I know several people (myself included) who flat-out refuse to accept any crippled, copy-protected, DRM'd imitation of a real CD, even as the record labels continue pumping them out.
I've only laid hands on one copy-protected CD, the VNV Nation "Genesis" single, and cdparanoia made a perfect copy of it, as if it had never been copy-protected at all.
Indeed. I remember the copy protection wars of the 80's. All that software copy protection did was annoy legitimate users and give warez traders an opportunity to learn how to reverse engineer. The companies that dropped copy protection stayed in business, as a general rule.
Now the (MP|RI)AA are going to learn the same lesson the hard way, it seems. Though I predict that they just won't get it, and will go out of business. And honestly, I can't wait. When they go under, we'll have a lot less bad music and bad movies, and the good stuff will be easier to find.
Here's a handy guide for translating business buzzwords into plain English:
restructuring -> massive layoffs and selloffs
improper -> we got caught
proper -> we didn't get caught
we believe -> no way in hell will this happen
misleading -> blatant lying
You seem to have missed the point. This technology assumes that users are going to lie, and mitigates the effects of those lies on the final results of the survey with a minimal loss in "accuracy."
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If this is true, why is it only news for MS? It appears that Linux and Unix is also vulnerable. So why only set up the article as MS related?
Because we found out for Linux/Unix several days ago and got our systems fixed within 24 hours. Microsoft is still trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
*bash MS* bash bash bash....it's popular right?
It's popular, easy, and well-deserved in this case. So much for M$ paying attention to security. Someone in M$ should have known they used zlib code, exactly where it was, and gotten patches out in a reasonable timeframe. They didn't. Bash bash bash.
Microsoft is still trying to determine which apps incorporated zlib code? My Linux box already has all its apps fixed. How long until M$ gets patches out? Weeks? Months?
Another developer is writing an iCalendar-based scheduling system for it, too.
You mean two other developers.:-)
The planned feature set will allow Citadel to share iCalendar objects through Citadel's native transport as well as through iMIP to interoperate with other calendaring systems, and it will be fairly easy to add other iTIP-based transport protocols as they are developed. ---
Re:You must not do anything interesting on them
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The closest thing to a home directory in Win32 would be the user profile directory (see the USERPROFILE environment variable). I've used this to substitute for $HOME when porting Unix programs to Win32 (don't ask, I might puke again). ---
This also would mean that you don't have to listen to country music the entire duration of your road trip.
You don't have to now. Get an empeg, or a CD player, or anything other than the factory AM/FM 8-track player that's still in your car because you refuse to patronize Best Buy - or don't realize they have a car audio section.
Even Radio Shark sells car audio equipment, though if you were going to refuse to buy something, that would probably be a better choie than Best Buy. ---
There still are lots of BBSs out there. Try telnetting to xgames.dhs.org if you want to play classic door games like BRE and LORD...
And there are still lots of BBSs out there where you can actually talk to people, share information, have a good time, whatever. Let's not mix up the concept of "BBS" and "online game" like a whole bunch of people did in the mid and late 80s.
You own the physical media and the right to use that media under specific circumstances.
That's not right. You own the physical media and the right to do anything the hell you want with that media, except for a few little things, like sell copies of the IP contained on that media.
You have the legal right to: sell the original media, play it whenever and wherever you want (except for hire), use it as a frisbee, etc. ---
Look, everybody, more numbers! It's a huge '128-bit address space'!
Suddenly, the internet is faster, my computer is smarter, the world looks brighter, slashdot posts are more intelligent....
Nah. Everything still sucks.
Nevermind for a minute that the address space isn't REALLY 128-bit. Nevermind for a minute that with IPv6 we could easily support far more than 2^128 computers, just as we can support far more than 2^32 with IPv4. (Read RFC 1918.)
The REAL problem with moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is it will let even MORE stupid people get on the net. It was bad enough they de-classed IPv4 and let as many stupid Earthlings on as could scrape up the cash for a computer. Now we have enough address space for every animal, plant, bacteria, virus, and rock on this planet, and probably several others.
