I meant I agreed everything else in this line:
Write your congressman today and request, nay, DEMAND that the DMCA and CSS and DVDA be repealed so we can steal MP3's again. and the stealing MP3 portion of it...(I buy my cds)... okay, okay so I was way off...;)
but besides that, wasn't it Schrodinger that claimed that a cat in a box is both dead alive?
Write your congressman today and request, nay, DEMAND that the DMCA and CSS and DVDA be repealed so we can steal MP3's again.
I'll agree with everything else you said, but not DVDA. That's the band of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. For those not in the know, DVDA stands for Double-vaginal-double-anal (from Orgazmo)
Rhythms Notifies Customers of Service Termination; Reduces Workforce by 700 Employees
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 10/PRNewswire/ -- Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: RTHMQ), a provider of broadband communication services,
said today the Company sent 31-day service termination notices to all of its
customers last evening. During the next 31 days, Rhythms intends to assist
its customers in transitioning their existing digital subscriber line services
to alternative broadband providers.
The Company is also reducing its workforce today by approximately
700 employees, or approximately 75 percent of its total workforce.
Approximately 85 percent of the affected employees are in Colorado.
About Rhythms
Based in Englewood, Colo., Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: RTHMQ) provides DSL-based, broadband communication
services to businesses and consumers. On August 1, 2001, Rhythms and all of
its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries voluntarily filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of New York.
For more information concerning Rhythms, call 1-800-RHYTHMS (1-800-749-8467),
or visit the Company's Web site at http://www.rhythms.com.
Rhythms, Rhythms NetConnections and (any product names for which trademark
applications have been filed) are trademarks of Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
The statements contained in these materials which are not historical facts
may contain forward-looking statements with respect to events, the occurrence
of which involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements are indicated by
words or phrases such as "anticipate," "estimate," "projects," "believes,"
"intends," "expects" and similar words and phrases.
Stubblefield's attempt took just under a week, which included the time taken to deliver the card, set up the testbed, perform debug and then finally retrieve the key.
Ouch.
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In all honesty though, this -could- be a good thing for us regarding laws. Here's an American graduate student that showed an immense weakness in a standard encryption protocol. Furthermore, he did it for no profit, without violating any copyrights, and while working with AT&T.
This could be very good. People (as in general society) would be a bit leary of Dmitry Skylarov because he is Russian and becuase it was a for-profit venture.
This student, OTOH, broke this w/o profit and without breaking any copyrights.
Hopefully (though I doubt it) this can hit at least semi-mainstream news, or, at a minimum, the ears of lawmakers and security analysts.
The Association of American Publishers, however, continues to hail the government's action, saying Sklyarov's software "facilitates theft, and makes it less likely that e-books will soon become a popular reading format."
According to that logic, Napster prevented MP3s from becoming a popular format.
That's not all we do. You say it it as if all the kids nowadays go home trying to do some packet sniffing and what not. I still truly prefer going at and getting stoned and running down the beach screaming at old people. (Off the record, one of the coolest things to do, is get a paper bag with a bottle of Coke in it (don't get actual alcohol cuz you'll prolly get arrested) and then run down the boardwalk very drunkenly screaming "SATAN LOVES YOU!" or "SATAN FUCKS ME UP THE ASS!". It's funny watching everybody slowly disappear from the park.)
Anyways, as I was saying, we still do go out and cause havoc. Just cuz we're geeks doesn't we don't have a LIFE.;)
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Pretty soon we'll have to have flames shooting out of the floppy drive just to get chicks.
I'm sorry man, but as a geek, if I modding my case will get me chicks, shit hell yeah, I'll do it.
the case serves as an encryption device; by removing the insides of the case and using them for your own purposes, you are violating the DMCA! And you don't get any Fair Use here, because the hardware itself isn't audio.;)
The thing with the market, though, is that people won't accept that. I don't mean geeks, I mean general society. Nobody cares what us geeks want; we make up maybe 2% of the consumer market. However, a large portion of society does read books. Try telling Academia to stop using printed books. Yes I know the New York School of Dentistry is trying to pull that; let's see how long it lasts.
IMO there will be a good, long time before printed books become out-of-place. When and if it does, if I'm still around, I'll recant my words.
At least they're being upfront about what you're allowed to do.
Consider this, if you rent a car for three days @ $20/day, do you expect to be allowed to use the car whenever you feel like it on any other days. No, because you rented the car. Now, if you actually purchased the book, and then they told you it expired in two years, when the next version came out; THAT would be something to complain about.
print them out and sell them on ebay with the headlines: "Direct From The Source! Live and Uncensored"... i guarantee you get a sh*tload of money from it...
agree with you fully...but bad analogy: BetaMax was here first, and they lost. Hmmm, that gets me thinking: Maybe we should get the porn industry to distrbute sound clips in Ogg format.
