I'm not sure what there is to get upset about. In the 50's, a bunch of McCarthy's contemporaries attempted to fortify the moral fiber content of the pledge of allegience by installing their own personal religious beliefs in it. Half a decade later, this bizarre revisionism is called out for the attempted melding of church and state that it was intended to be... and we're concerned why?
In today's politically charged climate which equates terrorism with certain religions, I think this sort of removal represents a very sane step towards cooling a climate of implied state-sponsored support of Judaeo-Christian religions. How would you feel if your kids were asked to pledge allegiance to "one nation under Allah" at school? Even if it doesn't bother you personally, don't you think it might ruffle a few feathers? So how do you suppose Muslims must feel about their kids pleding allegiance to "one nation under God?"
Thanks; that's just what I was about to say. I'd mod your comment up if I had moderator right now (it seems it always shows up when I'm too busy to do a fair job).
I've been disappointed, though, that the data port still just sits there unused. Back when I first got my deck, 45 GB was a *lot* of data, and the prospect of being able to back up 45 GB onto a $12 tape was extremely tempting.
In fact, it still is. Oh, well. Wouldn't want me downloading digitally recorded pay-per-view AC3 movies onto my hard-drive, now would we?:)
Last time I was in Texas, it was illegal for the driver of a car to have an open alcoholic beverage, but of course the passenger could be holding two of them.
You should visit more often!
This all changed about 9 months ago. Texas now has an open container law. Frankly, after having grown up with the old laws, it's a bit of a pain in the ass having to remember that all the alcohol must go in the trunk when you're on the way to parties...
Are the energy savings of this new type of lamp higher than with current 'green' light-bulbs?
Yes, by a great deal.
For consumer use, the most efficient viable "green" light bulbs are compact fluorescent bulbs (and GE's Genura bulbs,
which are almost the same thing).
(The microwave-band 8 MW fusion bulbs are
extremely cool, but completely impractical
in residential settings).
In general, these bulbs end up being about
1/4th the wattage of an incandescent
counterpart that lets off the same
amount of light. (e.g. you can replace
a 100 watt incandescent with a 25 watt
compact fluorescent). Note that the
relationship doesn't remain 1/4th at all
levels -- the relationship between watts
used and light output by a fluorescent
is much more linear than an incandescent.
With incandescents, efficiency increases
as the wattage goes up.
Anyway, if we're going to make incandescent
bulbs that are 60% efficient, compared
to the current ~5% efficiency, that's
a ratio of 1:12 instead of 1:4. In
other words, with one of these new lights,
you could replace that same 100 watt
incandescent (or 25 watt compact fluorescent)
with an 8.3 watt bulb.
Wow.
There's one more extremely relevant question
that you didn't ask, though: how long will
these new bulbs last? I just replaced
most of my lights in my house with
compact fluorescent, many of which I expect
to last 10 to 15 years under normal use.
Anyway, if we assume that they last as
long as normal bulbs (750 hours), we can
do a quick analysis: 750 hours * 100 watts *
9 cents/kWh (pretty average for the US) =
$6.75 to operate a 100 bulb over its lifetime.
These new bulbs would evaluate to: 750 hours
* 8.3 watts * 9 cents/kWh = $0.56 to operate
a bulb of the same brightness for the same
period of time.
So, from a consumer perspective, if these
bulbs could be manufactured for about $6 more
than a standard 100-watt bulb, you'd come out
ahead.
Actually, it wouldn't be too difficult, with the proper support. This is essentially an iPaq or Zaurus with a larger screen.
In fact, the specs look identical to a discontinued Ericsson consumer device, called the Screen Phone, which shipped with Linux (except the ViewSonic device doesn't include built-in Bluetooth).
What? Umm... Farscape is produced in Australia, primarily with Australian crew. Haven't you noticed that, for some reason, many of the aliens (e.g. Aeryn) have Australian accents?
Did you read the article? "Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers" is merely a rephrasing of what Sony actually claims:
"The CD will probably cause a system to crash, but it will not alter anything," the [Sony] spokeswoman said. "And it won't eject properly, but that's just because the computer has crashed."
