Who says he's straight? Perhaps he's one of the often-quoted one-in-ten? (Remember, one in ten is a whole lot better than your odds at a roulette wheel...)
Maybe only 2% of the population will use it, but what's worse: incurring a $1 (est.) extra cost per unit or the daunting task of trading in all those units when the nation (world) goes Ethernet in a few years?
If you make 3 million consoles, how much money have you saved by saving only $2 per console?
By the time the world goes Ethernet in a few years, the PS2 will be today's equivalent of the NES. You'll be lining up for the PS4, so it will be irrelevant.
What's going to happen is IBM and others will make these drives, meanwhile overseas companies like in China will continue to make non-compliant drives and everyone will just buy them instead.
I have absolutely nothing against the Chinese, but I feel compelled to mention this.
Given the insanely tight tolerances required for modern Winchester hard disk design, there is no way I will buy a hard drive made by some unknown Chinese company. Some things I buy that are made in China are of excellent quality, but unfortunately that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Since it won't be a name-brand manufacturer manufacturing these drives in China (since the name-brand manufacturers will all have this blasted copy-control system in their drives), for all I know it'll be some unknown Chinese sweatshop pumping them out.
I simply cannot, and will not, accept the risk that shoddy QC/QA will result in the loss of my data. As a result, I will only buy a hard drive made by a reputable manufacturer that's been making hard drives for a looooong time.
Therefore, it looks like I will have two options:
Buy a cheap Chinese hard drive that may fail prematurely due to substandard manufacturing and/or quality control
Buy a name-brand hard drive with CPRM, and take it up the tailpipe
I have a really big MP3 collection (more than 15GB of all my own stuff, ripped from my CDs). I spend a LOT of time on the road, generally with either a broadband or V.90 connection, and it isn't feasible/possible to bring all my music with me wherever I go. Rather, they are sitting on a server in my home office.
As I'm not a coder, I would pay serious cash for someone to write a Web interface to my MP3s that would present a dynamically-generated list of all of the several thousand MP3s (broken into several pages), with checkboxes next to each MP3 listed. I'd check the boxes of all the ones I wanted to listen to, and click Submit. It would then make the playlist on the fly from that submission, and fire up a streaming server with that playlist. I'd then point Winamp to it, and I'd have ALL of the MP3s I want to listen to, and NONE that I don't, streamed to me wherever I am.
(I'd put some sort of access protection on the stream, to make sure [a] I get all the bandwidth, and [b] so RIAA can't sue me.)
Better yet, does something like this already exist? Am I the only one that wants something like this?
Has RedHat, the thing presumably most ZDNet readers think is Linux, grown larger than one CD lately? [Last time I looked, the other two CDs in the box were bonus bits and source code]
Uhh, actually yes... Red Hat Linux 7is two CDs which are all RPMs. Both CDs are required for a full installation. There are even more CDs for the SRPMS and the Powertools.
For the record, I live in Canada. I don't have to prove my point; Janet Reno has already pointed out that Chicago and Toronto, two very similar (in population, area, and climate) cities, have very disproportionate homicide rates: Toronto in a bad year might have 75... Chicago has 1000.
As for the part about the guns, you bloody well know what I meant.
If you didn't, then I think my point is still well made with the pot^H^H^Htobacco pipes.
Unfortunately, it appears that the AllCharities links used by EFF are completely b0rken since AllCharities is renaming themselves and changing their website in the process.
You can still join by other methods; see the link in the parent for details.
Feed Magazine recently did an excellent interview with Mr. Garbus. It's well worth a read!
Also, here's Mr. Garbus' personal page about the whole DVD issue, and how he relates to various aspects of it.
Best of luck to the EFF and Mr. Garbus; if they can pull this off, it'll send a message to the MPAA that the world has had enough of their strongarm tactics. Please consider joining the EFF to support the cause!
Feed Magazine recently did an excellent interview with Mr. Garbus. It's well worth a read!
