I hand out free copies of DVD movies everywhere I can to as many people as I can, along with a 2600 flier about how bad the DMCA is.
Do you do it publicly and openly? Or do you hide behind nicknames when you do it? If you're doing it while attempting to remain free of repercussions, that's not civil disobedience, it's simply petty theft. Civil disobedience is standing up and saying, "I believe this is wrong, and I'm not going to obey it. You'll have to keep arresting me until the law is changed." What you claim to do is a disgrace to all those who practice true civil disobedience.
But that's okay, I realize now that you're a troll. Trolling to one story a day is one thing, but right after replying to you in the multi-player game thread I see this post, and it made me check your posting history. Something I recommend everyone do before any significant replies.
I think this is because they don't understand that they're thinking inside the box. A computer game is a construct; a player is someone attempting to defeat that construct.
You're the one who seems to be lacking a great deal of understanding, as well as maturity. People play games because they want to think "inside the box." They set up that situation to test their abilities at a certain task. The real world is what's "outside the box," where almost anything goes. I'm sorry you can't bring your super-duper-ultra-l33t Quake bot to McDonald's to flip burgers for you so you can stay home working on new ways to DDoS people trying to play a game and otherwise bring your miserable anti-social tendencies into everyone's face. If you think that the ability to write an undetectable cheatbot makes you akin to some sort of fictional movie character, or a God, or someone who controls the Universe, all things you've said, you've got some sort sort of delusional disorder. You're one thing: an immature, snotty little punk who, if you were one tenth as good as you think you are, would be the one creating those games, working with the developers whose gift to the players you destroy, and earning the adulation of those players you sneer at. But you're not. You're sitting at home, writing your little bots and developing a god complex simply because you're unable to accept your own personal failings and blame the world for what's wrong with your life so you seek to bring it down to your own level. It's the only way to feel good about yourself. Congratulations on your contribution to humankind.
by wiredog No, it's thousandths.;) by b0r0din Tenths of a penny.
Wirdeog, meet b0r0din. B0r0din, wiredog. After you two are done figuring it out maybe you can compromise on 23 hundredths of a penny. You know, the actual figure.
They could take your work and sell it under their own copyright.
Umm, no. You don't sign away your copyright when you host something on Sourceforge. In many cases you don't even have the authority to do so if you wanted to. Sourceforge has the right to do whatever they want with the copy of data on their server, they can delete it and they can delete your account, but they don't own the data you stored there.
But that's okay. "The sky is falling!" is catchier.
I am not a lawyer, but I get touchy when people mention the DMCA. Maybe someone would like to clarify what this means.
It means SourceForge won't break the law. The DMCA now requires everyone hosting data to do this, SourceForge is just spelling it out more explicitly than most.
Okay, I admit it, you got me in the beginning. But when you said "Macrovision is an unbreakable encryption system that keeps pirates from copying DVDs" you made me laugh, but I figured you just were a bit uninformed. But when you said "Most bootleg players run an embedded unix operating system" you gave it away entirely. It don't know if you were trolling, or just going for satirical, but damn, that was pretty funny.
All efforts to halt drug contraband, illegal alien smuggling and terrorist infiltration is to be suspended. The biggest threat to EU today are unlicensed DVD players. Me must put a stop to this terrible instrument, and protect the children from the ravages of illegal region code hacking
Why does someone always bring this sort of thing up? Are you the sort of person who tells a police officer giving you a traffic ticket that he should be out solving murders rather than worrying about your broken taillight?
Customs Officials are responsible for screening everything that comes into the country. It's not a zero sum game, they don't have to let an opium shipment go by to impound a DVD player. They're inspecting that shipment of DVD players anyway. Impounding it is hardly an allocation of resources beyond extra warhouse workers to move and store them.
It's just you, but you probably didn't read the article anyway.
Philips has asked European Union Customs Authorities to impound unlicensed DVD-Video/ROM players and DVD-Video/ROM discs under the EU Council Regulation that covers goods that infringe patents.
Are you familiar with the Regulation? Did you bother to look it up?
