Know this about the FSF, GNU and RMS: if the license is not GPL compatible strong copyleft, they don't like it and don't want you using it.
And they give good reasons for why they think you shouldn't use it. Understand this: they give you many more rights than what you would get otherwise. You really shouldn't be complaining about this. And you will really feel the pain when Apple pulls the plug on your project years down the line after you have added thousands of lines of code.
Are you telling me that you think that non-slashdot people like my mom like spam? I can tell you that they in fact do not. Even if they don't know about spamcop, or spamassassin, or whatever, they still hate junk mail in their inbox.
I am sure their threshold for spam is pretty high. I know many people who have switched to Linux because they became annoyed with Windows. But the majority will live with those without lifting a finger.
Do you really want to alientate the people you're trying to get to vote for you?
May be they will alientate the slashdot community. But that will be a small percent of the population. I think that is what they are counting on. Do you really think the majority of people would even send out a mail to spamcop?
Prosecuting someone who shares a bunch of teeny-pop (who is probably a minor) seems to be a much less damaging use of their money.
There is such a thing as chilling effect. Do you know that there are many ISPs out there who don't allow any mp3s on their servers, copyrighted or not? How did this situation come about? After *AAs have done their deeds it would be impossible to get hosting for any kind of media files.
It is in fact Some Wild Ass Guess (SWAG). He like the rest of the RIAA droids pull these numbers out of their ass and Congress is accepting them at face value. It's pure bull!
Indeed. I have never seen anyone with some real credibility stand up for these statistics in these statements (other than companies with names like "a$$kicker" hired by *AA).
the media is continually trying to sway public opinion through emotional manipulation.
In this case they feel that the reason public doesn't care about copyrights is that they think all they money is going to some fat cats. As is the usual refrain around here, no one would have a problem paying the starving artist. This, of course, is an emotional argument, so it has been countered with another.
Please keep in mind that RedHat, IBM, MandrakeSoft and Linux International are among those backing the legislation. Make sure that those idiots don't get any of your money.
Yeah, buy software from the wonderful people at the other company who puts the needs of their customer before anything.
Besides, I thought that RedHat and IBM had closed source software. Am I wrong?
IBM makes lots of closed source software. But everything RedHat does is GPL.
There is no benefit to mandating that a government must use open technologies for storing sensitive data, and several good reasons not to.
You confuse open formats with encryption. Surely you are not counting on obfuscated formats to protect your files instead of peer reviewed encryption? gpg format is as open as it gets, but I am sure you will have a tough time cracking the encryption.
To avoid any chance of this (except per-track water marking) I never do a straight disc-to-disc copy.(*) I always rip the tracks to.wav and make a new compilation.
Hopefully, you have software that will look up the track info on a central online database when you rip the CD. Of course, all this is academic now that you can't even play the newer CDs on a computer drive.
So when I did my yearly reinstall, I no longer had access to my password file since I didn't save my certificate (not that its easy to locate anyway)...Thank God that I hadn't bought the shredder yet and I found an old copy of my passwords in the fireplace:D (unburned)
I think you are a good candidate for the thinkgeek keychain which is advertized all the time.:-). Although I think the loopback system doesn't need anything other than the password.
Btw, just so I know what to use and what crap to avoid -- does Roxio EZCD Creator 5.0 have DRM stuff built in?
They do have an annoying spiel about how you should respect copyrights when burning a CD. It really kills me when a company whose product I have paid for automatically assumes I am a thief. Although it is very likely that they would embed some sort of identification info on all CDs burned.
My suggestion. Get a Mac. Its a UNIX and doesnt have the bull floating thru it like any PC with windows installed on it. Even a linux user should be able to admit that Mac would be the simpler move for a person use to windows. Linux is great for the more advanced users.
Mac will have to follow wherever Microsoft goes. Do you really think Jobs can fight them over this? Without Office Mac is dead in the water.
It will probably be painful for a while, since the entire public won't realize the impact of this sort of thing at first, but give it time... the general public let their opinion be known about DivX and it didn't take long for CC to back down and toss that idea (or at least table it for a while).
Unfortunately, it is more than likely that the general public will chalk this upto the usual "computer problems" they face and put up with it. And DIVX was marketed to the early adopters, so it doesn't really apply. A common analogy is boiling a frog.:-D
1. 'When you first run Windows Media Player, it will ask if you want to keep copy protection on, and you can turn it off if you wish.'
