That's kind of dangerous, isn't it. Accidentally click, and whoops, just bought a G4-multi processor with 21" Cinema flat display. $7,500 down the tubes.
Since Napster shows the byte sizes for MP3's, you could do a quick comparison and discover which Barenaked Ladies songs are the advertisements (they should be much smaller).
Wouldn't work if they get smart and match the file sizes. Too bad there's no hash feature that could verify MP3's contents.
It's a temporary visa. Temporary. Assuming the IT people are fairly intelligent (which most are) what's the problem? There's no confusion over the law: it's written so that there's a six-year moratorium. If these people decided to "start families and careers" on a temporary visa that's their own tough luck. If I had a temporary visa to, say, Japan I wouldn't be crying when it runs out.
This is just another excuse to bring more people to the already overly crowded U.S. And these people prevent me, who is American-born and has years of computer experience, from getting a job out of college (I'm sure there are statutes that when someone comes over on this particular visa they have to be given an IT job). I say send them back.
Read an interesting article about how the FBI/CIA/NSA used to deal with floppy disks with classified informations. First they burned them. Then they apparently break up and smash them into as many small pieces as possible. Finally, they try to mix them with other broken disks in a private landfill so that noone can piece together the contents.
I actually like paid software better. Call me hypocritical, but there are a lot more available options for support (well-documented, as well as "speaking to a human" options) for Microsoft products than Open Source stuff. How-to's are nice, but they really aren't for newbies.
If an electron can hold an infinite amount of data, why are we worried about MP3 storage? What about prime number factoring to permantly change the encryption scene? Multifold simulation iterations to see if we can beat influenza?
Hell, let's calculate a simulation of the universe to see where exterterrestial life might be. Or when (and if) the human race will die off.
Shouldn't you sue the people who wrote his operating system and FTP server?
No, because he deliberately used the OS and FTP to do something illegal. Let's go after all knife manufacturer's, even the ones who make butter knives.
Why would this slow down acceptance? Tivo's are already pretty proprietary in the way they save shows (as far as I know, noone has been able to hack the content to resave it somewhere else in a viewable format -- yet), but people still buy them. DVD players, which can't copy shows at all, are already gaining widespread acceptance.
What makes someone think that not being able to copy shows would slow down TV sales? Most people I know buy TV's to watch programing, not record it (and even if they did record it, there's nothing in the FCC document that states it can't be recorded. Merely, a tag would be embedded in the program as a digital signature that the material is copyrighted.
One of my computer professors (who I didn't think quite understood MacOS X) said the GUI for the system is not separated from the underlying kernel in a way that X Windows is. That is, if the GUI (or new finder) crashes, the whole system will go down.
For real fun, you can try the AI that won the last Turing test (to convince a human that it was another human, and not a computer) at www.alicebot.org.
Fair use = copy of material for own usage (such as a tape backup, or an additional digital copy on one's hard drive). Given the state of today's hardware, there is nothing legitimate about "fair use" entailing backing up a file on someone else's hard drive.
If you want to make a copy, stick a standard cable in the earphone jack of your sound card, plug it into the microphone jack of a stereo, and insert a tape. Press record while playing the song. Voila.
I'm curious about the nature of the boycott. Why? A company wants to make sure a protocol is hacker-proof and can hold a copyright above water. That's a noble cause. The arguments people are making just aren't sound. They should be saying "But we want to copy the music illegally. That's why we're not going to hack it."
I'm beginning to hedge my bet that Apple will turn out to be worse than Microsoft. They already charge far more for basic components and a "squirt of color" than most normal computer manufacturers. Quicktime 4 is buggy, unstable and clashes with the basic guidelines of the GUI. Now Apple is filing suit against "John Does" and threatening against printing rumors. Enough is enough.
I find it a little silly that people are still concerned about Linux and Open Source after Windows 2K was released. This is not trying to be Offtopic or Flamebait, I'm just saying my honest observations.
One of the key reasons people adopted open source OS's lately like Linux is not because of their freedom but their stability. Yes, the earliest hackers were all about "freedom" in its many definitions. But as of the past few months I've seen college students buy boxed versions of Linux simply because "they want something more stable".
Then Windows 2000 comes along. It's stable (the Win2K side of my Linux/Win2K box hasn't crashed once). It also runs a huge majority of my favorite apps well, like Unreal Tournament. It doesn't have emacs, but it has Visual C++ which can do both editing and compiling (in my mind) far easier. As for Gimp, I can wait for it to come out on the Windows side.
The bottom line is, Open Source for us college students has really lost its flavor. We're hackers in a sense, but we don't (excuse the pun on my name) have the same fervent attitude about writing Linux. We hate Microsoft, but we like some of their products. It's like the line in "Clerks", "I hate parties but I like large gatherings. Strange, isn't it?"
I think that's pretty impressive: that a reader from within Google would react so quickly to a Slashdot post (and in an honest, favorable manner).
