Meanwhile, CNET reports that SDMI adjourned from their most recent meeting without picking any technologies to go forward with - an admission that they are all thoroughly broken, by the team led by Professor Felton, who spoke yesterday at Stanford
Are they going to sue Professor Felton for talking publically about SDMI like they did last time? [satirical question based on the asinine past actions of the SDMI group]
No more joysticks or keyboards. Just gestures to control, say, an aircraft.
This would be great for the Air Force. Just use your middle finger to fire a missile at your enemy! Now, the middle finger is really the way to say "fsck you."
Enough of this DMCA/Digital Transmission Content Protection/SDMI/etc crap. We need specs, regulations, and laws that protect the consumer, and we need them NOW.
This reminds me of a situation I read about a few years ago. I don't remember many of the details, but a group of prisoners tried to get their "Church of the Harley-Davidson" officially recognized for some reason or another. Naturally, they were denied.
I think a key point here is he was 13. It's an age where you just aren't a fully reasonable adult.
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13-year-olds ARE NOT ADULTS. As tang has said here, you just aren't fully reasonable. Not to mention that you can't drive, you can't vote, and you can't do 34092 other things that "adults" can do.
So why the fsck does our society persist in trying people as young as 13 as adults? I certainly don't condone what some of them have done, but this is setting a ridiculous double standard. Are they adults or not?
In my technical writing class at Oklahoma State, we were required to submit a packet at the end of the semester with hard copies of ALL our work. We were also required to submit a disk with all our class files on it. From what the professor said in class, the English department is building a database of papers that have been written in that class so that plagairism can be prevented.
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Downloaded both of these RPMs from a RedHat mirror, and they installed without trouble. WP worked perfectly after that. Thanks for the help.
BTW, in case anybody else out there is having trouble with this, I had to modify install.wp so that, instead of looking at the output of uname -r, it would just look at the string "2.4.3". Apparently, the tail end of custom versions like 2.4.3-20mdk makes install.wp barf. If you are getting an "Integer expression expected" error, this is the likely cause.
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Yes, melatonin is natural, but please be careful with it. Lot's of people seem to be blindly jumping on the melatonin bandwagon. Be aware that it can be inappropriate, especially for younger people. Use of melatonin can actually depress your natural production.
The same thing applies to over-the-counter sleeping tablets, which usually use dipenhydramine. If you can't fall asleep any other way, dipenhydramine works wonders (I occasionally use it myself). But you want to be real careful when doing this, because despite the claims on most boxes that "these are not habit-forming," it is relatively easy to fsck up your sleeping cycle. Neurochemistry is a sensitive thing, and the less you mess with it without a doctor's supervision, the better.
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Craig Mundie, a senior vice president at Microsoft and one of its software strategists, will argue that the company already follows the best attributes of the open-source model by sharing the original programmer's instructions, or source code, more widely than is generally realized
I realize that in some *very limited* circumstances, MS does share their source code, but to make a comment such as this is just plain deceitful. To make a comment such as what Craig is saying, that MS shares their source code "more widely than is generally realized," is akin to saying that I can pay down part of my student loan by submitting one cent to the Financial Aid office. Technically it's true, but in practice it's just plain BS.
Question for Craig: If, as you say, Microsoft shares its source code "more widely than is generally realized," then why don't any freelance programmers have access to it? For example, why doesn't the Wine team have access to it (not even one member)? And so on.
Leave it to Microsoft to make up stories like this.
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(Only if you're not infringing...if you're blatantly infringing, such as by running a warez ISO site, you deserve what you get)
1. Buy yourself a good lawyer.
2. Find out which judge the complainants plan to use.
3. Find out what price the complainants are willing to pay for the judge.
4. Offer the judge 10% more.
5. Recoup the cost of the judge as part of the settlement -- remember, he who pays the most wins.
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This would also apply to channel names, just as EFnet is planning to do in hybrid7, with Vchans.
Please tell me EFnet is also planning on fixing their I: lines. It is VERY irritating to have to manually cycle through literally 25+ servers (I had to go through 27 once) just to find one that won't boot you off saying "you are not authorized to use this server."
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How enforceable is that? Not only is it at the BOTTOM of the page (where you won't read it until you hit the end of the article in all Western languages), but you have to have done so BEFORE having read the page content?
To go along with unenforcability, here's a true story: At the beginning of this semester, I obtained a copy of Allyn & Bacon Web Edition (a PDF/web based textbook viewer) as part of my tech writing class. It came with a printed license agreement that said "By opening this package..." But the printed LA was *inside* the package, with the CD. Where the fsck is the logic in that? That makes it impossible to be able to read the fscking agreement without automatically "accepting" it.
