Go in and buy one cd, take it home. Next time you come back complain that the cd is defective and ask for an exchange. Do this often and regularly at store X when different people are working. Again telling them they are defective.
The point is, "returned" merchandise might just get re-shrink wrapped and thrown back on the shelf, where as you state it is "defective" it will more then likely be returned back to Universial or whereever.
I wonder how the recording industry will feel when "add-on" programs are attached to the players which interecept the decoded signal and pipe that to whatever application.
Until they can have the entire bus running encrypted, they are not going to be able to stop circumvention of the data stream.
A software company/programmer can only become liable should there product be sold for commercial value or profit. Software such as freeware or open source are not liable since they fall under the "what you see is what your get". Should the free program contain malicious or intentional security holes/problems, this clause becomes null and void.
But here is something else I did not see written by anyone else. Should such a law be passed, open source software will pretty much vanish from the business world. Seriously, what manager would really want to run it. Can't profit from it if it goes wrong, so why use it.
not at all. In fact IE is a horrible example. You get IE whether you want it or not. Remember it is a part of the M$ Windows OS. Since it is part of the OS, you are paying for it. Its part of the product.
Take for example ncftpd. Gleason can not say "hey, when you buy my product all your buying is the "IO logging facility", the rest of it is free. And OBTW, the only way you can get the rest of the program for free is to buy the logging facility. Therefore I am not liable for anything bad that may happen to the rest of it since it is free.
On the otherhand, this law might change M$'s mind on how they package up there OS. Outlook and IE might turn to be "Free" packages available to be installed but not need. (gawd.. wtf am I smoking these days)
but why is this even on slashdot? (setting myself up to be flamebait I guess)
We know it is going to fail with so many other p2p clients available.
Nothing using a proprietary format ever seems to take off and even if it does is soon forgotten and forever shunned (.gif anyone?)
The time it took napster to get to go from what it was to this now has made them loose 100% of there audience, all who have moved to different methods of file sharing.
How about not one central source of files? What would stop someone from renaming a Rush Limbaugh speech at the local joy club with "Who let the Dogs out". User tampering could run wild unless some md5 checksum is built in. (the article does state some sort of finger printing might be going on, but could not discuss furthor)
What inititive do people have to open up there pipes for people to dl music from there computers? Seriously. Before the mentallity was that "since I take, I shall give." Now it will be "Since I pay, I have NO NEED to give back. Bandwidth does not not come cheap, and I sure as hell am not going to provide it so that Napster can make money."
Napster.. listen.. ITS OVER.. dont prolong the inevitable.
of wires, surge supressors, and other heavy power boxes on my floor under my desk tied into knots that would scare the bravest of Eagle Scouts. Why in gods name would I want to put that mess on my desk top?
I agree, I have looked into these also, but there is a drawback. They can not be used for todays hardware.
1) Air flow is limited
2) Small case = smaller power supply.
3) Fans, Fans and more Fans. (see 1)
These may work great as a secondary box, kitchen machine, something hooked up to the stero system, etc which require less processing power, not that high end of graphics, etc.
But as you main "mofo" computer which you desire the fastest hardware. Amd Athlon 1900 (with fan/sink), GeForce 3 (with fan/sink), and a 10000 rpm drive (with fan) in a box half the size of a shoe box. No Dice.
The problem:
Computers use to much power, and put off to much heat.
Solution:
Cut back on there power usage.. and make them more efficient reducing the amount of energy given off as heat.
Phillips has entered into an agreement with USC to piggy back encrytion software into the nanoprobes. The purpose is that "humans" would serve as node-receivers in wireless networks. The nanaoprobes would then be able to scramble and encrypt data before arriving at its final destination.
*sigh*
Wasnt there an article some time about shooting lasers from the moon to create electricity?
The PCs should ship in the first half of the year and are likely to be priced starting at about $1800
Targeting 18-to-24-year-olds,
Hummm.. last time I check the majority of college students can not drop $1800 for a "products centered around video-game play" (direct quote). During that time for me.. things like food and a roof over my head were considered luxuries.
I am curious, is MTV going to have a show dedicated to explaining to these mindless fools on how to beg and whine to have your parents buy one for you? Get student loans to pay for it.. or lists of credit card companies to apply to get those nice plastic cards to buy it.
This shall die a long and painful death as MTV executives try to figure out why there marketing is not getting these to sell. Guess that means the 1 total hour of music videos a day they show will need to get cut back to 30 minutes to allow space for more advertising.
