I agree completely. I saw that on the news last night, Bush signing the executive order reinstating a ban on funding for programs that supported or provided counseling for abortions. This goes against the will of the MAJORITY of the American people.
This article I read the other day on Security Portal was a good read. It was mostly about using ssh but gives some examples of how to use it to automate some sys admin work and do it all securely as well.
The gear is suprisingly inexpensive. I dont have the link at the moment as I am at work, but I had priced low-power FM equipment before, and the actual transmitting equipment is under US$1000. All you need in addition to that is a music source, say, two turntables and a microphone? (And a mixer, and so on)...
The article says that they learned about the vulnerability on July 1st, but hadn't released information on it, and weren't going to until a patch was available...
>Going down to Colombia and BOMBING all of the cocoa fields there would accomplish more than anything else we've tried in the past 20 years. I'd love to see that done.
Well rest assured your dream will come true. Congress just approved a huge appropriation of funds to buy the Columbian army a bunch of helicopters, which will be used to butcher anyone and everyone associated with cocaine production. And lets make sure to bomb all those cocoa fields, wouldnt want anyone to have any chocolate! (It's coca, not cocoa).
>As for people saying that this bill would infringe on people's rights to "educate" - that's ridiculous.
Bullshit. The wording of the bill is so vague as to deem just about anything drug-related as illegal. Thus, government and law enforcement will be able to pick and choose which websites will be allowed to distribute such information.
>Drug education would say "Such and such drugs will do this to you...
Agreed, sort of... As far as the government is concerned, drug education = "drugs are bad, mmkay?" Frankly, if someone is going to do drugs, which is THEIR business, I would rather they have available to them any and all information, especially information from objective viewpoints, something the government cannot provide.
As an occasional drug user (I know, being a drug user I must be an addict, so my opinions and views will be dismissed by you) I have seen many people do many STUPID things on drugs that could have been easily avoided had they educated themselves properly. This bill we do nothing to help educate people, if anything, it will cause MORE casualties. If the war on drugs has shown us anything, it is that the government does NOT have our best interests in mind here, and that is NOT the reason that there is a War on drugs.
>Your right to free speech is not being infringed...
Once again, BULLSHIT. This is about losing our right to free speech in the name of the War on Drugs. Our CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT to FREE speech is why we fought a war to gain our independence. And you want to forsake that in the name of the WOD?? If this isn't a troll, I pity you...
This isn't about my "'rights' to post drug tutorials," it's about FREE SPEECH.
Frankly, I dont think any sane person would argue your "rights" to own automatic weapons are more important than the amendment that was the driving force behind our revolution against the British.
Don't get me wrong, I am a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment, for various reasons. Just keep in mind what the real threat is here. Once our rights to free speech are taken away, do you think anyone will care about our rights to bear arms???
For the record, it seems most (intelligent) people I run into agree with me that the war on drugs isn't working, and that prohibition causes more problems than it solves.
I read an article the other day, talking about third parties, and it seems more and more politicians are seeing just how futile the WOD is as well. Some even think that anti-prohibition is a good position to take politically.
Except, Napster asked the judge in the RIAA v. Napster case for a summery judgement under the ISP provision of the DMCA, and they were DENIED. It was on Slashdot last week.
I have stated my opinion on this before, but might as well throw in my 2 cents... I liked Metallica a lot, not their biggest fan, but I liked them. I agree that the law is on their side, but that doesnt, IMHO, make it right.
Frankly, I liked black, but everything after that sucked. Sell out, suck ass, whatever... They have way too much money for me to have any respect for them...
Sorta OT, but what the hell. A friend of mine emailed a guy on Congo Natty, a jungle/ragga label, and asked why they released everything on white labels (for the uninitiated, a white label has no text on the label identifying who the artist is, this is in reference to a record). His response was that they didnt care about making money, they just wanted to get their music out there and make enough to sm0ke herb =). I'm not saying it is right for everyone, and I don't expect all musicians to want to be starving artists, but financial gain should not be a musician's motivation to make music.
Along the same lines, an excellent article about how our police are becoming increasingly paramilitary. Think that we aren't already living in a police state? Guess again...
Nothing is sacred when we are doing something in the name of the War On Drugs. Anything goes. Constitutional rights? Ha.
I submitted the article about the Methamphetamine Antiproliferation Act that was posted here last week. I am glad that there are actually people who understand how horrible this bill can be. It may only affect information with the "intent" of it being used to manufacture drugs, but who determines intent? How is this not protected as free speech? How can this information be illegal in electronic form, but I can go check out PIHKAL from the library?
The reason most people dont know about this bill is because they dont know/think it affects them. Same thing as the DMCA.
Just a suggestion: Support independent labels! (Most) music worth paying for isn't that cookie-cutter crap that passes for music nowadays.
The musicians who make obscene amounts of money are the select few who have the blessing of the music behemoth known as the RIAA. You can make money from making music, but there is a difference between making enough to get by, and selling your soul to the corporate machine.
