Old cdr (12x or less media) can be expected to last a long time. I had an old 4x cdr sitting in my car that lasted over 5 years. I have 4x media archives sitting in a cabinet that is over 8 years old. The 48x media is garbage though. It stops being readable in a car in about 6 months. It lasts about 2 years in a cabinet.
CDROM is over 20 years old (1982 is when first inroduced in EU and NA), yet next gen optical drives (Blu-Ray or HDDVD) will still support it. While HDDVD or Blu-ray may notbe around in 20 years I fully expect CD and DVD to still be supported. Some media standrads are much longer laster than others. The ubiquitous nature of CD and DVD is more likely to last much like cassette tape and VHS. You can still buy radios with cassette decks. You can still buy VHS deck some with dvd players.
If this goes to court then the time for forgiveness is over. CherryOS needs to then be crushed as an object lesson to anyone else that might want to try this.
You missed his point entirely. The RIAA and similiar groups have been pushing for the FBI to police for copyright violators. Why does the BSA get Federal Marshalls to bust down doors? Yet a non-profit has to beg for money just so they can force a bunch of assholes to publish their source code. If this was Microsoft or Adobe instead of PearPC, CherryOS would be in jail. Have you forgotten Skylarov already?
Actually, downloading itself may not be illegal depending on jurisdiction and other complexities.
Distributing music with authorization (regardless of medium of distribution) is usually a Copyright Violation. Again it depends on jurisdiction and other complexities on whether this is a crime though.
I fail to see how theft and murder on the high seas can be done over a computer network, but I doubt anyone condones such heinous acts.
Copyright violations on the other hand, well it is a complex issue. One,/. is complosed of individuals. Not everyone has the same opinion.
Two, there is a difference of degree- someone swiping a stapler from the office is quite different then someone robbing a charity auction.
Three, copyright violation in regards to media content can be seen as a civil disobedience issue. The megacorp media companies broke thier contract with the public when they got copyright overextended to hundred+ years. Any reasonable examination would have "Steamboat Willie" in the public domain. "Gone with the Wind" should be public domain. Both these works are well over 50 years but still copyrighted. Even 50 years is too long but I am willing to compromise on the Berne Convention.
But now we can probably never expedct to see these works enter the Public Domain. The media megacorps are robbing us of our cultural heritage. Think of the references that new works make to existing Public Domain works. How often has Moby Dick or Huck Finn or Jeckyl and Hyde been referenced.
The GPL is a reaction to this overextension of copyrights and trys to work within the system to keep things Free.
Now that I have address your question honestly, crawl back under your rock, Troll.
A single dark (on) pixel will probably never be noticed. A single colored pixel (half-on) will not be noticeable depending on position and color and screen colors. A single white pixel (off) is very noticeable and will be seen on most any screen.
The problems is that the lcd production is prone to producing screens with a fixed pixel. The take a sheet of glass, line it with velvet, lay the pixel on the velvet, and then afix a matrix to the pixels. Think how likely in this process that out of millions of pixels (calculate out the higher res screens and it is millions of pixels) one or more will get slightly misaligned.
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It goes one step further. The device uses amongst other things, a MagicGate Memorystick. We are talking DRM encryption folks. Guess what bypassing and access control and posting details gets you? That's right, you face penalties for violating the DMCA.
I do find it funny that Sony is playing both sides of the fence. You can purchase UMD movies or just rip your own. You can jump through hoops to use SonicStage (and use a 128mb or less MS) or just copy MP3's. The official way is a pain in the rearbut the unofficial way is pretty easy provided you have a minimum of technical saviness.
Can you buy your electricity from some place else besides the Electric Company? You say no? Your only other option is to make your own*? see a correlation here between the RIAA and the Electric Company? See a correlation with the Indie lables and making your electricity?
The choice is to be a garage band or maybe have a chance at something more. And ever notice how most new groups are young? Do you really think they are able to negotiate good contracts? I know I did not do well when I bought my first car. Go search out what Courtney Love says about the Recording Labels. The RIAA is not just a lobby group, they are the front man of a cartel.
Napster is not buying music. It is renting it. The cost of iTunes is no cheaper. You are still supporting the RIAA. There are 10-16 tracks on a typical album. I noticed in Target the other day that most albumn were $10-$17 dollars. Hrmm. Yeah, I know you can buy a whole albumn at $10, but I thought the whole point of Itunes was buying only the good music.
Actually, I think it is more because Dropline does a good job of packaging GNOME for Slackware and Pat has enough resource management issues. This was mentioned before on/.. I am surprised that noone else mentioned Dropline, but then everyone seems to busy trolling. Bah.
Compare the startup times of Konqueror and Galeon.
In KDE, they are very similiar. GNOME, Galeon is the same, but Konqueror takes much longer as it basically loads all the libraries for KDE.
I also understand that it is easier on developers to develop using GTK+. Hence, why Mandrake that uses KDE for its defaults ships the DrakConf (Mandrake Control Center) as a GTK app.