If you thought the last wave of stupid newbies was bad, wait until the first wave of newbies that IPv6 brings on. ---
DVDRs have certain portions of the disk already written to as part of their production companies licensing deal with the MPAA. The bits required for the disk key are already prewritten with zeroes.
That's easy enough to deal with. You write unencrypted content. Problem solved.
I'm more interested in seeing the price tag on this thing, though. Its predecessor was selling around $5,000, last I checked. The new combo drive should cause the price on the older one to drop, hopefully within the range of mere mortals, as happened with CD-R.... then you'll finally see the price of blank DVD-R media drop. ---
Read the article carefully... Linus wants to get 2.4 out the door before his third kid is born later this month. You can't delay THAT release date! ---
Hell, with most window managers you could just stick it on another virtual desktop, or otherwise "hide" it without the app even knowing what happened. ---
I've wondered the same, but usually the churches have the best price and location for the space rental.
Here, the county held absentee voting at the mall, among other places. Apparently it's very popular. You can't really make the excuse that it was out of your way, since you were already at the mall buying the latest consumer goods that the nice corporations marketed to you.
It also has the side effect of keeping political signs out of the mall... ---
Why didn't George Bush Sr. run for president? He was easy to figure out. You just read his lips, and whatever they say, he's going to do the opposite. ---
That's enough space for Rob to store TEN MONTHS of music...
Ooops. That should read TEN MONTHS of TiVo.
You could also store a copy of almost every DVD ever made. Might need two racks to get them all. Suddenly the idea of being able to watch any movie you want, anytime you want, doesn't sound so farfetched. ---
I know BASIC isn't the ideal language for beginners to work with. But seriously, it was the first thing I learned when I was 10, and I didn't turn out too bad. The point is, it was fun to write my own moon lander game on a Timex Sinclair (ZX81)... I even started playing with Z80 assembly.. that was fun, too... Then I got hold of a Commodore 64, a Radio Shack Color Computer.. OS-9... Pascal(!)... Almost picked up the C compiler for OS-9 Level 2 when I was 16, but Radio Shack was sold out and they didn't have any in Fort Worth at the time either. Then I went to college and found Unix...
For kids to screw around with, BASIC is still a decent language. Any 10 year old who's gifted enough to be doing serious programming isn't going to be trying to learn BASIC on a PlayStation 2 anyway.
I don't think my power of abstraction has been crippled by my exposure to BASIC. I easily grasped object orientation. I rewrote a 6,000 line C++ program in 350 lines of Python.
Of course, if you have a better suggestion for a programming language for kids to screw around with, I am all ears. ---
No way, I want to fill a rack with them. Let's see, 42 of these, 640GB each... that works out to 26.25TB. Terabytes. That's enough space for Rob to store TEN MONTHS of music... ---
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I've only laid hands on one copy-protected CD, the VNV Nation "Genesis" single, and cdparanoia made a perfect copy of it, as if it had never been copy-protected at all.
Now the (MP|RI)AA are going to learn the same lesson the hard way, it seems. Though I predict that they just won't get it, and will go out of business. And honestly, I can't wait. When they go under, we'll have a lot less bad music and bad movies, and the good stuff will be easier to find.
Yeah. it's at www.goatse.cx. That image certainly seems to apply...
restructuring -> massive layoffs and selloffs
improper -> we got caught
proper -> we didn't get caught
we believe -> no way in hell will this happen
misleading -> blatant lying
Based on this, I suspect your job is in jeopardy.
You seem to have missed the point. This technology assumes that users are going to lie, and mitigates the effects of those lies on the final results of the survey with a minimal loss in "accuracy."
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Because we found out for Linux/Unix several days ago and got our systems fixed within 24 hours. Microsoft is still trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
*bash MS* bash bash bash....it's popular right?
It's popular, easy, and well-deserved in this case. So much for M$ paying attention to security. Someone in M$ should have known they used zlib code, exactly where it was, and gotten patches out in a reasonable timeframe. They didn't. Bash bash bash.
Microsoft is still trying to determine which apps incorporated zlib code? My Linux box already has all its apps fixed. How long until M$ gets patches out? Weeks? Months?
