What about linking to a site that links to a site that hosts illegal material? Is that going to be illegal? If thats the case, and I link to google, and google links to illegal material, then can I be prosecuted? What about 3 or 4 links down the chain? If that is the case, then almost anyone could be prosecuted if you follow the link tree far enough, if it isn't, then all you have to do is link to a dummy page to that links to the site that links to the illegal stuff. Either way, this law is flawed. (I won't even go into the merit of the law, or in this case, the lack thereof).
I find numerous things odd about this whole deal. First of all, how do they enforce this? Do they make future games not work on the non-upgraded hardware? Do they knock on your door if you had a pre-order and they have your address? And secondly, Why enforce this? I understand that Sony is a member of the MPAA, but it would seem to their advantage to merely offer to fix the problem rather than force a fix to the problem. Its not like the MPAA loses money because of region code avoiding softare (or do they? This *is* something of a grey area for me and I'm sure others). And lastly, How does sony plan to make ammends with consumers? I know if I had bought one of these units i'd be hella-mad that I would have to send it back (or even just a single chip out of it or whatever I would have to do) and I would expect some sort of compensation (an issue I didn't see addressed by article.
Whew. Well, thats a lot of questions, but I'd like to see if anyone can answer them for me.:)
Just for the record, After having owned my TiVo for about 2 weeks I can add a few partial solutions I managed to think up. If I can't get a season pass to a show like Powerpuff Girls (for the record, Cmdr Taco apparently watches the exact same shows I do so I can let him know that TiVo will get better at guessing what to record) because some of its showings will conflict with other season passes, I've found that giving that program 3 thumbs up will cause TiVo to always record that program unless there is some other season pass or highly rated program to record. So now my TiVo records every single episode of the PowerPuff girls that doesn't conflict with a season pass.
And dont' forget that TiVo's software should be fully upgradable. I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be, so adding smarter features should be something to look for in the future.
Also, as a personal message to you, you I want to let you know that Martha Stewart is in fact a minion of Satan.
Actually, TiVo's clock sets itself. I assume it gets the time when it dials in to download TV listings. This is important to TiVo, remember, the times need to be exact in order for TiVo to work right. P.S. TiVo is awesome. Everyone should own one. I never had any problems with my unit (other than the ones which Cmdr Taco mentioned).
I assume by freezing he means that the picture freezes and the game locks up. However I find it rather humerous that the sentence was phrased to say that other problems were "overheating and freezing". As if the machine was sometimes too hot and sometimes too cold.
Hey, Shouldn't slashdot have a anime category? Or at least a cartoon category that maybe throws in news about the simpsons and south park. . . Just a thought.
Actually, I'd like to make a quick point, even though I've made it before in similar posts.
If anything, mp3s have helped the RIAA and sell more cds than probably anything else. How you ask is that possible? Simple, a lot of people, myself included, enjoy import cds and have musical tastes which aren't quite mainstream. While some people will use radio as a way of finding out what kind of music they like enough to buy, in my case it is nearly impossible to find any good trance, goa, house, jungle, happycore, etc. music on the radio. As a result, my primary, and practicaly only way of deciding what cds to buy is based on whether or not I like the mp3. I've found numerous, numerous groups that I discovered I liked that I would have never even heard of were it not for mp3.
Couple this with the fact that you can't returned opened cd's to the store unless defective (and then only for an exchange on the same one), and you get a very good reason why mp3s (by allowing pepole to listen before they buy) sell more cd's than any other medium. On a side note, I noticed that the article indicated that cd singles didn't sell so hotly. That IS probably mp3s fault. After all, if you only like one song off the cd (you discover after listening to it via mp3), you more likely not to shell out 5 bucks for a single than you are to simply go the mp3 alone.
Well, I'm sure I could sit here all day long and attempt to evaluate why Sony is against bleem. But I think its probably because they suspect the people using bleem are playing with copied cd's and also due to the fact that Sony probably feels that they should be the only ones to make a PS emulator. I mean think, which way does Sony make more money: Bleem sells more PS games than the PS alone does, or Sony makes a PS emulator and sells both more games and the emulator. Of couse, I'd also point out that as a member of the MPAA and the RIAA, Sony does not have a history of "getting it."
