Indeed. And you'll find that the AudioPhile 2496 card from Digital Connection works like a charm for recording from SPDIF-in. (It kicks ass for a soundcard in many other regards as well, IMHO) However, due to timing issues, I think that a very high-quality timer in the CD player will become a necessity in order to create pretty much perfect digital copies of whatever music.
None of this is huge, of course. Someone decides to do the first digital rip from standalone CD player, and then the 320k mp3s come rolling in, followed by the 650mb images of burned CDs made from WAVs for the audiophiles. No biggie, I say.
Asking for citizens to turn other citizens in reeks of fascism and repressive Soviet rule under Stalin.
If the incident is sufficiently noteworthy, people will _automatically_ turn others in -- there needs be no urging.
As for anonymous: you pointed out the problems of such a system -- even less accountability than we have now. This is no small prank here. We're talking about a 'tipoff' that can send a kid to jail for six months, or more. Think that geek's ever going to Harvard, no matter what his grades? I think not. Want an anonymous tipping system? I don't.
As for not 'encouraging' people to inform -- the approach should be no 'active' encouragement, and stringent face-to-face meetings between the accused and the accuser, and then a decision should be made. And if the accuser is shown to be in bad faith, then there should be a significant punishment for abuse of the system. (Intent to harm other person using government funds and resources..., yadda yadda)
That's the only possible way that we can be back to normal. Otherwise, this thing will just spiral out of control.
Your problem isn't the fact that he's unethical, but that he's an asshole. The general term for remedying these situations is known as "kicking his ass," or more politically correct: "taking legal action".
Transmeta's future is huge, but it's because of the code morphing software, which has to be one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and not their hardware, which is downright mediocre, if not laughably bad.
That's like saying "Neither Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson had to learn how to operate a motor vehicle in order to be successful in life."
No shit. But when everyone else starts driving, if you're still huffing along on a bike, you're fucked. It's that simple.
I'm sorry, but the end of the Hellmouth series here on Slashdot is only the beginning of something larger. I agree that 'Hellmouth' itself is a well-beaten dead horse, but it has sparked discussions that are not directly related, and quite useful.
Looking back over the series of 10 articles, there have been testimony from many, almost all _not_ from Columbine. Each piece of testimony is a different perspective, and some offer ideas for dealing with the problem.
As long as the civil rights of minors continue to be violated, and as long as school administrators either turn a blind eye, or secretly help the agressors, the problems must be shown.
You don't hear about genocide victims telling others to lay off discussing how evil their murderers are -- why should we? Especially when the abuses are still continuing?
Pouring salt on old wounds only applies if those wounds have started to heal. Unfortunately, we're not the ones pouring salt by discussing on a weblog, the public school system is pouring, and quite a bit of it.
In the end, it's time to take a stance, and actually go out and do something. Helping to subvert W.A.V.E. will certainly be a good statement to make, but we now need to discuss solutions to these problems.
Legislation, perhaps, to increase minor rights? The increased privatization of the educational system? More Rent-a-cops? I don't know! But we need to discuss, and find solutions.
To do the 'awww-so-sad-look-at-those-starving-Ethiopians-now -change-the-channel-XFiles-is-on' thing is not acceptable here.
Who will suffer most? Typically, the ones who would have stood to gain the most: those for whom an intellectually stimulating peer group would have boosted motivation, intellectual discipline and dialogue. And if there's any group who can understand the benefits from a stimulating peer-group, it's the/. crowd.
The brain drain is the inevitable result of such a fascist system, and is instrumental in bringing about its eventual downfall. Causing the exodus of your best and brightest has its costs, and such a system pays for its stupidity. Think:
the intellectuals exit stage left, leaving behind a group who don't care about school, but who 'fit in' just fine. Test scores go down further, the public school system becomes even more of a failure, eventually leading to legistlated privatization.
I see nothing critically wrong here, quite honestly. Let the system bring about its own downfall.
I find HD noise, especially extremely loud ones, to be helpful in telling activity. I don't want to have to look for a tiny orange LED to tell how the HD is doing.
Ogg Vorbis is free and unencumbered, and although I have no real idea how the lawsuit is going, assuming the Ogg side wins, we will have a high quality free [speech|beer] audio compression format. No mp3, no Fraunhofer lawsuits.
