And to think that at one time, I wanted to move to the US to live and work there. I had always seen America as the great bastion of freedom in the world.
Not any more however. The US has become one of the most oppresive countries in the world in the realm of digital rights. Its sad, realy, but I think I will just stay here in Canada for now.
"You're modding a device beyond it original purpose and beyond the intentions/plans of the designers."
I don't see how that matters. If I want to drop a small-block chevy engine in a Nissan or Toyota, I can see how it would void the warranty, but I would not expect Japanese auto engineers to be sneaking into my garage at night to cut the spark plug wires..............
It would be nice if we could get enough money together as a group to hire some private investigators to follow Rosen, Valenti, and thier thugs around for a while. Take pictures, document thier lives, go through their garbage. Maybe make it a regular thing. This would be perfectly legal as long as there was no direct harassment.
Let them feel their own privacy violated and their behaviour being put under the microscope for all to see.
Some pictures of Matt Oppenheim with that gay prostitute would be really good for file-sharers morale......
"We as a reseller feel that we want to protect our market," said Jay Davidow, a reseller with Winnipeg, Manitoba's Profit Master Canada Inc. "Giving away our software would not be a good business case."
I think the name of this quoted company says it all. As a fellow Winnipeger with a business based on installing and supporting Linux, I formally invite all his present or prospective customers to come talk to me.
"Other than for big ticket items like a mortgage or a car loan, don't use credit, or debit cards."
Changes the meaning quite a bit.......
I doubt many people put thier homes on VISA.
"Having a paper trail can also prove your innocence."
You don't need to pay the credit card interest to have a paper trail. I'm sure you can think of other ways to provide yourself an alibi if you feel you should need one.............
Other than for big ticket items like a mortgage or a car loan, don't use credit or debit cards unless you absolutely have to (ie for emergencies).
You may think the cashless society is more convenient (and in many ways it is unless you are in line behind ten people collecting airmiles and using their debit cards - if they could just pick the right account or PIN....), but the cashless society also makes tracking all your habits much easier for the IRS, the FBI, CIA, DARPA, or any other acronym you choose. Why make it too easy for them.
Use cash (and the barter system is always good too, wherever possible), and give out as little personal information in any given transaction as you can. this helps to protect you not just from ID thieves, but from unwanted corporate data-mining or government intrusion as well.
A thriving black market is a neccesary check against unlimited government control.
At the lab in which I teach, we have the usual Intro and Advanced levels of Windows and Office, as well as a few others like HTML.
We also do two other popular courses;
-How to buy a computer, which is a vendor neutral description of the latest hardware technology and what people should look for to suite thier particular needs when they are box shopping, and
-Using the Internet, where we talk about all things internet, including browsers and searching, firewalls and viruses, file sharing, messaging, online gaming, home LANs, and ISPs as well as many other things.
I'd like to convince the commitee to add an Intro to Linux course in the future, but I doubt the administrators will consent to partitioning all the labs HDDs and installing Linux, so I'm hoping I can use something like Knoppix or Suse Live for starters.
Why not develop software that really lets you share - when you download something from someone, it is actually deleted from thier hard drive.
Songs that get "injected" into the network, simply float around from person to person. If the network is big enough, you will still find what you want.
Let the RIAA prove what you do with them while they are actually present on your machine.
"Verizon says such a move is necessary to protect user privacy because otherwise any copyright holder -- or anybody claiming to be a copyright holder -- could easily obtain the name and address of any Internet user."
And thats exactly what we should do if this is upheld - abuse this law as often as possible to show how little the government values your online privacy.
Once average people see how easy it is to get thier personal information they may wake up a little and start to demand changes.
.....for an update of our copyright laws. I don't like the mandatory levies, but there are NO anti-circumvention provisions, and fair use (fair dealing) right are pretty well affirmed.
is of course what this entire thing is about. Plastic CDs don't like more than 30K RPM. Seems reasonable to me. Whether it will extrapolate to say, HDDs which are happy at 15K now with multiple platters, but may experience similiar problems at 30K is hard to say.
There will always be a limit (just ask any overclocker) And there will always be a next generation, just like with CPUs, RAM, etc. Turbochargers in automobiles spin at well over 100K. I hope I live long enough to have a 100K RPM HDD, though affordable RAMdrives or some entirely unthought of thing may come first.
Just so long as they don't have copy protection...
Hope they are up to the task
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If enough people use this software liberally (I know I will:-), we should be able to submit every site on the world wide web to them in no time at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Is the worst I have ever seen. Neither Spybot S&D nor Adaware were able to remove it completely from a box I worked on that had it.
Bad is relative.
Tell it to all the people trying to rid their computers of Gator and other adware they don't want.
is a broader name that encompases adware, spyware, trojans, viruses, etc.
Use that, it still keeps them in appropriate company.
>>"priests aren't violent or nasty, and they appear to be competent in their jobs, but they are incredibly biased and don't seem to recognize it."
Reading his previous articles, its obvious he falls into the Windows priest category.
Clearly he likes to think he is a pro, but I think he just resembles his own quote above.
And to think that at one time, I wanted to move to the US to live and work there. I had always seen America as the great bastion of freedom in the world.
Not any more however. The US has become one of the most oppresive countries in the world in the realm of digital rights. Its sad, realy, but I think I will just stay here in Canada for now.
"You're modding a device beyond it original purpose and beyond the intentions/plans of the designers."
