Ok, found a FAQ where Sony sez we get access, but through a closed source layer that will enforce their silly rules so no CDs (burned or not) allowed. So perhaps a modchip will fix things?
Back when this story last hit/. I observed the dump of dmesg from the thing and the DVD drive was conspiciously absent. Without that we can't build up a DVD/DiVX;)/MP3/OGG/etc player very easy.
It says that maintaining a "well regulated" militia is necessary for the protection of the state. So you COULD read that as meaning that the only reason people are granted that right is for the creating of such a militia. Given the existence of the national guard, a well regulated militia, it may not necessitate that all citizens should bear arms.
Don't focus on the expositional clause, focus on the meat of the matter; "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The phrase "the People" is used multiple places in the Bill of Rights, there is no debate that it means each individual citizen in any of the other instances. Why do gun control advocates of every stripe insist that in this ONE instance, when the Founders say "the People" they really meant to say "the State." Had the 1st Amendment had a preface saying "Because an informed electorate is essential to a Free State, blah, blah, blah..." would you be claiming this means that only State licensed presses are protected?
The National Guard would be what the Founders would have called a "select militia" and they didn't like that idea at all. They tried damn hard to make a sizable standing army in peacetime impractical, but times changed. In their day, you could call up the militia and the arms that folks had were pretty much good enough for military service. The army just had to add cannon, other large items and logistics, although some of the larger militia companies had their own cannon. Expecting private militias to have Armored Cavalry units ready to come forth when summoned into active service is probably asking too much.
The reason the gun laws hold up is that the government goes to great pains to make 2nd amendment cases never make it to the Supreme Court because they (especially the current court) would be very inclined to focus on that "shall not be infringed" part.
As for personal nukes, I figure a line of some sort will be drawn when the Supremes do get a case. I'd be able to live with the line at crew served weapons. Small arms unlimited, crew served only in some organized militia unit. Reserve weapons of mass destruction for State & Federal armed forces.
Sorry, but you are an uneducated fool. Don't take it personally, ignorance is curable so there is hope for you.
The only way you can read the 2nd Amendment to not grant each and every citizen the right to keep and bear arms is to assume the Founding Fathers were enshrining the right for the Army to have guns. Since that reading is totally daft, anybody with the ability to read and reason can figure out what the plain meaning of the 2nd was.
Back in the day the Bill of Rights was written the average level of literacy was sufficient that everyone understood and could debate the fine points of the Constituition and Bill of Rights. Sadly we now live in an age where a President of the United States can argue the meaning of "is" and we all spend weeks in confusion. Truly we are doomed.
No we wouldn't run it. Win3x sucks rocks. But folks would study it, laugh at the silly parts and go "ooooh!" over some of the clever bits, etc. WINE would get a boost. And everyone would ponder the big question: "Is someone at M$ on crack or are they actually making a peace offering?"
Reuters is more concerned with political correctness than they are with factual correctness. This is just one of several times in the last year I have noticed high bogon emissions coming from Reuters stories.
Remember, these are the halfwits that declared that Bin Laden & co can't be referred to as 'terrorists' on their wire, just for one really whacked example.
In the days of yore, papers couldn't afford to have reporters everywhere so when the telegraph appeared they created wire services. In those days papers didn't even pretend to be unbiased, eash town tended to have a paper unabashedly Republican and another just as blatently Democratic. However, since telegraph time was EXPENSIVE, it was impractical to send each story slanted several ways so reporters quickly learned that if they wanted the wire services to distribute their story it would have to impartial and at least appear factual because the wire service wasn't going to put out a story that at least half of their subscribers would reject.
Bandwidth is cheap now and 90% of journalists are Democrats. Most towns have one struggling newspaper (left leaning of course) and some clue impaired idiots on TV running whatever their network schleps over the downlink to round out the money losing news/SPORTS/weather program. So Reuters (and most others) can send out anything they damn well please and doesn't suffer for it. Facts? Screw that!
And now they wonder why readership/viewership is in a downward spiral. Nobody trusts the version of the 'news' put out by the establishment press, not even the left.
