Why is HDTV sucking at the moment? The truth is that the FCC stuck it's nose in the affairs of corporations once again with it's big push for HDTV. The networks weren't ready for HDTV and neither are the consumers. This is about the best example of overregulation I have ever seen.
The only question left to ask is why the FCC tried to pull this off.
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They are giving it away to students apparantly. The CS Dept. here at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will soon be receiving a machine donated by Microsoft that allows students to develop.NET Web services on.
Microsoft sucks. But if you are going to use some of their software you should pay for it. If you think that boycotting Microsoft is pretending that your Windows 95 license entitles you to pirate Windows 2000 or XP you are sorely mistaken. The best way to boycott Microsoft is not to use or pay for any of their products.
.NET My Services and Passport are evil things. I get the idea that everyone just thinks Microsoft is out to improve programming with.NET and the CLR. This is not the case. There is a major part of.NET a lot of people aren't even aware of. This is the part which was formerly known as HailStorm
Sure Passport is evil but it is only the gate by which Microsoft wants to hijack your data. HailStorm is by far the most ambitious attempt ever to eliminate privacy online. Microsoft claims that it eliminates the debate of online privacy by advocating consumer choice. I guess this would be true if you trust Microsoft to protect your information, not just from hackers, but also from themselves and of course the Government which will find a legal or illegal way into this thing somehow.
Read the white paper on Microsoft's plans for.NET My Services. I give Sun the benefit of the doubt right now in developing their plans to compete with this. I would hope since they have the co-inventor of Public/Private key encryption on their side that their solution will not simply be, a big centralized database that Microsoft has cleartext access to.
I am hoping for some kind of system where if you say want to give a software company access to your Visa credit card you simply add their public key and reencrypt those SOAP objects and you are done. Similar approaches could be taken with anything else. Everyone would have a private key and you could give access to any of your information to anyone else by simply using their key.
There would be no access controls. You would simply upload your encrypted information to a server somewhere for them to host. I suppose that allowing users to store their private key at a place they trust would have to be a small concession for convenience sake (that is until we can get this done on smart cards or something). But those of us that care about security wouldn't have to do this.
If Apple had not made the biggest blunder in their history and refused to open the specs to their hardware. Open standards always win. Apple can release all of the new machines, power laptops, and pretty looking cases that they want, it won't change anything.
The truth is Apple made a blunder bigger than even the guy from Washington that sold Bill Gates exclusive rights to QDOS for $50000.
We clearly all hate the record companies and their abuse of artists. But in all seriousness, if the situation is really that bad and artists aren't making enough money why are they continuing to sign with the record companies? The truth, although most open source people would be afraid to admit it is that the record companies are providing very effective marketing to artists.. albeit at an extremely higher price.
You probably think that we shouldn't support the record industry at this time and I would be forced to agree with you. It is moronic to pay $18 for a cd! Paying these high costs especially at a time when they want to eliminate fair use, only reinforces their current business model.
But, what I can't stand are people that do think that it is OK to download mp3's and listen to them without reimbursing the artist at all. What we need to convince the record companies to do is to downsize significantly (firing people is always hard to do) and to change their business model in regards to the internet, and of course to reduce their prices and to stop eliminating fair use.
I would argue that the internet is of course changing everything. But I still think that the artists deserve to charge whatever they want to sell their music at. I think that the copying of any copyrighted work without authorization is completely wrong. Do you feel that we should tell all the children that there is NOTHING wrong with downloading music online without reimbursing the artist?
Anyone that believes that they should have a divine right to download music and listen to it at their leisure without reimbursing the artist, clearly does not understand capitalism and what it is to be American.
If I decide to compose a trumpet virtuoso over the next year I deserve all of the proceeds from the sale of my music (aside from those that I have exchanged to the record companies in exchange for promotion on radio stations, etc.) If someone decides to hand out copies of my music for free or if file-sharing networks spring up to exchange copies of my music there is something wrong with this. After all why would I continue to compose excellent music if it was just going to be looted and stolen from me?
I completely agree. It is time for action. I think our record of involvement in the middle east has been deplorable. It is true that our country has killed people in other countries, gotten involved in civil wars that we shouldn't have been involved in.
