I'm guessing you wore some t-shirt with the penguin logo? Good thing you weren't wearing a shirt that said something like "got root?" It could have easily been misconstrued as referring to illicit stuff like pot, hashish, or the like -- you'd surely have gotten into more trouble.
The title of the story had me confused. At first, before reading the article, I thought the story pertained to mobs getting together to see people flash themselves. Shucks, I was wrong.
I remembered a presentation a while back ago about the difference between overweight people and skinny people. There was a study whereby a group of people were given the same amount of calories in their diet. They lived within a confined space, at the same time. At the end, with the same amount of food eaten by all, some gained as much as 15 pounds and others didn't. The difference between these two groups? The individuals who gained the least amount of weight tended to be people who fidgeted a lot more. They tended to shake their leg while sitting more often, and got up and out of their seat more often. The take home message? Well, maybe try to move around more often, even simple repetitive "useless" movements may help (and no, I don't mean the M word, that'll probably get you fired).
Imagine if ALL the media companies in Japan somehow saw the light and not only tolerated swapping of media over the internet using this device, but encouraged it -- I would be enticed to buy the device myself and brush up on my Japanese just to watch interesting shows. My children would easily pick up the language by watching the tele, and eventually more people would know how to speak Japanese -- this would bring tremendous economic benefits to Japan as a whole. I'm telling you, the Japanese are planning world domination!;-)
Of all the people that the RIAA goes after, they choose the fights that they know they can win. Students have limited resources and capital and they know this. Sure, looking at the demographics data, students are probably file sharing music more than any other group, but this type of fight has worse odds than pee-wee herman against mike tyson.
To add insult to injury (or is it injury to insult?), as a student, the concern over future career and graduation status makes the person even more vulnerable. I've had the unfortunate run-in at work with my supervisors regarding a gray area in software contribution -- whether or not my contribution was my own work or owned by the University. Let me tell you, because they hold the keys to the door separating me from being a student for life and finally graduating, there is nothing I can do to fight it. It's a lose-lose situation. And if they bring in the topic of "Academic Misconduct," then there's absolutely no way you can win as a student. As students, we can only pick and choose what battles to fight in -- the RIAA knows this too well.
Feedster.com (formerly known as Roogle, for RSS Google) is a blog search engine that has been around for a while now. It'll be interesting to see how Feedster does once Google comes out with their engine. If it's shot to oblivion, it won't be the first time Google dominated a search engine niche.
Mandrake started to fade off my systems when I discovered how nice Red Hat 8 is, and then when I used Knoppix to convert some machines to Debian. (And since I need to reduce the number of machines floating around here, there are fewer computers with which I care to purely experiment.) However, I plan to try the 9.1 release candidate to see where it falls.
I contemplated moving from Mandrake to RedHat on my desktop machine after hearing all the good praises of RH 8.0. However, once I learned how to use urpmi from the PLF website, I chose to stick it out with Mandrake. PLF (and TexStar) packages software that the main Mandrake distro fails to include due to licensing issues and such. For example, just the other day I wanted to install gnapster. Previously in RedHat 6.2, I had to painstakingly search for RPMs and their dependencies at RPMFind.net or at google.com and hoped and prayed that the programs don't break any other software in my system. Urpmi (much like apt-get) made software installation so easy--less time-consuming, less mentally draining, less frustrating.
In fact, once I learned about urpmi, I questioned how LindowsOS was going to revolutionize Linux implementation with their supposed "easy to use" software installation system to install programs on-the-fly. Urpmi has got to be just as easy as that of Lindows software manager (although I haven't tested it). The only requirement on the user's side is to make sure to correctly include source sites of RPMs. Short of trying out 9.1 RC's, I cannot see how Mandrake will fold, even if they don't pull out of this bankruptcy.
This type of event is like golf--sucks to watch, but fun to play. However, if you want to host an event that is fun to watch, how about a reality TV series? Put a handful of the most l33t haX0rs you can find in a hooked up pad and see how they work and interact with each other. Think it will work?
I'm sorry, but I don't see why the moderators modded up the two previous posts. Look, we learned what we learned in high school from those textbooks because most historians and educators agreed upon those facts. If these facts are wrong, the only way for us to unlearn them (i.e. to learn the actual truth) then the onus is upon you, the poster, to provide references to back up your claims. By providing references, it allows us, the readers, to formulate our own points of view. Let's move beyond pure conjecture and provide some references people! Even URLs would be helpful. Yes, history is subject to interpretation, but so is science. Put the facts out there and let us decide. And if you make a claim of fact, provide at least one reference for us to determine our own interpretation.