Also, here's Mr. Garbus' personal page about the whole DVD issue, and how he relates to various aspects of it.
Best of luck to the EFF and Mr. Garbus; if they can pull this off, it'll send a message to the MPAA that the world has had enough of their strongarm tactics. Please consider joining the EFF to support the cause!
2. Not a single one of the IP numbers listed there sends spam. Let me repeat that: you could drop every one of those IP numbers off your network and it would not stop a single piece of spam from reaching you. Those are websites. Spamhaus and MAPS don't like ths products those websites are selling and that is why they (and over a thousand other websites) are blocked.
How do you know? Perhaps their machines (since they have their own IP addresses) do relay raping! If not, perhaps they're just IP-based virtual hosts (which is a fscking waste of IP addresses, but that's a topic unto itself).
The situation is analogous to a censorware company blackmailing a service provider into removing Holocaust-denial material, by blocking thousands of innocent websites. Now, I don't like Holocaust denial, but standing up for free speech means standing up for speech I don't believe in.
I believe Voltaire said it best; I paraphrase: I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.
However, spammers steal service and clog people's mailboxes with junk. Knowingly distributing software to do that is like owning a gun shop; a customer comes in and asks which gun and which bullet type go through flesh the best and cause the most damage. Selling the gun to them is illegal because you know they're going to use it to commit a crime. It's precisely the same reason these are sold "FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY".
At best, what Media3 is doing is wrong and unethical, and worst it's illegal (aiding and abetting).
Sound familiar:
"Look, but don't touch; touch, but don't taste; taste, but don't swallow!"
- Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate Where do you draw the line?
Apple got a smackdown in the late '80s for their look-and-feel lawsuit over the Windows GUI. Here are two articles that go into detail about the whole look-and-feel issue:
The Woz was featured on A&E's Biography last night. Excellent piece; talked about the plane crash, the Apple I/II, Captain Crunch and blue boxing, and loads more. I didn't see this mentioned on/. so I thought I'd mention it now since it's somewhat pertinent, given the topic.
Check this out. Wow, I was thinking MAPS was being a bit strongarmed, but now I know how deep Media3 is in their own shit. I sincerely hope Qwest finds out about this, and puts some pressure on them. Unfortunately, I don't think that's likely.
Where's UUnet on this list?! They're one of the worst, if not THE worst, IMO. I've even had to manually blackhole some of their dial-access (da.uu.net) IP blocks from making lookups on our DNS servers to figure out what our MX host is!
Yep, Wes, it sure does! Go to the thing you shit in, and press the lever that's on it. The sound you'll then hear is the very same sound made whenever anything goes to/dev/null. Unfortunately, stdout and stderr are redirected to/dev/null as well (it's hardcoded in stdio.h), so you can't hear it.
The following is the content of an email I received from someone who I am assuming wouldn't want their identity published. It sums up the media frenzy quite nicely:
I was listening to that conversation over NASA TV and the "don't swear at me" line was, as usual, taken out of context and distorted by the media to indicate conflict where none was actually there.
The "Don't swear at me" was used as a preface to some additional tasks that the russian mission control were trying to lay on the ISS crew.... and they knew that the crew had already requested a reduction in work load. So the controller said (in Russian, translated by NASA) OK, now, guys...... don't swear at me now; but I've got a few extra tasks you need to do today.
Isn't is amazing that the CNN crew latched onto that ONE phrase and billowed it up to imply that the crew were cursing at the mission controllers?.... which never happened.
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Has it occurred to you that 2001 was made about 20 years before Mission to Mars?
Yes, Mission to Mars was an excellent movie IMO. However, it is totally NOT on the same level as 2001. They can't be fairly compared with one another.
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The above post was not intended as a troll. It was just a viewpoint, not intended to solicit flames or whatever. Just a thought.
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Fuck, that's twisted, but it made me laugh. I was mod yesterday, but had I had one point left, you'd have gotten it: (Score:+1, Funny).
