"when it costs you nothing except raw materials which you already have, there's no reason not to do it yourself"
Have you shopped at a lumber yard lately? You can't build it yourself cheaper than IKEA because all their furniture is cheap fiberboard crap that falls apart in a year or two. Great if you need disposable furniture for a college dorm or a bachelor crash pad. Real wood furniture is a much more expensive market segment that IKEA crap.
You do make a good point about taking away tools from do-it-yourselfers. New cars need so many special tools and electronics, and there's a push to lock up PC hardware too. Like Intel's digital display encryption or CPRM for hard drives.
You do know that the Tualitin uses the same P6 core that debuted on the Pentium Pro, and is clock for clock, faster than the P4 which is the one that has the utterly stupid lengthened pipelines which allow it to ramp up to such high clock speeds, right?
"He sold software in this country that is illegal in this country. "
No, his EMPLOYER sold software in the US that was allegedly illegal. He wrote the software in a foreign country where it is still legal to study encryption. He himself did not import or sell or "traffic" in this "illegal" software.
This would be like an assembly line worker for a gunmaker being arrested on vacation in say Japan because his employer illegally imported and sold guns there.
It's called a Rumplestilksen attack (named after the fairy tale where the troll makes the girl guess his name). I made a hotmail account with [a-z][a-z][four digit number]@hotmail.com (basically my initials + 4 digit no.) and I was receiving spam within days and without giving out that address to anybody. One of the first spams I got was addressed to xx1001, xx1002, xx1003, etc. It must have been a probe to find working addresses.
Or even better than that, find an old 486 laptop as a decoy and rig the power so the battery overloads and explodes spewing toxic chemicals all over the thief. Put the decoy in a conspicuous place.
The difference is that at your favorite restaurant people know this because they're your friends and they personally know you. Somehow it seems insincere for a hostess to pretend to know all this shit about you because you swiped your casino card and the computer looked you up.
The best TV out is with a hardware DVD decoder like a Hollywood+, but the problem is that it only does MPEG1 and MPEG2, and it only shows the movie, not your Linux desktop.
I've have an ancient Trident 9685 PCI card w/ TVout. It works, but it's pretty fuzzy. Your best bet may be the BookPC. The deluxe model comes with TVout. Here's one vendor:
http://www.directron.com/bookpc.html
First off, let's take the biggest and most obvious example of why GPLing gov't funded software would've been a bad idea: the BSD TCP/IP stack. If it wasn't for the fact that it had been under such a free and liberal license as the BSD license, we might never have seen the rise of such quality, albeit proprietary, operatings systems such as Sun's Solaris or Windows 2000.
Or they could have read the RFCs and *gasp* written their own code for a TCP/IP stack. Or they could negotiate with the author and *gasp* pay him to use the code under a different license.
"Solution: Don't buy the thing for fucks sake. Has anyone ever had a gun stuck down their throat by an MS employee and been forced to purchase MS software? No so what the hell is the big deal?"
Actually for site license enterprise customers they do have a gun to their head. Pay for Win XP and Office XP by October 1st or pay full price after that.
Not an option. You pay for MSDN so they have your real name and address. For the truly paranoid, I suppose you could give MSDN a fake name and pay with postal money orders.
If it were a free service like Hotmail or MSN chat, yeah no problem. Make all the fake names you want. However you pay for MSDN, which means they have your REAL name and address (or maybe your company's name and address). Which means your browser cookie associated with your REAL name and ID follows you when you browse EVERY Passport site.
The solution is use the MSDN Passport account only for MSDN. Make accounts with fake info for when you want to be anonymous. It's a pain in the ass signing out and signing in to Passport to switch accounts, so I'd suggest launching different browsers for your extra accounts, like Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla or whatever.
"Oh, sure...blindly accuse regions of the country that you've never been to of racism."
No I didn't "hear about it on TV". If anything TV shows set in the Midwest paint a much rosier picture than real life or just ignore the issue. Drew Carey and WKRP in Cincinnati were the first ones I thought of. I'm talking about first hand stories of friends going someplace and getting harassed. Like the Asian families who drove to Florida on a road trip and were harassed by some bumfuck small town sheriff. Or the white girl who always got stopped when she was riding in a car with a black guy because the cops just assumed she was being kidnapped.
