If you want to preserve both the music and movies we enjoy, and your rights to use them freely, there are several things you can do. First, stop stealing music online, and stop condoning the practice. Second, boycott copy-protected CDs. Third, start paying attention to the coming fight over copy-protection, and speak up for your rights as a consumer.
These are all well and good but the fact is, a vast majority of consumers aren't even aware of the problem or the proposed solutions working their way through Congress. They won't know a thing about this until the mad rush is on to purchase the last few non-DRM protected PC's.
So, I would add - Fourth, Tell everyone else about these three steps! Tell your parents, your siblings, your cow-orkers, the people in line next to you at the store, and so on. Put blurbs on your web pages and yak it up the other customers at the video/music stores.
As large as the/. community seems to be, it is insignificant to the people pushing and passing the new laws. Everyone needs to know, everyone needs to complain. We are the ones who know, we are the ones who need to shout from the rooftops.
Okay, I know it's the vendors that are doing this (I did read the article). But I thought vendors were pretty much prohibited from altering the standard Windows install at all. No?
If they were like the Army, they would have dumped IIS in favor of WebStar running on Mac OS9 which (AFAIK) has never been compromised by an external attack.
The service is just the program guide data, downloaded periodically to the TiVo unit.
It's what the TiVo does with the guide data that makes it worthwhile. It lets you set up season passes (shows you want recorded every time they come on), wish lists (shows to keep a watch for), and of course you can view the program data about 99 different ways (by schedule, genre, actor, etc). The software is pretty smart. If a show changes time slot, it'll adjust the recording. If that episode has been recorded in the last 28 days, it'll skip it, and so on.
Although the TiVo runs on Linux, the applications that do all the work are not open source. In addition, the program data is in a proprietary format. You may be able to access and assemble your own guide data but I don't know of any way to get a TiVo to use it.
I'm not crazy about the price increase but will continue to subscribe as it's still easily worth the price. I don't watch much TV but am totally spoiled by TiVo now in that I can watch it whenever I want.
All you young pups wouldn't know but in the early days of color television you would have a repairman come to the house occasionally and wave this big magnetic hoop around the outside of your set to degauss it.
Of course, about the only things that were actually broadcast in color were commercials, but hey - it was still cool.
The next time you buy tires for your car, look at the itemized bill. The last 3 states I lived in all have recycling fees for tires and you pay when you get them. Doesn't matter if you make swings for your kids after they're worn out, you still paid that ~$1 per for recycling.
You only need a credit card to register if you're using a "free" (eg hotmail) email account to register with. Otherwise, no verification other than a working email address is required to buy on eBay.
To sell, you need to register with a credit card although that wasn't always the case and there are quite a few old-timers who are grandfathered on this policy.
Seems to me that historically, MS rushes a v1.0 product out to stem the tide of a competing product and then spend the next couple releases getting a "real" product out the door.
I have zero experience with unix clustering but would be suspicious of the MS offering until it has a chance to mature.
I get tons of Asian language spam - it wouldn't break my heart to block them all.
I'm actually looking forward to my @home email address dying at the end of this month because that's where nearly all of them come to. Hopefully they won't be smart enough to simply replace @home.com with @comcast.net.
Are you sure it isn't the other way 'round?
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I've heard of banks that won't deal with PayPal. That sounds more likely than PayPal not dealing with your bank.
I don't understand why ISPs want to record that kind of information
I know the answer to that one. It's because this data can be sold for cold, hard cash.
If they were (as they said) really aggragating the data before using it, I wouldn't care - as long as they provided an opt-out option. TiVo openly does this and it's an important part of their business model.
It's not always about the cash involved. Fact is, there are lots of people blessed with sufficient funds to play around and not all of them are idiots or assholes.
FWIW, I agree with you. But if I had the spare change, I might do it.
Skipping commercial with a TiVo is easier because the fast forward is massively faster (2X, 10X, & 20X) and there's also a 30 second skip "back door" that can be enabled.
But that's not the appeal of PVR's. What really makes the TiVo stand out is how much easier it is to record what you want. No worry about what tape is in or where it's positioned. No worry about time and channel. No loss of use of the machine while it's programmed to record. The list goes on.
Ease of skipping commercials is the least of what makes the TiVo worthwhile.
Well, I won't name her (because she's not here to speak for herself) but ONE of these people was my ex-girlfriend who called me in tears because they wouldn't let her vote. It kind of broke my heart because when we met she was totally uninterested in politics. I'm the one who convinced her to register to vote. They wouldn't even let her cast a provisional ballot. Together, we called and wrote the local newspapers in the weeks following and got zero response.
The US Civil Rights Commission acknowledges the issue on their website where it says "Non-felons were removed from voter registration rolls based upon unreliable information collected in connection with sweeping, state sponsored felony purge policies;". I know this is quoted out of context but feel free to check it out for yourself.
The BBC report estimates between 80,000 and 100,000 voters were wrongly prevented from casting ballots in Florida. The link to that report is here - http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row= 1 .
I'm not suggesting we re-do the election but let's do admit there was a problem and work to fix it.
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The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.
But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.
Are there any sites actually using ActiveX?
eBay's picture service uses Active-X and is the source of endless complaints from their users.
Indeed? I must have missed the news stories about the planes capable of achieving > 300,000 feet being used to shoot movies.
This is every bit as much a 'space flight' as the first Mercury effort made by the US.
From the story...
/. community seems to be, it is insignificant to the people pushing and passing the new laws. Everyone needs to know, everyone needs to complain. We are the ones who know, we are the ones who need to shout from the rooftops.
