"There is no practical difference between the 2600 Web site's posting of DeCSS, and hyperlinking to other Web pages from which DeCSS can be downloaded."
Are 2600 using this in their defence, that mpaa is linked to decss?
It didnt exactly go long way in galactic terms. A mission just to go a long way isnt worth much. Sure, more planetary missions, or even to the kuipier belt, are great, but a mission solely to see whats out there, at a few thousand miles an hour?
I've been wondering what to do with my muti-megabit connection now I'm at university,/Its such an upgrade from 56k It's unbeliveable. At the same time I have to pay £1050 tuition fees and £4000 a month bar tab, so I need a way to earn money.
There is a a theory that this "Planet X" passes through the Ooort cloud every so many million years and sends a few comets to the inner solar system - possibly causing a regularity in mass extinctions.
I heard, a couple of years ago (maybe less), about some astronomer that claimed to have discoverted a new planet orbiting the sun. I dont think I've heard anything since thoguh.
What is the differece between an asteroid, planet and brown dwarf though? Just size? You could say that there are millions of "planets" orbiting in the Oort cloud, and indeed any asteroid in a near circular orbit.
If I remember my Star Trek history correctly, the original Foudners homeworld (well, the one we saw in "The Search" was also a "rouge planet", without a star orbiting (yet it was class M for some reason...)
"Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works. It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else."
Ripped from the mentioned website's FAQ.
Is this for real? Is it just canada or other countries? Does this mean that as all my MP3's came from my 'friends' on napster I dont have one illegal thing on my computer (apart from DeCSS - but if they take that away they'll have to take the shirt off my back!)
Of course, thats if I lived in Canada.
Can I copy a friends copy? Can he borrow my CDWriter to copy my copy which I made of my friends copy?
What about when I make a copy from my friends at the radio station when I press record?
The first few PC trek games were pretty good for the time. 25th anniversary was great, and Final unity was good too.
Things started going down hill though, interactive movies like Klingon, and Borg, were pretty lame, and Kligon Honor Guard didnt have the right feel to it.
Starfleet acadamy was a minor success, and starflet command was a decent game too.
I pinned a lot of hopes on BotF, but the turn processing is so slow its unbeliveable. Theres a lot of people working on the game though - www.sidgames.com's botf forum for example - caught me by surprise.
I lost interest when I realised how many hours of my life I'd put into fedcom, and I got my GCSE results....
The modern wave of games look a bit better - but then they always do! Klingon acadamy is an average game, better graphics would be nice but aside from that if you like that sort of game its fine.
I played the demo of the new DS9 one, and again it looked interesting, with what looks to be a good storyline.
I played the Elite force demo too, and I loved it. The pleasure of shooting neelix in holomatch s worth the price on its own! Also the ability to cheat a phaser rife, walk arround the bridge and take careful aim in Janeways face: classic.
The demo has a tantalising beginings to a story too, and I'd probably buy the game.
PC Gamer UK also thought that it was worthy of game of the month - ousting red alert 2. Perhaps an old HDD with windows for dual booting...
Unfortunatly, as is the case with so many games, there isnt a linux version, and I'm not putting windows back on here.
All it would take is one, or two people, situated on opposite sides of the planet (for time zones) to check away. Even I, after too many pints and typos, knew that this was a duplicate story.
I'm sure there are many reliable volenteers arround to make sure duplicate stories arent posted.
It's such a contrast when some posts have "as mentioned 5 months ago (click here)" and others are still on the main page yet dont even acknowledge the existence of the first post!
In my unexperienced youf I thought I could outsmart the world by using gravity instead of light for communications. However no one would tell me how fast a graviton would move.
If the sun suddenly vanished (just say) - the earth would continue orbiting where the sun was for 8 minutes. At least, thats what I've been told.
Gravitons, if they exist, or whatever, move at the speed of light.
Prepare to mark this as redundant, thinkheaded, stupid, funny, troll and all the others. I dont have time to read the other comments as I'm keen to shut down and install my new dxr3.
