RadioShack is not the problem at all. They just hand them out to people. You can read about my experiences with the CueCat HERE
Sorry about the big pictures, I didnt have time to thumbnail them.
My experiences with the CueCat can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.
I don't think that stopping people is legal. My experiences can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.
This is exactly what we have been needing - big companies willing to start putting money into Linux. We can have the "commercial quality" that people seem to want, and open-source software. Now we just need 'Microsoft Linux';)
If more people would seriously consider using linux for their work, they might be surprised at what they could do - and how much money they could save. I'm glad that the people making LoTR decided to use Linux because now we will most likely get better effects. Now I just hope that other companies would look at Linux seriously... It would spread linux much more, AND the companies would be saving money so they could produce better/cheaper products.
The stories didnt go into much detail, but if the injunction was phrased how they reported it, Napster doesnt need to do anything. The articles state that Napster is no longer allowed to allow trading of MP3's on their site. Napster doent allow the trading of MP3's through their servers at all. All the trading is done *directly* between the users. Hopefully they will find some loophole and keep on going. otherwise, get mynapster from MyNapster.com load it up on opennap servers, and your set. In fact, it's better than the original napster IMHO.
These are just like the ones in Dune, except *any* object can get through, no matter how fast it is going, and they dont explode when hit with an energy weapon. On to more important uses for them...
Now they can make satelites that REFLECT LIGHT!?!?! Seriously, if they needed to deflect a laser attack, wouldn't mirrors be more practical than this energy consuming sheild?
Echelon really seems to be right out of George Orwell's book "1984". If the government(s) slowly start taking our privacy like this, when will it be too much? Will it be eneough when they start reading all our mail? will it be eneough when they start searching houses at random, just to make sure you are being "good"?
I for one am sick of it. We need to stop this kind of thing before it gets out of hand.
From the article: The computer code the judge may opt to protect would make it possible for anyone to copy DVDs.
Does this seem like a completely uninformed statement to anyone else? First off, it makes it sound like decrypting a DVD is the only way to copy it. This is simply not the case, in fact for pirated DVDs, you'd think people would want them copied exactly the way you could get them in the store, for compatibility reasons. Second, it makes it sound like anyone off the street will be able to just pick up a DVD and make a copy if DeCSS is not banned. This is not correct either, as it takes a lot of effort to rip a DVD, and turn it into something useful. There is also bandwidth, quality of the copy, etc... to consider that would prevent many people from copying, or obtaining copies.
This is what the general public is seeing about this case, and they will side with the big companies. This kind of innaccurate reporting needs to be stopped.
When the story was first posted, there were many comments that pointed out that it was probably a hoax. After reading them, and considering the points they had, there was almost no doubt in my mind that it was a hoax. I thought that the general Slashdot audience would agree, had they read the comments.
Most reviews only focus on the ease of use, configurability, etc... of a distribution. So far I have seen very few that focus on the security of each one. People might choose a review based on how easy it is, get completely [cr/h]acked, and hate linux. When choosing a distro, I think security should be top priority.
IMHO, the end user isn't usually interested in source code. I think that the MPL just makes it much easier for the people developing the product. They usually don't have an obligation to make software for people anyway. If they are doing it to provide a product for free, they should control it how they want.
This license is even less restrictive than the GPL... It's not every day we get software of this quality under a license this non-restrictive. Lets all write to Borland and thank them, maybe it will send a message. If they got good feedback it could mean more quality open-source.
No matter what the ruling turns out to be, you will still be able to find DeCSS Everywhere. It cant be stopped now, it's too late.
The problem will be the precedence that this ruling will set for software that *isnt* as easy to keep distributing as DeCSS. If DeCSS happened to have say 20MB of source, how many people would still be distributing it so freely? Bandwidth and many other factors are important to people when they are showing their "civil disobedience".
I think that we should set up a site somewhere out of the US that holds all this type of software... oh wait, one is already being set up in ?Sealand? (can't remember the name) Yet who knows how much it would cost to store a 20MB program that lets you view "unauthorized" images/videos/text/etc...
