I'm amazed at how much the line has blurred for me with respect to copyrights. MP3 changed that. Slightly before my audio addiction, I thought MODs were going to be huge, but then about the same time, Layer3 audio came about, and I wondered why I would go with anything else.
The whole net took notice, and now with growing popularity, we have to fess up to our actions. I love music, can't get enough, and get a lot of MP3s, but well, it's illegal. I don't have to tell you guys that.
When, however, did the line get so blurred? I don't want to see Napster go, as I learned piracy from my father, but instead I want an underground I'm not going to hear about on Headline News.
Lets keep surfing this wave, and lets hear more from the OSI community. Gnutella is good, but we need to keep going.
that Eric is getting a leg up... I'm so glad that this wasn't crushed in the first round, and that people are open minded to just how far the first ammendment stretches. This is clearly a case where DeCSS was published out of purely journalistic interest.
I had a bad morning, and this made me much happier.;) Congrats, and keep fighting!
SUBJ: Hello friend! MSG: Ahhh I love living in the United States, I love the government and its astoundingly perfect mindset that guards my every right and freedom. I am glad that you, my friend, my comrade, are living in this land that beats all others.
It's so double plus good to be alive and protected by the Ministry of the FBI!
I'm not sure about technology killing my leisure time, as I am quite happy with hobby photography, and playing guitar, and I managed to keep a moderation of those activities to offset technology frustrations.
HOWEVER! I would say that there is no doubt in my mind that choosing MIS as a career has killed 99% of my leisure computer time... I would love so much to learn more about Macromedia Flash, and Sonic Foundry's Vegas Pro... but when I try to use those tools for enhancing my other interests (music & photography), I just wind up checking stocks, servers, email, web pages, or troubleshooting the system itself's quirks (heh... m$)....
Of the recent deregulation of low-power FM? A lot of people are concerned we are going to further decrease our useability of the airwaves. Also two-way paging is down to the $30/$20/month rate... are we also going to clutter our paging airwaves with rather unencrypted email, spam, etc?
that reactions to MS doing this would be different, but heck they just buy the company instead of snooping on them. This is the business world, and business is war.
I wonder if Oracle used RDBMS to orchestrate their snoops! Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of snoops?!;)
A dramatic price drop in full-featured networking devices is going to take quite a lot of time to drop below a couple hundred dollars... with no strings attached, and no service fees.
I honestly think there's a glass floor if you will on prices... supply/demand, labor costs, these are things that take revolutions and generations to put dents in... I think computers and networks are as complicated as cars... while they are better now-a-days, I still can't go out and get a sufficient vehicle for $100 brand new...
They still won't get past the higher LCD display costs, and memory costs... Webpads and most electronic networkable devices will never, IMHO, be under $100.
About the only thing I see promising is up-coming disposable cell phones. Techlust seems to come at some cost, and its more than the ultimate feast at Red Lobster.
when I'd hear people spell out h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash, but now I'll be able to maybe even listen to the Spanish channels on DirecTV and listen to them... b-x-x-p-colon-slash-slash........
I wish they'd help us with our intellectual property issues instead of just spanking us all like the bad children they claim us to be. They could be helping us be good.
I would like to see more books about social ramifications... ya know? I mean it has to be inherently bad that I wait for my gf to get on IRC... and it has to be bad that 10% of the conversation is trying to figure out if the last comment was sarcastic or not... my $.02
Actually no note has neither a sharp nor a flat... they all have atleast one (physically), and they all have both (technically)...
Yeah I totally remember that episode... there were a lot of good little riddle things (64 squares on a chess board, etc...) Good idea for kids to get thinking about riddles.
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The whole net took notice, and now with growing popularity, we have to fess up to our actions. I love music, can't get enough, and get a lot of MP3s, but well, it's illegal. I don't have to tell you guys that.
When, however, did the line get so blurred? I don't want to see Napster go, as I learned piracy from my father, but instead I want an underground I'm not going to hear about on Headline News.
Lets keep surfing this wave, and lets hear more from the OSI community. Gnutella is good, but we need to keep going.
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I had a bad morning, and this made me much happier. ;) Congrats, and keep fighting!
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It's so double plus good to be alive and protected by the Ministry of the FBI!
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HOWEVER! I would say that there is no doubt in my mind that choosing MIS as a career has killed 99% of my leisure computer time... I would love so much to learn more about Macromedia Flash, and Sonic Foundry's Vegas Pro... but when I try to use those tools for enhancing my other interests (music & photography), I just wind up checking stocks, servers, email, web pages, or troubleshooting the system itself's quirks (heh... m$)....
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I wonder if Oracle used RDBMS to orchestrate their snoops! Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of snoops?! ;)
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About the only thing I see promising is up-coming disposable cell phones. Techlust seems to come at some cost, and its more than the ultimate feast at Red Lobster.
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I wish they'd help us with our intellectual property issues instead of just spanking us all like the bad children they claim us to be. They could be helping us be good.
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Yeah I totally remember that episode... there were a lot of good little riddle things (64 squares on a chess board, etc...) Good idea for kids to get thinking about riddles.
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