We will, as quickly as possible, remove minister Helene Scherre from office.
(/me dreams of being Canadian just for a while)
Instead of dreaming about being Canadian you should be acting on using the process in the US. Congress has the power to do away with copyrights if they so chosed.
That a federal election isn't that far off... And slogans like "Helene Scherre wants to put your kids in prison" look great on T-shirts and the news...
That can apply just as well south of the border as well. Copyright protection here is at the whim of Congress per our Constitution. They could just as well make it one year as a hundred.
So, come on RIA's and MPA's, go ahead and keep pissing people off. It's the only way their going to be motivated enough to vote these idoits out of office.
If there are any non-DRM BIOSes out there it's just because they haven't been updated yet. Don't buy them now, or you'll have no choice but to buy them for your next computer. AMI is gone, Phoenix is gone and Award no longer exists except as a sub-brand of Phoenix. Yes, this is a scary phenomenon. Vote with dollars. Apple's OpenFirmware doesn't contain any DRM (who knows for how long), Sun also uses OpenFirmware I believe?
Interestingly enough, there's a front page article on the LinuxBios project. According to the linked article:
LinuxBIOS works on 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. CPUs supported include the Alpha, K8, K7, PowerPC, P4, PIII, PII, Cyrix (VIA), Geode (now AMD) and SC520 (AMD). Chipsets are too numerous to list. Form factors of mainboards range from the smallest PC/104 systems to the largest K8 systems. An IBM PPC 970 port is in progress.
As for Apple, trading software lock-in for hardware lock-in is hardly a solution.
Will this have any chance of being taken up by a motherboard manuafacturer by default or is this a aftermarket project ? in which case without being installed by a manufacturer no-one is going to even contemplate wiping their "working" bios for an unknown 3rd party of no significant benefit to them.
I was really surprised/disappointed to see that Gigabyte motherboards weren't being actively tested. You would think their DualBios would be perfect for a project like this because you would have a rescue image right on the board.
If it is for a lack of testers, I've got two 7V*** boxes at home and might be willing to give it a go. If it is because they are not cooperating, guess it will be Tyan boards when I replace them.
With a fresh Red Hat 9 install, I had a terrible time even getting X windows to work, let alone KDE, requiring manual config editing. nano sounds like a good idea; I plan to check it out after I post this.
What you really want for commandline config file editing is Midnight Commander (mc). It's a file manager that you can use to get a good understanding of the directory structure and has a built-in editor. As for getting X up and running, try the generic vesa driver. Once you have gui running you can seek out info on the particulars on your card. Or you could stick to the command line and use lynx or links.
I would say listening to it first is a pretty good way to decide whether something is valuable to you. At least that's the way I choose which CD's to buy: download songs from p2p/usenet, and buy the CD if I like it.
The Record Industry's business model is geared towards them telling you what you should be listening to, not the other way around. They simply are not going to stand for listeners being able to pick and chose music on their own. The best way out of their trap is to find some independent bands that you like and avoid RIAA stuff altogether.
I don't know any Linux distros that use anything but a Linux kernel. Actually, with Windows, you have a choice between the 9x kernel and the NT kernel.
There is usually a choice between different kernel versions and patches for special uses, hardened, gaming, multimedia, not to mention kernels for different hardware platforms.
It's also not like I can't install any alternatives on Windows. I use Winamp, Mozilla, Sysinternals's process explorer, and several cygwin tools instead of their MS alternatives. So what if they aren't listed by MS, they weren't very hard to find.
Yes, you can use other tools, but can you choose not to install IE or MediaPlayer if you choose to use another app?
Microsoft only provides one choice for each, but at least they are easy to use. When I first started using Linux, it wasn't helpful to know that there are 20 text editors I available; I don't know which to use, and many, like vim and emacs require a lengthy tutorial to do even simple things. No obvious choice as to which is the easiest to get started with.
Compare apples to apples. You want an editor? If you chose KDE as your GUI KWrite is simple enough. From the command line nano suffices for an intuitive interface.
Anyway, the point is that the size difference between a decent Linux distro and Windows is due to Linux offering more choices. We can agree that finding documentation on how to use the software is usually better in Windows, but OSS apps have come a long way in that regards in the last couple of years.
First it's "Microsoft bundles too many things with Windows" and now it's "You can't compare Windows to a Linux distro because it only has 3 packages: kernel/GUI/browser"
Pick one.