Let see here.. donate computers and high prices software to schools. A "penalty" with a tax write off. Gawd.. plz.
Not to mention, use its monopolistic power to furthor push its products in all the schools. This is no different then "college rates" for computer software. The vendors hope that people will get hooked to thier products and buy them in the future (at full price of course)
If this suit did go through.. do all of us honest taxpayers get a small tax break because the schools do not need as much money? Dont think so.
I sure did like the "M$ supplies the hardware, and Red Hat will provide the OS."
is generally what I use. Now days it is Abi or StarOffice. Sorry to say though that if your doing a massive amount of it, probably have to go with the Word.
If you need to write any techinial docs on the implementation, I strongly recommend you checking out Doxygen , works like a champ, not to mention you can do your documentation in your vi/emacs editor.
You make it sound so simple
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The Drone War
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It seems only a matter of time before other countries developed their own surrogate weaponry, and the idea of the high-tech Drone War -- machines warring with one another -- moves to the next level.
Beyond what else was state in your article, you statement here makes it sound "so simple".
Fact of that matter is that in 1930, America had the 18th largest military if you could even call it that. With the Great Depression and the fact that WWI was that war to end all wars (ya right), the US quickly demobilized much of the military. It was not till the rising threat of Germany and Japan in the mid 30's that the US acted to start "building" there military up.
Fact of the matter is, the US have not stopped. I remember statements from many other countries in 1990 that "oh.. the USA is going into another Vietnam" You will never win against them. And honestly, many countries had there "we told you so" speech prepared.
Well after complete destruction of Iraq and the loss of 300-400 military personal, many countries folled up with "omfg". Though no link can be found, the Sec of Defense for the former Soviet Union was stated we need to "start" developing these weapons.
Scarey fact is that these weapons were being developed as early as the 60's in America where as most other countries are just today starting to to plan these weapons.
Point being, America has a very large techno jump over any other country in the world in weapons.
Another issue is deployment. China has 2.5 million troops, almost doubling the US's active duty. Ya great.. big whoop. How do you get them from point A to point B. China does not even have an aircraft carrier. The Soviets are in the same boat (or lack thereoff). They have "had" an aircraft carrier, was in service for three years and is now being sold to India.
The concept of large scale "drone wars" is far, far away. And honestly, I do not even consider the Afganastan conflict your so called drone war. It was a large army (Northern Alliance) with a few special forces with radios and laser markers telling the bombers where to drop there payload. Beyond that it was Soviet tanks, AK-47's,Nissan Pickup trucks, blood, sweet, and tears. About as conventional as it comes.
I had a nasty no-no on my driving record (and lack there of for 3 months after it was revoked) in one state and moved away in 6 months of it happening. (it was because I graduated college.. not because of fleeing the police)
Nevertheless, in the new state I arrived in, they did a run of "my license" to see if I had any bad marks on it. Guess what.. I was clean as a whistle. Cheap insurance for me.
Now with this "new" systems, they will probably be able to back track all your offenses from state to state.
"Sorry John Doe, you received a speeding ticket 10 years ago and we consider you high risk."
Another thing.. will this "information" now allow insurance companies to go back and collect "past dues" that they felt they deserve?
We are screwed.. just inject the id chip in my arm get it over with.
omfg.. sounds like a 17 year old, zit faced high school drop out who weighs 122 pounds, cant get a date, and drive a rusted out 1986 Honda Civic and is mad at the world!
I use GQ for browsing around in an LDAP. It is a great start on a fully functional LDAP client tool, but still, many options still need to be implemented.
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Go in and buy one cd, take it home. Next time you come back complain that the cd is defective and ask for an exchange. Do this often and regularly at store X when different people are working. Again telling them they are defective.
The point is, "returned" merchandise might just get re-shrink wrapped and thrown back on the shelf, where as you state it is "defective" it will more then likely be returned back to Universial or whereever.
fair-use is fair-use.
I wonder how the recording industry will feel when "add-on" programs are attached to the players which interecept the decoded signal and pipe that to whatever application.
Until they can have the entire bus running encrypted, they are not going to be able to stop circumvention of the data stream.
the machines are overpowered
.. the day I say this about any computer is the day I realize that I am to old. :-P
Gawd
May-be /. could youse dis tech 2stop re posts.
is a "clause" in the law that simple state this.
