What am I supposed to do when I irrepairably scratch my favorite DVD? Go buy another one? That's crap. The primary function of this software is what? JUST to circumvent the antipiracy scheme, or is it to give someone the ability to backup that which they've already paid for.
The fucks at the MPAA going to give me a new copy of Hackers on DVD if I accidently damage my old one? They obviously don't want me copying it for my safe keeping.
What are you asking exactly? How many clients can connect to the server, or how many clients can connect to a machine on a peer to peer network?
This might help you with the Server side, and I think OS X.3 as just a client can accept unlimited connections (We have it running serving over 500 connections at any one time), though it doesn't have the system tools you'll find in OS X.3 Server.
Yes, he definately does, but some general feedback from a community of peers is not a bad thing. It also inspires conversation about the topic, which is completely the point.
Let's use Microsoft for an example, since they're so fun to pick on here on Slashdot.
Let's say MS was to release the source to Windows 98 4 years from now. Obviously no support for the software, MS is hoping everyone has upgraded. So, IMMEDIATELY people begin ripping the code apart, seeing blatant software security issues in the code.
Who is responsible for the ensuing chaos that results from the hacks and cracks that occur because now everyone knows where the buffer overflows are. Microsoft indemnifies themself, and then the user of the original software is left to hang.
I can think of one good example. I'm still a big fan of Quake II, and since the code release, there have been some SERIOUS cheats developed.
On one side of the coin, this is definately great news for everyone not running Windows or OS X who still want to listen to their DRM'd AAC files. Now, there is some portability to these files, and the ability to cue them up in VLC.
On the flipside, when some music industry execs look at this and wonder why they can't control their content, there are a number fingers going to be point at the OSS community because of it.
Where do we draw the line at control? The **AA industries wants to control their content, and we (I use "we" very loosely) want to have control over that which we've purchased. But who truly owns the bits? A series of 1s and 0s? Who's allowed to make the rules?
I know who I WANT to make the rules, me, of course. But I also know who legally gets to make the rules at this point. Them. I don't want the music industry to get pissed off and take my iTunes away. I've found a legal, beneficial means to aquire my music. I want MORE options, not less because of wary industry execs who don't want to have their content cracked.
And let's not even bring the DMCA into the picture here...
It's a Network Interface Card, or an Ethernet card, but it's not a freaking NIC Card...
Some things to think about...
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Let's imagine a hypothetical situation 50-100 years in the future. Will it be America that controls all access to the moon, and housing properties there.
What WILL housing facilities be like on the moon once we're there? As human beings, we've always been very territorial with our property. Will there be a war between Americans and the American "colonists" that now inhabit the colonies of the Moon? Will they want sovereignty, do to the oppressive nature of the Americans? Doth history repeat itsself everytime we find new bits of land and opportunity to overtake?
A little more morbid and twisted to think about; I'm guessing there would be some sort of master controls for the moon's life support, etc, that Mission Control would have down on the planet. Just shut off life support for 2 hours and choke the bastards, or what? Also, nukes wouldn't be so much an issue to us, as it wouldn't be on the planet. It'd also make one hell of a light show.
I have a friend who is the lead projectionist for both movie theaters in town. We were discussing how the l33t cams of new movies were taken. He was saying that the best time to snag the movie would be on the test run of the film they make the night before release, hence the same day, or night before release to the web.
This law that is passed shouldn't be all-encompassing. My guess, if I had to make one, is that the new cams probably come from someone working at the movie theaters, not a patron.
This leaves me torn on the neccessity of the laws in general; why pass a law that doesn't apply to 99% of the populace? Why not focus on where the offenders are coming from, and target those people not the rest of us. At the same time, should Joe Schmo (No, not the Spike TV guy) think it's funny to cam a movie and release it, I guess this law covers that. Don't know, but it seems uneccessary.
We're seeing a lot of details come out from each camp that makes more and more clarifications on the angles each (and by each, I mean SCO vs The World) is taking.