Here it is: Bulletin EU 1/2-1999
No, it's almost entirely wrong. The most common configuration for a digital camera uses what's known as a Bayer filter pattern for discerning color. Each pixel will only sense red, green, or blue (there are as many green as there are red and blue combined), and it will use neighboring pixels to extrapolate the true color. While it's true that some of the pixels are lost from the stated resolution (stated pixels actually refers to photosites), it's only about 200,000 in a 2mp CCD.
Well, strangely, we have one convenience store that still does, though 7-11 dropped them at least 10 years ago. That's not really relevant though. What's relevant is how many of these places do you see selling videos? Grocery stores usually have at least a 4ft section, even drug/convenience stores, if they don't have a small section, usually have at least a boxed display of the latest Disney movie or one of those cheap DVD/VHS "family collections."
You won't ever see these degradable discs next to the magazine rack at the local 7-11.
Sure you will. Disposable DVDs will basically be magazines. They'll cost a couple dollars wholesale, have a high turnover, and be a popular impulse buy. No old inventory wasting away on shelves, and no high costs for initial stock. Just like magazines.
Okay, then why didn't you come forward when there was an opportunity? The Civil Rights Commission held a completely open hearing on Jan 15, 2001, and requested people to testify. Three people came forward, all of whom were allowed to vote at the time. One person was in a situation exactly as you describe, she was removed from the rolls accidently. One call to the voting supervisor straightened it out and she voted. Sure, there were plenty of people removed mistakenly, but there are no reports that any of those people were unable to get their problem resolved satisfactorily.
You had your opportunity to come forward publically. You didn't do it, so apparently it wasn't all that important to you, though you claimed to spend weeks writing letters. Maybe you should have been reading those newspapers you were writing to so you would have noticed the hearings on the front page of every paper.
Except for the tens of thousands of mostly black, mostly Democrat voters who were disenfranchised prior to the election simply because they had the misfortune of sharing a last name with a convicted felon.
Oh, please. Name one. The election was November 7th, 2000. Fifteen months ago yesterday. In that time, not a single person has come forward to say that they, personally, were turned away from the polls. Two people have said that they saw police cars near the polling area and felt "intimidated" so they kept driving. Yet not a single person has claimed they showed up to vote and was refused. Surely, out of "tens of thousands of black voters" you could find a single one who was turned away?
Hence, I won't be compelled to rent another on impulse.
Of course you will. How did you get the first one? The idea is not to have specific stores for them anymore, but to make them ubiquitous. You'll see them every time you go grocery shopping, or to Wal-Mart, or even fill up your gas tank.
Are you prepared to give legal advice, for free, in this forum? As a lawyer you must be aware of the liability you would be taking on by doing that. Oh, you're not willing then? Then you might as well not be a lawyer. Point stands.
Similar to the two person Star Wars game, it's mostly a rail flyer. There was also at least one arcade first person shooter I played where you were in an AA emplacement.
11) 1st person Adventure - player moves through rooms (25 cents each) and encounters situations and characters in each
Ouch. 25 cents each room?
13) 1st person Cockroach - like wack-a-mole, but using feet (my personal favorite!)
I played a game called Spider Stomp at an arcade in Baltimore, MD that's exactly like this. A platform with 6 buttons on the floor that would light up at random for you to stomp on, increasing in speed and awkward patterns as the game progressed. Also, as someone pointed out, much like Dance Dance Revolution.
Let's face it, the worst thing about those robot shows is the combat. It's never particularly destructive, and it's not very exciting to watch. The announcers scream like it's a gladatorial fight to the death, but in reality there's a little chipped paint and maybe some smoke from a burned out motor. Oh, and sometimes things fall off. The safety rules prevent anything really cool from happening. This is why the best of the robot shows is Robotica, they seem to understand that obstacles and problem solving are the true tests of engineering prowess, though that duel at the end is the worst part of the show. With this new show the combat will probably be even worse. It seems to involve human piloting, so the safety regs will be pretty strict. No more fun there. Seems like it'll be little more than demolition derby with custom cars. And what's with the unlimited budget? Everyone should be limited to the cash they give you and no more. Building it at home is pretty boring too. The design and build process, especially under a tight deadline with ad hoc equipment, is the most interesting part. Of course, since you're allowed effectively unlimited time and money, you can just buy a victory once the ideal design has been established. It's not like there's a dearth or research on fighting vehicles.