"Pick one" is exactly the problem with Windows. The system only gives you a choice of one kernel, one GUI, one Browser, one MediaPlayer, etc. A decent Linux distro will offer the user a variety of choices for all the above and much more.
There's been a large anti-americanism feeling (not necessarily anti-american but a lot of people in the UK don't like the idea of american culture infringing on them) over here for years before bush came into power.
Since whatever culture America has is in reality just a mishmash of everyone else's, just how can it be infringing on anybody?
Now, why do *I* (a Canadian) hate Bush? He wins an election by about 500 votes. He has the good fortune to be president on 9/11, which turns him into a pariah. Then he manipulates public sentiment about 9/11 to push forward the most extreme right-wing agenda in recent history.
Bingo! He used 9/11 to turn a slim electoral college win into a "mandate" to force the country down an extremely dangerous repressive path.
Bush is the greatest President this country has seen in 20 + years. Of course when you actually STAND for something you draw the fire of those you stand against.
Even if you support one or two of his policies, Bush stands for so many negative things that it becomes easy to find yourself standing against him. While it is not difficult on an ideological plane to agree with him that "the enemy" is seeking to establish and maintain repressive regimes by using fear and twisting a religion to further their own agenda we find him doing the same thing to further his.
For example...when was the last time a President proposed an amendment that restricted, not increased the rights of people?
Seriously, though. As much as MS offends me, I am more offended by the idea that governments can confiscate somebodys property rights so easily.
Since it is Congress that has the power to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries", this "confiscation" of "property" could happen even easier in the United States. All it would take is enough people in office pissed off at having their constituents sued.
People's Republik of Europe, here we come.
One of reasons copyright terms were extended here was to bring them into line with those in Europe.
Yes, I know, a majority of people here run "unlocked" OSs so I will get a lot of "THEN RUN LINUX" replies.... For the rest of us that run both OSs it's going to be nothing but a hassle.
Interesting that in the end open source will become the more "hassle free" software to use as proprietory companies come up with more hoops to jump through to validate users.
Smith, who chairs of the House Judiciary Committee's IP panel, said his bill, H.R. 1561, could result in 140,000 more patents being issued in the next five years. "That's 140,000 more economic opportunities for the American people," Smith said.
Maybe, but chances are for every one of those 140,000 monopolies there will be ten potential competitors who won't have any economic opportunities at all.
I hate ads as much as the next person, but a couple of ads sure beats having to pay for services online.
I may be alone here, but personally I never really minded ads, and sometimes I actually miss those plain old static banners. Every now and then I'd click on one if it was something that caught my interest, and I even managed to pick up some decent bargains occasionally. As a matter of fact, I never even considered blocking any ads until they became so distracting that I couldn't read a sites content for fear of retinal burn from all the obnoxious flashing going on, so now I simply block everything I can.
or you know who is next in line to get sued... us programmers.
Nah, programmers won't be held anymore liable than the laborers who poured the concrete for a bridge that collapses. It's the guys who call themselves Engineers who will be held responible.
Another layer of complexity! And for what? So the operating system you do install overrides it and uses its own routines to access the hardware.
On the other hand, it could potentially remove the extra layer of complexity required because the OS would no longer need to override the bios functions and could concentrate solely on memory management and task scheduling. Another possibility resulting from this could be better hardware compatibility for free operating systems since drivers would be "hidden" in ROM.
1: A swap-every-other-byte file would likely result in an unplayable file, which therefore would fail the "audible" inspection.
That's the point.
2: The header would either do the same, or result in a file that audibly matched.
It couldn't be audibly matched if the header was followed by data that had every other byte switched.
3 and 4: Software exists that can recognize a.zip or.tar file, decompress it, and then the normal process can analyze its contents.
And the contents they find are unplayable files that fail audible inspection. Again, that's the point.
Of course, such a service would have to resemble the original Napster, which was intentionally limited to MP3 files, so everything had to be audio and not data files.
On the contrary, if the service didn't host data files containing MP3 files that were scrambled so they could get around silly audibility checking it would fail because it is certain those files will be found elsewhere.
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If a higher court decides otherwise or the law is changed will you move?
Perhaps, but he could just as well vote for someone to change the law back.
We will, as quickly as possible, remove minister Helene Scherre from office.
(/me dreams of being Canadian just for a while)
Instead of dreaming about being Canadian you should be acting on using the process in the US. Congress has the power to do away with copyrights if they so chosed.
Why would a p2p filesharer care about what's in the stores ? He gets his music from p2p networks or artists webpages...
