What about having stories reject from/.????
And what abou having win XP not boot because of activation? Must be worse.... ... or kernel panics... ... or being kicked off the network... ... or going to a 2 year school in a town with a population of 1000...
OMG I must be an idiot by now.
Mandrake was my first distro, and I still have the boxed CD's that came with 6.5. I have downloaded 7.2 (upgrades) and I am planning on buying 8.2. I am also planning on joining the club when I get my next paycheck. Mandrake has done so many good things and their product has allowed me to use Linux as both a newbie and a abuser user (power user). I like it so much I have even send in bugs reports (C and C++ I know not). SO even though the free money of the money is dead, LONG LIVE MANDRAKE!
Everyone seems to hate the ideas of DRM systems, but what I would like to hear are good ideas for implementing DRM's. From the general concensus I hear a DRM must 1) be anonomyous, 2) be easy to use 3)allow for copying and modifying and 4) not add to the cost of the material. So out of curosity, what would you like to see?
Yes Konqueror is used as a webbrowser, but the renderer is called khtml. Konqueror is the pane that the different kparts embed into. It is possible, has been done, and isn't a bad idea to use mozilla inside of konqueror to render webpages (now there are some benchmarks I would like to see.)
I would not mind paying for Star Office 6.0 (since 5.2 was about 50 dollars at wal mart) if 1)it's price is the same and 2) there are new and better features. I have played with the 6.0 Beta and I found it to be much like 5.2 so what has changed since 6.0 beta? what features/ bugs have been fixed and how did 6.0 change from 5.2 (which is now free)?
If you don't live in Georgia let me give you a quick rundown of our political scene. Our Govonor is Roy Barnes who is ultra liberal. He changed our flag (which has been my flag since I was born it represented home to me, nothing else)without letting it go to popular vote,and he passed an education reform bill which has done nothing to reform education except add in more buracracy and remove tenure from new teachers. Our Assembly recently went through a redistricting session where the Democrat majority destroyed ALL of the Republican's seats in the house and the Senate.
Ok you are officialy "caught up". What I want to do is write the Legislators from my county and who are sponsoring this bill, I would like USEFUL critism and counterpoints for this bill. Also I am making a trip to the Capitol on Monday and maybe I can get a word in with my Legislator (very easy to do if you are a page and 18). Anyway, thanks for helping, if you want some reading to do, here is the surgeon general's report on youth violence.
Summers
These people are never going to win. Why? Because of the 30 - 70 year old at home mothers and grandmothers who video tape the soaps. When they can't watch their favorite shows on their schedule, then they will complain. The hardware industry will discover that there is a viable market there and release a VTR. When they get sued for copyright abuse, they can simply just get Ma and granny to testify on how they use their products (which of course would be in pure legal sense). Then dare the industry to get provide evidence that their recorder was used for piracy.
Of course, if they don't let me record my favorite TV shows, I won't have time to watch them (or their sponsors). And the industry will loose (a little) money. Don't they see? This will ONLY HURT THEM!
Well thanks to the fact that I am taking 22 hours and serveral online courses, I don't have time to do that. (And Yes I HAVE Explored the Madelbrot set, done mazez, played solitare, Written video games, and text adventures). Also, what I did with computers in the 1980's was play astro-grover on my C-64. Yes, I was 5 when the 80's ended.
But your points were noted.
Gnutella is a network HOG! Of course I was a idiot who decided to install LImeWire supernode on my PC and ran it for about 3 days before getting tired of it. The next week I am informed that my Internet is being discontinued until Feburary 4 (I live on campus). When I get around the BS from network services I find out that I was using 80% of my subnet and 10% of the outbound traffic from Gnutella. Of course, they see all the porn that is trafficed in Gnutella and assume it is a porn service. After explaining to them what Gnutella was they basically said well you weren't a porn server but still you are in trouble.
SO I am at the LIbrary typing on/. while my PC in my room coolects dust.
I would not be horridly opposed to this, if I (read consumers) benefit. A good solution to this would be for Phillips to make its own wireless home theater network system and make it good and make it cheap.
Here is my idea.
