Certainly, in the 335,000 songs that they found, no more than 1% are spoofed. I would say that this would require Napster to set up some sort of appeals process or something.
Here's what would happen then:
* Joe User gets caught serving Metallica-whatever.mp3 * JU gets banned from Napster * JU renames it to something innocent-looking like Freeband-blah.mp3 (or stops serving it altogether) * JU downloads a real Freeband mp3 and saves it as Metallica-whatever.mp3 * Using the appeals process, JU is now able to get back onto Napster
It's a plausible idea, but there is a potential for abuse. What will Napster/Metallica do when they start to find out about users doing this?
Just a guess, but I'm thinking the birds simply stop transmitting when they fly over a part of the world to which the gov't wants to deny GPS service
Are they in a geosynchronous orbit? Weather satellites are, for example, but I'm not sure about GPS satellites. If they are, they're fixed over one part of the globe, which would rule this out.
This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now."
Can I look forward to Linux powered cars? Lawnmowers?
A Linux-powered lawnmower with a non-degraded GPS...hmmm...
$ telnet telnet> open (to) lawnmower.localhost Trying 127.0.0.8... Connected to lawnmower.localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
Lawnmower> gps on Looking for GPS signal.... Synchronizing...done Lawnmower> motor start Starting motor....done Lawnmower> loadmap mylawn Loading map of 'mylawn'...done Lawnmower> mow Mowing your lawn.... (This may take a while) Lawnmower> motor stop Shutting down motor....done Lawnmower> exit Goodbye.
Automatic lawnmowing. And thanks to the now much more accurate GPS, a perfect job every time!
This may sound kind of silly, but how does it affect national security when Joe Citizen has a GPS unit that is accurate to 1 cm (or whatever it is)? While some extremist groups *might* be tempted to do this, chances are JC isn't going to embed it in any munitions systems....
They don't CREATE law, but they have the power to strike down and/or interpret any law or legal decision whatsoever.
But the precedents that they set can have such legal impact that they may as well be law -- hence the term "common law." This was discussed not too long ago in my POLS class; and while you are technically correct here, the term "common law" refers to judge-made "law."
Just watch out soon the RIAA is going to hire their own private militia.I can just see it. The "Music Police".
They already have a team that surfs the web looking for illegal MP3 servers for them to close down. According to http://www.msnbc.com/news/178373.asp?cp1 =1, they have sent out hundreds upon hundreds of threatening letters to web site owners telling them to shut the site down or be at the RIAA's mercy. They even have a name for it -- they call it a "Soundbyting campaign." Heh. Can you say "Big Brother is watching you"?
Pretty much. As stated in the article (you did read it, didn't you?), this site is intended to do the exact same thing as lyrics.ch, but since it is in Russia, it technically isn't covered by American copyright laws.
I wouldn't doubt that there would be a way to do that...after all, MacroVision (which is "technology" that prevents using a VCR to record a signal that looks just like any other TV signal) has been out for quite some time now. It would probably be hard to do on a PC screen though, so it may involve using software hooks to block certain functions a la IKIOSK.
Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay Dre's gonna sue all day every day Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay The Napsta muthaf**kas are goin' to pay Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay Dre can't rap but he sure can sue Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay I'd be really really careful if I was you
As in MSVC++? Heh. The sentencing would be swifter, but "GPF" would still be in a few dozen places in the court documents. Oh, and by the way, don't forget to make the prisoner carry around a copy of the correct version of msvcrt.dll, or the sentence might malfunction, letting the prisoner go free. Wouldn't want that now, would we?
Is blindly allowing some (usually) highly conservative software company to supervise your children considered protecting them? I know this issue has come up before on/., but if you really want to "protect" your kids, maybe you should *gasp* actually watch what they are doing and become involved with them.
I am not on the net when I blink. How do I give my eyelids an IP address?
Find your favorite neurosurgeon and have them wire your head as follows:
- First and foremost, you'll need an RJ45 jack installed in your head.
- Have them install a small controller card that acts as a bridge between your nervous system and the RJ45. Basically, a NIC for your head. These start at 10 mbps, but if your brain is up to it, you might want to consider one of the 100 mbps models.
Once you're done with this, you're pretty much set. You'll have to work out how to get your brain to transmit TCP/IP data, but it isn't hard. Just be on the lookout for DoS and hack attacks (you're exposing every piece of information in your brain, which might not be a good thing).
The trouble with such "### free hours" bonuses that AOL offers is that you have to use all the hours up within the first month, or they disappear. Let's see now... 500 hours divided by 24 hours in a day == >20 days that you would have to be connected 24 hours a day in order to be able to take full advantage of the offer. So unless you're going to sit in front of your computer day in, day out for three straight weeks surfing AOL, this offer is too good to be true (by far).
Problem: What happens when the sender does not reside within the borders of the USA? This is what makes internet taxes unfeasible...remember, the internet is an international entity, and no one government can exercise control over it all.
There are devices out there that you can hook up to your phone line that will play pre-recorded messages such as this. IIRC, Radio Shack sells them for around $15.
That is equivalent to three bottles of Jolt. What are they trying to do, make them all go on "I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole"-type rampages?
