It is my (and your) intellectual property that underlies their database. I have inputted a couple of discs into CDDB over the years.
I propose a class action lawsuit to reclaim our IP. I reccomend we sue for five dollars per entry and whatevers left after the sharks get their cut we donate to charity. What do you think.
I looked on their website for an email address to send a revocation request to but haven't found a good one.
I submitted the data for one of their entries back when CDDB was free and I want it removed.
There is no truer freedom than that which privacy allows.
No one can monitor or control my thoughts (yet). They are truly mine, they are free from the impositisions of others. Physical privacy simply extends that freedom to (some) physical acts.
The freedom to think and do things that are not harmful but still discouraged by others is the most basic and essential human right of all.
Just ask George Orwell how free an "Open Source society" would be.
"Without deviation progress is not possible." -Frank Zappa
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Does the Slashdot Jihad hate Microsoft so much that they want them OUT OF BUSINESS? Jeezum crow, MS isn't the greatest software company in the world, nor are they cute and snuggly, but worthy of being DESTROYED?
Damn straight they need to be destroyed. This is a company that wants to outlaw freedom of speech. Have you forgotten Jim Allchin's comments already?
Please tell me that linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do...
Linux has always had a "core" team. Linus is the leader, Alan his second in command, etc. Nothing goes into the kernel unless Linus sprinkles holy penguin pee on it. But you are still free to write your own code/modifications and release it yourself.
The difference is this. If you release a forked version of BSD you are in violation of copyright. If you release a forked version of Linux you are in violation of etiquette (and common sense).
whereis biff? crypt at source. biff cut yacc tail, yacc cut biff finger.
"awk!," sed biff.
"ar, ar!" sed yacc.
ksh, bash! man cut head, kill yacc at last, make strings.
exit crypt, find mail from su. od. "date? yes." biff find su nice.
make time, date. find su at wall. tee, talk.
ed: "tip: find jobs, biff."
"yes, make tar," sed biff.
su, biff date more: touch, strip, sleep.
"su, inetd perl," sed biff.
"yes!" sed su.
This is by far the worst Jon Katz article I've ever read. It's full of bad logic and misinformation.
It was also instrumental in spawning Open Source, Free Software
No, it was instrumental in perpetuating Open/Free software. Propietary Unix spawned it.
I'd rather see MS challenged creatively in the marketplace
Too bad MS' monopoly prevents free market forces from operating. That's why we need the government: to restore competition to the market.
It seems clear that no one in the federal government from Congress to the regulatory agencies to the White House -- is in a strong position to oversee or regulate the Net or the increasingly disparate tech nation.
How is forcing Microsoft, an illegal monopoly, into fair competition "regulation of the Net"??
Netscape distributed 160 million copies of Navigator At the time [...] there were approximately 100 million Net users
I've gotta question numbers that claim Netscape had 160% of the market.
Is it true that these users were not free to choose Netscape?
Yes. Users were forced to take IE even if they didn't want it and were forced to download Netscape even if they wanted it pre-installed.
OEMs were not allowed to choose to pre-install Netscape instead of IE.
Jackson defined the "relevant market" that Microsoft controlled as operating systems and replacements to operating systems. But Microsoft's lawyers have repeatedly argued -- correctly -- that Navigator isn't an operating system
Repeat after me: it is a crime for a company with monopoly power in one market to use that power to influence/control a different market.
Several other justices said they were sympathetic to Microsoft's argument that it integrated IE with Windows because there was little or no real market for computers without browsers.
There's no market for computers without an email client. Should MS be allowed to "integrate" Outlook with Windows? Of course not. If they had simply *distributed* IE with Windows, and made it easier for OEMs and end users to remove, they wouldn't be in as much trouble.
There is NO technical reason whatsoever for this "integration". IE and Windows is the ONLY OS/browser combination that is "integrated", yet I can use several different browsers on several different OSes.
MS has a monopoly in desktop operating systems. A web browser is an application. Learn the difference.
Was Microsoft really supposed to sit back and allow competitors to dominate this critical market, surely threatening Windows in the process?
Repeat after me: it is a crime for a company with monopoly power in one market to use that power to influence/control a different market.
They can compete in the browser market, but they cannot use their monopoly power in OSes to help.
X10 has what they call MP3 Anywhere. It's just an RF audio send/receive pair, but it works well. It's more expensive ($80 US, but includes an excellent remote) and they haven't Slashdotted (yet). I can't get through to canakit.com...
