It's clear this list is not the respectful, law-abiding group you make it out to be. The only reason it's still around is it's illegal activities have managed to fly under the radar, for now.
I'm not arguing that it's wrong to make your recordings near perfect... actually I don't see the point in making anything but perfect copies (SHN baby, fuck that lossy mp3/ogg shit)
I'm saying that it's safe to say that if you don't know who you're giving it to, could not identify them, and don't know their name, it's probably not legally justifiable.
Odd the way common sense is so uncommon these days.
Despite what everybody here wants to say, or how people want to spin it, the common way that software such as morpheus is used is ethically, and legally wrong. It's not fair use to give near-perfect recordings of copyrighted material to everyone on the planet. This is not the same as making a tape for your friend.
That being said, the software is not at fault. The RIAA may argue that it's an enabling the behaviour, but this bad behaviour can, and does occur through other means. There are entire mailing lists devoted to the trading of copyrighted materials via the USPS. This does not mean that the USPS should be outlawed.
Everybody should write your governmental representatives now, preferably with checks enclosed, to make sure that morpheus and the alike are not wrongly persecuted and prosecuted for behaviour that's beyond the author's control.
Lose the gzip filter too. Testing how well a comment compresses is a fucking retarded way to check if it might contain valid content. On a number of occasions I've attempted to post code to do something useful, that was related to the story or a parent comment, and it got rejected because it compressed too well.
The fact of the matter is that most of the filters do not stop trolls, who are willing to attempt to post an obnoxious piece of ascii art multiple times, but do not stop legitimate posters who just want to share a contribution with the community. After all, who here has a job and a life, and time to refine their messages to make the slashdot retardo-filters pass their content along successfully.
I'm so glad to see that somebody else has realized that the slashdot auto-filters are useless, annoying, poorly written pieces of software that merely detract from the slashdot community.
This conversation is doing nothing more than make slashdroids look even dumber than they do normally.
Firstly, there's no rule that says you must leave your laptop in your hotel room. The policy explicitly notes the existance of bag checks for those of you who think that there's a high likelihood of mass theft from casino hotels which are under extremely heavy surveillance.
Secondly, this isn't a reduction of rights. Nowhere are you granted the "right" to bring your laptop to a privately sponsored convention. On the other hand, the convention organizers do have a legal responsibility to do their best to make sure everything is safe, and nobody engages in a terrorist attack, or more realistically that nobody steals those cute little LCD panels off a vendor booth, throws them in their laptop bag and walks out.
Guys, I know the slashdroids love to overreact, but this is no big deal. Get over it.
The pay-per-hour playstation/nintendo/sega is pretty common these days. My question though, since when is $7/hr (the most common price I've seen) prohibitive? If you're in a hotel that has these, you've already demonstrated a willingness to pay $150-$400/night for a bed and a room, what's another $7 to entertain the kids for a bit?
There's just no way this is true. I've attempted to use cygwin on a PIII-700 laptop with 256 and the speed was just lousy. Then there was the problem that ther terminal emulation sucked, and the port was buggy and unreliable.
VMWare running a raw FreeBSD partition solved the problem far better than cygwin ever dreamed of. Now I have a dual-boot machine, but I can also boot my FreeBSD partition from within W2K.
What's $300 compared to having a machine you can actually use?
What's the point?
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Maybe I'm just dumb, but what's the point of this? That time could've been spent doing something truly useful, instead of making a game-system slightly smaller, and DC powered.
Why not just use the time to help port Linux to the N64 instead?
Yes, I pride myself in building unmaintainable, byzantine systems for the purpose of job security. I find that fear is also an effective way to promote job security, thus the reason why I often talk about my gun collection. It's subtle, but effective.
Users don't avoid me, I avoid them. I lock myself in the datacenter, sleeping only 1 hour a night. It makes me sharp, it makes me understand the world. Everybody should sleep only one hour a night, for a month, the world would be a better place!
I don't call my coworkers anything. As long as they give me a full military salute in the morning, I leave them alone for the rest of the day. It's all I ask. I think I'm a very fair manager that way. I even make sure I pay the bitches almost as well as I pay the men.
I've met people like you too, fucking retards who can't tell the difference between fact and fiction, who assume everything they read is true, who live in a fairy world, where mean people don't exist, bad people don't exist and the government has never covered anything up!
People who can't tell when they're dealing with a guy who's all gooned out on god knows what, and entertaining himself by watching the reactions of randomly selected people to various stimuli, laughing at the very idea that these conversations could be serious.
Look, one uncrashed computer does not prove reliability any more than one day without a murder does not prove that OJ is a valuable member of society. If you want to pick one computer as an example, I've got a Latitude C600 running W2K Pro that crashes at least once every other day. Does that mean W2K always crashes every other day, fuck no, that would be retarded, like you.
