The sponsor, however, nixed the black lady for a white girl -- even though the white girl couldn't sing.
BTW, the white girl that couldn't sing was my little sister. And she actually sings very well, she has won several awards for her singing. In the words of Jon Lovitz - "Acting!". FYI, Touched By An Angel is filmed in Salt Lake City, I wonder if the Olympics are interfering with their shooting schedule (they sure are interfering with everything else around here).
There is little chance of any major evolution for us
Humans are still evolving. Since people who are less intelligent are more likely to breed and are more likely to have a large number of children, the human race is getting less intelligent every day. We are also getting taller and better looking, since these are qualities often looked for in a mate.
assurances that the data doesn't fall into the wrong hands or is abused
The entities proposing this plan are the US government and the US airline industry. Both these organizations have abused their power in the past, what makes you think it will be different on this issue?
From the article: "This technology, based on transaction analysis, behavior analysis, gives us a pretty good idea of what's going on in a person's mind."
How long will it be before the government knows EXACTLY what you are thinking all the time. And if they find out you are thinking of committing a crime, what is the harm in arresting you? Sure it cuts back on crime, but at the price of freedom. Sounds exactly like Orwell's thought police to me.
Isn't that how PC cloning got started with Clean Room reverse engineering?
Yes, reverse engineering IBM's BIOS is what gives us the power and low prices we enjoy today on x86 computers. It was totally legal to do this reverse engineering. However now we have the DCMA, which takes away some of the liberties we previously enjoyed. Under the DCMA, in some circumstances it is illegal to even TALK about how to circumvent digital "protection" (i.e. encryption). The US government is a wholly owned subsidiary of USA, Inc.
Nutscrape 4 supports so little of the CSS spec that the feature is practically useless.
And this is sharp contrast to IE 4? If you are going to compare the browsers, at least compare current browsers, don't compare the current IE to the 2 year old Netscape.
I also wonder how a major upgrade (such as 6.2 -> 7.2) could be made smoother, considering the substantial changes between major versions.
FWIW, I recently upgraded a RH6.2 machine to 7.2 (actually 7.2.x, since there are several packages that have been released since 7.2) using up2date and had no problems. up2date finds all the dependancies and gets everything you need. Granted, I did have to reboot when it was done in order to load the new kernel, but it was much easier (and had less downtime) than upgrading from the CD.
As far as I know no-one watches TV on anything that they have the ability or the desire to hack themselves.
Hmmm, how about TiVo, Replay TV, Ultimate TV, etc.? I have both the ability and desire to hack my TiVo, so I did. I can also play something on my PC and have it appear on my televison. Just because the media is stored on the PC does not mean it must be displayed on the PC. Before TiVo, I did all my television archiving on my computer. The only thing for which I still use my VCR is switching between coax and composite signals.
one man revision control system on a project of that size has got to be damn lossy...
And Rik's solution to this is to create a patchbot to keep submitting the patches to Linus. I hope he does not apply this concept to his OOM killer, or instead of killing processes when you run out of memory it will spawn serveral new processes. Linux is OOM, he is overloaded, so Rik decides he will put an even greater load on him.
do expect similar organizations to crop up defending the interests of digital text publishers, media broadcasters, etc.-- extend, oozing, slimy and cold,
Oh, you mean like the RIAA or the MPAA? They already exist, and I believe both these organizations will turn to BSA-style tactics in the future.
You seem like you are informed on the subject (more informed than me), so I wonder if you could answer a question for me. What would be the legality of the following:
1. My brother who is living in a different state records a show on a channel I do not receive and sends (either on VHS tape or digitally) it to me.
2. My brother who lives in the same city (with the same TV channels) as me tapes a show I was too busy to see and drops it off at my house so I can view it later.
3. My brother who lives with me tapes a show I missed so I can watch it when I get home.
4. (2), and he watches it with me.
5. (3), and he watches it with me.
6. I tape a show with my TiVo when neither of us are home and we come home and watch it together.
It would seem 3, 4, 5 and 6 would all fall under the fair use doctrine, but are they really any different than 1 or 2?