From what little has slipped out between the two, it might be interesting to note that the processor involved here would be an Athlon. I don't believe the article made mention of that, but its mentioned elsewhere that MS has got a tentative deal with AMD to supply them for the x-box. At last check, the processor of choice was a 650, but
I believe Microsoft is just keeping its options open when it says "up to 1 gigahertz". Stop and think for a moment. This is microsoft. In a deal with AMD. I think the odds of them paying 500 bucks a processor is pretty damn slim, thats current retail price (nearly) and we are talking a year from now with a buy-in-bulk deal with a company struggling for recognition. I suspect MS would probably pay closer to the 200-300 dollar mark, maybe less (remember, at this point, AMD already sells many of its processors at a loss just to keep up with intel, they'll do anything for marketshare).
And as for the other components, I don't know about you but I can walk into a store today and buy a DVD drive for
Actually, It is quite standard practice for console makers to sell their gaming consoles at a loss. The Key to success in the console market is to sell lots of consoles thus establishing a large user base to which you can sell your games. The way to sell lots of consoles is to sell them cheap. Once you have established a large userbase, then you make money off the games they buy.
I've heard talk that Playstion 2 will be selling at a loss of > 200 dollars per unit, so i don't find this pricing to be unusual (although 300 dollars would sound better, and still be a loss).
The interesting thing to me here is that this box will use standard computer hardware. I can just immagine yet another MS screw up wherein they neglect to solder the parts in place thus causing an x-box buying frenzy based around people buying them and stripping them for parts.
We shouldn't be bashing windows 2000, we should happy for Microsoft for putting out a product with a record low of a mere 65,000 bugs (I do believe this is the first time they managed to crack the 100,000 mark). By my estimates, this should be the best Microsoft product to date. If only my Windows 98 partition could boast the same.
Blocking The Onion is the sort of thing that causes so much debate around public library internet filtering. Anyone who has read the onion can attest that it's not always material that should be read by anyone, its nothing an adult couldn't handle. At this point I feel its only fair to point out that the Bible (and probably dozens of other books which the public library no doubt has somewhere) doesn't exactly skirt around the issues of sex (I.E. "Let us lie with our father to preserve our family line."). The Bible is 100% more sexually explicit and than anything ever put on The Onion. Blocking stuff like that just doesn't fly with most people, even those that support blocking actual porn. I strongly believe that while some people might support blocking of pornography, very few people really support letting someone else decide what is considered indecent for their viewing or their children's viewing.
I appologize for that little rant. And, on a different note altogether, I'd like to say to Jamie "Keep up the great story, I'm really enjoying this series."
2. To Andover and Slashdot, as an African-American it is troubling to read threats of lynching on this board, but if that's how VA Linux Systems and Slashdot choose to handle its business competitors, so be it.
Funny, I didn't know that Andover and Va Linux Systems could be considered "competitors" of a company that supposedly just makes a Linux distro. And of couse, I'm sure I'd be wasting my time by explaining that slashdot.org doesn't control the content posted on this board and so any threats of "lynching" woudln't be an example of " how (they) choose to hande (their) business competitors."
Unfortunately, the judge is correct. DeCSS is not, however much we might like it to be, free speech. Sure, the comments inside the code might be, but the algorithm itself is not.
I strongly disagree. I believe that programming represents a uniquely personal form of expression. Everyone would code that algorithm a little differently, and its entirely possible that the code itself can be perceived as a "statement" of protest (which is certainly expression).
The fundamental problem here is that the DMCA is corrupt. It makes illegal things that we think should not be. However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
Well, I agree but If my understanding of the legal system is correct, the judge was free to take it a step further and delcare the DMCA unconstitutional. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe copyright provisions are spelled out in the constitution. It gives congress the right to protect the fair interest of those who would create something. I think the DMCA goes way overboard and starts lumping on powers to copyright holders which were clearly never intended to be done within the framework laid out in the constiution.