So now I could write a virus, put access/copy "controls" on it and then sue McAfee and Symantec when their anti-virus software "circumvents" my code so they can detect and disable it?
Gotta love that forward thinking gummint we got here.
I own a laptop with some bad memory on the motherboard. It's usually not a problem, but a kernel compile will segfault at random points. Unlik a desktop, I can't just replace the RAM.
As soon as I get the machine back (hi Rick:-), I'll try this out.
"If this is allowed to go unchecked, the young men of our country will be reduced to nothing more than masturbating zombies. There is also a very real risk that many will go blind. How many more young lives must be ruined before we take action?"
No, no, no. You won't go blind if you don't sit so close to the TV.
If you buy either version of Quake 3 you can play
it on both systems. Just download the latest
point release for the OS you didn't buy it for
and copy pak0.pk3 from the CD (or make a symlink
and save 480 MB of disk space like I did). This
is actually explained pretty well in Loki's FAQ.
I play exclusively in Linux, but my money went to
the Windows version because that's all Best Buy
had when I needed to buy it. I needed it for work
and couldn't wait..
This is such a clear violation of First Amendment rights. Their product is deliberately preventing you and me from voicing our opinions, concerns and criticisms to people who would otherwise want to hear them.
"Live free or die". Ain't it the damn truth.
And don't forget to add Mattel to your list of boycotts..
> To qualify as a world-class success and not just a fad, each new product > or method must pass the acidtest of "crossing the chasm" that separates > early adoption from mainstream acceptance.
Besides this not being the only, or even best, criterion of mainstream acceptance, he fails to define mainstream acceptance. With Linux' user base in the same ballpark as Mac OS, I'd say it has passed this test anyway.
> This is because the strategy of the weak no longer works when a product > becomes a serious threat to competitors. Microsoft demonstrated this in > its battle with Netscape. Once Netscape seriously challenged Microsoft by > gaining the dominant share of browser users, Microsoft skillfully applied > an absorb-and-extend strategy, a proven technique of the strong.
Huh? Netscape was not open source. Netscape didn't "challenge" MS, they created a market that MS dismissed at the time. MS got market share through price dumping, product tying and exclusionary contracts, not "absorb-and-extend".
> Unix has more than 10 million lines of code, while Linux has only 1.5 > million. So the Unix defect rate could have been as high as 60 percent > and still paralleled that of Linux.
Program A has 100 Klocs and 10 bugs. Program B, with identical functionality, has 50 Klocs and 6 bugs. Program A is more reliable?!
> Greed is the greatest motivator of all.
Spoken like a true American. He simply doesn't understand the OSS movement.
> First, Microsoft has many more options than does the open source > movement. Because it holds the strong position, Microsoft can simply > absorb and extend Linux.
He also hasn't read the GPL.
> A third scenario is most likely: Linux will turn commercial and Caldera, > Red Hat, or some other traditional software publisher will push it into > the mainstream.
He definitely hasn't read the GPL. And he doesn't realize that Caldera and Red Hat went commercial a couple years ago.
> In their drive to simplify support, they will always choose Windows, > Solaris, or HP-UX over yet another Unix. After all, total cost of > ownership is driven by support, not capital costs.
I see this argument a lot and I hate it because it's so stupid. It implies that no OS will ever replace another. If the cost of adding or switching an OS was so great, we'd ALL have 3270s on our desks.
> Even if Linux proves > the better product, Microsoft can always use tying-the creation of a > mandatory dependency among applications-to maintain its monopoly.
Where can I get the drugs he's taking? The DOJ disagrees with him.
Slashdot Mirror
Who's going to mount an Arctic expedition just to hit Ctl-Alt-Del every time NT crashes? Talk about your Blue screens...
It is my (and your) intellectual property that underlies their database. I have inputted a couple of discs into CDDB over the years.
I propose a class action lawsuit to reclaim our IP. I reccomend we sue for five dollars per entry and whatevers left after the sharks get their cut we donate to charity. What do you think.
I looked on their website for an email address to send a revocation request to but haven't found a good one.
I submitted the data for one of their entries back when CDDB was free and I want it removed.
How 'bout one of the 7-line DeCSS implementations?
Circumvent this!
There is no truer freedom than that which privacy allows.
No one can monitor or control my thoughts (yet). They are truly mine, they are free from the impositisions of others. Physical privacy simply extends that freedom to (some) physical acts.
The freedom to think and do things that are not harmful but still discouraged by others is the most basic and essential human right of all.
