I took that day off and went to a Doctor's appointment in the morning and then caught the 5:50pm show for only $3.50! Gotta love that "last show before 6pm" discount.
What about Wilco who released their new album via the web before they could get another company to press CDs?/. mentioned them here and I noticed that they have been very sucessful.
You have the right to free speech As long as you aren't dumb enough to actually try it.
--The Clash, Know Your Rights
Re:Titanium is also very flexible.
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I'd like to see a picture of that bent aluminum frame. Steel and cro-molly frames will bend. Aluminum will not bend but crack. In my four or so years with the Quick and the Dead MTB Racing Team, I never saw an aluminum frame bend.
Don't give them ideas. Think about it: I wanted to get a Samsung 80 gig but they don't have copy protection so they are restricted to "law enforcement only" above 6 gig. This would match with current gun control laws saying you can only have a 10 round clip and not 15. Then watch the market place for PRE-BAN hard drives.
This would take a lot of the stuffing out of the 2nd-amendment lobby, unless you really buy that "home defense" stuff. Poopycock! I mean, it's been shown that a gun in your home is more likely to kill you or a family member than an intruder.
This is a false statement based on junk science and outright lies. You can read a better study here.
In fact, the very actions of the politicos who want to take your guns call you a liar. Why would Rosie 'for the children' O'Donnel hire an armed man to guard her kids if she really believed that guns are unsafe?
When the Mayor of Chicago, where guns have been illegal since the 1970's, feels his city is safe enough for him to give up his four armed guards and police cars in front of his family's houses, I'll consider giving up my gun. Until then, I'm as safe as the Mayor and safer than you.
A CD could be setup to automagically wipe or corrupt the firmware on a drive or damage a computer's BIOS. Upgradeable DVD players use this all the time.
If you never had to upgrade firmware on a CD drive, then you have never owned an APEX DVD Player or a Plextor CDR drive.
I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet so I'll raise the question:
I live in Illinois and have SBC/Ameritech as my phone company. When I moved a couple miles north (still in the same county), they could get my phone service fixed for a month. As soon as they did, I switched over to AT&T Digital for my phones. My phones now un through the cable.
Rip. Mix. Burn. Seems very straight-forward to me.
Rip: Copy from a CD (legal to copy under fair use)
Mix: I think of mix tapes or CDs. (Also legal under fair use)
Burn: Make a copy of your mix on CD. (Still legal!)
So I don't see where the criminal act comes in. Maybe Download/Mix/Burn/Sell would cause trouble. Apple hasn't been afraid of using their crack legal teams in the past. I'll bet this cleared many levels of legal review before the first printing.
The model 100 was the portable version of the beloved TRS-80
>No. It wasn't.
Ok, yes it was and no it wasn't at the same time. The Model 100 and 200 were both TRS-80's. I have a 100 sitting here and it says so right on the case.
While it was portable because it is a laptop, it might not be considered a portable TRS-80. The Portable TRS-80 was the model 4P, which I also have sitting here. It was fully TRS-80 Model 3 and 4 compatable and only weighed about thirty pounds. It also had an attractive vinyl carry case.
A security hole in AOL Time Warner's Instant Messenger program used by millions of users worldwide can let a hacker take full control of a victim's computer, according to security researchers and the company.
An AOL spokesman said the problem will be fixed soon, and users won't have to download anything.
Great idea! Why make the user download and test a patch? We can just use this hole that gives us full control of a vitim's computer...
Screw MS Office for Linux. Just make them publish the specs to their file formats and the brilliant geeks in the community will beat Office to a pulp in a matter of months.
Imagine StarOffice with all the features of MS Office AND compatable files?
Let's face it, the RIAA has no clue about how to stop P2P copying. The reality is that if a very small group of dedicated fans want to make copies and can figure out how to do it, P2P technology will make it available to the world.
This fact was proven by one of my favorite (ex)bands: Smashing Pumpkins. Their last album was released on VINYL and only 25 copies were pressed. MP3's were on Napster within 24 hours and good quality MP3's took two weeks. Is there anyone who can't get a copy now?
The RIAA should spend their money trying to find a way to get us to buy rather than keep us from copying.
The people of Afghanistan don't have televisions, they don't have music, and they don't have telephones... but they have e-mail access one day after the Northern Alliance "liberates" the city?
Not that this doesn't sound a bit fishy to me as well, but I'd like to point out a couple things about Kabul that you may have missed:
Within 24 hours of the Taliban retreat, the city had news and music radio stations functioning on the air and radios to listen to
Within 72 hours, the former Taliban TV station was back on the air with a female news anchor and programs on tape from around the world
These people may not have much, but they do seem to have a fair share of electronics.
Did anyone look all the way down to see what the penalties are if Microsoft is found to violate any of these provisions? It basically says that the DOJ can sue them again!
I'm glad to see the states aren't falling for this.