Hell, we gave one BILLION dollars in money and weapons to the organization Osama Bin Ladin was a part of when we were trying to get the soviets out of Afghanistan. It is time the US did not involve itself in wars we don't belong in. Thanks to the aid money we are now going to be fighting members of the Taliban that are using US made weapons that we gave them over 10 years ago!
In the year PRIOR to September 11th, 2001 we GAVE the TALIBAN over $125,000,000 [lp.org] in foreign aid! If we want to fight terrorism the first thing we should do is stop giving money to the terrorists
As for retalliation at this point I would say we are fully justified in destroying Osama Bin Ladin and his organization as well as the Taliban which harbors him. I think appropriate action after justice is served would be to cease all foreign aid (which accounts for almost 1 TRILLION dollars spent by our government since the end of world war II). We should also withdraw our troops from the one hundred countries we now occupy and stay out of other people's affairs. And of course, never allow a terrorist attack on America from now on go unanswered.
Most people don't realize that Terrorism goes much further than the past 8 years of the Clinton administration. The truth is there have been warning signs for years about terrorists and our lack of dealing with them. Here is an article [aynrand.org] that appeared in a full page ad in the New York Times. Please take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't agree with their conclusions and think they are war mongerers, but the information about how long the US has appeased terrorists for their destruction of American lives and property is unbelieveable!
I'm not disputing this. Not everything the government has done is bad. I'm just saying that if the government had say decided to immediately start regulating the internet after it had grown a little I don't think you would have the internet that you have today. The reason the internet has evolved to the point that it's at is because the government let it be and did not interfere with it's development.
The internet would have been created eventually with or without the government's help.
Are you talking about buying scratched cd's secondhand? If so then that is your own problem. If you are refering to cd's that you buy that aren't labeled that they are copyable yes I completely agree with you. Simply extending the boycott would probably be the way to go.
If a record company decides to release cd's consistently without labeling that they have anti-copying mechanisms on them stop buying cd's! Then write a letter to the CEO of the record company telling him you will never buy a cd again from his company. You would be amazed what kind of effect letters or phone calls have on decisions made in corporations. (of course not as much as your money which is why the first course of action is to withhold it).
Record companies are now giving you an excuse to illegally download mp3's without compensation of the artists involved. If you have ethical problems with that then mail the artists $2 which is for the most part all they get out of the sale of an $18 cd.
I completely agree. It is time for action. I think our record of involvement in the middle east has been deplorable. It is true that our country has killed people in other countries, gotten involved in civil wars that we shouldn't have been involved in.
Hell, we gave one BILLION dollars in money and weapons to the organization Osama Bin Ladin was a part of when we were trying to get the soviets out of Afghanistan. It is time the US did not involve itself in wars we don't belong in. Thanks to the aid money we are now going to be fighting members of the Taliban that are using US made weapons that we gave them over 10 years ago!
In the year PRIOR to September 11th, 2001 we GAVE the TALIBAN over $125,000,000 in foreign aid! If we want to fight terrorism the first thing we should do is stop giving money to the terrorists
As for retalliation at this point I would say we are fully justified in destroying Osama Bin Ladin and his organization as well as the Taliban which harbors him. I think appropriate action after justice is served would be to cease all foreign aid (which accounts for almost 1 TRILLION dollars spent by our government since the end of world war II). We should also withdraw our troops from the one hundred countries we now occupy and stay out of other people's affairs. And of course, never allow a terrorist attack on America from now on go unanswered.
Most people don't realize that Terrorism goes much further than the past 8 years of the Clinton administration. The truth is there have been warning signs for years about terrorists and our lack of dealing with them. Here is an article that appeared in a full page ad in the New York Times. Please take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't agree with their conclusions and think they are war mongerers, but the information about how long the US has appeased terrorists for their destruction of American lives and property is unbelieveable!
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If the record companies don't listen to people when they say that they want to be able to play the cd anywhere and rip from it that's fine by me. They are just digging their holes deeper.
If you enjoy ripping cd's like I do why would you even buy cd's if you can't rip them? In other words, if you don't agree with the technology in place to prevent your fair use of the media simply don't acquire the media in the first place. In short, boycott.
Well at least there are two of us here that understand reason and the principles of limited government. The rest of slashdot has gone communist, sadly.
