No need for a black box, an RFID implant would do.
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"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Certainly in the Second Century of the Common Era, the concept of an implanted RFID chip would not be known, but instead it would be seen as a "mark."
I wonder if Dubya thinks it through...the way he's going, he's making it possible for the Antichrist to do his stuff.
Then again, maybe he has thought it through...shudder.
Unfortunately, my vote doesn't count because these people are representing me in DC:
Howard Berman, Representative
Barbara Boxer, Junior Senator
Dianne Feinstein, Senior Senator
All three are 0wnz0r3d by the RIAA, MPAA, and Big Media.
No, I didn't vote for Berman in the last election. I swallowed hard and voted for the Republican candidate, because he seemed to be genuinely concerned about eroding Fair Use rights.
I don't know what's going to happen when Berman, Feinstein and Boxer are up for re-election again. Usually the Republicans run Religious Right-sponsored, Orange County-friendly candidates at the Senatorial level here in California. I can't support someone like that. But Feinstein and Boxer make me sick. Berman does too, but I think he's gotten enough heat from geeks in his district (they do exist) to where he's not going to try anything so stupid as a "Son Of Berman Bill".
I live close enough to Hollywood to where it's a lot like living in Adam Smith's district in Washington State. This is a company town and Big Media is the company. Resistance, it seems. is futile.
One of my friends up in Santa Barbara is in the process of building a server farm entirely out of EPIA Mini-ITX machines. Web serving, file serving...those are the kind of things that this platform excels at. It's only now with Nehemiah that one can even think of doing other things with the machines, like media boxes. They are still not too great for high-end gaming. You can play something along the lines of UT or Half Life C/S but don't expect to play UT2003 or anything more modern than that even on a Nehemiah.
I'm waiting on my private server to go up at this server farm. It should rock.
Brilliant strategy...however, you are missing one important point. There is a reason why geeks call the company in question SuxRoxio. EZCDCreator is a trainwreck. Anyone still running Windows who has any iota of clue will use Nero on their own machine and install NTI CD-Maker on any machine destined for the Great Unwashed. NTI CD-Maker is just as braindead simple as EZCD but plays better with the NT codebase than SuxRoxio.
Remember, Toast and Jam were written by another company, not SuxRoxio. They got the programs by buying out the company. Only goes to show you that Adaptec (the company SuxRoxio was spun out of) is the MS of its particular product niche. A niche that is becoming more and more irrelevant as Serial ATA and FireWire take over for SCSI.
If Caldera hadn't released code on its flavor of Linux, Lycoris Linux would not exist. As far as I know, Lycoris is the only branch of the Caldera distro that is being actively developed. They use Lizard, Caldera-style RPMs, the whole 9.
Basically, Caldera released all the IP that it's now suing IBM about under the GPL. The only value of all this hubbub is the FUD value. And Microsoft is making hay while the sun shines.
Mac fans were modders before the PC modders...
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Just to reinforce...Mac people have been modding their Macs long before the "leet case modders" have been. http://www.applefritter.com/ has the evidence.
The dynamics of school are changing, and changing rapidly. In this article in Business Week, it now looks like it's the boys that are at a disadvantage at school.
I find this to be horribly unfortunate. Why is it that for one sex to excel, the other pays a price? This isn't right.
Literacy tests had been used since Reconstruction to screen out black voters. The 1960s Voting Rights Act finally put a stop to them. Not a good idea since it can be abused.
...are both divergent, but equally valid solutions to the same problem: scarcity of fuel for cooking. You either cook something very fast at very high temperatures or very slowly in a closed vessel. Either way, you maximize your resources. Either way, you save fuel. And either way, if you have the skills, you can cook a damn fine meal.
If you were running Mandrake you would have a great update feature right at your fingertips. It is a graphical wrapper around Mandrake's updating utility and it is even simpler than Windows Update.
You also get more control...you can specify that something NOT get patched if you know that the patch will break something. Unlike Red Hat Up2Date you don't have to subscribe to anything to get the functionality. It is SWEET.
