"Frodo Solo" was not the original strategy. That was a result of what happened along the way - losing Gandalf in Moria, Boromir's attempt to take the Ring by force. It was Frodo himself who decided to try and do it on his own, though Sam foiled that part of the plan at least. Aragorn would have wanted to go with him as well, but he turned out to be needed in Gondor much more to rally the troops.
Besides, Frodo Solo actually failed in the end, and it was only his mad insistence on showing Gollum mercy that saved him (and the West) from Sauron's complete victory.
Did the arresting officers say or do anything that blatantly hinted that they were doing this because of pressure from the MPAA or the United States government? What kinds of questions did they ask during the interrogation? Were they looking for other...
The MPAA filed charges and the police was forced to investigate. There was a debate program on TV [ Redaksjon 21 ] where judging from the district attorney's comments, she meant that there was no doubt that I was guilty [ and this was before they had actually started investigating ]. She also compared me with an old case where a guy had sold "pirate-cards" for decoding paytv channels, and had earned tens of thousands of dollars. Luckily the biggest inet/computer guru [ Gisle Hannemyhr ] was there too, and the district attorney and the MPAA's lawyer were left biting the dust. Just one thing: if the police actually had any competence, they wouldn't have brought charges against me, because they would have known that they're plain lies. During the interrogation they asked all kinds of questions. Every detail, no matter if it was important or not, was to be included. IMHO, the only reason they seised my computers was in order to try to track down the two other members of MoRE
That's because the "tolerated" players paid the (non-profit?) DVD consortium for that honor. In some ways, this whole mess is the first test of the ability of the entrenched corporate system to recognize the open source/free software development model as a legitimate enterprise that they will allow to coexist with their proprietary economic model.
I had a roommate in college who suffered from (I believe) bipolar disorder or something similar. If he stopped taking his medication (which happened a little too frequently), he would be unable to sleep for long periods of time. He went through one really bad spell where I came back from the newspaper office and found him sitting on the edge of his bed in his underwear asking me why he was in Hell. Best way I could think to describe what he was going through was "waking dreams". His brain was processing all this submerged stuff that's usually dealt with when we dream. He ended up in the hospital for a few days so he could get his body back in balance. Not fun for him, or for me.
Except that the request usually has to be made because of practical considerations - the library doesn't have the shelf space to carry every book, so some books don't get chosen. Not necessarily due to some misguided community activist's decision that they didn't want some book in the library. The Internet doesn't have these sorts of practical considerations to affect content availability. So any decision to filter will be based on someone's moral judgment of that content. If someone can come up with a filter that does a better job of *only* blocking porn (definition, please!), without preventing people from doing research on the blue-footed boobies on the Galapagos Islands, then I would support its use. But the filtering movement is currently made up of people who want to block more than just porn. They want to block "bad" ideas and "bad" culture as well, and even as a Christian myself, I find that sort of a priori restraint to be undesirable.
If those kids can't bother to get off their asses and get out into their communities to vote, why should they even bother being involved in the political process at all?
Check out this page for guidelines for building your own. John Carcich, a regular on the Alt-CPU mailing list, is a retired engineer who's taken up computing as a hobby to supplement his windsurfing. He noted some problems with Tom Pabst's original notes on the Athlon circuitry and has been refining the design found on this page. He decided to make everything available to anyone who wants to make their own for fun or for profit.
And if your grape masher allowed the vineyard next door to mix their table grapes in with your Zinfandel grapes, you'd be pretty pissed off, wouldn't you?
Perhaps some sysadmins do get a little possessive of their machines, but I expect there are some that do actually have some ownership in the equipment. Be that as it may, it is part of their job to ensure that the network resources belonging to their employer (someone does actually own the network, you know) are not abused. Customers of ISP A, B and C are sick and tired of the spam originating from ISP D. To whom are ISPs A, B and C beholden? To their own customers or the customers of ISP D?
The original article was 100 percent DVD CCA spin. It read like it was a reworked press release with that little reference and link to their old DMCA story thrown in to make it look like a real news story. There was nothing from the EFF, no mention of a Linux DVD player, nothing. I have to give the department editor credit for changing the article to the degree he did.
I think this would be more akin to the concept of reverse engineering a word processor to replicate *features* of the program without actually duplicating the program's code (it's not about "porting" software). Non-MS office suites provide filters to open and save MS file formats. Because I can use WordPerfect or StarOffice to read and write MS Word files does not make those programs "ports" of MS Office.