This is a good point. Everyone seems to bitch about how we should have first ammendment rights to write code such as DeCSS and laws like the DMCA interfere. NOW we are letting the government tell us that certain forms of code are illegal to write. Does anyone see a problem with this?
I completely agree. There is no reason why the government should be regulating this AT ALL. The reason why the internet is as good as it is today is because the government hasn't been involved in it. Everything the federal government touches turns to shit. This should be fixed at the browser level. There is no need for a new law against this!
What we need is a way to supplant HailStorm with a secure way of encrypting and storing information released over a peer to peer network so that no one corporation gets a first hand look at it.
Well the Coca-Cola contract is retarded. Don't blame my University for being stupid. I doubt that things won't get that bad that they will start selling installation rights. No one would stand for say Microsoft coming in and signing a contract with the university that makes every computer on campus run Windows 2000 but based on how cheap they are giving it away at I guess anything is possible. And now there's a friggin Active Directory project on campus.
A Microsoft rep. recently came to the University of Illinois to give a talk about.NET. We were expecting C# and the CLR and we got HailStorm. People were rising out of their seats and telling the rep. of all the inherent security and privacy problems with doing something like HailStorm.
Shortly afterwards a group of University of Illinois students formed an organization, !NET (Not Net). www.notnet.org
We plan on spreading awareness about HailStorm as well as designing an open source alternative for it. It involves using SOAP and XML and encrypting data inside XML tags with PGP public keys. You choose what information you want to make available to companies by encrypting your entries with their public keys. Then your encrypted information is stored in an existing peer to peer system which is completely decentralized (possibly freenet) so the whole system can't break down or get hacked. In this way you encrypt your data and an unencrypted copy isn't even stored on your local machine.. no one organization, government or company (Microsoft) has access to your data.
Most major corporations are going to jump right on the fucking bandwagon! Microsoft is going to use this thing to gather information about your surfing habits and purchases online and allow you to share that information with companies. They want to be the next AOL. Companies will love it because they will get to market directly to the consumer. Consumers will love it because they will get personally marketed to.
Actually they are planning on charging for HailStorm.. they have already said they will not do ads. Haha I wouldn't store my info on this thing if Microsoft was paying me!
!NET.. Students against the.NET platform and HailStorm:
www.notnet.org
I have been following the HailStorm platform since a Microsoft representative came to my school, the University of Illinois and gave a lecture on it. There was much skepticism expressed during the ACM sponsored talk by almost everyone there about the inherent privacy and security problems with what is now known as HailStorm.
Centralizing data is a huge problem with HailStorm but also consider the innate problems of storing data on the service. You are going to put your data into HailStorm and Microsoft is going to get a firsthand peek at whatever you put in. They encrypt and protect your information but there is nothing to stop them from giving it away to the government or selling it!
To make matters worse they are inplementing HailStorm into everything they sell including Windows XP, Office XP, the X-Box, and Hotmail. People will be able to link their Windows XP login with the HailStorm service.
A group of concerned University of Illinois students has started an organization called !NET (Not Net) to spread awareness of the problems with handing all your personal information to a company like Microsoft to be stored in a centralized datacenter. If Microsoft gets their way they will have the keys to this huge collection of information. We respectfully submit that handing control of this kind of information to one company, organization, or government is a horrible idea.
We are gathering people and ideas and coding an open source, alternative method of doing HailStorm where the user encodes their data with PGP keys and allows other users or companies access to that data only by signing their data with those companies or individuals' public keys. We have considered a variety of delivary mechanisms including peer to peer networks such as FreeNet.
Peer to peer distribution would give the advantage of not consolidating everyone's data in one place and would also ensure that the person who stored the information, the rightfull keyholder, will be the only one that chooses who else can view that information, not Microsoft.
More information on our at present unrefined ideas is located at our website www.notnet.org.
I forgot to mention I want Linux too.. I primarily want this thing so that I can port gnome and QT apps to it easily.. also a plug in keyboard is a must option:)
First of all let me say that I don't own a PDA. I use a written daytimer and it works fine for my purposes. The only reason I would get a PDA is if I could throw an 802.11 card into it and have internet access on it and this product does not offer that feature.. why don't pda's support PCMCIA cards..? With the current state of PCMCIA I don't think this would be that hard...