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Who says he's straight? Perhaps he's one of the often-quoted one-in-ten? (Remember, one in ten is a whole lot better than your odds at a roulette wheel...)
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Add a few thousand years' worth of fuel to our sun's life
But our sun runs on fusion!
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Whoa, wait just a minute... are you telling me that our sun runs on hot air?!
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It also carries [...] a few TV cameras.
You mean cameras pointing out at space/earth/itself? If so, does it transmit them to Earth via SSTV?
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Maybe only 2% of the population will use it, but what's worse: incurring a $1 (est.) extra cost per unit or the daunting task of trading in all those units when the nation (world) goes Ethernet in a few years?
If you make 3 million consoles, how much money have you saved by saving only $2 per console?
By the time the world goes Ethernet in a few years, the PS2 will be today's equivalent of the NES. You'll be lining up for the PS4, so it will be irrelevant.
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I just submitted it. Let's see what happens.
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I have absolutely nothing against the Chinese, but I feel compelled to mention this.
Given the insanely tight tolerances required for modern Winchester hard disk design, there is no way I will buy a hard drive made by some unknown Chinese company. Some things I buy that are made in China are of excellent quality, but unfortunately that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Since it won't be a name-brand manufacturer manufacturing these drives in China (since the name-brand manufacturers will all have this blasted copy-control system in their drives), for all I know it'll be some unknown Chinese sweatshop pumping them out.
I simply cannot, and will not, accept the risk that shoddy QC/QA will result in the loss of my data. As a result, I will only buy a hard drive made by a reputable manufacturer that's been making hard drives for a looooong time.
Therefore, it looks like I will have two options:
- Buy a cheap Chinese hard drive that may fail prematurely due to substandard manufacturing and/or quality control
- Buy a name-brand hard drive with CPRM, and take it up the tailpipe
Either way, I lose.--
If Linus gets hit by a bus, the progression of Linux is fairly clear.
If Linus gets hit by a bus, I think there's a >99% chance Alan Cox will take his place. He's already Linus' right-hand man...
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I have a really big MP3 collection (more than 15GB of all my own stuff, ripped from my CDs). I spend a LOT of time on the road, generally with either a broadband or V.90 connection, and it isn't feasible/possible to bring all my music with me wherever I go. Rather, they are sitting on a server in my home office.
As I'm not a coder, I would pay serious cash for someone to write a Web interface to my MP3s that would present a dynamically-generated list of all of the several thousand MP3s (broken into several pages), with checkboxes next to each MP3 listed. I'd check the boxes of all the ones I wanted to listen to, and click Submit. It would then make the playlist on the fly from that submission, and fire up a streaming server with that playlist. I'd then point Winamp to it, and I'd have ALL of the MP3s I want to listen to, and NONE that I don't, streamed to me wherever I am.
(I'd put some sort of access protection on the stream, to make sure [a] I get all the bandwidth, and [b] so RIAA can't sue me.)
Better yet, does something like this already exist? Am I the only one that wants something like this?
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Has RedHat, the thing presumably most ZDNet readers think is Linux, grown larger than one CD lately? [Last time I looked, the other two CDs in the box were bonus bits and source code]
Uhh, actually yes... Red Hat Linux 7 is two CDs which are all RPMs. Both CDs are required for a full installation. There are even more CDs for the SRPMS and the Powertools.
Speak not from whence you know not...
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For the record, I live in Canada. I don't have to prove my point; Janet Reno has already pointed out that Chicago and Toronto, two very similar (in population, area, and climate) cities, have very disproportionate homicide rates: Toronto in a bad year might have 75... Chicago has 1000.
As for the part about the guns, you bloody well know what I meant.
If you didn't, then I think my point is still well made with the pot^H^H^Htobacco pipes.
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Unfortunately, it appears that the AllCharities links used by EFF are completely b0rken since AllCharities is renaming themselves and changing their website in the process.
You can still join by other methods; see the link in the parent for details.
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Feed Magazine recently did an excellent interview with Mr. Garbus. It's well worth a read!
