Because/. has run articles about the exact same things that the LJ article writes about. And they've had interviews with the KDE developers. I don't think there's more to write about KDE now!:)
He didn't do the crack himself, and he tried to explain that to the Norwegian media. I don't think they actually believed him, or let that little piece of fact affect the case a lot (media wants scandals, and if they can't find them, they'll gladly construct them)...
Not having tried myself, I've heard the DVD players scramble the out signal so that you can't record a DVD movie into a VCR. So it may not be that simple:)
I reckon the petition is meant for Norwegians only. It won't stand stronger when signed by hundreds of foreigners unable to understand what they've signed!
Jon and his father have not been arrested. They've "simply" had charges placed on them. Even if Norway is probably the closest Europe comes to communism, we still don't arrest people without a fair trial (except for temporary periods, which often lasts for months or years.. humm... I'll probably be shot by government droids now:)
I just heard on Norwegian radio news that Jon will not be held economically responsible, which must be a great relief. As for the Norwegian CNN article, it doesn't hold much more new information. It does though, as most other Norwegian media today, "point out" that the main use of DeCSS is to copy DVD discs illegally (of course it never mentions the price of blank DVD disks, the price of burners, and the size of the actual movies).
I also completely understand it if "outsiders" get the idea that most Linux users are ruthless piracy freaks, after reading all the mindless articles around.
Jon is even on the front page of the largest (I think) norwegian tabloid paper today. Our "economic crime" police division (ØKOKRIM) shows it's pathetic servile attitude in doing anything that the mighty Americans tell them to. One can only hope that this tragic case opens the eyes of people to what a fight for people's rights it really is!
A norwegian Linux related page runs a petition for Jon, and it seems to be going really well. The wheels are in motion!:)
By all means, it's his time and he's free to spend it however he wants. I was merely pointing out an option, although that was probably not what he asked for.
If he goes through with the project, it's very commendable of him to work on a free version. My comment might have come out the wrong way, sorry.. Mondays. Hate'm.:)
There's already PHP - a crossplatform alternative to ASP. Why not help them instead of starting all over, using a Pascal-ish language (ugh)? Because of the money?
Minor development versions are released almost weekly... Is there anything special about 2.3.40, or will/. from now on announce every minor development release? Let's hope so, at least for the sake of consistancy and integrity (which would be a welcome new feature of slashdots;).
I seem to remember the Mac versions. Marathon1 was pretty cool for its time. Marathon2 was supposed to be very good also. With this and the Quake1 source we can probably expect more top notch open source game derivatives!
If you had the guts to register for a/. account, you could easily have filtered out all topics but Linux. But I'm sure you're aware of that and just want something to whine about.
While The Matrix has some interesting philosophical ideas, there are a whole bunch of other novels and movies that examine the same ideas, and more effectively IMHO.
Existenz comes to mind, but I guess that movie isn't commercial enough:)
Coupled with a decent GTK Aqua theme, this could look really good... Although I wouldn't be sure which of the little coloured balls were close, minimize and maximize;)
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Because /. has run articles about the exact same things that the LJ article writes about. And they've had interviews with the KDE developers. I don't think there's more to write about KDE now! :)
He didn't do the crack himself, and he tried to explain that to the Norwegian media. I don't think they actually believed him, or let that little piece of fact affect the case a lot (media wants scandals, and if they can't find them, they'll gladly construct them)...
In Norway, you can be held responsible for criminal acts from the age of 15.
Not having tried myself, I've heard the DVD players scramble the out signal so that you can't record a DVD movie into a VCR. So it may not be that simple :)
I reckon the petition is meant for Norwegians only. It won't stand stronger when signed by hundreds of foreigners unable to understand what they've signed!
And the difference between "arrest" and "imprisonment" being..? Jon is walking around freely today, afaik. He's not locked up - he's not arrested :)
Why am I suddenly reminded of the movie "Hackers"? ;)
:D
"Hack the planeeeet!!"
CNet: Court blocks online publishing of DVD decryption tool... yes.. a truly sad day.
Jon and his father have not been arrested. They've "simply" had charges placed on them. Even if Norway is probably the closest Europe comes to communism, we still don't arrest people without a fair trial (except for temporary periods, which often lasts for months or years.. humm... I'll probably be shot by government droids now :)
I just heard on Norwegian radio news that Jon will not be held economically responsible, which must be a great relief. As for the Norwegian CNN article, it doesn't hold much more new information. It does though, as most other Norwegian media today, "point out" that the main use of DeCSS is to copy DVD discs illegally (of course it never mentions the price of blank DVD disks, the price of burners, and the size of the actual movies).
:)
I also completely understand it if "outsiders" get the idea that most Linux users are ruthless piracy freaks, after reading all the mindless articles around.
Jon is even on the front page of the largest (I think) norwegian tabloid paper today. Our "economic crime" police division (ØKOKRIM) shows it's pathetic servile attitude in doing anything that the mighty Americans tell them to. One can only hope that this tragic case opens the eyes of people to what a fight for people's rights it really is!
A norwegian Linux related page runs a petition for Jon, and it seems to be going really well. The wheels are in motion!
By all means, it's his time and he's free to spend it however he wants. I was merely pointing out an option, although that was probably not what he asked for.
:)
If he goes through with the project, it's very commendable of him to work on a free version. My comment might have come out the wrong way, sorry.. Mondays. Hate'm.
There's already PHP - a crossplatform alternative to ASP. Why not help them instead of starting all over, using a Pascal-ish language (ugh)? Because of the money?
Minor development versions are released almost weekly... Is there anything special about 2.3.40, or will /. from now on announce every minor development release? Let's hope so, at least for the sake of consistancy and integrity (which would be a welcome new feature of slashdots ;).
The checklist is provided in the form of a self-extracting Zip file. Just save it to disk and run it to extract the HTML file it contains.
Bahaha!
I think that's pretty obvious when they don't open source the OS! :)
cool stuff.
Any, supposedly. That's part of why it's supposed to be so cool :)
Download it here!
Great, now it's posted on /., now I'll never get through to the broadcast... I'd been looking forward to this all day... *sigh*
I seem to remember the Mac versions. Marathon1 was pretty cool for its time. Marathon2 was supposed to be very good also. With this and the Quake1 source we can probably expect more top notch open source game derivatives!
If you had the guts to register for a /. account, you could easily have filtered out all topics but Linux. But I'm sure you're aware of that and just want something to whine about.
What part of that post was funny?
Existenz comes to mind, but I guess that movie isn't commercial enough :)
That only proves the matrix may be running a Win2K beta! ;)
Coupled with a decent GTK Aqua theme, this could look really good... Although I wouldn't be sure which of the little coloured balls were close, minimize and maximize ;)