You mean two other developers. :-)
The planned feature set will allow Citadel to share iCalendar objects through Citadel's native transport as well as through iMIP to interoperate with other calendaring systems, and it will be fairly easy to add other iTIP-based transport protocols as they are developed.
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The closest thing to a home directory in Win32 would be the user profile directory (see the USERPROFILE environment variable). I've used this to substitute for $HOME when porting Unix programs to Win32 (don't ask, I might puke again).
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You don't have to now. Get an empeg, or a CD player, or anything other than the factory AM/FM 8-track player that's still in your car because you refuse to patronize Best Buy - or don't realize they have a car audio section.
Even Radio Shark sells car audio equipment, though if you were going to refuse to buy something, that would probably be a better choie than Best Buy.
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And there are still lots of BBSs out there where you can actually talk to people, share information, have a good time, whatever. Let's not mix up the concept of "BBS" and "online game" like a whole bunch of people did in the mid and late 80s.
Check out Citadel for instance.
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That's not right. You own the physical media and the right to do anything the hell you want with that media, except for a few little things, like sell copies of the IP contained on that media.
You have the legal right to: sell the original media, play it whenever and wherever you want (except for hire), use it as a frisbee, etc.
---
Suddenly, the internet is faster, my computer is smarter, the world looks brighter, slashdot posts are more intelligent....
Nah. Everything still sucks.
Nevermind for a minute that the address space isn't REALLY 128-bit. Nevermind for a minute that with IPv6 we could easily support far more than 2^128 computers, just as we can support far more than 2^32 with IPv4. (Read RFC 1918.)
The REAL problem with moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is it will let even MORE stupid people get on the net. It was bad enough they de-classed IPv4 and let as many stupid Earthlings on as could scrape up the cash for a computer. Now we have enough address space for every animal, plant, bacteria, virus, and rock on this planet, and probably several others.
If you thought the last wave of stupid newbies was bad, wait until the first wave of newbies that IPv6 brings on.
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That's easy enough to deal with. You write unencrypted content. Problem solved.
I'm more interested in seeing the price tag on this thing, though. Its predecessor was selling around $5,000, last I checked. The new combo drive should cause the price on the older one to drop, hopefully within the range of mere mortals, as happened with CD-R.... then you'll finally see the price of blank DVD-R media drop.
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Read the article carefully... Linus wants to get 2.4 out the door before his third kid is born later this month. You can't delay THAT release date!
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80GB Firewire Drive: $380
(http://www.transintl.com)
CPU: $400.00
$1280 conversion kit for any TV....
Look on your face when you find out your cable company isn't sending any HDTV signals yet... priceless.
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See also A Vote for Bush Is a Vote for Gore
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$ netstat -t
$ ipchains -I output 1 -d x.x.x.x -j DENY
Hm, looks like just a few seconds.
Hell, with most window managers you could just stick it on another virtual desktop, or otherwise "hide" it without the app even knowing what happened.
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Here, the county held absentee voting at the mall, among other places. Apparently it's very popular. You can't really make the excuse that it was out of your way, since you were already at the mall buying the latest consumer goods that the nice corporations marketed to you.
It also has the side effect of keeping political signs out of the mall...
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I must have slept through the 80's or something. Did Bush "act as president" under Reagan or something?
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Why didn't George Bush Sr. run for president? He was easy to figure out. You just read his lips, and whatever they say, he's going to do the opposite.
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Ooops. That should read TEN MONTHS of TiVo.
You could also store a copy of almost every DVD ever made. Might need two racks to get them all. Suddenly the idea of being able to watch any movie you want, anytime you want, doesn't sound so farfetched.
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For kids to screw around with, BASIC is still a decent language. Any 10 year old who's gifted enough to be doing serious programming isn't going to be trying to learn BASIC on a PlayStation 2 anyway.
I don't think my power of abstraction has been crippled by my exposure to BASIC. I easily grasped object orientation. I rewrote a 6,000 line C++ program in 350 lines of Python.
Of course, if you have a better suggestion for a programming language for kids to screw around with, I am all ears.
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No way, I want to fill a rack with them. Let's see, 42 of these, 640GB each... that works out to 26.25TB. Terabytes. That's enough space for Rob to store TEN MONTHS of music...
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