I think nu-cu-ler power plants are bad, 'cuz I don't want no nu-cu-ler 'lectricity coming in my outlets and radiating the kids.
Lazers? Didn't they use lazers to blow up the bad guys in that movie? I don't want no one strapping somthing to my eye that might make my head explode.
But your grandmother hasn't gone on a crusade to rid her entire city of CRTs. Haven't you noticed: you can't go to a restauant, mall, airport, or many other public places without having a television mounted somewhere.
I agree that psychosomatic illnesses are a very real problem which needs addressing. But we need to start out by acknowedging that the problem lies with the individual, not with the item inciting their phobia. What this crackpot needs is therapy, not legislation.
Consider also the fact that the high-tension power lines you're thinking about (usually up on metal lattice towers) are 69kv to 345kv (at least, in the U.S.), and you can really only hear them on humid days. (I grew up in Houston; when I say "humid," I mean 95% and up).
Even the power lines that are strung on wooden poles (like you might have behind your house) are 12kv (or, on rare occasion, 24kv), and I've never heard them buzz.
I need to back this up. While many people may see a managable "trickle" of two or three e-mail messages a day, I get on the order of 100 to 200, split fairly evenly between work and home. Much of what I do involves working with groups benfiting newsgroups or the underlying internet protocols -- so, that's how my e-mail address gets out.
Here's a sampling of what I've received at my work address over the course of the past 24 hours; I will have about as much waiting for me when I get home:
[1]
From: Ancestry.com@opt22.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: Trace your family tree FREE at Ancestry.com
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 9:28 AM
[2]
From: WinterGamesInfo@opt16.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: Get ready! You're going to the 2002 Winter Games on us!
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:56 AM
[3]
From: Savings_From@opt07.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: Save $500* on Cabinet Refacing from Sears!
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:52 AM
[4]
From: Jose Bautista
Subj: EARN $2 - $8 PER CLICK FREE!!!!
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:50 AM
[5]
From: sales@cmbcomponents.com
Subj: HOT PARTS IN STOCK
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:37 AM
[6]
From: maletta665661@ahff.se
Subj: 15 days to 1,000 Dollars in Your Pocket.
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:37 AM
[7]
From: Make Money
Subj: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire??
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:35 AM
[8]
From: ipopatmis@yahoo.com
Subj: Home Loan Center... Save Money! FE
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:12 AM
[9]
From: gift@opt05.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: You've been selected to receive FREE Software from Sega, IBM, Disney and many others...
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 6:54 AM
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From: wesson
Subj: Increase Your Size And Performance NOW 32363
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 6:07 AM
[11]
From: Just For You
Subj: Earn your degree online - FAST!
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 6:07 AM
[12]
From: Nicole Jameson
Subj: Re: Business Opportunity 23328
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 5:26 AM
[13]
From: RallyRacer.com@opt03.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: Casting Call for Reality TV's Fastest New Show!
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 5:26 AM
[14]
From: Sarah Kingdon
Subj: Re: Business Opportunity 12887
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 5:23 AM
[15]
From: number0845@login.yahoo.akadns.net
Subj:
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From: number0845@login.yahoo.akadns.net
Subj:
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 4:32 AM
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 4:08 AM
[20]
From: Credit Relief!
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 3:06 AM
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 2:56 AM
(Score -1, offtopic -- but I just had to respond to this jab)
Actually, KDE has done some pretty innovative stuff over the past year or so -- things that can't really be directly attributable to either Windows of MasOS (OS X, whatever).
I was rather startled the first time I saw someone boot up XP, though -- it looked a whole lot more like the typical KDE desktop I see around than anything else I'd seen so far -- right down to using the Mandrake star as one of the Explorer buttons and assigning personal login icons to each of the machine's users.
Actually, as I consider myself a member of the free software community, I take this as a high compliment. While fearing our impact, MS has also apparently chosen to copy the few areas in which we have begun to lead them in innovation.
How is this interesting? He's the owner of the code, so according to the GPL he's allowed to use it in a closed source project.
That really depends on whether it also includes code other people wrote, as many OSS programs do. If I wrote code in that codebase, with the understanding that it was mine,
but released under GPL, I might get a bit pissed off if it was then incorporated into a closed source project.
