At the rate dotcoms are going under, there's no way eBay will still be around in 2006;-)
But seriously folks, maybe the next version of the "Anarchists' Cookbook" will contain instructions not on how to build bombs and make drugs, but how to build analog speakers and television sets.
How's THAT for a dystopian future?
You mean like how microsoft is going out of business?
Bullshit. Businesses that don't make money go out of business. Businesses that rip off their customers can make a fortune if they are the only supplier for that product.
That, of course, is where we (the Linux supporters) come in.
Patents are a necessary way to protect those who invest a lot of time innovating otherwise, where is the motive if you know someone is going to steal your work.
Scientific innovation has been going on for a long time, with and without the use or even existance of patents on "intellectual property"...
Imagine cavemen patenting fire, or the "club-on-head" method of choosing a wife...
What if the Wright brothers had patented their flying machine?
Hell, the guys from the University of Pennsylvania who made the ENIAC tried to patent their idea of a "digital computer", and extract royalties from Honeywell, IBM, RAND, etc. back in the 1950's. The lawsuit was struck down in court, of course, partly because their patent was "too broad." What if there was only one computer manufacturer today? Do you really think you or I or the IT industry would be better off???
As Bill Gates knows, to simply make your product and sell it to the consumer is not enough.
You have to do all of the above plus stop your competitors from doing the same.
Patents accomplish this. Even the US Gov't knows that monopolies are bad and that anticompetitive moves hurt the consumer (well sometimes they know..), but patents are simply monopolies on ideas aimed at stifling the competition.
Copyleft is a way to work with the system to stop the abuses. Basically you can copyright an idea, but not charge anyone for using, thus keeping anyone else from creating a monopoly on your idea.
I can see many more suprious patent lawsuits coming...
Companies feeling their profit margins slipping see collecting royalties on their patents as a way to make up for lost revenue, particularly with the US economy slowing down.
Besides all the patent lawsuits coming up out of nowhere, companies will increasingly see patenting everything they can think of as valid strategy for staying afloat.
It's up to us to stop them from trampling our rights. We are not microserfs; We should be able to use technology without having to pay tribute to the corporate lords.
...spent our money on an exercise that is based on practicing for something that just won't happen. It's like schools doing drills for nuclear bombings back in WWII: ducking under your desk won't do a thing if an A-bomb lands nearby - you should be more worried about the radiation because if you're close enough to the blast that it might hurt you, the rads will definitely kill you...
I have this theory that the promoting of each family having a "backyard fallout shelter" was actually to make cleanup of a post-apocalytic US easier. The US Gov't knew that a few feet of dirt wouldn't stop the radiation from killing a family of 4 and their little dog too. But at least no one would have to come back and bury their bodies...
83% of Altavista in CMGI's hands still leaves *someone* with a 17% stake in the portal's future.
That said, a little more fact-checking reveals that Intel Corp owns over 4 million shares of of CMGI currently valued at over $26 million.
Intel has a huge stake in the PC market and in CMGI.
So my point still stands: Companies feeling their profit margins slipping will try to make up for it with other sources of revenue, including royalties they believe they are owed for their patents, no matter how stupid they are.
Forget about all that knitting machine talk,
I'm worried about: Serial radiography
Plus,
POP mail can tongue.
The touch pen and the can tongue by the cruciform key operation
reminds me of a NIN video I saw once...
*shudder*
There's something slightly hypnotic about seeing all those clean, tiny japanese characters (chalk one up for internet explorer). Can someone on here who knows japanese give a real translation??
What is it that Slashdot has against running a review of independent/foreign films that readers could find playing at a local independemt cinema?
Maybe Taco's just waiting for someone to write such an article, and maybe I will.
But still, is it really necessary, after all the pro-DeCSS/2600/Little Scandanavian Kiddie, anti-DMCA/MPAA/Valenti grandstanding, to promote such blatant hypocrisy?
I realize Jon Katz, being a member of the mass media, is concerned with supporting the industry that provides him with a job. That's okay, that's his right.
But it is patently dishonest for slashdot to keep running articles both promoting MPAA-affiliated movies and scolding the MPAA's actions.
Just remember boys and girls: Each time you see one of the above movies you put more money towards restricting your rights as software developers, DVD-watchers, reverse-engineerers, and believers in "fair use."
Ok, a few people have made the comment "why bother cracking keys when you know the encryption can be broken..."
Well. We've been working on the the RC5 64-bit encryption for over three years now and we've only exhausted 37% of the keyspace. There was at one time a point to the RC5-64 project, but now it seems rather pointless. Yes, we broke 56-bit encryption in a day, but can't we just recognize that 64-bit encryption is good enough? Aren't there other, more worthy uses of our spare CPU cycles? Such as, say finding Optimal Golomb Rulers, which is actually a valuable contribution to the mathematic and scientific community.
I believe distributed.net should give up RC5-64. Let's all just swallow our collective pride, forget the prize money, and work together on something useful.
Slashdot Mirror
You Have Been Trolled.
You Have Lost.
Have A Nice Day.
But seriously folks, maybe the next version of the "Anarchists' Cookbook" will contain instructions not on how to build bombs and make drugs, but how to build analog speakers and television sets.
How's THAT for a dystopian future?
-the wunderhorn
Intellimouse, schmellimouse! I want electrodes hooked up to my USB port, dammit!
But above all the question is: Who will volunteer to port this to 2.4.2??
Right, after the MPAA just got done clobbering the Open-source community for DeCSS and LiVid, they're going to distribute a movie about us©©©
Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
Moderators: This is not a troll. If you disagree with me, why not just post an intelligent reply? That way we could have an actual discussion....
Yes, you can hook you cable modem/DSL into it, but then why not just buy a normal firewall/hub appliance?
