Well it appears Debian is not kept up to date with the rest of the Linux community. Do they even supply a 2.4 kernel in their production release? Last time I checked - they did not. Has this changed?
I like the idea of Debian - but I want to be as current as possible. Running an old (2.2) kernel or having to upgrade major parts to get 2.4 running is not worth it - a distro is supposed to make things easy - so you don't have to deal with upgrading all the support packages yourself.
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I still would NOT feel comfortable with local phone service over IP. Internet connections go down far more often that phone - and I don't want to be trying to call 911 and dying because some freaking router is hung.
I doubt whether packet switched systems can ever be made as reliable as circuit-switched.
Since they do get people in the door, and most people lose far more money gambling on the way from the entrance to the tram than the fare would ever be - why will they even bother with fares?
This is a city where you can buy dinner for under $4! That is most certainly a money loser - but it is worth it. The people get what they think to be a good deal, but the casino gets the money back, and more via gambling revenues.
It is much better to get people to pay for stuff without even realizing it (i.e. gambling) than to be hit with a fare (where it is made very clear to them they are paying and by how much) and not get any "entertainment" to show for it.
Maybe they should give you a chance to win something everytime you pay the fare - that'd probably help acceptance of it greatly.
DMCA covers not only devices which restrict copying (and the unauthorized execution of other "exclusive rights" of the copyright holder), but also has specific sections covering devices which restrict access.
So the answer to your question is likely yes (unfortunately).
If 2 people, cultures, etc are leaning towards friendly relations, more contact and communication will likely reinforce that tendency.
If they are leaning towards unfriendly relations, then that tendency will likely be reinforced.
It depends on the situation, whether communication and contact have a good effect or not. It appears that it tends to push people away from neutrality and reinforces any current leanings.
Well if the SSSCA/CBDTPA passes even analog-digital converter chips could be make illegal (except for professionals and/or in locked systems - hobbled with copy "protection" systems).
I can just imagine hearing on the news in 2010: "Today in a huge bust, the FBI seized 30 kilos of cocaine and 300 black market ADC chips..."
With the DMCA, fair use is gone. Sure it exists on paper - but if the copyright holder doesn't want you to exercise it they can make it illegal with a protection system. The protection system isn't as much about making copying impossible (hah!) or even difficult, but about making it illegal, and making the enxt generation think it is immoral.
Fair use is MEANINGLESS if the copyright holder can make it illegal for you to exercise it. The fair use exemptions in the copyright law are meaningless if you can only utilize them with the permission of the copyright holder.
Obviously fair use is in everyones best interest, it can only help publicize work and it gives people the ability to use portions of it, but it is a casualty of trying to prevent non-fair use.
Ugh. That like saying since people speed, drive drunk, etc, we should ban cars and make people only use a horse and buggy.
Entrapment is only if someone is enticed to perform a criminal act that they wouldn't otherwise do.
Giving them the rope to hang themselves is not enough in itself to qualify. Giving them an opportunity is not enough. The cops can pretend to be drug users or sellers to make busts.
You have to give someone a strong incentive to commit the crime, above and beyond what is usual.
At least that is my understanding of the issue. A lawyer could probably correct and explain this better.
Were IBM drives failing too much and they decided they wouldn't warrant drives that are used more than that? (since they would go bad during the warranty period to often presumably).
Is my IBM SCSI drive warranty now gone because I run the system 24/7?
You want to make sure a maid isn't stealing from you.
Set up a hidden camera and leave some small amount of money out.
See if they steal it. Then you can fire and prosecute them.
Make it so they could conceivably steal without you noticing. A dozen $1 bills would work. Maybe they'll take one or two from the pile, thinking you'll never notice. You could also leave out a larger amount - more risk - but you then you might be able to get them nabbed for a felony.
Hopefully that will still be legal after this bill passes, there should be a provision for something like that.
Well if you want to cook a C64, there is a BASIC command that may do it:
WARNING: Use of this is at your own risk! May destroy hardware! Not recommended for any machine you'd like to keep! I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER
POKE 53270, PEEK(53270) OR 32
I did it and I could feel heat coming up from the keyboard and a smell like thermal paste overheating or something.
I turned it off very quickly and it did survive.
It was responsive and with a normal display right until I cut the power.
Some C64 docs say bit 5 of register 53270 is the reset bit for the VIC controller.
Some just say, ominously:
"ALWAYS SET THIS BIT TO 0!"
Why a reset bit would cause an overheat is beyond me. Anyone have a clue? I'd really like to know what is so bad about setting that bit. I was hoping it would just be a reset bit.
Win the big fight, and non-profits like the IEEE will lift the restrictions that they are legally obligated to enforce.
That is truly frightening.
Now private organizations have to do the work of the courts and the police in enforcing their laws. What next, having the car companies having to help catch speeders? Oh wait, that'll never happen - there are no entrenched monied interests threatened there...)
What if you have to go further, maybe even 20 miles or more?