Back in the old days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and I was a student at old NIU, there were a few PCs and Apples. Most of the computers in the dorms were Apple, Commodore or Amiga. To take a class in computers you worked on a dumb terminal hooked to a Amdahl in the lab. Some of the privledged people got to dial in on something called a Super Wylbur at 300 baud. Windows? Unheard of, but MS DOS was around. Word Perfect was on all the PCs in the Douglas lab.
I haven't been back lately, but I'll guess some things have changed. Unix was there back then. Where did it go? Your lack of dumb terminals and Unix are a sure sign that things DO change on campus as time marches on.
Stay away from those geese! Lincoln 4C Rules! 5C drools! Props to the Lords of Cobol!
Still, this just doesn't completely jive. I thought that Microsoft was a big propenent of screwing the little guy over for intellectual property rights. Thus, WMA DRM, right?
Yes, but the law says that the industry would have 18 months to set a standard. Microsoft couldn't own it or control it. All their DRM code would no longer be needed. What good is a standard that can't be 'innovated' by Microsoft?
DA: " He released information that broke the DMCA while trying to keep the Linux kernel secure!!!"
defence:" the nature of OSS is to show all changes. the linux kernel does not contain any copyprotected material, however, because of a baddly writen law, making the operating system secure from intruders is now illegal....does that seem right?"
What the jury understands:
DA: This foreign computer programer told other programers how to break into computer systems.
Slashdot Defense: Blah blah non-American blah blah hacker blah blah bad government blah blah fix computer blah blah.
Jury: The defense made no sense. He must be guilty!
I would have to disagree that he is "letting them win." This appears to be one step of a brilliant plan to get the DMCA thrown out. This change-log can now be introduced in court as an example of the DMCA "chilling" free speech. The EFF should be collecting huge piles of examples to introduce as exhibits in DMCA cases.
Now another good step would be to find an employee of a large company (Microsoft would be nice) who writes about a bug or exploit in their company's product and have them arrested for publishing a circumvention device. Anyone wanna go through the XP Beta groups and try to find an exploit that wasn't fixed and was discovered by a Microsoft employee? If Microsoft or any major company turns their money and legal teams against this law, it will fall faster than a dot com stock.
Simply, real examples of the "chilling effect" need to be documented for the Dimitry trial and other trials that will happen. These will go much further in getting the law overturned than messages to our Congressmen.
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You must be right. The RIAA has no history of messing up peoples computers.
And how do you think all the kazza "pirates" are going to recoup money for not getting the files they were intending to steal?
Neil Armstrong said:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Louis Armstrong said:
"I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world"
Gotta love that American education!
I took that day off and went to a Doctor's appointment in the morning and then caught the 5:50pm show for only $3.50! Gotta love that "last show before 6pm" discount.
What about Wilco who released their new album via the web before they could get another company to press CDs? /. mentioned them here and I noticed that they have been very sucessful.
Reminds me of a song:
You have the right to free speech
As long as you aren't dumb enough to actually try it.
--The Clash, Know Your Rights
I'd like to see a picture of that bent aluminum frame. Steel and cro-molly frames will bend. Aluminum will not bend but crack. In my four or so years with the Quick and the Dead MTB Racing Team, I never saw an aluminum frame bend.
Don't give them ideas. Think about it: I wanted to get a Samsung 80 gig but they don't have copy protection so they are restricted to "law enforcement only" above 6 gig. This would match with current gun control laws saying you can only have a 10 round clip and not 15. Then watch the market place for PRE-BAN hard drives.
This would take a lot of the stuffing out of the 2nd-amendment lobby, unless you really buy that "home defense" stuff. Poopycock! I mean, it's been shown that a gun in your home is more likely to kill you or a family member than an intruder.
This is a false statement based on junk science and outright lies. You can read a better study here.
In fact, the very actions of the politicos who want to take your guns call you a liar. Why would Rosie 'for the children' O'Donnel hire an armed man to guard her kids if she really believed that guns are unsafe?
When the Mayor of Chicago, where guns have been illegal since the 1970's, feels his city is safe enough for him to give up his four armed guards and police cars in front of his family's houses, I'll consider giving up my gun. Until then, I'm as safe as the Mayor and safer than you.
A CD could be setup to automagically wipe or corrupt the firmware on a drive or damage a computer's BIOS. Upgradeable DVD players use this all the time.
If you never had to upgrade firmware on a CD drive, then you have never owned an APEX DVD Player or a Plextor CDR drive.
This kid could have done better with a /. legal team!
(No offense, Hawk, esq.)
I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet so I'll raise the question:
I live in Illinois and have SBC/Ameritech as my phone company. When I moved a couple miles north (still in the same county), they could get my phone service fixed for a month. As soon as they did, I switched over to AT&T Digital for my phones. My phones now un through the cable.
So how is this going to affect my phones?
Knowing what big fans they are of Star Wars, it won't be long before the boys are all playing one of these out on tour!
Umm. Oh yeah.
Nevermind...
Rip. Mix. Burn. Seems very straight-forward to me.