Actually, no. Your bitrate info is way off. TiVo's bitrate is about 2-3 megabits per second at basic, while those RM files are about 175-250 kilobits/second, or about 20 kilobytes/second
Actually, yes;-). A 30 hour (at basic) TiVo has a 30 GB hard drive, which equals about 1 GB (1024 MB)/hr at basic quality. This equals 17.06 MB/minute and.284 MB(or 291.27 Kilobytes)/second. This of course discounts the parts of the TiVo that do not store MPEG data, like the root filesystem, swap, etc., so the actual bitrate is even a little less than that. I based my.rm rates on the Simpson episodes that I mentioned in the previous post. An average episode is ~250 MB for 22 minutes of video. (250 MB / 22 minutes / 60 seconds) * 1024 KB per MB = 193.93 Kilobytes per second. Just because I didn't quote my math in my original post doesn't mean I didn't do the math. These are comparable bitrates and the.rm looks much worse than the mpeg.
Say what you want about RM's shitty software, almost never do we see RM files encoded at a bitrate even approaching most MPEG files.
That was my point, that I do have.rm's at a bitrate approaching many MPEG files and it still looks like dog shit.
The video on my TiVo looks excellent. I challenge ANYONE to show me a Real video that looks even remotely acceptable
While I don't agree that the video on the TiVo looks excellent(there are often MPEG artifacts, even at the highest quality, this seems to have gotten worse with the "smoothing" option in 2.5), I certainly agree that the Real Video codec will certainly look much worse. I have many episodes of the Simpsons that are in.rm format and I can't even stand to watch them. They are encoded about 175-250 kilobytes/s (compared to TiVo's 250-300 k/s for basic quality) and look absolutely terrible. And how are people going to get these clips onto their TiVos? Through the 56k modem? It is possible to hook your TiVo up to a standard network using PPP or TiVoNET (I use the former, so I don't even have a 56k connection, it is only 38,400 bps), but it would still be a hefty download for even one half-hour show. IMHO, the Real codec is one of the worst codecs currently available. I would much rather they implement OpenDivx, Ogg or even [shudder] Windows Media.
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AFAIK, if you have a -1 assigned to a certain class of comments (foe, too short, etc.) and the comment is rated -1, it will be demoted to -2, and therefore be invisible.
Too bad the link to the bill is already broken, I would have liked to have read it.
OK I did a search and found a PDF copy of the bill HERE. Also found a site to organize support for the bill, it has a form to send your representative an email. Since Cannon is mine, I guess I'm already OK on that one. However, I have been pretty unhappy on his stance on several issues in the past, hopefully he won't drop the ball on this one under the intense politial pressure of the RIAA.
you obviousally didn't read the post or the at&t changeover docs.
I most certainly did read the post, in fact I quoted most of it in my reply. I assure you I have also read all of the correspondance from AT&T concerning this matter. The official support site is http://help.attbroadband.net.
Linux is unoffically supported, Yeah, they'll mention unofically supported thing is a TOS, gawd you are dense
I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, since you were unable to form a coherent sentence. It's funny that you use a post so full of grammatical and spelling error to call me dense. As I stated before, there is no mention of Linux at all in the Official Subscriber Agreement, nor is there mention in the Acceptable Use Policy(AUP), which is directly contrary to what the parent post asserted as fact.
as for the servers part, they mention that you can allow others to access your computer but they are not responsible for being hacked, etc. and you cant do commercial or business. you obviously looked at a old or different services TOS. read the one you were sent retard.
The Subscriber Agreement that I quoted is dated December 6th, do you have a more recent copy? Can you supply a reference to such a document? They explicitly state on their support site that servers in any form are not allowed. AT&T Broadband's site seems to be the definitive reference for the terms of the service. You say I should "read the one you were sent retard", but AT&T has not sent an updated agreement. The only correspondance I have received from AT&T subsequent to the network changeover is a standard welcome message directing me to help.attbroadband.net, which is the source for my statements.
What the hell is the theft of service thing for? the yguy didint say that you could happily give it away... you sir are pretty damned stupid for a troll.
