yeah take away the government is a great plan. I can just see everyone diving for the opportunity to build roads and collect garbage in the open-government model. Man lately it's beginning to seem like open source is becoming synonymous with anti-government, anti-corporation. This almost makes me ashamed to be a part of it all.
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When has any of that NOT been legal? It's always been like that. You haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained (from your point of view). If you want to view dvds on your computer, crack it yourself and don't tell the government. If you don't like the MPAA or authors that much, make your own movies and write your own books and watch them ad nauseum! You have no right to copy someone else's work if they don't want you to.
I don't see this so much as freedoms being stolen as I do opportunities, and technologies, being created. Essentially we are opening a big barrel of monkeys and are being told that we can have most of them, but not all. I see this as being better than in the past. I don't agree with the DVD situation in the LEAST. However I think we should be happy with what we have so far, and you should realise that in the past we didn't even have a big network where we could share ideas or code like this, let alone the tools to develop it for free. In the past, software such as linux may not have been legally developed in that they infringe on patents of company X's computer architecture. Furthermore, I don't think that if we don't act now, we never will get a chance. Things change. I find it hard to believe that there would never be free DVD code for Linux if we don't do something radical about it now. It sure is a good way to generate hits on slashdot.org though.
I just tried out the Rage Mobility driver on my Rage Mobility M. Still get corrupted video. I guess this one isn't supported? They probably should have clarified which revisions they support.
Virtually everything works on the new thinkpads already....... There is a Lucent WinModem driver now (which was deemed not important enough for a slashdot story when I submitted it), there is a sound driver for the new i series, the video works (although the accelerated driver is still under development and the developers at XF86 have been ignoring my emails). The DVD is usable but movies don't play in linux and that's no fault of IBM's. In any case, IBM is being VERY helpful in getting Linux up and running on Thinkpads. Mine runs great!
You totally misinterpreted the response. I never said knocking a machine off the net or spoofing were acceptable. I said that that's an actual real use for DoS, as opposed to just endlessly streaming packets on to a network so that network becomes useless for the people on it. You're right, there is no need for spoofing or DoS in any form. I do however find it slightly more rediculous to flood a machine with random packets for no apparent reason other than to use up all it's bandwidth or attempt to crash it. What hell is the point? It's pretty much a pissing contest where the other guy doesn't even have to or want to go in most cases.
an example: if you want to spoof a machine that is on the network, you have to slow it down enough that it can't respond to packets.
None of this flooding out people's links so they can't even use their network. It's the most rediculous thing I've ever seen. It's just plain wrong. And you people complain about the price of bandwidth... it's no wonder! You're wasting it all and costing these companies a LOT of money, not to mention denying innocent parties their right to use what you take for granted.
I hope all you fucking denial of service assholes get what's coming to you... a big bill from the telcos and isps and a trip to federal prison. I see that as no different than tying someone up in your basement and not letting them go to work. You probably don't even have a clue of what the real use of denial-of-service is.
That's why I use a newton!! It uses REAL handwriting and it's pretty accurate for me. I've noticed that other people dont' like it though:) Oh well....
The problem is that you're listening to bad music to begin with. When I spend money on a CD, it's on a CD that has all "good songs" on it. The musicians who make the music I listen to make only good music. Furthermore, alot of music I listen to comes in "albums", not in "songs". If you don't have the whole album, you're missing parts of the puzzle! Get better taste!
"But over the last two years, a format called MP3 has made it far easier to compress and transmit music data. Now, virtually anyone with a PC and a modem can set up an illicit music factory, create perfect digital copies and e-mail them to friends."
PERFECT DIGITAL COPIES? AHAHAHAHAAH Yah right. These people must be playing these on their PC Speaker? The quality is no-where near perfect on an MP3.
In any case, as was said above, we don't have to use the new system, and if it gets forced in any way, I'm sure it will be worked around. It's never stopped us before. We have CDDA and CD burners afterall, don't we?
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yeah take away the government is a great plan. I can just see everyone diving for the opportunity to build roads and collect garbage in the open-government model. Man lately it's beginning to seem like open source is becoming synonymous with anti-government, anti-corporation. This almost makes me ashamed to be a part of it all.