I just hope this ruling is in DeCSS's favor, not for the sake of DeCSS, but all the software that will be banned after it.
It seems like at very high speeds it might be difficult to navigate around obstacles under water. They might just happen to crash into say a whale, debris, seaweed, etc... Sounds like a cool technology though.
Maybe you didn't check the date on the Article - August 9, 1999. Also from the article "AMD was supplying us with their own benchmarking software and we thought that we might as well use it, although we hardly expected Athlon to look bad in it." Even in that Review, the Athlon didn't outperform the P3 in *all* the tests.
The P3 is already faster than the Athlon at the same clockspeed in many areas. Try checking out a review at Anandtech, or Toms Hardware. The athlon does take advantage of some technologies that the P3 has yet to use, but once it does, I predict it will be faster than the Athlon in *most* areas of performance.
The biggest problem will be the price. That is why I think the Athlon has done so well all this time. For 50% less money, you get a chip that performs only 5% worse than the intel equivelant. I think that is why most people, myself included, like Athlons.
Restricted software is good because it causes people to write unrestricted software? Maybe I missed something, but if it was unrestricted in the first place, people wouldn't have to spend their time writing new versions. They could take the code that was already there and change it however they wanted.
WTF is NASA doing putting their communications between space shuttle and Earth on a network that is connected to the internet? For real security, they should have the boxes through a firewall or 50, or have the boxes not even connected at all...
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RadioShack is not the problem at all. They just hand them out to people. You can read about my experiences with the CueCat HERE
Sorry about the big pictures, I didnt have time to thumbnail them.
My experiences with the CueCat can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.
I don't think that stopping people is legal. My experiences can be found here: CueCat Experiences
There are pictures of the product in the packaging it came in, and the license agreement.
This is exactly what we have been needing - big companies willing to start putting money into Linux. We can have the "commercial quality" that people seem to want, and open-source software. ;)
Now we just need 'Microsoft Linux'
If more people would seriously consider using linux for their work, they might be surprised at what they could do - and how much money they could save. I'm glad that the people making LoTR decided to use Linux because now we will most likely get better effects. Now I just hope that other companies would look at Linux seriously... It would spread linux much more, AND the companies would be saving money so they could produce better/cheaper products.
Is this supposed to be funny as in "the page is down because the sysadmin is not doing his job" or is it just slashdotted?
The stories didnt go into much detail, but if the injunction was phrased how they reported it, Napster doesnt need to do anything. The articles state that Napster is no longer allowed to allow trading of MP3's on their site. Napster doent allow the trading of MP3's through their servers at all. All the trading is done *directly* between the users. Hopefully they will find some loophole and keep on going. otherwise, get mynapster from MyNapster.com load it up on opennap servers, and your set. In fact, it's better than the original napster IMHO.
These are just like the ones in Dune, except *any* object can get through, no matter how fast it is going, and they dont explode when hit with an energy weapon. On to more important uses for them...
Now they can make satelites that REFLECT LIGHT!?!?!
Seriously, if they needed to deflect a laser attack, wouldn't mirrors be more practical than this energy consuming sheild?
Echelon really seems to be right out of George Orwell's book "1984".
If the government(s) slowly start taking our privacy like this, when will it be too much? Will it be eneough when they start reading all our mail? will it be eneough when they start searching houses at random, just to make sure you are being "good"?
I for one am sick of it. We need to stop this kind of thing before it gets out of hand.
From the article: The computer code the judge may opt to protect would make it possible for anyone to copy DVDs.
Does this seem like a completely uninformed statement to anyone else?
First off, it makes it sound like decrypting a DVD is the only way to copy it. This is simply not the case, in fact for pirated DVDs, you'd think people would want them copied exactly the way you could get them in the store, for compatibility reasons.