Nowhere did I state that the original poster said I could give away the service, and I don't intend to do so. However, I do like to distribute the service to other computers throughout my home, which the new Subscriber Agreement specifically prohibits (either on or outside the premises). I was using this as an illustration of the point that the new AT&T agreement is much more restrictive than the previous Excite@Home agreement. The original poster asserted that the opposite was true. I supplied links and references to prove my statements. I gave specific instances where the agreement is more restrictive. You submitted a badly written post with no information or references, full of degrading language and personal attacks. Then you have the audacity to call me a troll. You, sir, are the very definition of a troll. I regret replying to such an obviously goading post, but I am quite upset about the degradation of service I have experienced and I feel this an appropriate forum to express my disgust.
Can I Host a Server?
AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable modem. This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a server.
As far as I can tell, the only difference between the old service and the new service is that my bandwidth is now limited and latency to internet locations is higher. They still have a draconian subscriber agreement, to the point of telling me I can't even have servers on my HOME network. It also mentions that I am not allowed to NAT my home network to the internet. If I want to have more than 1 computer access the internet, I have to buy their "home networking solution" and pay $9.95/month. I am only allowed to connect 3 computers to the internet, if I want to connect more than that, I am SOL. If I NAT my computers, AT&T treatens to prosecute. From the subscriber agreement:
(g.) Theft of Service. Customer shall not connect the Service or any AT&T Broadband Equipment to more computers, either on or outside of the Premises, than are reflected in Customer's account with AT&T Broadband. Customer acknowledges that any unauthorized receipt of the Service constitutes theft of service, which is a violation of federal law and can result in both civil and criminal penalties.
Oh yeah, sounds like AT&T is a great benevolent father-figure and @Home is the bad guy. I am shocked that anyone would be taken in by such propaganda.
Question for the Linux folks using the `md' driver: Does it allow adding a third member to a mirrorset?
IIRC, the syntax in/etc/raidtab is:
nr-spare-disks n
[...]
device/dev/sdc1
spare-disk 0
And, if so, can it be done while the system is `live'?
Yes, using the raidhotadd and raidhotremove commands.
Doh! Upon second reading of your post, I realized when you said "mirrorset" you were probably referring to raid 1. If this is the case, then I am probably misleading you. AFAIK, you can only use the spare-disk directive for raid levels 4 and 5.
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BTW, the white girl that couldn't sing was my little sister. And she actually sings very well, she has won several awards for her singing. In the words of Jon Lovitz - "Acting!". FYI, Touched By An Angel is filmed in Salt Lake City, I wonder if the Olympics are interfering with their shooting schedule (they sure are interfering with everything else around here).
Humans are still evolving. Since people who are less intelligent are more likely to breed and are more likely to have a large number of children, the human race is getting less intelligent every day. We are also getting taller and better looking, since these are qualities often looked for in a mate.
Here it is :)
The entities proposing this plan are the US government and the US airline industry. Both these organizations have abused their power in the past, what makes you think it will be different on this issue?
From the article:
"This technology, based on transaction analysis, behavior analysis, gives us a pretty good idea of what's going on in a person's mind."
How long will it be before the government knows EXACTLY what you are thinking all the time. And if they find out you are thinking of committing a crime, what is the harm in arresting you? Sure it cuts back on crime, but at the price of freedom. Sounds exactly like Orwell's thought police to me.
Yes, reverse engineering IBM's BIOS is what gives us the power and low prices we enjoy today on x86 computers. It was totally legal to do this reverse engineering. However now we have the DCMA, which takes away some of the liberties we previously enjoyed. Under the DCMA, in some circumstances it is illegal to even TALK about how to circumvent digital "protection" (i.e. encryption). The US government is a wholly owned subsidiary of USA, Inc.
If you have to resort to personal attacks, the terrorists have already won.
And this is sharp contrast to IE 4? If you are going to compare the browsers, at least compare current browsers, don't compare the current IE to the 2 year old Netscape.
FWIW, I recently upgraded a RH6.2 machine to 7.2 (actually 7.2.x, since there are several packages that have been released since 7.2) using up2date and had no problems. up2date finds all the dependancies and gets everything you need. Granted, I did have to reboot when it was done in order to load the new kernel, but it was much easier (and had less downtime) than upgrading from the CD.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/24/16582
Dammit, close your AOL tag, you just AOLed the rest of the page for me! I will close it now for future reading.