So now we have the Internet. Lets not screw it up as well, ok?
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A few years back we got some grant money together with some of ours and did this:
Don't blame me for the html on that page, the lady that drives it around and trains newbies to get online, move a mouse, etc. did it.;)
Got eight Thinkpads for users, another for the instructor and a RedHat box in a cabinet for server stuff. Got a 6 1/2KW Generator to run everything, including the A/C or we can run an umbilical cord to either 120/240VAC and not worry about burning gas (The generator will cut out before running the gas dry though.)
We even have a TV/VCR in a popout cabinet for running instructional videos.
After playing with wireless we have sidelined that and use either a phone jack or ethernet tap to bring in net. All of our branch libraries and such have 240V outlets and ethernet jacks on the side now so it can tour the six tiny branches and do classes.
The size of the van was selected to be as large as a vehicle can be in Louisiana and not require the driver to have a CDL.
And even on the dismal concrete with ashpalt scabs that passes for roads in rural Louisiana, none of the hardware has crapped out in over three years of use.
p.s. the 240V power lets us run the AC full bore. On 120V it throws breakers when we crank it up to cope with the summer heat in Louisiana.
Downloaded Gnome to a Sparc20 (9GB HDD, 224MB Ram, SX & CG6 framebuffers) planning to try it out. It offers the choice on the login screen but if I pick GNOME it thinks a bit and returns to the login screen.
Imagine if on the back of all TV's there was a little panel that opened up and revealed rows of DIP switches that you could flip and change various internal workings of the set. How many people do you think would be royally pissed when they fucked up their TV and couldn't get it back to normal? How many average people would enjoy the TV more given the ability to flip those switches?
Kid, you probably don't remember when TV sets DID have panels full of little knobs (more than a dozen) right behind the back cover. Mess with them without the proper test pattern generators and your set was b0rken. Lacking the correct equipment I never messed with them.
Aunt Tillie starts messing with kernel configs and she better have a real geek on standby for when her machine stops booting, or worse has filesystem corruption. Geeks twiddling kernels aren't a problem because we tend to learn on machines that don't have data we care about. Aunt Tillie only has the one PC.
I wouldn't. Dropping the nukes to end WWII was a hard thing to do but the best option available. For both sides. Imagine the body count had a traditional invasion of the Japanese mainland been required!
Nuclear energy is neutral, neither good or evil. Men are good, evil or stupid. The operators of Chernobyl were stupid and governed by evil men didn't give enough of a damn about their subjects to build in the proper safeguards when the plant was originally built.
The only problem I see with our current Nuclear tech is disposal of the waste, but if our stupid leaders would quit quivering in fear and allow the scientists and engineers to do their job a solution would be possible. Hell, recycle the stuff or just condense it down to small cans and launch them into the Sun.
Being this politically incorrect on/. should be good for a -5 troll, but I never was a Karma Whore.:)
That side of the crypto is easy. The XBox knows how to decrypt a game. Eventually it will be made to give up it's public keyring and 'emulation' on a pc is going to happen, even if it requires booting a mutant OS.
The bitch is going to be getting one of the secret keys to allow a linux port to XBox.
Unlike the DVD CCA idiots, M$ appears to have been smart enough to use public key crypto, so just being able to decode a game title won't help much in the effort to write a disk that an xbox can read.
Ah, shows how little I follow the console scene. So that confirms that the photo in the story was the Japanese version so we still don't know for sure what the US version looks like. If there aren't even pics yet the rumors of the price probably should be ignored as well.
I suppose a USB wireless interface would be an option as soon as one is supported. (Color me sceptical after fighting an Alcatel USB modem for my DSL line until surrendering and scrounging a SpeedTough Pro.) With the nit that a hub would be required to get keyboard, mouse and network.
Yup, just the hard drive! No access to the closed hardware in the CD/DVD player. No CD/MP3/DVD/VCD/Divx;) players for us until some outsiders reverse engineer things and distribute a loadable module.
