Now, this is just my gut feeling, but I think the FBI's concerns over access are just a ruse. The real concern (from a national security standpoint) is more likely that NTT (the buyer, Japan's national telephone monopoly) will use the tapping capabilities built into Verio's networks for gathering of intelligence (economic or otherwise) as an agent of the Japanese gov't or corporations.
Interestingly enough the Japanese constitution, drawn up after its surrender at the end of WWII by the Allies (i.e. the United States) prohibit the Japanese government any form of wiretapping.
Also, the Japanese do not have an army, national defense is provided, at a fee, by the United States.
Obviously the inability of US law enforcement to wire-tap digital communications if and when Verio handles them via NTT is a concern. If NTT were not Japanese, but for instance Dutch (where ISPs will typically go along with any law enforcement request for cooperation or information even though there is no law that says they have to) the intelligence community would be a lot more at ease I suspect..
Ironically, the Japanese government is the one government that will not be wire-tapping US nationals on the behalve of the US, because of their US-drafted constitution..
You could use sticky keys to enter ctrl-alt-combinations.. You depress shift and the next key you press will be shifted.. You press shift, then ctrl, then b, hey presto, you pressed ctrl-shift-b.. Does this exist in X? Or just in terminals?
Either way, you can type ESC, and then a key instead of META-key in Emacs.. HTH.. HAND..;-) --
Ow well.. Back to using proxies, throw-away accounts from 'free' providers, (hacked accounts?), acoustic couplers and public phone booths, cloned GSM phones, spoofed nntp traffic, etc. etc. etc.
I suspect that a lot of people will be pissed off once they start hitting too hard.. And will start mirroring their Metallica collections on servers in far-away countries. Or go back to the old-fashioned pre-internet trading on BBSes and schoolyards (CD-R!).. --
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Actually, I read about this VCR in an ad in a Dutch newspaper, and it was definately being sold as a consumer unit. If it wasn't, it also wouldn't be this shiny;-) It is quite expensive tho.. $2000 with $500 off in return for your old, working, VCR. The outfit selling it is called Correct Consumer electronics, of 110 Bergweg, Rotterdam.
Ow, and the ad claimed it did MPEG 2 so that's why that ended up in the/. article. The ad was on page 6-7 of NRC Handelsblad of may 4th 2000.
Salivating Americans beware that this is a PAL (perhaps SECAM too) unit, not NTSC.
BTW this article also says that D-VHS does MPEG-2. Also mentions bitrates.
TV and radio are puch media. You don't decide what they broadcast and when and there is a finite amount of frequencies that TV and radio channels fill up. Much like the space that fills up your inbox. That's why the government can regulate who uses those frequencies and what they put on them. Since no-one makes any additional airwaves, the ether belongs to all of us, and government (ideally!) licenses the people they think serve the public best. Or whoever pays the most..
An example of pull media would be more like.. well.. the web.. or a kiosk where you can buy magazines (though the rack-space is limited, but less so than radiofrequencies.. I mean, the internet is limited to, even if just by the IPv4 adress range.. for now..;-) --
I think the person quoted meant a quota per business. If IBM could only file 100 patents a year, they would only patent very important stuff.. Either that, or they'd set up a subsidiary for each 100 patents they want to apply for.. --
Just go for a phone with a long lasting LiOn or LiPol battery with good soundquality (you'd have to try that for real, mock-ups won't do;-) and if you can with vibra-call.. And then just choose whatever phone goes with the best service..
I bought a motorola cd930 (or the 920, the one without the flip anyway) a year ago.. At the time it came with incredibly cheap service, it has a great battery, EFR and vibra-call.. But I'm not entirely satisfied with the sound, the service's coverage, and the fact Motorola phones don't have the snake game on them;-) --
Now I'll be able to use my WAP-enabled mobile phone to connect to my microwave's built-in website through a WAP-gateway and select the channel I want my sattelite-driven personal digital decoder to show on my TV. Now isn't that much better than just zapping (using that icky infra red non-tcp/ip remote) until you hit a re-run of Friends?
My boss decides that he wants me to add streaming to our site. Our web server runs NT (Hey! Don't look at me! I didn't install it!). Currently, I have two choices. Realmedia, whose server costs (lots?) of money, whose player I hate, who laughs at my privacy. Windows Media, whose server is free, whose player isn't so bad, who also laughs at my privacy.
Shoutcast for streaming audio! And of course Quicktime.. --
For those not in the know, Alex de Joode is also known as usura, the maintainer of the venerable replay archives (since renamed to zedz.net, replay.com being a domain name he did sell.
Replay/zedz is unarguably the best privacy-related archive, and also widely mirrored. For crypto downloads, including SSH, it's simply great. I find the suggestion that Alex would want to strip us of our privacy by using a page that links to the "official" page quite ridiculous..
