just what about direct monitoring of traffic sounds cool?
You get better pattern trend analysis. Data can be gathered to determine not only localized trouble spots, but over much larger areas.
I too am concerned about the nasty trend of our government (and other governments around the world) to slowly errode our privacy and freedoms. I've had enough.
Why do you think you need a 60" tv to get DTV? Why do you think DTV requires 16:9 vs 4:3? Why do you think DTV = HDTV? Where is this info comming from?
Listen, you can use the same flippin tubes you have now. Just need a different tuner. The industry claims that this will add $200 to the price of a TV. IMHO, this is probably FUD. When DVD first came out, it was expensive too. Now players are under $100. Mass prodution does wonders for driving costs down.
Well, if you think about it, it's like old analog cell phone vs PCS.. I would never want to go back.
Analog video blows. Analog broadcast takes 10X or more bandwidth than compressed digital at the same resolution. What this means is that the FCC can re-allocate old frequencies to other uses. They have already done so for the old UHF channels above 69 (I THINK it's 69..., check a modern TV to see how high it goes.) Digital broadcast will also allow you to get clearer pictures. Bye bye ghosting.
Yes, there is a problem with DTV, and it is price, availability, and broadcast copy protection flags. Mass production will cause the price to drop. FCC regulation will cause availability to increase. Unfortunately, the BPF's are a bad deal. Write your corrupt congress critter to complain.
With multicasting, you don't NEED p2p reflectors. The data is transmitted over any given network ONCE no matter HOW MANY people are listening. Limited upstream bandwidth is not an issue unless your stream bitrate is lower than your upstream bandwidth rate.
No. The LABELS or ARTISTS own the rights to songs. If a webcaster decided to ONLY stream from independent artists or from labels that allowed them to do so royalty free, they would STILL owe RIAA under the law. This is Fscking bogus, immoral, corrupt, etc.
RIAA is an industry association kinda like the mafia, but worse.
You obviously don't understand the DMCA. The part you refer to is about encryption or other technical method to prevent copying (or even using) the work by the copyright holder. That's not what the original poster is talking about.
Good old fashioned copyright law is what applies here.
Changing the encoding method won't protect anyone from getting sued. After all, when you rip off CD and convert to MP3 you are changing the file format. The contents of the file whether it's.ogg,.png,.mp3, or.xyz is STILL copyrighted music.
You got it wrong. Jack is afraid of people that grab it off PPV or HBO and give copies to their friends or rip it to divx and put it on the net.
This is a legit concern.
Jack's answer to the problem however is wrong. Instead of using existing copyright laws to procecute infringers, he wants to eliminate "fair use." Jack hates the concept of "fair use" and is using the "rip it and share it" crowd to kill fair use through technology.
... so you are saying that we should ignore the fact that technology changes and that people naturally want to use a superior technology? While I can still make fire by rubbing two sticks together, I find a modern butane lighter a better choice.
Why should I convert from digital to analog to digital again when I can just dump the digital version direct to whatever storage media I'm using? Why should I lose resolution, introduce noise, etc. when there is no need to?
What is a bigger crime today is that 99% of the TV's sold TODAY will be obsolete in 4 years (due to FCC mandated cutover to DTV) even though the technology, standards, and DTV broadcasts exist NOW. In fact, it's very difficult to even FIND a TV that handles DTV broadcasts. In fact, I just searched a few national chain store web sites and couldn't even FIND a DTV receiver (only HDTV.)
You might want to RTFA. Fair use allows me to record a show in the livingroom and play it back on different hardware in the bedroom.
The new broadcast flags and proposed hardware restrictions would eliminate this possibility. They also don't address the fact that I may want to buy a new "recorder", possibly due to the fact that the old one dies. Basically, your "collection" of movies would be locked to the original recording device.
NOBODY is talking about rebroadcast rights (except you of course.)
Stupid moderators don't know the meaning of "troll".
How is being a mac user (as well as linux and windows) but hating some of the moronic decisions (one button mouse) apple makes being a troll? Considering that almost EVERY SINGLE third party mouse for the mac has more than one button, and EVERY die-hard mac fan I know has a multi-button mouse, my opinions are NOT the minority.
