AOL/TW's lawyers helped make it illegal to circumvent a copyprotection regardless of if you are going to violate copyright. You think getting a judge to laugh at the GPL would take until after noon (on a bad day)?
But:
1) Netscape on Windows since version 4.0 has been unstable, slower, and less compatible than Internet Exploder.
On Linux (Mandrake w/2.4 kernel), I had the same experience and both Mozilla and Konqueror were better than Netscape (and Internet Exploder).
2) ICQ had become quite bloated with ads and other nonsense the last time I used it. So much so, that I don't use it anymore. There are better, compatible OSS alternatives (licq, etc).
3)...I guess AOL isn't doing too bad, I've got nothing bad to say about WinAMP or Gnutella =)
Won't the people who know what they are doing be the ones writing a kernel autoconfigurator? I don't see what problem there is with letting a program probe system hardware, select the appropriate options, and build a kernel for Aunt Tilli.
Afterall, half the things you might need a user to know, like what kind of mouse he or she has, is already asked by most installers.
This means lots of stuff for quantum computing and I'm working on my 24800248bit PGP patch as we speak! Now I just need to talk to comcast about getting rid of that upload cap..
If MS actually puts some work into security, besides their "veteran programmers" feeling a lack of job security, it could be a good thing. I don't know whether or not they will.
That being said, I thought everyone knew to uncheck the "Uniquely Identify My Browser" and "Protect Content" in WMP7?
Do you really think that if this becomes a Bill with any serious chance of passing Microsoft won't have lobbied sufficiently to get it to pose a threat to its most serious competition? (Linux and OSS)
A PC has been more than capable of "TiVo", and every other functionality that this box is planned to do for years. I've always wondered why no OEM ever decided to sell systems with capture cards or All-in-Wonder type setups. But, I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to that question.
Every PC maker yearns for a killer app, which as anyone who has ever done so knows, MPEG-2 capture+encoding is a processor, memory, and HDD performance hog. Video editing and encoding is probably the only thing that sells >80GB HDDs.
Yet, there aren't many, if any, OEMs pushing this application for fear of making the Movie/TV cartel angry. But hey, on a X-Box that is secure against users using it, I'm sure this will just explode.
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Special note for trolls: If such PC setups are "difficult to setup" or some other nonsense, then maybe you should notice that I'm talking about OEMs. Joe Twelvepack isn't an OEM.
Some website vandals and system crackers lack of moral backbone has little bearing on Law Enforcement toying with people's lives. "Two years, to investigate existing evidence and you don't really know whether a suspect broke the law, which you don't actually even understand, so charge him and let the courts figure it out?" (The jist of the story) Sorry, but that is irresponsible bullshit. It's like charging someone with murder without a victim.
Slashdot is not encouraging illegal behavior, The US Federal Gov't is making illegal laws.
The simple fact of the matter is, that the Fed lacks the authority to further several corporation's interests at the expense of inalienable rights of its citizens. The DMCA violates the Free Expression, First Sale Doctrine, and Fair Use rights of the American people. None of those are rights granted by the law, they are simply given legal recognition.
If the First Amendment was repealed tomorrow, Americans wouldn't lose their right to free expression, their right to free expression would simply lose legal recognition. The Right to Free Speech was never given by the Federal Government, and isn't the Federal Government's to take away.
All that making DeCSS illegal does is make it so you can't legally watch a DVD on any software or hardware that the creator of didn't pay a $100,000 minimum license fee to the MPAA.
To **COPY** and **PIRATE** a DVD, you just duplicate it bit-by-bit. You **DO NOT** use DeCSS to decrypt it first, or it will not even work on many DVD players.
Now, would you please explain what evil behavior the Slashdot community is tolerating here? If I go into DVD-World and buy six movies where does the MPAA get the right to tell me what I can watch them on?
Civil liberties aren't priviledges that are granted and taken away from bad little boys and bad little girls a the whim of big brother. They are your beating heart in your chest, ripped, still beating, from it by murderous tyrants.
The first section talks about two employees who apparently posted several thousand messages that were not true to make the company look bad. This is illegal. It probably should be. I don't think it offends the First Amendment, though ianal.
The second is about a guy sending 35,000 people at Intel emails about how bad the company is. While I don't agree it is tresspassing, I don't see how sending thousands of emails to former coworkers is an expression of free speech. Maybe the scale of it blows the idea for me. If it was even 1,300 emails to people he at least had contact with I could understand it. Spamming the entire company isn't acceptable. Imagine all the time it would take to reinstall Windows 2000 and Exchange Server after that killed it =)
The third section is good: anonymous posters can't be unmasked unless there is proof they did something wrong. Circulating a true, but undesirable pamphlet about your former employer shouldn't be illegal unless it is false and not done in good faith. The same goes for Internet postings and judges have upheld that.
The difference being that what is being stolen is copies of copies. And it isn't tangible property, so dealers have just as many cars in their lots to sell to people willing to pay.
Of the "billions of dollars revenue each year lost to software piracy" how much of that is to thirteen year olds downloading a $10,000 copies of 3D Studio Max from a warez site? I'm sure sonny just would have bought it if he couldn't have downloaded it.