If you want to preserve both the music and movies we enjoy, and your rights to use them freely, there are several things you can do. First, stop stealing music online, and stop condoning the practice. Second, boycott copy-protected CDs. Third, start paying attention to the coming fight over copy-protection, and speak up for your rights as a consumer.
These are all well and good but the fact is, a vast majority of consumers aren't even aware of the problem or the proposed solutions working their way through Congress. They won't know a thing about this until the mad rush is on to purchase the last few non-DRM protected PC's.
So, I would add - Fourth, Tell everyone else about these three steps! Tell your parents, your siblings, your cow-orkers, the people in line next to you at the store, and so on. Put blurbs on your web pages and yak it up the other customers at the video/music stores.
As large as the
Not really - I just was misinformed and not by Slashdot in particular. I haven't seen a fresh out of the box Windows machine since the 3.1 days.
Thanks to all that let me know.
It's the Microsoft way!
Okay, I know it's the vendors that are doing this (I did read the article). But I thought vendors were pretty much prohibited from altering the standard Windows install at all. No?
If they were like the Army, they would have dumped IIS in favor of WebStar running on Mac OS9 which (AFAIK) has never been compromised by an external attack.
I disagree. No other OS ships with the kind of brain-dead defaults and features that make cracking it this easy.
The service is just the program guide data, downloaded periodically to the TiVo unit.
It's what the TiVo does with the guide data that makes it worthwhile. It lets you set up season passes (shows you want recorded every time they come on), wish lists (shows to keep a watch for), and of course you can view the program data about 99 different ways (by schedule, genre, actor, etc). The software is pretty smart. If a show changes time slot, it'll adjust the recording. If that episode has been recorded in the last 28 days, it'll skip it, and so on.
Although the TiVo runs on Linux, the applications that do all the work are not open source. In addition, the program data is in a proprietary format. You may be able to access and assemble your own guide data but I don't know of any way to get a TiVo to use it.
I'm not crazy about the price increase but will continue to subscribe as it's still easily worth the price. I don't watch much TV but am totally spoiled by TiVo now in that I can watch it whenever I want.
All you young pups wouldn't know but in the early days of color television you would have a repairman come to the house occasionally and wave this big magnetic hoop around the outside of your set to degauss it.
Of course, about the only things that were actually broadcast in color were commercials, but hey - it was still cool.
Registry entries? We don't need no stinking registry entries!
(we are talking about Mac software after all)
The next time you buy tires for your car, look at the itemized bill. The last 3 states I lived in all have recycling fees for tires and you pay when you get them. Doesn't matter if you make swings for your kids after they're worn out, you still paid that ~$1 per for recycling.
An Apple plot? LOL - I wish Apple had that kind of clout but kind of doubt it'll ever happen.
Maybe it's because LCD's don't have several pounds of leaded glass in them to be disposed of.
3 times - the first being our jump to 32 bit world with System 7.
Of all the transitions, that one was the most painful.
Screw that - I want a "sort by breast size" plug-in!
You only need a credit card to register if you're using a "free" (eg hotmail) email account to register with. Otherwise, no verification other than a working email address is required to buy on eBay.
To sell, you need to register with a credit card although that wasn't always the case and there are quite a few old-timers who are grandfathered on this policy.
How good is any MS product in its v1.0 release?
Seems to me that historically, MS rushes a v1.0 product out to stem the tide of a competing product and then spend the next couple releases getting a "real" product out the door.
I have zero experience with unix clustering but would be suspicious of the MS offering until it has a chance to mature.
I get tons of Asian language spam - it wouldn't break my heart to block them all.
I'm actually looking forward to my @home email address dying at the end of this month because that's where nearly all of them come to. Hopefully they won't be smart enough to simply replace @home.com with @comcast.net.
I've heard of banks that won't deal with PayPal. That sounds more likely than PayPal not dealing with your bank.
To dig up Sylvester. That old tom was with me longer than all my wives added together. I want him back!
I don't understand why ISPs want to record that kind of information
I know the answer to that one. It's because this data can be sold for cold, hard cash.
If they were (as they said) really aggragating the data before using it, I wouldn't care - as long as they provided an opt-out option. TiVo openly does this and it's an important part of their business model.
It's not always about the cash involved. Fact is, there are lots of people blessed with sufficient funds to play around and not all of them are idiots or assholes.
FWIW, I agree with you. But if I had the spare change, I might do it.
Skipping commercial with a TiVo is easier because the fast forward is massively faster (2X, 10X, & 20X) and there's also a 30 second skip "back door" that can be enabled.
But that's not the appeal of PVR's. What really makes the TiVo stand out is how much easier it is to record what you want. No worry about what tape is in or where it's positioned. No worry about time and channel. No loss of use of the machine while it's programmed to record. The list goes on.
Ease of skipping commercials is the least of what makes the TiVo worthwhile.
Look for them in places where they're not looking for guys. This means almost any place except bars and personals ads.
The competition won't be there and you won't wind up with some desperate wench who's dragging along a ton of baggage.
Well, I won't name her (because she's not here to speak for herself) but ONE of these people was my ex-girlfriend who called me in tears because they wouldn't let her vote. It kind of broke my heart because when we met she was totally uninterested in politics. I'm the one who convinced her to register to vote. They wouldn't even let her cast a provisional ballot. Together, we called and wrote the local newspapers in the weeks following and got zero response.
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The US Civil Rights Commission acknowledges the issue on their website where it says "Non-felons were removed from voter registration rolls based upon unreliable information collected in connection with sweeping, state sponsored felony purge policies;". I know this is quoted out of context but feel free to check it out for yourself.
The BBC report estimates between 80,000 and 100,000 voters were wrongly prevented from casting ballots in Florida. The link to that report is here - http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row
I'm not suggesting we re-do the election but let's do admit there was a problem and work to fix it.