Seems all of you saw "DMCA" and decided to rant rather than reading the decision. The issue here is location of the maint. code. If the code was not in the library but rather a STK tech's notebook would you even be having this conversation? This is no different than downloading XP from the net and using a forged product key to use the software. The decision does not bar them from servicing STK products but from using tools that STK developed for their own techs. The only party licensed to use the maint. code was STK, not the owner of the library, not anyone else.
Yeah, the DMCA sucks in many ways but STK is not using the it immorally.
The SqueezeBox actually gets a PCM stream from the server. The actual decoding is done on the server. Adding another format is simply a matter of adding a module.
I was told by ATT that the cost for doing this was *not* cheap, along the lines of $200 at both ends!! Has anyone else heard of what the cost for portability is?
I had a similar problem with my setup when I first installed it. I would get strengths below 50% and frequent drop offs. The first thing I did was change the channel the gear was using and my probems went away.
Please, The market that this card is aimed at could care less that they lose a slot. Reason 1 being that the AGP adjacent slot normally shares and IRQ with the video card. Reason 2 is the target market is also obsessed about cooling, having a card in that slot reduces circulation. Look at the Abit GF4 Ti 4200 with the OTES, that's a production card. And the last reason being that the trend towards onboard peripherals has increased. Onboard audio has gotten better and LAN/USB 2.0/1394/RAID is onboard now on many high-end boards. Oh, and the people who buy those high-end boards will be the ones buying the GF FX. Hell, with all of that onboard and there being 5 or 6 pci slots, you really think that burning one slot is gonna keep someone from buying the GF FX? I don't have a PCI card in the AGP-adjacent slot, don't use the onboard sound and have a PCI nic. I still have 2 PCI slots left.
I have a friend who's mother has a pool. Around the lip of the pool is a solid "band" that changes color. Its almost like a multi-color indiglo. Maybe ask a pool shop?
The statement that "the information is already on the front of the card therefore there are no privacy issues" totally misses the point. Think about the alternative. Instead of scanning the license, the bar has to write all of the info down or type it into a computer, just so you can go into the bar. No customer is going to sit there in the cold and wait for some bouncer that types 5 word per minute to fumble the info into a terminal. There are data entry errors to consider and in the first example below the data, though perhaps not all of it, has to be entered in repeatedly during a visit. Remember that technology serves to make menial, tedious tasks easier and orders of magnitude faster. In the time it takes for Bubba to transcribe the face of your drivers license, this scanner has taken 10 more IDs and updated a hundred databases around the world. The second that information becomes digital, it can be traded, sold, exploited a million times in a second totally unregulated. People who try to apply traditional reasoning to societal issues and technology truly don't understand. Sadly these people are the same ones who make your laws.
When you have a problem and you arrive at a possible solution you have to ask does this solution really solve my problem? Is this scanning solution to the underage drinking/smoking problem really even solving the problem? Ask the RIAA or the MPAA about their efforts to thwart piracy. Long story short, if you can come up with a way to prevent theft, or in this case fraud, someone can come up with a way to defeat it and come up with it faster than it took for you to devise it.
Lets take this scanning system a small step further. Now in this bar, you must show your ID to make your alcohol purchase. Your consumption is tracked and based upon the number of drinks, the strength of those drinks and your weight from your drivers license, it roughly calculates your blood alcohol level. Persons having too good a time tracked and the cops are waiting outside for you to get into your car. So, you might say that this would have a dramatic effect on the drinking and driving fatalities in this country. I reluctantly agree that in this small context that the end justifies the means. Less dead people is good right? Perhaps another example where it does not is necessary.
Now lets say that you are a responsible adult and when you do have too good a time at the pub you foot it home or call a cab. No cops, no night in the tombs (yeah, my Law & Order affection gives me away again) so things are good. Wrong. Remember this information is digital, anyone can buy it. What about your employer? You show up at the office after a weekend of partying only to find your stuff packed and your pink slip on your desk because you booze a little to much in you _off_ time. Or perhaps your auto insurance company buys the same info and considers you a higher risk, higher auto premiums. Same goes for cigarette purchases. Health insurance companies buy up the info and increase your premiums or cancel your policy when they see your addiction is getting out of hand.
A bill is on Capitol Hill which would make it illegal to provide VoIP services without FCC registration. The bill is HR1542. It basically wraps IP-based telephony into the Communication Act of 1934. Join the Fight to keep VoIP unregulated.
