Then you'd be competing against the RIAA in its own game. Sure the idea may be novel, but add a few thousand artists and stations to that, and you got yourself full in work that you'd only do if you earn something out of it. Say a percentage of every profit made. Then you end up being the evil of the RIAA itself. Albeit that's an extreme point of view, the system as we have it can certainly be improved - with fairer royalties for example. I wonder if this type of work can be distributed, open source style. Certainly there are enough resources to do distributed distribution (excuse me, what what?). A lot of people have CD-burners. Paper that prints CD-labels don't cost a lot of money. I'm imagining a distribution company that would offer music for download by its members, these members download the music, burn it onto CD, print some labels and cover art, and go off to the street/beach/public space to sell it. Bring a jukebox to play a sample of it. Heck give it away for free if at the end of the "marketing period" they can't sell all of it. They get to keep some money and ideally give something back to the creators of the music. Everybody's happy. The band gets recognition, the distributors earn some cash, the customers get good music without profiting the RIAA. Ideas, ideas, but at the end people are too lazy to get off their fat asses and do something about it.
Britney Spears can suck my dick, and that's what every teenage hetero male has in his mind when he hears the slut sing - and that's what makes her sell. Her videoclips are going sluttier by the minute, I wonder what's on her head, all that fame's gotten to her, and she really seems to want to lose that nice girl image she began her career with. Go slut! Not that this encouragement will be enough, wait a few years and she'll end up fat and coked up like Mariah Carey.
What a great decision this has been. Now internet radio will disappear, some people will be jobless, RIAA loses a medium that was willing to promote their wares (music) and was paying them royalties for it. Here's hoping for a resurgence in P2P sharing, and a successful execution of a decentralized P2P radio. (That's strange, if its decentralized, who would be broadcasting?). And when RIAA's revenues are down yet again next year, they'll blame it on internet piracy. Heck if they grew only 4% instead of 5% they'll still fucking say "We could have earned a lot more money if it weren't for the internet. Mr. Hollings, here's some money, can you make a law to ban the internet?" I too hope that their business model of running around like a chicken with its throat cut is going to end up like said chicken - dead. More calls, faxes and emails to Congress looks like one way of solving it. Any lawyer out there willing to form a complain letter that we can use to slashdot the FTC? Already, the media industry owns the government; it can do what it wants with copyright laws. When all else fail, a crowbar to the head of these moronic executives should be effective enough. Fuck this, it sucks.
Mainstream media can go BUTTFUCK ITSELF IN THE MOUTH. I'm still going to try and find stuff that gooses my juices but it's going to be harder to find and I won't therefore be buying as much.
How true it is, and when CD sales drop yet again next year, the RIAA will still blame it on "digital piracy". Fuck them, let's go to their headquarters and firebomb it.
What would happen if we ROT13 all our music filenames and share them? AG shouldn't be able to recognize the filenames but people with brains can still look them up. Of course this means the ROT13 feature has to be built into the program, because browsing (local) directories of ROT13'ed files wouldn't be fun..
I see you've tried LFS, what's your opinion of it? I'm in the process of building my LFS system (I guess I'll be waiting to see if Gnome 2 really gets out on June 21), while it's fun and teaches me a lot, it does need a lot of time to see what other programs I need installed on it, I still don't have SSH, finger and all those small programs one just has to have..
I managed to build Xfree86 4.2 without DRI (I have a non-DRI GeForce card) which was good because it kept looking for non-existant things out of the kernel DRM files and I installed devfs which made/dev a lot cleaner (though I noticed later Mandrake 8.2 also uses devfs) and these 2 makes me feel my system is a lot leaner than usual systems, but as I asked, what's your opinion of LFS in comparison to Gentoo?
Like the other guy said, this has urban legend written all over it. If the cable snapped at one end, wouldn't it be free to go wherever it wants, without dragging the 2nd computer?
That with the cycling to watch TV is nothing new, it was on CNN 2 years ago, an idea to prevent kids being, as you said, couch potatoes. Good idea really, a win-win situation too: if you don't want to sweat it, you get no TV, which leaves time for other things.