Maybe if I replaced "apple" with "microsoft" my post would be labeled "insightful"?
... So if you want a Mac laptop, you are fucked. You are FORCED by apple's opinion that everyone is a fucking idiot. As the owner of a titanium G4 mac, and a couple g4 desktop's, I'm offended. Of course I was forced to buy new mice, but the built-in trackpad on the laptop is not replaceable.
I can probably find a study that says that alphabetically organized keyboards are faster too, but it doesn't make it true for people who know how to use qwerty. The fact is that a person experienced in multi-button use is going to be more efficient using one compared to a single button mouse.
Thinking of the simple "cut and paste" in X-windows, I don't see how the heck a "mouse highlight" command-c two-step three-key/button operation on the mac is faster than X's one-step operation.
Back in the days of the original PC keyboard layout, I explained to a one-armed co-worker that you needed to do a ctrl-alt-delete to reboot - A task that required him to use a pencil in his mouth for the final button. He was not pleased. Four letter words were heard throughout the office whenever the PC locked up. He would NOT enjoy using a system with a single mouse button.
My Sony vaio had a touchpad with the scrolling feature, and that would be nice to have on my g4 mac. If only apple didn't know more about what I want / need than I myself do, things would be better.
I would bet that the majority are used for drivers. It ticks me when I get a USB or PCMCIA driver on floppy. Many laptops don't HAVE floppies. This makes life difficult.
Almost EVERY pc has a CDRom drive however. Some Superslim notebooks don't have them internally, but usually come with them on a dock or have them externally.
I have found that floppy disk reliability is MUCH worse than CDRom as well.
As for business users, if a user needs external storage I just get them a CDRW drive. Floppies don't hold enough anyway.
Hmm. You must have some amazing luck. In the past several years, I have not had much luck getting many floppies to format at all. I've had to go through as many as 10 floppies to find ONE that worked (and NO, it's NOT the drive...)
Again, with CD's you must just have really BAD luck. I've never had a problem burning disks, and because I treat them well, they last for hundreds of uses.
Frankly, I'm tired of crappy media. We need a durable removable media that isn't physically fragile, isn't sensative to magnetic fields or static, etc. USB keychain gets close.
Its like someone walking in through your open front door to tell you that your door is insecure. If they're doing burgling while they're in there that's a different matter.
OK, I'll bite, AC.
I'm sitting down to dinner with my family and this random guy walks into my house without knocking first and asking permission. I excuse myself, get the shotgun and call 911. Cops haul him away.
Hey, breaking into a wireless network without permission is AGAINST THE LAW. This whole "hacking is OK unless I break something" idea is bullshit. It's like running around town with (or without) lockpick tools and opening doors telling people that they should buy better locks, or nail their doors shut. I'm telling ya, your gonna get put away for that shit.
A network without WEP is the unlocked door, with WEP is the locked door. Airsnort is your lockpick tool as well as being a scanner for the state of "doors" in general.
Using lockpick tools on your own door is OK. If your are a locksmith doing work for a client, that's OK too. If you are a professional or ameteur picking random houses / businesses, your gonna get popped. Doesn't matter what your intent is, or whether or not you tell the home / business owner afterwards or not.
This guy was an idiot. The last thing you should do is pick the door on the judges bedroom door.
Ahh, but he is HP's "open source" evangelist at an "open source" related convention. The point could probably be made (keep in mind a clueless jury here) that being involved in a conference mostly involving his professional peers that he was representing HP.
Not saying it's right, but with our legal system, I would be cautious too.
As others have stated, removing the region restriction is circumventing a copyright protection mechanism and therefore violates the DMCA.
The DMCA has a number of parts that violate free speech and ignores the court-upheld right of "fair use." This is why so many are opposed to it. The problem we have is that there hasn't been a good case where someone's free speech rights were violated - this is a prerequisite for a court challenge.
One of the problems with our legal system is that it is VERY hard to challenge a law without a case proving that someone's rights were violated. The courts don't want to hear about what MAY happen, they want to rule on what DID happen. Felton tried to overturn a part of the DMCA due to a "threat" letter, but since no legal action was taken against him, the case was thrown out.