Bummer. I'd have bought one in an instant as a play everything console.
Anybody know if it has one or two PC Card slots? It needs one for the HDD/ethernet but since ethenet to my TV would be a bitch I'd prefer to slam a Orinoco into it.
I have been trying to get Linux from out of the server closets and onto desks here in Beauregard Parish since I started consulting for em. On the clock or off, I'm up for helping with a rollout.
I laughed my butt off when I read this story. I expect Taco & Co. to add some personality to the site, even when they are being socialist products of modern education with any post involving a political story. Hope they keep it up.
Blasting the RIAA or MPAA is as much an expected thing around here as ragging on M$ so just get used to it.
Actually that depends on the country. In the U.S. a library can buy books at K-Mart if they want to and lend them. I have participated in buying expeditions to Barnes & Noble (Gotta make a special voyage to the 'big city' for that stuff ya know.) for the purpose of fleshing out the selection of computer books.
In 'differently enlightened' countries (U.K. & others) they have to pay special royalties and other such nonsense.
Refreshing to be living in the more sane country for a change, what with the DMCA & SSSCA nonsense we have to deal with.
I knew this was going to be the price of electing Bush when I pulled his lever. Microsoft was already unstoppable by legal action so even if Gore would have been willing to at least keep them occupied another year or so it would have been a Good Thing but not Victory. That small Good just couldn't stand up to the many other Bad things that would have come from a Gore presidency. Had to consider the Big Picture instead of just my part of the world.
If Microsoft is to be stopped we have to do it ourselves and fast. Another year or so and we will lose the commodity hardware we need to run Linux/BSD on and then it's Game Over.
No argument from me, but any 'ol portable medium can allow swapping, at less cost. Generic firewire drives come to mind. By locking what can be played they will prevent 90% of the casual users (especially when one considers that most Mac users aren't geeks) from using the device in ways that would overly annoy the RIAA.
The "oh, I don't have that song, can I snag a copy?" sort of casual copying is what HAD to be prevented at all costs, lest Apple get bogged down in lawsuits. Hopefully this will be a good enough compromise between usability and CYA that they will manage to sell enough units to get their stock price going up again.
Hell, once it gets cracked so us Linux folk can play I might even start lusting after one myself.
Ok, here is my reading between the lines of their FAQ.
When iTunes puts mp3 files on the drive it does something wicked and secret to them so that:
1. Only files so encoded will be playable by the internal firmware.
2. Said files are invisible when the drive is viewed in Firewire mode.
So yes, you can use it to transport mp3 files, but it isn't practical. What they had to prevent, to keep the RIAA from sueing their butts off, was the nightmare scenario where everyone buys one and plugs them into each other's machines, instantly exchanging music libraries with each other. If you thought Napster over DSL was bad, try FireWire speeds.
They also don't want PC or Linux folk to be able to use their products. In their way they are as bad as M$, you either buy into the Mac way or they don't want you touching any of their toys.
Since it IS just a FireWire drive with an onboard computer though, it WILL be hacked. If it doesn't get a Linux port it darn sure will get one of the BSD's within a year. After all it is a computer with 5GB of drive, 32MB of RAM, a usable display and some input devices with a FireWire port to talk to the outside world.
They botched this call bigtime, but I'm still proud to have sent them bux and will continue to do so.
Sending Email is everyone's right. But I will decide what mail actually gets delivered into the mailboxes I control by any means acceptable to the folks who cut my paycheck. It is as much a part of responsible system administration as making backups and applying security fixes.
Your right to speak does NOT imply a duty on me to listen. This isn't the US Postal Service either, and attempts to apply rules and customs from that environment just don't apply. The USPO is a government run monopoly so allowing them to filter out things they deem 'junk mail' would be horrible. In a free market for mail services it is a whole different ballgame.
Of course on Windows & Mac C++ is pretty much the only option because the native environment is designed around it. Lots of C code in UNIXland and it ain't likely to get tossed out and rewritten anytime soon.