The real question is, how did we end up with elected officials that passed a law such as the DMCA? Keep this issue in mind when you vote this November, and encourage others to as well.
Agreed. Go to the congress webpage and find out how to contact your congressperson today. Find out how they voted on the DMCA and let them know how you feel about this isssue, and let them know how you are going to be voting when it comes november.
Even if this does set a precedent about the Digital Millenium copyright act extending to programs designed to thwart copy protection, it's not really a death blow for the defense. Why do I say that? Well, I'm not a laywer, but considering that DeCSS in no way aids in COPYING of data, I would have to say it doesn't fall under the category of programs of breaking copy protection. Remember, DeCSS merely unencrypts data, you can copy the data just as easily while encrypted and still make pirated copies with or without DeCSS.
I don't think any experienced users will have any problems with this. Anything you put in the comments will show up when the mouse cursor is over the document (well, not in lynx, but you get the idea) so you see the link location, in this case you'll see code. It's also interesting to note that IE has the additional insecurity that you can actually EMBED HTML CODE DIRECTLY INTO THE HYPERTEXT LINK ITSELF using "about:". For some strange reason, if you click on an like that starts with "about:", instaed of an actual website, IE will echo all that information back as if it were a webpage (including parsing of any HTML). An example? IE users paste (slashdot won't let me actually post it as a hyperlink, which is good) this url in their browser "about://(html)(head)(title)hi(/title)(/head)(p)Hi all you crazy IE users(/p)(/html) and replacing all the ('s and )'s with greater than and less than signs.
NOTE: I'm pretty sure it was about: that caused this unusual effect(it might have been something else, I don't have IE handy to test with). If it's something else, someone else can respond and correct me. (its been over a year since I discovered this, I sent it bugtraq, but it was never posted and according to the moderator this was a well-known thing, which I'm sure it is)
How about we try to make some sort of a bot that can automatically post to slashdot. The winner is the person whose bot averages a Score of 4 after 20 posts (Karma = 80).
Which AMD part should DELL use? There is not a mobile version of Athlon. Perhaps they should use the processor AMD intended to compete with the Pentium III? The K6-III is AMD's Best 6th generation processor and the Pentium III is Intel's best 6th generation processor. AMD's Athlon is a 7th generation processor and that's why it makes the Pentium III look like a toy.
In the cases you mentioned, it as nothing to do with being non-mainstream. I like the GeForce 256 because its awesome, plain and simple. The Athlon gets props for the same reason; its makes the PIII it's bitch. As a consumer, one thing I'm not gonna do is buy an inferrior product simply because it's "non-mainstream". I like the Pentium III too, but I'm not paying more for a processor that can't keep up, even if it does use less power (which is a non-issue in desktop systems with proper cooling). This is off-topic anyways.:)
I hate to burst your bubble, but I've been messing around configuring laptops on Dells website under each of their 4 different categories (home/small businesses,large businesse, and government) to compare similar models trying to find out which way offers the best price (they vary widely for the exact same configurations) and Dell has been offering a Red Hat 6.1 Pre-installed laptop under the Large business Category for a while now. It just hasn't been available under the other categories.
Now we officially know for sure that their is actually a partnership between Microsoft and the NSA. I think we've all suspected it for a while now, but now we have proof.
Remember all those news domains that were approved like.store and.corp... I wonder if anyone has linux.store. If any of those endings ever catches on, that could be a great way to make a buck...Although an evil way.
Is paying another companies legal fees enough to compensate for completely removing them from the market during the holiday season when more toys are sold than any other time of year?
I wonder exactly what type of crack they had to be smoking at BMG's Executive office when they came up with this flop of an idea. No one is going to rush out and buy a new cd player just so they can lose part of their right as a consumer to make copies for their own personal use. And even a few years from now if all the cd players bought and sold support this new format, you can bet that cd sales will start hurting. People will just switch over to a new format that does not restrict how they use what they purchase. And I certainly hope (for their sake) that BMG does not try to release these cds on this format before the "newer" cd players become standard because I just can just immagine millions of cds returned because "It didn't work."