Your right. I'm SURE Bruce has wads of cash on par with that of the MPAA and other hollywood groups to defend himself. *Snort*
I also suggest that you RTFA as he wasn't going to show people how to "steal" movies, but rather show them how to play a DVD they PURCHASED in another region. This is a was a VERY good way to show how the DMCA violates free speech and harms consumers, yet now we will have to settle for another demonstration of the "chilling effect" that the DMCA has on free speech.
What do I find offensive? The ACLU has a choice in what it can choose to defend. There are much better free speech cases that the ACLU COULD have chosen, but didn't. The 2600 case is one (I wouldn't call them a "popular group" either.) I won't contribute to an organization that defends the "rights" of child molesters. Sorry.
Nambla can pay for their own defense. The ACLU is using members money to defend nambla. I would hazzard a guess that a majority of aclu members would not approve of their money being used in this manor. Like me I certainly don't, and they will never get a penny from me.
Remember, not all speech is protected. There are cases where the first ammendment does not apply ("fire" in a crowded theater.) One can assert that educating "pedophiles" on exactly how to entrap, kidnap, and rape children is similar and therefore not protected.
As I said, there are other cases that are a MUCH more worthwhile use of limited resources.
Well, given that the fact that many very well know charities are run poorly, have massive internal fraud, and how many have administrative costs which are 90% of intake, it's no wonder people are reluctant.
The ACLU has taken a number cases that I find very offensive such as defending NAMBLA. If you REALLY want to help protect technology related freedoms, donate to the EFF. Then you can make sure your money is going to a good cause rather than NAMBLA like cases.
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just what about direct monitoring of traffic sounds cool?
You get better pattern trend analysis. Data can be gathered to determine not only localized trouble spots, but over much larger areas.
I too am concerned about the nasty trend of our government (and other governments around the world) to slowly errode our privacy and freedoms. I've had enough.
Get 2 transponders (say you have 2 cars) and use one to enter and another to exit.
Apparently, you can't expect privacy in your own home anymore either.
Why do you think you need a 60" tv to get DTV? Why do you think DTV requires 16:9 vs 4:3? Why do you think DTV = HDTV? Where is this info comming from?
Listen, you can use the same flippin tubes you have now. Just need a different tuner. The industry claims that this will add $200 to the price of a TV. IMHO, this is probably FUD. When DVD first came out, it was expensive too. Now players are under $100. Mass prodution does wonders for driving costs down.
Well, if you think about it, it's like old analog cell phone vs PCS.. I would never want to go back.
Analog video blows. Analog broadcast takes 10X or more bandwidth than compressed digital at the same resolution. What this means is that the FCC can re-allocate old frequencies to other uses. They have already done so for the old UHF channels above 69 (I THINK it's 69..., check a modern TV to see how high it goes.) Digital broadcast will also allow you to get clearer pictures. Bye bye ghosting.
Yes, there is a problem with DTV, and it is price, availability, and broadcast copy protection flags. Mass production will cause the price to drop. FCC regulation will cause availability to increase. Unfortunately, the BPF's are a bad deal. Write your corrupt congress critter to complain.
I don't think you understand multicasting.
With multicasting, you don't NEED p2p reflectors. The data is transmitted over any given network ONCE no matter HOW MANY people are listening. Limited upstream bandwidth is not an issue unless your stream bitrate is lower than your upstream bandwidth rate.
I suggest you read up on the subject.
RIAA owns the rights to the songs.
No. The LABELS or ARTISTS own the rights to songs. If a webcaster decided to ONLY stream from independent artists or from labels that allowed them to do so royalty free, they would STILL owe RIAA under the law. This is Fscking bogus, immoral, corrupt, etc.
RIAA is an industry association kinda like the mafia, but worse.
You obviously don't understand the DMCA. The part you refer to is about encryption or other technical method to prevent copying (or even using) the work by the copyright holder. That's not what the original poster is talking about.
.ogg, .png, .mp3, or .xyz is STILL copyrighted music.