This is why I have a MDK9.1 DVD winging its way to me from France (yeah, yeah, I know, sue me for supporting a French company) via DHL. It should get here within the next few days. Yeah, they have a tendency to beg and cajole for money (damn Vulture Capitalists leeching them into bankruptcy court!) but they sure as hell deliver the goods.
ESR is not a lawyer, but this is extremely instructive, and suggests just how specious SCO's claims are. Noorda is going to get bitchslapped, and deservedly so.
Apparently there is a lot of clamor in K-12 for teachers who are technically savvy. And there is tons of financial aid available for people who are willing to commit to being a public school teacher, especially if you can teach math, science or special education. I'm going for the very latter...special ed. Adaptive tools for learning require technically savvy teachers to help kids use them, need I say more?
It will take me a while. But five years of being a full-time student beats five more years of McJobs while waiting for the tech sector to pick up. Been there, done that, got the trick knee from working the floor at a consumer electronics store which will remain nameless due to the "non-disparagement" clause in the contract I signed with them when I signed on.
IRC might be a client/server network, but DCC is strictly peer to peer. In DCC you create a direct connection between your IP address and the person who you are exchanging information with's IP address. IRC facilitates finding someone to do a DCC connection with, but that's it.
I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember the "look for the Union label" jingle. However, what you need to do as far as CDs go is "look for the CD-DA logo."
From what I understand, Royal Dutch Philips is actively looking for CDs labeled as proper Red Book compliant, non-broken CD-DA CDs but which are copy-limited, and therefore broken. If that Phil Collins and/or Norah Jones CD has the logo, but does not conform to the Red Book standard, Philips needs to be let know so they can SUE. And they have specifically said they WILL sue if cases like that are brought to their attention.
If the CD DOES NOT bear the CD-DA logo, you can't do this. But if it does...you can put a world of hurt on the music industry strictly by bringing this to their attention.
At least Amtrak Surfliners (Santa Barbara-San Diego CA) have plain old garden-variety 3-prong 120vac outlets everywhere. Easy to plug in your laptop and do anything you want, without worrying about battery life. I wonder how enjoyable wardriving is from a train...I think I may find out someday.:)
Bond is replaceable because Bond is not the man. Bond is the style. We see the face all the time, and yet all we remember are the well-tailored grey suits, sporty cars and Walther PPK. All you need is a suave man to wear that suit, drive that car and fire that weapon.
I think that Roger Moore put the lie to that. Roger Moore stank on ice as Bond. He turned that franchise into a buffoon-o-rama. The whole series turned into a Monty Python sketch gone wrong.
Bond didn't recover until Pierce Brosnan. The Timothy Dalton Bond movies were OK and were actually closer to the Ian Fleming concept of Bond as all-around badass but something was missing.
Brosnan is the best Bond since Connery. Although I would have liked to see where George Lazenby would have taken the character in a second go-round as 007. However, there is no doubt of one thing: Roger Moore sucked.
The 52xx/62xx-63xx machines were Michael Spindler's fault. Yes, they sucked ass. Even Apple makes mistakes. They still do...the eMac is a disaster. But for every disaster, Apple more than redeems themselves. People throw out 1999-vintage PCs in dumpsters. People still pay $500+ for a 1999 stock vintage G3 Blue And White minitower.
Oh wow...that would be so cool to see! I wonder if the popularity of Anime and Bollywood will mean that these cartoons will get subbed and make it to the US???
Although interestingly enough, there IS a Japanese series that recently made it to the US called Arjuna...it's not about the legendary hero of the Mahabharata, but rather about a "magical girl" character who is chosen by the old Gods to defend the planet from demons (they are called Raaja but I suppose Rakshasha is the more proper term) and from ecological destruction. Bandai Entertainment developed the series in Japan and is releasing it dubbed/subbed in the US. Here's the link:
For every Schoolhouse Rock (did more to help me learn my times tables than my Dad and his flashcards ever did) and Bill Nye The Science Guy there were atrocities like Kid Power and Captain Planet. No, teachers meddling in the one place kids used to go to UNWIND from school only HURT SatAM. It didn't help.