Why is this the default? How many people want to "protect" their music?
'We did anticipate this scenario and developed a tool to help them update their licenses: the Personal License Update Utility.'
Leading to massive privacy violations--any bets on how many companies they sold the information in their database to?
What's funny is, My Lyra requires a funky DRM'd MP3 format that only uses their propietary software to create it...those files won't work on anything else either. BUT, copy any kind fo WMA file directly to the CF card and it works fine.
It is not funny at all. Looks like you got ripped off. You may want to trade it in for a real mp3 player.
As they say, the best defense is to attack. The courts would only see a bunch of hackers trying to annoy/disrupt the activities of a large corporation. How long do you think it will take for SnoSoft's lawyers to make the Judge understand what "hacker" really means?
Wouldn't matter. For HP to even have a case, they'd have to say enough that they'd hang themselves in the process.
Not if they can get the proceeding sealed under some pretense (which is what happened in most of the cases featuring RIAA/MPAA etc). You may want to read Jack Valenti's testimony in the DeCSS case where a lot of his answers were removed from the record.
If a third party like CERT can maintain a reputation for protecting people like me from the wrath of corporations like HP, I'm much more likely to tell them what I know about vulnerabilities. If not, I'll just stick to my policy of not risking my bank account and professional future.
If you are a security company, or a consultant, it is important that people know about your achievements. However, if you are a lone programmer who comes across a bug in the software you use, you wouldn't want the trouble of having to deal with red tape.
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Know this about the FSF, GNU and RMS: if the license is not GPL compatible strong copyleft, they don't like it and don't want you using it.
And they give good reasons for why they think you shouldn't use it. Understand this: they give you many more rights than what you would get otherwise. You really shouldn't be complaining about this. And you will really feel the pain when Apple pulls the plug on your project years down the line after you have added thousands of lines of code.
Are you telling me that you think that non-slashdot people like my mom like spam? I can tell you that they in fact do not. Even if they don't know about spamcop, or spamassassin, or whatever, they still hate junk mail in their inbox.
I am sure their threshold for spam is pretty high. I know many people who have switched to Linux because they became annoyed with Windows. But the majority will live with those without lifting a finger.
Do you really want to alientate the people you're trying to get to vote for you?
May be they will alientate the slashdot community. But that will be a small percent of the population. I think that is what they are counting on. Do you really think the majority of people would even send out a mail to spamcop?
Prosecuting someone who shares a bunch of teeny-pop (who is probably a minor) seems to be a much less damaging use of their money.
There is such a thing as chilling effect. Do you know that there are many ISPs out there who don't allow any mp3s on their servers, copyrighted or not? How did this situation come about? After *AAs have done their deeds it would be impossible to get hosting for any kind of media files.
It is in fact Some Wild Ass Guess (SWAG). He like the rest of the RIAA droids pull these numbers out of their ass and Congress is accepting them at face value. It's pure bull!
Indeed. I have never seen anyone with some real credibility stand up for these statistics in these statements (other than companies with names like "a$$kicker" hired by *AA).
the media is continually trying to sway public opinion through emotional manipulation.
In this case they feel that the reason public doesn't care about copyrights is that they think all they money is going to some fat cats. As is the usual refrain around here, no one would have a problem paying the starving artist. This, of course, is an emotional argument, so it has been countered with another.
Ironically, if you DID go out and buy that CD, you'd be allowed to have the copies on your 'puter :)
Not according to RIAA. You will need to purchase music in the "official" form. They never said that ripping was allowed.
What now? Mandatory data reliability?
I guess you are not familiar with the RIP bill in UK. Soon, it will be your responsibility to prove that you didn't destroy the logs on purpose.
Dreamcast had better games.
The aim is to make a general purpose machine from an Xbox. And it helps that it is an x86 machine.
You mean I should give up my mouse and keyboard, as it's got MS on it?
He was talking about systems. You buy their systems, their competitors go out of business, and they do as they please with you. Not a happy scenario.
They finally duplicated what my Dreamcast has been doing for years, on an Xbox.
I think the Xbox is a little more powerful than a Dreamcast.
What's wrong with caring about customers?
I was being sarcastic. BTW, do you know of any closed source company that cares about its customers?
I believe there installation scripts are proprietary though.
No. Everything they do is GPL. This is in sharp contrast to companies like SuSe and Caldera with their proprietary installation programs.