Woo hoo! Sign me up! I wanna be the first living brain with an IP address (I wonder if IPv6 has enough addresses). Just pleeeeeease don't slashdot my brain!
And its likely different for each of the hundreds of kinds of modems.
Different chipsets == different drivers. I'm aware that Lucent released the specs for their Winmodem and corresponding chipset, but there are the other companies of course.
And futhermore they suck, because they eat up processor time.
Which makes them a *real* pain to use on a low-end system. After a month or so of using^H^H^H^H^H trying to use an EigerLabs 56k Winmodem (PCtel chipset) on my old Cyrix-200 system, I took it out and tossed it away. 14.4 connections on lines that are known to be capable of 56k, frequent drops, etc. I now have an ISA 56k modem for use when I'm home from college. Sure, they cost more, but they're worth it IMO.
Would Linux drivers problems such as this? Maybe, maybe not. Point is, while having Linux drivers is good, the device itself also has to be something that works.
If their parents, and their friend's parents don't have any guns, and the shops and shows won't sell guns to them, then they will have a very hard time getting hold a gun.
Then they would just get a gun from one of the many illegal gun dealers out there. Some already do it that way anyway.
Since the compiled product is a TOOL and not a vehicle for free speech, the judge can still keep DeCSS illegal. HOWEVER, I'd be willing to bet that distribution of the SOURCE is now legal.. but compiling it and using it is NOT.
IANAL either, but once you have the source, I would think that merely compiling it would fall under fair use. It'd be just like gzipping it or whatever. But yes, actually running the code with the intent of doing something illegal would still be...illegal.
This raises an obvious question: If you're going to go to the trouble of compiling the code, what next? Does that *automatically* mean that you are going to use it for 'underhanded' purposes? Controversial as it may be, and as broken as the logic may be, this is the argument that the MPAA/legal system is likely to use in order to bypass the 6th Circuit Court's ruling.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't wait for 2.4 stable :)
In other words, you can't wait till 2002. Me either.
I've been using 2.3.99-pre6 for a while now and have found it to be quite stable. My guess is that 2.4 actually isn't that far away.
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Certainly, in the 335,000 songs that they found, no more than 1% are spoofed. I would say that this would require Napster to set up some sort of appeals process or something.
Here's what would happen then:
* Joe User gets caught serving Metallica-whatever.mp3
* JU gets banned from Napster
* JU renames it to something innocent-looking like Freeband-blah.mp3 (or stops serving it altogether)
* JU downloads a real Freeband mp3 and saves it as Metallica-whatever.mp3
* Using the appeals process, JU is now able to get back onto Napster
It's a plausible idea, but there is a potential for abuse. What will Napster/Metallica do when they start to find out about users doing this?
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Just a guess, but I'm thinking the birds simply stop transmitting when they fly over a part of the world to which the gov't wants to deny GPS service
Are they in a geosynchronous orbit? Weather satellites are, for example, but I'm not sure about GPS satellites. If they are, they're fixed over one part of the globe, which would rule this out.
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This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now."
Can I look forward to Linux powered cars? Lawnmowers?
A Linux-powered lawnmower with a non-degraded GPS...hmmm...
$ telnet
telnet> open
(to) lawnmower.localhost
Trying 127.0.0.8...
Connected to lawnmower.localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Lawnmower> gps on
Looking for GPS signal....
Synchronizing...done
Lawnmower> motor start
Starting motor....done
Lawnmower> loadmap mylawn
Loading map of 'mylawn'...done
Lawnmower> mow
Mowing your lawn....
(This may take a while)
Lawnmower> motor stop
Shutting down motor....done
Lawnmower> exit
Goodbye.
Automatic lawnmowing. And thanks to the now much more accurate GPS, a perfect job every time!
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This may sound kind of silly, but how does it affect national security when Joe Citizen has a GPS unit that is accurate to 1 cm (or whatever it is)? While some extremist groups *might* be tempted to do this, chances are JC isn't going to embed it in any munitions systems....
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They don't CREATE law, but they have the power to strike down and/or interpret any law or legal decision whatsoever.
But the precedents that they set can have such legal impact that they may as well be law -- hence the term "common law." This was discussed not too long ago in my POLS class; and while you are technically correct here, the term "common law" refers to judge-made "law."
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Just watch out soon the RIAA is going to hire their own private militia.I can just see it.
The "Music Police".
They already have a team that surfs the web looking for illegal MP3 servers for them to close down. According to http://www.msnbc.com/news/178373.asp?cp1 =1, they have sent out hundreds upon hundreds of threatening letters to web site owners telling them to shut the site down or be at the RIAA's mercy. They even have a name for it -- they call it a "Soundbyting campaign." Heh. Can you say "Big Brother is watching you"?
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Isn't this the same thing as lyrics.ch?
Pretty much. As stated in the article (you did read it, didn't you?), this site is intended to do the exact same thing as lyrics.ch, but since it is in Russia, it technically isn't covered by American copyright laws.