Just ask George Orwell how free an "Open Source society" would be.
"Without deviation progress is not possible." -Frank Zappa
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Does the Slashdot Jihad hate Microsoft so much that they want them OUT OF BUSINESS? Jeezum crow, MS isn't the greatest software company in the world, nor are they cute and snuggly, but worthy of being DESTROYED?
Damn straight they need to be destroyed. This is a company that wants to outlaw freedom of speech. Have you forgotten Jim Allchin's comments already?
Please tell me that linux isn't going to adopt the idea of having a "core" team like the BSD's do ...
Linux has always had a "core" team. Linus is the leader, Alan his second in command, etc. Nothing goes into the kernel unless Linus sprinkles holy penguin pee on it. But you are still free to write your own code/modifications and release it yourself.
The difference is this. If you release a forked version of BSD you are in violation of copyright. If you release a forked version of Linux you are in violation of etiquette (and common sense).
From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Date: 8 Feb 92 00:30:05 GMT
whereis biff? crypt at source. biff cut yacc tail, yacc cut biff finger.
"awk!," sed biff.
"ar, ar!" sed yacc.
ksh, bash! man cut head, kill yacc at last, make strings.
exit crypt, find mail from su. od. "date? yes." biff find su nice.
make time, date. find su at wall. tee, talk.
ed: "tip: find jobs, biff."
"yes, make tar," sed biff.
su, biff date more: touch, strip, sleep.
"su, inetd perl," sed biff.
"yes!" sed su.
This is by far the worst Jon Katz article I've ever read. It's full of bad logic and misinformation.
It was also instrumental in spawning Open Source, Free Software
No, it was instrumental in perpetuating Open/Free software. Propietary Unix spawned it.
I'd rather see MS challenged creatively in the marketplace
Too bad MS' monopoly prevents free market forces from operating. That's why we need the government: to restore competition to the market.
It seems clear that no one in the federal government from Congress to the regulatory agencies to the White House -- is in a strong position to oversee or regulate the Net or the increasingly disparate tech nation.
How is forcing Microsoft, an illegal monopoly, into fair competition "regulation of the Net"??
Netscape distributed 160 million copies of Navigator
At the time [...] there were approximately 100 million Net users
I've gotta question numbers that claim Netscape had 160% of the market.
Is it true that these users were not free to choose Netscape?
Yes. Users were forced to take IE even if they didn't want it and were forced to download Netscape even if they wanted it pre-installed.
OEMs were not allowed to choose to pre-install Netscape instead of IE.
Jackson defined the "relevant market" that Microsoft controlled as operating systems and replacements to operating systems. But Microsoft's lawyers have repeatedly argued -- correctly -- that Navigator isn't an operating system
Repeat after me: it is a crime for a company with monopoly power in one market to use that power to influence/control a different market.
Several other justices said they were sympathetic to Microsoft's argument that it integrated IE with Windows because there was little or no real market for computers without browsers.
There's no market for computers without an email client. Should MS be allowed to "integrate" Outlook with Windows? Of course not. If they had simply *distributed* IE with Windows, and made it easier for OEMs and end users to remove, they wouldn't be in as much trouble.
There is NO technical reason whatsoever for this "integration". IE and Windows is the ONLY OS/browser combination that is "integrated", yet I can use several different browsers on several different OSes.
MS has a monopoly in desktop operating systems. A web browser is an application. Learn the difference.
Was Microsoft really supposed to sit back and allow competitors to dominate this critical market, surely threatening Windows in the process?
Repeat after me: it is a crime for a company with monopoly power in one market to use that power to influence/control a different market.
They can compete in the browser market, but they cannot use their monopoly power in OSes to help.
They simply misread "BSD license" for "BSOD license". I'm surprised that haven't sued the guys at UCB.
They're the oldest ISP and, IMO, still one of the best. I've had a shell account with them since circa 1990.
All of the (three or four) mag stripe readers/encoders I've worked with are normal serial (RS-232) devices. Just open /dev/ttyS0 and go..
Yeah, but Netscape never had a monopoly. Microsoft is required, by law, to play by different rules.
X10 has what they call MP3 Anywhere. It's just an RF audio send/receive pair, but it works well. It's more expensive ($80 US, but includes an excellent remote) and they haven't Slashdotted (yet). I can't get through to canakit.com...
http://www.x10.com/products/offer85.htm
So now I could write a virus, put access/copy "controls" on it and then sue McAfee and Symantec when their anti-virus software "circumvents" my code so they can detect and disable it?