I certainly believe artists are entitled to make money from their work. I don't think that Napster is completely free from wrongdoing. However, I still believe that the RIAA has systematically raped musicians and consumers, and that this must be stopped.
There is a saying that goes something like "The people get the government that they deserve." The same holds true for the music industry.
I have never seen a discussion on Slashdot that caused so many short-sighted people to bitch and moan. Browsing at +1 I still read post after post that brought up the issue of that little message at the bottom: "Comments are owned by the Poster." Had anyone taken the time to read some of the posts before posting inflammatory tripe, they would have seen numerous posts stating that any comments that are made in a public forum are in the public domain.
I would expect much more from a community like Slashdot. Blatent trolls aside, this tends to be a gathering place for intelligent people, yet by the posts yesterday I would have a hard time believing it.
By publishing this book, Jon and Andover are doing a great service to people whose voices would have remained unheard otherwise. The average American still blames the internet, Quake, TV, movies, anything... Anything we can do to stop perpetuating this myth is a Good Thing®.
It was called the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act. The bill would make it: "unlawful for any person [...] to teach or demonstrate to any person the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime." Last I heard, it passed in the house then was struck down in the senate. Talk about Draconion. Funny how nothing is sacred when it is under attack by the "War On Drugs."
Why is it that every non-US poster on Slashdot sees fit to point out how ridiculous it is that we believe in the right to bear arms? Let's leave the US' gun laws out of this. Every country has its fair share of silly laws and legislation, no reason to attack eachother.
As ridiculous as it seems, I am glad that organizations like the NRA exist. I may not agree totally with their views and opinions, but the fact remains, if the NRA isnt fighting for our constitutional rights, than who will? I may not like many of the people the ACLU defends, or their beliefs, but I would still support them.
The right to bear arms may not seem very important to most of us, but once we lose that, one of our CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED rights, what is to stop legislation making ISPs responsible for content posted on their pages, and so on?
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I agree completely. I saw that on the news last night, Bush signing the executive order reinstating a ban on funding for programs that supported or provided counseling for abortions. This goes against the will of the MAJORITY of the American people.
Oh wait, so did the "election"... Damn...
This is about theft. That's all.
Are you a troll? Or just a putz?
This is not about theft. This is about our RIGHTS as consumers. RIGHTS, as in something which we are entitled to.
copyrighted - like 'owned by'
This ridiculous statement says it all. Say it with me now, copyright, like 'the RIGHT to copy'. Try reading the article, you might be enlightened.
Points 2 and 3 he makes sound an awful lot like Nader...
This article I read the other day on Security Portal was a good read. It was mostly about using ssh but gives some examples of how to use it to automate some sys admin work and do it all securely as well.
The gear is suprisingly inexpensive. I dont have the link at the moment as I am at work, but I had priced low-power FM equipment before, and the actual transmitting equipment is under US$1000. All you need in addition to that is a music source, say, two turntables and a microphone? (And a mixer, and so on)...
The article says that they learned about the vulnerability on July 1st, but hadn't released information on it, and weren't going to until a patch was available...
>Going down to Colombia and BOMBING all of the cocoa fields there would accomplish more than anything else we've tried in the past 20 years. I'd love to see that done.
Well rest assured your dream will come true. Congress just approved a huge appropriation of funds to buy the Columbian army a bunch of helicopters, which will be used to butcher anyone and everyone associated with cocaine production. And lets make sure to bomb all those cocoa fields, wouldnt want anyone to have any chocolate! (It's coca, not cocoa).
>As for people saying that this bill would infringe on people's rights to "educate" - that's ridiculous.
Bullshit. The wording of the bill is so vague as to deem just about anything drug-related as illegal. Thus, government and law enforcement will be able to pick and choose which websites will be allowed to distribute such information.
>Drug education would say "Such and such drugs will do this to you...
Agreed, sort of... As far as the government is concerned, drug education = "drugs are bad, mmkay?" Frankly, if someone is going to do drugs, which is THEIR business, I would rather they have available to them any and all information, especially information from objective viewpoints, something the government cannot provide.
As an occasional drug user (I know, being a drug user I must be an addict, so my opinions and views will be dismissed by you) I have seen many people do many STUPID things on drugs that could have been easily avoided had they educated themselves properly. This bill we do nothing to help educate people, if anything, it will cause MORE casualties. If the war on drugs has shown us anything, it is that the government does NOT have our best interests in mind here, and that is NOT the reason that there is a War on drugs.
>Your right to free speech is not being infringed...
Once again, BULLSHIT. This is about losing our right to free speech in the name of the War on Drugs. Our CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT to FREE speech is why we fought a war to gain our independence. And you want to forsake that in the name of the WOD?? If this isn't a troll, I pity you...
This isn't about my "'rights' to post drug tutorials," it's about FREE SPEECH.
Frankly, I dont think any sane person would argue your "rights" to own automatic weapons are more important than the amendment that was the driving force behind our revolution against the British.