It would be helpful if you mentioned the type of license your software is under within the first page or the download page. Not all open-source software are equal.
I submitted this story two days ago, and it was rejected. At first, I thought it was rejected because they (the slashdot higher-ups) didn't want to dilute the payout pool so they could get more money sent out each payee (i.e. themselves). Imagine if musiccdsettlement.com got slashdotted? The payout could foreseeably fall below $5 per person, in which case none of us will see any money, only the lawyers.
Funeral Homes control the local market as much as Ma Bell controls your local phone service. So I really take it that you must be kidding, because it's not as easy to get in that business as some may perceive.
Put linux in that box and you can do more! I have an even slower machine--intel pentium 200 Mhz processor (not pentium II, III, or 4) without MMX. I'm currently running linux mandrake 8.2, with openoffice installed. I didn't mean to get in a pissing match, but just wanted to actually try to present to you an alternative to get that "new box" feeling. I'm a grad student myself, and this box supplies me with just about all the tools I need to do my work--latex to write my dissertation, opencalc for spreadsheet work, xfig for vector graphics and figures--and it gets uptimes of over 30 days.
I'm glad you brought these points up. I do want to add to your comments. Had Linux Torvalds said "oh, I shouldn't work on an open source *nix, since there's already adequate systems out there," we'd never have Linux. I believe the same can be said for this arena. Sure this guy's homebrew system may not be cost effective, but for any of us to enjoy the fruits of future technology, someone has to do the grunt work today. Kudos for the guys and gals working on the free alternatives today, even though it still leaves a lot to be desired--someday in the future, I will benefit from their acquired knowledge.
A recent article on The Scientist mentions a report published by the British Office of Fair Trade (OFT) that "deemed the journal market unfair." The article interestingly states: "The OFT report says that science, technology, and medical (STM) publishing showed 10% to 15% greater profitability over other commercial journal publishing with price increases above inflation, despite the introduction of electronic-delivery methods that should have reduced costs by this stage. Scientists must pay these high fees for vital research information even though they often supply the journals' content at no cost, the report notes." It is true, as a previous post has mentioned, that publishers have a "right to profit," but this much?!?!
What I find even more surprising/disturbing is what is being done at www.umi.com. The link is especially pertinent to those of you out there who have written or are going to write a dissertation that is filed away at your University's library. If you have already written a Ph.D. dissertation, go ahead and see if your dissertation is listed. If you've just recently written it and it is listed, most likely it is also available for download at a price! Now, mind you, none of that money goes to YOU the one who researched, wrote, stayed up late hours of the night to ponder and rewrite! Every last dime probably goes to UMI (and their partners). I don't know what sort of questionable business contracts UMI has with your University's library or the Library of Congress, but I know someone out there is profiting from works that others so painstakingly prepared. This racket has yet to be fully scrutinized.
Lets make no mistake of it. The SIIA is as bad if not worse than MPAA, RIAA, and Microsoft who are using bullying tactics to maintain their monopolistic grasp on a niche (but very important for the advancement of humankind) market. The information published by the scientific community wants to be free--why else would researchers write and publish THEIR work? The cost is now so restrictive, that those of us who should be benefiting and learning from the information (the lowly students) cannot afford to do so!
Graduate students make somewhere between $15,000 to $22,000 a year. Bear in mind that most journals cost somewhere from $100 to $200 (or more) a year to subscribe. And for me, a grad student in the biomedical sciences, I scan somewhere around two dozen different journals. If I had to pay for access for all of these journals, I'd have to shell out somewhere between $2400 to $4800 a year--a good 10-25% of my salary!
I'm glad/. put this article on the frontpage because it outlines how dire the situation truly is. Forget about music and movies, this directly pertains to a lot of livelihoods and careers of/. readers--their bread-n-butter. At least ponder this: at a time when technology can easily publish scientific material, why are we allowing these large publishers to hoard and monopolize OUR own work and making it difficult for us to access that material at the same time? (This is a rhetorical question, obviously; and I'm sure you have lots to say why we allow it. But really, the answer appears to be so simple, but so out of reach.)