I'm noticing a trend of regurgitated BS coming out of the SCO camp, but intelligent, well-thought arguments coming from the otherside of this battle.
Makes me wonder why one little company would try to take on the world of opensource? The mindshare that SCO is fighting has to be exponentially larger than anything SCO has,
Seems to me the biggest thing is the pollution generated by these bargain electronics. If it's dirt cheap, then if it dies, you throw it away, you buy more dirt cheap.
Personally, I think Stallman's remarks are a bit on the "out there" side. I'm wondering when this happened:
"Freedom to redistribute and change software is a human right that must be protected"
Any thoughts? Coming from a purely US perspective, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness is one thing, but I don't see where I am protected by law or common law to be able to "redistribute and change" something that has been around since the late '50s...
Just a thought, mod me down as needed.
Alrighty, everyone record a "What the fuck are you thinking, RIAA?" MP3 and throw it up on your anonymous FTP sites and KaZaA everywhere, with the title of your favorite Pop group.
Soon, the RIAA will be kicking out MILLIONS of cease-and-desist letters to the world. It would negate their system all together.
How many of you out there wander around the Net on company time? How many of you have AIM or IRC running in the background, using "valuable" company resources to check what the weather is over lunch, or what the latest posting on Slashdot is? =)
Now, in the sense that I personally will remote term into my box from work, download all the music I want, and then stream it back to my box at 128kbit. By no means have I overused the system or put the company in any form of potential legal liability. I'm using bandwidth, but I've done nothing potentially illegal to the company.
Yes, bandwidth is a waste, but at the same time, bandwidth is cheap at 128kbit/sec. Beats the illegal ramifications of a potential lawsuit, and I'm using as much "physical" resource as an AM/FM radio.
Flame away. I'm just tired of the Admin Nazi we have at work utterly choking our firewall.
Ths jury found them not guilty because the DMCA is vague? That it wasn't clear and that the Russian programmers may not have known that they were violating the law?
I'm guessing this is one time when we're all happy that some people don't know anything about computers or computer law. By the clarity of the DMCA that is stated here on Slashdot and every complaint that is against it, it'd be obvious to some mildly competent computer users that what was done was obviously illegal by the DMCA.
Now, yes, this is stupid. It's something I suddenly thought about, and can see Vince McMahon contending.
The Legend of The Scorpion King was just that: A legend. The real story involves the sorceress saving him, using her powers from Annubis (or whatever god gives her strength) to save him. Annubis watches through the eye of the sorceress, using her as the focal point to control his world, unbeknownst to The Rock (Scorpion King). He asked in the end of this movie "How she knew there was going to be a long period of peace?" Annubis will allow this. BUT, Annubis, when the time is necessary, will call on him through her, him owing a debt to the god that saved him and allowed him to avenge his brother. Understanding, and being noble and true to word, he follows that call.
Hence, like all good Vince McMahon pyramid schemes, we have: (drum roll please)
The Scorpion King II : Curse of Annubis, or something silly like that. We ultimately get to see The Rock changed into The Scorpion King we think of in The Mummy Returns, and they get to continue a franchise for a little ways. =P
If we came in and did such things, we'd be removing their culture. They'd loose what they've grown as people having. If American infrastructure was brought in, we'd be running over their lives without invitation or motivation. To remove a culture would be genocide on a different level. Just my thoughts.
Hate is not what we need right now. Words like this hurt everybody, even other Americans. I wanted to say the same thing, but we need to have a little reproach, analyze the situation, and find out who dunnit. Then, deal with them
Words like this just look to inflame those Indian/Muslim/Middle Eastern people who had nothing to do with this.
Assuming some of you guys or gals give up on the DL, I'd take a tester key. =)
gthomas@(no.spam)grioghar.org (remove the no.spam) if you even consider ditching your key.
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What am I supposed to do when I irrepairably scratch my favorite DVD? Go buy another one? That's crap. The primary function of this software is what? JUST to circumvent the antipiracy scheme, or is it to give someone the ability to backup that which they've already paid for.
