Too true. In fact, when I was in India last year, there was an ad for some cell phone that I don't remember (effective ad). The premise is that this hot looking woman walks in the bar asking for the "guy with the smallest one." All the other guys back off, kind of awkwardly, until this one stud comes up, and he pulls out his cell phone and you see that's what they're talking about.
Man, I keep seeing debian users posting one-liners like this, and I think to myself yet again, "I have to try Debian out one of these days." Is it really this simple? (I'm by no means a beginner at Linux, I just have to overcome some intertia. I started w/ Slackware back in the day, but now use SuSE. Any quick advice?)
I have a 30Gb iPod that is almost completely full, and the overwhelming majority of the music is legal. I have a lot of CDs, I'm a subscriber to emusic.com, and I've also downloaded a shiteload of live music from the Furthur Network (furthurnet.com).
I like a wide variety of music, so it's important to me to have a wide variety of music available. Actually, I'm kind of bummed that the 40Gb model came out so soon after I got my iPod. I could have used the extra room.
I'm going to India for three months, and it will be nice to have just about my entire collection of music with me. (Oh, and I encode at relatively high bitrate and used VBR, so that makes for a bit less room...)
Hey, get it right! The witness was seen purchasing a shark tank and frickin' laser beams!:-D
Ok, on topic comment. I think this guy is probably a 'friend' of the soon-to-be defendant. That seems like just about the only way this would make sense. This story is probably no big deal, since this guy is just one small fish in a big sea of virus writers.
I wonder what the 'typical' virus writer is like? (If there is any such thing as typical.) I wonder if any of them read Slashdot?
Heh, I am sooo lucky. I'm american, and my wife is from India, so she didn't expect this stupid diamond. Still, I did get her a nice ring which did have a few (small) diamonds in it, but we both thought it would just be stupid to spend a large chunk of cash on a rock.
Heh, this article is somewhat apropos for me. I just returned from Montreal, where I stayed for ten days in a condo. I brought my laptop and wireless card with me, thinking I might go to a hotspot and check my mail.
As it turns out, I had access to wireless right in the condo. It wasn't exactly a very strong signal, but it was good enough to surf and check my e-mail.
I noticed that the poor bastard that was running it happened to have the same wireless AP (an SMC Barricade) that I have. On a hunch, I checked the web server it runs, and he hadn't even set a password!
Had I known where it was coming from, I would have told them about it. As it was, my French sucks, and I didn't feel like knocking on a bunch of doors trying to explain wireless security. At any rate, they hadn't set up their timezone properly, so I did that for them....
The article is short on details, but presumably they'd be taking recordings at the soundboard and making that available. It won't be as good as if they had time to mix it - they'll have to do it in real time - but it may still sound quite good. Soundboards generally sound much better than audience recordings, IMHO, since there is better stereo separation, and more clearly defined vocals.
Phish has been trying something similar to this already. Check out http://livephish.com. They are offering show downloads (mp3 or shn) within 24 hrs after the concert, if I recall correctly.
I can certainly second that, at least about Tivoli. Back in 95 I worked on a competitive demo for an integrated software command & control `solution' for the US air force.
Fortunately, I didn't have to deal with Tivoli directly, but everyone who did swore like a sailor. We had a high-priced consultant just to get the damn thing to (partially) work. And in the end we lost the contract, though that may have had more to do with the cost portion of the contract being completely screwed up.
An interesting aside: The project was called TBMCS for Theater Battle Management Core Systems. We of course, called it "The Big Messy Computer System." When we lost the contract, it soon morphed into "The Big Military Contract Screwup."
I predict we are going to be seeing more and more of this. As the internet really becomes the primary means of communication for a significant percentage of the world's populace, there will be those (nations, corporations, and even individuals) who will strive to control what is said. I would certainly not be surprised to see wars (or at least 'police actions') fought over what started as basically an internet flame. (Perhaps this has already happened?)
I'm not so sure. My guess is that daddy is a patent attorney and junior came up with this invention, so dad decided to teach him about the patent process. Probably nothing to get your panties in a knot about.
In fact, this idea seems to be borne out by the following web research. I found this conference webpage. (Do a page search for "Peter L. Olson") It seems our boy works for 3M in St Paul, MN and is indeed invloved in patent law. I can't be positive it's the same dude, but it seems likely.
The price of words : towards a generalized semantic capitalism
Man, I want 0.25 of an ounce of what this guy's been smoking.
Still, I suppose it takes all types. I'm a mathematician, and while I think this guy's language is full of BS, anyone who isn't in mathematics reading one of my papers would probably feel the same about my writing.
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There already is a self-cooling option. It's called ice!;-)
Forget about drift, just wait until they flip! (i.e. the magnetic north pole becomes the magnetic south pole.) IIRC, this change happens on a timescale near 70,000 years or so. You'd have to read your compass bass-ackwards, and what would it do to the poor homing pigeons? Of course, your nifty GPS will be ok.
Ok, it's a bit late to comment in this discussion, but I was wondering... Is it only me that finds it ironic that the same company that is trying to push forward with copy-control on their CDs, also happens to own emusic (www.emusic.com), the site that lets you download as many mp3s as you can stand, and specifically lets you do what you want with them as long as its for you own personal use, for a flat monthly fee?