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You could quite possibly attain terminal velocity (120 mph) before having to open your canopy. IIRC, it takes a freefall of ~1500 feet to hit terminal velocity, and since the minimum opening altitude for experienced jumpers is 2000 feet, you would just be hitting terminal as you open.
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I work at a college radio station. The munificant record companies have given us the right to play anything in their many catalogues (essentially any shrink-wrapped cd is ok to play on-air). The have, thus, given myself and the other progammers there the right to share many songs with many people, one at a time. Why, I ask you, is this form of music sharing any diffferent on a basic level than swapping mp3s or.mov's?
Ask your superiors how much the station doles out in licensing fees some time. I think you'll be surprised by how high the rate is. This $$$ is what makes the difference to the RIAA about you being able to share/not share.
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First, the MPAA does have to go to court to get identification of particular users - a subpoena is required
Except in states where the MPAA has the power to issue its own subpoenas (which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard). California is one such state. I'm not aware of any other states, but that certainly doesn't mean that they don't exist or that the MPAA isn't trying to get subpoena power in other states.
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Even writing zeros over every byte in a file doesn't completely remove it. The heads in a HDD aren't powerful enough to completely relaign all the magnetic domains on the ferreous surface
This is true. However, this is also the reason why programs such as 'shred' write over a file multiple times -- the HDD heads will have slightly different alignment each time, and by making more passes, more of the data track will be erased. There is even a Department of Defense standard on how many passes should be made, plus the write-over pattern that should be used for secure deletion of sensitive military information.
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Meanwhile, CNET reports that SDMI adjourned from their most recent meeting without picking any technologies to go forward with - an admission that they are all thoroughly broken, by the team led by Professor Felton, who spoke yesterday at Stanford
Are they going to sue Professor Felton for talking publically about SDMI like they did last time?
[satirical question based on the asinine past actions of the SDMI group]
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No more joysticks or keyboards. Just gestures to control, say, an aircraft.
This would be great for the Air Force. Just use your middle finger to fire a missile at your enemy! Now, the middle finger is really the way to say "fsck you."
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The duplications and 'time-shifts' (read: piracy) are simply copying without the authorization
Then why the hell did the Supreme Court rule that time shifting is a perfectly legal example of fair use?
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Enough of this DMCA/Digital Transmission Content Protection/SDMI/etc crap. We need specs, regulations, and laws that protect the consumer, and we need them NOW.
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This reminds me of a situation I read about a few years ago. I don't remember many of the details, but a group of prisoners tried to get their "Church of the Harley-Davidson" officially recognized for some reason or another. Naturally, they were denied.
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Quick! Somebody patent it before RAMBUS does! (Just imagine the royalties they could make off of this)
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I think a key point here is he was 13. It's an age where you just aren't a fully reasonable adult.
Almost modded this up, but I decided I'd reply to it instead.
13-year-olds ARE NOT ADULTS. As tang has said here, you just aren't fully reasonable. Not to mention that you can't drive, you can't vote, and you can't do 34092 other things that "adults" can do.
So why the fsck does our society persist in trying people as young as 13 as adults? I certainly don't condone what some of them have done, but this is setting a ridiculous double standard. Are they adults or not?
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It may be illegal under the antitrust laws, but only by a firm that is using tying to either attain or solidify monopoly power.
This sounds exactly like the MPAA.
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In my technical writing class at Oklahoma State, we were required to submit a packet at the end of the semester with hard copies of ALL our work. We were also required to submit a disk with all our class files on it. From what the professor said in class, the English department is building a database of papers that have been written in that class so that plagairism can be prevented.
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Here are some links to the necessary RPMs:a t/redhat-6.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libc-5.3.12-31 .i386.rpm a t/redhat-6.2-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ld.so-1.9.5-13 .i386.rpm
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/redh
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/redh
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Downloaded both of these RPMs from a RedHat mirror, and they installed without trouble. WP worked perfectly after that. Thanks for the help.
BTW, in case anybody else out there is having trouble with this, I had to modify install.wp so that, instead of looking at the output of uname -r, it would just look at the string "2.4.3". Apparently, the tail end of custom versions like 2.4.3-20mdk makes install.wp barf. If you are getting an "Integer expression expected" error, this is the likely cause.
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Yes, melatonin is natural, but please be careful with it. Lot's of people seem to be blindly jumping on the melatonin bandwagon. Be aware that it can be inappropriate, especially for younger people. Use of melatonin can actually depress your natural production.
The same thing applies to over-the-counter sleeping tablets, which usually use dipenhydramine. If you can't fall asleep any other way, dipenhydramine works wonders (I occasionally use it myself). But you want to be real careful when doing this, because despite the claims on most boxes that "these are not habit-forming," it is relatively easy to fsck up your sleeping cycle. Neurochemistry is a sensitive thing, and the less you mess with it without a doctor's supervision, the better.