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What about linking to a site that links to a site that hosts illegal material? Is that going to be illegal? If thats the case, and I link to google, and google links to illegal material, then can I be prosecuted? What about 3 or 4 links down the chain? If that is the case, then almost anyone could be prosecuted if you follow the link tree far enough, if it isn't, then all you have to do is link to a dummy page to that links to the site that links to the illegal stuff. Either way, this law is flawed. (I won't even go into the merit of the law, or in this case, the lack thereof).
I find numerous things odd about this whole deal. First of all, how do they enforce this? Do they make future games not work on the non-upgraded hardware? Do they knock on your door if you had a pre-order and they have your address? And secondly, Why enforce this? I understand that Sony is a member of the MPAA, but it would seem to their advantage to merely offer to fix the problem rather than force a fix to the problem. Its not like the MPAA loses money because of region code avoiding softare (or do they? This *is* something of a grey area for me and I'm sure others). And lastly, How does sony plan to make ammends with consumers? I know if I had bought one of these units i'd be hella-mad that I would have to send it back (or even just a single chip out of it or whatever I would have to do) and I would expect some sort of compensation (an issue I didn't see addressed by article.
Whew. Well, thats a lot of questions, but I'd like to see if anyone can answer them for me. :)
Just for the record, After having owned my TiVo for about 2 weeks I can add a few partial solutions I managed to think up. If I can't get a season pass to a show like Powerpuff Girls (for the record, Cmdr Taco apparently watches the exact same shows I do so I can let him know that TiVo will get better at guessing what to record) because some of its showings will conflict with other season passes, I've found that giving that program 3 thumbs up will cause TiVo to always record that program unless there is some other season pass or highly rated program to record. So now my TiVo records every single episode of the PowerPuff girls that doesn't conflict with a season pass.
And dont' forget that TiVo's software should be fully upgradable. I can't think of any reason why it couldn't be, so adding smarter features should be something to look for in the future.
Also, as a personal message to you, you I want to let you know that Martha Stewart is in fact a minion of Satan.
Actually, TiVo's clock sets itself. I assume it gets the time when it dials in to download TV listings. This is important to TiVo, remember, the times need to be exact in order for TiVo to work right. P.S. TiVo is awesome. Everyone should own one. I never had any problems with my unit (other than the ones which Cmdr Taco mentioned).
I assume by freezing he means that the picture freezes and the game locks up. However I find it rather humerous that the sentence was phrased to say that other problems were "overheating and freezing". As if the machine was sometimes too hot and sometimes too cold.
Hey, Shouldn't slashdot have a anime category? Or at least a cartoon category that maybe throws in news about the simpsons and south park. . . Just a thought.
Actually, I'd like to make a quick point, even though I've made it before in similar posts.
If anything, mp3s have helped the RIAA and sell more cds than probably anything else. How you ask is that possible? Simple, a lot of people, myself included, enjoy import cds and have musical tastes which aren't quite mainstream. While some people will use radio as a way of finding out what kind of music they like enough to buy, in my case it is nearly impossible to find any good trance, goa, house, jungle, happycore, etc. music on the radio. As a result, my primary, and practicaly only way of deciding what cds to buy is based on whether or not I like the mp3. I've found numerous, numerous groups that I discovered I liked that I would have never even heard of were it not for mp3.
Couple this with the fact that you can't returned opened cd's to the store unless defective (and then only for an exchange on the same one), and you get a very good reason why mp3s (by allowing pepole to listen before they buy) sell more cd's than any other medium. On a side note, I noticed that the article indicated that cd singles didn't sell so hotly. That IS probably mp3s fault. After all, if you only like one song off the cd (you discover after listening to it via mp3), you more likely not to shell out 5 bucks for a single than you are to simply go the mp3 alone.
Well, I'm sure I could sit here all day long and attempt to evaluate why Sony is against bleem. But I think its probably because they suspect the people using bleem are playing with copied cd's and also due to the fact that Sony probably feels that they should be the only ones to make a PS emulator. I mean think, which way does Sony make more money: Bleem sells more PS games than the PS alone does, or Sony makes a PS emulator and sells both more games and the emulator. Of couse, I'd also point out that as a member of the MPAA and the RIAA, Sony does not have a history of "getting it."
