a press release by M$/AOL/whoever and it would tell me how much rubbish was in it :-) so i could decide whether to get a grain of salt
I know it could, but i was just pointing out that he seemed to think X based progs always had to run locally.
I should have made my point clearer.
You had a point about Netscape not always been installed.
The other special use for Lynx is in those situations where you've got shell access to a remote machine, and you need a file available via a web server somewhere on the Internet. Rather than downloading it to your local machine only to upload it again to the remote machine, simply use Lynx to download the file directly to the remote machine in one easy step.
You don't need lynx for this. The author seems to forget you can run netscape/opera (whatever X broswer you want) on the remote machine but have it display on the local one. That's the whole point of X! He would have to set some environment variable or something but it would definitely work
When he hits File/Save he would see the remote filesystem he is trying to save to.
Would you be happy if every TV you bought had a license saying "we are not liable it this blows up and kills you and all your family".
What i mean is programs should due what the say on the box and it should be possible to sue software houses for negligence if their product does damage (just like anything else you buy)
As long as it gets sent to a normal telly/monitor and normal speakers you can NEVER even make it difficult to copy. You just put the RF signal into a VCR/soundcard/video card or whatever.
I was thinking about having the speaker and player in one sealed box with no headphone socket etc. That would decrease the quality of the copy anyway.
Basically, If you eyes can see it and you're ears can hear it, the copying will be done - and is legal! As long as you own a copy of the film in some format you are allowed (last time I checked) to copy it to others formats for your own use.
Women all have different protocols, maybe that's why we (computer geeks) don't get anywhere with them (non-lateral thinking needed). :-) They change every month, never work the way you expect etc.
So, I propose we use Microsoft proprietary protocols
If we can handle them and transfer the skills learned to interfacing with women then we're flying.
I know you've had at least 3 replies agreeing with you but i just had to say so as well. :-( with all the women I wanted to ......(use your imaginatio) ... successful so to speak.
In my first year of uni i stayed the same geeky type person i was in school and ended up becoming v.good friends
Anyway, at the start of second year I made a concious effort to cut down how much I thought/talked about computers and subconciously I changed my social behaviour and started getting
I just stopped because others were bored - if I had a known it would do so much good I would have done the a LOT earlier.
There's a place for geekiness and it's not in the pub/club
Whether they're the same company or not isn't the point, they will be banned from communicating with each other no matter what Bill orders from on high.
It's called a Chinese Wall (read about half way down this page to see what I mean)
Basically, this means everyone gets to see the same API ('cos IE and OS teams aren't allowed to communicate), no optimizations for each other etc.
NO, NO. They don't mean split the internet apps from the others.
They're thinking about separating the Microsoft owned content stuff (MSN, Hotmail, WebTV etc).
The applications part will still have IE (and I see no problem with that)
come to think of it, 2004 is 2^30 seconds after 1970! so time_t may be a signed 31-bit or unsigned 30-bit type!
Nothing, as far as i know, but *nixes, including Linux will have a problem in 2038 because of the way the kernel stores the date (number of seconds since 1970). time_t is a signed 32 bit integer (-2billion -> +2billion) so if everything isn't recompiled with a new definition of the time_t type then the date will skip from 2038 to 1940!
Work out what exactly whats 2^32 seconds before and after 1970 if you want to exact time of this
I often think the same myself but then there would be a single point of failure, so to speak.
If this granted amazons damn silly patent, it would be an all or nothing situation worldwide.
I doubt we could get much consensus on the rules/definition this Authority would use.
i thought this was what WINE was!
i hope i'm on the right track because i expect loads of angry mails if i'm not :-0
The Java port of CorelOffice was too slow and no-one seemed interested anyway.
Porting the lot to linux (or any *nix) would have taken too long
So they just pumped some cash/development into WINE so their apps are the same executable (AFAIK) on Win32 and Linux
I consider myself a geek but I have never seen a Pocket Protector, let alone buy one. Slashdot should do a poll too find out if anyone actually does were them (whatever the hell the are!) and try to check out other things attributed to geeks (no social skills/no girlfriends etc.).
For me, at least, and the only other true geek I know, this is rubbish
if you're trying to sell something the last thing you want to do is piss off the very people you're trying to sell to
Basically because it costs absolutely nothing. If you send a million spams and only get 10 orders you've probably made a profit.
The only way I can think of it to have some kind of e-stamps but that would be controversial (I myself wouldn't even be for it even though I'm suggesting it here!)
Doesn't this mean that the CEO of a certain big company could get RMS drunk and get him to sign the artistic license for ALL GNU project source and "steal" if for use it all in a commercial project!
Is their a clause in the document which signs over copyright to the GNU project which says "I hand over copyright to the GNU project but only if my source is distributed under the GPL and no other licence"
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me!
Seeing as the watermark is encoded as 'background noise' maybe after scanning the user could run a blur or something on the picture.
It would affect the quality of course, but it should mess up the picture enough to destroy the watermark