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Maybe they wish to buy it an either rewrite things to share WMAs
Napster already supports WMA trading.
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Craig Mundie, a senior vice president at Microsoft and one of its software strategists, will argue that the company already follows the best attributes of the open-source model by sharing the original programmer's instructions, or source code, more widely than is generally realized
I realize that in some *very limited* circumstances, MS does share their source code, but to make a comment such as this is just plain deceitful. To make a comment such as what Craig is saying, that MS shares their source code "more widely than is generally realized," is akin to saying that I can pay down part of my student loan by submitting one cent to the Financial Aid office. Technically it's true, but in practice it's just plain BS.
Question for Craig: If, as you say, Microsoft shares its source code "more widely than is generally realized," then why don't any freelance programmers have access to it? For example, why doesn't the Wine team have access to it (not even one member)? And so on.
Leave it to Microsoft to make up stories like this.
[end rant]
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Two stories in a row with comments along the lines of "This isn't an April Fools Joke"...April was last month. I'm confused
So perhaps a more appropriate comment would be "Mayday! Mayday!"? After all, this is May day (May 1).
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(Only if you're not infringing...if you're blatantly infringing, such as by running a warez ISO site, you deserve what you get)
1. Buy yourself a good lawyer.
2. Find out which judge the complainants plan to use.
3. Find out what price the complainants are willing to pay for the judge.
4. Offer the judge 10% more.
5. Recoup the cost of the judge as part of the settlement -- remember, he who pays the most wins.
---
The AOL-Time Warner-Microsoft-Intel-CBS-ABC-NBC-Fox corporation:
This would also apply to channel names, just as EFnet is planning to do in hybrid7, with Vchans.
Please tell me EFnet is also planning on fixing their I: lines. It is VERY irritating to have to manually cycle through literally 25+ servers (I had to go through 27 once) just to find one that won't boot you off saying "you are not authorized to use this server."
---
The AOL-Time Warner-Microsoft-Intel-CBS-ABC-NBC-Fox corporation:
How enforceable is that? Not only is it at the BOTTOM of the page (where you won't read it until you hit the end of the article in all Western languages), but you have to have done so BEFORE having read the page content?
To go along with unenforcability, here's a true story: At the beginning of this semester, I obtained a copy of Allyn & Bacon Web Edition (a PDF/web based textbook viewer) as part of my tech writing class. It came with a printed license agreement that said "By opening this package..." But the printed LA was *inside* the package, with the CD. Where the fsck is the logic in that? That makes it impossible to be able to read the fscking agreement without automatically "accepting" it.
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Hawdware for Embedded Controllers?
Uhhh...shouldn't that be hardware?
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I'd love to base jump it
You could quite possibly attain terminal velocity (120 mph) before having to open your canopy. IIRC, it takes a freefall of ~1500 feet to hit terminal velocity, and since the minimum opening altitude for experienced jumpers is 2000 feet, you would just be hitting terminal as you open.
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And yet they haven't written one simple law that would prevent the senseless waste of life and equipment that has been caused by skydiving.
Yes they have.
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I work at a college radio station. The munificant record companies have given us the right to play anything in their many catalogues (essentially any shrink-wrapped cd is ok to play on-air). The have, thus, given myself and the other progammers there the right to share many songs with many people, one at a time. Why, I ask you, is this form of music sharing any diffferent on a basic level than swapping mp3s or .mov's?
Ask your superiors how much the station doles out in licensing fees some time. I think you'll be surprised by how high the rate is. This $$$ is what makes the difference to the RIAA about you being able to share/not share.
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The AOL-Time Warner-Microsoft-Intel-CBS-ABC-NBC-Fox corporation:
First, the MPAA does have to go to court to get identification of particular users - a subpoena is required
Except in states where the MPAA has the power to issue its own subpoenas (which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard). California is one such state. I'm not aware of any other states, but that certainly doesn't mean that they don't exist or that the MPAA isn't trying to get subpoena power in other states.
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In return, the DEA gives Amtrak a cut of seized assets.
So would Amtrak be doing this if they weren't receiving said cut?
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Even writing zeros over every byte in a file doesn't completely remove it. The heads in a HDD aren't powerful enough to completely relaign all the magnetic domains on the ferreous surface
This is true. However, this is also the reason why programs such as 'shred' write over a file multiple times -- the HDD heads will have slightly different alignment each time, and by making more passes, more of the data track will be erased. There is even a Department of Defense standard on how many passes should be made, plus the write-over pattern that should be used for secure deletion of sensitive military information.
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