the cop's aren't recording you secretly. That's the difference.
Not exactly. The problem is that not everybody knows of this police surveillance. Therefore, the (relatively few) people that don't know about it ARE being recorded secretly. It's like the Miranda case -- most people knew what their rights were when they were arrested, so it was assumed that everybody knew. But in this case, he didn't, and so he took it to court. Guess what? He won.
On the act locally front, I stopped buying new CDs when Napster went away, and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
I have done the same. However, I'm just waiting for the RIAA to spin the loss of sales as a result of mini-boycotts like this into another argument against Napster or Napster-like services. "Napster was killing our sales before, but now that we got rid of it, it's really killing our sales now!"
One of these days, the RIAA will have to wake up and realize that online distribution isn't going to go away, no matter how hard they try.
Specifically, they all think that in about 3-5 years, the superparamagnetic limit will kick in and current technology will stop getting better
Clarification: It's not that hard drives won't keep getting bigger and bigger. It's just that you'll have problems fitting more data into less space. The result of this is that when the 1 TB hard drives come out, they will of course be larger in size than the 80 GB hard drives of today, despite the advances in technology that will no doubt be available by then.
And how the fuck are they supposed to do that? - Hi, we really need more open servers. Would you mind hosting our network and reciving hundreds of Distributed Denial of service attacks a day?
Take a look at DALnet, for instance. Their servers are DoSed too, but not nearly to the same level as EFnet's servers. And look -- most DALnet servers are open!
Believe it or not, EFnet would vastly improve its situation with more open servers. Having to spend a considerable amount of time searching for a server that will let you connect is VERY annoying. I have spoken with a number of other people who agree with me on this. People don't want to have to do this, and I find it impossible to blame them.
Like it or not, EFnet is pissing off its user base. Not that this warrants DDoS attacks, but the basic principle is that if you treat your users well, they'll treat you well. Likewise, if you piss them off, they're not going to be so likely to be friendly towards you.
You do realize that it said simply re-installing XP would necessitate re-activation. I'm one of the unfortunate few that has been stuck with Windows ever since 286's became obsolete, and I'll say that for some strange reason (maybe cosmic rays!) Windows becomes unstable after ~5 months of regular usage and needs a full HD format & reinstall in order to run properly
This brings up another point about Microsoft's licensing schemes: 'Upgrade' CDs. As many of you know, MS offers upgrade CDs in retail stores that upgrade you to the latest flavor of Win9x, and they offer them for less than the full version of the same flavor. While this is fine, of course, the install program checks your hard drive to see if you have a previous flavor of Win9x installed. If you don't, then you don't get the new flavor.
Here's where the problem comes into play -- what if a particular user has, through some sort of magically lucky stability, upgrade versions (and only upgrade versions) of everything up to, say, WinME? I.e. Win 3.1 upgraded to Win95 upgraded to Win98 upgraded to WinME. Or, in a more likely scenario (this one has happened to me personally), what if they have a full version of Win95 and upgrades up the rest of the chain? If they need to reinstall WinME, are they to start all over again by installing Win 3.1, and working their way up the chain? And, what if -- oops -- they lose their Win95 CD? Then, although they are legally entitled to install and use Win98/WinME, they cannot do so. I know of people this has happened to, and needless to say it was incredibly frustrating for them not to be able to install an OS they had a legal copy of.
That way, your machine won't even try. It'll just think that ads.x10.com isn't accepting connections. If you want the outbound connections to be silently dropped, and not actively rejected (i.e. with ICMP connection refused packets), then s/REJECT/DENY
Apache is under the Apache license. No mention from MS as that license being 'viral'.
There's the solution right there. (Re)release all new software under a personal license. For example, I could release software under the APL (AntiNorm Public License). Let's see M$ try to outlaw that.
I assume you mean you want a drive that's quiet when playing DVD movies, as all drives will be noisy reading data CD/DVDs at full speed
Reminds me of the 40x drive I used to have (I don't remember which brand it was). At low speeds, it was okay, but at full speed, it sounded like a jet taking off.
During the Clinton administration we had to worry about those crazy "right wing" militias who wanted to blow up abortion clinics and overthrow the government
Without getting into a debate on the morality of abortion, is this particular kind of "eco"-terrorism justified? By blowing up an abortion clinic, the militias are saying that it is okay for them to kill, but it is not okay for the clinic itself to "kill." They view abortion as killing, which is wrong, but then they turn around and start killing people at the abortion clinic.
In a world where one OS (Windows) has a de facto monopoly on the desktop market, how then do you go about winning people over to Linux? By "people," I am not just referring to those with a high degree of technological knowledge -- I am referring to everyone. Students, businesses, heck, even housewives.
would you pay 5$ per month to use napster? - not me
I would, if and only if:
* A GOOD selection was available
* High-quality MP3s (160-192 kbps and up) were readily available
* Compensation was fair -- pay the artists, not the RIAA
* The connections were reliable
These conditions imply a few things; mainly, the MP3s will have to be stored centrally for this to work. This alone won't be cheap, but if it works, I'm all for it. But I wouldn't pay for Napster as it is right now, especially after the RIAA shut 99% of it down.