News.com has a particularly poor story here. I sent this e-mail to the writer of the story, the department editor and the editor-in-chief:
I have to say I'm extremely disappointed in the one-sided, prejudicial nature of the story run on News.com today, "Coalition sues to bar distribution of DVD cracking tool" Did you do any research aside from ripping from the DVD CCA's materials? Ordinarily I respect your site as a source of reliable news, but the treatment of this story makes me doubt your credibility as an unbiased source of information.
I would point out particularly the paragraph where you state:
"The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to stop the sites from providing access to DeCSS, which the lawsuit alleges relies on proprietary information extracted from the DVD Content Scrambling System. Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which passed last October, it is a crime to create, sell or distribute technology that could be used to break copyright-protection devices."
Note, however, that in your own story on the DMCA linked to in the paragraph above, it is stated that:
"The law does permit cracking copyright protection devices in order to conduct encryption research, for the purpose of product interoperability, and to test computer security systems."
Is News.com aware that the software at issue is claimed to be the result of a reverse-engineering project to allow DVD players to be developed for the Linux operating system, which falls under "the purpose of product interoperbility", and not, as your story wonderfully implies, for the wholesale piracy of DVDs? Don't you think that such a claim warrants coverage in what is claimed to be a "news" story, and not just the wholesale copying of a press release from the DVD CCA?
Please try to at least make an attempt to get the other side of the story: http://eff.org/effector/HTML/effect12.04.html#ma in
Sincerely,
Michael Knepher
I got an auto-respond e-mail from the writer saying she was on vacation, but the department editor e-mailed me a message saying, "We're updating the story." So don't be shy about contacting news outlets and pointing them to resources like the EFF statement. Be reasonably polite and stick to the point.
I don't think he meant that ESR has Marxist tendencies, but rather that ESR, like Marx (and many capitalists), reduces everything to economics. He's not talking politics but philosophy.
It's not much different now than when the PII came out, the K6-2 underperformed and he pretty much declared AMD to be in the dumper, all hail to Intel, etc.
Getting a bit far afield here, but... You'd also have to eliminate anyone who might: murder, lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery or fornication, fail to honor their parents, get drunk, worship idols, covet their neighbor's wife or donkey, leave the toilet seat up, drink straight from the milk carton, double dip, and on and on and on...
Sorry, but did you read the article? The ruling does not protect domain squatters. In fact, according to the article, the test that the appeals court used was that Avery Dennison's trademarks weren't "famous" enough (as separate names - if someone registered averydennison.net, I suspect the result would have been different) for them to assert a trademark conflict in a case where the domains at issue had been registered *in good faith* for purposes wholly unrelated to Avery Dennison's business. This means that companies like Disney, Coca Cola, Ford or (arguably) Intel, who have a global media presence would very likely pass the "famous mark" test and so would be able to force people who might have registered disney.com or intel.com to give up the domains. Of course, those companies have owned those domains for some time now, so it's kind of a moot point. This ruling also is not likely to conflict with the anti-cybersquatting bill in Congress, from what I understand of the bill.
Try Best Buy, if you have one in your area. In my neighborhood, $15.99 is usually the highest price on most non-sale CDs, and you can find a lot for less than that. Tower used to have great prices, but they went the way of Sam Goody a year or two ago.
A. Every language is a kludge, and the perceived "difficulty" of learning a language is a relative standard that differs from person to person.
B. I have no idea. Do they derive the same amusement from the Academy as non-French speakers? But don't worry, we here in the States have our own self-appointed watchdogs for the language, as well as a bunch of misguided "English-only" activists.
C. English speakers are just trying to get revenge for the "corruption" of English after the Norman Conquest.;o)
Conclusion: I think he was mostly joking, but one never knows.;o)
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According to the EETimes story last week, API and another company are each developing motherboards (up to eight-way SMP) that will support either CPU. API also announced its UP1000 motherboard today as a low-cost Alpha solution - which will use AMD's Irongate chipset.
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... by the end of the year? Does that sound like a threat to the Xeon?
I think they've got a mess of other priorities ahead of multi-user support. If you need a multi-user OS, then BeOS is not currently an option for you. Pick the right tool for the job, and don't complain that your jigsaw is too unwieldy to hammer nails with.
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"Frodo Solo" was not the original strategy. That was a result of what happened along the way - losing Gandalf in Moria, Boromir's attempt to take the Ring by force. It was Frodo himself who decided to try and do it on his own, though Sam foiled that part of the plan at least. Aragorn would have wanted to go with him as well, but he turned out to be needed in Gondor much more to rally the troops.