By bike that would be over an hour, walking would be over 5 hours, but driving it could be almost down to 15 minutes.
If you want traffic and pollution to be abated, rather than trying to force alternative transportation down unwilling people's throats, why don't you work to support GOOD public transportation modalities, such as light rail?
I'll never take a bus by choice, but I would take a train.
Trains can be faster than cars - buses CAN'T.
A high speed light rail would definitely get people out of their cars.
And they can, and have, use those liens to cause the house to get sold against the owner's will!
Sometimes over crazy little stupid violations.
Home owner's associations are dangerous - they can take your home.
Plus they often try to enforce racial (and other forms of) discrimination.
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Descrambling CDMA is likely even outside of the abilities of much local law enforcement, and it probably still very difficult even for the Feds. They'd probably get access to the base switching stations rather than bother with trying to intercept the radio link.
CDMA looks like noise - without having the right information about where the various parts of each bit are - you aren't going to even get your hands on the data.
You need to know the right "chipping" functions and also time synchronize yourself to the network and mobile unit. This is really, REALLY, *REALLY* hard. Probably costs many many thousands of dollars to get equipment that can do it.
CDMA is spread spectrum - which at one time was classified and only used by the military.
Sometimes I think declassifying it wasn't a very good idea from a national security perspective...
DMCA exemptions apparently hold no weight in Judge Kaplan's court.
The DeCSS defendents fought, had very good lawyers, were morally and legally correct, and still LOST!
They are forever prohibited from DeCSS "trafficking" (*) and even ordered to pay the court for its costs incurred in the prosecution/persecution. Hope they aren't bankrupted by the judgement against them.
So even if you can afford to fight - you can still get hurt badly.
(*) Sounds almost like drugs. The (stupid) War on Drugs will get joined by an even stupider War on Information?
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Well it appears Debian is not kept up to date with the rest of the Linux community. Do they even supply a 2.4 kernel in their production release? Last time I checked - they did not. Has this changed?
I like the idea of Debian - but I want to be as current as possible. Running an old (2.2) kernel or having to upgrade major parts to get 2.4 running is not worth it - a distro is supposed to make things easy - so you don't have to deal with upgrading all the support packages yourself.
I still would NOT feel comfortable with local phone service over IP. Internet connections go down far more often that phone - and I don't want to be trying to call 911 and dying because some freaking router is hung.
I doubt whether packet switched systems can ever be made as reliable as circuit-switched.
Since they do get people in the door, and most people lose far more money gambling on the way from the entrance to the tram than the fare would ever be - why will they even bother with fares?
This is a city where you can buy dinner for under $4! That is most certainly a money loser - but it is worth it. The people get what they think to be a good deal, but the casino gets the money back, and more via gambling revenues.
It is much better to get people to pay for stuff without even realizing it (i.e. gambling) than to be hit with a fare (where it is made very clear to them they are paying and by how much) and not get any "entertainment" to show for it.
Maybe they should give you a chance to win something everytime you pay the fare - that'd probably help acceptance of it greatly.
I know about Las Vegas - I live here.
Las Vegas regularly gets to over 110 F during the summer - not many people want to walk in that.
DMCA covers not only devices which restrict copying (and the unauthorized execution of other "exclusive rights" of the copyright holder), but also has specific sections covering devices which restrict access.
So the answer to your question is likely yes (unfortunately).
If 2 people, cultures, etc are leaning towards friendly relations, more contact and communication will likely reinforce that tendency.
If they are leaning towards unfriendly relations, then that tendency will likely be reinforced.
It depends on the situation, whether communication and contact have a good effect or not. It appears that it tends to push people away from neutrality and reinforces any current leanings.
if you can hear it, you can rip it
Well if the SSSCA/CBDTPA passes even analog-digital converter chips could be make illegal (except for professionals and/or in locked systems - hobbled with copy "protection" systems).
I can just imagine hearing on the news in 2010: "Today in a huge bust, the FBI seized 30 kilos of cocaine and 300 black market ADC chips..."
With the DMCA, fair use is gone. Sure it exists on paper - but if the copyright holder doesn't want you to exercise it they can make it illegal with a protection system. The protection system isn't as much about making copying impossible (hah!) or even difficult, but about making it illegal, and making the enxt generation think it is immoral.
Fair use is MEANINGLESS if the copyright holder can make it illegal for you to exercise it. The fair use exemptions in the copyright law are meaningless if you can only utilize them with the permission of the copyright holder.
Obviously fair use is in everyones best interest, it can only help publicize work and it gives people the ability to use portions of it, but it is a casualty of trying to prevent non-fair use.
Ugh. That like saying since people speed, drive drunk, etc, we should ban cars and make people only use a horse and buggy.
People thought the DMCA would never happen...
A lot of things that "couldn't possibly happen" have.
Entrapment is only if someone is enticed to perform a criminal act that they wouldn't otherwise do.