Second, it makes it sound like anyone off the street will be able to just pick up a DVD and make a copy if DeCSS is not banned. This is not correct either, as it takes a lot of effort to rip a DVD, and turn it into something useful. There is also bandwidth, quality of the copy, etc... to consider that would prevent many people from copying, or obtaining copies.
This is what the general public is seeing about this case, and they will side with the big companies. This kind of innaccurate reporting needs to be stopped.
They amuse me.
When the story was first posted, there were many comments that pointed out that it was probably a hoax. After reading them, and considering the points they had, there was almost no doubt in my mind that it was a hoax. I thought that the general Slashdot audience would agree, had they read the comments.
doh, stupid me... I said choose a review when I meant choose a distro. I sure hope people dont only read reviews based on how easy they are. ;)
Most reviews only focus on the ease of use, configurability, etc... of a distribution. So far I have seen very few that focus on the security of each one. People might choose a review based on how easy it is, get completely [cr/h]acked, and hate linux. When choosing a distro, I think security should be top priority.
IMHO, the end user isn't usually interested in source code.
I think that the MPL just makes it much easier for the people developing the product. They usually don't have an obligation to make software for people anyway. If they are doing it to provide a product for free, they should control it how they want.
This license is even less restrictive than the GPL... It's not every day we get software of this quality under a license this non-restrictive. Lets all write to Borland and thank them, maybe it will send a message. If they got good feedback it could mean more quality open-source.
No matter what the ruling turns out to be, you will still be able to find DeCSS Everywhere. It cant be stopped now, it's too late.
The problem will be the precedence that this ruling will set for software that *isnt* as easy to keep distributing as DeCSS. If DeCSS happened to have say 20MB of source, how many people would still be distributing it so freely? Bandwidth and many other factors are important to people when they are showing their "civil disobedience".
I think that we should set up a site somewhere out of the US that holds all this type of software... oh wait, one is already being set up in ?Sealand? (can't remember the name) Yet who knows how much it would cost to store a 20MB program that lets you view "unauthorized" images/videos/text/etc...
I just hope this ruling is in DeCSS's favor, not for the sake of DeCSS, but all the software that will be banned after it.
It seems like at very high speeds it might be difficult to navigate around obstacles under water. They might just happen to crash into say a whale, debris, seaweed, etc...
Sounds like a cool technology though.
Maybe you didn't check the date on the Article - August 9, 1999.
Also from the article "AMD was supplying us with their own benchmarking software and we thought that we might as well use it, although we hardly expected Athlon to look bad in it."
Even in that Review, the Athlon didn't outperform the P3 in *all* the tests.
I recommend you look at a more recent article...
Sorry, what I meant to say was when the P3 uses the same advantages that the Athlon does, it will probably be faster, that wasnt very clear. ;)
The P3 is already faster than the Athlon at the same clockspeed in many areas. Try checking out a review at Anandtech, or Toms Hardware. The athlon does take advantage of some technologies that the P3 has yet to use, but once it does, I predict it will be faster than the Athlon in *most* areas of performance.
The biggest problem will be the price. That is why I think the Athlon has done so well all this time. For 50% less money, you get a chip that performs only 5% worse than the intel equivelant. I think that is why most people, myself included, like Athlons.
Since no one else is posting any sites to find info... here goes.
...and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Try a search on deja.com for your name, you might be surprised.
Yahoo! People Search
FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses
Yahoo! People Search
InfoSpace
ICQ Search
BigYellow.com
Yes, but where do the ideas for these features come from?
Someone has to think of them, and if the software were open in the first place, the ideas would be easily implemented into the existing software.
I just can't accept the fact that closed software is helping open-source developers in any way.
Restricted software is good because it causes people to write unrestricted software?
Maybe I missed something, but if it was unrestricted in the first place, people wouldn't have to spend their time writing new versions. They could take the code that was already there and change it however they wanted.
WTF is NASA doing putting their communications between space shuttle and Earth on a network that is connected to the internet? For real security, they should have the boxes through a firewall or 50, or have the boxes not even connected at all...