As a side-note, I'm sincerely glad that Yahoo chose Google as its new search engine provider. For awhile I stopped visiting Yahoo in order to go to Yahoo directly, but now I can go back to Yahoo for all my searching/calender/weather/club needs.
Does anyone fear that Intel's slide over the past year is a little less than good? Granted, I love competition (one of the reasons I bought a Dreamcast, and plan to buy a PS2) but people ringing the death bells get a little more than irksome.
What if we were to say "the Athlon performs good, and the Pentium 4 performs good" instead of "the Athlon kicks Intel's ass"? (Granted, I'm hypocritical: I use an Athlon for my Win2000/Linux box. But enough is enough).
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That's kind of dangerous, isn't it. Accidentally click, and whoops, just bought a G4-multi processor with 21" Cinema flat display. $7,500 down the tubes.
Wouldn't work if they get smart and match the file sizes. Too bad there's no hash feature that could verify MP3's contents.
Unless it runs off EIDE, it's not for Tivo. Nothing in the press release seemed to mention the interface (are all "network stack" hard drives SCSI?)
Actually, I'm still in college. Perhaps if you had read my original post?...
This is just another excuse to bring more people to the already overly crowded U.S. And these people prevent me, who is American-born and has years of computer experience, from getting a job out of college (I'm sure there are statutes that when someone comes over on this particular visa they have to be given an IT job). I say send them back.
No joke.
I was kinda getting used to the free upgrades (granted, most wouldn't run on my Palm IIIe anyway - only the newer ones).
I actually like paid software better. Call me hypocritical, but there are a lot more available options for support (well-documented, as well as "speaking to a human" options) for Microsoft products than Open Source stuff. How-to's are nice, but they really aren't for newbies.
If you're a geek, you'll laugh at the disparity. I'm a geek. :)
It's not Photoshop. It's a skin you can install.
You'll have to excuse me. I run my Linux box as a client. Never had a need to run it as a DNS server...
Is there a LIND (Linux Internet Name Domain)? Or is DNS Linux's version of LIND?
Hell, let's calculate a simulation of the universe to see where exterterrestial life might be. Or when (and if) the human race will die off.
No, because he deliberately used the OS and FTP to do something illegal. Let's go after all knife manufacturer's, even the ones who make butter knives.
What makes someone think that not being able to copy shows would slow down TV sales? Most people I know buy TV's to watch programing, not record it (and even if they did record it, there's nothing in the FCC document that states it can't be recorded. Merely, a tag would be embedded in the program as a digital signature that the material is copyrighted.
Is Aqua just another kind of window manager?
For real fun, you can try the AI that won the last Turing test (to convince a human that it was another human, and not a computer) at www.alicebot.org.
If you want to make a copy, stick a standard cable in the earphone jack of your sound card, plug it into the microphone jack of a stereo, and insert a tape. Press record while playing the song. Voila.
I'm curious about the nature of the boycott. Why? A company wants to make sure a protocol is hacker-proof and can hold a copyright above water. That's a noble cause. The arguments people are making just aren't sound. They should be saying "But we want to copy the music illegally. That's why we're not going to hack it."
I'm beginning to hedge my bet that Apple will turn out to be worse than Microsoft. They already charge far more for basic components and a "squirt of color" than most normal computer manufacturers. Quicktime 4 is buggy, unstable and clashes with the basic guidelines of the GUI. Now Apple is filing suit against "John Does" and threatening against printing rumors. Enough is enough.
One of the key reasons people adopted open source OS's lately like Linux is not because of their freedom but their stability. Yes, the earliest hackers were all about "freedom" in its many definitions. But as of the past few months I've seen college students buy boxed versions of Linux simply because "they want something more stable".
Then Windows 2000 comes along. It's stable (the Win2K side of my Linux/Win2K box hasn't crashed once). It also runs a huge majority of my favorite apps well, like Unreal Tournament. It doesn't have emacs, but it has Visual C++ which can do both editing and compiling (in my mind) far easier. As for Gimp, I can wait for it to come out on the Windows side.
The bottom line is, Open Source for us college students has really lost its flavor. We're hackers in a sense, but we don't (excuse the pun on my name) have the same fervent attitude about writing Linux. We hate Microsoft, but we like some of their products. It's like the line in "Clerks", "I hate parties but I like large gatherings. Strange, isn't it?"
Or you'd uncover the real real truth. That since the inception of Windows 2K, Fervent has booted to Win almost exclusively on his Win/Linux box.
As a side-note, I'm sincerely glad that Yahoo chose Google as its new search engine provider. For awhile I stopped visiting Yahoo in order to go to Yahoo directly, but now I can go back to Yahoo for all my searching/calender/weather/club needs.
What if we were to say "the Athlon performs good, and the Pentium 4 performs good" instead of "the Athlon kicks Intel's ass"? (Granted, I'm hypocritical: I use an Athlon for my Win2000/Linux box. But enough is enough).
"He bypassed the red door and oooo... he just took a spill into the grunt by the health vial. The humanity..."