And I'm not accusing the entire region of racism. I think most people are decent and not bigots, but it only takes a few racists to make life very unpleasant, and some places are definitely worse than others.
Aside from us liking the weather and the mountains and beaches, there's another reason why some people don't move out of California. There are a lot of minorities in Sili Valley and LA, and there's a perception here that minorities aren't treated that well in certain parts of the country. Maybe not so much in the Midwest, but definitely in the south. For the single guys, a lot of them might think they don't have a chance scoring with the chicks if they're not white, and for families a lot of them may not be comfortable sending their kids to school if they were the only non-white kids. I'd be interested to hear what the/.ers from the heartland have to say about this.
Do you know why GM or anybody else don't produce new advanced designs? Because engineers have to be conservative designers. Nobody notices when an engineer does a good job. They just enjoy their modern conveniences without a second thought. And what happens when an engineer fucks up? Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Space Shuttle Challenger.
There are so many failure modes for new unproven technology. Nobody wants their high-tech ceramic engines cracking apart at 30000mi.
Not as slanted as it could be, but still not the friendliest wording they could have used.
Scientists Sue to Publish Piracy Paper By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of academics asked a federal court on Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry.
The answer is eyestrain. It's much easier to read 300dpi text than 72dpi text. Just like it's easier on the eyes to read a printed book than a monitor screen.
Exactly. Better to try small claims court, and make them waste a few hours of their lawyer's time. Or would they just send a customer service peon to small claims?
What sucks even more is blank CD-Rs have a horrible shelf life. After sitting a few months, half the blanks just burn coasters. Probably have to store them in the fridge to keep them fresh.
In the US only audio CD-R media (for use in home stereo CD recorders) has the RIAA tax. That's why it's triple the price of data CD-R media (for use in computers).
In Canada for example, data CD-Rs are taxed too. But what do you care? They're not even a real country anyway.
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"when it costs you nothing except raw materials which you already have, there's no reason not to do it yourself"
Have you shopped at a lumber yard lately? You can't build it yourself cheaper than IKEA because all their furniture is cheap fiberboard crap that falls apart in a year or two. Great if you need disposable furniture for a college dorm or a bachelor crash pad. Real wood furniture is a much more expensive market segment that IKEA crap.
You do make a good point about taking away tools from do-it-yourselfers. New cars need so many special tools and electronics, and there's a push to lock up PC hardware too. Like Intel's digital display encryption or CPRM for hard drives.
I agree. Adobe thinks it can wash its hands of all this by saying "Well, we TRIED to call off the FBI, but they just won't listen to us."
Unless Adobe starts paying for ALL of Sklyarov's legal defense, they deserve a boycott, bad publicity, protests, and everything else.
You do know that the Tualitin uses the same P6 core that debuted on the Pentium Pro, and is clock for clock, faster than the P4 which is the one that has the utterly stupid lengthened pipelines which allow it to ramp up to such high clock speeds, right?
"He sold software in this country that is illegal in this country. "
No, his EMPLOYER sold software in the US that was allegedly illegal. He wrote the software in a foreign country where it is still legal to study encryption. He himself did not import or sell or "traffic" in this "illegal" software.
This would be like an assembly line worker for a gunmaker being arrested on vacation in say Japan because his employer illegally imported and sold guns there.
It's called a Rumplestilksen attack (named after the fairy tale where the troll makes the girl guess his name). I made a hotmail account with [a-z][a-z][four digit number]@hotmail.com (basically my initials + 4 digit no.) and I was receiving spam within days and without giving out that address to anybody. One of the first spams I got was addressed to xx1001, xx1002, xx1003, etc. It must have been a probe to find working addresses.
Or even better than that, find an old 486 laptop as a decoy and rig the power so the battery overloads and explodes spewing toxic chemicals all over the thief. Put the decoy in a conspicuous place.
The difference is that at your favorite restaurant people know this because they're your friends and they personally know you. Somehow it seems insincere for a hostess to pretend to know all this shit about you because you swiped your casino card and the computer looked you up.
The best TV out is with a hardware DVD decoder like a Hollywood+, but the problem is that it only does MPEG1 and MPEG2, and it only shows the movie, not your Linux desktop.