A software company/programmer can only become liable should there product be sold for commercial value or profit. Software such as freeware or open source are not liable since they fall under the "what you see is what your get". Should the free program contain malicious or intentional security holes/problems, this clause becomes null and void.
But here is something else I did not see written by anyone else. Should such a law be passed, open source software will pretty much vanish from the business world. Seriously, what manager would really want to run it. Can't profit from it if it goes wrong, so why use it.
not at all. In fact IE is a horrible example. You get IE whether you want it or not. Remember it is a part of the M$ Windows OS. Since it is part of the OS, you are paying for it. Its part of the product.
.. wtf am I smoking these days)
Take for example ncftpd. Gleason can not say "hey, when you buy my product all your buying is the "IO logging facility", the rest of it is free. And OBTW, the only way you can get the rest of the program for free is to buy the logging facility. Therefore I am not liable for anything bad that may happen to the rest of it since it is free.
On the otherhand, this law might change M$'s mind on how they package up there OS. Outlook and IE might turn to be "Free" packages available to be installed but not need. (gawd
but maybe doing some "packet proxy, filtering and modifications" of data destined to Napsters servers may be more in line.
(do to legal reasons I do not want to discuss into any depth this method) I will let the average 3rd grader figure it out on there own.
but why is this even on slashdot? (setting myself up to be flamebait I guess)
.. listen .. ITS OVER .. dont prolong the inevitable.
We know it is going to fail with so many other p2p clients available.
Nothing using a proprietary format ever seems to take off and even if it does is soon forgotten and forever shunned (.gif anyone?)
The time it took napster to get to go from what it was to this now has made them loose 100% of there audience, all who have moved to different methods of file sharing.
How about not one central source of files? What would stop someone from renaming a Rush Limbaugh speech at the local joy club with "Who let the Dogs out". User tampering could run wild unless some md5 checksum is built in. (the article does state some sort of finger printing might be going on, but could not discuss furthor)
What inititive do people have to open up there pipes for people to dl music from there computers? Seriously. Before the mentallity was that "since I take, I shall give." Now it will be "Since I pay, I have NO NEED to give back. Bandwidth does not not come cheap, and I sure as hell am not going to provide it so that Napster can make money."
Napster
of wires, surge supressors, and other heavy power boxes on my floor under my desk tied into knots that would scare the bravest of Eagle Scouts. Why in gods name would I want to put that mess on my desk top?
I agree, I have looked into these also, but there is a drawback. They can not be used for todays hardware.
.. and make them more efficient reducing the amount of energy given off as heat.
1) Air flow is limited
2) Small case = smaller power supply.
3) Fans, Fans and more Fans. (see 1)
These may work great as a secondary box, kitchen machine, something hooked up to the stero system, etc which require less processing power, not that high end of graphics, etc.
But as you main "mofo" computer which you desire the fastest hardware. Amd Athlon 1900 (with fan/sink), GeForce 3 (with fan/sink), and a 10000 rpm drive (with fan) in a box half the size of a shoe box. No Dice.
The problem:
Computers use to much power, and put off to much heat.
Solution:
Cut back on there power usage
but it would double as a vacuum cleaner.
Phillips has entered into an agreement with USC to piggy back encrytion software into the nanoprobes. The purpose is that "humans" would serve as node-receivers in wireless networks. The nanaoprobes would then be able to scramble and encrypt data before arriving at its final destination.
...
*sigh*
Wasnt there an article some time about shooting lasers from the moon to create electricity?
repeat after me
"To much Star Trek"
The PCs should ship in the first half of the year and are likely to be priced starting at about $1800
.. last time I check the majority of college students can not drop $1800 for a "products centered around video-game play" (direct quote). During that time for me .. things like food and a roof over my head were considered luxuries.
.. or lists of credit card companies to apply to get those nice plastic cards to buy it.
Targeting 18-to-24-year-olds,
Hummm
I am curious, is MTV going to have a show dedicated to explaining to these mindless fools on how to beg and whine to have your parents buy one for you? Get student loans to pay for it
This shall die a long and painful death as MTV executives try to figure out why there marketing is not getting these to sell. Guess that means the 1 total hour of music videos a day they show will need to get cut back to 30 minutes to allow space for more advertising.
but Phillips has a new customer!
for a computer seller and this deal would have gone through .. I would have
made a haul!!!
Let see here .. donate computers and high prices software to schools. A "penalty" with a tax write off. Gawd .. plz.