"Dimitry's" program is under US copyright law a "work for hire", and therefore was not even his to begin with. It was also legal in Russia, and legal in the pre-1998 US. And, if anything, a civil, not a criminal case.
Furthermore, Dmitry's program doesn't steal anything. It has entirely legitimate uses:
1) Making a backup copy.
2) Copying your legally purchased ebook to your other desktop and laptop systems for use on them.
3) Enabling the blind to hear the ebooks be read to them.
The DMCA which Dmitry is accused of violating is blatantly Unconstitutional. A lot of people were shot, stabbed, blown up, poisoned, run over, and immolated in the US in the past year. Yet, there are no laws prohibiting without exception the manufacture or distribution of guns, knives, explosives, arsenic, cars, and gasoline.
Why then is there a law prohibiting the manufacture or distribution of a device that can circumvent ebook encryption? THERE IS ONE, BECAUSE IT WAS BOUGHT.
A government's just powers are derived from the consent of the governed. The governed only empower the gov't to act in the greater good. The DMCA doesn't even pretend to be in the greater good, its sole purpose is to give copyright hoarders ("Content Providers") unlimited control over the content they sell to the public. Control they never had before, and are not granted under the clause in the Constitution upon which copyright law is based.
What part of the US Constitution empowers the Federal Gov't to mandate a unique ID and tracking device be embedded in every person?
As for international tracking:
1) A terrorist isn't going to line up to have a beacon implanted in them.
2) A terrorist is going to be in line to get it removed.
I'm on Comcast@Home outside Philadelphia, and we've all had our lines capped at 1.5Mbps down and 128kbps up. I used to have about 1200kbps up, so as you can imagine I'm a little pissed. I'm still paying the same too.
I don't know of many businesses/organizations that get "support" from Microsoft. The difference between a Linux server and a Win2k server is you pay a lot more money for the software that crashes your Win2k server.
Check out "`SEC. 117. LIMITATIONS ON EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS: COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND DIGITAL COPIES.'"
Specifically subsection d and e, it is making explicitly legal to use MP3 playback devices, and to make a backup copy of any music you purchase. This sounds like intelligent legislation. Did SETI find something?
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Does the GPL or other licenses have books in mind?
I'm not sure I'd want people altering what I wrote and releasing it... that's a very different type of speech than program code is.
Cool, that includes my Athlon XP which I picked up this week!
AOL/TW's lawyers helped make it illegal to circumvent a copyprotection regardless of if you are going to violate copyright. You think getting a judge to laugh at the GPL would take until after noon (on a bad day)?
all the porn you could get off open SMB shares?!?!?
pow(//winluser/C$/porn,n)
But:
...I guess AOL isn't doing too bad, I've got nothing bad to say about WinAMP or Gnutella =)
1) Netscape on Windows since version 4.0 has been unstable, slower, and less compatible than Internet Exploder.
On Linux (Mandrake w/2.4 kernel), I had the same experience and both Mozilla and Konqueror were better than Netscape (and Internet Exploder).
2) ICQ had become quite bloated with ads and other nonsense the last time I used it. So much so, that I don't use it anymore. There are better, compatible OSS alternatives (licq, etc).
3)
Won't the people who know what they are doing be the ones writing a kernel autoconfigurator? I don't see what problem there is with letting a program probe system hardware, select the appropriate options, and build a kernel for Aunt Tilli.
Afterall, half the things you might need a user to know, like what kind of mouse he or she has, is already asked by most installers.
This means lots of stuff for quantum computing and I'm working on my 24800248bit PGP patch as we speak! Now I just need to talk to comcast about getting rid of that upload cap..
If MS actually puts some work into security, besides their "veteran programmers" feeling a lack of job security, it could be a good thing. I don't know whether or not they will.
That being said, I thought everyone knew to uncheck the "Uniquely Identify My Browser" and "Protect Content" in WMP7?
Do you really think that if this becomes a Bill with any serious chance of passing Microsoft won't have lobbied sufficiently to get it to pose a threat to its most serious competition? (Linux and OSS)
A PC has been more than capable of "TiVo", and every other functionality that this box is planned to do for years. I've always wondered why no OEM ever decided to sell systems with capture cards or All-in-Wonder type setups. But, I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to that question.
Every PC maker yearns for a killer app, which as anyone who has ever done so knows, MPEG-2 capture+encoding is a processor, memory, and HDD performance hog. Video editing and encoding is probably the only thing that sells >80GB HDDs.
Yet, there aren't many, if any, OEMs pushing this application for fear of making the Movie/TV cartel angry. But hey, on a X-Box that is secure against users using it, I'm sure this will just explode.
--
Special note for trolls: If such PC setups are "difficult to setup" or some other nonsense, then maybe you should notice that I'm talking about OEMs. Joe Twelvepack isn't an OEM.
Now if only I can procure some for the coffee machine at work!
Some website vandals and system crackers lack of moral backbone has little bearing on Law Enforcement toying with people's lives. "Two years, to investigate existing evidence and you don't really know whether a suspect broke the law, which you don't actually even understand, so charge him and let the courts figure it out?" (The jist of the story) Sorry, but that is irresponsible bullshit. It's like charging someone with murder without a victim.