For the same reasons that a person who could tape music on his stereo buys music. Better quality, nicer packaging, and less fuss.
That a federal election isn't that far off... And slogans like "Helene Scherre wants to put your kids in prison" look great on T-shirts and the news...
That can apply just as well south of the border as well. Copyright protection here is at the whim of Congress per our Constitution. They could just as well make it one year as a hundred.
So, come on RIA's and MPA's, go ahead and keep pissing people off. It's the only way their going to be motivated enough to vote these idoits out of office.
If there are any non-DRM BIOSes out there it's just because they haven't been updated yet. Don't buy them now, or you'll have no choice but to buy them for your next computer. AMI is gone, Phoenix is gone and Award no longer exists except as a sub-brand of Phoenix. Yes, this is a scary phenomenon. Vote with dollars. Apple's OpenFirmware doesn't contain any DRM (who knows for how long), Sun also uses OpenFirmware I believe?
Interestingly enough, there's a front page article on the LinuxBios project. According to the linked article:
LinuxBIOS works on 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. CPUs supported include the Alpha, K8, K7, PowerPC, P4, PIII, PII, Cyrix (VIA), Geode (now AMD) and SC520 (AMD). Chipsets are too numerous to list. Form factors of mainboards range from the smallest PC/104 systems to the largest K8 systems. An IBM PPC 970 port is in progress.
As for Apple, trading software lock-in for hardware lock-in is hardly a solution.
The first thing I have done is to order a BIOS Savior..
Their hardware seems to be prone to shorting out, just look at how the text on their web page text keeps blinking on and off.
Will this have any chance of being taken up by a motherboard manuafacturer by default or is this a aftermarket project ? in which case without being installed by a manufacturer no-one is going to even contemplate wiping their "working" bios for an unknown 3rd party of no significant benefit to them.
I was really surprised/disappointed to see that Gigabyte motherboards weren't being actively tested. You would think their DualBios would be perfect for a project like this because you would have a rescue image right on the board.
If it is for a lack of testers, I've got two 7V*** boxes at home and might be willing to give it a go. If it is because they are not cooperating, guess it will be Tyan boards when I replace them.
With a fresh Red Hat 9 install, I had a terrible time even getting X windows to work, let alone KDE, requiring manual config editing. nano sounds like a good idea; I plan to check it out after I post this.
What you really want for commandline config file editing is Midnight Commander (mc). It's a file manager that you can use to get a good understanding of the directory structure and has a built-in editor. As for getting X up and running, try the generic vesa driver. Once you have gui running you can seek out info on the particulars on your card. Or you could stick to the command line and use lynx or links.
Are you kidding? What legal uses?
Downloading non-RIAA files.
Which "public"? The one's file trading? Or the one's not?
The one's who have enough interest in music to go to the trouble of searching out and downloading new music in order to determine which CD's to buy.
I would say listening to it first is a pretty good way to decide whether something is valuable to you. At least that's the way I choose which CD's to buy: download songs from p2p/usenet, and buy the CD if I like it.
The Record Industry's business model is geared towards them telling you what you should be listening to, not the other way around. They simply are not going to stand for listeners being able to pick and chose music on their own. The best way out of their trap is to find some independent bands that you like and avoid RIAA stuff altogether.
I don't know any Linux distros that use anything but a Linux kernel. Actually, with Windows, you have a choice between the 9x kernel and the NT kernel.
There is usually a choice between different kernel versions and patches for special uses, hardened, gaming, multimedia, not to mention kernels for different hardware platforms.
It's also not like I can't install any alternatives on Windows. I use Winamp, Mozilla, Sysinternals's process explorer, and several cygwin tools instead of their MS alternatives. So what if they aren't listed by MS, they weren't very hard to find.
Yes, you can use other tools, but can you choose not to install IE or MediaPlayer if you choose to use another app?
Microsoft only provides one choice for each, but at least they are easy to use. When I first started using Linux, it wasn't helpful to know that there are 20 text editors I available; I don't know which to use, and many, like vim and emacs require a lengthy tutorial to do even simple things. No obvious choice as to which is the easiest to get started with.
Compare apples to apples. You want an editor? If you chose KDE as your GUI KWrite is simple enough. From the command line nano suffices for an intuitive interface.
Anyway, the point is that the size difference between a decent Linux distro and Windows is due to Linux offering more choices. We can agree that finding documentation on how to use the software is usually better in Windows, but OSS apps have come a long way in that regards in the last couple of years.