125698.0 GB. That's over 122 TB. Looks like Morpheus is already waaaaaay bigger than Napster ever was (even after you consider that Morpheus allows more than just MP3s to be shared).
...when large mergers produce oversized corporations that, in the past, would have easily been broken into pieces by anti-trust laws. Obviously, corporate influence is too powerful on today's government, so the government of today doesn't care any more about large corporations, monopolies, etc.
The end of the world will come when AOLTW merges with Microsoft.
Basically, a group of people involved in junk snailmailing claimed the same First Amendment right to spam. But in U.S. Supreme Court Appeal 397 U. S. 728, the Supreme Court ruled the exact opposite way. They said that "a man's home is his castle" and that if he doesn't want to receive junk mail, he has the right not to.
Sure, this ruling applied to snail mail, but it is similar enough to email that it is very likely that the Supreme Court would rule the same way here.
Just today, I was in my car doing about 55-60, but my GPS -- a Magellan 2000 -- said I was doing 580 mph. It also said that I was 700 miles away from the town I was headed to, which in reality was only about 10 miles away. And this wasn't a temporary thing either...it kept it up, fluctuating around those values for at least a minute and a half until I turned it off.
I would HATE to think what the fine would be for that. And no, I am not making any of this up or bloating the values...it really said that I was doing 580 mph (in an 84 Oldsmobile??!?)
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the cop's aren't recording you secretly. That's the difference.
Not exactly. The problem is that not everybody knows of this police surveillance. Therefore, the (relatively few) people that don't know about it ARE being recorded secretly. It's like the Miranda case -- most people knew what their rights were when they were arrested, so it was assumed that everybody knew. But in this case, he didn't, and so he took it to court. Guess what? He won.
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On the act locally front, I stopped buying new CDs when Napster went away, and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
I have done the same. However, I'm just waiting for the RIAA to spin the loss of sales as a result of mini-boycotts like this into another argument against Napster or Napster-like services. "Napster was killing our sales before, but now that we got rid of it, it's really killing our sales now!"
One of these days, the RIAA will have to wake up and realize that online distribution isn't going to go away, no matter how hard they try.
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Specifically, they all think that in about 3-5 years, the superparamagnetic limit will kick in and current technology will stop getting better
Clarification: It's not that hard drives won't keep getting bigger and bigger. It's just that you'll have problems fitting more data into less space. The result of this is that when the 1 TB hard drives come out, they will of course be larger in size than the 80 GB hard drives of today, despite the advances in technology that will no doubt be available by then.
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And how the fuck are they supposed to do that? - Hi, we really need more open servers. Would you mind hosting our network and reciving hundreds of Distributed Denial of service attacks a day?
Take a look at DALnet, for instance. Their servers are DoSed too, but not nearly to the same level as EFnet's servers. And look -- most DALnet servers are open!
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DOOR!!
Believe it or not, EFnet would vastly improve its situation with more open servers. Having to spend a considerable amount of time searching for a server that will let you connect is VERY annoying. I have spoken with a number of other people who agree with me on this. People don't want to have to do this, and I find it impossible to blame them.
Like it or not, EFnet is pissing off its user base. Not that this warrants DDoS attacks, but the basic principle is that if you treat your users well, they'll treat you well. Likewise, if you piss them off, they're not going to be so likely to be friendly towards you.
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DOOR!!
You do realize that it said simply re-installing XP would necessitate re-activation. I'm one of the unfortunate few that has been stuck with Windows ever since 286's became obsolete, and I'll say that for some strange reason (maybe cosmic rays!) Windows becomes unstable after ~5 months of regular usage and needs a full HD format & reinstall in order to run properly
This brings up another point about Microsoft's licensing schemes: 'Upgrade' CDs. As many of you know, MS offers upgrade CDs in retail stores that upgrade you to the latest flavor of Win9x, and they offer them for less than the full version of the same flavor. While this is fine, of course, the install program checks your hard drive to see if you have a previous flavor of Win9x installed. If you don't, then you don't get the new flavor.
Here's where the problem comes into play -- what if a particular user has, through some sort of magically lucky stability, upgrade versions (and only upgrade versions) of everything up to, say, WinME? I.e. Win 3.1 upgraded to Win95 upgraded to Win98 upgraded to WinME. Or, in a more likely scenario (this one has happened to me personally), what if they have a full version of Win95 and upgrades up the rest of the chain? If they need to reinstall WinME, are they to start all over again by installing Win 3.1, and working their way up the chain? And, what if -- oops -- they lose their Win95 CD? Then, although they are legally entitled to install and use Win98/WinME, they cannot do so. I know of people this has happened to, and needless to say it was incredibly frustrating for them not to be able to install an OS they had a legal copy of.