Moderate me down, because I used profanity and was rude to this FUCKING RETARD. I want to stress the point though, that if you want to know how reliable something is, you can't judge from one computer, or two, or ten. You need a couple thousand people, and you need them using it for different things. With one little lameass warez user, all you find out is if Quake, Wolfenstein, Morpheus, Nero and Sonique are stable.
btw, anybody else have the problem that if they play a CD with sonique on W2K, on a laptop, it ejects their computer from their docking station? (i shit you not).
Perhaps you've never heard of this little company called Cisco, who is a minor player in the network equipment field. I have a huge quantity of routers and switches which all are accessible via *gasp* ssh.
As far as backdoors go, this little company called Cisco also requires physical access to the hardware to reset forgotten passwords and such, because they didn't build in backdoors for such purposes.
You should check them out. They're not too well known yet, but they will be after they IPO. Check out www.cisco.com for more information!
In case you didn't notice, it's perfectly legal for an employer to institute security based on more than just trust that you promise not to do anything wrong, and that you'll keep your automobile 100% secure while it is off-campus. The NIH is a high-profile institution, and there are certainly people who would like to both smuggle things into, and out of it's doors.
There's nothing that forces you to go to work each day there, nor is there any reason for them to endanger the public, and their employees, by making the assinine assumption that nothing bad will happen there, because they only hire Good People(tm).
Suck it up, deal with it, and forget that afternoon joint you liked to smoke under the lab hoods.
attention fucktard: not all of us keep our email addresses in slashdot, because we got sick of spam, and didn't see the point in making ourselves available for offline conversations with retarded slashdroids.
That's not only wrong and potentially actionable to suggest that SkyOS is a GPL violator, it's fucking stupid.
Think about how that kind of emulation works, you just do system call translation. What on earth code would you steal? This is code that, by design, HAS to be original.
Slashdot's editors truly need to be more careful, and they need to issue an apology to SkyOS for making such an irrational accusation.
It's immoral to run a company in a manner which ignores obvious and legal methods of generating revenue. It's irresponsible to the employees and stockholders of the corporations. Indeed, it's so irresponsible that failure to maximize profit is an actionable offense.
Sure it doesn't compress as impressively as ogg or mp3, but here's the thing. It's lossless. No more arguments over what bitrate of what encoder sounds *almost* as good as a CD. It's identical to the CD.
Best of all, when you work out the cost per CD, SHNs only use about 40 cents of storage for an average length CD, so it might be a bit more than you spend with mp3, but it means that a $27,000 CD collection would fit on about $600 of hard drive, and that ratio is only getting better.
Another possibility is that the government can break them, but does not want to publicly acknowledge that capability, lest people switch to alternate ciphers, and improved use of steganography.
I'd still love to see an anonymous mail network that implements the methods Brenda Timmerman described in her paper on Secure dynamic adaptive traffic masking.
Something like that, combined with a large number of users would make even traffic analysis impossible.
Of course, I must be a terrorist to think such things are good.
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Since when is the concept of a private network a BAD thing? Sure it costs a little money, but the government HAS a little money, and it'll create jobs of the geek variety.
Also it's well known that gov't computer security is fairly pathetic, this would be a nice first step towards remedying that problem. Just have seperate networks with an airgap between this network and the internet, and the gov't would be shielded from any number of plausible attacks.
After all, if you show me a Network Admin who can't hack a.gov/.mil site, I'l show you an incompetant Network Admin.
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It's clear this list is not the respectful, law-abiding group you make it out to be. The only reason it's still around is it's illegal activities have managed to fly under the radar, for now.
I'm saying that it's safe to say that if you don't know who you're giving it to, could not identify them, and don't know their name, it's probably not legally justifiable.
Odd the way common sense is so uncommon these days.
That being said, the software is not at fault. The RIAA may argue that it's an enabling the behaviour, but this bad behaviour can, and does occur through other means. There are entire mailing lists devoted to the trading of copyrighted materials via the USPS. This does not mean that the USPS should be outlawed.
Everybody should write your governmental representatives now, preferably with checks enclosed, to make sure that morpheus and the alike are not wrongly persecuted and prosecuted for behaviour that's beyond the author's control.
The fact of the matter is that most of the filters do not stop trolls, who are willing to attempt to post an obnoxious piece of ascii art multiple times, but do not stop legitimate posters who just want to share a contribution with the community. After all, who here has a job and a life, and time to refine their messages to make the slashdot retardo-filters pass their content along successfully.
I'm so glad to see that somebody else has realized that the slashdot auto-filters are useless, annoying, poorly written pieces of software that merely detract from the slashdot community.
Drink heavily. Often.
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Firstly, there's no rule that says you must leave your laptop in your hotel room. The policy explicitly notes the existance of bag checks for those of you who think that there's a high likelihood of mass theft from casino hotels which are under extremely heavy surveillance.