I wonder if one should do that for the computer, it won't work though, you'd stop and ponder about why the code isn't working, and the whole thing dies!
Aaah, before your message I didn't know it was a joke. I was quite surprised MS released a patch so quickly, I thought patching the exploit must have been pretty trivial if MS did it so quickly. But hey, it takes them who-knows-how-long to patch root level holes on server products, even after they have a head start before the public learns about it..
An example for point (4) would be the vunerability in the zlib 1.14, afaik no one ever exploited it.
Stupid Institute, it can kiss its Credibility good bye. It just sold itself to a company whose dumbass VP admits that its software has hidden threats to national security waiting to be found by some cracker, preferably one employed by an eeevil terrorist organization if you wanna ensure those patriot (parrot?) citizens of the united fucking great states of America can understand what the hell the debate is all about.
Má-alaikum-salam to the guys at the NSA reading this message.
Great, so they benchmarked the effect of 3 different power settings on framerates. The results look nice, but they don't say anything more than "if you want more performance, you get shorter battery life.". I wish the morons had compared it to one or more desktop systems, a standard P-IV 1.4 GHz with an equivalent GeForce card for one. I assume the laptop has less horsepower than a desktop, but they could have at least done testing so that I could confirm or deny that assumption, but no they didn't.
Also, put slashdot.org in your block list so that you don't burn hours wasting time in front of slashdot.. something I've been thinking of doing, but as you can see, I'm *still* here.
What really happened with management was funnier than that. To quote out of the Jargon book
Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless chain of approvals required of component specifications, during which no actual checking seemed to occur, an engineer at Signetics once created a specification for a write-only memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics {management} only when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing information. Signetics published a corrected edition of the data book and requested the return of the `erroneous' ones. Later, around 1974, Signetics bought a double-page spread in "Electronics" magazine's April issue and used the spec as an April Fools' Day joke.
You're right about Suspend-to-RAM turning off most of the components, it also turns off the PSU and CPU fans, and you can't tell the difference between a computer on STR and one switched off, except for a tiny LED on the motherboard (at least on my mobo).
What you described is called "S1", it's suspend mode with the PSU and CPU fan running (but harddisks and graphics card turned off), which leaves the computer loud but dead.
Copied and pasted from a Google search result, the suspend "codes" are: Full-on (SO), Stop Grant (S1), Suspend to RAM (S3), Suspend to Disk (S4), and Soft-off (S5).
With STR, 5v run off the PSU to keep the RAM recharged. This is the same 5v that run for features like Wake-On-[LAN,Modem,Keyboard].
So I guess the kernel has suspend support now. That's cool, I use STR on Windows 2000 all the time, it would be cool to have it on Linux, but somehow I don't feel like using a dev-kernel.
So much for MS's hardware encryption, finally it got cracked. Expect the site to disappear as soon as MS Lawyer XP slap the DMCA on them. This hack will probably help boost Xbox sales because everyone will be getting one to run a real OS them (assuming that the modchip makes it possible). Is that's good or bad for MS, depends. It will look good on sales figures "Most popular console!", but bad on their bottom line "500,000 game titles and 2 million X-Box consoles sold: $ -100 million profit. Uhm, what was that question, 'what are the 1.5 million owners doing without X-box games?', Uhm...".
Gotta wonder if MS has seen this coming. Their "BIOS" could (and should, IMO) still have a few things up its sleeves, it would be cool if the EEPROM code is self-modifying and can make the modchip useless or blow up the modded Xbox and leave its owner warranty-less? This could be triggered perhaps by instruction codes that can be embedded onto newer game titles.
Have to wonder too, who was behind the design and manufacturing effort, shouldn't it take a lot of money to get ICs printed and tested? I wonder if anyone at Sony HQ spent $100,000 on a "toilet seat" lately.