(If you have no clue what I'm talking about [ie: history of VHS] ignore the joke)
Windows XP is a HUGE improvement compared to Win9x. The UI is a lot better - and no, I don't mean in terms of looking cool - I mean it in terms of being usable - the way things are organized, etc. Fully agree with you there; though I think Win2000 does everything that's needed; IMO XP provides the "coolness" factor that I don't want.
I'm using XP Professional on all my Win2K boxes right now and the major things I notice are reliability, not having to reboot every time I install anything and ease of use. Actually I didn't think about that; That's true, XP can install drivers w/o rebooting. I haven't had to install drivers in a -long- time, so missed that.
The thing I notice most on my laptop is how fast the damn thing boots or resumes from standby. It makes it a whole heck of a deal more convenient to take my laptop to meetings, etc. The other big difference between Win2K Pro and WinXP Pro is remote access. It's awfully convenient for me to work on my desktop at work from home. Never used either of those, (don't have a laptop, and used Radmin for remote access)...
interesting....i think this beats that story though:
was running Win2000, I bought one of the those boxes that lets you switch out hard drives very quickly, though they are NOT (at least not mine) hot-swappable.
Well, I wanted to try it out anyway. Had Win2K running, pulled out my slave drive. Windows locked for a few moments, then gave a message "Unable to access hard drive, and continued running smoothly....I'm sure XP would do the same.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying XP isn't stable. I'm saying Win2000 is -as- stable as XP, and the "call home" issues of XP make me definitely not want to use it.
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but weed is better
heh, okay, my mistake.
... okay, okay so I was way off... ;)
I meant I agreed everything else in this line:
Write your congressman today and request, nay, DEMAND that the DMCA and CSS and DVDA be repealed so we can steal MP3's again.
and the stealing MP3 portion of it...(I buy my cds)
but besides that, wasn't it Schrodinger that claimed that a cat in a box is both dead alive?
Write your congressman today and request, nay, DEMAND that the DMCA and CSS and DVDA be repealed so we can steal MP3's again.
I'll agree with everything else you said, but not DVDA. That's the band of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. For those not in the know, DVDA stands for Double-vaginal-double-anal (from Orgazmo )
it's been at least 75 years (more or less, I'm a bit lost on patent laws)
it should be part of the public domain.
How 'bout addin masturbation?
I can "release my load" in 15 seconds flat!
Here's the article:
/PRNewswire/ -- Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
Rhythms Notifies Customers of Service Termination; Reduces Workforce by 700 Employees
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 10
(OTC Bulletin Board: RTHMQ), a provider of broadband communication services,
said today the Company sent 31-day service termination notices to all of its
customers last evening. During the next 31 days, Rhythms intends to assist
its customers in transitioning their existing digital subscriber line services
to alternative broadband providers.
The Company is also reducing its workforce today by approximately
700 employees, or approximately 75 percent of its total workforce.
Approximately 85 percent of the affected employees are in Colorado.
About Rhythms
Based in Englewood, Colo., Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: RTHMQ) provides DSL-based, broadband communication
services to businesses and consumers. On August 1, 2001, Rhythms and all of
its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries voluntarily filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of New York.
For more information concerning Rhythms, call 1-800-RHYTHMS (1-800-749-8467),
or visit the Company's Web site at http://www.rhythms.com.
Rhythms, Rhythms NetConnections and (any product names for which trademark
applications have been filed) are trademarks of Rhythms NetConnections Inc.
The statements contained in these materials which are not historical facts
may contain forward-looking statements with respect to events, the occurrence
of which involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements are indicated by
words or phrases such as "anticipate," "estimate," "projects," "believes,"
"intends," "expects" and similar words and phrases.
Stubblefield's attempt took just under a week, which included the time taken to deliver the card, set up the testbed, perform debug and then finally retrieve the key.
Ouch.
-----
In all honesty though, this -could- be a good thing for us regarding laws. Here's an American graduate student that showed an immense weakness in a standard encryption protocol. Furthermore, he did it for no profit, without violating any copyrights, and while working with AT&T.
This could be very good. People (as in general society) would be a bit leary of Dmitry Skylarov because he is Russian and becuase it was a for-profit venture.
This student, OTOH, broke this w/o profit and without breaking any copyrights.
Hopefully (though I doubt it) this can hit at least semi-mainstream news, or, at a minimum, the ears of lawmakers and security analysts.