I don't see how that matters. If I want to drop a small-block chevy engine in a Nissan or Toyota, I can see how it would void the warranty, but I would not expect Japanese auto engineers to be sneaking into my garage at night to cut the spark plug wires..............
It would be nice if we could get enough money together as a group to hire some private investigators to follow Rosen, Valenti, and thier thugs around for a while. Take pictures, document thier lives, go through their garbage. Maybe make it a regular thing. This would be perfectly legal as long as there was no direct harassment.
Let them feel their own privacy violated and their behaviour being put under the microscope for all to see.
Some pictures of Matt Oppenheim with that gay prostitute would be really good for file-sharers morale......
If Darl was to, say, get run over by a large bus tommorow, probably thousands of people would see that as reason to celebrate.
Good thing he is neither a Buddhist, or a Slashdotter.
From the article
"We as a reseller feel that we want to protect our market," said Jay Davidow, a reseller with Winnipeg, Manitoba's Profit Master Canada Inc. "Giving away our software would not be a good business case."
I think the name of this quoted company says it all. As a fellow Winnipeger with a business based on installing and supporting Linux, I formally invite all his present or prospective customers to come talk to me.
You will be happy you did.
Sorry, I missed a comma -
"Other than for big ticket items like a mortgage or a car loan, don't use credit, or debit cards."
Changes the meaning quite a bit.......
I doubt many people put thier homes on VISA.
"Having a paper trail can also prove your innocence."
You don't need to pay the credit card interest to have a paper trail. I'm sure you can think of other ways to provide yourself an alibi if you feel you should need one.............
Other than for big ticket items like a mortgage or a car loan, don't use credit or debit cards unless you absolutely have to (ie for emergencies).
You may think the cashless society is more convenient (and in many ways it is unless you are in line behind ten people collecting airmiles and using their debit cards - if they could just pick the right account or PIN....), but the cashless society also makes tracking all your habits much easier for the IRS, the FBI, CIA, DARPA, or any other acronym you choose. Why make it too easy for them.
Use cash (and the barter system is always good too, wherever possible), and give out as little personal information in any given transaction as you can. this helps to protect you not just from ID thieves, but from unwanted corporate data-mining or government intrusion as well.
A thriving black market is a neccesary check against unlimited government control.
At the lab in which I teach, we have the usual Intro and Advanced levels of Windows and Office, as well as a few others like HTML.
We also do two other popular courses;
-How to buy a computer, which is a vendor neutral description of the latest hardware technology and what people should look for to suite thier particular needs when they are box shopping, and
-Using the Internet, where we talk about all things internet, including browsers and searching, firewalls and viruses, file sharing, messaging, online gaming, home LANs, and ISPs as well as many other things.
I'd like to convince the commitee to add an Intro to Linux course in the future, but I doubt the administrators will consent to partitioning all the labs HDDs and installing Linux, so I'm hoping I can use something like Knoppix or Suse Live for starters.
Why not develop software that really lets you share - when you download something from someone, it is actually deleted from thier hard drive.
Songs that get "injected" into the network, simply float around from person to person. If the network is big enough, you will still find what you want.
Let the RIAA prove what you do with them while they are actually present on your machine.
Oh my!!!
"Verizon says such a move is necessary to protect user privacy because otherwise any copyright holder -- or anybody claiming to be a copyright holder -- could easily obtain the name and address of any Internet user."
And thats exactly what we should do if this is upheld - abuse this law as often as possible to show how little the government values your online privacy.
Once average people see how easy it is to get thier personal information they may wake up a little and start to demand changes.
the sooner they all become lifetime non-cutomers the sooner the world will be rid of the RIAA.......
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/b ills/government/C-48/C-48_3/90174bE.html
http://www.parl.gc.ca/bills/government/C-32/C-32_3 /C-32TOCE.html
.....for an update of our copyright laws. I don't like the mandatory levies, but there are NO anti-circumvention provisions, and fair use (fair dealing) right are pretty well affirmed.
It could be a LOT worse!!!
after two days, thier server still appears to be unreachable.
Quality is job 2
than to fall into the hands of the enemy...
Except not many people will put "free Rosen" or "free Valenti" banners on thier websites....
The irony would almost be worth it.
Slightly non-traditional, but still delicious....
:-) I am.
Rim glass with celery salt, add ice, and
1 1/2 oz Vodka or Dry Gin (the gin Caesar is really good)
4 oz Motts Clamato (regular)
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp Worchestershire sauce
1/2 tsp of your favorite hot sauce, or to taste
Fresh ground pepper to taste
Garnish with celery stalks and bell pepper slices.
For a little extra zest, add 1/2 tsp horseradish if desired.
Relax and enjoy
Cheers
is of course what this entire thing is about. Plastic CDs don't like more than 30K RPM. Seems reasonable to me. Whether it will extrapolate to say, HDDs which are happy at 15K now with multiple platters, but may experience similiar problems at 30K is hard to say.
There will always be a limit (just ask any overclocker) And there will always be a next generation, just like with CPUs, RAM, etc. Turbochargers in automobiles spin at well over 100K. I hope I live long enough to have a 100K RPM HDD, though affordable RAMdrives or some entirely unthought of thing may come first.
Just so long as they don't have copy protection...
If enough people use this software liberally (I know I will :-), we should be able to submit every site on the world wide web to them in no time at all.
Then they will have to look at it all.
Sounds a lot like the problem they have now.....