If you want to see what SatAM cartoons would be if the fsckn child psychologists and the teachers took it over, watch PBS' SatAM programming. Or Noggin. Or the second wave (post-"Rugrats Movie") Rugrats. Boring, boring boring...
There is a reason why Japanese series have almost put the entirety of the animation industry in the United States out of business. Japanese TV doesn't mandate the kind of "educational" content rules that US TV does. I don't know how it survives in Canada, other than by the intervention of the Film Board of Canada and the "Canadian Content" regulations.
First version allows burning to Red Book. If the second version doesn't, guess what happens? Everyone deserts iTunes en masse and goes back to whatever P2P system they were using before iTunes. iTunes fails, Apple loses its shirt.
If anything, Steve knows where his bread is Vegan-friendly margarinned. He has shown time and time again that the customer comes first at Apple. Occasionally he has made mistakes (.Mac you have to pay for, anyone? The POS called the eMac, anyone?) but more often than not he does the right thing.
BTW the frog boiling thing was thoroughly debunked. If the water in a pan becomes sufficiently hot, whether the water was gradually heated or hot to begin with, the frog WILL jump out to safety. Check snopes.com for details.
The AAC file has a soupcon of DRM in it. It will allow itself to be copied and used on up to three "authorized" computers. It also has your name and email address in a header,
However, once you burn that AAC to an audio CD (and in the process, rip to standard Red Book-compliant CD-DA, all bets are off. You can turn around and take the CD-DA tracks on that audio CD and do what thou wilt.
I don't think the "burn unchanged playlists up to 10x each" thing is too unreasonable. You get one Red Book audio CD plus 9 spares. And if you absolutely GOTTA burn those tracks again, nuke the playlist and reassemble it. Or change the track order. The counter resets.
Really...this is not unreasonable terms. Steve had to do SOMETHING to placate those vultures at the RIAA. This could have been 1000% worse...look at Pressplay or RealOne or any of the other RIAA approved "rent a song" services.
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I think if you read your Book of the Subgenius you would understand that those slacker Chimps are more evolved than we are.
Bonobos are even more evolved than Chimps because they settle things by having sex rather than by fighting.
Bob said it, I believe it, that settles it.
Certainly in the Second Century of the Common Era, the concept of an implanted RFID chip would not be known, but instead it would be seen as a "mark."
I wonder if Dubya thinks it through...the way he's going, he's making it possible for the Antichrist to do his stuff.
Then again, maybe he has thought it through...shudder.
- Howard Berman, Representative
- Barbara Boxer, Junior Senator
- Dianne Feinstein, Senior Senator
All three are 0wnz0r3d by the RIAA, MPAA, and Big Media.No, I didn't vote for Berman in the last election. I swallowed hard and voted for the Republican candidate, because he seemed to be genuinely concerned about eroding Fair Use rights.
I don't know what's going to happen when Berman, Feinstein and Boxer are up for re-election again. Usually the Republicans run Religious Right-sponsored, Orange County-friendly candidates at the Senatorial level here in California. I can't support someone like that. But Feinstein and Boxer make me sick. Berman does too, but I think he's gotten enough heat from geeks in his district (they do exist) to where he's not going to try anything so stupid as a "Son Of Berman Bill".
I live close enough to Hollywood to where it's a lot like living in Adam Smith's district in Washington State. This is a company town and Big Media is the company. Resistance, it seems. is futile.
One of my friends up in Santa Barbara is in the process of building a server farm entirely out of EPIA Mini-ITX machines. Web serving, file serving...those are the kind of things that this platform excels at. It's only now with Nehemiah that one can even think of doing other things with the machines, like media boxes. They are still not too great for high-end gaming. You can play something along the lines of UT or Half Life C/S but don't expect to play UT2003 or anything more modern than that even on a Nehemiah.
I'm waiting on my private server to go up at this server farm. It should rock.