Note that I'm not familiar with the specifics
of this project, but that's how such a setup can be interesting.
...and it goes a bit deeper than that too. Continue with:
Now, imagine that some company picked up on the trend of model trains, and started to produce their own model train set -- but they encased it all in a big glass bubble to make it easier to use, so you "wouldn't knock it off the track" (never mind that when it falls off the track -- as it often does-- you can't fix it). And then they pushed for laws that made it illegal to open up that bubble to figure out how things work, add your own little touches, tinker, and expand the train set...
In reading the CD Freaks article, I'm fairly
certain that they haven't figured out a way
to rip the tracks; at least, not correctly.
The earlier article sited on/. (I can't seem to find the damn thing right now)
didn't
say that attempting to rip protected disks would
result in an error; it said that you'd end up
with bursts of static. This technology works
by placing bursts of static in the audio
stream and marking them with a wildly wrong
checksum. Audio CD players will interpolate
over these bursts. Data CD readers will read
the static in and (except for some models
running at 1x) ignore the checksum altogether.
The driver that CD Freaks points out
is kind of cool; it means you don't need a
dedicated ripper any more. The article,
though doesn't indicate how it gets around
the problem with the ECC codes being missing.
Given this, and given knowledge of the
way that CD-ROM drives work, I'd bet anyone
here dimes to dollars that
the CD Freaks "solution" won't be any more
effective at circumventing the copy protection
than any other CD ripper.
You really can't get a Supreme Court ruling without an appeal. You need a case for an appeal.
Lobbying only works if Congress gives a shit. And they really don't. There are much bigger fish to fry, and their ignorance allows them to look like the good guys in this case. ("We're protecting the hard working individuals of this country from intellectual property theft"). Honestly -- who is going to vote to overturn something with a sleek and righteous sounding name like the "Digital Millenium Copyright Act?"
No, the only people who will scrutinize the case and the law long enough to realize that it is the single largest assault on the first amendment in the past 225 years is the Supreme Court. No one else has the combination of responsibility and authority to do it.
So, keep at your grass roots effort, if it makes you feel better. As for me, I'd like to see somthing that might actually work. I'd like to see a criminal case appealed to the Supreme Court.
You're exactly right. I know saying so is considered heretical in these parts, but I don't
think this is a good turn of events. In the
long run, it hurts everyone but Sklyarov
himself.
Adobe backed down
not because they thought they were wrong
("We strongly support the DMCA and the enforcement of
copyright protection of digital content"), but
because they thought they (and other
megacorps) would lose the ability to
provide a chilling effect by slinging around
threats and arrests at will ("the prosecution of this individual in
this particular case is not conducive to the best
interests of any of the parties involved or the
industry").
I'd feel really sorry for making Sklyarov
an accidental martyr, but I still think that
the best thing for this nation as a whole
would be for the criminal case to continue
so that it can ultimately be appealed to the
Supreme court, who will really have no choice
but to strike down the DMCA.
As long as the DMCA remains untested,
we live in a state of fear. If Adobe
sucessfully lobbies "The United States"
(as in "The United States v. Sklyarov")
to drop charges, it begs the question: how many
people will be arrested and detained under
an illegal law only to have the charges
dropped?
The DMCA is only dangerous until someone
calls its bluff. I think it's time.
Yeah, apparently they had the penthouse suite in a rather swank office building downtown. Scuttlebutt is that the lawfirms, etc. that shared it with them petitioned the building owners (although unsucessfully) to reprogram the elevators so that one was dedicated to the penthouse, and none of the others would go there. Seems they didn't like having to share the elevators with long-haired, unshaven programmer types in torn jeans and the like.
Yes, this problem exists in all quarters. I think
what Taco is decrying is that it exists also in the Linux world. He expects better. So would I. Allow me to explain.
Despite our end-goal of making Linux a Swiss army knife that does everything for everyone on systems all the way from an 8 MHz Palm III to an IBM 3870 mainframe, it's still used mostly by technical hackers.