Secondly, this isn't a reduction of rights. Nowhere are you granted the "right" to bring your laptop to a privately sponsored convention. On the other hand, the convention organizers do have a legal responsibility to do their best to make sure everything is safe, and nobody engages in a terrorist attack, or more realistically that nobody steals those cute little LCD panels off a vendor booth, throws them in their laptop bag and walks out.
Guys, I know the slashdroids love to overreact, but this is no big deal. Get over it.
If you need to double your estimate and add a random number, then I hope that you're a very junior coder, or that you're unemployed.
The pay-per-hour playstation/nintendo/sega is pretty common these days. My question though, since when is $7/hr (the most common price I've seen) prohibitive? If you're in a hotel that has these, you've already demonstrated a willingness to pay $150-$400/night for a bed and a room, what's another $7 to entertain the kids for a bit?
VMWare running a raw FreeBSD partition solved the problem far better than cygwin ever dreamed of. Now I have a dual-boot machine, but I can also boot my FreeBSD partition from within W2K.
What's $300 compared to having a machine you can actually use?
Why not just use the time to help port Linux to the N64 instead?
Users don't avoid me, I avoid them. I lock myself in the datacenter, sleeping only 1 hour a night. It makes me sharp, it makes me understand the world. Everybody should sleep only one hour a night, for a month, the world would be a better place!
I don't call my coworkers anything. As long as they give me a full military salute in the morning, I leave them alone for the rest of the day. It's all I ask. I think I'm a very fair manager that way. I even make sure I pay the bitches almost as well as I pay the men.
I've met people like you too, fucking retards who can't tell the difference between fact and fiction, who assume everything they read is true, who live in a fairy world, where mean people don't exist, bad people don't exist and the government has never covered anything up!
People who can't tell when they're dealing with a guy who's all gooned out on god knows what, and entertaining himself by watching the reactions of randomly selected people to various stimuli, laughing at the very idea that these conversations could be serious.
but that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.
perl rules.
i'm not calling you a retard because of a computer argument. i'm calling you a retard because you're a person of subnormal intelligence.
Look, one uncrashed computer does not prove reliability any more than one day without a murder does not prove that OJ is a valuable member of society. If you want to pick one computer as an example, I've got a Latitude C600 running W2K Pro that crashes at least once every other day. Does that mean W2K always crashes every other day, fuck no, that would be retarded, like you.
Moderate me down, because I used profanity and was rude to this FUCKING RETARD. I want to stress the point though, that if you want to know how reliable something is, you can't judge from one computer, or two, or ten. You need a couple thousand people, and you need them using it for different things. With one little lameass warez user, all you find out is if Quake, Wolfenstein, Morpheus, Nero and Sonique are stable.
btw, anybody else have the problem that if they play a CD with sonique on W2K, on a laptop, it ejects their computer from their docking station? (i shit you not).
As far as backdoors go, this little company called Cisco also requires physical access to the hardware to reset forgotten passwords and such, because they didn't build in backdoors for such purposes.
You should check them out. They're not too well known yet, but they will be after they IPO. Check out www.cisco.com for more information!
As far as DOA goes, yeah, I think the X-Box is DOA.
There's nothing that forces you to go to work each day there, nor is there any reason for them to endanger the public, and their employees, by making the assinine assumption that nothing bad will happen there, because they only hire Good People(tm).
Suck it up, deal with it, and forget that afternoon joint you liked to smoke under the lab hoods.
attention fucktard: not all of us keep our email addresses in slashdot, because we got sick of spam, and didn't see the point in making ourselves available for offline conversations with retarded slashdroids.
Think about how that kind of emulation works, you just do system call translation. What on earth code would you steal? This is code that, by design, HAS to be original.
Slashdot's editors truly need to be more careful, and they need to issue an apology to SkyOS for making such an irrational accusation.
It's immoral to run a company in a manner which ignores obvious and legal methods of generating revenue. It's irresponsible to the employees and stockholders of the corporations. Indeed, it's so irresponsible that failure to maximize profit is an actionable offense.
Best of all, when you work out the cost per CD, SHNs only use about 40 cents of storage for an average length CD, so it might be a bit more than you spend with mp3, but it means that a $27,000 CD collection would fit on about $600 of hard drive, and that ratio is only getting better.
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I'd still love to see an anonymous mail network that implements the methods Brenda Timmerman described in her paper on Secure dynamic adaptive traffic masking. Something like that, combined with a large number of users would make even traffic analysis impossible.
Of course, I must be a terrorist to think such things are good.
Also it's well known that gov't computer security is fairly pathetic, this would be a nice first step towards remedying that problem. Just have seperate networks with an airgap between this network and the internet, and the gov't would be shielded from any number of plausible attacks.
After all, if you show me a Network Admin who can't hack a .gov/.mil site, I'l show you an incompetant Network Admin.
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