Giving them the rope to hang themselves is not enough in itself to qualify. Giving them an opportunity is not enough. The cops can pretend to be drug users or sellers to make busts.
You have to give someone a strong incentive to commit the crime, above and beyond what is usual.
At least that is my understanding of the issue. A lawyer could probably correct and explain this better.
But it keeps criminals on the street.
I have 2 IBM SCSI drives and they have worked flawlessly so far.
IBM makes good, reliable drives. Sure you pay a bit more for quality than you do for crap. That is the case IN EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY.
I won't be buying any drives from the new company, I want to buy American and keep Americans at work - I don't want to buy Japanese products.
So what would be a good alternative for high quality, fast SCSI drives?
What is that 333 hour limit about?
Were IBM drives failing too much and they decided they wouldn't warrant drives that are used more than that? (since they would go bad during the warranty period to often presumably).
Is my IBM SCSI drive warranty now gone because I run the system 24/7?
More examples:
You want to make sure a maid isn't stealing from you.
Set up a hidden camera and leave some small amount of money out.
See if they steal it. Then you can fire and prosecute them.
Make it so they could conceivably steal without you noticing. A dozen $1 bills would work. Maybe they'll take one or two from the pile, thinking you'll never notice. You could also leave out a larger amount - more risk - but you then you might be able to get them nabbed for a felony.
Hopefully that will still be legal after this bill passes, there should be a provision for something like that.
Well if you want to cook a C64, there is a BASIC command that may do it:
WARNING: Use of this is at your own risk! May destroy hardware! Not recommended for any machine you'd like to keep! I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER
POKE 53270, PEEK(53270) OR 32
I did it and I could feel heat coming up from the keyboard and a smell like thermal paste overheating or something.
I turned it off very quickly and it did survive.
It was responsive and with a normal display right until I cut the power.
Some C64 docs say bit 5 of register 53270 is the reset bit for the VIC controller.
Some just say, ominously:
"ALWAYS SET THIS BIT TO 0!"
Why a reset bit would cause an overheat is beyond me. Anyone have a clue? I'd really like to know what is so bad about setting that bit. I was hoping it would just be a reset bit.
Don't worry. Bill Gates said 64K is all anyone would ever need! :)
Win the big fight, and non-profits like the IEEE will lift the restrictions that they are legally obligated to enforce.
That is truly frightening.
Now private organizations have to do the work of the courts and the police in enforcing their laws. What next, having the car companies having to help catch speeders? Oh wait, that'll never happen - there are no entrenched monied interests threatened there...)
What if you have to go further, maybe even 20 miles or more?
By bike that would be over an hour, walking would be over 5 hours, but driving it could be almost down to 15 minutes.
If you want traffic and pollution to be abated, rather than trying to force alternative transportation down unwilling people's throats, why don't you work to support GOOD public transportation modalities, such as light rail?
I'll never take a bus by choice, but I would take a train.
Trains can be faster than cars - buses CAN'T.
A high speed light rail would definitely get people out of their cars.
One might think that sites like Wired or even CNN with articles on the DMCA would've gotten the top spot.
So it is cool that the anti-dmca protest site beat them out...
They could also decide to only meter outgoing traffic.
That would help reduce competition...
You know, the company might actually be happy about the whole thing.
Many people read their website name in that article.
Sometimes even negative publicity is good publicity. Unfortunate but true, they are likely to get some sales as a result of that.
And they can, and have, use those liens to cause the house to get sold against the owner's will!
Sometimes over crazy little stupid violations.
Home owner's associations are dangerous - they can take your home.
Plus they often try to enforce racial (and other forms of) discrimination.
Descrambling CDMA is likely even outside of the abilities of much local law enforcement, and it probably still very difficult even for the Feds.
They'd probably get access to the base switching stations rather than bother with trying to intercept the radio link.
CDMA looks like noise - without having the right information about where the various parts of each bit are - you aren't going to even get your hands on the data.
You need to know the right "chipping" functions and also time synchronize yourself to the network and mobile unit. This is really, REALLY, *REALLY* hard. Probably costs many many thousands of dollars to get equipment that can do it.
CDMA is spread spectrum - which at one time was classified and only used by the military.
Sometimes I think declassifying it wasn't a very good idea from a national security perspective...
DMCA exemptions apparently hold no weight in Judge Kaplan's court.
The DeCSS defendents fought, had very good lawyers, were morally and legally correct, and still LOST!
They are forever prohibited from DeCSS "trafficking" (*) and even ordered to pay the court for its costs incurred in the prosecution/persecution. Hope they aren't
bankrupted by the judgement against them.
So even if you can afford to fight - you can
still get hurt badly.
(*) Sounds almost like drugs. The (stupid) War on Drugs will get joined by an even stupider War on Information?
Ironic you should mention the SSSCA (now CBDTPA) and Microsoft.
Microsoft is a BIG player in the BSA.
BSA is opposed to SSSCA/CBDTPA, last time I heard.
In addition, the ITAA is opposed to the bill.