Lots of languages exist in UNIX and only the OO languages can easily be tied to QT. Since just about all languages can support Motif & GTK it gives a larger base to draw apps from, which was my original point.
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Ok, found a FAQ where Sony sez we get access, but through a closed source layer that will enforce their silly rules so no CDs (burned or not) allowed. So perhaps a modchip will fix things?
Back when this story last hit /. I observed the dump of dmesg from the thing and the DVD drive was conspiciously absent. Without that we can't build up a DVD/DiVX;)/MP3/OGG/etc player very easy.
Don't focus on the expositional clause, focus on the meat of the matter; "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The phrase "the People" is used multiple places in the Bill of Rights, there is no debate that it means each individual citizen in any of the other instances. Why do gun control advocates of every stripe insist that in this ONE instance, when the Founders say "the People" they really meant to say "the State." Had the 1st Amendment had a preface saying "Because an informed electorate is essential to a Free State, blah, blah, blah..." would you be claiming this means that only State licensed presses are protected?
The National Guard would be what the Founders would have called a "select militia" and they didn't like that idea at all. They tried damn hard to make a sizable standing army in peacetime impractical, but times changed. In their day, you could call up the militia and the arms that folks had were pretty much good enough for military service. The army just had to add cannon, other large items and logistics, although some of the larger militia companies had their own cannon. Expecting private militias to have Armored Cavalry units ready to come forth when summoned into active service is probably asking too much.
The reason the gun laws hold up is that the government goes to great pains to make 2nd amendment cases never make it to the Supreme Court because they (especially the current court) would be very inclined to focus on that "shall not be infringed" part.
As for personal nukes, I figure a line of some sort will be drawn when the Supremes do get a case. I'd be able to live with the line at crew served weapons. Small arms unlimited, crew served only in some organized militia unit. Reserve weapons of mass destruction for State & Federal armed forces.
Sorry, but you are an uneducated fool. Don't take it personally, ignorance is curable so there is hope for you.
The only way you can read the 2nd Amendment to not grant each and every citizen the right to keep and bear arms is to assume the Founding Fathers were enshrining the right for the Army to have guns. Since that reading is totally daft, anybody with the ability to read and reason can figure out what the plain meaning of the 2nd was.
Back in the day the Bill of Rights was written the average level of literacy was sufficient that everyone understood and could debate the fine points of the Constituition and Bill of Rights. Sadly we now live in an age where a President of the United States can argue the meaning of "is" and we all spend weeks in confusion. Truly we are doomed.
No we wouldn't run it. Win3x sucks rocks. But folks would study it, laugh at the silly parts and go "ooooh!" over some of the clever bits, etc. WINE would get a boost. And everyone would ponder the big question: "Is someone at M$ on crack or are they actually making a peace offering?"
Reuters is more concerned with political correctness than they are with factual correctness. This is just one of several times in the last year I have noticed high bogon emissions coming from Reuters stories.
Remember, these are the halfwits that declared that Bin Laden & co can't be referred to as 'terrorists' on their wire, just for one really whacked example.
In the days of yore, papers couldn't afford to have reporters everywhere so when the telegraph appeared they created wire services. In those days papers didn't even pretend to be unbiased, eash town tended to have a paper unabashedly Republican and another just as blatently Democratic. However, since telegraph time was EXPENSIVE, it was impractical to send each story slanted several ways so reporters quickly learned that if they wanted the wire services to distribute their story it would have to impartial and at least appear factual because the wire service wasn't going to put out a story that at least half of their subscribers would reject.
Bandwidth is cheap now and 90% of journalists are Democrats. Most towns have one struggling newspaper (left leaning of course) and some clue impaired idiots on TV running whatever their network schleps over the downlink to round out the money losing news/SPORTS/weather program. So Reuters (and most others) can send out anything they damn well please and doesn't suffer for it. Facts? Screw that!
And now they wonder why readership/viewership is in a downward spiral. Nobody trusts the version of the 'news' put out by the establishment press, not even the left.
So now we have the Internet. Lets not screw it up as well, ok?