Talk about fucked up, their site only supports IE 5+, what, my Opera ain't good enough for them? I remember Scour too, I'm surprised the sell-out service is not dead yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, they probably could, but at least we have a world-wide group of geeks that did just that and afaik they're not all smelly, dirty or losers
I wonder if the computer simulates the effect on local temperature itself has.
Then you'd be competing against the RIAA in its own game. Sure the idea may be novel, but add a few thousand artists and stations to that, and you got yourself full in work that you'd only do if you earn something out of it. Say a percentage of every profit made. Then you end up being the evil of the RIAA itself. Albeit that's an extreme point of view, the system as we have it can certainly be improved - with fairer royalties for example. I wonder if this type of work can be distributed, open source style.
Certainly there are enough resources to do distributed distribution (excuse me, what what?). A lot of people have CD-burners. Paper that prints CD-labels don't cost a lot of money. I'm imagining a distribution company that would offer music for download by its members, these members download the music, burn it onto CD, print some labels and cover art, and go off to the street/beach/public space to sell it. Bring a jukebox to play a sample of it. Heck give it away for free if at the end of the "marketing period" they can't sell all of it. They get to keep some money and ideally give something back to the creators of the music. Everybody's happy. The band gets recognition, the distributors earn some cash, the customers get good music without profiting the RIAA.
Ideas, ideas, but at the end people are too lazy to get off their fat asses and do something about it.
Britney Spears can suck my dick, and that's what every teenage hetero male has in his mind when he hears the slut sing - and that's what makes her sell. Her videoclips are going sluttier by the minute, I wonder what's on her head, all that fame's gotten to her, and she really seems to want to lose that nice girl image she began her career with. Go slut! Not that this encouragement will be enough, wait a few years and she'll end up fat and coked up like Mariah Carey.
What a great decision this has been. Now internet radio will disappear, some people will be jobless, RIAA loses a medium that was willing to promote their wares (music) and was paying them royalties for it. Here's hoping for a resurgence in P2P sharing, and a successful execution of a decentralized P2P radio. (That's strange, if its decentralized, who would be broadcasting?). And when RIAA's revenues are down yet again next year, they'll blame it on internet piracy. Heck if they grew only 4% instead of 5% they'll still fucking say "We could have earned a lot more money if it weren't for the internet. Mr. Hollings, here's some money, can you make a law to ban the internet?"
I too hope that their business model of running around like a chicken with its throat cut is going to end up like said chicken - dead. More calls, faxes and emails to Congress looks like one way of solving it. Any lawyer out there willing to form a complain letter that we can use to slashdot the FTC? Already, the media industry owns the government; it can do what it wants with copyright laws.
When all else fail, a crowbar to the head of these moronic executives should be effective enough.
Fuck this, it sucks.
To continue.. wow I did find one ROT-13'ed file name, search for "ZRgNYYVPN" in Audiogalaxy.
What would happen if we ROT13 all our music filenames and share them? AG shouldn't be able to recognize the filenames but people with brains can still look them up. Of course this means the ROT13 feature has to be built into the program, because browsing (local) directories of ROT13'ed files wouldn't be fun..
:)
I better start this movement..
I see you've tried LFS, what's your opinion of it? I'm in the process of building my LFS system (I guess I'll be waiting to see if Gnome 2 really gets out on June 21), while it's fun and teaches me a lot, it does need a lot of time to see what other programs I need installed on it, I still don't have SSH, finger and all those small programs one just has to have..
/dev a lot cleaner (though I noticed later Mandrake 8.2 also uses devfs) and these 2 makes me feel my system is a lot leaner than usual systems, but as I asked, what's your opinion of LFS in comparison to Gentoo?
I managed to build Xfree86 4.2 without DRI (I have a non-DRI GeForce card) which was good because it kept looking for non-existant things out of the kernel DRM files and I installed devfs which made
Like the other guy said, this has urban legend written all over it. If the cable snapped at one end, wouldn't it be free to go wherever it wants, without dragging the 2nd computer?
Lose all hope.
That with the cycling to watch TV is nothing new, it was on CNN 2 years ago, an idea to prevent kids being, as you said, couch potatoes. Good idea really, a win-win situation too: if you don't want to sweat it, you get no TV, which leaves time for other things.