If you just accept the defaults, a single choice is what you will get. Last time I tried this with Mandrake, I had KDE (with IceWM as a failsafe fallback) and just OOo and similar single choices.
Even if you choose everything, the first time you login it presents a few choices and informs you a bit about them in the FirstTime Wizard.
Talking with your Ombudsman, would be another good thing to do.
Get a copy of the Network acceptable use policy, Student Handbook, and whatever ever else that shows the goals of the University. There will be probably be some statement there about the free exchange of knowledge, make sure to stress that in your talk.
Prepare a speech and practice. When you go see the Ombudsman, have list of bullet points- like the appropriate sections of Network Acceptable Use policy (both the parts you ran a foul of and where they promote educational use), legal uses of BitTorrent, how Bram is employed by the Industry and has not been sued for BT, and whatever else you think of.
Having the list will show that you care and have organized your thoughts. Not having a full prepared speech will go over better.
It is simple. They have a government mandated monopoly so the government can mandate they have to expand thier network. If they fail to do so then take away thier monopoly.
It is very easily done. You don't need a WM, so just start X as a FB and a browser. Just bundle the necessary networking stuff and you can cut most of the stuff out of the kernel because you don't need nor want say HDD support.
A man in the middle attack can get it and doesn't even involve compromising the CD. Any router between the customer and the bank could be compromised and reroute all packets to a different destination. The most vulnerable will be the customer's router in thier home.
Even that poses non-trivial problems. Without setting up dedicated links, I don't see a better solution.
I just clicked an ad for Vonage and there was a pretty concise explanation about thier 911 service. I had no problem understanding that A) I would need to provide my Physical location info B) this required a manual registration on my part C) It would not be available immediately D) It would be subject to service interruption so if no power or no internet no 911 (duh) E) The 911 call center will not have my location automatically so I need to provide my info F) It is on my head if I decline or fail to register for 911 service.
Legally, it is. It doesn't matter if they are prepubscent or sexually mature, if they are under the age of consent and depending on state law more than a given span years in age apart, it is child rape. In some states, two 17 year old kids having sex could each be charged with statutory rape.
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Ehh, you young'uns. I did that with my Atari cartridges.
Old cdr (12x or less media) can be expected to last a long time. I had an old 4x cdr sitting in my car that lasted over 5 years. I have 4x media archives sitting in a cabinet that is over 8 years old. The 48x media is garbage though. It stops being readable in a car in about 6 months. It lasts about 2 years in a cabinet.
CDROM is over 20 years old (1982 is when first inroduced in EU and NA), yet next gen optical drives (Blu-Ray or HDDVD) will still support it.
While HDDVD or Blu-ray may notbe around in 20 years I fully expect CD and DVD to still be supported. Some media standrads are much longer laster than others. The ubiquitous nature of CD and DVD is more likely to last much like cassette tape and VHS. You can still buy radios with cassette decks. You can still buy VHS deck some with dvd players.
I am complaining about how the FBI and Federal Marshalls rush about to protect big companies but nothing gets done for the little guy.
If this goes to court then the time for forgiveness is over. CherryOS needs to then be crushed as an object lesson to anyone else that might want to try this.
You missed his point entirely. The RIAA and similiar groups have been pushing for the FBI to police for copyright violators. Why does the BSA get Federal Marshalls to bust down doors? Yet a non-profit has to beg for money just so they can force a bunch of assholes to publish their source code. If this was Microsoft or Adobe instead of PearPC, CherryOS would be in jail. Have you forgotten Skylarov already?
Actually, downloading itself may not be illegal depending on jurisdiction and other complexities.
Distributing music with authorization (regardless of medium of distribution) is usually a Copyright Violation. Again it depends on jurisdiction and other complexities on whether this is a crime though.
I fail to see how theft and murder on the high seas can be done over a computer network, but I doubt anyone condones such heinous acts.
/. is complosed of individuals. Not everyone has the same opinion.
Copyright violations on the other hand, well it is a complex issue. One,
Two, there is a difference of degree- someone swiping a stapler from the office is quite different then someone robbing a charity auction.
Three, copyright violation in regards to media content can be seen as a civil disobedience issue. The megacorp media companies broke thier contract with the public when they got copyright overextended to hundred+ years. Any reasonable examination would have "Steamboat Willie" in the public domain. "Gone with the Wind" should be public domain. Both these works are well over 50 years but still copyrighted. Even 50 years is too long but I am willing to compromise on the Berne Convention.
But now we can probably never expedct to see these works enter the Public Domain. The media megacorps are robbing us of our cultural heritage. Think of the references that new works make to existing Public Domain works. How often has Moby Dick or Huck Finn or Jeckyl and Hyde been referenced.
The GPL is a reaction to this overextension of copyrights and trys to work within the system to keep things Free.
Now that I have address your question honestly, crawl back under your rock, Troll.