I'm am willing to bet that some of this multi-million dollar scam is going to "perpetrators of terror," especially after hearing countries like Siera Leone is involved. Hey, NSA, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and US Postal Police, and all pertinent law enforcement agencies, listen up! If you're reading this, you need to work overtime to follow every single lead that a victim of this scam sent to you. This is a great way for terrorists to "hide in numbers" and get funding for their weapons. It doesn't take much money to finance these scumbags. Maybe instead of the DEA running ads about how drug money funds terrorists, there should be commercials of how gullible idiots can do the same by falling for these stupid scams!
This is one of those urban myths like alligators in the toilet. MP3 is just a technology and the technology itself never did anything wrong! There are lots of legal MP3s from great artists on many, many online sites. The problem is that some people use MP3 to take one copy of an album and make that copy available on the Internet for hundreds of thousands of people. That's not fair. If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail. But the fact that technology exists to enable unlimited Internet distribution of music copies doesn't make it right. To learn more about digital music, visit the Music and the Internet section.
I followed your informative link to the RIAA website. And followed to the "ask the riaa" link and found the interesting FAQ above. Sounds like they approve fair use of CD's (copying for personal use only). However, if this was the case, why are they pushing for copy-protection schemes?
I know this is very offtopic, but I am happy to see someone who used the word "loose" correctly. I don't know how many times people have used loose for lose and vice versa.
Interesting tidbit in the contributor list
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Jonah Cohen wrote the Perl scripts to convert the LaTeX source for this book into beautiful HTML.
Hmmm. Why weren't these scripts written in Python?
Given that the OpenOffice.org people now have the developer release of their suite running under MacOS X, we can expect, furthermore, to see that message explode out of the server rooms and onto the desktops
The author fails to note, that to run OpenOffice in MacOS X, the user needs to install and run an X server. Until OpenOffice is fully Carbonized or Cocoafied, the extent of OpenOffice usage in MacOS X users will be miniscule. For you trolls out there who say that the user can install and run the X server rootless, this is a moot (sic.) point--even the sound of installing an X server rootless is daunting to the regular joe schmoe user--because it still requires a bit of technical expertise (especially requires a bit of UNIX commandline know-how). I guarantee that the vast majority of MacOS X users feel that the Terminal app is daunting and hence, will shy away from adopting OpenOffice. Until OpenOffice can work in MacOS X natively, without the need of an X server, the author's claim is not valid.
LaM: Will e still play nicely with the new GNOME? Can it readily be set up > as the window manager in a GNOME 2 system?
R: Simple answer: no:)
I currently use E 0.16 solely, with gnome libs installed to run gnome apps. Rasterman makes it sound like I can't upgrade to the Gnome 2 libs and be able to still run E. Am I wrong here?
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I'm guessing you wore some t-shirt with the penguin logo? Good thing you weren't wearing a shirt that said something like "got root?" It could have easily been misconstrued as referring to illicit stuff like pot, hashish, or the like -- you'd surely have gotten into more trouble.
Or also known as the "if it doesn't toot, you must reboot" support.
The title of the story had me confused. At first, before reading the article, I thought the story pertained to mobs getting together to see people flash themselves. Shucks, I was wrong.
I remembered a presentation a while back ago about the difference between overweight people and skinny people. There was a study whereby a group of people were given the same amount of calories in their diet. They lived within a confined space, at the same time. At the end, with the same amount of food eaten by all, some gained as much as 15 pounds and others didn't. The difference between these two groups? The individuals who gained the least amount of weight tended to be people who fidgeted a lot more. They tended to shake their leg while sitting more often, and got up and out of their seat more often. The take home message? Well, maybe try to move around more often, even simple repetitive "useless" movements may help (and no, I don't mean the M word, that'll probably get you fired).
Imagine if ALL the media companies in Japan somehow saw the light and not only tolerated swapping of media over the internet using this device, but encouraged it -- I would be enticed to buy the device myself and brush up on my Japanese just to watch interesting shows. My children would easily pick up the language by watching the tele, and eventually more people would know how to speak Japanese -- this would bring tremendous economic benefits to Japan as a whole. I'm telling you, the Japanese are planning world domination! ;-)
Of all the people that the RIAA goes after, they choose the fights that they know they can win. Students have limited resources and capital and they know this. Sure, looking at the demographics data, students are probably file sharing music more than any other group, but this type of fight has worse odds than pee-wee herman against mike tyson.