The system is basically a wireless network with the PC being the "hub". At each TV you have a Video in box with a wireless NiC in it. You hit record on the box set and it sends the signal to your computer, compresses, and saves it. (On the PC). Then you can go to another room (with a TV and a box) and play the show you recorded from the other TV. The media would be streamed off of th PC to the box and on the TV. And for DRM? Only the signal from and to the PC would be encrypted. The key would be randomly generated at each broadcast.
So we have fair use preserved ( you get to record and watch your TV unlimited times), and the Industry has its signal protected from someone hooking up the PC to a booster station and rebroadcasting the signal.
Of course, this would have to be an easier and cheaper method than using a current VCR/DVR system.
Reply to this and tell me what you guys think and what you would like to see changed/added.
Secondsun
Then you need one of my Beryllium-Radium-Iron-Copper-K filets, better know as brick. One us of BRICK on your Television set will filter out 100% of the crap TV show, crap commercials, cp schemes, and mind contol in the video. After a use of BRICK your television set will supply you with the best of what broadcast has to offer... nothing!!
I was wondering how much processor power decompression takes? If it isn't too much, then would assume that we will see PDA's, MP3 players, and ISP's doing this.
A 8 Megabyte Flash card now hold 800 MB of Data, the Harry Potter Divx is now only 7MB. A metallica mp3 is only.03 Mb.
At best this is revolutionary, at worse a candidate for next years vaporware list.
Steps to circumvent 99% of all Copy protection.
1. Connect the line out from a CD player to the line In on a PC
2. Open a sound recording program
3. Record the music (remember ot stop for each track or at least break it up after wards)
4. Compres and be on your merry way!
(The also works with DVD players, a DV cam that has RCA inputs and firewire)
I don't see why we are complaining about copy protection this much, it is a foolish attempt at best. Maybe we should be focused more on buying CD's than ripping them. Then again you have people like me who weren't planning on buying the CD anyway.
Secondsun
You can decrypt DVD's if it keeps the kiddies out of your porn.
-DMCA
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Ok I know a super motor scooter really isn't anything new, but the tech behind it is awesome.
1)Auto balancing.
This IS big. Now some other company could use this technology and build something like oh say artifical legs, better wheel chairs, etc. And, suprisingly, there are people who have lost their ability to balance. Now (or soon) devices can be built to restor the function.
2) Low energy use.
.05$ a day! My comp uses more than that on/.! I just hope that this is put in hybrid cars, robots, etc so the next time I buy a truck it has double digit gas milage.
3)Responds to human wants.
"Just imagine stopping" And it stops. This is the ultimate UI (yes better than KDE Aqua and Luna) That is my favorite part. I hope we can make more stuff that responds to what I want to do. Like the radios in HHTG.
Well In conclusion IT is nothing short of curious but the technology powering IT is very powerful and will make a dioffernce. The guy who made this was also the guy who made the filters in a portable dyallisis machine. So there is innovation here.
I am actually impressed by this release. It appears to render pages fast than konqueror, and it also look pretty good too.
Of course I have a few minor gripes.
1. Themes, they don't work. If I try to download 6.1 themes, I get an error saying that my browser isn't support which takes me to...
2. The user agent says Netscape 6.5. This just messes up Netscapes page (and is probably just a linux bug oh well)
Those are the only two gripes I have found, but over all this is the best commercial browser I have seen go any way in a long time (Yes that includes internet Explorer).
Congrats NS and Mozilla teams, you deserve a pat on the back.
Secondsun
-I am not violating the DMCA, my version of DeCSS has net nanny built in.
I used ext2 about a year or so ago. I didn't mind the fscks (I only had a 4 GB drive) but 2 times it didn't work and I had to maunally fix some files. Then I got reiserfs and to this day I have had no troubles (short of a tree rebuild every few months just to improve speed).
I did have a vfat drive (40 GB) that had a whole bunch of stuff from a when I used windows (98 SE then 2000 then XP) then I reinstalled and used it as a secondary drive. Worked for a few months until the partition table became corrupt, NOrton couldn't fix it and well here I am. (It is now a 40 GB reiser fs partition.)
This stuff has potential, but does anyone have some performance information (memory useage/leakage, speed relative to X, stability, etc)? I would really like to hear from people who have used this and would like to share info. I think this may be on the site somewhere, but that has been/.ed to hell and (hopefully) back.
For us 14-17 year old hackers out there, how binding are EULA's (since a minor cannot enter into a legally binding conract with out his or her guardian)?