Don't get me wrong, I am a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment, for various reasons. Just keep in mind what the real threat is here. Once our rights to free speech are taken away, do you think anyone will care about our rights to bear arms???
For the record, it seems most (intelligent) people I run into agree with me that the war on drugs isn't working, and that prohibition causes more problems than it solves.
I read an article the other day, talking about third parties, and it seems more and more politicians are seeing just how futile the WOD is as well. Some even think that anti-prohibition is a good position to take politically.
All the more reason to vote for Ralph Nader... =)
Looked inside a 2500 series router once, it seems to be a Motorola 68K series processor...
Except, Napster asked the judge in the RIAA v. Napster case for a summery judgement under the ISP provision of the DMCA, and they were DENIED. It was on Slashdot last week.
I have stated my opinion on this before, but might as well throw in my 2 cents... I liked Metallica a lot, not their biggest fan, but I liked them. I agree that the law is on their side, but that doesnt, IMHO, make it right.
Frankly, I liked black, but everything after that sucked. Sell out, suck ass, whatever... They have way too much money for me to have any respect for them...
Sorta OT, but what the hell. A friend of mine emailed a guy on Congo Natty, a jungle/ragga label, and asked why they released everything on white labels (for the uninitiated, a white label has no text on the label identifying who the artist is, this is in reference to a record). His response was that they didnt care about making money, they just wanted to get their music out there and make enough to sm0ke herb =). I'm not saying it is right for everyone, and I don't expect all musicians to want to be starving artists, but financial gain should not be a musician's motivation to make music.
http://www.ariannaonline.com /columns/files/050400.html
Along the same lines, an excellent article about how our police are becoming increasingly paramilitary. Think that we aren't already living in a police state? Guess again...
Amen.
Nothing is sacred when we are doing something in the name of the War On Drugs. Anything goes. Constitutional rights? Ha.
I submitted the article about the Methamphetamine Antiproliferation Act that was posted here last week. I am glad that there are actually people who understand how horrible this bill can be. It may only affect information with the "intent" of it being used to manufacture drugs, but who determines intent? How is this not protected as free speech? How can this information be illegal in electronic form, but I can go check out PIHKAL from the library?
The reason most people dont know about this bill is because they dont know/think it affects them. Same thing as the DMCA.
Your post was excellent, thank you.
Just a suggestion: Support independent labels! (Most) music worth paying for isn't that cookie-cutter crap that passes for music nowadays.
The musicians who make obscene amounts of money are the select few who have the blessing of the music behemoth known as the RIAA. You can make money from making music, but there is a difference between making enough to get by, and selling your soul to the corporate machine.
I certainly believe artists are entitled to make money from their work. I don't think that Napster is completely free from wrongdoing. However, I still believe that the RIAA has systematically raped musicians and consumers, and that this must be stopped.
There is a saying that goes something like "The people get the government that they deserve." The same holds true for the music industry.
http://www.electic.com/Reviews/D-L ink_USB_Radio/
Just saw this the other day. Dont know about linux compatibility, but its just what you asked for =)
Wait, I think the RIAA just filed a lawsuit against D-Link...
I have never seen a discussion on Slashdot that caused so many short-sighted people to bitch and moan. Browsing at +1 I still read post after post that brought up the issue of that little message at the bottom: "Comments are owned by the Poster." Had anyone taken the time to read some of the posts before posting inflammatory tripe, they would have seen numerous posts stating that any comments that are made in a public forum are in the public domain.
I would expect much more from a community like Slashdot. Blatent trolls aside, this tends to be a gathering place for intelligent people, yet by the posts yesterday I would have a hard time believing it.
By publishing this book, Jon and Andover are doing a great service to people whose voices would have remained unheard otherwise. The average American still blames the internet, Quake, TV, movies, anything... Anything we can do to stop perpetuating this myth is a Good Thing®.
It was called the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act. The bill would make it: "unlawful for any person [...] to teach or demonstrate to any person the manufacture of a controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime." Last I heard, it passed in the house then was struck down in the senate. Talk about Draconion. Funny how nothing is sacred when it is under attack by the "War On Drugs."
Why is it that every non-US poster on Slashdot sees fit to point out how ridiculous it is that we believe in the right to bear arms? Let's leave the US' gun laws out of this. Every country has its fair share of silly laws and legislation, no reason to attack eachother.
As ridiculous as it seems, I am glad that organizations like the NRA exist. I may not agree totally with their views and opinions, but the fact remains, if the NRA isnt fighting for our constitutional rights, than who will? I may not like many of the people the ACLU defends, or their beliefs, but I would still support them.
The right to bear arms may not seem very important to most of us, but once we lose that, one of our CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED rights, what is to stop legislation making ISPs responsible for content posted on their pages, and so on?
There are still geeks out there who spend hours obsessing about their records every day and spend all their time cleaning them and caring for them...
We are called DJs =)
Just because most of the music I have is in MP3 format doesnt mean I dont buy music, I just only buy it on vinyl.