Brilliant strategy...however, you are missing one important point. There is a reason why geeks call the company in question SuxRoxio. EZCDCreator is a trainwreck. Anyone still running Windows who has any iota of clue will use Nero on their own machine and install NTI CD-Maker on any machine destined for the Great Unwashed. NTI CD-Maker is just as braindead simple as EZCD but plays better with the NT codebase than SuxRoxio.
Remember, Toast and Jam were written by another company, not SuxRoxio. They got the programs by buying out the company. Only goes to show you that Adaptec (the company SuxRoxio was spun out of) is the MS of its particular product niche. A niche that is becoming more and more irrelevant as Serial ATA and FireWire take over for SCSI.
If Caldera hadn't released code on its flavor of Linux, Lycoris Linux would not exist. As far as I know, Lycoris is the only branch of the Caldera distro that is being actively developed. They use Lizard, Caldera-style RPMs, the whole 9.
Basically, Caldera released all the IP that it's now suing IBM about under the GPL. The only value of all this hubbub is the FUD value. And Microsoft is making hay while the sun shines.
Just to reinforce...Mac people have been modding their Macs long before the "leet case modders" have been. http://www.applefritter.com/ has the evidence.
I find this to be horribly unfortunate. Why is it that for one sex to excel, the other pays a price? This isn't right.
Don't do it to poor defenseless cavies! However, I understand that the combination of a cat brain in a kick-ass robot body is pretty cool.
Literacy tests had been used since Reconstruction to screen out black voters. The 1960s Voting Rights Act finally put a stop to them. Not a good idea since it can be abused.
...are both divergent, but equally valid solutions to the same problem: scarcity of fuel for cooking. You either cook something very fast at very high temperatures or very slowly in a closed vessel. Either way, you maximize your resources. Either way, you save fuel. And either way, if you have the skills, you can cook a damn fine meal.
If you were running Mandrake you would have a great update feature right at your fingertips. It is a graphical wrapper around Mandrake's updating utility and it is even simpler than Windows Update.
You also get more control...you can specify that something NOT get patched if you know that the patch will break something. Unlike Red Hat Up2Date you don't have to subscribe to anything to get the functionality. It is SWEET.
This is why I have a MDK9.1 DVD winging its way to me from France (yeah, yeah, I know, sue me for supporting a French company) via DHL. It should get here within the next few days. Yeah, they have a tendency to beg and cajole for money (damn Vulture Capitalists leeching them into bankruptcy court!) but they sure as hell deliver the goods.
Mandrake is desktop Linux done RIGHT.
ESR is not a lawyer, but this is extremely instructive, and suggests just how specious SCO's claims are. Noorda is going to get bitchslapped, and deservedly so.
[aohell]Me too![/aohell]
Apparently there is a lot of clamor in K-12 for teachers who are technically savvy. And there is tons of financial aid available for people who are willing to commit to being a public school teacher, especially if you can teach math, science or special education. I'm going for the very latter...special ed. Adaptive tools for learning require technically savvy teachers to help kids use them, need I say more?
It will take me a while. But five years of being a full-time student beats five more years of McJobs while waiting for the tech sector to pick up. Been there, done that, got the trick knee from working the floor at a consumer electronics store which will remain nameless due to the "non-disparagement" clause in the contract I signed with them when I signed on.
Alma mater, I'm comin' home.
IRC might be a client/server network, but DCC is strictly peer to peer. In DCC you create a direct connection between your IP address and the person who you are exchanging information with's IP address. IRC facilitates finding someone to do a DCC connection with, but that's it.
I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember the "look for the Union label" jingle. However, what you need to do as far as CDs go is "look for the CD-DA logo."
From what I understand, Royal Dutch Philips is actively looking for CDs labeled as proper Red Book compliant, non-broken CD-DA CDs but which are copy-limited, and therefore broken. If that Phil Collins and/or Norah Jones CD has the logo, but does not conform to the Red Book standard, Philips needs to be let know so they can SUE. And they have specifically said they WILL sue if cases like that are brought to their attention.
