From the article on yahoo -
"Sklyarov, 26, spent 21 days in prison before being freed on bail amid noisy protests by advocates of free speech and other supporters. He pleaded not guilty." (my emphasis)
I wasn't aware that the U.S needed any advocates of free speech.
For $30 a month, I get guaranteed 3mbps download (it's never dropped below 4, though), and guaranteed 1mbps upload. This is on cable mind you - the service is Optimum Online (optonline.net), and I believe it's available in New York and Connecticut. I love downloading RedHat iso's in 6 minutes.
We've managed to put a recognizable linux on those IPAQs - I'm sure putting it on a machine that was meant to run it from the beginning wouldn't be hard at all. Just hope they open-source their kernel mods.
I see the possibility of a device that plugs into your soundcard speaker-out port and records the song onto its own internal hard drive, or flash memory, or whatever.
The distro provides you with package management tools, there's only one database (because all these updaters use the package managers to list the installed software and install new things. Perl can be installed at install time, and GNOME is installed with Helix's very nice updater (why isn't it graphical for debian, though?).
I use napster myself, very often in fact, and when all this copy protection stuff started happening was the first time I realized that, for most purposes, napster is illegal. The RIAA is nuts to be worried about it, but don't they have a right to go after people who are stealing their music? Personally, I don't buy CD's anymore because I can find everything I want on napster. The music industry lost about $120 there, and I'm just one person who doesn't like music all that much anyway. Napster was nice while it lasted, but now that it seems like its gone we'll have to start acquiring music legally again.
I think the real thing we have to be worried about is copy protection on hard drives - what is the status of that, anyway?
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From the article on yahoo -
"Sklyarov, 26, spent 21 days in prison before being freed on bail amid noisy protests by advocates of free speech and other supporters. He pleaded not guilty." (my emphasis)
I wasn't aware that the U.S needed any advocates of free speech.
I could be wrong, but I think that the first line of 0.01 was written on August 25, 1991 and released September 17th.
For $30 a month, I get guaranteed 3mbps download (it's never dropped below 4, though), and guaranteed 1mbps upload. This is on cable mind you - the service is Optimum Online (optonline.net), and I believe it's available in New York and Connecticut. I love downloading RedHat iso's in 6 minutes.
We've managed to put a recognizable linux on those IPAQs - I'm sure putting it on a machine that was meant to run it from the beginning wouldn't be hard at all. Just hope they open-source their kernel mods.
I see the possibility of a device that plugs into your soundcard speaker-out port and records the song onto its own internal hard drive, or flash memory, or whatever.
The distro provides you with package management tools, there's only one database (because all these updaters use the package managers to list the installed software and install new things. Perl can be installed at install time, and GNOME is installed with Helix's very nice updater (why isn't it graphical for debian, though?).
I use napster myself, very often in fact, and when all this copy protection stuff started happening was the first time I realized that, for most purposes, napster is illegal. The RIAA is nuts to be worried about it, but don't they have a right to go after people who are stealing their music? Personally, I don't buy CD's anymore because I can find everything I want on napster. The music industry lost about $120 there, and I'm just one person who doesn't like music all that much anyway. Napster was nice while it lasted, but now that it seems like its gone we'll have to start acquiring music legally again.
I think the real thing we have to be worried about is copy protection on hard drives - what is the status of that, anyway?