I don't know the reasons behing either Alex' actions, or the as-yet-unproven allegations of Mr. Bertrand, but I'm inclined to trust Alex somewhat more... --
The original poster was talking about the situation in Europe, specifically The Netherlands, where the recording industry has won an exemption to anti-monopoly law, allowing them to fix prices, since they CLAIM to use the monopoly winnings partially or entirely to stimulate the arts, i.e. release things that they know won't sell well.
Which any other entrepeneur would call operating expenses, or normal business risks. In fact, only tiny record companies release music that is really non-mainstream.
The same holds true for books.
(Also, isn't it funny that you won't find books older than 3 months in a bookstore, because the bookstore can't return them as unsold copies to the publisher after that period of time? So, whereas shop-owners and publishers see the economic life-time of a book as 3 months, or if you add a second non-hard-cover edition 6 months, copyright law goes on for years and years after the author's death (and with todays healthcare, any really profitable author need not to die, at least officially))
The reason no-one gets paid like in radio with MP3 is that there are no sites where you can download MP3s with commercials either as banners or as in-band audio clips.
With radio you can download (i.e. receive) music 24 hours a day, with commercials interrupting every once in a while, but not enough to prevent you from actually enjoying and taping songs.
Just like those websites with banner-advertising make money somehow. Strange isn't it.
If the RIAA woke up and got it for a change, you could download all the music you'd want, and at some sites pay $1 a song, at others look at a zillion banners...
BTW what does "with MP3 no one gets paid" mean anyway? The people peddling their music at mp3.com seem to get paid? MP3.com itself seems to get paid.. If I shell out $50 a month to the Dutch music licensing people I can put up as many MP3s as I like (as long as their 56kbps.. so I guess you'd have to post the left and right stereo channels seperate) and that money would go towards people getting paid, in the same way the money that radio stations pay does (i.e. it's distributed in some grossly unfair way, since they don't actually know exaclty which songs were listened to). To recap: MP3 is a format, not behaviour.
Memebership is free for some undefined limited period. So when will that end? And more to the point: will I pay? Or will I just stick with paying through the nose for.nl domainservice which is not open to competition, leaving me no money to spare to pay towards membership of nifty semi-democratic clubs? --
KPN Telecom (the big nasty comms monopoly folks in The Netherlands) sell so-called intern et cards.
Essentially discs with a browser, a mini-website portal thingy and a 'free' internet deal. They are fully rectangular.. If any-one saw those in CD-R, I'd buy them! The rounded-off ones.. No thanks. --
Actually IIRC a stricly vegan meal does lack a handful of things that your body needs.. Also, IIRC that would be solved by getting those trace-amounts of stuff into your diet by either eating a small amount of animal product once a month or by taking the stuff in chemically synthesized form, i.e. pills..
Dunno what the things that lacked were.. I remember them being entirely unspectacular.. Some amino-acids or other..
Sorry to burst your bubble, but getting a whole bunch of old 486s together isn't going to instantly give you stellar SETI@Home o Distributed.net scores...:)
Same goes for SETI.. Tho' if you run more than 1 client you end up getting the same blocks unless you open another account, and make yourself a team or something.. sigh.. If it weren't for that, SETI @home would be on every computer in sight;-) --
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Interestingly enough the Japanese constitution, drawn up after its surrender at the end of WWII by the Allies (i.e. the United States) prohibit the Japanese government any form of wiretapping.
Also, the Japanese do not have an army, national defense is provided, at a fee, by the United States.
Obviously the inability of US law enforcement to wire-tap digital communications if and when Verio handles them via NTT is a concern. If NTT were not Japanese, but for instance Dutch (where ISPs will typically go along with any law enforcement request for cooperation or information even though there is no law that says they have to) the intelligence community would be a lot more at ease I suspect..
Ironically, the Japanese government is the one government that will not be wire-tapping US nationals on the behalve of the US, because of their US-drafted constitution..
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Either way, you can type ESC, and then a key instead of META-key in Emacs.. HTH.. HAND.. ;-)
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I suspect that a lot of people will be pissed off once they start hitting too hard.. And will start mirroring their Metallica collections on servers in far-away countries. Or go back to the old-fashioned pre-internet trading on BBSes and schoolyards (CD-R!)..
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Ow wait.. It's not by Katz.. It's just that the story is also 19.5 inches ;-)
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Check out the law.
(4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative commercial advertising or promotion to identify the competing goods or services of the owner of the famous mark.
(B)Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C)All forms of news reporting and newscommentary.
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Ow, and the ad claimed it did MPEG 2 so that's why that ended up in the /. article. The ad was on page 6-7 of NRC Handelsblad of may 4th 2000.
Salivating Americans beware that this is a PAL (perhaps SECAM too) unit, not NTSC.
BTW this article also says that D-VHS does MPEG-2. Also mentions bitrates.
Some-one mod this up?