If the CD DOES NOT bear the CD-DA logo, you can't do this. But if it does...you can put a world of hurt on the music industry strictly by bringing this to their attention.
At least Amtrak Surfliners (Santa Barbara-San Diego CA) have plain old garden-variety 3-prong 120vac outlets everywhere. Easy to plug in your laptop and do anything you want, without worrying about battery life. I wonder how enjoyable wardriving is from a train...I think I may find out someday. :)
Well, after all, Jedi have to live a life of celibacy, right?
I think that Roger Moore put the lie to that. Roger Moore stank on ice as Bond. He turned that franchise into a buffoon-o-rama. The whole series turned into a Monty Python sketch gone wrong.
Bond didn't recover until Pierce Brosnan. The Timothy Dalton Bond movies were OK and were actually closer to the Ian Fleming concept of Bond as all-around badass but something was missing.
Brosnan is the best Bond since Connery. Although I would have liked to see where George Lazenby would have taken the character in a second go-round as 007. However, there is no doubt of one thing: Roger Moore sucked.
The 52xx/62xx-63xx machines were Michael Spindler's fault. Yes, they sucked ass. Even Apple makes mistakes. They still do...the eMac is a disaster. But for every disaster, Apple more than redeems themselves. People throw out 1999-vintage PCs in dumpsters. People still pay $500+ for a 1999 stock vintage G3 Blue And White minitower.
Although interestingly enough, there IS a Japanese series that recently made it to the US called Arjuna...it's not about the legendary hero of the Mahabharata, but rather about a "magical girl" character who is chosen by the old Gods to defend the planet from demons (they are called Raaja but I suppose Rakshasha is the more proper term) and from ecological destruction. Bandai Entertainment developed the series in Japan and is releasing it dubbed/subbed in the US. Here's the link:
http://www.arjunaproject.com/
For every Schoolhouse Rock (did more to help me learn my times tables than my Dad and his flashcards ever did) and Bill Nye The Science Guy there were atrocities like Kid Power and Captain Planet. No, teachers meddling in the one place kids used to go to UNWIND from school only HURT SatAM. It didn't help.
If you want to see what SatAM cartoons would be if the fsckn child psychologists and the teachers took it over, watch PBS' SatAM programming. Or Noggin. Or the second wave (post-"Rugrats Movie") Rugrats. Boring, boring boring...
There is a reason why Japanese series have almost put the entirety of the animation industry in the United States out of business. Japanese TV doesn't mandate the kind of "educational" content rules that US TV does. I don't know how it survives in Canada, other than by the intervention of the Film Board of Canada and the "Canadian Content" regulations.
First version allows burning to Red Book. If the second version doesn't, guess what happens? Everyone deserts iTunes en masse and goes back to whatever P2P system they were using before iTunes. iTunes fails, Apple loses its shirt.
If anything, Steve knows where his bread is Vegan-friendly margarinned. He has shown time and time again that the customer comes first at Apple. Occasionally he has made mistakes (.Mac you have to pay for, anyone? The POS called the eMac, anyone?) but more often than not he does the right thing.
BTW the frog boiling thing was thoroughly debunked. If the water in a pan becomes sufficiently hot, whether the water was gradually heated or hot to begin with, the frog WILL jump out to safety. Check snopes.com for details.
The AAC file has a soupcon of DRM in it. It will allow itself to be copied and used on up to three "authorized" computers. It also has your name and email address in a header,
However, once you burn that AAC to an audio CD (and in the process, rip to standard Red Book-compliant CD-DA, all bets are off. You can turn around and take the CD-DA tracks on that audio CD and do what thou wilt.
I don't think the "burn unchanged playlists up to 10x each" thing is too unreasonable. You get one Red Book audio CD plus 9 spares. And if you absolutely GOTTA burn those tracks again, nuke the playlist and reassemble it. Or change the track order. The counter resets.
Really...this is not unreasonable terms. Steve had to do SOMETHING to placate those vultures at the RIAA. This could have been 1000% worse...look at Pressplay or RealOne or any of the other RIAA approved "rent a song" services.