This doesn't stop the per song model from also being effective. You try out songs through services like Napster, buy the songs you really like, and if you like all the songs on the CD, you buy that.
I am thinking that a connection between PayPal and Napster ("You have listened to this mp3 10 times. Click here to voluntarily pay 50 cents to the artist. Click here to add the original song to your custom mix CD for $1,-. Cancel and keep listening") might go a long way to making us honest again and keeping music afloat.
I think this guy hits the solution to the problem right on the head. This whole Napster thing is much like the gun control debate. You know the rap, "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them." Well similarly, Napster and Gnutella like methods are going to exist whether the record companies like them or not. People who don't want to pay for music, will not pay for music. Period.
So what about the rest of us who use Napster as a way to explore the music of bands whose CDs we don't have? I might download 1 or 2 songs that I like from a band whose CDs I normally wouldn't purchase, but I am unlikely to pay $12 for all the other songs I don't like.
I think if you give people a way to buy music in a more convenient manner, in bits that they can digest, most will pay the 50 cents per song that was suggested. I know I would.
Maybe Van der Walls forces allowed Jesus to walk on water? That would mean that he wasn't necessarily devine, but he just had millions of tiny hairs on his feet! I guess the only way we could find out was to put Jesus in a vacumn and see if he could still walk on water.
The idea of running Linux on the AS/400 is not a technical problem, it's a solution looking for a problem.
Hardware-wise, the AS/400 is only slightly different from an RS/6000. In fact, they come off the same assembly line in Rochester, MN. I've seen it and up to a point, the systems are the same. Near the end of the process, the systems are customomized to become an AS/400 or an RS/6000.
Therefore, if you are buying a new system, just buy an RS/6000 and run Linux on that. If you already have an AS/400, wait 6-12 months and you will be able to run Linux applications on your AS/400 using PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment) which already allows you to run specially compiled AIX binaries on an AS/400. Check out this faq for more information on PASE.
The architecture of the AS/400, which intricately melds hardware and software together to make an ultra-reliable, scalable computing platform somewhat precludes running Linux on it. So much of the AS/400 is tied up in its unique architecture that running Linux on it would actually reduce its utility. But with PASE, you can have the best of both worlds. Develop on Linux and deploy on the AS/400.
Don't you think it's a little hypocritical to say that/. is an open forum and that the owners of/. don't like censoring comments?
They do it all the time. How many people try to post articles and get rejected because the "owners" of/. don't think the post is relevant? How many comments get moderated into oblivion because they state opposing viewpoints not accepted by the greater/. community?
I think you are on thin ice positioning this as a censorship issue.
If they have a copyright for their software specification, right or wrong, they have a right to try to have the law (DCMA) enforced. The question is not whether the copyright is valid but rather if the posts in question violate that copyright. It's up to the courts to decide if the copyright is valid, not/. lawyers.
So high my parents wouldn't even tell me what it was. Tested in the 170's later in life. I use many different OSes including Linux and Windows. What does IQ have to do with OS use anyway?
When did the proprietors of Slashdot become Journalists? Last time I checked, posting links to stories written by other people would not qualify CmdrTaco and Hemos to be considered Journalists.
It might be a good thing that they are not publishing the book without permission from the original posters, but this does not make them Journalists.
Journalists are ultimately accountable to someone for every word they write, and although they may use the first amendment on occasion to justify their actions, most journalists don't hide behind the constitution to avoid responsibility for their words.
Too often/.ers use the first amendment as a dodge so that they can say whatever they please without consequences. Kudos for thinking of the posters of the Hellmouth messages, but please don't call Hemos amd CmdrTaco "journalists". They aren't and probably don't want to be called journalists anyways!
We all have less freedom than we think we do. Consider the following:
1. The U.S. Constitution only protects you from the government. It does not, in any way, protect you from private citizens or businesses.
2. What does protect you from the harmful actions of private citizens or businesses is the U.S. Code. These are the laws of the land.
3. I challenge you to find any statute in the U.S. Code that says your employer can't monitor you. They put up security cameras to protect THEIR commercial interests, they can record your key strokes (and do) and read your e-mail if they want to. They DO NOT have to notify you of these actions for them to be legal.
4. You leave your right to privacy at the door. You also leave your freedom of speech at the door. You do not have the right to go to work and express your private views on company time. If they want they can throw you out or fire you.
5. If you work for the government (any agency, not just DOD or DOE) you have even more limited rights. You can't solicit for political candidates on company premises. Your right to free speech is limited if you work for the government, WHILE you are working. You don't have the right to protest government policies while you are working. They can also ask you to leave or fire you.