I remeber the first time I used KDE, way back in 1999 when Y2K was big and I was installing phat linux. I booted into X and boom, there was KDE V1.1. I fell in love with the speed, the un cluttered desktop, the themes, the games, and all of the crapps (useless apps that are cool).
Then I got KDE 1.97 just for artsd in 2000. I thought thatf it was the coolest thing ever, and now I have KDE 2.2.1. Running nonstop for a week on my box, and serving two or three X sessions on other boxes around the dorm.
Of course there are some things that I wouldn't mind added/fixed in KDE. I would like to be able to have seamless windows (ask me for a screen shot and I will email the pseudo theme to ya). Also, noatun needs to be cut down, it is too slow! mplayer won't work with artsdsp and divx plugins for mpeglib still don't work right, but I am trying to hack those in now.
All in all, KDE ROCKS!
Summers
-Wait, I can circumvent the DMCA if I am restricting internet access to minors.
How the crap can they sue hackers under this?
It says in the actual bill ( Which is imossible to find thanks to our lovely congression website) that an exception that gets technology out from under this bill is "to achieve the interoperability of computer programs". So anything that will let a copyrighted work be used under a different OS (say BeOS), is allowed even is it decrypts and circumvents the copyright.
SO if felton were to make a computer program that crapped when it detected a watermark then say that it were necessary to remove the water mark and publish a program to do it so his program could play protected music, he would be protected. (Again, IANAL)
What makes tthis case so damn annoying though is that the educational exemption is only if the school were planning to buy a copyrighted work. So Felton can still be sued, even though he was with a school.
Secondsun
Yes, IANAL.
PS: May favorite exception is "necessary to limit internet access to minors". I just find that humorous.
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What about having stories reject from /.????
... or kernel panics...
... or being kicked off the network...
... or going to a 2 year school in a town with a population of 1000...
And what abou having win XP not boot because of activation? Must be worse....
OMG I must be an idiot by now.
Secondsun
I didn't know that MS headquarters had a flux capacator, much less the ability to travel the necessary 88 mph. Go them.
Good for hiding all of my 1 - 4 kB pr0n.
Mandrake was my first distro, and I still have the boxed CD's that came with 6.5. I have downloaded 7.2 (upgrades) and I am planning on buying 8.2. I am also planning on joining the club when I get my next paycheck. Mandrake has done so many good things and their product has allowed me to use Linux as both a newbie and a abuser user (power user). I like it so much I have even send in bugs reports (C and C++ I know not). SO even though the free money of the money is dead, LONG LIVE MANDRAKE!
Yes, but they are both good to one sig-fig
Everyone seems to hate the ideas of DRM systems, but what I would like to hear are good ideas for implementing DRM's. From the general concensus I hear a DRM must 1) be anonomyous, 2) be easy to use 3)allow for copying and modifying and 4) not add to the cost of the material. So out of curosity, what would you like to see?
Yes Konqueror is used as a webbrowser, but the renderer is called khtml. Konqueror is the pane that the different kparts embed into. It is possible, has been done, and isn't a bad idea to use mozilla inside of konqueror to render webpages (now there are some benchmarks I would like to see.)
I would not mind paying for Star Office 6.0 (since 5.2 was about 50 dollars at wal mart) if 1)it's price is the same and 2) there are new and better features. I have played with the 6.0 Beta and I found it to be much like 5.2 so what has changed since 6.0 beta? what features/ bugs have been fixed and how did 6.0 change from 5.2 (which is now free)?
... when will these things become afforable (and the discs $.5)?
If you don't live in Georgia let me give you a quick rundown of our political scene. Our Govonor is Roy Barnes who is ultra liberal. He changed our flag (which has been my flag since I was born it represented home to me, nothing else)without letting it go to popular vote ,and he passed an education reform bill which has done nothing to reform education except add in more buracracy and remove tenure from new teachers. Our Assembly recently went through a redistricting session where the Democrat majority destroyed ALL of the Republican's seats in the house and the Senate.
Ok you are officialy "caught up". What I want to do is write the Legislators from my county and who are sponsoring this bill, I would like USEFUL critism and counterpoints for this bill. Also I am making a trip to the Capitol on Monday and maybe I can get a word in with my Legislator (very easy to do if you are a page and 18). Anyway, thanks for helping, if you want some reading to do, here is the surgeon general's report on youth violence.
