This won't make a dent in the billions of mp3s floating around out there. Now to address the issues:
1. Plenty of open source encoders/decoders/rippers 2. No royalties on above mp3 software 3. MP4 is in the works, VQF is already superior to mp3 but I don't see it used anywhere 4. See number 1 5. What difference does that make when EVERY cd made has two channels? Unless you want to rip the audio tracks from DVD's
Thats a myth. When too many people listen to one radio station does the reception suffer because they are absorbing all the power? I think not. The power is distributed in all directions and one person can't "suck" in more than the next. Its completely passive and absorbed equally all over. Nikola Tesla had plans for distributing power in that manner, because an unlimited number of receivers are possible.
Look at my other post about interference and computer controls. There is still a lot we don't know about radiation and electricity. Ball lightning is a good example, its existence is documented, but not explained.
I think he means that interference from the high power RF is playing hell with anything computer controlled. What device these days doesn't have some type of silicon chip? From your wristwatch to the controls of a real electric train, IC's don't handle ionizing radiation and RF very well. Some CMOS chips are so sensitive they can be burned out by just handling them improperly. If everything had proper shielding this would be a non issue.
About the light bulbs, the two wires act like an antenna and pick up RF. People used that method to tune their transmitters, adjust it for the brightest light.
I'm not trying to belittle you, but the general attitude here at slashdot is that no one thinks they should pay for anything, just ask RMS about commercial software.
http://tlug.linux.or.jp/rms.html
"The only good thing about the unauthorized copy is that you avoid giving money to the owner. This is good, because the owner does not deserve a reward for making software proprietary"
If you are worried about distro cost cheapbytes sells the OpenBSD cd for $4.99.
Just try downloading something like a 3 meg mp3 for gnutella, it will take hours. Gnutella can saturate bandwidth like no ones business. There is no limit on the software, some guy on a 14.4 modem on AOL will have like 100 transfers going. Another thing is search timeouts, being they never time out the traffic it generates is amazing.
I went to the grocery store and those bastards had the gall to make me pay for merchandise! Then I went to the gas station and had a heart attack when I found out gas wasn't free.
Things in this world cost money. OpenBSD still has less security holes than Free|NetBSD|Linux. I don't mind paying $25 for a good product, how else would they keep the project going? What does an ISO image have to do with its survival? You can download everything seperate. Why clog up bandwidth with a 600 meg file when you will be using 1/10 of its contents? I doubt you intent to install it on every architecture. Nothing is stopping you from making your own ISO image, so stop complaining.
Why not try the OS for youself? If you like the features then use it. Don't try and pretend linux will always do everything you need. Use the right tool for the right job.
If you read what someone posted about mattel they said it downloads a new jpeg splash screen. Then again I'm sure mattel really cares about your mailspool, windows registry, etc etc.
How about jumping on netscapes case for having this program? You don't know what its sending. Its kind of funny they need an seperate reporting app to log the crashes. IE never seems to crash at all.
Ummm BTW its not a trojan, a trojan is like the whacka mole game infected with netbus. This is an actual part of the software.
its not all closed source
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How long was that bug in PGP that didn't generate random keys? Almost a year? Unless you read and understand the source its no help. 90% of linux users praise its greatness, then download a tarball,./configure;make;make install without reading it. Good job.
This is another example of bad slashdot reporting. Right now all you know is that it "may" send back information, but you have no idea what. How about researching and providing facts to back this up? Oh wait.... As long as you get those banner hits it doesn't mater.
Why use something with so much overhead for your vcr to talk with your toaster? NetBEUI would be great for this, just give everything a unique ID. If you actually needed net access thats another story:)
compressed digital audio, it sounds like shit. Analog all the way. Sure cds have that crystal clear sound, but its cold and lifeless. Analog and vacuum tubes, thats where its at.
Whether you like to admit it, probably >80% of the mp3s on napster are illegal. Why buy a cd for a few good songs when you can download them? Cable modems and dsl connections are rapidly increasing, two minutes to download a song for free or buy it. Damn I can decide! But then most of you here are so anal about licensing all your mps are A ok kosher, but how about that 13 year old kid with a cable modem...
They don't want to stop mp3 itself
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They want to stop the illegal trading of copyrighted music you don't own.
Look at the emergency war powers act which gives the president the power for executive orders. When congress won't do something clinton says, he merely signs an executive order and *poof* its a law without the approval of congress. The saying is "Stroke of the pen law of the land". Note this is highly unconstitutional and you should ask your lawmakers to have it repealed. He used it a while ago when the FDA didn't approve the anthrax vaccine for the military, he sighed it, forcing everyone to take the *experimental* vaccine or be discharged. Clinton has no power?
Its a streaming file like the realaudio pnm:// protocol. The quicktime transport is documented, theres an RFC for it, but no one has written a program to save streaming quicktime. X-fileget for windows can save realaudio streams.
Ask apple about their save button that does nothing. Rumor says they disabled it for copyright reasons. Either way it pisses me off I can't save the chris rock Shit Storm! clip from hbo.com
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How about that worlds busiest ftp site that runs linux, oh wait.....
Slashdot Mirror
Source for what? kde or troll. get a life you wanker
He has some good points.