6. If you are in the military, your rights are even more curtailed. In the military you are not subject to the U.S. Code, you are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which is far more harsh than the U.S. Code. You can't date an officer if you are enlisted, you can't be gay, you can't come and go as you please. When you sign up you even waive some of your constitutional rights.
Case in point: While in the military in '93 when Clinton tried to allow gays in the military, some people in my unit expressed their displeasure at the order from the Commander-in-Chief (CIC) and stated that they didn't have to follow the order if they thought it was morally wrong. When I pointed out that it wasn't a good idea to express opinions contrary to the orders of a superior officer, they said it was a free country and they had a constitutional right to free speech. Well, let's just say the officers pointed out to them that what they were saying was technically mutiny and that was the end of that.
Bottom Line: If you don't like being monitored by your employer, start your own business and don't monitor your employees. Otherwise you can fight the policy and risk losing your job, or you can quit in protest. You won't get far going to court as they have upheld the employers right to monitor their employees, read e-mail, and otherwise curtail their "freedoms" while on the job.
The information in Kevin Mitnick's brain is not ill gotten by definition. The difference between "good" hackers and "bad" hackers has to do with what they do with their knowledge. Both types of hackers want to learn how things work--- the telephone system, operating systems, whatever. The crime lies not in learning how things work, it lies in using this knowledge to steal or damage other peoples property.
I am usually the first person to step up and say we should not treat Kevin Mitnick with kid gloves, but this government action goes too far. Kevin should be allowed to speak about computers and security. He just shouldn't be allowed to write a book (or speak) about the crimes he was convicted of and receive monetary reward.
Their are people that climb buildings just to see if they can do it. They push the limits of climbing. It is technically illegal (although I don't know if it is a felony) and they could be arrested for doing it. Does this mean they shouldn't be allowed to lecture about safe climbing afterward? Absolutely not!
The feds should back off of Mitnick on this one and go harass someone else.
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Absolutely, but it sounded like you thought the bad coverage the case received was a mitigating factor (after the fact) for the behavior.
Well, where do I sign up? I have had my eyes on a home MP3 unit from AudioRequest, but they keep on pushing the release date back!
This car unit would help me in my quest to become totally digital. I no longer have a VCR, just a DVD. I use a Rio MP3 portable and I need a home unit and something for my car.
You should license the Sony Memory Stick technology as a way to load songs in. I would buy it without voice activation, but voice control makes it more interesting.
I am amused how you/.ers jump on the most obvious thing to flame, i.e. the fact that the app is written in VB. Who care's what language the app is written in? It's the least interesting thing about this story.
If I were Brazilian I would be more concerned with what was used as the knowledge base for building the application and who programmed the application. Just think of it. One little errant branch and it's 2 years instead of 30 days! In this case, programming bugs would be intolerable. System crashes would be OK, but bugs, no way.
In this one case I would say that Open Source would be ideal for this project. Not because everyone would contribute code, but because private citizens could review the code and point out any logic weaknesses.
I've done it now. Microsoft will probably stop sending me the bribe checks cuz I said something positive about OSS!
In the late 80's the highway department in Massachusetts used a similar system to connect buildings within line of sight. It would wink out during fog or heavy rain, but the worst problem was birds. Every time a pigeon would fly by, communications would be interrupted! I am sure they have bird-proofed it by now, but I can't see how they would get a mile LOS in a major urban area.
Sun may not be the dot in.com anymore in the literal sense, but they are far from losing their standing as premier provider of hardware for dotcom sites.
If you look at the Fortune 100 corporate web sites, 52% of them are running Solaris with various web servers. Now this is certainly flamebait to most/.ers, the runner up was Windows NT (2000) with 29%. Interesting fact: Linux only runs one of the Fortune 100 web sites.
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Please. Are we to understand that you think that writing OSS contributes to the good of the masses? This is utter and complete poppycock!
If you want to make the world a better place, go out and build houses for the poor with Habitat for Humanity, or join the Peace Corps, or work in a soup kitchen.
If you want to write OSS, do so, but don't expect people to pat you on the back for improving the lot of millions of people.
Hmmm...under this definition, Linux IS proprietary.
Exhibit A: Trademark registration: Serial No. 74-560867
Exhibit B: Definition number 4 from above post.
Put the two together and by definition, Linux is proprietary.