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An example of pull media would be more like.. well.. the web.. or a kiosk where you can buy magazines (though the rack-space is limited, but less so than radiofrequencies.. I mean, the internet is limited to, even if just by the IPv4 adress range.. for now.. ;-)
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I think the person quoted meant a quota per business. If IBM could only file 100 patents a year, they would only patent very important stuff.. Either that, or they'd set up a subsidiary for each 100 patents they want to apply for..
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They don't call it Accredited Compaq Engineer.. ACE! ;-)
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I bought a motorola cd930 (or the 920, the one without the flip anyway) a year ago.. At the time it came with incredibly cheap service, it has a great battery, EFR and vibra-call.. But I'm not entirely satisfied with the sound, the service's coverage, and the fact Motorola phones don't have the snake game on them ;-)
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Now I'll be able to use my WAP-enabled mobile phone to connect to my microwave's built-in website through a WAP-gateway and select the channel I want my sattelite-driven personal digital decoder to show on my TV. Now isn't that much better than just zapping (using that icky infra red non-tcp/ip remote) until you hit a re-run of Friends?
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Whatever is said in latin, is regarded as being high-brow..
add to your .sig ;-)
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Shoutcast for streaming audio! And of course Quicktime..
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Perhaps one day I'll go make a movie..
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Replay/zedz is unarguably the best privacy-related archive, and also widely mirrored. For crypto downloads, including SSH, it's simply great. I find the suggestion that Alex would want to strip us of our privacy by using a page that links to the "official" page quite ridiculous..
I don't know the reasons behing either Alex' actions, or the as-yet-unproven allegations of Mr. Bertrand, but I'm inclined to trust Alex somewhat more...
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The original poster was talking about the situation in Europe, specifically The Netherlands, where the recording industry has won an exemption to anti-monopoly law, allowing them to fix prices, since they CLAIM to use the monopoly winnings partially or entirely to stimulate the arts, i.e. release things that they know won't sell well.
Which any other entrepeneur would call operating expenses, or normal business risks. In fact, only tiny record companies release music that is really non-mainstream.
The same holds true for books.
(Also, isn't it funny that you won't find books older than 3 months in a bookstore, because the bookstore can't return them as unsold copies to the publisher after that period of time? So, whereas shop-owners and publishers see the economic life-time of a book as 3 months, or if you add a second non-hard-cover edition 6 months, copyright law goes on for years and years after the author's death (and with todays healthcare, any really profitable author need not to die, at least officially))
Dammit, I'm ranting again..
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The reason no-one gets paid like in radio with MP3 is that there are no sites where you can download MP3s with commercials either as banners or as in-band audio clips.
;-)
With radio you can download (i.e. receive) music 24 hours a day, with commercials interrupting every once in a while, but not enough to prevent you from actually enjoying and taping songs.
Just like those websites with banner-advertising make money somehow. Strange isn't it.
If the RIAA woke up and got it for a change, you could download all the music you'd want, and at some sites pay $1 a song, at others look at a zillion banners...
BTW what does "with MP3 no one gets paid" mean anyway? The people peddling their music at mp3.com seem to get paid? MP3.com itself seems to get paid.. If I shell out $50 a month to the Dutch music licensing people I can put up as many MP3s as I like (as long as their 56kbps.. so I guess you'd have to post the left and right stereo channels seperate) and that money would go towards people getting paid, in the same way the money that radio stations pay does (i.e. it's distributed in some grossly unfair way, since they don't actually know exaclty which songs were listened to). To recap: MP3 is a format, not behaviour.
Now I'm ranting! Look what you did to me!
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Memebership is free for some undefined limited period. So when will that end? And more to the point: will I pay? Or will I just stick with paying through the nose for .nl domainservice which is not open to competition, leaving me no money to spare to pay towards membership of nifty semi-democratic clubs?
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Maybe the website sensed your IP address was assigned to a Duth organization, and therefore assumed you were in the Dutch province of Utrecht ;-)
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Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 only make sense if you know what gnome.org's financial year is ;-)
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Essentially discs with a browser, a mini-website portal thingy and a 'free' internet deal. They are fully rectangular.. If any-one saw those in CD-R, I'd buy them! The rounded-off ones.. No thanks.
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Actually IIRC a stricly vegan meal does lack a handful of things that your body needs.. Also, IIRC that would be solved by getting those trace-amounts of stuff into your diet by either eating a small amount of animal product once a month or by taking the stuff in chemically synthesized form, i.e. pills..
Dunno what the things that lacked were.. I remember them being entirely unspectacular.. Some amino-acids or other..
Can any-one back this up?
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Doesn't debian also come in nice alpha, m68k, and sparc flavors too?
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erm.. isn't Distributed.net already, well, distributed? ;-)
Same goes for SETI.. Tho' if you run more than 1 client you end up getting the same blocks unless you open another account, and make yourself a team or something.. sigh.. If it weren't for that, SETI @home would be on every computer in sight ;-)
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Who wouldn't recognize a JonKatz rant?
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