The problem solving with limited time and equipment of Junkyard Wars is what makes it one of the best shows out there. Sure, I suppose you could say Battlebots is "problem solving," but it's hardly a new and unique problem with new approaches. And you can build your bot at home with just about anything you want. At this point the effectiveness of the various robot designs have pretty much been settled and it's down to the small differences. Did you know there's even at least one book on breaking into the robot competition business? Yeah, business. It's becoming about as exciting as NASCAR. What it comes down to is Battlebots is about form, Junkyard Wars is about function. To put it in Slashdot terms, Battlebots is for MCSEs and Junkyard Wars is for Linux geeks.
There were recently several stories (not on/.) about various companies and their experiences in switching over to Windows XP. Does this mean that Windows has not really gained acceptance?
Yes. That's exactly what it means. Companies have not accepted XP yet, as most are still on NT or 2000. A large company switching to XP is newsworthy, other companies are interested in their experiences to help in evaluating it for their own purposes. An XP switch is newsworthy for almost exactly the same reason a Linux switch is.
Everyone get out there and buy a Philips product of some sort, doesn't matter what, it's just important you tell Philips what you did and why. Showing a tangible result will only encourage them in the future. Need some ideas? The eXpanium is a sweet piece of hardware, especially the 503.
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I hand out free copies of DVD movies everywhere I can to as many people as I can, along with a 2600 flier about how bad the DMCA is.
Do you do it publicly and openly? Or do you hide behind nicknames when you do it? If you're doing it while attempting to remain free of repercussions, that's not civil disobedience, it's simply petty theft. Civil disobedience is standing up and saying, "I believe this is wrong, and I'm not going to obey it. You'll have to keep arresting me until the law is changed." What you claim to do is a disgrace to all those who practice true civil disobedience.
But that's okay, I realize now that you're a troll. Trolling to one story a day is one thing, but right after replying to you in the multi-player game thread I see this post, and it made me check your posting history. Something I recommend everyone do before any significant replies.
I think this is because they don't understand that they're thinking inside the box. A computer game is a construct; a player is someone attempting to defeat that construct.
You're the one who seems to be lacking a great deal of understanding, as well as maturity. People play games because they want to think "inside the box." They set up that situation to test their abilities at a certain task. The real world is what's "outside the box," where almost anything goes. I'm sorry you can't bring your super-duper-ultra-l33t Quake bot to McDonald's to flip burgers for you so you can stay home working on new ways to DDoS people trying to play a game and otherwise bring your miserable anti-social tendencies into everyone's face. If you think that the ability to write an undetectable cheatbot makes you akin to some sort of fictional movie character, or a God, or someone who controls the Universe, all things you've said, you've got some sort sort of delusional disorder. You're one thing: an immature, snotty little punk who, if you were one tenth as good as you think you are, would be the one creating those games, working with the developers whose gift to the players you destroy, and earning the adulation of those players you sneer at. But you're not. You're sitting at home, writing your little bots and developing a god complex simply because you're unable to accept your own personal failings and blame the world for what's wrong with your life so you seek to bring it down to your own level. It's the only way to feel good about yourself. Congratulations on your contribution to humankind.
But any spammer worth his TOSsing will simply salt the list with a known address or two he set up himself to check his spam run.
You have the job of making something interesting with next to no violence and sex. It's difficult
That's one of the saddest statements I've seen on Slashdot.
by wiredog ;)
No, it's thousandths.
by b0r0din
Tenths of a penny.
Wirdeog, meet b0r0din. B0r0din, wiredog. After you two are done figuring it out maybe you can compromise on 23 hundredths of a penny. You know, the actual figure.
They could take your work and sell it under their own copyright.