Summers
These people are never going to win. Why? Because of the 30 - 70 year old at home mothers and grandmothers who video tape the soaps. When they can't watch their favorite shows on their schedule, then they will complain. The hardware industry will discover that there is a viable market there and release a VTR. When they get sued for copyright abuse, they can simply just get Ma and granny to testify on how they use their products (which of course would be in pure legal sense). Then dare the industry to get provide evidence that their recorder was used for piracy.
Of course, if they don't let me record my favorite TV shows, I won't have time to watch them (or their sponsors). And the industry will loose (a little) money. Don't they see? This will ONLY HURT THEM!
Ok I am off my tangent.
Summers
My NoC can beat up your NoC
Well thanks to the fact that I am taking 22 hours and serveral online courses, I don't have time to do that. (And Yes I HAVE Explored the Madelbrot set, done mazez, played solitare, Written video games, and text adventures). Also, what I did with computers in the 1980's was play astro-grover on my C-64. Yes, I was 5 when the 80's ended.
But your points were noted.
Gnutella is a network HOG! Of course I was a idiot who decided to install LImeWire supernode on my PC and ran it for about 3 days before getting tired of it. The next week I am informed that my Internet is being discontinued until Feburary 4 (I live on campus). When I get around the BS from network services I find out that I was using 80% of my subnet and 10% of the outbound traffic from Gnutella. Of course, they see all the porn that is trafficed in Gnutella and assume it is a porn service. After explaining to them what Gnutella was they basically said well you weren't a porn server but still you are in trouble.
/. while my PC in my room coolects dust.
SO I am at the LIbrary typing on
I would not be horridly opposed to this, if I (read consumers) benefit. A good solution to this would be for Phillips to make its own wireless home theater network system and make it good and make it cheap.
Here is my idea.
The system is basically a wireless network with the PC being the "hub". At each TV you have a Video in box with a wireless NiC in it. You hit record on the box set and it sends the signal to your computer, compresses, and saves it. (On the PC). Then you can go to another room (with a TV and a box) and play the show you recorded from the other TV. The media would be streamed off of th PC to the box and on the TV. And for DRM? Only the signal from and to the PC would be encrypted. The key would be randomly generated at each broadcast.
So we have fair use preserved ( you get to record and watch your TV unlimited times), and the Industry has its signal protected from someone hooking up the PC to a booster station and rebroadcasting the signal.
Of course, this would have to be an easier and cheaper method than using a current VCR/DVR system.
Reply to this and tell me what you guys think and what you would like to see changed/added.
Secondsun
Then you need one of my Beryllium-Radium-Iron-Copper-K filets, better know as brick. One us of BRICK on your Television set will filter out 100% of the crap TV show, crap commercials, cp schemes, and mind contol in the video. After a use of BRICK your television set will supply you with the best of what broadcast has to offer... nothing!!
(Yes this is a funny)
I was wondering how much processor power decompression takes? If it isn't too much, then would assume that we will see PDA's, MP3 players, and ISP's doing this. .03 Mb.
A 8 Megabyte Flash card now hold 800 MB of Data, the Harry Potter Divx is now only 7MB. A metallica mp3 is only
At best this is revolutionary, at worse a candidate for next years vaporware list.
Secondsun
Steps to circumvent 99% of all Copy protection.
1. Connect the line out from a CD player to the line In on a PC
2. Open a sound recording program
3. Record the music (remember ot stop for each track or at least break it up after wards)
4. Compres and be on your merry way!
(The also works with DVD players, a DV cam that has RCA inputs and firewire)
I don't see why we are complaining about copy protection this much, it is a foolish attempt at best. Maybe we should be focused more on buying CD's than ripping them. Then again you have people like me who weren't planning on buying the CD anyway.
Secondsun
You can decrypt DVD's if it keeps the kiddies out of your porn.
-DMCA
Ok I know a super motor scooter really isn't anything new, but the tech behind it is awesome.
.05$ a day! My comp uses more than that on/.! I just hope that this is put in hybrid cars, robots, etc so the next time I buy a truck it has double digit gas milage.
1)Auto balancing.