I concur that mutations are a good thing for Linux. However, there needs to be a consistent UI that can be chosen at Install that configures the machine a particular way. Users NEED consistent UIs. What we need is a way so that on most popular distributions during install you can check a box and that will configure the machine with a commonly agreed upon GUI and windowmanager that people are familiar with. This wouldn't be necessary on all distributions but would be a great start to making the Linux GUI similar on all ends for end users that simply want a consistent interface.
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Why is HDTV sucking at the moment? The truth is that the FCC stuck it's nose in the affairs of corporations once again with it's big push for HDTV. The networks weren't ready for HDTV and neither are the consumers. This is about the best example of overregulation I have ever seen.
The only question left to ask is why the FCC tried to pull this off.
They are giving it away to students apparantly. The CS Dept. here at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will soon be receiving a machine donated by Microsoft that allows students to develop .NET Web services on.
We are all truly overjoyed about this, of course.
Microsoft sucks. But if you are going to use some of their software you should pay for it. If you think that boycotting Microsoft is pretending that your Windows 95 license entitles you to pirate Windows 2000 or XP you are sorely mistaken. The best way to boycott Microsoft is not to use or pay for any of their products.
Pirating is not a good solution to the problem.
.NET My Services and Passport are evil things. I get the idea that everyone just thinks Microsoft is out to improve programming with .NET and the CLR. This is not the case. There is a major part of .NET a lot of people aren't even aware of. This is the part which was formerly known as HailStorm
.NET My Services. I give Sun the benefit of the doubt right now in developing their plans to compete with this. I would hope since they have the co-inventor of Public/Private key encryption on their side that their solution will not simply be, a big centralized database that Microsoft has cleartext access to.
Sure Passport is evil but it is only the gate by which Microsoft wants to hijack your data. HailStorm is by far the most ambitious attempt ever to eliminate privacy online. Microsoft claims that it eliminates the debate of online privacy by advocating consumer choice. I guess this would be true if you trust Microsoft to protect your information, not just from hackers, but also from themselves and of course the Government which will find a legal or illegal way into this thing somehow.
Read the white paper on Microsoft's plans for
I am hoping for some kind of system where if you say want to give a software company access to your Visa credit card you simply add their public key and reencrypt those SOAP objects and you are done. Similar approaches could be taken with anything else. Everyone would have a private key and you could give access to any of your information to anyone else by simply using their key.
There would be no access controls. You would simply upload your encrypted information to a server somewhere for them to host. I suppose that allowing users to store their private key at a place they trust would have to be a small concession for convenience sake (that is until we can get this done on smart cards or something). But those of us that care about security wouldn't have to do this.
www.notnet.org
If Apple had not made the biggest blunder in their history and refused to open the specs to their hardware. Open standards always win. Apple can release all of the new machines, power laptops, and pretty looking cases that they want, it won't change anything.
The truth is Apple made a blunder bigger than even the guy from Washington that sold Bill Gates exclusive rights to QDOS for $50000.
We clearly all hate the record companies and their abuse of artists. But in all seriousness, if the situation is really that bad and artists aren't making enough money why are they continuing to sign with the record companies? The truth, although most open source people would be afraid to admit it is that the record companies are providing very effective marketing to artists.. albeit at an extremely higher price.
You probably think that we shouldn't support the record industry at this time and I would be forced to agree with you. It is moronic to pay $18 for a cd! Paying these high costs especially at a time when they want to eliminate fair use, only reinforces their current business model.
But, what I can't stand are people that do think that it is OK to download mp3's and listen to them without reimbursing the artist at all. What we need to convince the record companies to do is to downsize significantly (firing people is always hard to do) and to change their business model in regards to the internet, and of course to reduce their prices and to stop eliminating fair use.
I would argue that the internet is of course changing everything. But I still think that the artists deserve to charge whatever they want to sell their music at. I think that the copying of any copyrighted work without authorization is completely wrong. Do you feel that we should tell all the children that there is NOTHING wrong with downloading music online without reimbursing the artist?