To add insult to injury (or is it injury to insult?), as a student, the concern over future career and graduation status makes the person even more vulnerable. I've had the unfortunate run-in at work with my supervisors regarding a gray area in software contribution -- whether or not my contribution was my own work or owned by the University. Let me tell you, because they hold the keys to the door separating me from being a student for life and finally graduating, there is nothing I can do to fight it. It's a lose-lose situation. And if they bring in the topic of "Academic Misconduct," then there's absolutely no way you can win as a student. As students, we can only pick and choose what battles to fight in -- the RIAA knows this too well.
Feedster.com (formerly known as Roogle, for RSS Google) is a blog search engine that has been around for a while now. It'll be interesting to see how Feedster does once Google comes out with their engine. If it's shot to oblivion, it won't be the first time Google dominated a search engine niche.
I contemplated moving from Mandrake to RedHat on my desktop machine after hearing all the good praises of RH 8.0. However, once I learned how to use urpmi from the PLF website, I chose to stick it out with Mandrake. PLF (and TexStar) packages software that the main Mandrake distro fails to include due to licensing issues and such. For example, just the other day I wanted to install gnapster. Previously in RedHat 6.2, I had to painstakingly search for RPMs and their dependencies at RPMFind.net or at google.com and hoped and prayed that the programs don't break any other software in my system. Urpmi (much like apt-get) made software installation so easy--less time-consuming, less mentally draining, less frustrating.
In fact, once I learned about urpmi, I questioned how LindowsOS was going to revolutionize Linux implementation with their supposed "easy to use" software installation system to install programs on-the-fly. Urpmi has got to be just as easy as that of Lindows software manager (although I haven't tested it). The only requirement on the user's side is to make sure to correctly include source sites of RPMs. Short of trying out 9.1 RC's, I cannot see how Mandrake will fold, even if they don't pull out of this bankruptcy.
Let me get this straight. This is a study of DNS conducted by CAIDA at SDSC at UCSD? I need a host list for these acronyms!
This type of event is like golf--sucks to watch, but fun to play. However, if you want to host an event that is fun to watch, how about a reality TV series? Put a handful of the most l33t haX0rs you can find in a hooked up pad and see how they work and interact with each other. Think it will work?
I'm sorry, but I don't see why the moderators modded up the two previous posts. Look, we learned what we learned in high school from those textbooks because most historians and educators agreed upon those facts. If these facts are wrong, the only way for us to unlearn them (i.e. to learn the actual truth) then the onus is upon you, the poster, to provide references to back up your claims. By providing references, it allows us, the readers, to formulate our own points of view. Let's move beyond pure conjecture and provide some references people! Even URLs would be helpful. Yes, history is subject to interpretation, but so is science. Put the facts out there and let us decide. And if you make a claim of fact, provide at least one reference for us to determine our own interpretation.
It would be helpful if you mentioned the type of license your software is under within the first page or the download page. Not all open-source software are equal.
I submitted this story two days ago, and it was rejected. At first, I thought it was rejected because they (the slashdot higher-ups) didn't want to dilute the payout pool so they could get more money sent out each payee (i.e. themselves). Imagine if musiccdsettlement.com got slashdotted? The payout could foreseeably fall below $5 per person, in which case none of us will see any money, only the lawyers.
Funeral Homes control the local market as much as Ma Bell controls your local phone service. So I really take it that you must be kidding, because it's not as easy to get in that business as some may perceive.
/. accepts this pseudo-infomercial story but rejects my awesome submission of a case mod with a built-in coffee maker. C'est la vie.
Put linux in that box and you can do more! I have an even slower machine--intel pentium 200 Mhz processor (not pentium II, III, or 4) without MMX. I'm currently running linux mandrake 8.2, with openoffice installed. I didn't mean to get in a pissing match, but just wanted to actually try to present to you an alternative to get that "new box" feeling. I'm a grad student myself, and this box supplies me with just about all the tools I need to do my work--latex to write my dissertation, opencalc for spreadsheet work, xfig for vector graphics and figures--and it gets uptimes of over 30 days.
I'm glad you brought these points up. I do want to add to your comments. Had Linux Torvalds said "oh, I shouldn't work on an open source *nix, since there's already adequate systems out there," we'd never have Linux. I believe the same can be said for this arena. Sure this guy's homebrew system may not be cost effective, but for any of us to enjoy the fruits of future technology, someone has to do the grunt work today. Kudos for the guys and gals working on the free alternatives today, even though it still leaves a lot to be desired--someday in the future, I will benefit from their acquired knowledge.