When has any of that NOT been legal? It's always been like that. You haven't lost anything, you just haven't gained (from your point of view). If you want to view dvds on your computer, crack it yourself and don't tell the government. If you don't like the MPAA or authors that much, make your own movies and write your own books and watch them ad nauseum! You have no right to copy someone else's work if they don't want you to.
I don't see this so much as freedoms being stolen as I do opportunities, and technologies, being created. Essentially we are opening a big barrel of monkeys and are being told that we can have most of them, but not all. I see this as being better than in the past. I don't agree with the DVD situation in the LEAST. However I think we should be happy with what we have so far, and you should realise that in the past we didn't even have a big network where we could share ideas or code like this, let alone the tools to develop it for free. In the past, software such as linux may not have been legally developed in that they infringe on patents of company X's computer architecture. Furthermore, I don't think that if we don't act now, we never will get a chance. Things change. I find it hard to believe that there would never be free DVD code for Linux if we don't do something radical about it now. It sure is a good way to generate hits on slashdot.org though.
Their operating system lets the software do it. If they don't want that happening, they should be talking to Microsoft, not suing AOL.
I'd like to see Navigator for Linux try to takeover lynx or kfm on my machine.
Here come the proxies and tunnels now....... Not like blocking ports can ever stop people from using bandwidth or applications
I just tried out the Rage Mobility driver on my Rage Mobility M. Still get corrupted video. I guess this one isn't supported? They probably should have clarified which revisions they support.
Virtually everything works on the new thinkpads already....... There is a Lucent WinModem driver now (which was deemed not important enough for a slashdot story when I submitted it), there is a sound driver for the new i series, the video works (although the accelerated driver is still under development and the developers at XF86 have been ignoring my emails). The DVD is usable but movies don't play in linux and that's no fault of IBM's. In any case, IBM is being VERY helpful in getting Linux up and running on Thinkpads. Mine runs great!
You totally misinterpreted the response. I never said knocking a machine off the net or spoofing were acceptable. I said that that's an actual real use for DoS, as opposed to just endlessly streaming packets on to a network so that network becomes useless for the people on it. You're right, there is no need for spoofing or DoS in any form. I do however find it slightly more rediculous to flood a machine with random packets for no apparent reason other than to use up all it's bandwidth or attempt to crash it. What hell is the point? It's pretty much a pissing contest where the other guy doesn't even have to or want to go in most cases.
an example: if you want to spoof a machine that is on the network, you have to slow it down enough that it can't respond to packets.
None of this flooding out people's links so they can't even use their network. It's the most rediculous thing I've ever seen. It's just plain wrong. And you people complain about the price of bandwidth... it's no wonder! You're wasting it all and costing these companies a LOT of money, not to mention denying innocent parties their right to use what you take for granted.
I hope all you fucking denial of service assholes get what's coming to you... a big bill from the telcos and isps and a trip to federal prison. I see that as no different than tying someone up in your basement and not letting them go to work. You probably don't even have a clue of what the real use of denial-of-service is.
Fud, fud, fud,
Which is good, which is bad?
Fud, fud, fud,
Ask your mom and ask your dad.
That's why I use a newton!! It uses REAL handwriting and it's pretty accurate for me. I've noticed that other people dont' like it though :) Oh well....
The problem is that you're listening to bad music to begin with. When I spend money on a CD, it's on a CD that has all "good songs" on it. The musicians who make the music I listen to make only good music. Furthermore, alot of music I listen to comes in "albums", not in "songs". If you don't have the whole album, you're missing parts of the puzzle! Get better taste!
The article claims:
"But over the last two years, a format
called MP3 has made it far easier to compress
and transmit music data. Now, virtually
anyone with a PC and a modem can set up an
illicit music factory, create perfect digital
copies and e-mail them to friends."
PERFECT DIGITAL COPIES? AHAHAHAHAAH Yah right. These people must be playing these on their PC Speaker? The quality is no-where near perfect on an MP3.
In any case, as was said above, we don't have to use the new system, and if it gets forced in any way, I'm sure it will be worked around. It's never stopped us before. We have CDDA and CD burners afterall, don't we?