Umm, no. You don't sign away your copyright when you host something on Sourceforge. In many cases you don't even have the authority to do so if you wanted to. Sourceforge has the right to do whatever they want with the copy of data on their server, they can delete it and they can delete your account, but they don't own the data you stored there.
But that's okay. "The sky is falling!" is catchier.
I am not a lawyer, but I get touchy when people mention the DMCA. Maybe someone would like to clarify what this means.
It means SourceForge won't break the law. The DMCA now requires everyone hosting data to do this, SourceForge is just spelling it out more explicitly than most.
Okay, I admit it, you got me in the beginning. But when you said "Macrovision is an unbreakable encryption system that keeps pirates from copying DVDs" you made me laugh, but I figured you just were a bit uninformed. But when you said "Most bootleg players run an embedded unix operating system" you gave it away entirely. It don't know if you were trolling, or just going for satirical, but damn, that was pretty funny.
All efforts to halt drug contraband, illegal alien smuggling and terrorist infiltration is to be suspended. The biggest threat to EU today are unlicensed DVD players. Me must put a stop to this terrible instrument, and protect the children from the ravages of illegal region code hacking
Why does someone always bring this sort of thing up? Are you the sort of person who tells a police officer giving you a traffic ticket that he should be out solving murders rather than worrying about your broken taillight?
Customs Officials are responsible for screening everything that comes into the country. It's not a zero sum game, they don't have to let an opium shipment go by to impound a DVD player. They're inspecting that shipment of DVD players anyway. Impounding it is hardly an allocation of resources beyond extra warhouse workers to move and store them.
It's just you, but you probably didn't read the article anyway.
Are you familiar with the Regulation? Did you bother to look it up?
Here it is: Bulletin EU 1/2-1999
Without these devices, many will go back to using VCR's to make imperfect copies.
And others will go, in ever increasing amounts, to online forums such as Usenet or peer to peer filesharing to download their perfect digital copies.
That is exactly right.
No, it's almost entirely wrong. The most common configuration for a digital camera uses what's known as a Bayer filter pattern for discerning color. Each pixel will only sense red, green, or blue (there are as many green as there are red and blue combined), and it will use neighboring pixels to extrapolate the true color. While it's true that some of the pixels are lost from the stated resolution (stated pixels actually refers to photosites), it's only about 200,000 in a 2mp CCD.
How many of those places still rent videos?
Well, strangely, we have one convenience store that still does, though 7-11 dropped them at least 10 years ago. That's not really relevant though. What's relevant is how many of these places do you see selling videos? Grocery stores usually have at least a 4ft section, even drug/convenience stores, if they don't have a small section, usually have at least a boxed display of the latest Disney movie or one of those cheap DVD/VHS "family collections."
You won't ever see these degradable discs next to the magazine rack at the local 7-11.
Sure you will. Disposable DVDs will basically be magazines. They'll cost a couple dollars wholesale, have a high turnover, and be a popular impulse buy. No old inventory wasting away on shelves, and no high costs for initial stock. Just like magazines.
Okay, then why didn't you come forward when there was an opportunity? The Civil Rights Commission held a completely open hearing on Jan 15, 2001, and requested people to testify. Three people came forward, all of whom were allowed to vote at the time. One person was in a situation exactly as you describe, she was removed from the rolls accidently. One call to the voting supervisor straightened it out and she voted. Sure, there were plenty of people removed mistakenly, but there are no reports that any of those people were unable to get their problem resolved satisfactorily.
You had your opportunity to come forward publically. You didn't do it, so apparently it wasn't all that important to you, though you claimed to spend weeks writing letters. Maybe you should have been reading those newspapers you were writing to so you would have noticed the hearings on the front page of every paper.
Except for the tens of thousands of mostly black, mostly Democrat voters who were disenfranchised prior to the election simply because they had the misfortune of sharing a last name with a convicted felon.
Oh, please. Name one. The election was November 7th, 2000. Fifteen months ago yesterday. In that time, not a single person has come forward to say that they, personally, were turned away from the polls. Two people have said that they saw police cars near the polling area and felt "intimidated" so they kept driving. Yet not a single person has claimed they showed up to vote and was refused. Surely, out of "tens of thousands of black voters" you could find a single one who was turned away?