This IS big. Now some other company could use this technology and build something like oh say artifical legs, better wheel chairs, etc. And, suprisingly, there are people who have lost their ability to balance. Now (or soon) devices can be built to restor the function.
2) Low energy use.
3)Responds to human wants.
"Just imagine stopping" And it stops. This is the ultimate UI (yes better than KDE Aqua and Luna) That is my favorite part. I hope we can make more stuff that responds to what I want to do. Like the radios in HHTG.
Well In conclusion IT is nothing short of curious but the technology powering IT is very powerful and will make a dioffernce. The guy who made this was also the guy who made the filters in a portable dyallisis machine. So there is innovation here.
Secondsun
- My NoC can beat up you NoC
I am actually impressed by this release. It appears to render pages fast than konqueror, and it also look pretty good too.
Of course I have a few minor gripes.
1. Themes, they don't work. If I try to download 6.1 themes, I get an error saying that my browser isn't support which takes me to...
2. The user agent says Netscape 6.5. This just messes up Netscapes page (and is probably just a linux bug oh well)
Those are the only two gripes I have found, but over all this is the best commercial browser I have seen go any way in a long time (Yes that includes internet Explorer).
Congrats NS and Mozilla teams, you deserve a pat on the back.
Secondsun
-I am not violating the DMCA, my version of DeCSS has net nanny built in.
I used ext2 about a year or so ago. I didn't mind the fscks (I only had a 4 GB drive) but 2 times it didn't work and I had to maunally fix some files. Then I got reiserfs and to this day I have had no troubles (short of a tree rebuild every few months just to improve speed).
I did have a vfat drive (40 GB) that had a whole bunch of stuff from a when I used windows (98 SE then 2000 then XP) then I reinstalled and used it as a secondary drive. Worked for a few months until the partition table became corrupt, NOrton couldn't fix it and well here I am. (It is now a 40 GB reiser fs partition.)
Secondsun
This stuff has potential, but does anyone have some performance information (memory useage/leakage, speed relative to X, stability, etc)? I would really like to hear from people who have used this and would like to share info. I think this may be on the site somewhere, but that has been
Secondsun
How hard would it be to port some emulators to this? I mean really, until FF 10 comes out classics may be the only good games you can find.
(On a side note I think that this is really damn cool. Not that it is on the PS2 but that someone managed to sell LInux)
Secondsun
I can pirate DVD's if it keeps my children off porn sitez.
For us 14-17 year old hackers out there, how binding are EULA's (since a minor cannot enter into a legally binding conract with out his or her guardian)?
Summers
I remeber the first time I used KDE, way back in 1999 when Y2K was big and I was installing phat linux. I booted into X and boom, there was KDE V1.1. I fell in love with the speed, the un cluttered desktop, the themes, the games, and all of the crapps (useless apps that are cool).
Then I got KDE 1.97 just for artsd in 2000. I thought thatf it was the coolest thing ever, and now I have KDE 2.2.1. Running nonstop for a week on my box, and serving two or three X sessions on other boxes around the dorm.
Of course there are some things that I wouldn't mind added/fixed in KDE. I would like to be able to have seamless windows (ask me for a screen shot and I will email the pseudo theme to ya). Also, noatun needs to be cut down, it is too slow! mplayer won't work with artsdsp and divx plugins for mpeglib still don't work right, but I am trying to hack those in now.
All in all, KDE ROCKS!
Summers
-Wait, I can circumvent the DMCA if I am restricting internet access to minors.
IANAL
How the crap can they sue hackers under this?
It says in the actual bill ( Which is imossible to find thanks to our lovely congression website) that an exception that gets technology out from under this bill is "to achieve the interoperability of computer programs". So anything that will let a copyrighted work be used under a different OS (say BeOS), is allowed even is it decrypts and circumvents the copyright.
SO if felton were to make a computer program that crapped when it detected a watermark then say that it were necessary to remove the water mark and publish a program to do it so his program could play protected music, he would be protected. (Again, IANAL)
What makes tthis case so damn annoying though is that the educational exemption is only if the school were planning to buy a copyrighted work. So Felton can still be sued, even though he was with a school.
Secondsun
Yes, IANAL.
PS: May favorite exception is "necessary to limit internet access to minors". I just find that humorous.