They keep saying that they couldn't play the first track. Of course they can't play the first track, that's what contains the filesystem with the CDS player.
Correct me if I'm wrong (nobody's perfect), but this seems pretty simple to me.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I have sprint's fixed wireless service and I live in San Jose.
The service was pretty horrible a few months ago, but they sent out an e-mail to all the clients saying they would be upgrading the network soon and things would get better, and they actually (*GASP*) came through on their promise. The mini-outages dropped from 10/15 a day (by mini outage, I mean a 30 second - 5 minute period where the service didn't transmit or recieve any data, kicking you off IRC, stalling HTTP,etc) to maybe two or three a week.
The latency is still questionable, you get the same performance in online games as you would from a 56k, sometimes worse, and the upload speed is particularly sucky (about 10kB/s) but the download speed is unquestionably better than DSL and comparable to cable. I can usually pull 300kB/s from kernel.org on off peak hours, 200kB/s on heavy use times.
This service is particularly good for me because I'm out of range of both cable and DSL in my area. In its current state, I'd recommend it to anyone who cares more about download speed than latency, or those who can't get DSL or cable to begin with.
Another interesting quirk is Sprint provides the hardware and earthlink supplies the bandwidth and backbone connection, so I have the creeping feeling that earthlink's service will be exactly the same as Sprint's, except under a different name.
RM and ASF as encrypted formats?
Work is already being done on that. Take a look here.
The entire program is system independant (it's only a converter, not a player), and although not complete, already has some VERY impressive features (as in codecs).
The stupidity of these republicans is so damn funny.
They think that CyberPatrol and Net Nanny will somehow magically filter alien programs such as BearShare.
These idiots feel powerless, with good reason. There is nearly nothing they could do. If Mattel were to release CyberPatrol for Gnutella, wouldn't that violate the DMCA, because they reverse engineered the specific client? Unless the Gnutella client authors cooperate, the filter corporations can can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING without violating the laws that they created themselves.
The only thing they could possibly do is create their own gnutella client, but how does that prevent children from installing their own?
This entire matter is just another example of how open standards really do crush censorship. --- Can you imagine a MOSIX cluster of these?
The San Jose protest went well, although I can't speak for the protests in other cities.
I got there at 11, we were in a park not far from Adobe HQ, we stayed there until noon to attract attention, then we marched two blocks down to Adobe HQ and chanted stuff like "Free Dmitry" for another hour until the meeting with the EFF indoors ended. The EFF representatives waved to us and one of the contest leaders got a call from them saying our efforts helped.
Overall, it was rather fun, and the cops gave us no problems. One of them actually honked and waved to us.
There were several news reporters milling about asking people stuff. I'd say the entire thing was an overall success.
So far, there have been 19 scans of my firewall from different hosts today alone, all for port 80.
I don't run a webserver, and basically nobody has my IP, so it has to be scans from this worm.
This is gonna be huge when it goes off. I guess I'll just enjoy the fireworks.
The very very first GCC was compiled by whatever standard (and *gasp* proprietary) C compiler was available on the OS it was developed on.
The very very first C compiler ever had to have been written in another language. Fortran, or assembly maybe. --- Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
You may look at Napster as blatant theivery, but the thing is, these people created their music for the purpose as consumption. How did they create their music? By consuming other's works. No matter how much they have used their own lyrics and information, they have created their music using the culture of the individuals whom are living in it. Those individuals have a right to take it back as well.
Restricting the free flow of music is restricting the free flow of culture. That is basically impossible.
Most musicians make enough money from their CD sales to survive in luxury above that of the people purchasing their CDs. Some don't. You can't make a living off of music.
The fact is, anyone with any business experience will save up money to distribute their music via MP3 first, then once people get a taste for it, publish CDs. If you jump straight into CD production, you are being stupid, and deserve to go bankrupt.
I may sound a little crazy, but whether Napster wins or loses may determine if the US is nearing socialism, or is still completely capitalist.
Just my deranged, biased $0.02 --- Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I interpret this as Harris has forbidden Rambus from screwing with any other SDRAM producers as well. This would be a good thing for all of us DDR-SDRAM fans who dont want to pay sky-high prices for it. --- Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
You should consider becoming a school sysadmin. a lot of schools would be more than happy to hire you for free if you can keep their more "adventuring" students from fscking up their win98 boxen. then again this is hitting on another ask slashdot about getting linux in the workplace. just my 2 cents
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So does this make CVS and rsync subject to patent royalties now?
They keep saying that they couldn't play the first track. Of course they can't play the first track, that's what contains the filesystem with the CDS player.
Correct me if I'm wrong (nobody's perfect), but this seems pretty simple to me.