Hmmm, how about TiVo, Replay TV, Ultimate TV, etc.? I have both the ability and desire to hack my TiVo, so I did. I can also play something on my PC and have it appear on my televison. Just because the media is stored on the PC does not mean it must be displayed on the PC. Before TiVo, I did all my television archiving on my computer. The only thing for which I still use my VCR is switching between coax and composite signals.
And Rik's solution to this is to create a patchbot to keep submitting the patches to Linus. I hope he does not apply this concept to his OOM killer, or instead of killing processes when you run out of memory it will spawn serveral new processes. Linux is OOM, he is overloaded, so Rik decides he will put an even greater load on him.
You can add Comcast to that list, since they bought AT&T Broadband (assuming you are still a subscriber.
Oh, you mean like the RIAA or the MPAA? They already exist, and I believe both these organizations will turn to BSA-style tactics in the future.
You seem like you are informed on the subject (more informed than me), so I wonder if you could answer a question for me. What would be the legality of the following:
1. My brother who is living in a different state records a show on a channel I do not receive and sends (either on VHS tape or digitally) it to me.
2. My brother who lives in the same city (with the same TV channels) as me tapes a show I was too busy to see and drops it off at my house so I can view it later.
3. My brother who lives with me tapes a show I missed so I can watch it when I get home.
4. (2), and he watches it with me.
5. (3), and he watches it with me.
6. I tape a show with my TiVo when neither of us are home and we come home and watch it together.
It would seem 3, 4, 5 and 6 would all fall under the fair use doctrine, but are they really any different than 1 or 2?
Actually, yes ;-). A 30 hour (at basic) TiVo has a 30 GB hard drive, which equals about 1 GB (1024 MB)/hr at basic quality. This equals 17.06 MB/minute and .284 MB(or 291.27 Kilobytes)/second. This of course discounts the parts of the TiVo that do not store MPEG data, like the root filesystem, swap, etc., so the actual bitrate is even a little less than that. I based my .rm rates on the Simpson episodes that I mentioned in the previous post. An average episode is ~250 MB for 22 minutes of video. (250 MB / 22 minutes / 60 seconds) * 1024 KB per MB = 193.93 Kilobytes per second. Just because I didn't quote my math in my original post doesn't mean I didn't do the math. These are comparable bitrates and the .rm looks much worse than the mpeg.
Say what you want about RM's shitty software, almost never do we see RM files encoded at a bitrate even approaching most MPEG files.
That was my point, that I do have .rm's at a bitrate approaching many MPEG files and it still looks like dog shit.
While I don't agree that the video on the TiVo looks excellent(there are often MPEG artifacts, even at the highest quality, this seems to have gotten worse with the "smoothing" option in 2.5), I certainly agree that the Real Video codec will certainly look much worse. I have many episodes of the Simpsons that are in .rm format and I can't even stand to watch them. They are encoded about 175-250 kilobytes/s (compared to TiVo's 250-300 k/s for basic quality) and look absolutely terrible. And how are people going to get these clips onto their TiVos? Through the 56k modem? It is possible to hook your TiVo up to a standard network using PPP or TiVoNET (I use the former, so I don't even have a 56k connection, it is only 38,400 bps), but it would still be a hefty download for even one half-hour show. IMHO, the Real codec is one of the worst codecs currently available. I would much rather they implement OpenDivx, Ogg or even [shudder] Windows Media.
AFAIK, if you have a -1 assigned to a certain class of comments (foe, too short, etc.) and the comment is rated -1, it will be demoted to -2, and therefore be invisible.
And their names are:
Name: vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net
Address: 4.2.2.1
and:
Name: vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net
Address: 4.2.2.2
I think Verizon is trying to tell us something with their neighbor:
Name: i-will-not-steal-service.gtei.net
Address: 4.2.2.4
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
-Ralph Wiggum
Too bad the link to the bill is already broken, I would have liked to have read it.
OK I did a search and found a PDF copy of the bill HERE. Also found a site to organize support for the bill, it has a form to send your representative an email. Since Cannon is mine, I guess I'm already OK on that one. However, I have been pretty unhappy on his stance on several issues in the past, hopefully he won't drop the ball on this one under the intense politial pressure of the RIAA.