In other words, reasonably smart individuals. I'm not saying this to give us all a pat on the back -- the intelligence is a necessity borne of the operating system's continuing complexity. (In fact, it's rather embarassing that ten years later, we still don't have an operating system that I could install for my mother and walk away from).
Anyway, the point (at least, my interpretation of it) is that it's depressing that these smart individuals -- people who should know better -- still go around leaving sour tastes in the mouths of the corporations that we should be making nice with.
Remember: we're asking these companies for favors, not to fulfil obligations. These companies are composed of individuals with opinions and emotions, just like the rest of us. I f you piss these people off, they don't have any reason to cooperate. If you can make friends, there's a good chance that someone might just e-mail you an internal document so that you can run off and write the driver you want.
In terms of helping out the chicken-and-egg
problem of routers not supporting v6 until
there is demand, and there being no demand
until routers support v6:
3GPP
has decided that it will deploy the
next-generation mobile internet on
IPv6 exclusively. Hitting v4 internet
sites will be done through gateways.
If this network is sucessfully deployed
(think 2002 to 2004), it should give
IPv6 a huge shot in the arm.
Ummm... I regularly order import albums
from amazon.co.uk (let's not start about
the boycott, thanks; it's a different,
albeit affilated, company than amazon.com)
to be sent to the US. It's a huge savings.
But at 384 kbps, you can only fit about 3.5
hours on a cd!
Think about it: you'll usually be listening
to these over headphones. I usually downsample
my MP3s to 56 or 64 to put on my Rio. 128
will be a great improvement.:)
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I'm not sure what there is to get upset about. In the 50's, a bunch of McCarthy's contemporaries attempted to fortify the moral fiber content of the pledge of allegience by installing their own personal religious beliefs in it. Half a decade later, this bizarre revisionism is called out for the attempted melding of church and state that it was intended to be... and we're concerned why?
In today's politically charged climate which equates terrorism with certain religions, I think this sort of removal represents a very sane step towards cooling a climate of implied state-sponsored support of Judaeo-Christian religions. How would you feel if your kids were asked to pledge allegiance to "one nation under Allah" at school? Even if it doesn't bother you personally, don't you think it might ruffle a few feathers? So how do you suppose Muslims must feel about their kids pleding allegiance to "one nation under God?"
Thanks; that's just what I was about to say. I'd mod your comment up if I had moderator right now (it seems it always shows up when I'm too busy to do a fair job).
:)
I've been disappointed, though, that the data port still just sits there unused. Back when I first got my deck, 45 GB was a *lot* of data, and the prospect of being able to back up 45 GB onto a $12 tape was extremely tempting.
In fact, it still is. Oh, well. Wouldn't want me downloading digitally recorded pay-per-view AC3 movies onto my hard-drive, now would we?
You should visit more often!
This all changed about 9 months ago. Texas now has an open container law. Frankly, after having grown up with the old laws, it's a bit of a pain in the ass having to remember that all the alcohol must go in the trunk when you're on the way to parties...
(-0.5, slightly off topic)
While I'm as cynical as the next guy, I strongly suspect this is a case of sheer incompetence.
Yes, by a great deal.
For consumer use, the most efficient viable "green" light bulbs are compact fluorescent bulbs (and GE's Genura bulbs, which are almost the same thing).
(The microwave-band 8 MW fusion bulbs are extremely cool, but completely impractical in residential settings).
In general, these bulbs end up being about 1/4th the wattage of an incandescent counterpart that lets off the same amount of light. (e.g. you can replace a 100 watt incandescent with a 25 watt compact fluorescent). Note that the relationship doesn't remain 1/4th at all levels -- the relationship between watts used and light output by a fluorescent is much more linear than an incandescent. With incandescents, efficiency increases as the wattage goes up.
Anyway, if we're going to make incandescent bulbs that are 60% efficient, compared to the current ~5% efficiency, that's a ratio of 1:12 instead of 1:4. In other words, with one of these new lights, you could replace that same 100 watt incandescent (or 25 watt compact fluorescent) with an 8.3 watt bulb.
Wow.
There's one more extremely relevant question that you didn't ask, though: how long will these new bulbs last? I just replaced most of my lights in my house with compact fluorescent, many of which I expect to last 10 to 15 years under normal use.