The fucks at the MPAA going to give me a new copy of Hackers on DVD if I accidently damage my old one? They obviously don't want me copying it for my safe keeping.
Assholes.
That's all I have to say...
What are you asking exactly? How many clients can connect to the server, or how many clients can connect to a machine on a peer to peer network?
This might help you with the Server side, and I think OS X.3 as just a client can accept unlimited connections (We have it running serving over 500 connections at any one time), though it doesn't have the system tools you'll find in OS X.3 Server.
Yes, he definately does, but some general feedback from a community of peers is not a bad thing. It also inspires conversation about the topic, which is completely the point.
Fanatics Galore believe we're entering Armeggedon, and that these technologies are the beginning of the end.
I think the technology's damn cool, personally. Just a few things to think about.
Let's use Microsoft for an example, since they're so fun to pick on here on Slashdot.
Let's say MS was to release the source to Windows 98 4 years from now. Obviously no support for the software, MS is hoping everyone has upgraded. So, IMMEDIATELY people begin ripping the code apart, seeing blatant software security issues in the code.
Who is responsible for the ensuing chaos that results from the hacks and cracks that occur because now everyone knows where the buffer overflows are. Microsoft indemnifies themself, and then the user of the original software is left to hang.
I can think of one good example. I'm still a big fan of Quake II, and since the code release, there have been some SERIOUS cheats developed.
Just a thought
On one side of the coin, this is definately great news for everyone not running Windows or OS X who still want to listen to their DRM'd AAC files. Now, there is some portability to these files, and the ability to cue them up in VLC.
On the flipside, when some music industry execs look at this and wonder why they can't control their content, there are a number fingers going to be point at the OSS community because of it.
Where do we draw the line at control? The **AA industries wants to control their content, and we (I use "we" very loosely) want to have control over that which we've purchased. But who truly owns the bits? A series of 1s and 0s? Who's allowed to make the rules?
I know who I WANT to make the rules, me, of course. But I also know who legally gets to make the rules at this point. Them. I don't want the music industry to get pissed off and take my iTunes away. I've found a legal, beneficial means to aquire my music. I want MORE options, not less because of wary industry execs who don't want to have their content cracked.
And let's not even bring the DMCA into the picture here...
It's a Network Interface Card, or an Ethernet card, but it's not a freaking NIC Card...
Let's imagine a hypothetical situation 50-100 years in the future. Will it be America that controls all access to the moon, and housing properties there.
What WILL housing facilities be like on the moon once we're there? As human beings, we've always been very territorial with our property. Will there be a war between Americans and the American "colonists" that now inhabit the colonies of the Moon? Will they want sovereignty, do to the oppressive nature of the Americans? Doth history repeat itsself everytime we find new bits of land and opportunity to overtake?
A little more morbid and twisted to think about; I'm guessing there would be some sort of master controls for the moon's life support, etc, that Mission Control would have down on the planet. Just shut off life support for 2 hours and choke the bastards, or what? Also, nukes wouldn't be so much an issue to us, as it wouldn't be on the planet. It'd also make one hell of a light show.
Suddenly I think of The Time Machine. Hmmmmm...
I have a friend who is the lead projectionist for both movie theaters in town. We were discussing how the l33t cams of new movies were taken. He was saying that the best time to snag the movie would be on the test run of the film they make the night before release, hence the same day, or night before release to the web.
This law that is passed shouldn't be all-encompassing. My guess, if I had to make one, is that the new cams probably come from someone working at the movie theaters, not a patron.
This leaves me torn on the neccessity of the laws in general; why pass a law that doesn't apply to 99% of the populace? Why not focus on where the offenders are coming from, and target those people not the rest of us. At the same time, should Joe Schmo (No, not the Spike TV guy) think it's funny to cam a movie and release it, I guess this law covers that. Don't know, but it seems uneccessary.
We're seeing a lot of details come out from each camp that makes more and more clarifications on the angles each (and by each, I mean SCO vs The World) is taking.