The Association of American Publishers, however, continues to hail the government's action, saying Sklyarov's software "facilitates theft, and makes it less likely that e-books will soon become a popular reading format."
According to that logic, Napster prevented MP3s from becoming a popular format.
That's not all we do. You say it it as if all the kids nowadays go home trying to do some packet sniffing and what not. I still truly prefer going at and getting stoned and running down the beach screaming at old people. (Off the record, one of the coolest things to do, is get a paper bag with a bottle of Coke in it (don't get actual alcohol cuz you'll prolly get arrested) and then run down the boardwalk very drunkenly screaming "SATAN LOVES YOU!" or "SATAN FUCKS ME UP THE ASS!". It's funny watching everybody slowly disappear from the park.) Anyways, as I was saying, we still do go out and cause havoc. Just cuz we're geeks doesn't we don't have a LIFE. ;)
Pretty soon we'll have to have flames shooting out of the floppy drive just to get chicks. I'm sorry man, but as a geek, if I modding my case will get me chicks, shit hell yeah, I'll do it.
the case serves as an encryption device; by removing the insides of the case and using them for your own purposes, you are violating the DMCA! And you don't get any Fair Use here, because the hardware itself isn't audio. ;)
how the hell did you know i'm from florida?
yeah, but she's from Oklahoma that's not fair for the rest of us
the plural of virus is virii.
according to your logic, the plural of bus should be bui, but we all know it's actually buses
and the plural of Gus, should be Gui, but know what a GUI is, and the plural of Gus' should be Gus' kids.
Who's the dickwad now?
When it does, I'll accept I was wrong.
The thing with the market, though, is that people won't accept that. I don't mean geeks, I mean general society. Nobody cares what us geeks want; we make up maybe 2% of the consumer market. However, a large portion of society does read books. Try telling Academia to stop using printed books. Yes I know the New York School of Dentistry is trying to pull that; let's see how long it lasts.
IMO there will be a good, long time before printed books become out-of-place. When and if it does, if I'm still around, I'll recant my words.
At least they're being upfront about what you're allowed to do.
Consider this, if you rent a car for three days @ $20/day, do you expect to be allowed to use the car whenever you feel like it on any other days. No, because you rented the car. Now, if you actually purchased the book, and then they told you it expired in two years, when the next version came out; THAT would be something to complain about.
yeah, first post after #84...
speaking of which i got first post too, right after the one before this one...
print them out and sell them on ebay with the headlines: "Direct From The Source! Live and Uncensored" ... i guarantee you get a sh*tload of money from it...
and replace Forrest with Dmitry and append "out of the country"
nope that's also turned off....thanks for the info though...
agree with you fully...but bad analogy: BetaMax was here first, and they lost. Hmmm, that gets me thinking: Maybe we should get the porn industry to distrbute sound clips in Ogg format.
(If you have no clue what I'm talking about [ie: history of VHS] ignore the joke)
Windows XP is a HUGE improvement compared to Win9x. The UI is a lot better - and no, I don't mean in terms of looking cool - I mean it in terms of being usable - the way things are organized, etc.
Fully agree with you there; though I think Win2000 does everything that's needed; IMO XP provides the "coolness" factor that I don't want.
I'm using XP Professional on all my Win2K boxes right now and the major things I notice are reliability, not having to reboot every time I install anything and ease of use.
Actually I didn't think about that; That's true, XP can install drivers w/o rebooting. I haven't had to install drivers in a -long- time, so missed that.
The thing I notice most on my laptop is how fast the damn thing boots or resumes from standby. It makes it a whole heck of a deal more convenient to take my laptop to meetings, etc. The other big difference between Win2K Pro and WinXP Pro is remote access. It's awfully convenient for me to work on my desktop at work from home.
Never used either of those, (don't have a laptop, and used Radmin for remote access)...
but you've given some truly good points...thanks
and moderators, mod this up (the parent) please
interesting....i think this beats that story though:
was running Win2000, I bought one of the those boxes that lets you switch out hard drives very quickly, though they are NOT (at least not mine) hot-swappable.
Well, I wanted to try it out anyway. Had Win2K running, pulled out my slave drive. Windows locked for a few moments, then gave a message "Unable to access hard drive, and continued running smoothly....I'm sure XP would do the same.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying XP isn't stable. I'm saying Win2000 is -as- stable as XP, and the "call home" issues of XP make me definitely not want to use it.
Check your time settings. I bet you have time synchronization on.
Nope, just checked; don't have it on; but thanks for the info, didn't know about that....
it does remove much of the slowdown (as i've done), but that also removes the primary reason to move to xp in the first place....