This won't make a dent in the billions of mp3s floating around out there. Now to address the issues:
1. Plenty of open source encoders/decoders/rippers
2. No royalties on above mp3 software
3. MP4 is in the works, VQF is already superior to mp3 but I don't see it used anywhere
4. See number 1
5. What difference does that make when EVERY cd made has two channels? Unless you want to rip the audio tracks from DVD's
Thats a myth. When too many people listen to one radio station does the reception suffer because they are absorbing all the power? I think not. The power is distributed in all directions and one person can't "suck" in more than the next. Its completely passive and absorbed equally all over. Nikola Tesla had plans for distributing power in that manner, because an unlimited number of receivers are possible.
Look at my other post about interference and computer controls. There is still a lot we don't know about radiation and electricity. Ball lightning is a good example, its existence is documented, but not explained.
I think he means that interference from the high power RF is playing hell with anything computer controlled. What device these days doesn't have some type of silicon chip? From your wristwatch to the controls of a real electric train, IC's don't handle ionizing radiation and RF very well. Some CMOS chips are so sensitive they can be burned out by just handling them improperly. If everything had proper shielding this would be a non issue.
About the light bulbs, the two wires act like an antenna and pick up RF. People used that method to tune their transmitters, adjust it for the brightest light.
I'm not trying to belittle you, but the general attitude here at slashdot is that no one thinks they should pay for anything, just ask RMS about commercial software.
http://tlug.linux.or.jp/rms.html
"The only good thing about the unauthorized copy is that you avoid giving money to the owner. This is good, because the owner does not deserve a reward for making software proprietary"
If you are worried about distro cost cheapbytes sells the OpenBSD cd for $4.99.
Just try downloading something like a 3 meg mp3 for gnutella, it will take hours. Gnutella can saturate bandwidth like no ones business. There is no limit on the software, some guy on a 14.4 modem on AOL will have like 100 transfers going. Another thing is search timeouts, being they never time out the traffic it generates is amazing.
I went to the grocery store and those bastards had the gall to make me pay for merchandise! Then I went to the gas station and had a heart attack when I found out gas wasn't free.
Things in this world cost money. OpenBSD still has less security holes than Free|NetBSD|Linux. I don't mind paying $25 for a good product, how else would they keep the project going? What does an ISO image have to do with its survival? You can download everything seperate. Why clog up bandwidth with a 600 meg file when you will be using 1/10 of its contents? I doubt you intent to install it on every architecture. Nothing is stopping you from making your own ISO image, so stop complaining.
Why not try the OS for youself? If you like the features then use it. Don't try and pretend linux will always do everything you need. Use the right tool for the right job.
You mean Quakeworld (yuck) or Quake2 (gag). But the original NetQuake (yeah!) didn't allow for skins
If you read what someone posted about mattel they said it downloads a new jpeg splash screen. Then again I'm sure mattel really cares about your mailspool, windows registry, etc etc.
How about jumping on netscapes case for having this program? You don't know what its sending. Its kind of funny they need an seperate reporting app to log the crashes. IE never seems to crash at all.
Ummm BTW its not a trojan, a trojan is like the whacka mole game infected with netbus. This is an actual part of the software.
How long was that bug in PGP that didn't generate random keys? Almost a year? Unless you read and understand the source its no help. 90% of linux users praise its greatness, then download a tarball, ./configure;make;make install without reading it. Good job.
This is another example of bad slashdot reporting. Right now all you know is that it "may" send back information, but you have no idea what. How about researching and providing facts to back this up? Oh wait.... As long as you get those banner hits it doesn't mater.
Who ever had problems with linux and their bios? Maybe 9 years ago with kernel 0.001 or something.
Why use something with so much overhead for your vcr to talk with your toaster? NetBEUI would be great for this, just give everything a unique ID. If you actually needed net access thats another story :)
paying people to work on it? The quality skyrockets. People don't work for free, right now mozilla is a handful of people working in their spare time.
compressed digital audio, it sounds like shit. Analog all the way. Sure cds have that crystal clear sound, but its cold and lifeless. Analog and vacuum tubes, thats where its at.
Whether you like to admit it, probably >80% of the mp3s on napster are illegal. Why buy a cd for a few good songs when you can download them? Cable modems and dsl connections are rapidly increasing, two minutes to download a song for free or buy it. Damn I can decide! But then most of you here are so anal about licensing all your mps are A ok kosher, but how about that 13 year old kid with a cable modem...
They want to stop the illegal trading of copyrighted music you don't own.
Look at the emergency war powers act which gives the president the power for executive orders. When congress won't do something clinton says, he merely signs an executive order and *poof* its a law without the approval of congress. The saying is "Stroke of the pen law of the land". Note this is highly unconstitutional and you should ask your lawmakers to have it repealed. He used it a while ago when the FDA didn't approve the anthrax vaccine for the military, he sighed it, forcing everyone to take the *experimental* vaccine or be discharged. Clinton has no power?
http://www.warroom.com/clintongunregist.htm
Why is that flamebait? Just remember, an elephant is just a mouse designed by a government committee.
Its a streaming file like the realaudio pnm:// protocol. The quicktime transport is documented, theres an RFC for it, but no one has written a program to save streaming quicktime. X-fileget for windows can save realaudio streams.
Ask apple about their save button that does nothing. Rumor says they disabled it for copyright reasons. Either way it pisses me off I can't save the chris rock Shit Storm! clip from hbo.com
How about that worlds busiest ftp site that runs linux, oh wait.....