Besides, Frodo Solo actually failed in the end, and it was only his mad insistence on showing Gollum mercy that saved him (and the West) from Sauron's complete victory.
From the /. interview with Jens Johansen:
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Did the arresting officers say or do anything that blatantly hinted that they were doing this because of pressure from the MPAA or the United States government? What kinds of questions did they ask during the interrogation? Were they looking for other
The MPAA filed charges and the police was forced to investigate. There was a debate program on TV [ Redaksjon 21 ] where judging from the district attorney's comments, she meant that there was no doubt that I was guilty [ and this was before they had actually started investigating ]. She also compared me with an old case where a guy had sold "pirate-cards" for decoding paytv channels, and had earned tens of thousands of dollars. Luckily the biggest inet/computer guru [ Gisle Hannemyhr ] was there too, and the district attorney and the MPAA's lawyer were left biting the dust. Just one thing: if the police actually had any competence, they wouldn't have brought charges against me, because they would have known that they're plain lies. During the interrogation they asked all kinds of questions. Every detail, no matter if it was important or not, was to be included. IMHO, the only reason they seised my computers was in order to try to track down the two other members of MoRE
That's because the "tolerated" players paid the (non-profit?) DVD consortium for that honor. In some ways, this whole mess is the first test of the ability of the entrenched corporate system to recognize the open source/free software development model as a legitimate enterprise that they will allow to coexist with their proprietary economic model.
I had a roommate in college who suffered from (I believe) bipolar disorder or something similar. If he stopped taking his medication (which happened a little too frequently), he would be unable to sleep for long periods of time. He went through one really bad spell where I came back from the newspaper office and found him sitting on the edge of his bed in his underwear asking me why he was in Hell. Best way I could think to describe what he was going through was "waking dreams". His brain was processing all this submerged stuff that's usually dealt with when we dream. He ended up in the hospital for a few days so he could get his body back in balance. Not fun for him, or for me.
Except that the request usually has to be made because of practical considerations - the library doesn't have the shelf space to carry every book, so some books don't get chosen. Not necessarily due to some misguided community activist's decision that they didn't want some book in the library. The Internet doesn't have these sorts of practical considerations to affect content availability. So any decision to filter will be based on someone's moral judgment of that content. If someone can come up with a filter that does a better job of *only* blocking porn (definition, please!), without preventing people from doing research on the blue-footed boobies on the Galapagos Islands, then I would support its use. But the filtering movement is currently made up of people who want to block more than just porn. They want to block "bad" ideas and "bad" culture as well, and even as a Christian myself, I find that sort of a priori restraint to be undesirable.
Except that most users *aren't* Hercules...
If those kids can't bother to get off their asses and get out into their communities to vote, why should they even bother being involved in the political process at all?
Check out this page for guidelines for building your own. John Carcich, a regular on the Alt-CPU mailing list, is a retired engineer who's taken up computing as a hobby to supplement his windsurfing. He noted some problems with Tom Pabst's original notes on the Athlon circuitry and has been refining the design found on this page. He decided to make everything available to anyone who wants to make their own for fun or for profit.
And if your grape masher allowed the vineyard next door to mix their table grapes in with your Zinfandel grapes, you'd be pretty pissed off, wouldn't you?
Perhaps some sysadmins do get a little possessive of their machines, but I expect there are some that do actually have some ownership in the equipment. Be that as it may, it is part of their job to ensure that the network resources belonging to their employer (someone does actually own the network, you know) are not abused. Customers of ISP A, B and C are sick and tired of the spam originating from ISP D. To whom are ISPs A, B and C beholden? To their own customers or the customers of ISP D?
The original article was 100 percent DVD CCA spin. It read like it was a reworked press release with that little reference and link to their old DMCA story thrown in to make it look like a real news story. There was nothing from the EFF, no mention of a Linux DVD player, nothing. I have to give the department editor credit for changing the article to the degree he did.
I think this would be more akin to the concept of reverse engineering a word processor to replicate *features* of the program without actually duplicating the program's code (it's not about "porting" software). Non-MS office suites provide filters to open and save MS file formats. Because I can use WordPerfect or StarOffice to read and write MS Word files does not make those programs "ports" of MS Office.