A few years back we got some grant money together with some of ours and did this:
MEL
Don't blame me for the html on that page, the lady that drives it around and trains newbies to get online, move a mouse, etc. did it. ;)
Got eight Thinkpads for users, another for the instructor and a RedHat box in a cabinet for server stuff. Got a 6 1/2KW Generator to run everything, including the A/C or we can run an umbilical cord to either 120/240VAC and not worry about burning gas (The generator will cut out before running the gas dry though.)
We even have a TV/VCR in a popout cabinet for running instructional videos.
After playing with wireless we have sidelined that and use either a phone jack or ethernet tap to bring in net. All of our branch libraries and such have 240V outlets and ethernet jacks on the side now so it can tour the six tiny branches and do classes.
The size of the van was selected to be as large as a vehicle can be in Louisiana and not require the driver to have a CDL.
And even on the dismal concrete with ashpalt scabs that passes for roads in rural Louisiana, none of the hardware has crapped out in over three years of use.
p.s. the 240V power lets us run the AC full bore. On 120V it throws breakers when we crank it up to cope with the summer heat in Louisiana.
Downloaded Gnome to a Sparc20 (9GB HDD, 224MB Ram, SX & CG6 framebuffers) planning to try it out. It offers the choice on the login screen but if I pick GNOME it thinks a bit and returns to the login screen.
:)
So my review is "Sucks".
Gnome runs fine on my Thinkpad+RH7.2 though.
I wouldn't. Dropping the nukes to end WWII was a hard thing to do but the best option available. For both sides. Imagine the body count had a traditional invasion of the Japanese mainland been required!
/. should be good for a -5 troll, but I never was a Karma Whore. :)
Nuclear energy is neutral, neither good or evil. Men are good, evil or stupid. The operators of Chernobyl were stupid and governed by evil men didn't give enough of a damn about their subjects to build in the proper safeguards when the plant was originally built.
The only problem I see with our current Nuclear tech is disposal of the waste, but if our stupid leaders would quit quivering in fear and allow the scientists and engineers to do their job a solution would be possible. Hell, recycle the stuff or just condense it down to small cans and launch them into the Sun.
Being this politically incorrect on
That side of the crypto is easy. The XBox knows how to decrypt a game. Eventually it will be made to give up it's public keyring and 'emulation' on a pc is going to happen, even if it requires booting a mutant OS.
The bitch is going to be getting one of the secret keys to allow a linux port to XBox.
Unlike the DVD CCA idiots, M$ appears to have been smart enough to use public key crypto, so just being able to decode a game title won't help much in the effort to write a disk that an xbox can read.
Not being a professional, I can't really comment as to whether it does a 'professional' level job of it. However, GIMP can do CMYK seperations.
Ah, shows how little I follow the console scene. So that confirms that the photo in the story was the Japanese version so we still don't know for sure what the US version looks like. If there aren't even pics yet the rumors of the price probably should be ignored as well.
I suppose a USB wireless interface would be an option as soon as one is supported. (Color me sceptical after fighting an Alcatel USB modem for my DSL line until surrendering and scrounging a SpeedTough Pro.) With the nit that a hub would be required to get keyboard, mouse and network.
Notice anything missing from the dmesg output?
Yup, just the hard drive! No access to the closed hardware in the CD/DVD player. No CD/MP3/DVD/VCD/Divx;) players for us until some outsiders reverse engineer things and distribute a loadable module.
Bummer. I'd have bought one in an instant as a play everything console.
Anybody know if it has one or two PC Card slots? It needs one for the HDD/ethernet but since ethenet to my TV would be a bitch I'd prefer to slam a Orinoco into it.
I have been trying to get Linux from out of the server closets and onto desks here in Beauregard Parish since I started consulting for em. On the clock or off, I'm up for helping with a rollout.
I laughed my butt off when I read this story. I expect Taco & Co. to add some personality to the site, even when they are being socialist products of modern education with any post involving a political story. Hope they keep it up.
Blasting the RIAA or MPAA is as much an expected thing around here as ragging on M$ so just get used to it.