.. do all of us honest taxpayers get a small tax break because the schools do not need as much money? Dont think so.
Not to mention, use its monopolistic power to furthor push its products in all the schools. This is no different then "college rates" for computer software. The vendors hope that people will get hooked to thier products and buy them in the future (at full price of course)
If this suit did go through
I sure did like the "M$ supplies the hardware, and Red Hat will provide the OS."
I guess they weren't running this "powerhouse" as there web server.
Doesn't speak to well for a web site that does articles on high performance linux hardware, or so it says.
is generally what I use. Now days it is Abi or StarOffice. Sorry to say though that if your doing a massive amount of it, probably have to go with the Word.
If you need to write any techinial docs on the implementation, I strongly recommend you checking out Doxygen , works like a champ, not to mention you can do your documentation in your vi/emacs editor.
It seems only a matter of time before other countries developed their own surrogate weaponry, and the idea of the high-tech Drone War -- machines warring with one another -- moves to the next level.
.. the USA is going into another Vietnam" You will never win against them. And honestly, many countries had there "we told you so" speech prepared.
.. big whoop. How do you get them from point A to point B. China does not even have an aircraft carrier. The Soviets are in the same boat (or lack thereoff). They have "had" an aircraft carrier, was in service for three years and is now being sold to India.
Beyond what else was state in your article, you statement here makes it sound "so simple".
Fact of that matter is that in 1930, America had the 18th largest military if you could even call it that. With the Great Depression and the fact that WWI was that war to end all wars (ya right), the US quickly demobilized much of the military. It was not till the rising threat of Germany and Japan in the mid 30's that the US acted to start "building" there military up.
Fact of the matter is, the US have not stopped. I remember statements from many other countries in 1990 that "oh
Well after complete destruction of Iraq and the loss of 300-400 military personal, many countries folled up with "omfg". Though no link can be found, the Sec of Defense for the former Soviet Union was stated we need to "start" developing these weapons.
Scarey fact is that these weapons were being developed as early as the 60's in America where as most other countries are just today starting to to plan these weapons.
Point being, America has a very large techno jump over any other country in the world in weapons.
Another issue is deployment. China has 2.5 million troops, almost doubling the US's active duty. Ya great
The concept of large scale "drone wars" is far, far away. And honestly, I do not even consider the Afganastan conflict your so called drone war. It was a large army (Northern Alliance) with a few special forces with radios and laser markers telling the bombers where to drop there payload. Beyond that it was Soviet tanks, AK-47's,Nissan Pickup trucks, blood, sweet, and tears. About as conventional as it comes.
Case in point.
.. not because of fleeing the police)
.. I was clean as a whistle. Cheap insurance for me.
.. will this "information" now allow insurance companies to go back and collect "past dues" that they felt they deserve?
.. just inject the id chip in my arm get it over with.
I had a nasty no-no on my driving record (and lack there of for 3 months after it was revoked) in one state and moved away in 6 months of it happening. (it was because I graduated college
Nevertheless, in the new state I arrived in, they did a run of "my license" to see if I had any bad marks on it. Guess what
Now with this "new" systems, they will probably be able to back track all your offenses from state to state.
"Sorry John Doe, you received a speeding ticket 10 years ago and we consider you high risk."
Another thing
We are screwed
So lets see here .. we have usb everything now.
.. firewire Video Cards ... then what is going to follow?
.. if we would put all of this junk into one central box it would clean .. umm wait a second?
Sound Card
Ethernet Card
Mouse
Keyboard
Monitor
Hand Held Cradle
Digital Camera
Drives
etc.
And firewire
Drives and other misc items.
Whats left
A 3"x3"x3" cube containing the MB/CPU/Memory?
Excellent! Exactly what I want. To bring the cluster fuck of wire under my desk and put them onto my desk. Keep that floor clean!
Ya know
but I guess the poster was to scared of Bernard thinking he/she was going to get sued and posted it anonymously :-)
:-)
What? Someone had to say it
omfg .. sounds like a 17 year old, zit faced high school drop out who weighs 122 pounds, cant get a date, and drive a rusted out 1986 Honda Civic and is mad at the world!
Voice Mail #6 is GREAT!!!!
I use GQ for browsing around in an LDAP. It is a great start on a fully functional LDAP client tool, but still, many options still need to be implemented.
godforbid you try entering from the front door. What the hell was I thinking.
Thanks for the crowbar.