I've have an ancient Trident 9685 PCI card w/ TVout. It works, but it's pretty fuzzy. Your best bet may be the BookPC. The deluxe model comes with TVout. Here's one vendor:
http://www.directron.com/bookpc.html
Or they could have read the RFCs and *gasp* written their own code for a TCP/IP stack. Or they could negotiate with the author and *gasp* pay him to use the code under a different license.
"Solution: Don't buy the thing for fucks sake. Has anyone ever had a gun stuck down their throat by an MS employee and been forced to purchase MS software? No so what the hell is the big deal?"
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Actually for site license enterprise customers they do have a gun to their head. Pay for Win XP and Office XP by October 1st or pay full price after that.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0
Not an option. You pay for MSDN so they have your real name and address. For the truly paranoid, I suppose you could give MSDN a fake name and pay with postal money orders.
If it were a free service like Hotmail or MSN chat, yeah no problem. Make all the fake names you want. However you pay for MSDN, which means they have your REAL name and address (or maybe your company's name and address). Which means your browser cookie associated with your REAL name and ID follows you when you browse EVERY Passport site.
The solution is use the MSDN Passport account only for MSDN. Make accounts with fake info for when you want to be anonymous. It's a pain in the ass signing out and signing in to Passport to switch accounts, so I'd suggest launching different browsers for your extra accounts, like Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla or whatever.
"Oh, sure...blindly accuse regions of the country that you've never been to of racism."
No I didn't "hear about it on TV". If anything TV shows set in the Midwest paint a much rosier picture than real life or just ignore the issue. Drew Carey and WKRP in Cincinnati were the first ones I thought of. I'm talking about first hand stories of friends going someplace and getting harassed. Like the Asian families who drove to Florida on a road trip and were harassed by some bumfuck small town sheriff. Or the white girl who always got stopped when she was riding in a car with a black guy because the cops just assumed she was being kidnapped.
And I'm not accusing the entire region of racism. I think most people are decent and not bigots, but it only takes a few racists to make life very unpleasant, and some places are definitely worse than others.
Aside from us liking the weather and the mountains and beaches, there's another reason why some people don't move out of California. There are a lot of minorities in Sili Valley and LA, and there's a perception here that minorities aren't treated that well in certain parts of the country. Maybe not so much in the Midwest, but definitely in the south. For the single guys, a lot of them might think they don't have a chance scoring with the chicks if they're not white, and for families a lot of them may not be comfortable sending their kids to school if they were the only non-white kids. I'd be interested to hear what the /.ers from the heartland have to say about this.
Or even better, that German terrorist Hans Gruber in Die Hard trying to fake an American accent.
Do you know why GM or anybody else don't produce new advanced designs? Because engineers have to be conservative designers. Nobody notices when an engineer does a good job. They just enjoy their modern conveniences without a second thought. And what happens when an engineer fucks up? Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Space Shuttle Challenger.
There are so many failure modes for new unproven technology. Nobody wants their high-tech ceramic engines cracking apart at 30000mi.
Not as slanted as it could be, but still not the friendliest wording they could have used.
Scientists Sue to Publish Piracy Paper
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of academics asked a federal court on Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry.
The answer is eyestrain. It's much easier to read 300dpi text than 72dpi text. Just like it's easier on the eyes to read a printed book than a monitor screen.
Exactly. Better to try small claims court, and make them waste a few hours of their lawyer's time. Or would they just send a customer service peon to small claims?
Don't think you'll get much grip on that.
What sucks even more is blank CD-Rs have a horrible shelf life. After sitting a few months, half the blanks just burn coasters. Probably have to store them in the fridge to keep them fresh.
In the US only audio CD-R media (for use in home stereo CD recorders) has the RIAA tax. That's why it's triple the price of data CD-R media (for use in computers).
In Canada for example, data CD-Rs are taxed too. But what do you care? They're not even a real country anyway.
That's right. Osborne 1, baby! Can't get enough of that CP/M and Wordstar.
Yes, the European Copyright Directive. See this old article. I wonder what happens if a member nation refuse to adopt an EU directive.
No, with methanol you fill it up and drive 150 mi per tank. It has about 60% the energy per volume of gasoline.