I'm noticing a trend of regurgitated BS coming out of the SCO camp, but intelligent, well-thought arguments coming from the otherside of this battle.
Makes me wonder why one little company would try to take on the world of opensource? The mindshare that SCO is fighting has to be exponentially larger than anything SCO has,
Seems to me the biggest thing is the pollution generated by these bargain electronics. If it's dirt cheap, then if it dies, you throw it away, you buy more dirt cheap.
Not so good for our environment.
That questions makes me think of the iBrator:
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http://www.sleeplessknights.com/Pages/itheater.
http://www.flamingmailbox.com/maccomedy/movies/
Explain to me where again is the "bloatware" in the most stable version of Windows yet?
Alrighty, everyone record a "What the fuck are you thinking, RIAA?" MP3 and throw it up on your anonymous FTP sites and KaZaA everywhere, with the title of your favorite Pop group.
Soon, the RIAA will be kicking out MILLIONS of cease-and-desist letters to the world. It would negate their system all together.
And now, a twist.
How many of you out there wander around the Net on company time? How many of you have AIM or IRC running in the background, using "valuable" company resources to check what the weather is over lunch, or what the latest posting on Slashdot is? =)
Now, in the sense that I personally will remote term into my box from work, download all the music I want, and then stream it back to my box at 128kbit. By no means have I overused the system or put the company in any form of potential legal liability. I'm using bandwidth, but I've done nothing potentially illegal to the company.
Yes, bandwidth is a waste, but at the same time, bandwidth is cheap at 128kbit/sec. Beats the illegal ramifications of a potential lawsuit, and I'm using as much "physical" resource as an AM/FM radio.
Flame away. I'm just tired of the Admin Nazi we have at work utterly choking our firewall.
I feel a Terminator-like event on the horizon. First chess, then our souls...
Ths jury found them not guilty because the DMCA is vague? That it wasn't clear and that the Russian programmers may not have known that they were violating the law?
I'm guessing this is one time when we're all happy that some people don't know anything about computers or computer law. By the clarity of the DMCA that is stated here on Slashdot and every complaint that is against it, it'd be obvious to some mildly competent computer users that what was done was obviously illegal by the DMCA.
I Win!
Now, yes, this is stupid. It's something I suddenly thought about, and can see Vince McMahon contending.
The Legend of The Scorpion King was just that: A legend. The real story involves the sorceress saving him, using her powers from Annubis (or whatever god gives her strength) to save him. Annubis watches through the eye of the sorceress, using her as the focal point to control his world, unbeknownst to The Rock (Scorpion King). He asked in the end of this movie "How she knew there was going to be a long period of peace?" Annubis will allow this. BUT, Annubis, when the time is necessary, will call on him through her, him owing a debt to the god that saved him and allowed him to avenge his brother. Understanding, and being noble and true to word, he follows that call.
Hence, like all good Vince McMahon pyramid schemes, we have: (drum roll please)
The Scorpion King II : Curse of Annubis, or something silly like that. We ultimately get to see The Rock changed into The Scorpion King we think of in The Mummy Returns, and they get to continue a franchise for a little ways. =P
I'm most likely wrong, but why not?
~Grio~
Grio's Digital World
http://grio.net
If we came in and did such things, we'd be removing their culture. They'd loose what they've grown as people having. If American infrastructure was brought in, we'd be running over their lives without invitation or motivation. To remove a culture would be genocide on a different level. Just my thoughts.
Hate is not what we need right now. Words like this hurt everybody, even other Americans. I wanted to say the same thing, but we need to have a little reproach, analyze the situation, and find out who dunnit. Then, deal with them
Words like this just look to inflame those Indian/Muslim/Middle Eastern people who had nothing to do with this.
Please. Have some compassion.
Assuming some of you guys or gals give up on the DL, I'd take a tester key. =) gthomas@(no.spam)grioghar.org (remove the no.spam) if you even consider ditching your key.
Grioghar