Anyway, if its up to the person downloading how they use it, that means that It's legal to share copyrighted MP3's on napster, host warez sites, make copies of WinME and burn^H^H^H^H sell them away (providing the customer says he wont use them as any more then frisbees).
I hope sun wins this case, the GPL can be patched, but I can share Britney Spears MP3's, DeCSS and Quake 3 (not that'd I'd dream of breaking the law on that, as if its a good game deserves my money) and the RIAA, MPAA and co cant do a thing about it.
Thats waaay behind livid and co, which apparently fun fine on a dxr2 or dxr3 decoder, but its too jittery in software mode on my P600.
Oh dear, I've got a few "illegal" lines of code on my computer. Being an average linux newbie, I am not a master programmer and, although I can get by in perl, tcl and bash scripting, I wouldnt have a clue where to start to use this "illegal" code.
To be honest, if the only illegal thing on my computer is a few k of C, then all the anti-piracy stuff should be greatful I am no longer costing Microsoft millions with an illegal copy of windows/office etc.
When you look at the warez scene on the internet, which Joe public can download full copies of complete games that normaly sell for £30, then compare it to a few lines of code that only a real geek knows where to use it, you can see which does more harm to the IP industry as a whole.
You're bog standard office keyboard costs about £5. You're bog standad seceratry earns over £5 an hour. If said secratary took all the keys off the keyboard, without breaking them, cleaned the keyboard, then replaced they keys IN THE RIGHT ORDER, it would take about 4 days!
How many general computer users know they layout of a keyboard? How many stil hunt arround for the 'v' key.
The letters arent the worse bits though, all the symbols to the right of p/l/m are going to cause problems to the casual user too. The space bars realy bad to clip on in my keyboard, as it has a metal thing underneath to go under hooks.
All that said and done, it's a lot cheaper to just buy a £5 keyboard.
Could be worse, we might have analogue networks like you instead of digital networks. TriBand phones required for full US coverage are between 5-25 times more expensive then Single band phones suitable throughout the EU.
My phone (non wap mind you) receives text messages when I am in a call, if it crashed then, perhaps while driving, I would not be happy. If someone floods my dial up connection I have to reconnect, its annoying. Its not essential I am on 24/7 (in fat its more like 19/7), but It's annoying when I have to disconnect (2 hour time out in the UK).
This is literaly a denial of service, but it's not covered by the conventional DoS definition, which is permanent.
Sure, but what about when you wake up at 4AM, and want the lighs on. You could boot up your box, dial up, go to a web ste, put some passwords in, find the right button to click and the light comes on! If you want a blue light, load windows!
Seriously though, isnt it cool in star trek when they can control lights by voice. Sensors could turn lights off when you leave the room etc. They dont need to be accessable to Bob in Austrailia, but the applications are endless.
Having your video recorder available on the net so you can set it recording from work is another very useful thing. As you are driving home you can mumble something about coffee and your car would pick it up, relay it to your kettle and the kettle would switch on, saving you a couple of minutes as its boiled as you get in.
Web enables bog roll is defiantly a useless thing, but there are many applications for web enabled consumer items, or at least a web enabled X10 interface.
I ama big cynic when it comes to these new things, like WAP, but I have often wanted to send a quick email from my old non-wap mobile, or perhaps see the time of the next train.
Ahh, the days of being able to leap into basic within 2 seconds of turning on my ZX spectrum. Of course, it took 5 minues to load from a tape (and who can forget the M1 LOADING on disks?)
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This is modded as funny, but as MPAA so put:
"There is no practical difference between the 2600 Web site's posting of DeCSS, and hyperlinking to other Web pages from which DeCSS can be downloaded."
Are 2600 using this in their defence, that mpaa is linked to decss?
It didnt exactly go long way in galactic terms. A mission just to go a long way isnt worth much. Sure, more planetary missions, or even to the kuipier belt, are great, but a mission solely to see whats out there, at a few thousand miles an hour?