Actually that depends on the country. In the U.S. a library can buy books at K-Mart if they want to and lend them. I have participated in buying expeditions to Barnes & Noble (Gotta make a special voyage to the 'big city' for that stuff ya know.) for the purpose of fleshing out the selection of computer books.
In 'differently enlightened' countries (U.K. & others) they have to pay special royalties and other such nonsense.
Refreshing to be living in the more sane country for a change, what with the DMCA & SSSCA nonsense we have to deal with.
I knew this was going to be the price of electing Bush when I pulled his lever. Microsoft was already unstoppable by legal action so even if Gore would have been willing to at least keep them occupied another year or so it would have been a Good Thing but not Victory. That small Good just couldn't stand up to the many other Bad things that would have come from a Gore presidency. Had to consider the Big Picture instead of just my part of the world.
If Microsoft is to be stopped we have to do it ourselves and fast. Another year or so and we will lose the commodity hardware we need to run Linux/BSD on and then it's Game Over.
No argument from me, but any 'ol portable medium can allow swapping, at less cost. Generic firewire drives come to mind. By locking what can be played they will prevent 90% of the casual users (especially when one considers that most Mac users aren't geeks) from using the device in ways that would overly annoy the RIAA.
The "oh, I don't have that song, can I snag a copy?" sort of casual copying is what HAD to be prevented at all costs, lest Apple get bogged down in lawsuits. Hopefully this will be a good enough compromise between usability and CYA that they will manage to sell enough units to get their stock price going up again.
Hell, once it gets cracked so us Linux folk can play I might even start lusting after one myself.
Ok, here is my reading between the lines of their FAQ.
When iTunes puts mp3 files on the drive it does something wicked and secret to them so that:
1. Only files so encoded will be playable by the internal firmware.
2. Said files are invisible when the drive is viewed in Firewire mode.
So yes, you can use it to transport mp3 files, but it isn't practical. What they had to prevent, to keep the RIAA from sueing their butts off, was the nightmare scenario where everyone buys one and plugs them into each other's machines, instantly exchanging music libraries with each other. If you thought Napster over DSL was bad, try FireWire speeds.
They also don't want PC or Linux folk to be able to use their products. In their way they are as bad as M$, you either buy into the Mac way or they don't want you touching any of their toys.
Since it IS just a FireWire drive with an onboard computer though, it WILL be hacked. If it doesn't get a Linux port it darn sure will get one of the BSD's within a year. After all it is a computer with 5GB of drive, 32MB of RAM, a usable display and some input devices with a FireWire port to talk to the outside world.
That would be shocking.
But for my money, it's just a bug, but it was too funny to pass up posting.
Har Har, very funny.
/. and it didn't wanna log me back in again.
Clicking the X on the OSDN NavBar just logged me off
Using Mozilla 0.9.4 on RH7.1
They botched this call bigtime, but I'm still proud to have sent them bux and will continue to do so.
Sending Email is everyone's right. But I will decide what mail actually gets delivered into the mailboxes I control by any means acceptable to the folks who cut my paycheck. It is as much a part of responsible system administration as making backups and applying security fixes.
Your right to speak does NOT imply a duty on me to listen. This isn't the US Postal Service either, and attempts to apply rules and customs from that environment just don't apply. The USPO is a government run monopoly so allowing them to filter out things they deem 'junk mail' would be horrible. In a free market for mail services it is a whole different ballgame.
Must admit I haven't searched Freshmeat lately, but I can probably tell you which languages have QT bindings....
C++, JAVA and maybe Python. And what do these languages have in common? Hmmmm..... Ah, all of them are OO monstrosities.
Of course on Windows & Mac C++ is pretty much the only option because the native environment is designed around it. Lots of C code in UNIXland and it ain't likely to get tossed out and rewritten anytime soon.
Lots of languages exist in UNIX and only the OO languages can easily be tied to QT. Since just about all languages can support Motif & GTK it gives a larger base to draw apps from, which was my original point.