Rip: Copy from a CD (legal to copy under fair use)
Mix: I think of mix tapes or CDs. (Also legal under fair use)
Burn: Make a copy of your mix on CD. (Still legal!)
So I don't see where the criminal act comes in. Maybe Download/Mix/Burn/Sell would cause trouble. Apple hasn't been afraid of using their crack legal teams in the past. I'll bet this cleared many levels of legal review before the first printing.
The model 100 was the portable version of the beloved TRS-80
>No. It wasn't.
Ok, yes it was and no it wasn't at the same time. The Model 100 and 200 were both TRS-80's. I have a 100 sitting here and it says so right on the case.
While it was portable because it is a laptop, it might not be considered a portable TRS-80. The Portable TRS-80 was the model 4P, which I also have sitting here. It was fully TRS-80 Model 3 and 4 compatable and only weighed about thirty pounds. It also had an attractive vinyl carry case.
I did my research, thank you.
This has got the best PR response I've ever seen to one of these holes:
From the Washington Post Story
A security hole in AOL Time Warner's Instant Messenger program used by millions of users worldwide can let a hacker take full control of a victim's computer, according to security researchers and the company.
An AOL spokesman said the problem will be fixed soon, and users won't have to download anything.
Great idea! Why make the user download and test a patch? We can just use this hole that gives us full control of a vitim's computer...
Screw MS Office for Linux. Just make them publish the specs to their file formats and the brilliant geeks in the community will beat Office to a pulp in a matter of months.
Imagine StarOffice with all the features of MS Office AND compatable files?
Imagine emacs reading a Word file.
My little mind boggles....
Let's face it, the RIAA has no clue about how to stop P2P copying. The reality is that if a very small group of dedicated fans want to make copies and can figure out how to do it, P2P technology will make it available to the world.
This fact was proven by one of my favorite (ex)bands: Smashing Pumpkins. Their last album was released on VINYL and only 25 copies were pressed. MP3's were on Napster within 24 hours and good quality MP3's took two weeks. Is there anyone who can't get a copy now?
The RIAA should spend their money trying to find a way to get us to buy rather than keep us from copying.
Not that this doesn't sound a bit fishy to me as well, but I'd like to point out a couple things about Kabul that you may have missed:
These people may not have much, but they do seem to have a fair share of electronics.
I'll go with on of the 'other' heros:
"This looks like a job for Bi-Polar Bear. If I could just get out of bed..."
Backpacks and Laptops will not be allowed. But no mention of restricting conceled handguns if you have a recognized permit. Guess I feel safer.
Did anyone look all the way down to see what the penalties are if Microsoft is found to violate any of these provisions? It basically says that the DOJ can sue them again!
I'm glad to see the states aren't falling for this.
Back in the old days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and I was a student at old NIU, there were a few PCs and Apples. Most of the computers in the dorms were Apple, Commodore or Amiga. To take a class in computers you worked on a dumb terminal hooked to a Amdahl in the lab. Some of the privledged people got to dial in on something called a Super Wylbur at 300 baud. Windows? Unheard of, but MS DOS was around. Word Perfect was on all the PCs in the Douglas lab.
I haven't been back lately, but I'll guess some things have changed. Unix was there back then. Where did it go? Your lack of dumb terminals and Unix are a sure sign that things DO change on campus as time marches on.
Stay away from those geese! Lincoln 4C Rules! 5C drools! Props to the Lords of Cobol!
Still, this just doesn't completely jive. I thought that Microsoft was a big propenent of screwing the little guy over for intellectual property rights. Thus, WMA DRM, right?
Yes, but the law says that the industry would have 18 months to set a standard. Microsoft couldn't own it or control it. All their DRM code would no longer be needed. What good is a standard that can't be 'innovated' by Microsoft?
What was said:
DA: " He released information that broke the DMCA while trying to keep the Linux kernel secure!!!"
defence:" the nature of OSS is to show all changes. the linux kernel does not contain any copyprotected material, however, because of a baddly writen law, making the operating system secure from intruders is now illegal....does that seem right?"
What the jury understands:
DA: This foreign computer programer told other programers how to break into computer systems.
Slashdot Defense: Blah blah non-American blah blah hacker blah blah bad government blah blah fix computer blah blah.
Jury: The defense made no sense. He must be guilty!
I would have to disagree that he is "letting them win." This appears to be one step of a brilliant plan to get the DMCA thrown out. This change-log can now be introduced in court as an example of the DMCA "chilling" free speech. The EFF should be collecting huge piles of examples to introduce as exhibits in DMCA cases.
Now another good step would be to find an employee of a large company (Microsoft would be nice) who writes about a bug or exploit in their company's product and have them arrested for publishing a circumvention device. Anyone wanna go through the XP Beta groups and try to find an exploit that wasn't fixed and was discovered by a Microsoft employee? If Microsoft or any major company turns their money and legal teams against this law, it will fall faster than a dot com stock.
Simply, real examples of the "chilling effect" need to be documented for the Dimitry trial and other trials that will happen. These will go much further in getting the law overturned than messages to our Congressmen.