And since the player, the encoder, etc., are all free, and can't be used to circumvent any copy protection under the DMCA, we should be good to go.
It's certain true that hardware like VCRs rot quickly, but software like Ogg won't be gone in 10 years. Once I have it on my hard disk or CDR, it's there to stay. And since it's going to be given away for free, assuming the lawsuit goes Ogg's way (again), there will be no legal way to stop the format. And not a chance of undercutting it in price either.
Last bit being of course making some kind of external player -- given that people have already made their own mp3 players with essentially tiny pcs, it would not be difficult to do the same thing with Ogg, I imagine.
No. You don't understand what I'm saying. I have nothing against any type of content, irregardless. I would have just as much issue with Amnesty International paying someone to spam me as Joe's XXX website spamming me.
I'm saying cut off the source of the funding for the spam -- the companies that employ the spammers, and the problem goes away.
Fining spammers is difficult, since they are hard to find. Better to fine the shitty pr0n website or the asshole selling you the toner. If there are no _markets_ for spam, it should decrease.
As for the people doing it in house: same idea. Fine them into oblivion.
You'd think that with all the practice you've gotten, you'd at least generate better flamebait. But no. Well, you can still serve as an example of a total failure, I guess.
why we've had any restrictions at all. It's like export restrictions on crypto (which is just NSA propaganda to make us think they're weaker than they really are...) -- utterly uselss in reality.
I mean, all the hardware in my computer seems to be manufactured outside the US anyway, and very little is even assembled here, let alone manufactured. If a malcontent really wanted the teraflops, would they really have to get it from the US?
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Indeed. And you'll find that the AudioPhile 2496 card from Digital Connection works like a charm for recording from SPDIF-in. (It kicks ass for a soundcard in many other regards as well, IMHO) However, due to timing issues, I think that a very high-quality timer in the CD player will become a necessity in order to create pretty much perfect digital copies of whatever music.
None of this is huge, of course. Someone decides to do the first digital rip from standalone CD player, and then the 320k mp3s come rolling in, followed by the 650mb images of burned CDs made from WAVs for the audiophiles. No biggie, I say.
I gave up on correcting the editors here a long time ago.
I think not. I will pour gas all over myself and light a match before I let them do that to me.
yet again ... stupid bureaucrats try to censor net, and people will use proxies to get around nonsense. Will we see some real _news_ sometime?
Symantec's virus institute is so sophisticated that they've managed to release updates for viruses that haven't even been spotted in the wild, yet!
That's because AV companies tend to create viruses, so that they can release fixes for them.
Asking for citizens to turn other citizens in reeks of fascism and repressive Soviet rule under Stalin.
If the incident is sufficiently noteworthy, people will _automatically_ turn others in -- there needs be no urging.
As for anonymous: you pointed out the problems of such a system -- even less accountability than we have now. This is no small prank here. We're talking about a 'tipoff' that can send a kid to jail for six months, or more. Think that geek's ever going to Harvard, no matter what his grades? I think not. Want an anonymous tipping system? I don't.
As for not 'encouraging' people to inform -- the approach should be no 'active' encouragement, and stringent face-to-face meetings between the accused and the accuser, and then a decision should be made. And if the accuser is shown to be in bad faith, then there should be a significant punishment for abuse of the system. (Intent to harm other person using government funds and resources..., yadda yadda)
That's the only possible way that we can be back to normal. Otherwise, this thing will just spiral out of control.
If the waves of air pressure can still reach my eardrums, if the photons still hit my retina, I can copy it.
Ho hum.
Your problem isn't the fact that he's unethical, but that he's an asshole. The general term for remedying these situations is known as "kicking his ass," or more politically correct: "taking legal action".
Transmeta's future is huge, but it's because of the code morphing software, which has to be one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and not their hardware, which is downright mediocre, if not laughably bad.
That's like saying "Neither Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson had to learn how to operate a motor vehicle in order to be successful in life."
No shit. But when everyone else starts driving, if you're still huffing along on a bike, you're fucked. It's that simple.
I'm sorry, but the end of the Hellmouth series here on Slashdot is only the beginning of something larger. I agree that 'Hellmouth' itself is a well-beaten dead horse, but it has sparked discussions that are not directly related, and quite useful.
w -change-the-channel-XFiles-is-on' thing is not acceptable here.