First it's "Microsoft bundles too many things with Windows" and now it's "You can't compare Windows to a Linux distro because it only has 3 packages: kernel/GUI/browser"
Pick one.
"Pick one" is exactly the problem with Windows. The system only gives you a choice of one kernel, one GUI, one Browser, one MediaPlayer, etc. A decent Linux distro will offer the user a variety of choices for all the above and much more.
There's been a large anti-americanism feeling (not necessarily anti-american but a lot of people in the UK don't like the idea of american culture infringing on them) over here for years before bush came into power.
Since whatever culture America has is in reality just a mishmash of everyone else's, just how can it be infringing on anybody?
Now, why do *I* (a Canadian) hate Bush? He wins an election by about 500 votes. He has the good fortune to be president on 9/11, which turns him into a pariah. Then he manipulates public sentiment about 9/11 to push forward the most extreme right-wing agenda in recent history.
Bingo! He used 9/11 to turn a slim electoral college win into a "mandate" to force the country down an extremely dangerous repressive path.
Bush is the greatest President this country has seen in 20 + years. Of course when you actually STAND for something you draw the fire of those you stand against.
Even if you support one or two of his policies, Bush stands for so many negative things that it becomes easy to find yourself standing against him. While it is not difficult on an ideological plane to agree with him that "the enemy" is seeking to establish and maintain repressive regimes by using fear and twisting a religion to further their own agenda we find him doing the same thing to further his.
For example...when was the last time a President proposed an amendment that restricted, not increased the rights of people?
Seriously, though. As much as MS offends me, I am more offended by the idea that governments can confiscate somebodys property rights so easily.
Since it is Congress that has the power to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries", this "confiscation" of "property" could happen even easier in the United States. All it would take is enough people in office pissed off at having their constituents sued.
People's Republik of Europe, here we come.
One of reasons copyright terms were extended here was to bring them into line with those in Europe.
Yes, I know, a majority of people here run "unlocked" OSs so I will get a lot of "THEN RUN LINUX" replies.... For the rest of us that run both OSs it's going to be nothing but a hassle.
Interesting that in the end open source will become the more "hassle free" software to use as proprietory companies come up with more hoops to jump through to validate users.
Smith, who chairs of the House Judiciary Committee's IP panel, said his bill, H.R. 1561, could result in 140,000 more patents being issued in the next five years. "That's 140,000 more economic opportunities for the American people," Smith said.
Maybe, but chances are for every one of those 140,000 monopolies there will be ten potential competitors who won't have any economic opportunities at all.
I hate ads as much as the next person, but a couple of ads sure beats having to pay for services online.
I may be alone here, but personally I never really minded ads, and sometimes I actually miss those plain old static banners. Every now and then I'd click on one if it was something that caught my interest, and I even managed to pick up some decent bargains occasionally. As a matter of fact, I never even considered blocking any ads until they became so distracting that I couldn't read a sites content for fear of retinal burn from all the obnoxious flashing going on, so now I simply block everything I can.
And what exactly is with the idea of giving something back to the country that makes your way of life possible?
There would be nothing wrong with that idea if we didn't have an administration so bent on forcing everyone to live the administration's way of life.
or you know who is next in line to get sued... us programmers.
Nah, programmers won't be held anymore liable than the laborers who poured the concrete for a bridge that collapses. It's the guys who call themselves Engineers who will be held responible.
That's the only reasonable explaination for the the early morning article redundancy.
Another layer of complexity! And for what? So the operating system you do install overrides it and uses its own routines to access the hardware.
On the other hand, it could potentially remove the extra layer of complexity required because the OS would no longer need to override the bios functions and could concentrate solely on memory management and task scheduling. Another possibility resulting from this could be better hardware compatibility for free operating systems since drivers would be "hidden" in ROM.
1: A swap-every-other-byte file would likely result in an unplayable file, which therefore would fail the "audible" inspection.
.zip or .tar file, decompress it, and then the normal process can analyze its contents.
That's the point.
2: The header would either do the same, or result in a file that audibly matched.
It couldn't be audibly matched if the header was followed by data that had every other byte switched.
3 and 4: Software exists that can recognize a
And the contents they find are unplayable files that fail audible inspection. Again, that's the point.
Of course, such a service would have to resemble the original Napster, which was intentionally limited to MP3 files, so everything had to be audio and not data files.
On the contrary, if the service didn't host data files containing MP3 files that were scrambled so they could get around silly audibility checking it would fail because it is certain those files will be found elsewhere.