News.com has a particularly poor story here. I sent this e-mail to the writer of the story, the department editor and the editor-in-chief:
I have to say I'm extremely disappointed in the one-sided, prejudicial nature of the story run on News.com today, "Coalition sues to bar distribution of DVD cracking tool" Did you do any research aside from ripping from the DVD CCA's materials? Ordinarily I respect your site as a source of reliable news, but the treatment of this story makes me doubt your credibility as an unbiased source of information.
I would point out particularly the paragraph where you state:
"The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to stop the sites from providing access to DeCSS, which the lawsuit alleges relies on proprietary information extracted from the DVD Content Scrambling System. Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which passed last October, it is a crime to create, sell or distribute technology that could be used to break copyright-protection devices."
Note, however, that in your own story on the DMCA linked to in the paragraph above, it is stated that:
"The law does permit cracking copyright protection devices in order to conduct encryption research, for the purpose of product interoperability, and to test computer security systems."
Is News.com aware that the software at issue is claimed to be the result of a reverse-engineering project to allow DVD players to be developed for the Linux operating system, which falls under "the purpose of product interoperbility", and not, as your story wonderfully implies, for the wholesale piracy of DVDs? Don't you think that such a claim warrants coverage in what is claimed to be a "news" story, and not just the wholesale copying of a press release from the DVD CCA?
Please try to at least make an attempt to get the other side of the story:a in
http://eff.org/effector/HTML/effect12.04.html#m
Sincerely,
Michael Knepher
I got an auto-respond e-mail from the writer saying she was on vacation, but the department editor e-mailed me a message saying, "We're updating the story." So don't be shy about contacting news outlets and pointing them to resources like the EFF statement. Be reasonably polite and stick to the point.
Are you sure that's not due to the secret agencies trying to steam open the mail servers and read the mail? ;o)
I don't think he meant that ESR has Marxist tendencies, but rather that ESR, like Marx (and many capitalists), reduces everything to economics. He's not talking politics but philosophy.
It's not much different now than when the PII came out, the K6-2 underperformed and he pretty much declared AMD to be in the dumper, all hail to Intel, etc.
Getting a bit far afield here, but...
You'd also have to eliminate anyone who might: murder, lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery or fornication, fail to honor their parents, get drunk, worship idols, covet their neighbor's wife or donkey, leave the toilet seat up, drink straight from the milk carton, double dip, and on and on and on...
So your definition of the American Dream is "shaft your friends in business, and screw their wives after work"?
Sorry, but did you read the article? The ruling does not protect domain squatters. In fact, according to the article, the test that the appeals court used was that Avery Dennison's trademarks weren't "famous" enough (as separate names - if someone registered averydennison.net, I suspect the result would have been different) for them to assert a trademark conflict in a case where the domains at issue had been registered *in good faith* for purposes wholly unrelated to Avery Dennison's business. This means that companies like Disney, Coca Cola, Ford or (arguably) Intel, who have a global media presence would very likely pass the "famous mark" test and so would be able to force people who might have registered disney.com or intel.com to give up the domains. Of course, those companies have owned those domains for some time now, so it's kind of a moot point. This ruling also is not likely to conflict with the anti-cybersquatting bill in Congress, from what I understand of the bill.
Anti-MS people who are jealous of Bill and his millions.
And pro-MS people who think Bill deserves all the money they've given him.
A bigger box of Klinux?
Try Best Buy, if you have one in your area. In my neighborhood, $15.99 is usually the highest price on most non-sale CDs, and you can find a lot for less than that. Tower used to have great prices, but they went the way of Sam Goody a year or two ago.
A. Every language is a kludge, and the perceived "difficulty" of learning a language is a relative standard that differs from person to person.
;o)
;o)
B. I have no idea. Do they derive the same amusement from the Academy as non-French speakers? But don't worry, we here in the States have our own self-appointed watchdogs for the language, as well as a bunch of misguided "English-only" activists.
C. English speakers are just trying to get revenge for the "corruption" of English after the Norman Conquest.
Conclusion: I think he was mostly joking, but one never knows.
According to the EETimes story last week, API and another company are each developing motherboards (up to eight-way SMP) that will support either CPU. API also announced its UP1000 motherboard today as a low-cost Alpha solution - which will use AMD's Irongate chipset.
... by the end of the year? Does that sound like a threat to the Xeon?
I think they've got a mess of other priorities ahead of multi-user support. If you need a multi-user OS, then BeOS is not currently an option for you. Pick the right tool for the job, and don't complain that your jigsaw is too unwieldy to hammer nails with.