Anyone that believes that they should have a divine right to download music and listen to it at their leisure without reimbursing the artist, clearly does not understand capitalism and what it is to be American.
If I decide to compose a trumpet virtuoso over the next year I deserve all of the proceeds from the sale of my music (aside from those that I have exchanged to the record companies in exchange for promotion on radio stations, etc.) If someone decides to hand out copies of my music for free or if file-sharing networks spring up to exchange copies of my music there is something wrong with this. After all why would I continue to compose excellent music if it was just going to be looted and stolen from me?
Hell, we gave one BILLION dollars in money and weapons to the organization Osama Bin Ladin was a part of when we were trying to get the soviets out of Afghanistan. It is time the US did not involve itself in wars we don't belong in. Thanks to the aid money we are now going to be fighting members of the Taliban that are using US made weapons that we gave them over 10 years ago!
In the year PRIOR to September 11th, 2001 we GAVE the TALIBAN over $125,000,000 [lp.org] in foreign aid! If we want to fight terrorism the first thing we should do is stop giving money to the terrorists
As for retalliation at this point I would say we are fully justified in destroying Osama Bin Ladin and his organization as well as the Taliban which harbors him. I think appropriate action after justice is served would be to cease all foreign aid (which accounts for almost 1 TRILLION dollars spent by our government since the end of world war II). We should also withdraw our troops from the one hundred countries we now occupy and stay out of other people's affairs. And of course, never allow a terrorist attack on America from now on go unanswered.
Most people don't realize that Terrorism goes much further than the past 8 years of the Clinton administration. The truth is there have been warning signs for years about terrorists and our lack of dealing with them. Here is an article [aynrand.org] that appeared in a full page ad in the New York Times. Please take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't agree with their conclusions and think they are war mongerers, but the information about how long the US has appeased terrorists for their destruction of American lives and property is unbelieveable!
I'm not disputing this. Not everything the government has done is bad. I'm just saying that if the government had say decided to immediately start regulating the internet after it had grown a little I don't think you would have the internet that you have today. The reason the internet has evolved to the point that it's at is because the government let it be and did not interfere with it's development.
The internet would have been created eventually with or without the government's help.
If a record company decides to release cd's consistently without labeling that they have anti-copying mechanisms on them stop buying cd's! Then write a letter to the CEO of the record company telling him you will never buy a cd again from his company. You would be amazed what kind of effect letters or phone calls have on decisions made in corporations. (of course not as much as your money which is why the first course of action is to withhold it).
Record companies are now giving you an excuse to illegally download mp3's without compensation of the artists involved. If you have ethical problems with that then mail the artists $2 which is for the most part all they get out of the sale of an $18 cd.
Hell, we gave one BILLION dollars in money and weapons to the organization Osama Bin Ladin was a part of when we were trying to get the soviets out of Afghanistan. It is time the US did not involve itself in wars we don't belong in. Thanks to the aid money we are now going to be fighting members of the Taliban that are using US made weapons that we gave them over 10 years ago!
In the year PRIOR to September 11th, 2001 we GAVE the TALIBAN over $125,000,000 in foreign aid! If we want to fight terrorism the first thing we should do is stop giving money to the terrorists
As for retalliation at this point I would say we are fully justified in destroying Osama Bin Ladin and his organization as well as the Taliban which harbors him. I think appropriate action after justice is served would be to cease all foreign aid (which accounts for almost 1 TRILLION dollars spent by our government since the end of world war II). We should also withdraw our troops from the one hundred countries we now occupy and stay out of other people's affairs. And of course, never allow a terrorist attack on America from now on go unanswered.
Most people don't realize that Terrorism goes much further than the past 8 years of the Clinton administration. The truth is there have been warning signs for years about terrorists and our lack of dealing with them. Here is an article that appeared in a full page ad in the New York Times. Please take it with a grain of salt. Personally I don't agree with their conclusions and think they are war mongerers, but the information about how long the US has appeased terrorists for their destruction of American lives and property is unbelieveable!
If you enjoy ripping cd's like I do why would you even buy cd's if you can't rip them? In other words, if you don't agree with the technology in place to prevent your fair use of the media simply don't acquire the media in the first place. In short, boycott.