What I find even more surprising/disturbing is what is being done at www.umi.com. The link is especially pertinent to those of you out there who have written or are going to write a dissertation that is filed away at your University's library. If you have already written a Ph.D. dissertation, go ahead and see if your dissertation is listed. If you've just recently written it and it is listed, most likely it is also available for download at a price! Now, mind you, none of that money goes to YOU the one who researched, wrote, stayed up late hours of the night to ponder and rewrite! Every last dime probably goes to UMI (and their partners). I don't know what sort of questionable business contracts UMI has with your University's library or the Library of Congress, but I know someone out there is profiting from works that others so painstakingly prepared. This racket has yet to be fully scrutinized.
Lets make no mistake of it. The SIIA is as bad if not worse than MPAA, RIAA, and Microsoft who are using bullying tactics to maintain their monopolistic grasp on a niche (but very important for the advancement of humankind) market. The information published by the scientific community wants to be free--why else would researchers write and publish THEIR work? The cost is now so restrictive, that those of us who should be benefiting and learning from the information (the lowly students) cannot afford to do so!
Graduate students make somewhere between $15,000 to $22,000 a year. Bear in mind that most journals cost somewhere from $100 to $200 (or more) a year to subscribe. And for me, a grad student in the biomedical sciences, I scan somewhere around two dozen different journals. If I had to pay for access for all of these journals, I'd have to shell out somewhere between $2400 to $4800 a year--a good 10-25% of my salary!
I'm glad /. put this article on the frontpage because it outlines how dire the situation truly is. Forget about music and movies, this directly pertains to a lot of livelihoods and careers of /. readers--their bread-n-butter. At least ponder this: at a time when technology can easily publish scientific material, why are we allowing these large publishers to hoard and monopolize OUR own work and making it difficult for us to access that material at the same time? (This is a rhetorical question, obviously; and I'm sure you have lots to say why we allow it. But really, the answer appears to be so simple, but so out of reach.)
I'm am willing to bet that some of this multi-million dollar scam is going to "perpetrators of terror," especially after hearing countries like Siera Leone is involved. Hey, NSA, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and US Postal Police, and all pertinent law enforcement agencies, listen up! If you're reading this, you need to work overtime to follow every single lead that a victim of this scam sent to you. This is a great way for terrorists to "hide in numbers" and get funding for their weapons. It doesn't take much money to finance these scumbags. Maybe instead of the DEA running ads about how drug money funds terrorists, there should be commercials of how gullible idiots can do the same by falling for these stupid scams!
I know it's posted anonymously, but this news release is important background that is not attainable through the links of the original post.
This is one of those urban myths like alligators in the toilet. MP3 is just a technology and the technology itself never did anything wrong! There are lots of legal MP3s from great artists on many, many online sites. The problem is that some people use MP3 to take one copy of an album and make that copy available on the Internet for hundreds of thousands of people. That's not fair. If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail. But the fact that technology exists to enable unlimited Internet distribution of music copies doesn't make it right. To learn more about digital music, visit the Music and the Internet section.
I followed your informative link to the RIAA website. And followed to the "ask the riaa" link and found the interesting FAQ above. Sounds like they approve fair use of CD's (copying for personal use only). However, if this was the case, why are they pushing for copy-protection schemes?
I know this is very offtopic, but I am happy to see someone who used the word "loose" correctly. I don't know how many times people have used loose for lose and vice versa.
Hmmm. Why weren't these scripts written in Python?
The author fails to note, that to run OpenOffice in MacOS X, the user needs to install and run an X server. Until OpenOffice is fully Carbonized or Cocoafied, the extent of OpenOffice usage in MacOS X users will be miniscule. For you trolls out there who say that the user can install and run the X server rootless, this is a moot (sic.) point--even the sound of installing an X server rootless is daunting to the regular joe schmoe user--because it still requires a bit of technical expertise (especially requires a bit of UNIX commandline know-how). I guarantee that the vast majority of MacOS X users feel that the Terminal app is daunting and hence, will shy away from adopting OpenOffice. Until OpenOffice can work in MacOS X natively, without the need of an X server, the author's claim is not valid.
R: Simple answer: no :)
I currently use E 0.16 solely, with gnome libs installed to run gnome apps. Rasterman makes it sound like I can't upgrade to the Gnome 2 libs and be able to still run E. Am I wrong here?