Anyway, if we assume that they last as long as normal bulbs (750 hours), we can do a quick analysis: 750 hours * 100 watts * 9 cents/kWh (pretty average for the US) = $6.75 to operate a 100 bulb over its lifetime.
These new bulbs would evaluate to: 750 hours * 8.3 watts * 9 cents/kWh = $0.56 to operate a bulb of the same brightness for the same period of time.
So, from a consumer perspective, if these bulbs could be manufactured for about $6 more than a standard 100-watt bulb, you'd come out ahead.
Let's see if they can hit that mark.
In fact, the specs look identical to a discontinued Ericsson consumer device, called the Screen Phone, which shipped with Linux (except the ViewSonic device doesn't include built-in Bluetooth).
"and the best part, its not a US/UK Production"
What? Umm... Farscape is produced in Australia, primarily with Australian crew. Haven't you noticed that, for some reason, many of the aliens (e.g. Aeryn) have Australian accents?
Did you read the article? "Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers" is merely a rephrasing of what Sony actually claims:
I think nu-cu-ler power plants are bad,
'cuz I don't want no nu-cu-ler 'lectricity
coming in my outlets and radiating the kids.
Lazers? Didn't they use lazers to blow
up the bad guys in that movie? I don't want
no one strapping somthing to my eye that might
make my head explode.
But your grandmother hasn't gone on a crusade to rid her entire city of CRTs. Haven't you noticed: you can't go to a restauant, mall, airport, or many other public places without having a television mounted somewhere.
I agree that psychosomatic illnesses are a very real problem which needs addressing. But we need to start out by acknowedging that the problem lies with the individual, not with the item inciting their phobia. What this crackpot needs is therapy, not legislation.
Consider also the fact that the high-tension power lines you're thinking about (usually up on metal lattice towers) are 69kv to 345kv (at least, in the U.S.), and you can really only hear them on humid days. (I grew up in Houston; when I say "humid," I mean 95% and up).
Even the power lines that are strung on wooden poles (like you might have behind your house) are 12kv (or, on rare occasion, 24kv), and I've never heard them buzz.
1kv is absolutely not going to buzz.
I need to back this up. While many people may see a managable "trickle" of two or three e-mail messages a day, I get on the order of 100 to 200, split fairly evenly between work and home. Much of what I do involves working with groups benfiting newsgroups or the underlying internet protocols -- so, that's how my e-mail address gets out.
Here's a sampling of what I've received at my work address over the course of the past 24 hours; I will have about as much waiting for me when I get home:
[1]
From: Ancestry.com@opt22.edirectnetwork.net
Subj: Trace your family tree FREE at Ancestry.com
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 9:28 AM
[2]
From: WinterGamesInfo@opt16.edirectnetwork.net
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:56 AM
[3]
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:52 AM
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 7:12 AM
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[10]
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 6:07 AM
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 6:07 AM
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Subj: Re: Business Opportunity 23328
Date: Wed 2002-01-09 5:26 AM
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From: RallyRacer.com@opt03.edirectnetwork.net
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Date: Wed 2002-01-09 5:26 AM
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Subj:
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(Score -1, offtopic -- but I just had to respond to this jab)
Actually, KDE has done some pretty innovative stuff over the past year or so -- things that can't really be directly attributable to either Windows of MasOS (OS X, whatever).
I was rather startled the first time I saw someone boot up XP, though -- it looked a whole lot more like the typical KDE desktop I see around than anything else I'd seen so far -- right down to using the Mandrake star as one of the Explorer buttons and assigning personal login icons to each of the machine's users.
Actually, as I consider myself a member of the free software community, I take this as a high compliment. While fearing our impact, MS has also apparently chosen to copy the few areas in which we have begun to lead them in innovation.
That really depends on whether it also includes code other people wrote, as many OSS programs do. If I wrote code in that codebase, with the understanding that it was mine, but released under GPL, I might get a bit pissed off if it was then incorporated into a closed source project.
Note that I'm not familiar with the specifics of this project, but that's how such a setup can be interesting.