Not that it matters. The issue is Open Source vs. Closed Source. By using a license (GPL) Linus Torvalds is controlling distribution of his software. He chooses to let people modify Linux assuming they feed their mods back to him. This doesn't stop Linux from being proprietary.
Kudos on this comment. Cameras are everywhere. Just recently an exotic dancer from Levittown, PA was found dead, dumped off a PA turnpike bridge. You know how they found the killer? From a turnpike toll booth camera picture. She was seen in plain sight in the bed of his pickup truck. (See this article for more info.)I'll bet most people don't think that their picture is taken everytime they go through a toll booth.
Jenni is exploring the last frontier of privacy: the home. Although the images are sometimes erotic, they are in no way pornographic. I've seen worse in the average "I know what you did last summer" type slasher flick.
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PETA advocates that everyone stop eating animals, stop using animals for clothes/shoes, stop using animals for anything.
Their advocacy includes throwing blood on people wearing fur coats. If that is not terrorism, I don't know what is.
This doesn't stop the per song model from also being effective. You try out songs through services like Napster, buy the songs you really like, and if you like all the songs on the CD, you buy that.
I think this guy hits the solution to the problem right on the head. This whole Napster thing is much like the gun control debate. You know the rap, "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them." Well similarly, Napster and Gnutella like methods are going to exist whether the record companies like them or not. People who don't want to pay for music, will not pay for music. Period.
So what about the rest of us who use Napster as a way to explore the music of bands whose CDs we don't have? I might download 1 or 2 songs that I like from a band whose CDs I normally wouldn't purchase, but I am unlikely to pay $12 for all the other songs I don't like.
I think if you give people a way to buy music in a more convenient manner, in bits that they can digest, most will pay the 50 cents per song that was suggested. I know I would.
Maybe Van der Walls forces allowed Jesus to walk on water? That would mean that he wasn't necessarily devine, but he just had millions of tiny hairs on his feet! I guess the only way we could find out was to put Jesus in a vacumn and see if he could still walk on water.
Moderate this guy up! This is one Anonymous Coward that knows their stuff.
Hardware-wise, the AS/400 is only slightly different from an RS/6000. In fact, they come off the same assembly line in Rochester, MN. I've seen it and up to a point, the systems are the same. Near the end of the process, the systems are customomized to become an AS/400 or an RS/6000.
Therefore, if you are buying a new system, just buy an RS/6000 and run Linux on that. If you already have an AS/400, wait 6-12 months and you will be able to run Linux applications on your AS/400 using PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment) which already allows you to run specially compiled AIX binaries on an AS/400. Check out this faq for more information on PASE.
The architecture of the AS/400, which intricately melds hardware and software together to make an ultra-reliable, scalable computing platform somewhat precludes running Linux on it. So much of the AS/400 is tied up in its unique architecture that running Linux on it would actually reduce its utility. But with PASE, you can have the best of both worlds. Develop on Linux and deploy on the AS/400.
They do it all the time. How many people try to post articles and get rejected because the "owners" of /. don't think the post is relevant? How many comments get moderated into oblivion because they state opposing viewpoints not accepted by the greater /. community?
I think you are on thin ice positioning this as a censorship issue.
If they have a copyright for their software specification, right or wrong, they have a right to try to have the law (DCMA) enforced. The question is not whether the copyright is valid but rather if the posts in question violate that copyright. It's up to the courts to decide if the copyright is valid, not /. lawyers.
So high my parents wouldn't even tell me what it was. Tested in the 170's later in life. I use many different OSes including Linux and Windows. What does IQ have to do with OS use anyway?
It might be a good thing that they are not publishing the book without permission from the original posters, but this does not make them Journalists.
Journalists are ultimately accountable to someone for every word they write, and although they may use the first amendment on occasion to justify their actions, most journalists don't hide behind the constitution to avoid responsibility for their words.
Too often /.ers use the first amendment as a dodge so that they can say whatever they please without consequences. Kudos for thinking of the posters of the Hellmouth messages, but please don't call Hemos amd CmdrTaco "journalists". They aren't and probably don't want to be called journalists anyways!
1. The U.S. Constitution only protects you from the government. It does not, in any way, protect you from private citizens or businesses.
2. What does protect you from the harmful actions of private citizens or businesses is the U.S. Code. These are the laws of the land.
3. I challenge you to find any statute in the U.S. Code that says your employer can't monitor you. They put up security cameras to protect THEIR commercial interests, they can record your key strokes (and do) and read your e-mail if they want to. They DO NOT have to notify you of these actions for them to be legal.