I wonder if one should do that for the computer, it won't work though, you'd stop and ponder about why the code isn't working, and the whole thing dies!
All that security, ruined by the fact that Grandma Root will still wipe out the system when she runs the virus. (User Accounts That You Create During Setup Are Administrator Account Types)
imagine a cluster of walmart doing distributed cracking of the dbase file!
Aaah, before your message I didn't know it was a joke. I was quite surprised MS released a patch so quickly, I thought patching the exploit must have been pretty trivial if MS did it so quickly. But hey, it takes them who-knows-how-long to patch root level holes on server products, even after they have a head start before the public learns about it..
Oops, that was supposed to be zlib < 1.1.4
An example for point (4) would be the vunerability in the zlib 1.14, afaik no one ever exploited it.
Stupid Institute, it can kiss its Credibility good bye. It just sold itself to a company whose dumbass VP admits that its software has hidden threats to national security waiting to be found by some cracker, preferably one employed by an eeevil terrorist organization if you wanna ensure those patriot (parrot?) citizens of the united fucking great states of America can understand what the hell the debate is all about.
Má-alaikum-salam to the guys at the NSA reading this message.
Soyo is a Taiwanese company by the way. All the same, their English isn't perfect either.
Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.
RIP Douglas Adams.
Great, so they benchmarked the effect of 3 different power settings on framerates. The results look nice, but they don't say anything more than "if you want more performance, you get shorter battery life.". I wish the morons had compared it to one or more desktop systems, a standard P-IV 1.4 GHz with an equivalent GeForce card for one. I assume the laptop has less horsepower than a desktop, but they could have at least done testing so that I could confirm or deny that assumption, but no they didn't.
Also, put slashdot.org in your block list so that you don't burn hours wasting time in front of slashdot.. something I've been thinking of doing, but as you can see, I'm *still* here.
You're right about Suspend-to-RAM turning off most of the components, it also turns off the PSU and CPU fans, and you can't tell the difference between a computer on STR and one switched off, except for a tiny LED on the motherboard (at least on my mobo).
What you described is called "S1", it's suspend mode with the PSU and CPU fan running (but harddisks and graphics card turned off), which leaves the computer loud but dead.
Copied and pasted from a Google search result, the suspend "codes" are: Full-on (SO), Stop Grant (S1), Suspend to RAM (S3), Suspend to Disk (S4), and Soft-off (S5).
With STR, 5v run off the PSU to keep the RAM recharged. This is the same 5v that run for features like Wake-On-[LAN,Modem,Keyboard].
So I guess the kernel has suspend support now. That's cool, I use STR on Windows 2000 all the time, it would be cool to have it on Linux, but somehow I don't feel like using a dev-kernel.
So much for MS's hardware encryption, finally it got cracked. Expect the site to disappear as soon as MS Lawyer XP slap the DMCA on them. This hack will probably help boost Xbox sales because everyone will be getting one to run a real OS them (assuming that the modchip makes it possible). Is that's good or bad for MS, depends. It will look good on sales figures "Most popular console!", but bad on their bottom line "500,000 game titles and 2 million X-Box consoles sold: $ -100 million profit. Uhm, what was that question, 'what are the 1.5 million owners doing without X-box games?', Uhm...".
Gotta wonder if MS has seen this coming. Their "BIOS" could (and should, IMO) still have a few things up its sleeves, it would be cool if the EEPROM code is self-modifying and can make the modchip useless or blow up the modded Xbox and leave its owner warranty-less? This could be triggered perhaps by instruction codes that can be embedded onto newer game titles.
Have to wonder too, who was behind the design and manufacturing effort, shouldn't it take a lot of money to get ICs printed and tested? I wonder if anyone at Sony HQ spent $100,000 on a "toilet seat" lately.
Talk about fucked up, their site only supports IE 5+, what, my Opera ain't good enough for them? I remember Scour too, I'm surprised the sell-out service is not dead yet.