Now, imagine that some company picked up on the trend of model trains, and started to produce their own model train set -- but they encased it all in a big glass bubble to make it easier to use, so you "wouldn't knock it off the track" (never mind that when it falls off the track -- as it often does-- you can't fix it). And then they pushed for laws that made it illegal to open up that bubble to figure out how things work, add your own little touches, tinker, and expand the train set...
The earlier article sited on /. (I can't seem to find the damn thing right now)
didn't
say that attempting to rip protected disks would
result in an error; it said that you'd end up
with bursts of static. This technology works
by placing bursts of static in the audio
stream and marking them with a wildly wrong
checksum. Audio CD players will interpolate
over these bursts. Data CD readers will read
the static in and (except for some models
running at 1x) ignore the checksum altogether.
The driver that CD Freaks points out is kind of cool; it means you don't need a dedicated ripper any more. The article, though doesn't indicate how it gets around the problem with the ECC codes being missing.
Given this, and given knowledge of the way that CD-ROM drives work, I'd bet anyone here dimes to dollars that the CD Freaks "solution" won't be any more effective at circumventing the copy protection than any other CD ripper.
Lobbying only works if Congress gives a shit. And they really don't. There are much bigger fish to fry, and their ignorance allows them to look like the good guys in this case. ("We're protecting the hard working individuals of this country from intellectual property theft"). Honestly -- who is going to vote to overturn something with a sleek and righteous sounding name like the "Digital Millenium Copyright Act?"
No, the only people who will scrutinize the case and the law long enough to realize that it is the single largest assault on the first amendment in the past 225 years is the Supreme Court. No one else has the combination of responsibility and authority to do it.
So, keep at your grass roots effort, if it makes you feel better. As for me, I'd like to see somthing that might actually work. I'd like to see a criminal case appealed to the Supreme Court.
You're exactly right. I know saying so is considered heretical in these parts, but I don't think this is a good turn of events. In the long run, it hurts everyone but Sklyarov himself.
Adobe backed down not because they thought they were wrong ("We strongly support the DMCA and the enforcement of copyright protection of digital content"), but because they thought they (and other megacorps) would lose the ability to provide a chilling effect by slinging around threats and arrests at will ("the prosecution of this individual in this particular case is not conducive to the best interests of any of the parties involved or the industry").
I'd feel really sorry for making Sklyarov an accidental martyr, but I still think that the best thing for this nation as a whole would be for the criminal case to continue so that it can ultimately be appealed to the Supreme court, who will really have no choice but to strike down the DMCA.
As long as the DMCA remains untested, we live in a state of fear. If Adobe sucessfully lobbies "The United States" (as in "The United States v. Sklyarov") to drop charges, it begs the question: how many people will be arrested and detained under an illegal law only to have the charges dropped?
The DMCA is only dangerous until someone calls its bluff. I think it's time.
God, that would have been a cool job.
Despite our end-goal of making Linux a Swiss army knife that does everything for everyone on systems all the way from an 8 MHz Palm III to an IBM 3870 mainframe, it's still used mostly by technical hackers.
In other words, reasonably smart individuals. I'm not saying this to give us all a pat on the back -- the intelligence is a necessity borne of the operating system's continuing complexity. (In fact, it's rather embarassing that ten years later, we still don't have an operating system that I could install for my mother and walk away from).
Anyway, the point (at least, my interpretation of it) is that it's depressing that these smart individuals -- people who should know better -- still go around leaving sour tastes in the mouths of the corporations that we should be making nice with.
Remember: we're asking these companies for favors, not to fulfil obligations. These companies are composed of individuals with opinions and emotions, just like the rest of us. I f you piss these people off, they don't have any reason to cooperate. If you can make friends, there's a good chance that someone might just e-mail you an internal document so that you can run off and write the driver you want.
If this network is sucessfully deployed (think 2002 to 2004), it should give IPv6 a huge shot in the arm.
Compare:
Think about it: you'll usually be listening to these over headphones. I usually downsample my MP3s to 56 or 64 to put on my Rio. 128 will be a great improvement. :)
Everyone needs a Por table MP3 CD-R player... and, at less than $100 a pop, you can afford to get one for all of your geek friends. :)