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I wouldn't doubt that there would be a way to do that...after all, MacroVision (which is "technology" that prevents using a VCR to record a signal that looks just like any other TV signal) has been out for quite some time now. It would probably be hard to do on a PC screen though, so it may involve using software hooks to block certain functions a la IKIOSK.
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Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay Dre's gonna sue all day every day Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay The Napsta muthaf**kas are goin' to pay Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay Dre can't rap but he sure can sue Bow wow wow yippee o yippee yay I'd be really really careful if I was you
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Judge Dredd would have used C.
As in MSVC++? Heh. The sentencing would be swifter, but "GPF" would still be in a few dozen places in the court documents. Oh, and by the way, don't forget to make the prisoner carry around a copy of the correct version of msvcrt.dll, or the sentence might malfunction, letting the prisoner go free. Wouldn't want that now, would we?
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Is blindly allowing some (usually) highly conservative software company to supervise your children considered protecting them? I know this issue has come up before on /., but if you really want to "protect" your kids, maybe you should *gasp* actually watch what they are doing and become involved with them.
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I guess pretty soon, someone will come out with an expansion card that pretty much runs all of the WinAPI in hardware. O u c h .
"Ouch" is right. What will you do if^H^H when this version of Windows crashes? Have one of the crash-protect programs ported to an expansion card too?
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ISA runs at 8Mhz, PCI (Portable C++ Interpreter) at 33Mhz, AGP at 66Mhz
FYI, PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and not Portable C++ Interpreter.
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I am not on the net when I blink. How do I give my eyelids an IP address?
Find your favorite neurosurgeon and have them wire your head as follows:
- First and foremost, you'll need an RJ45 jack installed in your head.
- Have them install a small controller card that acts as a bridge between your nervous system and the RJ45. Basically, a NIC for your head. These start at 10 mbps, but if your brain is up to it, you might want to consider one of the 100 mbps models.
Once you're done with this, you're pretty much set. You'll have to work out how to get your brain to transmit TCP/IP data, but it isn't hard. Just be on the lookout for DoS and hack attacks (you're exposing every piece of information in your brain, which might not be a good thing).
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(but I got 500 free hours!?)...
The trouble with such "### free hours" bonuses that AOL offers is that you have to use all the hours up within the first month, or they disappear. Let's see now... 500 hours divided by 24 hours in a day == >20 days that you would have to be connected 24 hours a day in order to be able to take full advantage of the offer. So unless you're going to sit in front of your computer day in, day out for three straight weeks surfing AOL, this offer is too good to be true (by far).
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The government gets an Internet tax.
Problem: What happens when the sender does not reside within the borders of the USA? This is what makes internet taxes unfeasible...remember, the internet is an international entity, and no one government can exercise control over it all.
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There are devices out there that you can hook up to your phone line that will play pre-recorded messages such as this. IIRC, Radio Shack sells them for around $15.
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600 milligrams of caffeine
That is equivalent to three bottles of Jolt. What are they trying to do, make them all go on "I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole"-type rampages?
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Woo hoo! Sign me up! I wanna be the first living brain with an IP address (I wonder if IPv6 has enough addresses). Just pleeeeeease don't slashdot my brain!
Networked brains?
Two words: Beowulf cluster.
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There should be a "fix" between "drivers" and "problems." Sorry bout that.
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And its likely different for each of the hundreds of kinds of modems.
Different chipsets == different drivers. I'm aware that Lucent released the specs for their Winmodem and corresponding chipset, but there are the other companies of course.
And futhermore they suck, because they eat up processor time.
Which makes them a *real* pain to use on a low-end system. After a month or so of using^H^H^H^H^H trying to use an EigerLabs 56k Winmodem (PCtel chipset) on my old Cyrix-200 system, I took it out and tossed it away. 14.4 connections on lines that are known to be capable of 56k, frequent drops, etc. I now have an ISA 56k modem for use when I'm home from college. Sure, they cost more, but they're worth it IMO.
Would Linux drivers problems such as this? Maybe, maybe not. Point is, while having Linux drivers is good, the device itself also has to be something that works.
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If their parents, and their friend's parents don't have any guns, and the shops and shows won't sell guns to them, then they will have a very hard time getting hold a gun.
Then they would just get a gun from one of the many illegal gun dealers out there. Some already do it that way anyway.
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Since the compiled product is a TOOL and not a vehicle for free speech, the judge can still keep DeCSS illegal. HOWEVER, I'd be willing to bet that distribution of the SOURCE is now legal.. but compiling it and using it is NOT.
IANAL either, but once you have the source, I would think that merely compiling it would fall under fair use. It'd be just like gzipping it or whatever. But yes, actually running the code with the intent of doing something illegal would still be...illegal.
This raises an obvious question: If you're going to go to the trouble of compiling the code, what next? Does that *automatically* mean that you are going to use it for 'underhanded' purposes? Controversial as it may be, and as broken as the logic may be, this is the argument that the MPAA/legal system is likely to use in order to bypass the 6th Circuit Court's ruling.
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the higher end P3's beat the K7 at the same clock speed in most benchmarks.
Not according to the Athlon v. Pentium III tests that CNet ran:
http://www.gamecenter.com/Hard ware/Roundup/Athlonp3/
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