On that page, they include an e-mail address for comments. Why not do just that: umg@umusic.com. Tell then (without being abusive) just why you won't be buying their CDs anymore. For myself, as I'm sure is true with a lot of folks here, I have all my music in mp3 format on my computer and play it through my home stereo. Sure, I could get around their copy protection, but that's too much work.
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Well, as regards running an audio cable to your
stereo, there's one potential problem: noise.
I've run an audio cable from my computer to my stereo, and there's a definite hum. It's not generally noticalbe for busy/loud music, but you definitely notice it.
Also, the thing has a remote, which is a bit better than having to run into the room where your computer is in order to change songs. Thus, I wouldn't really call it zero extra functionality.
But wait!!! No I think reports of his death have been greatly exagerated!!! Look:
somehost:~> ping www.douglasadams.com
www.douglasadams.com is alive
Not to be disrespectful, but I think he might have found this funny. I owe much to DA. I was a complete outcast in high-school, but when I went to college I met a bunch of like-minded geeks who introduced me to HHGTTG. His works cheered me up on many a gray day.
All right, lets do a little search and replace and reread this:
We justify piracy these days when it only hurts Microsoft or Electronic Arts, but what's going to
happen when those companies disappear, and the programmers deal directly with the public? Are we suddenly going to give up our WE DESERVE FREE INFORMATION and I'D RATHER GET IT FROM GNU selfishness?
Sure--today, software companies are the ones getting the profits, and I say, screw 'em. But imagine an ideal world, where a programmer gets every penny of profit from their work. Why would they bother to write a program, if as soon as they release a single copy it's immediately pirated and distributed worldwide for free, in a form absolutely indistinguishable from the original? How is that programmer going to be able to make any money? Rely on the charity of those who feel like donating a few cents because they liked their software?
Sure, I don't like the current financial scheme of the software companies. But the technology we're talking about here prevents ANYONE from making money from programming. Famous quote and hacker philosophy: INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE. Hey, folks, SOFTWARE IS INFORMATION. And FREE SOFTWARE is crappy software, because there's no profit motive in it, and the worthwhile would-be programmers are off doing something which allows them to put food on the table.
We'd better come up with SOME way of rewarding and reimbursing programmers, or we're going to pirate software right out of our society.
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You might have some good points... Programming and music aren't exactly the same, in that a programmer can work for free on his own time, and still get a good job as a programmer. If you're a musician, it's probably harder to make a living. Still, the above should make my point clear...
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Too true. In fact, when I was in India last year, there was an ad for some cell phone that I don't remember (effective ad). The premise is that this hot looking woman walks in the bar asking for the "guy with the smallest one." All the other guys back off, kind of awkwardly, until this one stud comes up, and he pulls out his cell phone and you see that's what they're talking about.
Man, I keep seeing debian users posting one-liners like this, and I think to myself yet again, "I have to try Debian out one of these days." Is it really this simple? (I'm by no means a beginner at Linux, I just have to overcome some intertia. I started w/ Slackware back in the day, but now use SuSE. Any quick advice?)
The US?
I have a 30Gb iPod that is almost completely full, and the overwhelming majority of the music is legal. I have a lot of CDs, I'm a subscriber to emusic.com, and I've also downloaded a shiteload of live music from the Furthur Network (furthurnet.com).
I like a wide variety of music, so it's important to me to have a wide variety of music available. Actually, I'm kind of bummed that the 40Gb model came out so soon after I got my iPod. I could have used the extra room.
I'm going to India for three months, and it will be nice to have just about my entire collection of music with me. (Oh, and I encode at relatively high bitrate and used VBR, so that makes for a bit less room...)
Hey, get it right! The witness was seen purchasing a shark tank and frickin' laser beams! :-D
Ok, on topic comment. I think this guy is probably a 'friend' of the soon-to-be defendant. That seems like just about the only way this would make sense. This story is probably no big deal, since this guy is just one small fish in a big sea of virus writers.
I wonder what the 'typical' virus writer is like? (If there is any such thing as typical.) I wonder if any of them read Slashdot?
Heh, I am sooo lucky. I'm american, and my wife is from India, so she didn't expect this stupid diamond. Still, I did get her a nice ring which did have a few (small) diamonds in it, but we both thought it would just be stupid to spend a large chunk of cash on a rock.
Heh, this article is somewhat apropos for me. I just returned from Montreal, where I stayed for ten days in a condo. I brought my laptop and wireless card with me, thinking I might go to a hotspot and check my mail.
As it turns out, I had access to wireless right in the condo. It wasn't exactly a very strong signal, but it was good enough to surf and check my e-mail.
I noticed that the poor bastard that was running it happened to have the same wireless AP (an SMC Barricade) that I have. On a hunch, I checked the web server it runs, and he hadn't even set a password!
Had I known where it was coming from, I would have told them about it. As it was, my French sucks, and I didn't feel like knocking on a bunch of doors trying to explain wireless security. At any rate, they hadn't set up their timezone properly, so I did that for them....