Also, here's Mr. Garbus' personal page about the whole DVD issue, and how he relates to various aspects of it.
Best of luck to the EFF and Mr. Garbus; if they can pull this off, it'll send a message to the MPAA that the world has had enough of their strongarm tactics. Please consider joining the EFF to support the cause!
--
Feed Magazine recently did an excellent interview with Mr. Garbus. It's well worth a read!
Also, here's Mr. Garbus' personal page about the whole DVD issue, and how he relates to various aspects of it.
Best of luck to the EFF and Mr. Garbus; if they can pull this off, it'll send a message to the MPAA that the world has had enough of their strongarm tactics. Please consider joining the EFF to support the cause!
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2. Not a single one of the IP numbers listed there sends spam. Let me repeat that: you could drop every one of those IP numbers off your network and it would not stop a single piece of spam from reaching you. Those are websites. Spamhaus and MAPS don't like ths products those websites are selling and that is why they (and over a thousand other websites) are blocked.
How do you know? Perhaps their machines (since they have their own IP addresses) do relay raping! If not, perhaps they're just IP-based virtual hosts (which is a fscking waste of IP addresses, but that's a topic unto itself).
The situation is analogous to a censorware company blackmailing a service provider into removing Holocaust-denial material, by blocking thousands of innocent websites. Now, I don't like Holocaust denial, but standing up for free speech means standing up for speech I don't believe in.
I believe Voltaire said it best; I paraphrase: I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.
However, spammers steal service and clog people's mailboxes with junk. Knowingly distributing software to do that is like owning a gun shop; a customer comes in and asks which gun and which bullet type go through flesh the best and cause the most damage. Selling the gun to them is illegal because you know they're going to use it to commit a crime. It's precisely the same reason these are sold "FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY".
At best, what Media3 is doing is wrong and unethical, and worst it's illegal (aiding and abetting).
--
"Look, but don't touch; touch, but don't taste; taste, but don't swallow!"
- Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate
Where do you draw the line?
Apple got a smackdown in the late '80s for their look-and-feel lawsuit over the Windows GUI. Here are two articles that go into detail about the whole look-and-feel issue:
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The Woz was featured on A&E's Biography last night. Excellent piece; talked about the plane crash, the Apple I/II, Captain Crunch and blue boxing, and loads more. I didn't see this mentioned on /. so I thought I'd mention it now since it's somewhat pertinent, given the topic.
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Check this out. Wow, I was thinking MAPS was being a bit strongarmed, but now I know how deep Media3 is in their own shit. I sincerely hope Qwest finds out about this, and puts some pressure on them. Unfortunately, I don't think that's likely.
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Where's UUnet on this list?! They're one of the worst, if not THE worst, IMO. I've even had to manually blackhole some of their dial-access (da.uu.net) IP blocks from making lookups on our DNS servers to figure out what our MX host is!
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Yep, Wes, it sure does! Go to the thing you shit in, and press the lever that's on it. The sound you'll then hear is the very same sound made whenever anything goes to /dev/null. Unfortunately, stdout and stderr are redirected to /dev/null as well (it's hardcoded in stdio.h), so you can't hear it.
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Uhh, make that the original message.
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Please email me the original question if you have a moment. (Don't forget to unspamproof my address.)
Thanks.
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The following is the content of an email I received from someone who I am assuming wouldn't want their identity published. It sums up the media frenzy quite nicely:
I was listening to that conversation over NASA TV and the "don't swear at me" line was, as usual, taken out of context and distorted by the media to indicate conflict where none was actually there.
The "Don't swear at me" was used as a preface to some additional tasks that the russian mission control were trying to lay on the ISS crew.... and they knew that the crew had already requested a reduction in work load. So the controller said (in Russian, translated by NASA) OK, now, guys...... don't swear at me now; but I've got a few extra tasks you need to do today.
Isn't is amazing that the CNN crew latched onto that ONE phrase and billowed it up to imply that the crew were cursing at the mission controllers?.... which never happened.
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