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Seems all of you saw "DMCA" and decided to rant rather than reading the decision. The issue here is location of the maint. code. If the code was not in the library but rather a STK tech's notebook would you even be having this conversation? This is no different than downloading XP from the net and using a forged product key to use the software. The decision does not bar them from servicing STK products but from using tools that STK developed for their own techs. The only party licensed to use the maint. code was STK, not the owner of the library, not anyone else.
Yeah, the DMCA sucks in many ways but STK is not using the it immorally.
The SqueezeBox actually gets a PCM stream from the server. The actual decoding is done on the server. Adding another format is simply a matter of adding a module.
I was told by ATT that the cost for doing this was *not* cheap, along the lines of $200 at both ends!! Has anyone else heard of what the cost for portability is?
She moved over to MSNBC. Too bad not the Spice Channel.
I had a similar problem with my setup when I first installed it. I would get strengths below 50% and frequent drop offs. The first thing I did was change the channel the gear was using and my probems went away.
Please, The market that this card is aimed at could care less that they lose a slot. Reason 1 being that the AGP adjacent slot normally shares and IRQ with the video card. Reason 2 is the target market is also obsessed about cooling, having a card in that slot reduces circulation. Look at the Abit GF4 Ti 4200 with the OTES, that's a production card. And the last reason being that the trend towards onboard peripherals has increased. Onboard audio has gotten better and LAN/USB 2.0/1394/RAID is onboard now on many high-end boards. Oh, and the people who buy those high-end boards will be the ones buying the GF FX. Hell, with all of that onboard and there being 5 or 6 pci slots, you really think that burning one slot is gonna keep someone from buying the GF FX? I don't have a PCI card in the AGP-adjacent slot, don't use the onboard sound and have a PCI nic. I still have 2 PCI slots left.
I have a friend who's mother has a pool. Around the lip of the pool is a solid "band" that changes color. Its almost like a multi-color indiglo. Maybe ask a pool shop?
And will they give me the prices of three of their closest competitors before CA slides off into the Pacific?
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Seems to me like this story makes distributed.net obsolete.
The statement that "the information is already on the front of the card therefore there are no privacy issues" totally misses the point. Think about the alternative. Instead of scanning the license, the bar has to write all of the info down or type it into a computer, just so you can go into the bar. No customer is going to sit there in the cold and wait for some bouncer that types 5 word per minute to fumble the info into a terminal. There are data entry errors to consider and in the first example below the data, though perhaps not all of it, has to be entered in repeatedly during a visit. Remember that technology serves to make menial, tedious tasks easier and orders of magnitude faster. In the time it takes for Bubba to transcribe the face of your drivers license, this scanner has taken 10 more IDs and updated a hundred databases around the world. The second that information becomes digital, it can be traded, sold, exploited a million times in a second totally unregulated. People who try to apply traditional reasoning to societal issues and technology truly don't understand. Sadly these people are the same ones who make your laws.
When you have a problem and you arrive at a possible solution you have to ask does this solution really solve my problem? Is this scanning solution to the underage drinking/smoking problem really even solving the problem? Ask the RIAA or the MPAA about their efforts to thwart piracy. Long story short, if you can come up with a way to prevent theft, or in this case fraud, someone can come up with a way to defeat it and come up with it faster than it took for you to devise it.
Lets take this scanning system a small step further. Now in this bar, you must show your ID to make your alcohol purchase. Your consumption is tracked and based upon the number of drinks, the strength of those drinks and your weight from your drivers license, it roughly calculates your blood alcohol level. Persons having too good a time tracked and the cops are waiting outside for you to get into your car. So, you might say that this would have a dramatic effect on the drinking and driving fatalities in this country. I reluctantly agree that in this small context that the end justifies the means. Less dead people is good right? Perhaps another example where it does not is necessary.
Now lets say that you are a responsible adult and when you do have too good a time at the pub you foot it home or call a cab. No cops, no night in the tombs (yeah, my Law & Order affection gives me away again) so things are good. Wrong. Remember this information is digital, anyone can buy it. What about your employer? You show up at the office after a weekend of partying only to find your stuff packed and your pink slip on your desk because you booze a little to much in you _off_ time. Or perhaps your auto insurance company buys the same info and considers you a higher risk, higher auto premiums. Same goes for cigarette purchases. Health insurance companies buy up the info and increase your premiums or cancel your policy when they see your addiction is getting out of hand.
Netcat is a great tool for that. A "network swiss army knife" if you will.
A bill is on Capitol Hill which would make it illegal to provide VoIP services without FCC registration. The bill is HR1542. It basically wraps IP-based telephony into the Communication Act of 1934. Join the Fight to keep VoIP unregulated.
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Run for the shadows, run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years.