Voting by mobile phone text message is going to be trialled in the UK at the next election.
You're going to let teenage girls decide your next local elections?
Hence, I won't be compelled to rent another on impulse.
Of course you will. How did you get the first one? The idea is not to have specific stores for them anymore, but to make them ubiquitous. You'll see them every time you go grocery shopping, or to Wal-Mart, or even fill up your gas tank.
We are not lawyers.
I am
Are you prepared to give legal advice, for free, in this forum? As a lawyer you must be aware of the liability you would be taking on by doing that. Oh, you're not willing then? Then you might as well not be a lawyer. Point stands.
...I can't imagine a single TV show that I'd want to archive, let alone have a friend mail me.
152 channels of shit, and nothing to watch.
And with all this extra time cutting out TV gave you you chose to spend it trolling on Slashdot. Congratulations.
5) 1st person Space Invaders
Similar to the two person Star Wars game, it's mostly a rail flyer. There was also at least one arcade first person shooter I played where you were in an AA emplacement.
11) 1st person Adventure - player moves through rooms (25 cents each) and encounters situations and characters in each
Ouch. 25 cents each room?
13) 1st person Cockroach - like wack-a-mole, but using feet (my personal favorite!)
I played a game called Spider Stomp at an arcade in Baltimore, MD that's exactly like this. A platform with 6 buttons on the floor that would light up at random for you to stomp on, increasing in speed and awkward patterns as the game progressed. Also, as someone pointed out, much like Dance Dance Revolution.
Let's face it, the worst thing about those robot shows is the combat. It's never particularly destructive, and it's not very exciting to watch. The announcers scream like it's a gladatorial fight to the death, but in reality there's a little chipped paint and maybe some smoke from a burned out motor. Oh, and sometimes things fall off. The safety rules prevent anything really cool from happening. This is why the best of the robot shows is Robotica, they seem to understand that obstacles and problem solving are the true tests of engineering prowess, though that duel at the end is the worst part of the show. With this new show the combat will probably be even worse. It seems to involve human piloting, so the safety regs will be pretty strict. No more fun there. Seems like it'll be little more than demolition derby with custom cars. And what's with the unlimited budget? Everyone should be limited to the cash they give you and no more. Building it at home is pretty boring too. The design and build process, especially under a tight deadline with ad hoc equipment, is the most interesting part. Of course, since you're allowed effectively unlimited time and money, you can just buy a victory once the ideal design has been established. It's not like there's a dearth or research on fighting vehicles.
The problem solving with limited time and equipment of Junkyard Wars is what makes it one of the best shows out there. Sure, I suppose you could say Battlebots is "problem solving," but it's hardly a new and unique problem with new approaches. And you can build your bot at home with just about anything you want. At this point the effectiveness of the various robot designs have pretty much been settled and it's down to the small differences. Did you know there's even at least one book on breaking into the robot competition business? Yeah, business. It's becoming about as exciting as NASCAR. What it comes down to is Battlebots is about form, Junkyard Wars is about function. To put it in Slashdot terms, Battlebots is for MCSEs and Junkyard Wars is for Linux geeks.
There were recently several stories (not on /.) about various companies and their experiences in switching over to Windows XP. Does this mean that Windows has not really gained acceptance?
Yes. That's exactly what it means. Companies have not accepted XP yet, as most are still on NT or 2000. A large company switching to XP is newsworthy, other companies are interested in their experiences to help in evaluating it for their own purposes. An XP switch is newsworthy for almost exactly the same reason a Linux switch is.
This is the basis of my favourite party trick - booting a Linux system without a kernel.
I'll bet that just kills with the ladies.
Everyone get out there and buy a Philips product of some sort, doesn't matter what, it's just important you tell Philips what you did and why. Showing a tangible result will only encourage them in the future.
Need some ideas? The eXpanium is a sweet piece of hardware, especially the 503.
For those non-English speakers, "IMHO" means "In My Honest Opinion".
Non-English speakers are probably going to have more trouble with the rest of the words in that sentence...not to mention your explanation.