The article is short on details, but presumably they'd be taking recordings at the soundboard and making that available. It won't be as good as if they had time to mix it - they'll have to do it in real time - but it may still sound quite good. Soundboards generally sound much better than audience recordings, IMHO, since there is better stereo separation, and more clearly defined vocals.
Phish has been trying something similar to this already. Check out http://livephish.com. They are offering show downloads (mp3 or shn) within 24 hrs after the concert, if I recall correctly.
> In the history of the world, no one has
> ever washed a rented car.
He obviously never met my father!
Fortunately, I didn't have to deal with Tivoli directly, but everyone who did swore like a sailor. We had a high-priced consultant just to get the damn thing to (partially) work. And in the end we lost the contract, though that may have had more to do with the cost portion of the contract being completely screwed up.
An interesting aside: The project was called TBMCS for Theater Battle Management Core Systems. We of course, called it "The Big Messy Computer System." When we lost the contract, it soon morphed into "The Big Military Contract Screwup."
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I predict we are going to be seeing more and more of this. As the internet really becomes the primary means of communication for a significant percentage of the world's populace, there will be those (nations, corporations, and even individuals) who will strive to control what is said. I would certainly not be surprised to see wars (or at least 'police actions') fought over what started as basically an internet flame. (Perhaps this has already happened?)
In fact, this idea seems to be borne out by the following web research. I found this conference webpage. (Do a page search for "Peter L. Olson") It seems our boy works for 3M in St Paul, MN and is indeed invloved in patent law. I can't be positive it's the same dude, but it seems likely.
The price of words : towards a generalized semantic capitalism
Man, I want 0.25 of an ounce of what this guy's been smoking.
Still, I suppose it takes all types. I'm a mathematician, and while I think this guy's language is full of BS, anyone who isn't in mathematics reading one of my papers would probably feel the same about my writing.
There already is a self-cooling option. It's called ice! ;-)
Forget about drift, just wait until they flip! (i.e. the magnetic north pole becomes the magnetic south pole.) IIRC, this change happens on a timescale near 70,000 years or so. You'd have to read your compass bass-ackwards, and what would it do to the poor homing pigeons? Of course, your nifty GPS will be ok.
Wow, someone finally answered my question!
Ok, it's a bit late to comment in this discussion, but I was wondering... Is it only me that finds it ironic that the same company that is trying to push forward with copy-control on their CDs, also happens to own emusic (www.emusic.com), the site that lets you download as many mp3s as you can stand, and specifically lets you do what you want with them as long as its for you own personal use, for a flat monthly fee?
On that page, they include an e-mail address for comments. Why not do just that: umg@umusic.com. Tell then (without being abusive) just why you won't be buying their CDs anymore. For myself, as I'm sure is true with a lot of folks here, I have all my music in mp3 format on my computer and play it through my home stereo. Sure, I could get around their copy protection, but that's too much work.
-D
Well, as regards running an audio cable to your
stereo, there's one potential problem: noise.
I've run an audio cable from my computer to my stereo, and there's a definite hum. It's not generally noticalbe for busy/loud music, but you definitely notice it.
Also, the thing has a remote, which is a bit better than having to run into the room where your computer is in order to change songs. Thus, I wouldn't really call it zero extra functionality.
D
For Sale: One copy of MS Windows 95 media with book. Note: Purchaser does not have right to run said software.
Could they pull that off of E-Bay? (Of course they can. *They* can do anything!)
somehost:~> ping www.douglasadams.com
www.douglasadams.com is alive
Not to be disrespectful, but I think he might have found this funny. I owe much to DA. I was a complete outcast in high-school, but when I went to college I met a bunch of like-minded geeks who introduced me to HHGTTG. His works cheered me up on many a gray day.
We justify piracy these days when it only hurts Microsoft or Electronic Arts, but what's going to happen when those companies disappear, and the programmers deal directly with the public? Are we suddenly going to give up our WE DESERVE FREE INFORMATION and I'D RATHER GET IT FROM GNU selfishness?
Sure--today, software companies are the ones getting the profits, and I say, screw 'em. But imagine an ideal world, where a programmer gets every penny of profit from their work. Why would they bother to write a program, if as soon as they release a single copy it's immediately pirated and distributed worldwide for free, in a form absolutely indistinguishable from the original? How is that programmer going to be able to make any money? Rely on the charity of those who feel like donating a few cents because they liked their software?
Sure, I don't like the current financial scheme of the software companies. But the technology we're talking about here prevents ANYONE from making money from programming. Famous quote and hacker philosophy: INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE. Hey, folks, SOFTWARE IS INFORMATION. And FREE SOFTWARE is crappy software, because there's no profit motive in it, and the worthwhile would-be programmers are off doing something which allows them to put food on the table.
We'd better come up with SOME way of rewarding and reimbursing programmers, or we're going to pirate software right out of our society.
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You might have some good points... Programming and music aren't exactly the same, in that a programmer can work for free on his own time, and still get a good job as a programmer. If you're a musician, it's probably harder to make a living. Still, the above should make my point clear...