I believe Microsoft is just keeping its options open when it says "up to 1 gigahertz". Stop and think for a moment. This is microsoft. In a deal with AMD. I think the odds of them paying 500 bucks a processor is pretty damn slim, thats current retail price (nearly) and we are talking a year from now with a buy-in-bulk deal with a company struggling for recognition. I suspect MS would probably pay closer to the 200-300 dollar mark, maybe less (remember, at this point, AMD already sells many of its processors at a loss just to keep up with intel, they'll do anything for marketshare).
And as for the other components, I don't know about you but I can walk into a store today and buy a DVD drive for
Just my $.02
Actually, It is quite standard practice for console makers to sell their gaming consoles at a loss. The Key to success in the console market is to sell lots of consoles thus establishing a large user base to which you can sell your games. The way to sell lots of consoles is to sell them cheap. Once you have established a large userbase, then you make money off the games they buy.
I've heard talk that Playstion 2 will be selling at a loss of > 200 dollars per unit, so i don't find this pricing to be unusual (although 300 dollars would sound better, and still be a loss).
The interesting thing to me here is that this box will use standard computer hardware. I can just immagine yet another MS screw up wherein they neglect to solder the parts in place thus causing an x-box buying frenzy based around people buying them and stripping them for parts.
We shouldn't be bashing windows 2000, we should happy for Microsoft for putting out a product with a record low of a mere 65,000 bugs (I do believe this is the first time they managed to crack the 100,000 mark). By my estimates, this should be the best Microsoft product to date. If only my Windows 98 partition could boast the same.
Blocking The Onion is the sort of thing that causes so much debate around public library internet filtering. Anyone who has read the onion can attest that it's not always material that should be read by anyone, its nothing an adult couldn't handle. At this point I feel its only fair to point out that the Bible (and probably dozens of other books which the public library no doubt has somewhere) doesn't exactly skirt around the issues of sex (I.E. "Let us lie with our father to preserve our family line."). The Bible is 100% more sexually explicit and than anything ever put on The Onion. Blocking stuff like that just doesn't fly with most people, even those that support blocking actual porn. I strongly believe that while some people might support blocking of pornography, very few people really support letting someone else decide what is considered indecent for their viewing or their children's viewing.
I appologize for that little rant. And, on a different note altogether, I'd like to say to Jamie "Keep up the great story, I'm really enjoying this series."
2. To Andover and Slashdot, as an African-American it is troubling to read threats of lynching on this board, but if that's how VA Linux Systems and Slashdot choose to handle its business competitors, so be it.
Funny, I didn't know that Andover and Va Linux Systems could be considered "competitors" of a company that supposedly just makes a Linux distro. And of couse, I'm sure I'd be wasting my time by explaining that slashdot.org doesn't control the content posted on this board and so any threats of "lynching" woudln't be an example of " how (they) choose to hande (their) business competitors."
Unfortunately, the judge is correct. DeCSS is not, however much we might like it to be, free speech. Sure, the comments inside the code might be, but the algorithm itself is not.
I strongly disagree. I believe that programming represents a uniquely personal form of expression. Everyone would code that algorithm a little differently, and its entirely possible that the code itself can be perceived as a "statement" of protest (which is certainly expression).
The fundamental problem here is that the DMCA is corrupt. It makes illegal things that we think should not be. However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
Well, I agree but If my understanding of the legal system is correct, the judge was free to take it a step further and delcare the DMCA unconstitutional. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe copyright provisions are spelled out in the constitution. It gives congress the right to protect the fair interest of those who would create something. I think the DMCA goes way overboard and starts lumping on powers to copyright holders which were clearly never intended to be done within the framework laid out in the constiution.
The real question is, how did we end up with elected officials that passed a law such as the DMCA? Keep this issue in mind when you vote this November, and encourage others to as well.