Looking back over the series of 10 articles, there have been testimony from many, almost all _not_ from Columbine. Each piece of testimony is a different perspective, and some offer ideas for dealing with the problem.
As long as the civil rights of minors continue to be violated, and as long as school administrators either turn a blind eye, or secretly help the agressors, the problems must be shown.
You don't hear about genocide victims telling others to lay off discussing how evil their murderers are -- why should we? Especially when the abuses are still continuing?
Pouring salt on old wounds only applies if those wounds have started to heal. Unfortunately, we're not the ones pouring salt by discussing on a weblog, the public school system is pouring, and quite a bit of it.
In the end, it's time to take a stance, and actually go out and do something. Helping to subvert W.A.V.E. will certainly be a good statement to make, but we now need to discuss solutions to these problems.
Legislation, perhaps, to increase minor rights? The increased privatization of the educational system? More Rent-a-cops? I don't know! But we need to discuss, and find solutions.
To do the 'awww-so-sad-look-at-those-starving-Ethiopians-no
Who will suffer most? Typically, the ones who would have stood to gain the most: those for whom an intellectually stimulating peer group would have boosted motivation, intellectual discipline and dialogue. And if there's any group who can understand the benefits from a stimulating peer-group, it's the /. crowd.
The brain drain is the inevitable result of such a fascist system, and is instrumental in bringing about its eventual downfall. Causing the exodus of your best and brightest has its costs, and such a system pays for its stupidity. Think:
the intellectuals exit stage left, leaving behind a group who don't care about school, but who 'fit in' just fine. Test scores go down further, the public school system becomes even more of a failure, eventually leading to legistlated privatization.
I see nothing critically wrong here, quite honestly. Let the system bring about its own downfall.
I find HD noise, especially extremely loud ones, to be helpful in telling activity. I don't want to have to look for a tiny orange LED to tell how the HD is doing.
Ogg Vorbis is free and unencumbered, and although I have no real idea how the lawsuit is going, assuming the Ogg side wins, we will have a high quality free [speech|beer] audio compression format. No mp3, no Fraunhofer lawsuits.
And since the player, the encoder, etc., are all free, and can't be used to circumvent any copy protection under the DMCA, we should be good to go.
It's certain true that hardware like VCRs rot quickly, but software like Ogg won't be gone in 10 years. Once I have it on my hard disk or CDR, it's there to stay. And since it's going to be given away for free, assuming the lawsuit goes Ogg's way (again), there will be no legal way to stop the format. And not a chance of undercutting it in price either.
Last bit being of course making some kind of external player -- given that people have already made their own mp3 players with essentially tiny pcs, it would not be difficult to do the same thing with Ogg, I imagine.
Yes people, this is a troll. Or rather a joke. Dear god, why doees noone understand humor anymore?!?
who modded this flamebait? Moderators who don't get jokes need to lose mod privs.
This window can be disabled so it never shows up on startup. Some option deeply buried in the preferences, of course.
I'm beginning to think that DMOZ is sufficient. Anyone else?
No. You don't understand what I'm saying. I have nothing against any type of content, irregardless. I would have just as much issue with Amnesty International paying someone to spam me as Joe's XXX website spamming me.
I'm saying cut off the source of the funding for the spam -- the companies that employ the spammers, and the problem goes away.
Fining spammers is difficult, since they are hard to find. Better to fine the shitty pr0n website or the asshole selling you the toner. If there are no _markets_ for spam, it should decrease.
As for the people doing it in house: same idea. Fine them into oblivion.
Um, I was under the impression that juries are made up of a group of your peers?
... who else?
Hmm, so in this case we should choose:
Larry Ellison
Scott McNealy
You'd think that with all the practice you've gotten, you'd at least generate better flamebait. But no. Well, you can still serve as an example of a total failure, I guess.
And how does your poorly spelled and ungrammatical post help me believe you?
The Russians are too poor to collect taxes right now, let alone build nukes. And the Chinese would rather do business than blow shit up.
why we've had any restrictions at all. It's like export restrictions on crypto (which is just NSA propaganda to make us think they're weaker than they really are...) -- utterly uselss in reality.
I mean, all the hardware in my computer seems to be manufactured outside the US anyway, and very little is even assembled here, let alone manufactured. If a malcontent really wanted the teraflops, would they really have to get it from the US?