Slashdot is not encouraging illegal behavior, The US Federal Gov't is making illegal laws.
The simple fact of the matter is, that the Fed lacks the authority to further several corporation's interests at the expense of inalienable rights of its citizens. The DMCA violates the Free Expression, First Sale Doctrine, and Fair Use rights of the American people. None of those are rights granted by the law, they are simply given legal recognition.
If the First Amendment was repealed tomorrow, Americans wouldn't lose their right to free expression, their right to free expression would simply lose legal recognition. The Right to Free Speech was never given by the Federal Government, and isn't the Federal Government's to take away.
All that making DeCSS illegal does is make it so you can't legally watch a DVD on any software or hardware that the creator of didn't pay a $100,000 minimum license fee to the MPAA.
To **COPY** and **PIRATE** a DVD, you just duplicate it bit-by-bit. You **DO NOT** use DeCSS to decrypt it first, or it will not even work on many DVD players.
Now, would you please explain what evil behavior the Slashdot community is tolerating here? If I go into DVD-World and buy six movies where does the MPAA get the right to tell me what I can watch them on?
Civil liberties aren't priviledges that are granted and taken away from bad little boys and bad little girls a the whim of big brother. They are your beating heart in your chest, ripped, still beating, from it by murderous tyrants.
Oh look, the troll came out from under his bridge!
Look out 2600!
The first section talks about two employees who apparently posted several thousand messages that were not true to make the company look bad. This is illegal. It probably should be. I don't think it offends the First Amendment, though ianal.
The second is about a guy sending 35,000 people at Intel emails about how bad the company is. While I don't agree it is tresspassing, I don't see how sending thousands of emails to former coworkers is an expression of free speech. Maybe the scale of it blows the idea for me. If it was even 1,300 emails to people he at least had contact with I could understand it. Spamming the entire company isn't acceptable. Imagine all the time it would take to reinstall Windows 2000 and Exchange Server after that killed it =)
The third section is good: anonymous posters can't be unmasked unless there is proof they did something wrong. Circulating a true, but undesirable pamphlet about your former employer shouldn't be illegal unless it is false and not done in good faith. The same goes for Internet postings and judges have upheld that.
There's nothing to see here, please pass through.
Why? To know of impending doom and still be able to do NOTHING about it?
The difference being that what is being stolen is copies of copies. And it isn't tangible property, so dealers have just as many cars in their lots to sell to people willing to pay.
Of the "billions of dollars revenue each year lost to software piracy" how much of that is to thirteen year olds downloading a $10,000 copies of 3D Studio Max from a warez site? I'm sure sonny just would have bought it if he couldn't have downloaded it.
Sure.
Why was Dmitry arrested? "His" program was under US Copyright Law a "work for hire", and therefore he never owned it in the first place.
"Dimitry's" program is under US copyright law a "work for hire", and therefore was not even his to begin with. It was also legal in Russia, and legal in the pre-1998 US. And, if anything, a civil, not a criminal case.
Furthermore, Dmitry's program doesn't steal anything. It has entirely legitimate uses:
1) Making a backup copy.
2) Copying your legally purchased ebook to your other desktop and laptop systems for use on them.
3) Enabling the blind to hear the ebooks be read to them.
The DMCA which Dmitry is accused of violating is blatantly Unconstitutional. A lot of people were shot, stabbed, blown up, poisoned, run over, and immolated in the US in the past year. Yet, there are no laws prohibiting without exception the manufacture or distribution of guns, knives, explosives, arsenic, cars, and gasoline.
Why then is there a law prohibiting the manufacture or distribution of a device that can circumvent ebook encryption? THERE IS ONE, BECAUSE IT WAS BOUGHT.
A government's just powers are derived from the consent of the governed. The governed only empower the gov't to act in the greater good. The DMCA doesn't even pretend to be in the greater good, its sole purpose is to give copyright hoarders ("Content Providers") unlimited control over the content they sell to the public. Control they never had before, and are not granted under the clause in the Constitution upon which copyright law is based.
When did I start using technology to get work done?
What part of the US Constitution empowers the Federal Gov't to mandate a unique ID and tracking device be embedded in every person?
As for international tracking:
1) A terrorist isn't going to line up to have a beacon implanted in them.
2) A terrorist is going to be in line to get it removed.
I'm on Comcast@Home outside Philadelphia, and we've all had our lines capped at 1.5Mbps down and 128kbps up. I used to have about 1200kbps up, so as you can imagine I'm a little pissed. I'm still paying the same too.
I don't know of many businesses/organizations that get "support" from Microsoft. The difference between a Linux server and a Win2k server is you pay a lot more money for the software that crashes your Win2k server.
Having to disconnect the network cable just to install the OS without being infected with a virus? Is that absurd sounding to anyone else?
Check out "`SEC. 117. LIMITATIONS ON EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS: COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND DIGITAL COPIES.'"
Specifically subsection d and e, it is making explicitly legal to use MP3 playback devices, and to make a backup copy of any music you purchase. This sounds like intelligent legislation. Did SETI find something?