Well at least there are two of us here that understand reason and the principles of limited government. The rest of slashdot has gone communist, sadly.
yeah, Darpa-net was abandoned. What is your point?
This is a good point. Everyone seems to bitch about how we should have first ammendment rights to write code such as DeCSS and laws like the DMCA interfere. NOW we are letting the government tell us that certain forms of code are illegal to write. Does anyone see a problem with this?
I completely agree. There is no reason why the government should be regulating this AT ALL. The reason why the internet is as good as it is today is because the government hasn't been involved in it. Everything the federal government touches turns to shit. This should be fixed at the browser level. There is no need for a new law against this!
www.notnet.org
Well the Coca-Cola contract is retarded. Don't blame my University for being stupid. I doubt that things won't get that bad that they will start selling installation rights. No one would stand for say Microsoft coming in and signing a contract with the university that makes every computer on campus run Windows 2000 but based on how cheap they are giving it away at I guess anything is possible. And now there's a friggin Active Directory project on campus.
Shortly afterwards a group of University of Illinois students formed an organization, !NET (Not Net). www.notnet.org
We plan on spreading awareness about HailStorm as well as designing an open source alternative for it. It involves using SOAP and XML and encrypting data inside XML tags with PGP public keys. You choose what information you want to make available to companies by encrypting your entries with their public keys. Then your encrypted information is stored in an existing peer to peer system which is completely decentralized (possibly freenet) so the whole system can't break down or get hacked. In this way you encrypt your data and an unencrypted copy isn't even stored on your local machine.. no one organization, government or company (Microsoft) has access to your data.
Read Microsoft's HailStorm Whitepaper www.microsoft.com/net/hailstorm.asp
!NET (Not Net). People against the .NET platform and HailStorm. www.notnet.org
Actually they are planning on charging for HailStorm.. they have already said they will not do ads. Haha I wouldn't store my info on this thing if Microsoft was paying me! !NET.. Students against the .NET platform and HailStorm:
www.notnet.org
Centralizing data is a huge problem with HailStorm but also consider the innate problems of storing data on the service. You are going to put your data into HailStorm and Microsoft is going to get a firsthand peek at whatever you put in. They encrypt and protect your information but there is nothing to stop them from giving it away to the government or selling it!
To make matters worse they are inplementing HailStorm into everything they sell including Windows XP, Office XP, the X-Box, and Hotmail. People will be able to link their Windows XP login with the HailStorm service.
A group of concerned University of Illinois students has started an organization called !NET (Not Net) to spread awareness of the problems with handing all your personal information to a company like Microsoft to be stored in a centralized datacenter. If Microsoft gets their way they will have the keys to this huge collection of information. We respectfully submit that handing control of this kind of information to one company, organization, or government is a horrible idea.
We are gathering people and ideas and coding an open source, alternative method of doing HailStorm where the user encodes their data with PGP keys and allows other users or companies access to that data only by signing their data with those companies or individuals' public keys. We have considered a variety of delivary mechanisms including peer to peer networks such as FreeNet. Peer to peer distribution would give the advantage of not consolidating everyone's data in one place and would also ensure that the person who stored the information, the rightfull keyholder, will be the only one that chooses who else can view that information, not Microsoft. More information on our at present unrefined ideas is located at our website www.notnet.org.
I forgot to mention I want Linux too.. I primarily want this thing so that I can port gnome and QT apps to it easily.. also a plug in keyboard is a must option :)
use the crusoe... beef up batteries.. there are many solutions to the power problem. How many watts does a Pcmcia card draw anyways?
First of all let me say that I don't own a PDA. I use a written daytimer and it works fine for my purposes. The only reason I would get a PDA is if I could throw an 802.11 card into it and have internet access on it and this product does not offer that feature.. why don't pda's support PCMCIA cards..? With the current state of PCMCIA I don't think this would be that hard...
I concur that mutations are a good thing for Linux. However, there needs to be a consistent UI that can be chosen at Install that configures the machine a particular way. Users NEED consistent UIs. What we need is a way so that on most popular distributions during install you can check a box and that will configure the machine with a commonly agreed upon GUI and windowmanager that people are familiar with. This wouldn't be necessary on all distributions but would be a great start to making the Linux GUI similar on all ends for end users that simply want a consistent interface.