I most certainly did read the post, in fact I quoted most of it in my reply. I assure you I have also read all of the correspondance from AT&T concerning this matter. The official support site is http://help.attbroadband.net.
Linux is unoffically supported, Yeah, they'll mention unofically supported thing is a TOS, gawd you are dense
I don't really understand what you are trying to say here, since you were unable to form a coherent sentence. It's funny that you use a post so full of grammatical and spelling error to call me dense. As I stated before, there is no mention of Linux at all in the Official Subscriber Agreement, nor is there mention in the Acceptable Use Policy(AUP), which is directly contrary to what the parent post asserted as fact.
as for the servers part, they mention that you can allow others to access your computer but they are not responsible for being hacked, etc. and you cant do commercial or business. you obviously looked at a old or different services TOS. read the one you were sent retard.
The Subscriber Agreement that I quoted is dated December 6th, do you have a more recent copy? Can you supply a reference to such a document? They explicitly state on their support site that servers in any form are not allowed. AT&T Broadband's site seems to be the definitive reference for the terms of the service. You say I should "read the one you were sent retard", but AT&T has not sent an updated agreement. The only correspondance I have received from AT&T subsequent to the network changeover is a standard welcome message directing me to help.attbroadband.net, which is the source for my statements.
What the hell is the theft of service thing for? the yguy didint say that you could happily give it away... you sir are pretty damned stupid for a troll.
Nowhere did I state that the original poster said I could give away the service, and I don't intend to do so. However, I do like to distribute the service to other computers throughout my home, which the new Subscriber Agreement specifically prohibits (either on or outside the premises). I was using this as an illustration of the point that the new AT&T agreement is much more restrictive than the previous Excite@Home agreement. The original poster asserted that the opposite was true. I supplied links and references to prove my statements. I gave specific instances where the agreement is more restrictive. You submitted a badly written post with no information or references, full of degrading language and personal attacks. Then you have the audacity to call me a troll. You, sir, are the very definition of a troll. I regret replying to such an obviously goading post, but I am quite upset about the degradation of service I have experienced and I feel this an appropriate forum to express my disgust.
From http://help.attbroadband.com/faq.jsp?content_id=41 6&category_id=34&lobid=1
Can I Host a Server?
AT&T Broadband does not allow servers to be connected to the cable modem. This means that no computer in a personal network can be used as a server.
linux specifically mentioned
There is no mention of Linux in the AT&T Broadband Internet Subscriber Agreement, are you referring to a different document when you quote "AT&T's TOS"?
As far as I can tell, the only difference between the old service and the new service is that my bandwidth is now limited and latency to internet locations is higher. They still have a draconian subscriber agreement, to the point of telling me I can't even have servers on my HOME network. It also mentions that I am not allowed to NAT my home network to the internet. If I want to have more than 1 computer access the internet, I have to buy their "home networking solution" and pay $9.95/month. I am only allowed to connect 3 computers to the internet, if I want to connect more than that, I am SOL. If I NAT my computers, AT&T treatens to prosecute. From the subscriber agreement:
(g.) Theft of Service. Customer shall not connect the Service or any AT&T Broadband Equipment to more computers, either on or outside of the Premises, than are reflected in Customer's account with AT&T Broadband. Customer acknowledges that any unauthorized receipt of the Service constitutes theft of service, which is a violation of federal law and can result in both civil and criminal penalties.
Oh yeah, sounds like AT&T is a great benevolent father-figure and @Home is the bad guy. I am shocked that anyone would be taken in by such propaganda.
Oh, you mean like Code Red? Yep, that issue certainly wasn't serious.
IIRC, the syntax in /etc/raidtab is: /dev/sdc1
nr-spare-disks n
[...]
device
spare-disk 0
And, if so, can it be done while the system is `live'?
Yes, using the raidhotadd and raidhotremove commands.
Doh! Upon second reading of your post, I realized when you said "mirrorset" you were probably referring to raid 1. If this is the case, then I am probably misleading you. AFAIK, you can only use the spare-disk directive for raid levels 4 and 5.