Please keep in mind that RedHat, IBM, MandrakeSoft and Linux International are among those backing the legislation. Make sure that those idiots don't get any of your money.
Yeah, buy software from the wonderful people at the other company who puts the needs of their customer before anything.
Besides, I thought that RedHat and IBM had closed source software. Am I wrong?
IBM makes lots of closed source software. But everything RedHat does is GPL.
Should the government ground the entire F-16 fleet until some open source programmer releases a GPL F-16 fire control system?
Currently the government procurement system is heavily biased towards closed source, commercial software. This is about leveling the playing field.
There is no benefit to mandating that a government must use open technologies for storing sensitive data, and several good reasons not to.
You confuse open formats with encryption. Surely you are not counting on obfuscated formats to protect your files instead of peer reviewed encryption? gpg format is as open as it gets, but I am sure you will have a tough time cracking the encryption.
To avoid any chance of this (except per-track water marking) I never do a straight disc-to-disc copy.(*) I always rip the tracks to .wav and make a new compilation.
Hopefully, you have software that will look up the track info on a central online database when you rip the CD. Of course, all this is academic now that you can't even play the newer CDs on a computer drive.
So when I did my yearly reinstall, I no longer had access to my password file since I didn't save my certificate (not that its easy to locate anyway)...Thank God that I hadn't bought the shredder yet and I found an old copy of my passwords in the fireplace :D (unburned)
I think you are a good candidate for the thinkgeek keychain which is advertized all the time. :-). Although I think the loopback system doesn't need anything other than the password.
Btw, just so I know what to use and what crap to avoid -- does Roxio EZCD Creator 5.0 have DRM stuff built in?
They do have an annoying spiel about how you should respect copyrights when burning a CD. It really kills me when a company whose product I have paid for automatically assumes I am a thief. Although it is very likely that they would embed some sort of identification info on all CDs burned.
My suggestion. Get a Mac. Its a UNIX and doesnt have the bull floating thru it like any PC with windows installed on it. Even a linux user should be able to admit that Mac would be the simpler move for a person use to windows. Linux is great for the more advanced users.
Mac will have to follow wherever Microsoft goes. Do you really think Jobs can fight them over this? Without Office Mac is dead in the water.
It will probably be painful for a while, since the entire public won't realize the impact of this sort of thing at first, but give it time... the general public let their opinion be known about DivX and it didn't take long for CC to back down and toss that idea (or at least table it for a while).
Unfortunately, it is more than likely that the general public will chalk this upto the usual "computer problems" they face and put up with it. And DIVX was marketed to the early adopters, so it doesn't really apply. A common analogy is boiling a frog. :-D
1. 'When you first run Windows Media Player, it will ask if you want to keep copy protection on, and you can turn it off if you wish.'
Why is this the default? How many people want to "protect" their music?
'We did anticipate this scenario and developed a tool to help them update their licenses: the Personal License Update Utility.'
Leading to massive privacy violations--any bets on how many companies they sold the information in their database to?
What's funny is, My Lyra requires a funky DRM'd MP3 format that only uses their propietary software to create it...those files won't work on anything else either. BUT, copy any kind fo WMA file directly to the CF card and it works fine.
It is not funny at all. Looks like you got ripped off. You may want to trade it in for a real mp3 player.
Being removed from the public record doesn't mean they weren't considered in the case.
But the OP's point was that HP would lose face if they tried this. As long as the public doesn't know, that is not a possibility.
HP would be completely on the defense...
As they say, the best defense is to attack. The courts would only see a bunch of hackers trying to annoy/disrupt the activities of a large corporation. How long do you think it will take for SnoSoft's lawyers to make the Judge understand what "hacker" really means?
Wouldn't matter. For HP to even have a case, they'd have to say enough that they'd hang themselves in the process.
Not if they can get the proceeding sealed under some pretense (which is what happened in most of the cases featuring RIAA/MPAA etc). You may want to read Jack Valenti's testimony in the DeCSS case where a lot of his answers were removed from the record.
If a third party like CERT can maintain a reputation for protecting people like me from the wrath of corporations like HP, I'm much more likely to tell them what I know about vulnerabilities. If not, I'll just stick to my policy of not risking my bank account and professional future.
If you are a security company, or a consultant, it is important that people know about your achievements. However, if you are a lone programmer who comes across a bug in the software you use, you wouldn't want the trouble of having to deal with red tape.