Agreed. Go to the congress webpage and find out how to contact your congressperson today. Find out how they voted on the DMCA and let them know how you feel about this isssue, and let them know how you are going to be voting when it comes november.
Even if this does set a precedent about the Digital Millenium copyright act extending to programs designed to thwart copy protection, it's not really a death blow for the defense. Why do I say that? Well, I'm not a laywer, but considering that DeCSS in no way aids in COPYING of data, I would have to say it doesn't fall under the category of programs of breaking copy protection. Remember, DeCSS merely unencrypts data, you can copy the data just as easily while encrypted and still make pirated copies with or without DeCSS.
I don't think any experienced users will have any problems with this. Anything you put in the comments will show up when the mouse cursor is over the document (well, not in lynx, but you get the idea) so you see the link location, in this case you'll see code. It's also interesting to note that IE has the additional insecurity that you can actually EMBED HTML CODE DIRECTLY INTO THE HYPERTEXT LINK ITSELF using "about:". For some strange reason, if you click on an like that starts with "about:", instaed of an actual website, IE will echo all that information back as if it were a webpage (including parsing of any HTML). An example? IE users paste (slashdot won't let me actually post it as a hyperlink, which is good) this url in their browser "about://(html)(head)(title)hi(/title)(/head)(p)Hi all you crazy IE users(/p)(/html) and replacing all the ('s and )'s with greater than and less than signs.
NOTE: I'm pretty sure it was about: that caused this unusual effect(it might have been something else, I don't have IE handy to test with). If it's something else, someone else can respond and correct me. (its been over a year since I discovered this, I sent it bugtraq, but it was never posted and according to the moderator this was a well-known thing, which I'm sure it is)
How about we try to make some sort of a bot that can automatically post to slashdot. The winner is the person whose bot averages a Score of 4 after 20 posts (Karma = 80).
I seem to reall the 7500 having both pointing stick and trackpad, but maybe that was the 3700? Welll one of them has both for sure. Look into it.
Which AMD part should DELL use? There is not a mobile version of Athlon. Perhaps they should use the processor AMD intended to compete with the Pentium III? The K6-III is AMD's Best 6th generation processor and the Pentium III is Intel's best 6th generation processor. AMD's Athlon is a 7th generation processor and that's why it makes the Pentium III look like a toy.
In the cases you mentioned, it as nothing to do with being non-mainstream. I like the GeForce 256 because its awesome, plain and simple. The Athlon gets props for the same reason; its makes the PIII it's bitch. As a consumer, one thing I'm not gonna do is buy an inferrior product simply because it's "non-mainstream". I like the Pentium III too, but I'm not paying more for a processor that can't keep up, even if it does use less power (which is a non-issue in desktop systems with proper cooling). This is off-topic anyways. :)
I hate to burst your bubble, but I've been messing around configuring laptops on Dells website under each of their 4 different categories (home/small businesses,large businesse, and government) to compare similar models trying to find out which way offers the best price (they vary widely for the exact same configurations) and Dell has been offering a Red Hat 6.1 Pre-installed laptop under the Large business Category for a while now. It just hasn't been available under the other categories.
Now we officially know for sure that their is actually a partnership between Microsoft and the NSA. I think we've all suspected it for a while now, but now we have proof.
Remember all those news domains that were approved like .store and .corp... I wonder if anyone has linux.store. If any of those endings ever catches on, that could be a great way to make a buck...Although an evil way.
Is paying another companies legal fees enough to compensate for completely removing them from the market during the holiday season when more toys are sold than any other time of year?
I wonder exactly what type of crack they had to be smoking at BMG's Executive office when they came up with this flop of an idea. No one is going to rush out and buy a new cd player just so they can lose part of their right as a consumer to make copies for their own personal use. And even a few years from now if all the cd players bought and sold support this new format, you can bet that cd sales will start hurting. People will just switch over to a new format that does not restrict how they use what they purchase. And I certainly hope (for their sake) that BMG does not try to release these cds on this format before the "newer" cd players become standard because I just can just immagine millions of cds returned because "It didn't work."