The same sort of people that laugh about AlGore inventing the internet
I've been wondering what to do with my muti-megabit connection now I'm at university, /Its such an upgrade from 56k It's unbeliveable. At the same time I have to pay £1050 tuition fees and £4000 a month bar tab, so I need a way to earn money.
Similar to life found at the bottom of our oceans with no sunlight? Of course, this assumes that the planets have an active heat producing core
There is a a theory that this "Planet X" passes through the Ooort cloud every so many million years and sends a few comets to the inner solar system - possibly causing a regularity in mass extinctions.
I heard, a couple of years ago (maybe less), about some astronomer that claimed to have discoverted a new planet orbiting the sun. I dont think I've heard anything since thoguh.
What is the differece between an asteroid, planet and brown dwarf though? Just size? You could say that there are millions of "planets" orbiting in the Oort cloud, and indeed any asteroid in a near circular orbit.
If I remember my Star Trek history correctly, the original Foudners homeworld (well, the one we saw in "The Search" was also a "rouge planet", without a star orbiting (yet it was class M for some reason...)
"Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works. It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else."
Ripped from the mentioned website's FAQ.
Is this for real? Is it just canada or other countries? Does this mean that as all my MP3's came from my 'friends' on napster I dont have one illegal thing on my computer (apart from DeCSS - but if they take that away they'll have to take the shirt off my back!)
Of course, thats if I lived in Canada.
Can I copy a friends copy? Can he borrow my CDWriter to copy my copy which I made of my friends copy?
What about when I make a copy from my friends at the radio station when I press record?
The first few PC trek games were pretty good for the time. 25th anniversary was great, and Final unity was good too.
Things started going down hill though, interactive movies like Klingon, and Borg, were pretty lame, and Kligon Honor Guard didnt have the right feel to it.
Starfleet acadamy was a minor success, and starflet command was a decent game too.
I pinned a lot of hopes on BotF, but the turn processing is so slow its unbeliveable. Theres a lot of people working on the game though - www.sidgames.com's botf forum for example - caught me by surprise.
I lost interest when I realised how many hours of my life I'd put into fedcom, and I got my GCSE results....
The modern wave of games look a bit better - but then they always do! Klingon acadamy is an average game, better graphics would be nice but aside from that if you like that sort of game its fine.
I played the demo of the new DS9 one, and again it looked interesting, with what looks to be a good storyline.
I played the Elite force demo too, and I loved it. The pleasure of shooting neelix in holomatch s worth the price on its own! Also the ability to cheat a phaser rife, walk arround the bridge and take careful aim in Janeways face: classic.
The demo has a tantalising beginings to a story too, and I'd probably buy the game.
PC Gamer UK also thought that it was worthy of game of the month - ousting red alert 2. Perhaps an old HDD with windows for dual booting...
Unfortunatly, as is the case with so many games, there isnt a linux version, and I'm not putting windows back on here.
All it would take is one, or two people, situated on opposite sides of the planet (for time zones) to check away. Even I, after too many pints and typos, knew that this was a duplicate story.
I'm sure there are many reliable volenteers arround to make sure duplicate stories arent posted.
It's such a contrast when some posts have "as mentioned 5 months ago (click here)" and others are still on the main page yet dont even acknowledge the existence of the first post!
In my unexperienced youf I thought I could outsmart the world by using gravity instead of light for communications. However no one would tell me how fast a graviton would move.
If the sun suddenly vanished (just say) - the earth would continue orbiting where the sun was for 8 minutes. At least, thats what I've been told.
Gravitons, if they exist, or whatever, move at the speed of light.
I dont understand any of it though.