Gotta love that forward thinking gummint we got here.
I own a laptop with some bad memory on the motherboard. It's usually not a problem, but a kernel compile will segfault at random points. Unlik a desktop, I can't just replace the RAM.
:-), I'll try this out.
As soon as I get the machine back (hi Rick
To actually answer the original question..
If the TiVo can't dialout, you can still program it like a VCR.
Although, dialing out gives you several cool things in addition to never missing the Simpsons again (the main reason I finally bought mine).
It will start recording shows it thinks you might like whenever there's room on the hard disk.
I wish I hadn't renewed my subscription to TV guide. With the on-screen listings, I never use it any more.
It's also the only (easy) way you'll get software updates and messages from TiVo.
So the TiVo is still usable, but I'd strongly recommend the cheapest phone line you can get. It's worth it..
Put your finger in your ear and listen as you speak into the mic which is integrated into the wristwatch.
No, no, no. You stick your finger in your ear and say ting-a-ling-a-loo!
The first Cringely was Rory O'Connor
The second Cringely was Laurie Flynn
I started writing the column in the first week of September, 1987
Aha! Now we know who the Dread Priate Roberts (X. Cringely) were.
"If this is allowed to go unchecked, the young men of our country will be reduced to nothing more than masturbating zombies. There is also a very real risk that many will go blind. How many more young lives must be ruined before we take action?"
No, no, no. You won't go blind if you don't sit so close to the TV.
If you buy either version of Quake 3 you can play
it on both systems. Just download the latest
point release for the OS you didn't buy it for
and copy pak0.pk3 from the CD (or make a symlink
and save 480 MB of disk space like I did). This
is actually explained pretty well in Loki's FAQ.
I play exclusively in Linux, but my money went to
the Windows version because that's all Best Buy
had when I needed to buy it. I needed it for work
and couldn't wait..
I'm too lazy to read 400+ posts to see if anyone else has noticed this.
In several languages that we're all familiar with, everything after a '#' is a comment. So this language can safely be ignored..
"Live free or die". Ain't it the damn truth.
And don't forget to add Mattel to your list of boycotts..
> To qualify as a world-class success and not just a fad, each new product
> or method must pass the acidtest of "crossing the chasm" that separates
> early adoption from mainstream acceptance.
Besides this not being the only, or even best, criterion of mainstream
acceptance, he fails to define mainstream acceptance. With Linux' user
base in the same ballpark as Mac OS, I'd say it has passed this test
anyway.
> This is because the strategy of the weak no longer works when a product
> becomes a serious threat to competitors. Microsoft demonstrated this in
> its battle with Netscape. Once Netscape seriously challenged Microsoft by
> gaining the dominant share of browser users, Microsoft skillfully applied
> an absorb-and-extend strategy, a proven technique of the strong.
Huh? Netscape was not open source. Netscape didn't "challenge" MS, they
created a market that MS dismissed at the time. MS got market share
through price dumping, product tying and exclusionary contracts, not
"absorb-and-extend".
> Unix has more than 10 million lines of code, while Linux has only 1.5
> million. So the Unix defect rate could have been as high as 60 percent
> and still paralleled that of Linux.
Program A has 100 Klocs and 10 bugs. Program B, with identical
functionality, has 50 Klocs and 6 bugs. Program A is more reliable?!
> Greed is the greatest motivator of all.
Spoken like a true American. He simply doesn't understand the OSS
movement.
> First, Microsoft has many more options than does the open source
> movement. Because it holds the strong position, Microsoft can simply
> absorb and extend Linux.
He also hasn't read the GPL.
> A third scenario is most likely: Linux will turn commercial and Caldera,
> Red Hat, or some other traditional software publisher will push it into
> the mainstream.
He definitely hasn't read the GPL. And he doesn't realize that Caldera
and Red Hat went commercial a couple years ago.
> In their drive to simplify support, they will always choose Windows,
> Solaris, or HP-UX over yet another Unix. After all, total cost of
> ownership is driven by support, not capital costs.
I see this argument a lot and I hate it because it's so stupid. It
implies that no OS will ever replace another. If the cost of adding or
switching an OS was so great, we'd ALL have 3270s on our desks.
> Even if Linux proves
> the better product, Microsoft can always use tying-the creation of a
> mandatory dependency among applications-to maintain its monopoly.
Where can I get the drugs he's taking? The DOJ disagrees with him.