Sprint's hardware uses an ethernet bridge, although theoretically they could install pppoe as well.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I have sprint's fixed wireless service and I live in San Jose.
,etc) to maybe two or three a week.
The service was pretty horrible a few months ago, but they sent out an e-mail to all the clients saying they would be upgrading the network soon and things would get better, and they actually (*GASP*) came through on their promise. The mini-outages dropped from 10/15 a day (by mini outage, I mean a 30 second - 5 minute period where the service didn't transmit or recieve any data, kicking you off IRC, stalling HTTP
The latency is still questionable, you get the same performance in online games as you would from a 56k, sometimes worse, and the upload speed is particularly sucky (about 10kB/s) but the download speed is unquestionably better than DSL and comparable to cable. I can usually pull 300kB/s from kernel.org on off peak hours, 200kB/s on heavy use times.
This service is particularly good for me because I'm out of range of both cable and DSL in my area. In its current state, I'd recommend it to anyone who cares more about download speed than latency, or those who can't get DSL or cable to begin with.
Another interesting quirk is Sprint provides the hardware and earthlink supplies the bandwidth and backbone connection, so I have the creeping feeling that earthlink's service will be exactly the same as Sprint's, except under a different name.
Open Source does not an ecosystem make
I didn't realize we were required to present our thesis in Yoda-speak.
what's stopping the ISPs from making a transproxy from all nntp servers to their own?
RM and ASF as encrypted formats?
Work is already being done on that. Take a look here.
The entire program is system independant (it's only a converter, not a player), and although not complete,
already has some VERY impressive features (as in codecs).
The stupidity of these republicans is so damn funny. They think that CyberPatrol and Net Nanny will somehow magically filter alien programs such as BearShare. These idiots feel powerless, with good reason. There is nearly nothing they could do. If Mattel were to release CyberPatrol for Gnutella, wouldn't that violate the DMCA, because they reverse engineered the specific client? Unless the Gnutella client authors cooperate, the filter corporations can can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING without violating the laws that they created themselves. The only thing they could possibly do is create their own gnutella client, but how does that prevent children from installing their own? This entire matter is just another example of how open standards really do crush censorship.
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Can you imagine a MOSIX cluster of these?
The San Jose protest went well, although I can't speak for the protests in other cities.
I got there at 11, we were in a park not far from Adobe HQ, we stayed there until noon to attract attention, then we marched two blocks down to Adobe HQ and chanted stuff like "Free Dmitry" for another hour until the meeting with the EFF indoors ended. The EFF representatives waved to us and one of the contest leaders got a call from them saying our efforts helped.
Overall, it was rather fun, and the cops gave us no problems. One of them actually honked and waved to us.
There were several news reporters milling about asking people stuff. I'd say the entire thing was an overall success.
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Can you imagine a MOSIX cluster of these?
So far, there have been 19 scans of my firewall from different hosts today alone, all for port 80.
I don't run a webserver, and basically nobody has my IP, so it has to be scans from this worm.
This is gonna be huge when it goes off. I guess I'll just enjoy the fireworks.
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Can you imagine a MOSIX cluster of these?
This has been in Debian for quite some time (Not sure about the other major distributions)
apt-get install libpam-cracklib
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
The very very first GCC was compiled by whatever standard (and *gasp* proprietary) C compiler was available on the OS it was developed on. The very very first C compiler ever had to have been written in another language. Fortran, or assembly maybe.
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
You may look at Napster as blatant theivery, but the thing is, these people created their music for the purpose as consumption. How did they create their music? By consuming other's works. No matter how much they have used their own lyrics and information, they have created their music using the culture of the individuals whom are living in it. Those individuals have a right to take it back as well.
Restricting the free flow of music is restricting the free flow of culture. That is basically impossible.
Most musicians make enough money from their CD sales to survive in luxury above that of the people purchasing their CDs. Some don't. You can't make a living off of music.
The fact is, anyone with any business experience will save up money to distribute their music via MP3 first, then once people get a taste for it, publish CDs. If you jump straight into CD production, you are being stupid, and deserve to go bankrupt.
I may sound a little crazy, but whether Napster wins or loses may determine if the US is nearing socialism, or is still completely capitalist.
Just my deranged, biased $0.02
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
Great! I can just imagine the slashdot trolls:
gopher://goatse.cx/
EEW... gopher-goat sex?
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I interpret this as Harris has forbidden Rambus from screwing with any other SDRAM producers as well. This would be a good thing for all of us DDR-SDRAM fans who dont want to pay sky-high prices for it.
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of theese?
You should consider becoming a school sysadmin. a lot of schools would be more than happy to hire you for free if you can keep their more "adventuring" students from fscking up their win98 boxen. then again this is hitting on another ask slashdot about getting linux in the workplace. just my 2 cents