4. You leave your right to privacy at the door. You also leave your freedom of speech at the door. You do not have the right to go to work and express your private views on company time. If they want they can throw you out or fire you.
5. If you work for the government (any agency, not just DOD or DOE) you have even more limited rights. You can't solicit for political candidates on company premises. Your right to free speech is limited if you work for the government, WHILE you are working. You don't have the right to protest government policies while you are working. They can also ask you to leave or fire you.
6. If you are in the military, your rights are even more curtailed. In the military you are not subject to the U.S. Code, you are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which is far more harsh than the U.S. Code. You can't date an officer if you are enlisted, you can't be gay, you can't come and go as you please. When you sign up you even waive some of your constitutional rights.
Case in point: While in the military in '93 when Clinton tried to allow gays in the military, some people in my unit expressed their displeasure at the order from the Commander-in-Chief (CIC) and stated that they didn't have to follow the order if they thought it was morally wrong. When I pointed out that it wasn't a good idea to express opinions contrary to the orders of a superior officer, they said it was a free country and they had a constitutional right to free speech. Well, let's just say the officers pointed out to them that what they were saying was technically mutiny and that was the end of that.
Bottom Line: If you don't like being monitored by your employer, start your own business and don't monitor your employees. Otherwise you can fight the policy and risk losing your job, or you can quit in protest. You won't get far going to court as they have upheld the employers right to monitor their employees, read e-mail, and otherwise curtail their "freedoms" while on the job.
I am usually the first person to step up and say we should not treat Kevin Mitnick with kid gloves, but this government action goes too far. Kevin should be allowed to speak about computers and security. He just shouldn't be allowed to write a book (or speak) about the crimes he was convicted of and receive monetary reward.
Their are people that climb buildings just to see if they can do it. They push the limits of climbing. It is technically illegal (although I don't know if it is a felony) and they could be arrested for doing it. Does this mean they shouldn't be allowed to lecture about safe climbing afterward? Absolutely not!
The feds should back off of Mitnick on this one and go harass someone else.
Absolutely, but it sounded like you thought the bad coverage the case received was a mitigating factor (after the fact) for the behavior.
This car unit would help me in my quest to become totally digital. I no longer have a VCR, just a DVD. I use a Rio MP3 portable and I need a home unit and something for my car.
You should license the Sony Memory Stick technology as a way to load songs in. I would buy it without voice activation, but voice control makes it more interesting.
If I were Brazilian I would be more concerned with what was used as the knowledge base for building the application and who programmed the application. Just think of it. One little errant branch and it's 2 years instead of 30 days! In this case, programming bugs would be intolerable. System crashes would be OK, but bugs, no way.
In this one case I would say that Open Source would be ideal for this project. Not because everyone would contribute code, but because private citizens could review the code and point out any logic weaknesses.
I've done it now. Microsoft will probably stop sending me the bribe checks cuz I said something positive about OSS!
In the late 80's the highway department in Massachusetts used a similar system to connect buildings within line of sight. It would wink out during fog or heavy rain, but the worst problem was birds. Every time a pigeon would fly by, communications would be interrupted! I am sure they have bird-proofed it by now, but I can't see how they would get a mile LOS in a major urban area.
Really? Netcraft returns Windows 2000 as the OS and IIS 5.0 (distributed with Win2K).
Actually the 29% includes both Windows NT and Windows 2000. I believe there were 2 sites (Dell and Microsoft) with Win2K installed.
See my post below for why this statement is just plain stupid. Another person who has drunk the Linux koolaid.
If you look at the Fortune 100 corporate web sites, 52% of them are running Solaris with various web servers. Now this is certainly flamebait to most /.ers, the runner up was Windows NT (2000) with 29%. Interesting fact: Linux only runs one of the Fortune 100 web sites.
If you want to make the world a better place, go out and build houses for the poor with Habitat for Humanity, or join the Peace Corps, or work in a soup kitchen.
If you want to write OSS, do so, but don't expect people to pat you on the back for improving the lot of millions of people.
Exhibit A:
Trademark registration: Serial No. 74-560867
Exhibit B:
Definition number 4 from above post.
Put the two together and by definition, Linux is proprietary.
Not that it matters. The issue is Open Source vs. Closed Source. By using a license (GPL) Linus Torvalds is controlling distribution of his software. He chooses to let people modify Linux assuming they feed their mods back to him. This doesn't stop Linux from being proprietary.
Jenni is exploring the last frontier of privacy: the home. Although the images are sometimes erotic, they are in no way pornographic. I've seen worse in the average "I know what you did last summer" type slasher flick.