And does having Linux embedded make it easier to configure than Cisco's IOS?
Scientific innovation has been going on for a long time, with and without the use or even existance of patents on "intellectual property"...
Imagine cavemen patenting fire, or the "club-on-head" method of choosing a wife...
What if the Wright brothers had patented their flying machine?
Hell, the guys from the University of Pennsylvania who made the ENIAC tried to patent their idea of a "digital computer", and extract royalties from Honeywell, IBM, RAND, etc. back in the 1950's. The lawsuit was struck down in court, of course, partly because their patent was "too broad."
What if there was only one computer manufacturer today?
Do you really think you or I or the IT industry would be better off???
You have to do all of the above plus stop your competitors from doing the same.
Patents accomplish this. Even the US Gov't knows that monopolies are bad and that anticompetitive moves hurt the consumer (well sometimes they know..), but patents are simply monopolies on ideas aimed at stifling the competition.
Copyleft is a way to work with the system to stop the abuses. Basically you can copyright an idea, but not charge anyone for using, thus keeping anyone else from creating a monopoly on your idea.
Food for thought.
Companies feeling their profit margins slipping see collecting royalties on their patents as a way to make up for lost revenue, particularly with the US economy slowing down.
Besides all the patent lawsuits coming up out of nowhere, companies will increasingly see patenting everything they can think of as valid strategy for staying afloat.
It's up to us to stop them from trampling our rights. We are not microserfs; We should be able to use technology without having to pay tribute to the corporate lords.
Thanks, guys.
I have this theory that the promoting of each family having a "backyard fallout shelter" was actually to make cleanup of a post-apocalytic US easier. The US Gov't knew that a few feet of dirt wouldn't stop the radiation from killing a family of 4 and their little dog too.
But at least no one would have to come back and bury their bodies...
That said, a little more fact-checking reveals that Intel Corp owns over 4 million shares of of CMGI currently valued at over $26 million.
Intel has a huge stake in the PC market and in CMGI.
So my point still stands: Companies feeling their profit margins slipping will try to make up for it with other sources of revenue, including royalties they believe they are owed for their patents, no matter how stupid they are.
2. PC sales are slowing, compaq needs more revenue...
3. Team of highly trained attack lawyers scours company patents for potential victims they can hit up for tribute, er, royalties.
4. Someone out there has to be paying attention to these things. We owe alot to those who do.
Let's see©©©
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Can anyone explain to me why my periods get changed to copyright symbols? It's happened with Mozilla and Netscape 6 under Windows 2000 (my work computer).
Maybe I should submit a bug report....
Ideas?
-the wunderhorn
1© Reading a CD-R requires one wavelength of laser light©
2© Reading a DVD requires a different wavelength©
3© Sony gets lazy/tries to cut costs and uses a read laser that can't see CD-Rs ¥maybe©
666© Insert SONY/RIAA/MPAA-cracks-down-on-piracy conspiracy theories in between any of the above steps©
-the wunderhorn
I, for one, had no problem understanding his responses, and besides being INSIGHTFUL, they were also much more INTERESTING and FUNNY than most of the drivel that gets posted on here© The "wake up after getting screwed" response was pure genius, IMHO©
But for all th' people who have been comparing Andre Hedrick to Zippy the Pinhead, maybe this will help you: Understanding Zippy©
-the wunderhorn
And in the typical troll fashion, they didn't get it.
heh.
-the wunderhorn
who don't have access to the internet?
Sure, the internet is a big deal these days, but I refuse to submit to the idea that a PC [running Windows...] can't function without it!
-the wunderhorn
Don't tread on me.
-the wunderhorn
Forget about all that knitting machine talk, I'm worried about:
Serial radiography
Plus,
POP mail can tongue.
The touch pen and the can tongue by the cruciform key operation
reminds me of a NIN video I saw once...
*shudder*
There's something slightly hypnotic about seeing all those clean, tiny japanese characters (chalk one up for internet explorer). Can someone on here who knows japanese give a real translation??
-the wunderhorn
Maybe Taco's just waiting for someone to write such an article, and maybe I will.
But still, is it really necessary, after all the pro-DeCSS/2600/Little Scandanavian Kiddie, anti-DMCA/MPAA/Valenti grandstanding, to promote such blatant hypocrisy?
I realize Jon Katz, being a member of the mass media, is concerned with supporting the industry that provides him with a job. That's okay, that's his right.
But it is patently dishonest for slashdot to keep running articles both promoting MPAA-affiliated movies and scolding the MPAA's actions.
Just remember boys and girls:
Each time you see one of the above movies you put more money towards restricting your rights as software developers, DVD-watchers, reverse-engineerers, and believers in "fair use."
-the wunderhorn
©©©moon shots©©©
I wonder if astronauts have tested the "liquor before beer" rule©©©
We sure wouldn't want them all drunk and puking their guts out after a wild party at the ISS!
-the wunderhorn
Well. We've been working on the the RC5 64-bit encryption for over three years now and we've only exhausted 37% of the keyspace. There was at one time a point to the RC5-64 project, but now it seems rather pointless. Yes, we broke 56-bit encryption in a day, but can't we just recognize that 64-bit encryption is good enough? Aren't there other, more worthy uses of our spare CPU cycles? Such as, say finding Optimal Golomb Rulers, which is actually a valuable contribution to the mathematic and scientific community.
I believe distributed.net should give up RC5-64. Let's all just swallow our collective pride, forget the prize money, and work together on something useful.
my dnet stats page, for those interested....
-the wunderhorn
If you've got a few grand laying around...
You could buy an entire entertainment system for the price of a G4 cube with one of those studio displays.
Sorry, no.
-the wunderhorn