A single dark (on) pixel will probably never be noticed. A single colored pixel (half-on) will not be noticeable depending on position and color and screen colors. A single white pixel (off) is very noticeable and will be seen on most any screen.
The problems is that the lcd production is prone to producing screens with a fixed pixel. The take a sheet of glass, line it with velvet, lay the pixel on the velvet, and then afix a matrix to the pixels. Think how likely in this process that out of millions of pixels (calculate out the higher res screens and it is millions of pixels) one or more will get slightly misaligned.
It goes one step further. The device uses amongst other things, a MagicGate Memorystick. We are talking DRM encryption folks. Guess what bypassing and access control and posting details gets you? That's right, you face penalties for violating the DMCA.
I do find it funny that Sony is playing both sides of the fence. You can purchase UMD movies or just rip your own. You can jump through hoops to use SonicStage (and use a 128mb or less MS) or just copy MP3's. The official way is a pain in the rearbut the unofficial way is pretty easy provided you have a minimum of technical saviness.
Boy, that is a lot more ballsy than swapping hard drives and returning them.
What other choice is there besides signing?
Can you buy your electricity from some place else besides the Electric Company? You say no? Your only other option is to make your own*? see a correlation here between the RIAA and the Electric Company? See a correlation with the Indie lables and making your electricity?
The choice is to be a garage band or maybe have a chance at something more. And ever notice how most new groups are young? Do you really think they are able to negotiate good contracts? I know I did not do well when I bought my first car. Go search out what Courtney Love says about the Recording Labels. The RIAA is not just a lobby group, they are the front man of a cartel.
Napster is not buying music. It is renting it. The cost of iTunes is no cheaper. You are still supporting the RIAA. There are 10-16 tracks on a typical album. I noticed in Target the other day that most albumn were $10-$17 dollars. Hrmm. Yeah, I know you can buy a whole albumn at $10, but I thought the whole point of Itunes was buying only the good music.
Actually your example is base 9. Base 8 does not have the decimal number "8". Decimal "8" = octal "10".
Maybe 9 times in 10 it will not catch a false positive. At best it does about 7 in 10 for problems.
But Galeon is a GNOME app so the two are very comparable.
Actually, I think it is more because Dropline does a good job of packaging GNOME for Slackware and Pat has enough resource management issues. This was mentioned before on /.. I am surprised that noone else mentioned Dropline, but then everyone seems to busy trolling. Bah.
Compare the startup times of Konqueror and Galeon.
In KDE, they are very similiar. GNOME, Galeon is the same, but Konqueror takes much longer as it basically loads all the libraries for KDE.
I also understand that it is easier on developers to develop using GTK+. Hence, why Mandrake that uses KDE for its defaults ships the DrakConf (Mandrake Control Center) as a GTK app.
If you just accept the defaults, a single choice is what you will get. Last time I tried this with Mandrake, I had KDE (with IceWM as a failsafe fallback) and just OOo and similar single choices.
Even if you choose everything, the first time you login it presents a few choices and informs you a bit about them in the FirstTime Wizard.
Talking with your Ombudsman, would be another good thing to do.
Get a copy of the Network acceptable use policy, Student Handbook, and whatever ever else that shows the goals of the University. There will be probably be some statement there about the free exchange of knowledge, make sure to stress that in your talk.
Prepare a speech and practice. When you go see the Ombudsman, have list of bullet points- like the appropriate sections of Network Acceptable Use policy (both the parts you ran a foul of and where they promote educational use), legal uses of BitTorrent, how Bram is employed by the Industry and has not been sued for BT, and whatever else you think of.
Having the list will show that you care and have organized your thoughts. Not having a full prepared speech will go over better.
It is simple. They have a government mandated monopoly so the government can mandate they have to expand thier network. If they fail to do so then take away thier monopoly.
It is very easily done. You don't need a WM, so just start X as a FB and a browser. Just bundle the necessary networking stuff and you can cut most of the stuff out of the kernel because you don't need nor want say HDD support.
A man in the middle attack can get it and doesn't even involve compromising the CD. Any router between the customer and the bank could be compromised and reroute all packets to a different destination. The most vulnerable will be the customer's router in thier home.
Even that poses non-trivial problems. Without setting up dedicated links, I don't see a better solution.
I just clicked an ad for Vonage and there was a pretty concise explanation about thier 911 service. I had no problem understanding that A) I would need to provide my Physical location info B) this required a manual registration on my part C) It would not be available immediately D) It would be subject to service interruption so if no power or no internet no 911 (duh) E) The 911 call center will not have my location automatically so I need to provide my info F) It is on my head if I decline or fail to register for 911 service.
http://www.vonage.com/features.php?feature=911 If you want to see for yourself. They detail pretty clear the drawbacks to the service. This took seconds to check.
Legally, it is. It doesn't matter if they are prepubscent or sexually mature, if they are under the age of consent and depending on state law more than a given span years in age apart, it is child rape. In some states, two 17 year old kids having sex could each be charged with statutory rape.