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Tip jar.
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If this deal should really happen, it would create the country's largest broadband provider.
So they'd be even bigger than AOL-TW? Now that's a scary thought.
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Actually, it is there. Heck, it's more than there. KDE is probably 10 times more configurable and stable than Windows, and it's not for just novices
This brings up an interesting quote that I believe I first read here on Slashdot:
Windows sucks because the primary intent in making it was to generate revenue, and not a decent operating system.
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blow it away in the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
Better yet: ipchains -A output -p tcp -d ads.x10.com -j REJECT
That way, your machine won't even try. It'll just think that ads.x10.com isn't accepting connections. If you want the outbound connections to be silently dropped, and not actively rejected (i.e. with ICMP connection refused packets), then s/REJECT/DENY
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"One man's quest for the perfect cup of joe leads to a new coffee maker"
Speaking of Joe and coffee, your coffee will have more caffeine in it (i.e. it will be better) if you use Water Joe instead of regular water.
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I'm using the ReiserFS implementation in 2.4.3, and have had no problems at all with it. Am I missing something here?
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DOOR!!
...what effect does the DMCA realistically have on you? Does the US government have the right to tear apart foreign web sites?
Two words: Jon Johansen
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Having a DOT along with a NET captures both the business angle (DOT-com)
.NET contains the dot-com business angle...does that mean that .NET is destined to flop?
So
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Apache is under the Apache license. No mention from MS as that license being 'viral'.
There's the solution right there. (Re)release all new software under a personal license. For example, I could release software under the APL (AntiNorm Public License). Let's see M$ try to outlaw that.
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DOOR!!
I assume you mean you want a drive that's quiet when playing DVD movies, as all drives will be noisy reading data CD/DVDs at full speed
Reminds me of the 40x drive I used to have (I don't remember which brand it was). At low speeds, it was okay, but at full speed, it sounded like a jet taking off.
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DOOR!!
During the Clinton administration we had to worry about those crazy "right wing" militias who wanted to blow up abortion clinics and overthrow the government
Without getting into a debate on the morality of abortion, is this particular kind of "eco"-terrorism justified? By blowing up an abortion clinic, the militias are saying that it is okay for them to kill, but it is not okay for the clinic itself to "kill." They view abortion as killing, which is wrong, but then they turn around and start killing people at the abortion clinic.
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DOOR!!
In a world where one OS (Windows) has a de facto monopoly on the desktop market, how then do you go about winning people over to Linux? By "people," I am not just referring to those with a high degree of technological knowledge -- I am referring to everyone. Students, businesses, heck, even housewives.
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DOOR!!
would you pay 5$ per month to use napster? - not me
I would, if and only if:
* A GOOD selection was available
* High-quality MP3s (160-192 kbps and up) were readily available
* Compensation was fair -- pay the artists, not the RIAA
* The connections were reliable
These conditions imply a few things; mainly, the MP3s will have to be stored centrally for this to work. This alone won't be cheap, but if it works, I'm all for it. But I wouldn't pay for Napster as it is right now, especially after the RIAA shut 99% of it down.
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DOOR!!
Yes, but it's a matter of time before Morpheus becomes as big as Napster
326895 users online, sharing 29106K files (125698.0 GB)
125698.0 GB. That's over 122 TB. Looks like Morpheus is already waaaaaay bigger than Napster ever was (even after you consider that Morpheus allows more than just MP3s to be shared).
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DOOR!!
...when large mergers produce oversized corporations that, in the past, would have easily been broken into pieces by anti-trust laws. Obviously, corporate influence is too powerful on today's government, so the government of today doesn't care any more about large corporations, monopolies, etc.
The end of the world will come when AOLTW merges with Microsoft.
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DOOR!!
This page explains the situation quite nicely.
Basically, a group of people involved in junk snailmailing claimed the same First Amendment right to spam. But in U.S. Supreme Court Appeal 397 U. S. 728, the Supreme Court ruled the exact opposite way. They said that "a man's home is his castle" and that if he doesn't want to receive junk mail, he has the right not to.
Sure, this ruling applied to snail mail, but it is similar enough to email that it is very likely that the Supreme Court would rule the same way here.
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DOOR!!
Somebody should patent the process of filing a patent lawsuit. Then Gracenote wouldn't be able to pull crap like this.
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DOOR!!
FARK ran a thread yesterday where people photoshopped the WinXP logo. There were some interesting results.
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DOOR!!
Just today, I was in my car doing about 55-60, but my GPS -- a Magellan 2000 -- said I was doing 580 mph. It also said that I was 700 miles away from the town I was headed to, which in reality was only about 10 miles away. And this wasn't a temporary thing either...it kept it up, fluctuating around those values for at least a minute and a half until I turned it off.
I would HATE to think what the fine would be for that. And no, I am not making any of this up or bloating the values...it really said that I was doing 580 mph (in an 84 Oldsmobile??!?)
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DOOR!!