Good old fashioned copyright law is what applies here.
Changing the encoding method won't protect anyone from getting sued. After all, when you rip off CD and convert to MP3 you are changing the file format. The contents of the file whether it's
You got it wrong. Jack is afraid of people that grab it off PPV or HBO and give copies to their friends or rip it to divx and put it on the net.
This is a legit concern.
Jack's answer to the problem however is wrong. Instead of using existing copyright laws to procecute infringers, he wants to eliminate "fair use." Jack hates the concept of "fair use" and is using the "rip it and share it" crowd to kill fair use through technology.
... so you are saying that we should ignore the fact that technology changes and that people naturally want to use a superior technology? While I can still make fire by rubbing two sticks together, I find a modern butane lighter a better choice.
Why should I convert from digital to analog to digital again when I can just dump the digital version direct to whatever storage media I'm using? Why should I lose resolution, introduce noise, etc. when there is no need to?
What is a bigger crime today is that 99% of the TV's sold TODAY will be obsolete in 4 years (due to FCC mandated cutover to DTV) even though the technology, standards, and DTV broadcasts exist NOW. In fact, it's very difficult to even FIND a TV that handles DTV broadcasts. In fact, I just searched a few national chain store web sites and couldn't even FIND a DTV receiver (only HDTV.)
You might want to RTFA. Fair use allows me to record a show in the livingroom and play it back on different hardware in the bedroom.
The new broadcast flags and proposed hardware restrictions would eliminate this possibility. They also don't address the fact that I may want to buy a new "recorder", possibly due to the fact that the old one dies. Basically, your "collection" of movies would be locked to the original recording device.
NOBODY is talking about rebroadcast rights (except you of course.)
Try the last sentance of my original post. Makes more sense.
Stupid moderators don't know the meaning of "troll".
How is being a mac user (as well as linux and windows) but hating some of the moronic decisions (one button mouse) apple makes being a troll? Considering that almost EVERY SINGLE third party mouse for the mac has more than one button, and EVERY die-hard mac fan I know has a multi-button mouse, my opinions are NOT the minority.
Maybe if I replaced "apple" with "microsoft" my post would be labeled "insightful"?
... So if you want a Mac laptop, you are fucked. You are FORCED by apple's opinion that everyone is a fucking idiot. As the owner of a titanium G4 mac, and a couple g4 desktop's, I'm offended. Of course I was forced to buy new mice, but the built-in trackpad on the laptop is not replaceable.
I can probably find a study that says that alphabetically organized keyboards are faster too, but it doesn't make it true for people who know how to use qwerty. The fact is that a person experienced in multi-button use is going to be more efficient using one compared to a single button mouse.
Thinking of the simple "cut and paste" in X-windows, I don't see how the heck a "mouse highlight" command-c two-step three-key/button operation on the mac is faster than X's one-step operation.
Back in the days of the original PC keyboard layout, I explained to a one-armed co-worker that you needed to do a ctrl-alt-delete to reboot - A task that required him to use a pencil in his mouth for the final button. He was not pleased. Four letter words were heard throughout the office whenever the PC locked up. He would NOT enjoy using a system with a single mouse button.
My Sony vaio had a touchpad with the scrolling feature, and that would be nice to have on my g4 mac. If only apple didn't know more about what I want / need than I myself do, things would be better.
I would bet that the majority are used for drivers. It ticks me when I get a USB or PCMCIA driver on floppy. Many laptops don't HAVE floppies. This makes life difficult.
Almost EVERY pc has a CDRom drive however. Some Superslim notebooks don't have them internally, but usually come with them on a dock or have them externally.
I have found that floppy disk reliability is MUCH worse than CDRom as well.
As for business users, if a user needs external storage I just get them a CDRW drive. Floppies don't hold enough anyway.
Hmm. You must have some amazing luck. In the past several years, I have not had much luck getting many floppies to format at all. I've had to go through as many as 10 floppies to find ONE that worked (and NO, it's NOT the drive...)
Again, with CD's you must just have really BAD luck. I've never had a problem burning disks, and because I treat them well, they last for hundreds of uses.