Followed quickly by "cp -R /mnt/net/mate1/mp3/* ~/mp3"
Prepare to mark this as redundant, thinkheaded, stupid, funny, troll and all the others. I dont have time to read the other comments as I'm keen to shut down and install my new dxr3. Anyway, if its up to the person downloading how they use it, that means that It's legal to share copyrighted MP3's on napster, host warez sites, make copies of WinME and burn^H^H^H^H sell them away (providing the customer says he wont use them as any more then frisbees). I hope sun wins this case, the GPL can be patched, but I can share Britney Spears MP3's, DeCSS and Quake 3 (not that'd I'd dream of breaking the law on that, as if its a good game deserves my money) and the RIAA, MPAA and co cant do a thing about it.
Thats waaay behind livid and co, which apparently fun fine on a dxr2 or dxr3 decoder, but its too jittery in software mode on my P600. Oh dear, I've got a few "illegal" lines of code on my computer. Being an average linux newbie, I am not a master programmer and, although I can get by in perl, tcl and bash scripting, I wouldnt have a clue where to start to use this "illegal" code. To be honest, if the only illegal thing on my computer is a few k of C, then all the anti-piracy stuff should be greatful I am no longer costing Microsoft millions with an illegal copy of windows/office etc. When you look at the warez scene on the internet, which Joe public can download full copies of complete games that normaly sell for £30, then compare it to a few lines of code that only a real geek knows where to use it, you can see which does more harm to the IP industry as a whole.
You're bog standard office keyboard costs about £5. You're bog standad seceratry earns over £5 an hour. If said secratary took all the keys off the keyboard, without breaking them, cleaned the keyboard, then replaced they keys IN THE RIGHT ORDER, it would take about 4 days! How many general computer users know they layout of a keyboard? How many stil hunt arround for the 'v' key. The letters arent the worse bits though, all the symbols to the right of p/l/m are going to cause problems to the casual user too. The space bars realy bad to clip on in my keyboard, as it has a metal thing underneath to go under hooks. All that said and done, it's a lot cheaper to just buy a £5 keyboard.
But isnt ICQ owned my AOL?
There is nothing else at college but the CompSci department and the pub!
Could be worse, we might have analogue networks like you instead of digital networks. TriBand phones required for full US coverage are between 5-25 times more expensive then Single band phones suitable throughout the EU.
(assuming that people aren't running servers on Windos).
Didnt Winnuke rely on port 139 being open, which is, If I can remember back to my windows days, a NetBIOS server port.
Call it a BSOD.
My phone (non wap mind you) receives text messages when I am in a call, if it crashed then, perhaps while driving, I would not be happy. If someone floods my dial up connection I have to reconnect, its annoying. Its not essential I am on 24/7 (in fat its more like 19/7), but It's annoying when I have to disconnect (2 hour time out in the UK).
This is literaly a denial of service, but it's not covered by the conventional DoS definition, which is permanent.
Sure, but what about when you wake up at 4AM, and want the lighs on. You could boot up your box, dial up, go to a web ste, put some passwords in, find the right button to click and the light comes on! If you want a blue light, load windows!
Seriously though, isnt it cool in star trek when they can control lights by voice. Sensors could turn lights off when you leave the room etc. They dont need to be accessable to Bob in Austrailia, but the applications are endless.
Having your video recorder available on the net so you can set it recording from work is another very useful thing. As you are driving home you can mumble something about coffee and your car would pick it up, relay it to your kettle and the kettle would switch on, saving you a couple of minutes as its boiled as you get in.
Web enables bog roll is defiantly a useless thing, but there are many applications for web enabled consumer items, or at least a web enabled X10 interface.
I ama big cynic when it comes to these new things, like WAP, but I have often wanted to send a quick email from my old non-wap mobile, or perhaps see the time of the next train.
Ahh, the days of being able to leap into basic within 2 seconds of turning on my ZX spectrum. Of course, it took 5 minues to load from a tape (and who can forget the M1 LOADING on disks?)
Hey, at 3K it might even work in Canada! ;)
Argh. Waaayyyy too much coffee today....
They have coffee on mars? Another reason to go!
But we never went to the moon! The boxes arent there!