Frankly, I'm tired of crappy media. We need a durable removable media that isn't physically fragile, isn't sensative to magnetic fields or static, etc. USB keychain gets close.
Actually, the Bootable Business Card CD works quite well for this task.
Obviously, this article was about NEW computers (which have NO problenm booting from CD) and not ancient ones with crappy BIOS's.
Its like someone walking in through your open front door to tell you that your door is insecure. If they're doing burgling while they're in there that's a different matter.
OK, I'll bite, AC.
I'm sitting down to dinner with my family and this random guy walks into my house without knocking first and asking permission. I excuse myself, get the shotgun and call 911. Cops haul him away.
Hey, breaking into a wireless network without permission is AGAINST THE LAW. This whole "hacking is OK unless I break something" idea is bullshit. It's like running around town with (or without) lockpick tools and opening doors telling people that they should buy better locks, or nail their doors shut. I'm telling ya, your gonna get put away for that shit.
A network without WEP is the unlocked door, with WEP is the locked door. Airsnort is your lockpick tool as well as being a scanner for the state of "doors" in general.
Using lockpick tools on your own door is OK. If your are a locksmith doing work for a client, that's OK too. If you are a professional or ameteur picking random houses / businesses, your gonna get popped. Doesn't matter what your intent is, or whether or not you tell the home / business owner afterwards or not.
This guy was an idiot. The last thing you should do is pick the door on the judges bedroom door.
Ahh, but he is HP's "open source" evangelist at an "open source" related convention. The point could probably be made (keep in mind a clueless jury here) that being involved in a conference mostly involving his professional peers that he was representing HP.
Not saying it's right, but with our legal system, I would be cautious too.
As others have stated, removing the region restriction is circumventing a copyright protection mechanism and therefore violates the DMCA.
The DMCA has a number of parts that violate free speech and ignores the court-upheld right of "fair use." This is why so many are opposed to it. The problem we have is that there hasn't been a good case where someone's free speech rights were violated - this is a prerequisite for a court challenge.
One of the problems with our legal system is that it is VERY hard to challenge a law without a case proving that someone's rights were violated. The courts don't want to hear about what MAY happen, they want to rule on what DID happen. Felton tried to overturn a part of the DMCA due to a "threat" letter, but since no legal action was taken against him, the case was thrown out.
Your right. I'm SURE Bruce has wads of cash on par with that of the MPAA and other hollywood groups to defend himself. *Snort*
I also suggest that you RTFA as he wasn't going to show people how to "steal" movies, but rather show them how to play a DVD they PURCHASED in another region. This is a was a VERY good way to show how the DMCA violates free speech and harms consumers, yet now we will have to settle for another demonstration of the "chilling effect" that the DMCA has on free speech.
It's also a copyright violation. I kinda like /. Hate to see them go away due to being sued.
What do I find offensive? The ACLU has a choice in what it can choose to defend. There are much better free speech cases that the ACLU COULD have chosen, but didn't. The 2600 case is one (I wouldn't call them a "popular group" either.) I won't contribute to an organization that defends the "rights" of child molesters. Sorry.
Nambla can pay for their own defense. The ACLU is using members money to defend nambla. I would hazzard a guess that a majority of aclu members would not approve of their money being used in this manor. Like me I certainly don't, and they will never get a penny from me.
Remember, not all speech is protected. There are cases where the first ammendment does not apply ("fire" in a crowded theater.) One can assert that educating "pedophiles" on exactly how to entrap, kidnap, and rape children is similar and therefore not protected.
As I said, there are other cases that are a MUCH more worthwhile use of limited resources.
Well, given that the fact that many very well know charities are run poorly, have massive internal fraud, and how many have administrative costs which are 90% of intake, it's no wonder people are reluctant.
The ACLU has taken a number cases that I find very offensive such as defending NAMBLA. If you REALLY want to help protect technology related freedoms, donate to the EFF. Then you can make sure your money is going to a good cause rather than NAMBLA like cases.
A criminal remedy is just a civil remedy that the government pays for.
Well, another difference is that criminal penalties can carry jail time and civil penalties don't.